skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually pretty decent considering what it is.

Do you think you could run owncloud or something similar to use it as a sort of wireless flash drive?
Code documentation written as code
You should try to make a tiny effort to check the link before commenting.
If you understand that they seem to be written as a learning exercises by the respective authors, I found that there's a good introduction to the nuts and bolts to be had browsing attempts at creating userspace tools in go: eg. https://bitbucket.org/telesto/goblin/ or https://github.com/manveru/goblin .. it seems to be a popular first project :)
The actual truth is that we should err towards fewer secrets rather than more, because secrets make you stupid.

When the President and the people around him are acting on secret information, they have to lie about why they do things and they have to parse all response and criticism of their actions through a "if he knew what I know, would he still think that?" filter. The upshot is the President can be making boneheaded mistakes and utterly incapable of recognizing it because the relevant subject-matter experts that could TELL him this aren't part of the security apparatus - they can't tell him his "secret" info is bogus.

And the secret info the president sees isn't neutral. It gets assembled for him by people who have a point of view so he's likely to see the info that supports what other people want him to think or what other people think he wants to hear. So it's easy to get stuck in an error cascade, where everybody inside the tent has a false view like "Saddam Hussein has nukes" which anybody outside the tent can see is idiotic.

The solution to this problem is transparency. Get rid of the secrets and our politicians instantly get a lot smarter and more able to notice and learn from their mistakes.
While MPD is probably ideal for your use case, there are lots of toolkits that facilitate this delegation. Many Linux apps utilize GStreamer to do this, including several very prominent ones. Heck, even VLC and mplayer are just "interfaces" on top of decoders. It's pretty uncommon to rewrite this type of code, considering its complexity. There a lot of tools that allow you to reuse media decoders and output frameworks.
Norway's PM Jens Stoltenberg turns taxi driver to woo voters
"I'm going to set off a pipe bomb at Disneyland" NSA Wiretapping PSA
And evolution theory has been addressed ad infinitum by religious groups... Care to give any links?
> Lynx is not an assistive UA. Keyword there is `render`. It makes very little use of tags' semantic meaning compared to a screen reader.

It is, however, apparently smarter about the use-semantics of table markup than most screen readers, if I'm to take your example as the norm.

> imagine what a slightly more complex nested table layout looks like.

Having spent more time than I care to remember inside the code of complex nested table layouts, I unfortunately don't really have to work too hard to imagine. :/

> You are underestimating the damage bad markup does, and how deeply assistive software relies on semantics/metadata/structure.

I can see/hear from your example that the table markup is a challenge for voiceover.

I'm not sure I was underestimating the damage repurposed markup does more than I was overestimating the ambitions of assistive UI devs. I'm just astounded that voiceover wouldn't haven't implemented at least a mode for making likely distinctions between table markup that's being used for tabular data and table markup that's being used for layout, when making such a distinction is not only clearly possible but has been done.

Then again, I'm astounded that it's 2013 and Adobe still can't install onto case-sensitive volumes, so there's that.
> Isn't maintainability going to be significantly added by so much being statically checked? Even if people are writing functions that are internally ugly, wouldn't haskell largely enforce that those functions can't really hurt the outside world?

Yes and yes (in my experience).
... followed by a list of (mostly his own) libraries, which is what my comment was getting at.
I understand what you mean but looks can be deceiving. If you saw a picture of Keith Alexander, you might think he looks like a decent guy.

In the case of Dotcom, I might also be a little cautious although I'm not aware of any actions on his part that would make ME, as a civilian of a random country, not trust him.
Misleading title. The pre-treatment meat was unfit for human consumption.
Hm, my comment must have come across as somewhat arrogant. Sorry, read the parent comment. I'm agreeing with you - my point was that you can't really make much more than median unless you're in an expensive area, you have high seniority, and you're very educated. We're agreeing :)
edwardkmett is a bit of a Haskell guru, so it's natural he would have a lot of his own work to point to.
Last time I tried encoding with raw ffmpeg it couldn't even render subtitles.
Edward Snowden predicts catastrophic and 'inevitable solar tsunami'
I think the CEO is the random asshole, not the person being fired.
Being Eastern European (Lithuanian with a Ukranian last name), I actually found a woman with my last name which was awesome!
And actually, it kind of reflects on how living sort of was in that era. Shit.
> Most disturbing of all is the horrifying fact that because ammonium hydroxide is considered part of the “component in a production procedure” by the USDA, consumers may not know when the chemical is in their food.

I can understand McDonalds goes for the maximum profit. You get what you pay for. But I (naively) thought every company would be required by law to at the very least tell their clients when there's chemicals in the bloody food. That's the part of this I can't understand.
This observation strikes me a bit funny - regarding information access, 8th grade me (circa '88-89) probably had more in common with those from 100 years ago than those today.

