skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered why Zamalka was so familiar as I was writing my previous comment up, turns out I covered it before.

There has been persistent shelling from Assad loyalist neighborhoods down onto Zamalka below it. One video of such volleys of indiscriminate fire captured the essence of the situation, so I took frames of the video and stitched them into a panorama with a wider field of view than what the video provided[1].

The neighborhood with what most likely is howitzers is al-Assad,[2] and I say howitzers due to the neighborhood being military housing for the military artillery base north of it. This is very striking to what was documented to happen on the other side of Damascus to the west, where another set of military housing was scene wanton violence.

In Jdaidat Artouz civilians were taken by Assad's military officers and lynched to death in a heap at the military family housing block either in or near the town (Jdaidat Artouz or Moadamiyet al-Shams). Video taken by some of the offenders shows the victims unloaded from a military truck being struck while shouted at by military and civilian persons. Later video shows the the pile of victims mostly motionless. Even later video shows them being further crushed with a tractor, throats slit.

Both cases have the military feeding off victim populations as if they were supermarket meat, there for picking and abuse. With offenders deployed from military housing. The latter case documented by the offenders themselves.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg

[2] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=...

[3] http://storyful.com/stories/41049
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In the limit, I think most people would agree there are diminishing returns. It's better to spend that 20th hour each day sleeping than studying.

So, I do think there is a limit for consciously doing hard math. Subconsciously, however, who knows what one's brain is doing? There's plenty of anecdotes about working hard on a problem for hours without apparent progress and then, suddenly, having the breakthrough insight during a walk or in bed, supposedly during a break of working on the problem. Famous anecdotes are Archimedes in bath and Kekule's dream about snakes and benzene.

Now, chances are these guys were still thinking of the problem (one advantage of theoretical work is that you can combine it with most low-effort activities) and nobody who gets such an epiphany knows whether just keeping churning would have led to the same result, possibly earlier, but I think that there is some truth in this. Just as running for 16 hours a day is not the best training for any race, it is good to have breaks from doing extensive math.
The low hanging fruit is always getting others doing something. I for myself see the low hanging fruits with the things I can do or influence.
Users care because it's easier to pay $5/mo, than to set up and maintain your own infrastructure. Especially if you don't have any experience with servers (Think Grandma, Mom, Dad, non-techies etc).
I think with the quantity of water involved and how water works in zero-g, you would be at a high risk of drowning if you attempted it. It isn't particularly easy to swallow multiple times in a row when you can't breath in and out (Just tried it with a water bottle while holding my nose. Possible though not easy) and if you failed to clear all the water then you probably only succeeded in pulling a giant blob of water over your mouth.
We have 8. The 8th is JavaScript. But the language page for JavaScript doesn't look very fancy currently. That's why we removed the icon from the landing page. But you can for example follow jQuery-mobile here: http://www.versioneye.com/javascript/jquery:jquery-mobile/1....
Somehow I doubt full-scale military action is conducive to lowered emissions.
Even lower hanging fruit is the stupid fires in Indonesia (both wildfires and to clear land). We could pay to either employ those farmers in something else, or to upgrade how they manage their land, for cheaper than CO2/pollution savings in US industry.
My argument above is that companies that have decided to move to the cloud, NSA or not, have already signed off on the fact that it is worth the risk to allow possible 3rd party access. The new discussion about the NSA doesn't affect that decision.
As a young-ish person with hyper tension who was told to cut back on the salt, I would love to see you back up your claims.

Could you link to a few relevant medical studies?
Ask author: did you kept regular "eating" times or did you sip here and there from the bottle ?

How did the eating time socialization worked out ? Did you zap them ?

