skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still in the process of switching from Vim+Extensions to Emacs+Evil+Extensions. What I say now mostly applies to the Cocoa version of both editors, such as MacVim and Emacs/Cocoa: What I like so much about Emacs so far is the better editor component: Text can be a little bit rich:

- Inline images are kinda supported
- There can be different font sizes
- There can be styled (bold / italic) text.

So a good syntax definitions could have different background colors for code, different foreground colors, different text sizes, different text weight / italics.

I find this much more pleasant for the eye. In vim, all text has to be the same size and all text has to be the same font. In emacs, you can even (with some hacking, as I remember) have different color themes for different windows/views.

If I'm looking at an editor all day long, I want it to look pleasant. Period. Have a look at https://github.com/jasonm23/emacs-soothe-theme to see how beautiful it can look.

Apart from that, the other reason why I'm trying to switch is that I wanted to become better at lisp and I really wanted to have an editor that I can shape like a tool to suit my needs. And I could never get the hang of vimscript. So if I already learn a new language Lisp sounds like a better investment than vimscript.

So far, I'm happy with emacs, though I can't use it for all my coding yet. Most notably, it lacks a good Objective-C code completion. On vim, there's YouCompleteMe, which does a formidable job of connecting with clang complete. I started porting youcomplete me over to emacs a couple of weeks ago but had to stop due to other priorities. I'm at a point now where I can get the correct completions in emacs in a popup when I'm over a symbol or at the end of a property (self.???). However, I still have to solve a couple of issues and it is not ready for usage yet which is why I've never shared it. If somebody knows a bit of emacs lisp, python, and objective-c and wants to help out here, I'd be glad to share this project on Github.
I've not built apps in xaml but I've heard the that its a PITA once your app gets to a certain size and complexity.
This is a petition I launched to have SpiderOak see this as a collective request for transparency. Please sign it if you're a SpiderOak user. Even if you're not a SpiderOak user, your signature would help in raising awareness so that other providers may also think along these lines.

Cyphertite, another cloud backup service, is the only one that I know of that provides the complete source code for its applications.
Lclz.in : an Android tool to meet your friend
Once the PPACA exchanges phase in next year, will that ameliorate the problems in your case? They seem like they target this case specifically, essentially trying to turn each state's population into a large risk pool that anyone can buy into, rather than having risk pools be employer-tied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
It would be nice if you could convert videos from Youtube and convert them into a GIF
Daily Haskell Exercise
was this just for yourself, or a family? $1100 seems steep - a 'high deductible' HSA plan for a single person should be < $500/month - it's currently < $350 for two of us.
Try getting www.hasbean.co.uk to ship you their decaf.

I think they ship to Europe, and their decaf coffee is the best I've found anywhere in the world. (I'm a serious coffee snob, as the PID-controlled kettle currently reaching 92C in my kitchen will attest.)
Apparently someone else at Apple shared his conclusion that the marimba was the best instrument for this kind of alert, since the default ringtone for receiving a call is "Marimba", featuring a slightly longer tune.
Loved the post. I'll keep that advice in mind.
I'm guessing that the pressure to put it in the DSM had something to do with being able to bill health insurers for drugs which help with the withdrawal symptoms...
According to that Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, more than half the quotes commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson are, in fact, spurious.
The siesta is a more natural alternative to drugs. ;)
But, is a hybrid approach the best option? I mean an SSD for the software and an HD for the data?
So you came from Australia with an axe to grind about how awful the US is. I don't understand why you bothered. You can go back. Have a nice life.
I can do without caffeine, but I actually enjoy drinking coffee. I love the taste, the smell and the ceremony of preparing it. I like to make turkish coffee and espresso in my moka pot. I've also recently bought a french press. I don't smoke, so making coffee gives me a reason to take a break from the computer. Maybe I could switch to tea, but tea isn't as exciting for me.
Yes there are still ways for the law to be hurt, beyond Republicans pointlessly voting to repeal it 40 times. Long story short however, the law will survive mostly in tact, which is definitely for the better in my opinion.

By the way, the federal deficit under Obama has gone down.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+deficit+last+ten+yea...

The "reckless spending" thing is just another example of the style of politics that republican politicians are good at. You'll notice, for example, that "spending" wasn't an issue until Obama was president. And if anything, there hasn't been enough spending for the sake of the economy.
Are There Good Hackers?
It's absolutely stupid and frustrating. Almost nothing in modern web design just works and it's because of both a badly written standard and badly written implementations.

I get it that HTML is supposed to be for content, CSS for layout and JS for programmatic logic, but the house of cards, duct tape, bailing wire and chewing gum that goes into making a web application is astonishing.