Has education really changed that much in 25 years? Heck, 10 years? I don't think most people had heard of Wikipedia 10 years ago, and Google hadn't even IPO'ed yet.
In the case of an all out nuclear war, a handful of high altitude nuclear EMP devices will be the least of our problems!
While the dragnet collection continues, everything can and will be called into question.
Polio Vaccine and AIDS... [1]

[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_hypothesis)
Sometimes my former boss would tell me I was fired if I made a bad joke when we were out drinking . . . but in general, I agree that it should not be done if there is any ambiguity at all in the situation.
This technology will never allow you to "breathe". Breathing does two things, it adds oxygen and removes CO2. The human body requires about a liter of oxygen every 3 minutes. I don't know how big their syringe is, but I doubt they can inject this much. Also, they provide no mechanism for carbon dioxide removal. After a while, the carbon dioxide buildup in the body would become toxic. At most, they could keep a sedated patient fully oxygenated for about 10 minutes. Potentially useful in a medical emergency, but that's about it.
> they alternate between appealing to your sense of mission, and then make decisions under a different logic.

When things go sour they also falsely blame a scapegoated 3rd party. "We would give you bonuses and severance packages but those pesky lawyers/accountants can't let us do it", as if those entities are forces of nature outside of CEO's or board's control.
I have often wondered, can I do something similar for mankind as a developer?

> How many people can claim to have (mostly) freed humanity from a diseases?

Perhaps Bill Gates, soon. I liked his 60M interview recently, where he has plans for several diseases. Quite awesome.
Work on your resume on the flight? It's not an actionable speech, it just gives you insight into the current state of the company. When leadership feels this needs to be said, there aren't many good things it can be a sign of.
great, if it would be user driven not span driven
> Additionally, I think people who care can be quite contentious.

People who care will challenge the status quo. This is often deeply unpopular, especially in larger orgs. If you don't empower the people who care to make positive changes to the status quo, then those people will give up and stop caring. And then probably leave.
Well in the USA they forcibly prevent competition, in order to drive the population towards eventually accepting a single payer system.
Yeah, if the vaccine was more expensive, would it have been used as much? The calculations here seem a bit like the movie industry, where each download is a lost sale.

But not to take anything away from him. What he did was great, and he probably would have been rich by patenting it. Just not $7bn rich.
I still don't understand what legal justification the US has for making it hard to get landing rights in the USA just because you use Chinese equipment.

If I ever have a spare $300mm or so, I know what I'm funding.
If competition is not forcibly prevented by law, that is commendable (unfortunately there are all kinds of such preventions in the USA.)

However I'm willing to bet that the people who are actually paying for the system would face threats of violence if they stopped paying.
Most full-time workers in the US do not have job contracts.
"If there is one place where people say what they really mean about most things, it is in a taxi. Right from the gut," he told VG.

Amen.
I think what Go's subprocess stuff needs most is better examples. There aren't a lot of examples out there yet. For example, I saw one guy on StackOverflow use a complicated Reader thread to print a subprocess' output to stdout, when all he had to do was set Command#Stdout to os.stdout.

I hope that I'm not assuming too much here (maybe you really did need bufio for your code), but in a lot of cases you don't need it. Like if you want to supply stdin to a process, just use Command#Stdin = strings.NewReader("what I want to send to stdin"). For getting the command output, it's often enough to just call Command#CombinedOutput and cast to a string-- no bufio required unless you're doing something fancy.

I wrote some utility code that might or might not be helpful:
https://github.com/cmccabe/test2/blob/master/subprocess.go
Unfortunately, patents may be a "necessary evil". Without the prospect of making money, or at least cover the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to test a new medicine, the risk would be to big.
Do you use os/exec [1] package or directly start processes with os.StartProcess?

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/os/exec/
Yes but an EMP pulse will probably be one of the events. It will be one of the first ones as well, as rocket will only need to travel up and not come down.

It is just seems like the quickest way to disable a large chunk of an entire class of opponents' infrastructure. Personal communications, cars, water pumps, transportation, food delivery, produce a media blackout. Very nasty stuff.
>I can understand McDonalds goes for the maximum profit.

Well, I for one, can't understand it. Maybe I'm not indoctrinated in the free market enough, but basic human decency, and creating a quality product is among things I value.
> On the official website of McDonald’s, the company claims that their meat is cheap because, while serving many people every day, they are able to buy from their suppliers at a lower price, and offer the best quality products. But if “pink slime” was really the “best quality” that McDonalds can muster in the US, then why were they able do better in Latin America and Europe? More to the point, why can they apparently do better now in the United States?