How would you explain the fact that you seamed intellectually more alert ? Do you think it can only be the food ? Or could the fitness you did contribute to it ?
First, I see friendship is an intimate relationship that is not marred by sexual connotations or the sense obligation coming from family ties. It is the purest form of relationship, as it is fully based on choice. Personally I get a peculiar mix of sense of freedom and love from friendships.
Building a friendship, I think, comes not only from emotional kinship, but from the regular sharing of experience. One does not go without the other: sharing without kinship makes acquaintances you spend evenings with, not friends. Kinship alone on the other hand is hardly even realized if there is no sharing. In some ways, all the people I consider friends have shared some experience (a bad one sometimes) with me.
However, your question comes from a specific place, which is how friendships that are built survive long periods of separation.
Some friendships (typically a handful in a life) will survive long separations. It's those persons that will always feel familiar no matter how much time passed since the last time you spoke to them. You will both understand the meaning of each other's words. It's those friends that you feel a bit guilty about for not calling them for so long, but then when you speak to them you realize they're still them, and you are still you. Those friends who always soften your heart a bit when you think about them. Finding such a friend is almost always a surprise, as you don't go looking for them the way you go looking for a relationship with a lady because of her fine back bottom. These kind of connections are less evident, and often hidden.
What happens when time and distance makes people grow apart? It can happen, people live, make new experiences and change all the time. I think friendships are a particularly healthy element in life. A friend remembers you for what you were and in a way reminds you of what you were as well. When you speak to your friends, you can shed masks and be brought back to your inner self. Is it possible to change so much that you cannot find that kinship that used to be? Of course. As all things of this world, relationship are subject to fading. Can one avoid it? Maybe. I think that if life makes you grow in such a way that some friendships cannot survive, there's not much one can do. There's a romantic side to this, as when you realize the love of your life has become distant. At the end of a life, I think, one is lucky enough if he or she has known friendship. Just like love. But without all the arguing about who left the toothpaste cap off. :oP
These are the thought of a 36-yo who has been away from his country for the last 11 years who has most of his best friends scattered all around.
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> The US cloud is toast.

It would be irresponsible to trust the cloud anywhere, really, for two reasons. First, you can't know if another government is compliant with U.S. surveillance. Second, you can't expect any other government to be honest about its own actions either.
I salute the German public for their awareness. I'm in the country next door (Holland) and most of my fellow men act like it's no big deal. They keep steamrolling new privacy-violating laws. (Today:'Supervision by drones has expanded' Municipalities may soon get the power to use their own drones, TomTom sells traffic/speed data to cops, talks of RFID in licenplates and what not).
Facebook is picky about which app is allowed to use your data. Twitter, for example, is not allowed to use it anymore. So when you develop an app, just relying on facebook could lead to a situation where you suddenly don't have access to your friends anymore (from within that app). Most apps also have their own user databases and just use facebook data for import. With app.net that's the one point where your user data would be saved.
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I do not doubt the claim, and believe it as much as you. However, I have always wondered: how long does it take a skilled technician to do this? Is it assume to assume, if we talk luks/dmcrypt for a filesystem or something per-file like GnuPG, is the passphrase, since it is small, just stored in the same block of memory contiguously? Is it hard to find, ASLR or not?
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Funny you should mention that. I feel that crowd-sourcing user interface development by given an open access to an API will lead to new experiments with UI/UX.

I believe when Twitter was more open, we saw an explosion of clients and UI/UX. A couple of these innovations we hadn't easily seen before.

One of the hopes is that the App.net platform continues this experiment.
Being unable to read German I can't comment fully on the original article, but based on this summary this warning seems pretty silly.

The operating system kernel always has full control over the system, how are they suggesting the TPM adds control here? The TPM is a small chip that handles certain crypto operations more securely (especially key management), how does this provide any additional backdoor scenarios?

If Microsoft wanted a backdoor it could easily be added to the OS without a TPM.
Are wildfires in Indonesia stupid? Some ecosystems rely on periodic naturally occurring wildfires.
Thank you so much for taking the time to educate us on this.

We're going to take your advice and find ourselves a JV broker that can do some quality control and help us safely build our brand.

We're not sure where to find one, and no-one is advertising on google for the term "joint venture broker", but we're hoping if we talk to a few big digital marketing agencies that we can get a connection somehow. We'll also try networking at conferences as you've suggested.
Not if you want to leverage an already existing social graph, so that people have to sign up for one service less.
what "some people" argue is irrelevant here. Who are "some people" anyway? "Apple provides entirely too many user options" is not in any way the argument I've made. My argument is that having this specific option is a mistake. If you want the generalised form of that argument, it is:

1. this, and other "preferences" are not arbitrary or meaningless. They have real consequences (even if the only real consequence is minor annoyance)

2. the presentation of too many choices is in fact, a real and well documented anti-pattern in UI-design. Too many choices is cognitive overload. Programmers like choices. programmers like power. but ordinary mortals don't care what colour their window title bars are, as long as the colour doesn't get in the way of their job.

3. Given the above, it is the UI designer's responsibility to be very opinionated about what the defaults of a system should be, and what should be configurable as a choice. (the fewer choices the better, generally, from a design perspective.)

4. as a corollary to that, I am aware that "some people" are uncomfortable about Apple's lack of configuration options. Those people are not designers, and should not ever be put in the position of designing a UI. Or you end up with a monstrosity like the desktop linux ecosystem. It's essentially an argument from ignorance of the research.
To be frank, that has a lot to do with the shifting Australian regulatory conditions, specifically deregulation. Your fixed line services, at the national level, are still relatively small. What you're referring to is what we call Last mile connectivity and competing exchanges.

