skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(The companion bill to the GCSB bill, the TICS bill, mandates backdoors/"interception capabilities" for the GCSB in any network or "over the top" systems, which appears to include foreign cloud services. No one is sure how that is possibly going to fly, although Microsoft and Mega have both suggested they'll be pulling cloud services out of NZ if the bill passes.)
Just two points:

- That's why I prefer to think about protocols, as opposed to a system (i.e. global implementation of one or more generalized protocols)

- You don't always have to solve the problem theoretically; solving it practically may be good enough. A system can be usable for a long time, before it collapses under abuse.
Want to scare your friends? Put out a lit match or cigarette using Diesel fuel.

Diesel fuel requires a lot of heat to combust. Diesel engines don't contain spark plugs, they heat the fuel by compressing the air that the fuel is atomized in.
One additional advantage (that hasn't yet been mentioned) is that it supports older versions of Internet Explorer.
Groklaw started with some serious in-depth background knowledge of the whole SCO - Linux stuff (there's too much to describe it as anything else).

That sort of information comes from having serious inside, in-depth background information.

You know, the sort of stuff serious investigative journalists /used/ to do. Like the Washington Post in 1972 when they reported on illegal activity by the President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Role_of_the_m...) rather than the Washington Post in 2013 when the report on Presidential Broccoli (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07...).

We've seen a rare example of serious investigative journalism and how /our/ countries respond to it by targeting family and loved ones of the journalists. That's the way we used to say only the KGB or the Gestapo behaved in the Bad Old Days. Guess what ? The Bad Old Days are right here and right now.

No wonder PJ is concerned that continuing Groklaw may expose her to serious risk from the authorities. Commenting on court cases and filling in the background through back-channel information from Deep Throat (or whatever pseudonym they use today) sure does not seem to be worth that risk to me.

It's sad that any comment on this stuff makes it sound like you go around wearing a tin-foil hat.
Writing Web Audio API code that works in every browser
Don’t Squash Me: Using min-width on Fluid Images
Flat design is not a trend, it’s been around for some time
Exactly the same experience here, except that I never had a mini-USB failure. After roughly 6 months of use, the USB receptacle of my LG smartphone was just not holding on to any cable anymore. I sent it back to LG, and they replaced the part containing the mirco-USB port.

On an unrelated note: LG noticed that I was running a custom ROM but didn't make any problem of it, while technically they can claim that such an action voids my warranty.
Traction control, automatic braking, smart cruise control (follow the car in front), automatic park assist
Nokia works a LCD miracle - Glance on the Lumia 920
You need to fix both of course. The broken political situation needs to be fixed, but communication protocols need to be improved too.

And of course, as long as the current political situation in the US lasts, cloud services in the US cannot be trusted. Run your own server, or use a server abroad.
Have you heard about Blue Coat filter ? Insane categories with insane definitions. For example http://sitereview.cwfservice.net/catdesc.jsp?catnum=38&catma... the 3 sites listed as example of the category, are not in this category.
> By that time, who knows what the BTC exchange rate will be.

This isn't relevant if you do the following:

1) Transfer USD to Bitstamp from your bank account
2) Buy BTC with your USD on Bitstamp
3) Transfer BTC to Mt. Gox
4) Sell BTC for either EUR or USD on Mt. Gox
5) Transfer EUR/USD to your bank account

In this scenario you are only exposed to exchange rate risk from the time it takes you to transfer BTC from Bitstamp to Mt. Gox and sell it (I think Mt. Gox requires 6 confirmations, so that's - on average - less than an hour currently).

As I see it the largest risk is Mt. Gox defaulting on its USD or EUR obligations, in which case you'll lose everything.
ZeroMQ isn't really a message queue though...
Jesus, it's only two, short sentences in, "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum."
The Great App.net Mistake
UK ordered Guardian to destroy hard drives in effort to stop Snowden revelations
The sales rep is bad, but groupon is bad too. After all this guy worked there and was not supervised properly, he should have never had the chance to behave the way he did.