Is the author genuinely confused, or even under the impression that anyone might be confused, by that statement from McDonalds, into thinking that the meat they use is the absolutely very best meat possibly available? That when you're paying $1 for a burger, you probably aren't getting quite the same quality as when you buy a nice fillet in a good restaurant, and that "best quality" was not only standard marketing hyperbole, but also was a reference within the context of their goal of being better than their rivals?
And washing it with dangerous chemicals make it "fit"?
I wish the headlines of these articles would read "The American Government is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system".

Although it seems the government has no control over the NSA or even know what they're up too, it would be good to see the focus of this problem turned to the policy makers.
SVG to Raphaël, The fastest and easiest way to get your SVGs rolling...
Or maybe US is a foreign government for some people ?
From the clip I saw, most passengers recognised him and he spent 80% of the time talking rather than listening.

Stunt.
Ammonium hydroxide is FDA-GRAS, if that matters in this analysis. I don't know that restaurants are required to list ingredients at all, except on packaged goods. May be wrong about that though.
It's very simple and lightweight, however collision code is very naive:

if (obj1BoundingBox === this.RECTANGLE &&
obj2BoundingBox === this.RECTANGLE)
return Maths.rectanglesIntersecting(obj1, obj2);

which means it will not work for moving objects
Just a reminder that the IRS will be enforcing Obamacare, and it's already in the news that the IRS was secretly using NSA data.

It would be the height of naiveté to believe the information wouldn't end up being abused. It's already being abused. Also, maybe you aren't in the USA so FYI, the IRS is currently in a scandal for abuse of authority, especially related to "tinfoil hat" organizations. (Those crazies apparently being, people who do not trust the IRS to handle their health care.)
Ammonium hydroxide is classed by the FDA as "generally recognized as safe", so while I certainly side with the argument that they should be required to disclose this, and I understand that some people may prefer to avoid it, I don't think that it's particularly immoral to do this as a way of offering customers cheap food. In fact I'd argue that it's more immoral of them to be helping people become obese than doing this.
Ammonium hydroxide is not a dangerous chemical. It is generally regarded as safe by the FDA (that's the FDA's lowest level of regulation, along with chemicals like sodium chloride and dihydrogen oxide).
His foundation makes great play of the claim that they are evidence based and totally, totally use metrics and quantitative feedback to guide their work.

So I go onto their site and look for such metrics, feedback, evidence that they have change their policies and practices based on data.

Nothing.
Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC [pdf]
Let's take an example from everyday life. Someone see an ad online, for a big discount on an hotel stay in south east Turkey. If you have no idea on the spot that you'll likely be close to the syrian border in might look like a good idea on first examination.

That might be a prejudice on my part, but I think that someone, who does not know some geographical facts is the less likely to look thoroughly at a map before planning a journey.
Google, along with Apple, will always be the company that beat him.
It's really easy to make a computer say "I".
If you're dissatisfied with the level of service you get from the police, imagine how things would look if there were no courts, no prison system, no laws and no police.
My point is that architecture and programmer ability is a much stronger influence on maintainability than type system IME. Although your experiment would be an interesting one.

Java's static typing did make it easier to traverse the code using an IDE, and avoided the occasional subtle type casting bug. The easy integrated debugging was nice too (eg setting remote breakpoints).

These benefits were vastly offset by the productivity hit from wading through boilerplate code, language verbosity and dealing with type conversion issues.
I'd like this to be true, but I think it's a very utopian ideal. If people care as much as the founders do about the company, they're going to get very disillusioned when the founders head in a different direction to the one they'd take the company and they get no say in it. Because although they're as invested in the company as the founders, they don't have the power.

I also wonder why (apart from the charity sector) employees would be that invested. They don't get the financial rewards or the kudos that the founders do, so why invest their soul in someone else's problem?
...Which is why you probably will choose not to eat those burgers and will spend your money on more expensive products and that's fine. Other people might have less money to spend and they'll look for the 'biggest bang for their buck'. But they lack the information to make a good judgment. Providing good labeling and information for your food so you can make a good call, that's what everyone pays the FDA to do but they simply don't.
If there weren't any existing, it could make some. There are some very protectionist policies in the US and if you have the lobbying power you can get even more. That said, how many local industries aren't protected by their country's government? Some protection is good, but finding the balance can be a little tricky.
Instant Salacious (click the image)
Im on BT in the UK and it's not blocked for me, I suspect this is a mistake that will be fixed (eventually).

Of course it does raise the much more important issue of how easy it is for entire websites to be accidentally black listed.