In reality, there aren't very many transcontinental cables being laid right now because the ROI is greater than 30 years in most cases.

Basically my point is this: your fixed line services are growing at a fast rate because they're just now being opened to competition, but, over time, like the rest of the developed world, wireless networks will subsume your fixed line services.

Just my opinion and my two cents from talking to Aussie Telcos.

Source: I'm a telecom geek.
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The cloud isn't dead for end-user applications (e.g. entertainment, video, music, games) but it is completely destroyed for any B2B applications.

Enterprises that are providing services to customers will continue using cloud services for their customers, because they'll probably get the NSA shakedowns anyway.

If you are using cloud services for proprietary development, research, and general employee workflow (e.g. Office 365, Google Docs, Gmail, and similar services) then there's a good chance you're making a big mistake.
Unless Amazon is really overpriced, it seems 1500 calories of Ensure Regular is $36, while 2400 calories of Soylent is $9
Early adopters aren't tired yet because App.net's continually releasing interesting updates to the platform. And there's even a great example of 3rd party developers working together on their system to extend and support one 3rd party developer's chat system (patter). So each developer's project help retainer interest as well.

So as long as App.net keeps releasing new APIs and developers stay interested in the platform. I don't think early adopters will get tired.
Water, not CO2, and less of it, not more, but I think that does rate as "something like this":

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2013/06/egyptian-cabinet-discuss-w... (Ethiopia is building a hydro-electric dam; filling its lake will mean less water will flow into Egypt for a while; seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_conflict_between_Ethiopia...
He did not made any Lisp/JVM hybrids. More like foreign object interfaces to Java and .net.

One was a Lisp(Works) FFI to Java (jfli) and the other was a generalized version of that (foil).

I have seen too the early sketch of Clojure in CL.

Look here: http://clojure.googlecode.com/svn-history/r454/trunk/src/lis...
I think you've captured the essence of the point I was trying to make, well.
This is about the TPM in windows 8. It's the same argument about treacherous computing that goes around, except the article seems to be suggesting people think it's a extent problem now because the TPM is always on, not a hypothetical in the future/ Microsoft's long term plan. Further, there is a nebulous assertion linking this to the NSA.

1) The TPM still can't control your computer(yet). It can only measure it's state, allow you access to keys you created in some state, and attest to things about the state (which would allow other parties to mandate what state your system is in when interacting with it, but presumably those entities would be bond by German law and likely be German themselves)

2) If Microsoft wanted to backdoor your system, they don't need the TPM to do it. In fact, the TPM can be used to protect against a whole bunch of malware that various intelligence agencies might use: it can protect keys with passwords (with rate limiting/self destruct for guessing), make sure the system is in the same state(i.e. malware free) when you created you PGP key as it is when your using it to decrypt an e-mail, and it can isolate an application from the rest of your system.
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in order to dismantle the MIC, you first need equivelent or better millitary power. How else do you do it?
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For people who live outside the US, you may want to consider that "convicts" include random drug testing (medical marijuana, poppy seeds testing positive for opium, alcohol/diabetes issues, HIV) – and of course, sexual preference.

Yes, there are laws and court cases that should change the outcome, but that means a lawsuit.

In other words, US employment frequently comes with a lot of implicit assumptions about your lifestyle.

Edit to add: fortunately random drug tests aren't very common in the tech industry.
They're not naturally occurring, they're set either accidentally or intentionally by humans for the most part, either to clear the land or in the process of stealing stuff (either from plantations, or as plantations, depending on your politics).

The scary thing is people are draining the peat bogs; if those catch on fire (peat is a great fuel, basically dirty coal), a lot of carbon goes into the atmosphere which would otherwise have been sequestered for centuries+.

I'm fine with small wildfires clearing out fuel in a place which otherwise builds up fuel for bigger fires, but that's not Indonesia.
A lot of this pollution is just a remnant from when China's economy was still largely manufacturing-based. Now that this percentage is beginning to change, (mid 30s in mid 2000s down to high 20s now), the government seems earnest in their attempts to curb pollution.

See:

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-pollution-business-oppo...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/31/china-diesel-standa...
Well, nothing can be summarized in the URL. :)

Message me in Mashape and I can give you free access so that you can try it out. ;)
Probably not any time soon, because at present that would mean going to war with China.

I live in Tokyo, which is obviously a lot closer to China than the Bay Area is, and here we have PM 2.5 pollution reports on the news a lot like the regular weather report. On the worst days I throw on a 3M respirator[1] before I ride my bike across town, which makes me look like a character from some kind of post-apocalypse video game.