Groupon would need to show that they properly supervised this guy and that they instruct their new hires on what is and is not permitted to get a company across the dotted line.

Firing the guy is just an easy way to distance themselves from him and his behavior, hopefully it does send a message to the rest of the groupon sales force.
If I were to do it I'd sell the bitcoins for EUR. SEPA withdrawals are allegedly processed in 1-2 weeks currently.
Holographic Views of Data
The first assumption the author makes, that "1. Everything Google does is open (either because Gruber believes this a priori, or because Google says so or someone somewhere believes this or something)" is missing the point. The point, to me, is that Google is not entirely open and no one should expect them to be as they are a for profit company. The problem is that Google tries to create the perception in the public eye that they are open and create products that are open and free when the reality is that they are an advertising company, not a non-profit aid society.
Chad Fowler (6Wunderkinder) on why they chose the GO language.
Pro-Islamic hacker claims to have compromised every Twitter account
The Law Society of NZ has detailed their opposition over the bill [1].

And to really get a grasp on the insanity - watch the Prime Minister likening the system to virus protection [2] - then walking out of the press conference (after saying the Law Society are wrong).

[1] http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/683...

[2] http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Key-walks-out-of-press-conferen...
No, I'm just saying that working technology (like general purpose computers as affordable consumer goods) may be harder to ignore than "the voice of the people".

(In Philosophy, you'd call this position "materialist", I assume.)
I would say it's more the uncertainty of recently acquired startup. The startup I was working previously(also Boston based) was hiring .Net guys and converting them to Python devs.
It appears Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (MagicalTux on #mtgox) declines to comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1kp4uf/gigaom_repor...

(6:39:17 PM) *Blitzboom*: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/19/feds-seized-2-9m-in-bitcoin-funds-from-mt-gox-court-docs-show/
(6:39:59 PM) *Blitzboom*: MagicalTux: good thing we hear this from the media, and not you guys
(6:40:13 PM) *Blitzboom*: now everybody is going to be very calm about this i'm sure
(6:41:55 PM) *Blitzboom*: though i'm sure mtgox has at least 29k BTC even if it didn't have the cash
(6:42:01 PM) *AnonX*: god
(6:42:56 PM) *AnonX*: Reminds me of when the DOJ cracked down on online poker
(6:45:36 PM) *Blitzboom*: MagicalTux: can we hear something substantial now on this?
(6:45:40 PM) *Blitzboom*: cat's out of the bag
(6:45:43 PM) *Blitzboom*: do you have the money or no
(6:46:43 PM) *Blitzboom*: i mean, if you said you have 90% of the money you owe, then even that would be an improvement to the current spread if it's to be believed
(6:46:51 PM) *Blitzboom*: that would be only 10% spread
(6:46:55 PM) *MagicalTux*: Blitzboom: we cannot comment on this
(6:47:10 PM) *Blitzboom*: you can't comment on whether or not you are solvent?
(6:47:21 PM) *MagicalTux*: We can't comment on the legal actions in the US
(6:47:28 PM) *dust-otc*: MagicalTux: as in, compelled by the government not to comment, or advised by your own lawyers not to comment?
(6:47:32 PM) *Blitzboom*: can you comment on your solvency?
(6:47:53 PM) *dust-otc*: Blitzboom: Roger Ver can comment on solvency, apparently
(6:47:53 PM) *Blitzboom*: can you pay out the people you owe?
(6:47:54 PM) *MagicalTux*: I could comment on the fact that our income since April is around 8 million USD
(6:48:14 PM) *MagicalTux*: (anyone seeing trading volume can compute that one)
(6:48:31 PM) *Blitzboom*: all i'm asking is, do you have the money to pay everyone's balance?
(6:48:38 PM) *dust-otc*: MagicalTux: no, they could estimate your revenue, not income
(6:49:02 PM) *MagicalTux*: dust-otc: our transparency reports show the costs of running mtgox, and it hasn't changed much
Blog post from 2014: How to create beautiful HTML5 intros to your web page.
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That's a strange comment. We knew a lot about what happened in Iraq just months after the war started and we know a lot more now. All the individuals responsible for that war are still around.
In this case, yes. PJ being a woman is very well known and it irks me when people automatically assume that anybody that runs a thing as successful as groklaw has to be a guy without checking. If you don't know use a gender neutral word or check, it's simple.