Luckily they don't seem to be smart enough to block the IPs, just one (of DDG's many) domain names.
Opinion: Edward Snowden is a patriot - Trevor Timm - POLITICO.com
Joan Feynman, scientist
Flask-Heroku starter template
First, I think you're underestimating the effects of targeted advertising on the soul :) Second, targeted advertising proves that the information is analyzed constantly and being used constantly — all day, every day; it's far more prevalent than people being arrested for downloading Iron Man 3. Third, Google says it's collecting information for targeted advertising, just like the government says it's collecting information for counter-terrorism. Even if Google is to be believed, that doesn't mean they won't be using that information for something else tomorrow.
Animated GIF is an abomination. I wish APNG would take over. All that's needed is a tool that would convert APNG to GIF server side for browsers that don't support APNG. Thus Firefox users will enjoy better image quality, and Chrome users will have to either switch or enjoy the crapness of GIF image format until Google implements APNG support too.
Amazing study !!
It's a pleasure to get a direct response from the source.

Thank you, for all the work you put in to get the project as far as it did.
"Yes, we scam!"
Is that better or worse than dropping it on a city (or two)?

I'm not sure where your position comes from.
Wireworld computer [Flash]
Simulation of the Wireworld computer, calculating primes.

A description of how the computer works can be found at http://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html
This seems like an obvious point, but when you are dealing with complex systems second-order effects often result in totally perverse outcomes. Often the result of pushing the system in one direction is an outcome in the opposite direction.

In this case, providing medical services results in more children living, which [often] means larger populations, which means more pressure on food and infrastructure, and more unemployment.

So providing medical care can make people worse off.

The book "An End to Alms" points to an interesting example of this phenomenon. Hygiene standards in England were far worse in earlier times than in China [read Samuel Pepys's diaries if you don't believe me]. As a result, more people died from infections in England at a given level of nutrition than in China. As a result, per person calorie intake in China fell until the lower food intake balanced out the higher standards of hygiene.

More in any book on Systems Theory, or "Poor Charlie's Almanack".
But people don't change them unless forced to. Another place I worked, half the passwords were qwerty123 because the tech set them up in the expectation they would be changed. Another place, the passwords were usually "password". I once set up a bunch of accounts for a new domain with strong passwords which I printed on a credit card-sized laminated card, which people could keep in a wallet or purse. Mostly, this worked well, but still some people blu-tacked the cards to their desks or keyboards. It's unwinnable unless you force people to do the right thing.
July 2013: five Cisco vulnerabilities
McD's use a low quality product in one country. This isn't just "not best quality", it is very low quality meat.

UK advertising laws have the concept of "Legal, Decent, Honest, and Truthful", I don't know what it's like in the US. But calling the worst quality level of meat available from a carcass "best quality" seems deceitful.

These ingredients have terms in the UK, but there are loopholes and these are exploited sometimes. Mechanically recovered meat used in Sausages (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21530861) (Something called a "sausage" in England needs to have certain quantity of meat, where both the quantity of meat and the meaning of meat are defined in law)

(https://www.gov.uk/food-standards-labelling-durability-and-c...)
Open Source multiplayer 3d fighting game (iOS/Android/WP8/HTML5)
UK Surveillance camera code of practice comes into force
> What about the MAC addresses that Google gathered when driving around for street view? What about data that software gathers on your PC or mobile devices without your knowing, or location data that is made available to mobile carriers and law enforcement simply by the act of communicating with a cell phone tower? What of spyware/maleware, etc?

Great, so we can say that far more information flows to corporations, voluntarily or involuntarily, than to the government. And privacy software won't help with most of the cases you mentioned.

> There is no way to know as of yet exactly how much information has been gathered through such programs, but recent revelations suggest startling amounts of data that are far more invasive and vast than anything that could ever be leaked: more information than the NSA is capable of processing, as mentioned in the Guardian's XKeyscore revelation article.

I would still venture to say that Google analyses (if not collects) far more private information than the NSA, and unlike the NSA, Google uses that information all the time.

> I don't see how suggesting software to help limit the scope of surveillance does anything to hide the underlying problem. If anything, it brings action upon it and suggests that users will not stand for being surveilled in this manner.

Because, it's like having an awareness campaign after a horrible home-invasion that encourages people to dig moats in their back yards, and all the while their kids are letting strangers in through the front door. It's saying, there's a privacy issue, and here it is, while it's somewhere else completely. A classic diversion.
They are wholesalers. They don't want to compete with the brands of their customers. The unmarked trucks drive business.
That's pretty ungenerous of you. There are factual differences between languages, and Ed's list is full of illuminating examples. You've wandered into a conversation on /r/haskell between Haskell users about why they like Haskell. It's insane to expect them to be less excited or biased.
What are the reasons this isn't just a json-serving front-end to Redis? Is it largely because Redis clustering isn't baked yet?
The problem is not ==, but == for rationals.
Season of KDE 2013 Applications Open
Reminds me of the Ammonia the tobacco industry started adding to cigarettes. Not to kill germs but to increase the amount of nicotine contained in the vapor smokers inhale. That cost them quite a lot of money (after 30 years). I'd say obesity is becoming just as dangerous as smoking...
http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/04/minnesota.tobacco/