skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was talking about Vagrant (the tool CoreOS uses to distribute VM images)...

Also, I think you can just make a directory in the `~/vagrant.d/boxes/coreos` folder called "vmware" and copy over the vagrant file, box.ovf and the metadata.json. Then you just edit the metadata to have a vmware provider and the box.ovf to reference "../virtualbox/<<theimage>>"

I however do not have a vagrant vmware license and cannot test this theory.
I'm the same way with 150+ tabs open just now. Bookmarks just don't work for me..

Every so often I go through the tabs and bookmark anything still relevant, not that it ever helps me find it again.
Don't be fooled, Apple sells a lot of eBooks, but I don't think anyone has numbers. Apple has a lot of power in the market right now, and has already shown to be willing to abuse it in ways worse than MS ever did in the 90's. They don't have the market power to be subject to anti-trust laws, if they were, I can imagine it being worse than the Microsoft judgment.

Having that said, it's really a different case than eBook price fixing. It's almost like they're giving them a punishment for a different case...
Code style is the least of Wordpress' faults.
Completely fucking insane architecture (or lack thereof) and ridiculous use of the database should be much higher concerns
Have you seen her direct the NSA-related congressional hearings? She's definitely a dusty old battle-axe, but I'd wager that her computer skills (or lack thereof) impede her ability to edit Wikipedia articles.
This may have been what you're thinking of. Sadly I lack a source; it's just been kicking around my miscellaneous images folder.

http://i.imgur.com/tBgQkxi.jpg
http://monkeybrains.net/
I lived until recently in a very active community of both cyclists and family-aged couples (Marin, CA, Fairfax to be specific), and heard numerous stories at the local pub about many cyclist men having this very issue. Anecdotal evidence to be sure, but enough to make me find an alternate form of exercise if/when I am trying to have a child.
Yes, in addition to all of the surveillance programs being discussed, as well as the salaries of the people who lied to Congress about it.
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I've read articles saying that Amazon's App store does this. i.e. if they see you selling your app cheaper for iOS, they can go pricematch it. Or, if you give it away for free, Amazon can do the same thing an pay you nothing (since a percentage of zero is zero). AFAIK, Apple won't do the same thing, they'll just reject your app if it uses the wrong APIs or competes with a market they want to own in the near-term.
between workforpie and path.to [0] shutting down within 2 weeks of eachother, there is something to be said about new attempts to try to crack the old recruiting regime turning out to be more difficult than one might think.

[0] http://blog.path.to/post/six-lessons-that-might-have-saved-o...
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Because it's astroturfing. It's a small step to go from monitoring communications in real-time to directly and automatically responding to certain communications events, for example giving the appearance of interest where there is none (or the opposite, giving the appearance of disinterest).

It needn't be bots posting spam but it could be trained professionals engaged in spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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Pure, clean water for most of the world is nowhere near a solved problem.
Download WordPress and build something with it, on your own time. You'll spend your morning figuring out how to download everything and set up a development environment, and your afternoon seeing how plugins and themes work. 24 hours invested in yourself and now you will know what the client is asking for when they ask about WordPress work. Your freelancing career will "happily decline" if you don't make self-education one of your priorities between jobs. All professionals have to work to keep their skills current -- teachers have to take classes regularly, plumbers have to learn about new materials and building codes, lawyers have to keep on top of new laws and decisions relevant to their specialty -- software developers are no different.
Surprising since it was a very popular kickstarter. Was really hoping this was opening the door to GMOs designed to delight consumers. Sad.
> If we assume payment issues happen to 10% of the military, then that means we can just institute a rule that would give every soldier up to $9,510 in free "payment error insurance."

Sounds like another scandal just waiting to happen.
Yep. It's blogspam, in my opinion.

Edit: however he has gotten permission to republish, so I guess it's OK.
I wasn't being serious; this was all likely just a prank anyway
US in worldwide travel alert after 'al-Qaeda threat'
M-x hackernews

uses the api instead though.
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I understand what you're saying, but I respectfully disagree. I can't really speak to PandoDaily's ethics specifically, but between the dozens of media outlets who cover the sector who are brutally duking it out for pageviews, the idea that they are all pulling punches that would earn them hundreds of thousands of readers smacks of a conspiracy theory.