It's not purity in language, it is paying basic respect to a person who is named several times in full in this thread.
Adam Smith might have been right about his era, but his reasoning does not apply in our era.

It is illegal for employers to collude to lower wages, while unions gain legal privileges by doing so. Parliament and congress tend to be bought and paid for by unions. Similarly, due to a combination of high wages and welfare, most workmen can subsist for long periods without work.

(Most workers don't value stability, and choose consumption over savings. But this doesn't mean they lack the ability, they merely don't value it.)
I lot of people were hoping Obama was the start of a new direction. I'm now hoping he'll be the last of the old direction. The big problem to solve is: how do you elect someone different? As long as the two parties get to decide who American can elect, democracy is a hollow gesture. And the media are all in the pocket of the main parties.

Honestly, it seems like only Al-Jazeera US might be the only independent news station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJUocaDYw0
It's getting easier to distinguish.
Sony ‘to release attachable smartphone lenses’
really cool site man. Very nice design
I've spent a year in a host-family in Fukuoka in high-school as an exchange student, so I do in fact speak rather fluent Japanese. And I took most of an introduction course in phonetics (and about a year of Japanese) at university (the Japanese course was very basic though).

You do indeed describe the thing I was getting at: the phonemes (sounds that carry meaning) are different in eg: English and Japanese -- but the sounds are (often) there -- they just sound the same to a person that isn't "used to" distinguish between them. I seem to recall there are some now (almost extinct) dialects in Japan that used to distinguish between "ji"(ざ) and "ji"(じ).

The reduction in phonemes is common in all languages, in Norwegian the current struggle is against kids that pronounce "kj" and "s(k)j" sounds the same ("kjenne"=to feel, "skjenne"=to shout (at)).

Teaching exchange students that come Norway some basic Norwegian is also interesting: Many Asians struggle with r/l and v/b (complicated by the fact that most Norwegians believe r and l are "completely different" sounds; when they are in fact very close, and are articulated very closely - similarly with "b" and "v"). Most English speakers have a hard time pronouncing a long Norwegian "ø" -- even if it sounds approximately like the "oe" in "does" -- and they can distinguish perfectly between "He does", and "the does (female deer)...".

I didn't mean word-images in the sense that we don't look at the whole word, I meant that we read the word "as one" (not letter by letter, sound by sound).

Clearly I didn't do a very good job of getting either of points across ... :-)
Front doors on Tesla Model X are normal doors. Only rear doors are "falcon wing".
OK, that's a fair enough point. I can't argue with it.
Traditional message queues are actually composed of two rather different subsystem: the queue itself (basically a database) and the networking.

I would say we are on the path of separating the two. ZeroMQ does away with the centralised server holding all the queues. It still has local queues though.

nanomsg goes even further and gets rid of queues entirely. What's left it networking buffers, typically implemented at L4 of the network stack.
But aren't there seperate gender subway wagons precisely because there were widespread problems with sexual harassment?

I'd find it intresting to get the view of someone who grew up in asia and is ethnically asian, because their view will proably be markedly different from ours. I mean I'm half chinese, but I have the benefit of being male and being a hunxuee'r which most likely changes how chinese people treat me.
Yes, it is a nice plug. No, it should not be proprietary. While Apple are entirely within their rights to keep it proprietary, it is in everyone else's disfavour, particularly their customers.
That's a single test. It's not surprising that there's a car out there that can do better than a Tesla in one of the IIHS tests. However, to get a 5 star rating, you have to get a "good" on all of the tests, which I am very confident the F1 does not do.

