skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah but the average person doesn't need to disseminate information to maintain a free society. It's totally fine to have a community of news mavens that supplies most of the information. What is not okay is a process of accreditation, either state-run (or less worrisome) an independent process - that affords special roadblocks to get protected status.
Slango covers all bases for Gen Y Travellers
Epic freshman convocation at Georgia Tech
http://youtu.be/98nNpzE6gIs
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You probably should care which server gets the request. It's not explicitly said, but if one server can handle twice as many requests per second, then it might be completing each request faster. If that's the case, it's a better service to give more requests to the faster servers.
Worth at least discussing to see if there are other aspects to the problem.
HSV Color palette for every Programmer
Play on, player, with the updated YouTube apps for Android and iOS
Dream killer? Nah, merely a young curmudgeon. I need my 10,000 hours of grumping so that "get off my grass" really stings, y'know?

By the way -- there are such alternatives already available. Have you bought any before?
Power is often needed to protect rights, but they are not the same concepts.
Obviously. However, "The Internet" sounds much better and is much more concise than, say, "The People on the Internet".
Well yeah, but if you're talking about property as "might makes right", then there's no reason for the working class not to just rise up and take what's ours, ie: everything.
We have a 4WD (what Aussies call SUVs) with a roof rack, and have never taken it off road. We use it for skis, surfboards, extra luggage (family of 4). Roof racks are an extremely useful addition to a car, for a family.
I haven't heard any of the current customers I've dealt with even utter anything related to the NSA changing their minds at all about the cloud. Most companies that are even considering moving their infra offsite to a 3rd party have already vetted the risk/reward value prop and accepted the risks. Much of the articles and talk like this don't factor in to that decision; assuming a slight risk that a 3rd party can access your data was already signed off as acceptable when moving offsite, NSA or not.
I think this is a ridiculous attitude. Mistakes are a given. People will always make them. Creating ever-expanding lists of arbitrarily prohibited language features just makes code more verbose and cumbersome to write and makes everybody's life more difficult. The idea that mistakes are caused by too-permissive languages is bankrupt.
Sure. Gen X caused the wars, and we fought in it :-) Gen X was old enough to vote Bush into office, while Millennials were too young to vote but old enough to go to wars afterwards.

I looked up the technical definitions of Baby Boomer, GenX, and Millennials. Baby Boomers end at 1964. GenX ends in 1984. Millennials (GenY) end 2004. The current generation is Generation Net (GenZ), and will end 2024.

So I guess we Millenials haven't really done much yet... but GenX (Today, ages 28 to 48) are just getting into political leadership. Obama is still a Boomer, but GenX candidates will certainly be up for election this decade. A GenX President is unlikely for another decade or so... but surely House / Senate members are beginning to be filled with GenX. So I guess you guys have first dibs on fixing all of these issues, eh?

Don't mess things up too much before we Millennials get there!
[Programming Puzzle] Find Fixed Point in an Array
Testing does show the absence of bugs that you test for though.
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I teach introductory git courses at work, and I think I'm going to use ungit to show the commit graph is built, what happens when you leave a comit behind etc.
I'm encouraged by your optimism. Being a little cynical myself, I could just as easily have attributed his dickishness to arrogance/elitism and the missed copper to the possibility that his arrogance/elitism lead him to not even bother to finish reading the whole post before passing judgement and writing his original comment. :P He also missed the opportunity to provide further input. Not that's he's required to do so, but it's a bit disingenuous to not do so and then complain months later that you were ignored.

I do agree though that a mix of foods does seem to trump a formula, at least at our current level of understanding. And I can’t say I’d really be willing to make myself a guinea pig in this experiment at this juncture, but I’m still glad people are thinking about this issue and trying new things.
I am going to give you the benefit of doubt and assume your reading comprehension is poor. Quoting oneself is usually in bad taste, but I think this situation warrants it:

> Providing aid is good and should indeed be welcome. Enshrining connectivity as a "human right" is what I take issue with.

In other words, I am not getting mad at anyone for trying to make the word a better place. What I do find annoying (to say the least) is the conflation of something that is good (Internet access) with something that is essential for human life (food, shelter and anything worthy of being called a "human right"). Fast transportation makes the world a better place, yet no reasonable person would argue cars or airplane tickets are a human right.
I almost skipped the article because of the top comment, but he says a lot more than the comment addresses, so it's worth reading nonetheless.
If you want a picture of what the business climate looks like in a country without a rich regard for freedom and privacy, just look at Russia. That country... has imprisoned millions of entrepreneurs over the past 10 years.