The "Truth to Power" argument I'm sure they would make really looks like the refuge of a scoundrel when you look at the majority of their output - it's selling sex, sleaze, snark, and cynicism. All of these are just from the last week or so, and I think it would be tough to defend most of them:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-boss-enjoys-15-mil-manhat...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/sean-parkers-wedding-tackier-tha...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valley-gets-4th-on-deman...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-startup-crowd-is-becoming-an...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/path-app-creator-calls-spanish-t...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/you-can-still-view-eric-schmdits...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-many-women-of-eric-schmidts-...
Hmmm...an "unspecified al-Qaeda threat", smells fishy!
I'm confused, are you agreeing or disagreeing? It seems like you've placed a bob each way.
Probably not an actual senator, but someone on a senator's staff.
It's Friday evening drinking in your office let's have fun on the internet time.
Big fan of the MBA.
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I agree....once I "bookmark" something, I may as well be putting it into the trash can. At least with many tabs, I'm sometimes forced to go back through and reconcile why they are open.
It sounds like you aren't familiar with the depths of corruption in Massachusetts state government. Let's put it this way: the last three previous Speakers of the House are all Federal felons.
Yeah, imagine if Amazon included apps that let you buy books from the competitors right on their own tablets!! It would be inconceivable!!

http://www.amazon.com/Kobo-Inc-eBooks/dp/B004SIEZ8I/ref=sr_1...
Thanks for this. MySQL 5.5+ it looks like. We're on earlier MySQL versions but will keep this in mind for after we upgrade in the future.
I think the fact that this is done on a large scale makes people more complacent.

"Oh, they're monitoring the whole Internet for terrorists? OK!"

But if you told anyone, "The Feds have decided to monitor you and 1000 other people chosen at random for the next year. Your phone calls will be stored, and all of your web browsing activity will be logged. They probably won't use it, but it's being stored just in case."

People would have a fit.
Ok. I read your last sentence of, "At this point it's network effects and path dependence that keeps it at the top." as still alluding to PHP and cheap hosts as being responsible for WordPress's current position.

As for me putting WordPress into a basket with Drupal, Joomla, Modx, and the like; the reality is that WordPress is being used as a CMS. It wasn't built for that, and this is distasteful to many here, but that's what it is now being used for for a majority of its new installs.

Install WordPress, create custom post types, create meta fields, and tie it all together with posts 2 posts plugins, and you're well on your way to a website with some basic many to many and one to many relationships.

Habari, TextPattern and Serendipity look like purely blogging platforms, but if they're better, I hope to start hearing about them in the near future.
In the US we have a specific definition for treason which makes it pretty clear that Snowden is not a traitor.
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She probably wouldn't go near Wikipedia - a haven for radical idealists to spread their propaganda. It'd be flat-out unpatriotic.
No, I think it's just the unfortunate reality.

The problem with your argument is that those who know programming languages other than JavaScript end up seeing its flaws extremely clearly. Such people won't willingly subject themselves to something that is so inherently broken, especially given that they're aware of the alternatives. Many would feel quite ashamed to associate themselves with it in any professional manner.
Just curious, how was that revealed? Kickstarter recipients aren't required to reveal the accounting of how they spend the proceeds, are they? Did she voluntarily disclose to her backers that she was paying off personal debts?
You could always use Whatsapp; it has a "Share location function" that sends your location to the other person (or group, if a group conversation) using GPS (if on) or your network-derived location (250-1000 meter accuracy).
Great idea; I was worried about breaking ETags but I think that would work. I'll test it and update the gem appropriately.
Why would you bother to wiretap, when you can listen to everyone, or get far more information through other means of data collection?
Simply put, because Microsoft lost two generations of progammers; first to the web and then to mobile. These are the platforms of choice for most startups today.

A programmer in his/her early 20s back in 2007 might have cut their teeth on PHP, while the same age programmer today may have hacked on Android or iOS. Both are familiar with using Macs or Linux and open source tools that work with both.

I spent years only writing .NET and the tooling is pretty incredible. But when I switched to open source the first thing I noticed was how quickly I went from being the youngest guy in the room to being one of the oldest.
The only clause in MIT (besides the warranty disclaimer) is that the MIT license and original copyright notice must remain on all copies of the software.
Oh I realise that Wordpress is being used as a CMS. People write some fairly amazing plugins to browbeat it into being all sorts of things. (BuddyPress, anyone?)

My point is that Drupal out of the box requires a lot more configuration simply to something, anything, that an end user can understand. It continues to reveal a very large control surface which, as you correctly point out, is confusing to people who just want to know how to edit some pages. Drupal hands you the toolbox and expects you to work out what you want to build. Wordpress hands you a chair and says "here, sit on this".

> Habari, TextPattern and Serendipity look like purely blogging platforms, but if they're better, I hope to start hearing about them in the near future.

If you haven't heard of them before, it seems safe to assume that you won't hear much about them in future.
>Just imagine how good this game and community around it would be if it had always been open source. Just imagine how much money they could raise in a Kickstarter to simply open source everything.