I almost think it would be easier for somebody to come up with an entirely different "web application/dynamic document layout" technology stack with a sane and well-working model all the way through, so that stupid basic things like vertical alignment don't go unfixed year after year after year and we end up with the teetering tower of hacks we have today. We pretty much know what we want out of the web, somebody should just go build it from top to bottom all over again and throw out the huge train wreck we have to deal with today. Sure it would take a while to catch on, but I bet a more efficient set of tools and display environments would rapidly catch on.

We've done it before and replaced older broken technologies with newer, why not do it again?
And again thanks. Fixed. The reason for this breakage is that I had to change the name after it was launched (in a hurry).
This is great!

Any plans to have an API that other products/services can use? Is it against the TOS to post to /upload from a different domain?

I'll be working on a site soon that might allow some type of media upload. Would it be okay to use mediacru.sh for something like that?

I could see "free hosting" getting really expensive for you guys though, especially if you allowed hotlinking, etc.

Anyways, best of luck to you. Hopefully this becomes profitable for you.
Isn't there an article like this every year, always long on FUD and short on math?
HTTP/2.0 is meant to have no change to HTTP/1.1 message semantics, and hence its message semantics represent a superset of HTTP/1.1's, so such a change isn't going to happen.
This had a huge mindshare for me when deciding who to approach as a co-founder. While I'm younger and incredibly healthy, my ideal co-founder is 9 years older than me and spent much of his 20s as a semi-professional athlete. It's catching up to him now. After I approached him, I brought up healthcare and that I knew it would be important to him and that we'd figure that out together somehow. We were both disappointed at how little healthcare reform shelters entrepreneurs. In the end, languishing at someone else's company, but insured, is not the way he wanted to spend his life. If he had a family, that might have been a harder decision to make.
Bret Victor The Future of Programming (video)
> Does Emacs support or have any extension that "tabs" the right amount of spaces based on the programming language/filetype?

Probably - I mean it depends what you want. Emacs is almost infinitely programmable. If you want to set it up as a Python IDE then there're sites like this telling you how:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=browse;oldid=PythonMo...

This is a quick clip of Emacs using Rope for instance:

http://youtu.be/OMi-uN-6O1Q

If you want to set it up as a Lisp IDE then you're probably wanting to go and install SLIME:

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

It depends what you want it to do, but emacs is an incredibly powerful program and learning it pays off massively, in my experience. :)
I never used to drink coffee it made me feel very jittery and short of breath with just a sip, the guys where I worked as a kid (14) went on coffee runs, make that I went on coffee runs, and once I got a coffee and whoa jittery! Although a Lebanese store owner used to give make Lebanese coffee for me when I was a 14 or 15 plus some nice pistachio baklava, the coffee didn't bother me as much, weird.

Anyway 20 years later I started shift work and when installing equipment when the building I was working at was being built we had coffee breaks more to keep warm in an unheated concrete box during a Canadian spring. Now I like coffee (?) but most often it's a latte, cappuccino, espresso or some coffee flavoured drink but sometimes I get four shots of espresso.

Now I have GERD and caffeine is a trigger, at worst I am vomiting up stomach acid and my throat feels like there is a golfball stuck halfway down it. Yet I still drink coffee :(
>Congress did that.

He's not a political incompetent. He could take the teeth out of it, unless congress is the commander in chief now.
Yes, but we're pretty sure we don't want to find out, so we'd rather start worrying while we're on the brink rather than over the edge.
2. There's a built-in tutorial like Vimtutor for this, it's under the help menu.

3. Looks like you can use Python[1], but you'd better just bite the bullet and learn a bit of Emacs Lisp, it's how you'll be configuring it anyway, and it's unlikely that you'll need to program something too complex if you can just fetch a bunch of Elisp from the net which does sort of what you want.

4. Yes, from Emacs 24 and on it has a built-in package manager and repositories.

You know what a good way to learn Emacs is? Reading the docs. No, really! Anytime you request documentation for your buffer (C-h m by default), it will be based on your current key bindings and modes, so it's a great starting point to explore, as it'll tell you of all the shortcuts your active plugins have defined.

As of late, I've learned more of the capabilities of the modes I use by dicking around than by searching the web or reading manuals, as I sometimes just start typing in the extended command shell (M-x), using IDO mode's[2] fuzzy completion, and seeing what comes up. For instance, by typing "replace", I just learned of query-replace, which prompts you before each substitution for a string. Afterwards, I can run "M-x where-is" to see if the command is bound to any shortcut right now, as I did with query-replace, which turned out to be bound to M-%.

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1. http://pymacs.progiciels-bpi.ca/index.html

2. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
Russia to Start Production on Floating Nuclear Power Plants
I agree, I just think it's well designed and consistent. Plus, CSS can also be a royal PITA, that's why I take refuge in back-end development when possible.
crazygringo is absolutely right.