Not that Russia is a pillar of freedom or privacy, but millions of entrepreneurs seems a bit hyperbolic:

Prison population total
(including pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners)
686,200
at 1.7.2013 (national prison administration)

http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php...
Some people argue that Apple limits the users by not giving them enough options. You are of the opinion that Apple provides entirely too many user options. Not only should the users always have scroll bars on, but they also should not have the ability to turn them off. (correct me if I misunderstood)
How does it know when someone has read the email?
Hah! I was wondering about that; I thought their designer had just decided that side mirrors were too ugly on the 3D model.

I really like the way these guys think. This is truly disruptive design at work.
Except even this doesn't make sense. Presumably Vine handles the videos on its own backend, and you only get your social graph when you move over to Instagram.

Unless you're going to provide free infrastructure for every component (not just the social graph) there will be an element of lock-in to virtually any social product.
Most definitely I think it's possible. A close friend of mine used to be a rugby player until he was 28, then went to get a degree in IT and became software engineer at 32. I find him one of the most humble people I know. Though I may have had more "academic experience", his "life" experiences enriched his career far better than most of the cohorts.

A plenty of ways to get into programming

* A number of "learn how to code" (free, paid) paid sites available - a simple Google will do.

* Browse through an easy GitHub project to get into?

* Take a look at some of the side projects being sold at "http://sideprojectors.com" (disclaimer, this is my website) - many of the developers are selling their side projects with existing user base + product, which you can inherit and change it the way you want. I think it would be a great way to get your hands dirty and work with existing customer base.

Hope that helps.
> That must be either gross negligence or crass incompetence.

Deliberate malfeasance requires neither negligence nor incompetence.
I'm a Mac user using a mouse and I love them, sorry.
Provided there's enough room in the back for soccer junk for 3+ kids + shopping bags, it'll be the perfect around-town car for mums. And that's a huge segment of traffic, at least around here.
If we want to do anything about CO2 and pollution in the atmosphere, the low hanging fruit is China.

Every country has stuff it can do, but China is on the 80% side of the 80/20 rule.
So far I only met trackpad magic/mouse scrolling on a mac or laptop. That leaves a lot of desktop computers out.

I am typing this on a iMac 2006 and even if the mouse has a wheel I still grab the bar because it's more precise (it allows to put the text where I want) than scrolling (which just increments height offset by a proportional fixed value).
"I'm good at communicating." Really? If I were your prospective employer, I'd be wondering just how often the f-bomb finds its way into your communications, and why you thought it was appropriate to drop twice in a job appeal. Please take this as a constructive criticism of your approach.
Am I the only one who actually likes this approach of having horizontal progress-bar on articles? Its not a scrollbar as it fills up from the left rather than moving a small block across the screen.
Living here in Northern Europe I've always read left to right and counting percentages 0>100 seems more natural to visualize left>right rather than top>down.
Twitter only allows you access to 100k users or so (tokens), and your business is at risk of being turned off.
or
App.net providers you access to 150k+ users growing user base. Plus an a free sign up, access to hosting for file storage, and permissive messaging.
Yep. These are designed to look like 'normal' cars so as not to spook the generally conservative market. Mk II or III will be significantly different in design from today's car I think.
As much as I'd like to disagree with you, I agree. But in the long term I think the trust can be restored, if majority of people can actually give a shit about these revelations. Mostly because NSA can't do the things they do without the support of big companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. Once these companies start losing money and the reason is apparent, they'll take actions against the government as Lavabit and other relatively small sized companies had done (not saying they'd shut down, obviously).

Governments act the way they do because majority of people don't care about any of this stuff, not yet at least. Most people who're uneasy about these revelations are uneasy because of what might happen in the future and they fear how far governments are willing to go (or better yet, can they go any further) to invade our privacy. Today, governments' actions don't effect any of us, not directly at least. It's been the case that people don't act against something unless that thing directly effect their lives.

But maybe it really is too late and the trust can not be restored again. Wealth inequality directly effects the citizens of the US (at least that's how I see it from a foreigners point of view) and the US citizens did nothing to change it, other than OWS movement which was arguably a desperate attempt.
Facebook And 6 Phone Companies Launch Internet.org
This.

When the Patriot Act was passed, there were a lot of European companies who were very skeptical about DHS/NSA snooping on their data. Now we've got solid proof that it's happening.

Regardless of what the US does now, people have lost faith. They can interpret the definition of words in the law so that what they do (which seem immoral/illegal/wrong to us) is in fact legal.