I don't think he'd even need to even open source it, in terms of allowing anyone else to release it. If it was just possible to hook into it and make custom UI or Renderers, I think people would run with it. Some have tried but they are extreme hacks at this point.
"in this case, the prices of many ebooks went up by quite a bit"

But no one was coerced into buying those books. Where's the crime?
I'm sure the people who make the drives are trying to get as much performance as possible from the firmware. They're also working with information you won't have.
"The publishers" is not a group of happy friends. They are in the same market, they should be each others greatest enemy. The moment thats not the case, you can be sure there will be an anti-trust investigation. Anti-trust isn't about whats right or wrong or visionary or faulty, it's not even about whose responsibility it really is, if their actions created a situation where competition subsided and prices raised, theres damage and fault.
That's from http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf

There's some more from the author here: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html
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Looks a lot like this node+express+mongo boilerplate:
https://github.com/madhums/node-express-mongoose-demo
Don't take this the wrong way, but I can say as one of the uniform-wearing types out of DoD that the effort to ensure military personnel won't carry out grossly Unconstitutional orders is far more important for national liberty than guns.

Your automatic rifle may match up well to a soldier's, but it won't match up at all to crew-served weapons, JDAM laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles, tanks, etc.

And even more important than technology is training, logistics, organization, and discipline which is something that all branches of the military will kick a militia's ass up and down the coast with.

The militia was intended to be a way to defend America against foreign invasion without having to maintain a standing army, as a standing army was considered dangerous for liberty.

But the Second Amendment wasn't intended to be used to fight against the government, or a standing army. Which is well, since the standing army is here now, and better than you at fighting.

Instead we do all we can to ensure that everyone from E-1 to O-10 understand what they're fighting for (the Constitution, not the military), who is in charge (the civilians), and what constraints are placed on their domestic operations (e.g. Posse Comitatus). That way an order to do something illegal like establish martial law in a town (for non-"Title 32" forces) would be instantly recognized as abnormal and wrong.
Have you tried development with node.js and in particular npm (node package manager)?

I used to have the same thoughts about JavaScript. It really is a new world with these two things - and that is coming from a Ruby background.
That you took a bunch of meds doesn't mean you took the ones right for your particular condition. That you spoke to one psych who seemed a disinterested quack doesn't mean all doctors are.

The human brain is very complicated, executive function is one of its highest and most complicated tasks. Fixing it with Pill Powerball doesn't seem likely to me.

That you felt you were fighting the drug may suggest you have other issues to work out. Which really isn't surprising. If you've got serious ADD / ADHD, the hookup between events and your feelings / reactions to those events has been seriously impaired. Which means that all the internal mechanisms for monitoring and managing your emotional state, and the mechanisms for monitoring your relationships with other people and their reactions to your behavior, were seriously fucked up. Which your emotional development to date has been working with a distant echo of good information about how you and other people react to stuff.

That doesn't mean you have these conditions. It does mean you are improperly excluding the possibility.

Think about why that may be. Why might your brain fight a drug that might be helpful? Are you embarrassed by the possibility you have such a condition? Worried you'll be dependent on a drug? Well, too bad. If that's what's going on, that's what's going on, and running from it won't get you anywhere but right where you are.

I take a pill every day so I can think. I hate needing that pill. Well, boo-hoo for me. Again, I don't know whether you have this condition or not. But you certainly have a deep problem, and fixing it is going to take a long hard look in the mirror, and probably admitting some shit that you really don't want to hear. If you're batting away plausible explanations with responses like this, you aren't going to figure this out.
Look, I love functional programming. I use it all the time and I procrastinate in the shower about the best to add currying to all my favorite languages. That being said, even after all those years, I still find this:

expr, res = "28+32+++32++39", 0
for t in expr.split("+"):
if t != "":
res += int(t)

print res

SO MUCH more readable than this:

from operator import add
expr = "28+32+++32++39"
print reduce(add, map(int, filter(bool, expr.split("+"))))

A couple years ago I created a library called Moka in python to make functional and nesting easier. That would be written this way:

(Moka(expr)
.do(string.split, '+')
.keep(lambda x: x != "")
.map(int)
.reduce(moka.add))

Still, the imperative version, althought it has state and feels hacky for a functional hacker, is still pretty damn clear and easy to read.
Why do people keep bringing Amazon into this? It's like asking a criminal on his philosophy to life. It simply doesn't factor into the law. Amazon is not a party to the case, and it is not a defense.

They fixed prices, and theres no situation where this yields a upside to customers. And in fact, it didn't. That's why they had to pay up, and Apple, failing to come to terms with the DOJ, will now have to pay much much more dearly for ever bringing this into a court.
Legally nothing. But the eBook market didn't start to take off until Amazon started to force it. We have every reason to believe that publishers will price eBooks in a way that minimizes disruption to their traditional paper business and keep profits higher than the real equilibrium.