When the committee responsible for CSS started working in the late 1990s, it seems to have lacked any members who knew anything about layout. Certainly, the browser was a new challenge, but automatic layout engines had existed for decades by that point. TeX, for example. While it is a beast, I have usually found it far easier to get its glue-and-boxes model to do what I want than wrestle with CSS.

To make matters worse, the CSS people considered it a badge of pride that CSS lacks programming features. Allow variables to represent colors so we don't have type #f0c450 all over the place? Nesting constructs? Perish the thought!! That would make it look like a programming language, with scopes! As a result, we now have LESS and Sass which plug up the worst holes, but do nothing about the fundamentally brain-damaged layout model.
I think you are confusing quitting caffeine with reducing intake of HFCS.

I used to (a long time ago) drink 2 liters+ of Coke at work. I switched to diet, but still caffeinated, and within two weeks, I felt like a new human being.

Among everything you listed, I'll also add that I went from needing 8 hours of sleep at night to needing only 6.
OK cool - bdays and cats.... now where do I do anything serious where I need/desire privacy?
My journey:

See this well trafficked "CSS sucks"-type article, Ctrl-F the comments for John Nagle, be tantalized at the hints of how it could be so much better: http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-css-...

Look up "constraint-based layout" and more specifically "constraint cascading style sheets". You'll find papers such as this one: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.101.4... and this one: http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Lec7/mmJournal.pdf thoroughly describing such a system.

Find "GSS - Grid Style Sheets" at http://gridstylesheets.org/ , "an implementation of Badros & Borning's Constraint Cascading Style Sheets". This is still half on my todo list, but it seems like the real thing. The catch? Relies on Javascript.

Dream of a world in which this kind of system was built into browsers as the primary way of doing layout <insert Simpsons happy dancing people gif here>.
> [paraphrasing] We're still better than [other country] so it's OK!

If two countries have a problem then the problem isn't worth fixing?! I've never understood this retort. This is the USA, we're supposed to be crazy about freedom not "eh, we're slightly better than the competition for now so let's take a nap and see where we wind up in 10 years."
How Much is Enough
Something they did raised a red flag with the FBI. They got a friendly chat from an agent. I don't know hardly anything about their situation, what kind of things they've done on the internet, or what the red flag was. It seems like the situation was handled professional by all parties involved and I wanted to voice my opinion that not everyone has jumped on the anti-government bandwagon.
I had the same issue. iOS 6 / iPhone 5
Have to quit the app and reopen to get back to main screen
"You need hungry, imaginative and foolish people in their 20s to do this, and we have that"
--Article about Meta from USAToday

F'k you ageists... Notice how they need the old guy who invented the AR concept (Steve Feiner) to give them any credibility.
You might not have seen my late comment upthread...

Sure. Punish them. Get it out of your system.

You do have a choice. You can organize. You can be the change that you want to see.

As a political acquaintance of mine likes to say: Whenever I feel the heat, I see the light!

If you don't know how to get started, I recommend Camp Wellstone's organizer training and joining your local political party (whatever flavor you like) and become a precinct committee officer.
>One would argue that was the only way a black person could be elected US President:by being whiter inside than old white men.<

Can you explain how exactly one acts "white"? Are you suggesting being educated and well-spoken are inherently white characteristics?
it does exactly the same as the above htop's screencast
> I almost think it would be easier for somebody to come up with an entirely different "web application/dynamic document layout" technology stack with a sane and well-working model all the way through, so that stupid basic things like vertical alignment don't go unfixed year after year after year and we end up with the teetering tower of hacks we have today.

Yes, but if someone managed to create a logical, concise Web publishing standard that was something other than a can of worms, it would be a proprietary system, most likely patented. Which means no one would voluntarily adopt it.

The advantage of a public, open-source, no-one-in-charge system like we have now is that it's collaborative, democratic, and free. That's also its disadvantage.

For a classic counterexample, look at Apple's products -- they create much more consistent and usable products than the rest of the marketplace. But as many have said, Apple is a walled garden. If an Apple product happens to do what you want with no changes, then fine, otherwise you're out of luck.

Freedom is messy. Democratic technology seems always to veer toward chaos.
> It's annoying to have to wrap something inside of a
> <table><tr><td> just to vertically center something

And you dont have to. Because your container does not have to be a table, and you don't need cells and rows. Just use display: (table|table-cell). See for an example: http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/

It is not OK to use table and friends in you HTML just for styling purposes. It's totally OK to use display: table* in your CSS, because CSS has no semantics, its purpose is styling.
Flash player(common denominator for all browsers) still runs in separate system process, so I does not look like overall security of web increased at all.

That's not big suprise tho, if you are required to have Adobe Flash player installed in order to use Youtube.