Being a rear-engine design gives both the Tesla & the F1 a huge advantage in frontal tests. But I'm willing to bet that a side impact test or a roll over test will show much different results...
Popular movements have accomplished incredible things over the centuries, and almost none (I'm hedging, I want to say there were none at all) of them were achieved by ticking a box on a voting form. The level of repression in the West today, while certainly not at its lowest point ever, is still lower than it's been for much of the past century.

It's easy to feel helpless and isolated, to feel like you can't do anything because the government is so big and you're so small. Realise that this feeling of helplessness is not based in reality. It is fostered; not by some kind of global conspiracy between government and business, but because it serves the interests of powerful people and institutions everywhere. There is no need for them to cooperate, for them to get together in shady backrooms to decide how next to disempower you. Their interests just happen to align.

But that isolation is not something you're forced into. You can break free. It's not easy, but if people suffering under military dictatorships can do it, then in our (still) relatively free society, we can do it too.

Anyone who feels like this should read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I'm rereading it these days (relistening, actually), and while it's certainly not perfect, you'll get a lot out of the shift in viewpoint.
Is it possible that false positives like this open Google to defamation lawsuits? They're making an assertion that is false (and that their webmaster tools show they know to be false), and broadcasting that in a way that definitely has a financial impact on the businesses involved.
There are just as many products that have exceeded expectations that haven't not to mention the fact that i was referring to Apple post Jobs' return.

It was a statement more about leadership than about the products in themselves.
I can't believe this is the top comment at the moment.

First, let's get something straight. This project wasn't necessary, because you shouldn't be type checking in Ruby if it is written correctly. That's basically what contracts are, at least in this case.

To address your concern, Ruby's performance is plenty fast- like Java entering the early 2000's fast. (You probably don't get my reference, but in the mid-1990's, people complained Java was slow.) No one at work has complained about the performance of our Rails app running on Unicorn, and we've not had to do one performance tweaking iteration ever.
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Not matter. Energy. Energy warps space. Matter is just a kind of energy.

But all energy warps space, and has a gravitational field.
Minuum keyboard free
Germany is acting very logically in response to Bitcoin. Their thinking: "if a growing number of people are using it as a store of value or medium of exchange, or as a vehicle for financial speculation, let's regulate and tax its use."

This bodes well for Bitcoin, because other countries are likely to follow Germany's example.
Not to be confused with Pure, the JS templating library

http://beebole.com/pure/
Languages are designed for specific purposes. I am claiming that C++ is not the best language for system development. The fact that most OSes are not written in C++ is a good indication of the fact. Still, C++ is great for rapid development & corporate development.
The proxima-nova font is quite fuzzy on non-grey buttons (http://purecss.io/buttons/) on my thunderbolt display. I wouldn't be surprised if some people find it difficult to read.
that's what THEY want: get in bed with the big ones and scare the shit out of/shut up the small ones.
result: complete control.

what a huge pile of shit for one single day.
The tesla touchscreen looks absolutely massive. Really a bit too gaudy for my tastes. Then again it's just a mockup. Is that a screen behind the steering wheel?
Ever tried removing element from a middle of vector?
VAT is never charged on assets (which Bitcoin is), only goods and services.
Actionscript 200% change ? Should be some min limit to the number of occurrences of each keyword to be included(like 1 post and then next year 3 posts would be 200% but it can't really represent a trend).
Or is it that Adobe Air/Flash is really getting popular as mobile game dev platform ?
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Dark energy isn't an actual thing.

It's a term used to describe the "this doesn't make sense" part of the world. No one knows what it is, does, or if it exists.

Dark matter at least has some described properties (and no one knows if it exists either).
> academia

Do you understand that you're reinforcing the stereotype?
How to insert data into a SQLite database in Android
I'm on the other side of this debate. Two years ago I was innocently using Chrome to read reddit when I suddenly got a virus in my computer that took me four hours to clean up from. Turns out it came from an ad on reddit. With things like ad networks distributing malware, Google and others should shoot first and ask questions later.