We've seen the music industry do it (avoiding selling to keep album sales up). We've seen the game industry do it (change the same for downloads as physical copies to keep retail happy). We've seen the movie industry try to prevent disruption many times (anti-VCR, pro-Divx, anti-Netflix, etc).
what he meant (i think) is use MongoDB in a lean manner - which is to say, try to get something off the ground, and if it takes off, switch to the most appropriate DB then (which might be Mongo).

I think this is the killer use of Mongo IMO.
Thanks for getting this out so fast!

Do you guys have plans to PR these changes back in Rails?
No offense but Sensenbrenner deserves his share of blame for this too.

People pointed out even back then that that Patriot Act was way overbroad and could lead to things exactly like this.

Militaries plan against the capabilities of a possible opponent, not just what they think the opponent intends to do.

Congress should never have let it get passed in the shape it was in, but Sensenbrenner should have written the legislation keeping in mind the capability it would give the Executive branch, not just presumed intent.
Do you have any numbers on Apple's eBook sales? I always figured they were even smaller than Nook, or at least outnumbered by Amazon most of 10:1.
Thank you! I love the internet :)
everytime I see

reduce(operator.add, ...)

and variations like that I think GvR was right to relegate reduce to the functools module... it's just that

sum(...)

covers the most common (90%? only?) usage...
I believe that you have a key point here, STAY HUNGRY, stay hungry forever. You got 130k a/y know? Set a goal for yourself aim to have a million in a year (I do not know how, but try it). As someone else said before in the comments is not for the money.
I could understand why apple would get a 30% of scamware f2p shit recoded flash games that couldn't exist without their ripoff platform. But why should they get 30% of book sales when they don't even care about piracy or make any serious efforts to stop it?
This is far more important than the NSA bullshit.
> Why do all the American states have different taxes?

So that when you get fed up with sky-high taxes for no services from places like Massachusetts or California, you can move to Texas or Florida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratories_of_democracy
Oh, wow, yes, "digital nanny" sounds very intriguing. Pinging you now! (And thanks for kind words!)
Awesome little utility. Next step is letting me comment :).
And now the Navy is buying their next set of massive Intranet services through HPES. Ugh.
That's not my point. My point is that the lesser of two evils is still evil. If I rob you at gunpoint and you give me your wallet and I spare your life, it's still a bad outcome, it just isn't as bad as it could be.
The U.S. courts publish non-intelligence wiretap stats per year:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=us+courts+annual+wiretap+statistics+201...

Intelligence gathering is rather different.
Most of the WSOs on Warrior Forum are scams, hah.
However, it's not likely that they'll ever put a tax on lawyers, since most members of the state legislature are probably lawyers themselves.
I'd say it's closer to 1:1 or 2:1 considering what Iv'e seen in the wild. Other systems can advertise books right in iTunes like a single app. Kindle has to be discovered via Amazon's site so it really only appeals to existing customers. Apple has way more brand recognition.
Fair enough, but I'm not exactly assuming "malice", I'm just saying that such "lack of imagination" wouldn't happen if foreigners were considered an important target for the banks.
Yep. Julian Assange and I go way back. :)
AT&T partners with defence contractors to implement email spying

http://www.informationweek.com/government/security/feds-isps...
The attorney-general of Virginia is seeking to preserve a law that would ban sodomy, which in Virginia includes oral sex. Yes, there are some people who think that how you have sex is very much their business, notwithstanding the fact that they talk out the other side of their mouth about their disdain for big government (I refer here to his arguments against Obamacare).

http://theweek.com/article/index/247156/ken-cuccinellis-crus...
Actually, it turns out that that wasn't true, at least not under the relevant law.

The defendant was a gang member and a participant in an armed robbery, and when things got ugly (the victims fought back) one of the gang members shot one of the victims.

It was not proved to us that the defendant was the shooter, but -- as I was shocked to learn -- California law put him on the hook for the murder.

Possibly whoever actually shot the victim is still at large. The shooting took place at night, outdoors, the eyewitnesses were all drunk, and their testimony made it clear that, under the circumstances, they could barely tell one black man from another.
Not just that. More generally, comprehensions cover the most common use cases and are tremendously more readable.
Very impressive, I am glad I started studying clojure earlier this summer, I feel it will be a powerful tool in years to come. Currently working on a Cljs life simulation engine (flora, fauna, think Rich Hickeys Ant Colony demo)
While calling him a traitor is a valid point of view, its not NPOV, the foundation wiki is built on.

FWIW, I think is a hero - and I suspect he will come to be regarded as such by most Americans.
How is a phone supposed to passively collect information about sexual positions?

"By asking about sexual positions and female orgasms, for example, the app is collecting data on oft-cited but little-researched possible factors in successful conception. The founders say that physicians have already signed on to use this data in studies. And eventually, Levchin said, they hope to make the data collection totally passive (by using a combination of phone sensors and specialized hardware) so that you don’t even have to take the trouble of entering any numbers yourself."