There is also entire advertisement ecosystem built by Google, which relies on flash player... and I don't mean ads here, but all the data about users which Google is harvesting through it thanks to Google Toolbar which is bundled with Flash player.
I have never used any other tone than "Old Phone" - and still prefer it to anything else.
People do only vote on stuff they're interested in--see also "single-issue voters".

The trend is very much that politicians will make a big to-do about shit that doesn't affect most people but is really polarizing (gay marriage, abortion, gun control, nuclear power, terrorism, whatever) and people will vote on that, and ignore the issues that they personally don't understand/care about (entitlements spending, education spending, electronic surveillance of all communications, etc.).

If the common man deserved more power, I'd advocate for it, but the fact is they've remained willfully deaf, dumb, and blind to the essentials of civic process and liberties, and are by necessity driven by their stomachs and whatever the latest little drama in their lives is.

The common man of America today is hardly able to govern himself, much less contribute in a meaningful way to a system which enforces its laws onto others. If that changes, maybe we can do more.
What are some good resources to get inspired about Dashboard Designs, say a reddit-subreddit or a blog or an aggregator.

Thanks!
Be glad you did not have to do this when IE5/6 was still around and Firefox was starting to go strong. Sites with sole purpose todocument all the hacks you need to do to force IE to behave a still around.
It depends if you are programming or simply describing page layout. Front end development could also include things like Javascript. There are plenty of designers who are not Javascript programmers but who can use CSS etc.
One of the problems is we often have people doing web design was if it's print design. Find yourself a focused web designer who really understands the medium and, chances are, you won't run into this sort of problem. A good web designer understands that different browsers are going to have different capabilities, and build graceful degradation into the design. A good web designer knows that screens come in all shapes and sizes, and will avoid raster graphics and px-units wherever possible.

CSS, from my experience, makes it very easy to do web design the right way and very hard to do it any other way. It's just that the right way is often a little different from what people expect. If you accept that <i>the browser is the boss</i>, you'll be a lot happier, and incidentally your users will be a lot happier as well. The trouble is people coming from other platforms or mediums often expect 100% control, and for that it really doesn't hold your hand.
Had to remove enclosure of a Kingston drive to fit a notebook also. Just cycled all the storage in the desktop before voiding my warranty... Still sucks

In your case it's double ironic since Intel is the one that pushed for slim ssd because of the ultrabook shenanigans while everyone was doing a standard size. Not that having smaller drivers is bad...
MacVim dont't have lion or moutain lion style native scrollbar still.
These are not mutually exclusive--let the marching morons manage their own affairs as well as they can, and don't let them intervene in politics and create perverse incentives for "democratically elected leaders" to do the wrong things to get votes.

I can completely get behind the idea that the government ought to function like a microkernel operating system, doing as little as it can get away with while providing services for all. Part of that, though, is that userland stays well the fuck over in userland.
I wonder if this is a result of a broken committee process that should have had a benevolent dictator in charge of it instead.
Can you help my startup team validate our product? (Eco-friendly water bottling)
Hi guys, I was wondering if you could help my startup team validate our idea. Our plan was to package water in a truly eco-friendly way, that is also fun and expressive. The water would be packaged in a bio-degradable carton and include 3 plant-able seeds. When consumed, the bottom half of the carton could be used as a decorative flower pot for your seeds. We plan to donate a portion of our profits to sustainable charities.

Thanks for the help guys! You're feedback will help us know what steps to take next.
One problem for a vim user like me is emac's terrible first use experience. The delete key doesn't delete, it opens up help [1] and quitting is very difficult [2]. Also what people don't know at first start is which key is their meta key. A key that is super important in emacs. That it gets this first basic experience so terribly terribly wrong turns a lot of people off within a few critical settings of having run the thing.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/DEL...

[2] http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs219/CourseNotes/Unix/emacs-sta...
Teddy Roosevelt's 1906 one ratified the Japan defeats of Russia.

No awards during WWI except to the International Red Cross (ICRC).

1927: Ferdinand Buisson, France, Ludwig Quidde, Germany: "[For] contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation" Well, at least they tried....

Same for WWII; the ICRC did fully earn their prizes to my knowledge.

While he didn't get an award for it, George Marshall was the USArmy Chief of Staff, top dog in uniform along with Admiral Ernest King.

It was rather delayed, but Begin and Sadat's 1978 prize ratified Israel's 1967 Six-Day War victory.

Excepting perhaps Norman Borlaug (Green Revolution), Lech Wałęsa (key role in the peaceful end of the Cold War), and Gorbachev (ditto, not that that was his intent), I don't think any of the awardees, or possibly all of them combined, did as much for "peace" (saving lives) as Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin did in ending WWII (Stalin of course gets a big asterisk because he was instrumental in starting it, and didn't join the other side until a figurative gun was at his head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa) ).

E.g. the "Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" was killing an estimated quarter million people a month when we terminated with extreme prejudice Imperial Japan 68 years ago this week.