I am glad to see articles like this, because hopefully hard numbers will provide a concrete basis for diplomatic/economic pressure to make it better.

Even if the Chinese leaders are willing to pursue economic growth even at the tremendous cost of making the air in Beijing[2] so bad that (rich) kids go to preschool in pressurized tents, I don't want to have to keep my kid indoors all the way across the Sea of Japan in Tokyo -- but on the worst days, we do (on the advice of the pediatrician).

(In that sense, I am selfishly glad it is reaching the US west coast -- because the US has a lot more leverage to influence China's behavior than does Japan.)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NDN29O/ref=s9_qpp_gw_p6...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=beijing+air&client=safari&rl...
Ah, but you don't have to just walk out telling them they wasted your time. It only talkes a moment to check you muted phone and'OMG - there is an emergency at home/with my child/spouse etc. So very sorry but you have to leave right now to take care of it. Hopefully they understand and can reschedule after the emergency is taken care of."

End of story and if you catch them early enough in the interview you can be back at work happily coding the latest story in current sprint.

You should do what's best for you but understand why the folks on here are defending google; it's a big place and they are mostly powerless when it comes to direct influence or manipulation. Understand that and it will give you insight into how to hack their system for your benefit both before you are hired there AND after multiple interviews when you find that right team when but need to deal with ingrained systems; which rules must be followed and which rules everyone ignores, when to ask for forgiveness later and when and how to cover your ass from the start.
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I think this time, Facebook need not sell, it just need to propose the govt.,rest all will be a breeze as the Big boys want more data,more and more to churn, bubble and victimise each citizen possible every day.

Hail Facebook,Hail NSA and Other organised shit giving us false promise of security while churning our own data.
Has the front pages of r/technology and HN become shockingly similar? 
I often check out HN and r/technology back to back and I have noticed in the last week or so that the posts are almost interchangeable. Is it HN taking over Reddit, or just karma whoring from one side to the other.
Either they'd be cleaning them (and cameras) too or might you have similar issues of cleanliness there?
It was a big mistake. Clinging on to the twitter model gave them something tangible to model after and improve on but the result of that is the API is largely for micro-blogging. They have some file storage now but the primitives for a broad web application building platform aren't there yet.
So from reading the API from a developers point of view, it's obvious that it's for micro-blogging. It takes a lot of imagination and effort to repurpose their API into something new.
I wonder if this will raise the value of land in Western China (or west of China), out of the pollution stream.
No, they are different models [1]. Go does not have asynchronous communication. Bounded channels are still synchronous, because there is still synchronization happening; the consumer can't get too far behind the producer.

[l] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce....
I like the use of Dovecot, but I got tired of resource consumption with OwnCloud, despite it being a very, very cool project (and Android not speaking CardDav or CalDav natively, sigh; the ONE thing that makes me like iOS).

In any event, I have been looking into Cyrus IMAP because a) it used by Fastmail, they even host their forked version of the code [0] and b) there is a alpha-beta feature right now for a CardDAV and CalDav server baked in. [1]

Maybe I can try and work on my own sovereign-like setup with this.

[0] https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail

[1] http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Latest_Upda...
Perhaps "local hanging fruit"? ;)
Congratulations to the Apptimize team! Proud to have been a part of it. :)
I'm not arguing for Soylent, but arguing that people should personally test out low-risk dietary changes and see for themselves if they help.

Many argue against Soylent by arguing that we need some careful studies before anyone should try it. I think that is overkill for a food product like Soylent.

As for how to tell if Soylent or anything else is helping you, big changes should be obvious, smaller changes would require careful quantified-self style tracking to detect. Sorry if I wasn't more clear, but by obscure test I'm referring to blood work and other harder to interpret tests. Easy to interpret tests are reaction time, weight, fast arithmetic tests for mental agility, as well as recording qualitative feelings of health quantitatively, in a consistent and rigorous manner.

Edit:

As for this article on the Soylent trial, my take was it had "some promising initial signs given the short duration of the trial". Hardly blind enthusiasm.
Honestly there isn't much you can do. Most pollution is industrial, and most industrial pollution is not in the US.

Recycling just causes more pollution, so that doesn't help. You can turn lights off and install CFL's, but the difference is tiny.

Riding a bike vs driving actually causes more pollution (because farms make lots of pollution) [unless you replace exercise you anyway do with bike riding].

Coal burning in China is so bad that anything you can do is so utterly dwarfed by it as to almost be pointless.
Because if engineering takes over, you'll become like Google was before the Google+ initiative.

They were doing just fine making things like Google Reader.

I suppose now Google is more balanced and their stock is much more valuable but their long term direction has changed significantly. They can now be disrupted.