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/e7988/a_numbe...
"they didn't get to design our uniforms"
I wouldn't say the U.S. is obsessed with dominance. Rather, the U.S. foreign policy is characterized by the brutal and unprincipled service of U.S. business interests. The coup in Iran was motivated by lust for oil, and that's just one tiny example of many!
Its not as though we don't have a spam problem already…

Freshly pulled-out-of-the-air suggestion – anonymous but requiring micro-payments. Say, 500 or 1000 satoshi (around a tenth of a cent) per message delivered – not as a means of generating revenue, but as a way to destroy email's current "if I only get one sale per 100,000 emails I send, that just means I need to send 10,000,000 emails a day to get my desired 100sale/day" vulnerability - if that actually cost the spammer $10,000/day, it just wouldn't happen.

('course that required having hard currency to bitcoin exchanges easy enough for the general public to use, and scalable enough to service a significant proportion of internet-using people)
I can't recall right away what website had it but if I read a really long article on my mobile phone, it showed a similar bar on the top but that was showing me progress on how far I had read. As iOS hides the scroll-bar once I stop to read, I found it a nice touch.
It's disappointing to see your kind of a response here.

It starts when somebody makes a legitimate observation that a very specific set of functionality has been shown to have serious flaws in practice, and then suggests that perhaps the best course of action is to remove this very specific, and broken, functionality.

Then somebody else comes along, and responds like you did with a smart-ass comment taking it to an overly-broad, unreasonable and stupid extreme. These kinds of comments are useless.

Sometimes the best way to fix broken functionality is to remove it. That in no way means it's the only possible solution, however. Nor does it mean that it needs to be applied without bound.
relevant link...(Google+, Real Names, and Groklaw's Pamela Jones)(2011) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/google-real-names-and-g...
Neither employer nor employee is inherently owed loyalty, but the only way to earn loyalty is to give it in return. Sooner or later, one party is going to have to act irrationally if it wants that kind of relationship with the other.

A company that wants 1950s-style loyalty from its employees should be giving them 1950s-style loyalty. If you as a corporation would prefer layoffs to bankruptcy protection, then you do not measure up to that standard.
I really wish the BBC would link to original sources, and also that the Home Office would publish statements first on the website[1] where there is (currently) no mention of any statement.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publica...
I'm going to take out a subscription to the Guardian.

At this point they are the only newspaper that seems to have the balls to tell the thugs from Whitehall to go and fuck themselves.

This stuff is absolutely insane, We didn't behave like this when the IRA was setting bombs off on a regular basis and shooting up the landscape.

It's always been obvious that the land grabs for power had little to do with actual terrorism.

Pick up that can.
Few will thank me for posting this comment but you may find it interesting, it wasn't just Iran in the post war period:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/06/the_baby_and_t...
Of course it is possible, but it is quite difficult. It is easier for children, and generally gets harder with age.

But it also holds true that it gets easier to learn new languages, if you do it a lot. I've heard a lot of people say that it gets easier after the fifth language. I'm only up to four (Norwegian, English, Japanese and French - with a basic understanding of other European "dialects" - German, Spanish, Italian -- and of course "Scandinavian dialects" of Swedish and Danish) -- and I can imagine that if I learned one more "truly distinctive" language, like Finnish, or Mandarin -- I'd start to know more of the "possible ways" we use sounds -- and it would therefore be easier to choose "the right subset" for a new language.

In addition to mimicking accents, singing can be a very useful way to train pronunciation.
Dealing with user feedback the right way
The time for toning it down has passed.
where they burn macbooks, they will ultimately burn people also
Yes, the world does not end. For small objects and `vector`s, it's probably quicker, because 1) you found it quicker due to cache locality and 2) there were no system calls to release memory.
I'm using chrome on this site and the experience seems subpar for such an amazing car. I click the link to see Elon's unveiling and I am brought to a page with a 360 click and drag that doesn't work.
You can use the approach outlined further down in the article in the section "Mixin" where it's explained how you can use the included Bootstrap mixins to create semantic classes.