What the US can't control is purchasing power. Companies outside of the US are looking inwards again. AWS/Rackspace clouds look great, but you're bending yourself and your customers over, and the NSA didn't even buy you dinner.

The US cloud is toast.
Legal rights and human (natural) rights are different things. Legal rights are provided by the use of force. Human rights are ideals, there is no guarantee about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights
I hate the misuse of the term "data mining" that plagues these surveillance stories.

On the other hand, it's forgivable -- based on the plain meaning of the word "mining", it's often a better fit than the "predictive modeling/machine learning" meanings the term actually has.
That's one way to look at it, but certainly not the only one. Back in 2007, when he started ZeroMQ, you couldn't build on C++11 features. Furthermore, if you're targeting slightly less common platforms, then C++ runtime support and recent C++ features is always a hit-or-miss issue.

For a library that is at such a basic level of infrastructure (which, if it's stable enough and popular enough deserves to be kernel-level) C++ is probably more trouble than it's worth.

The higher you go app the stack, the more reasonable it becomes to go farther from C (high enough, and even ruby makes sense - though it wouldn't for 0mq/nanomsg)
App.net's API does providing more than a microblogging API. They have a file hosting (each user has their own quota), permissive messaging (point to point or group), and a search API so you can easily find anything on their system. They're planning to add more useful APIs, such as billing.
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Agreed, for enterprises (who also have the $$) the cloud is dead. Giving your data to a third party is now the same as waving it around it public, thanks to the US government. I had hope for a while, but not after seeing Keith Alexander lie directly to congress with no repercussion.

Good for sys admins, bad for software engineers.
Note: you shouldn't down vote just because you disagree.
Startup TicketWombat.com turns event promotion businesses upside-down
Looks to be a nice initiative, something is always better than nothing. I hope like many others, they just don't set the site and forget after 8 months.

Though I couldn't found it, I am sure it is non profit (it has to be), also are they giving some "no strings attached" money to the people ? and as @linvin said below, in India the problem is not creation but adoption. You just can't create apps/sites and expect people to start using it. It takes lot of time, marketing, effort, resources, people and money to make it happen.
I think that people need to give Estimote a close enough look. Their sensors could be a huge step in the merging of online and real world retail.
Twinkind - 3D photo figurines
Requires cooking, not quick.
Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed
Well, it's finicky. You'll need to install several custom written Lua modules [1]. These have been tested under Linux and Solaris. You will definitely have to edit the Makefile to exclude building some of the modules like org.conman.tcc [2] because of dependency issues (TCC isn't for the faint of heart). If you are on another Unix system, you'll probably be able to get most of it built (at the least, you'll need org.conman.process, org.conman.net and org.conman.pollset). You will also need to install LPeg [3]. Once all those are installed, then you'll be able to run the code: http://pastebin.com/ZBq5gSbS

Or you can just look at the code: http://pastebin.com/ZBq5gSbS The coroutine stuff is there, just well hidden.

I will also link to a sample multiuser chat room (no security, very basic): http://pastebin.com/u6vSPc69

[1] https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg

[2] It's a Lua interface to the TCC library, which is a C compiler-as-a-library. Not used in the same code I posted, but it is something I find immensely useful, but I would classify as "advanced."

[3] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

This is the Lua Parsing Expression Grammar library. If you are familiar with compiler tools, think lex and yacc (or flex and bison).
> This is one of those ideas where you just stop and wonder why nobody has run with it before.

Hahaha... seriously? You have never heard of "immigration lawyers" and "travel agents"? This is exactly the service they have been providing since the dawn of time.
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The phrasing would probably be closer to "$10k raised for..." or "individuals raise $10k..." The fact that they did it through the internet doesn't seem hugely novel (aside from the fact they evidently can't get the money to him
> But in the long term I think the trust can be restored, if majority of people can actually give a shit about these revelations.

The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws. Since cloud services are all about customer lock in, it does not matter if trust can be restored at a later time(which I personally doubt). They have lost the customer to a competitor - most likely forever.
I wonder if there will ever be a war over something like this.
Here is what you said earlier:

>If your aim is for improved mental function, more energy, less health problems, etc., you don't need to know how to interpret any obscure tests. You'll know.

The above directly contradicts your most recent reply, since it obviously precludes the possibility of any meaningful quantification.

"Screw the tests, you'll know" is precisely the opposite of objective analysis. We'll know what? Nothing objective, that's for sure.

Since you appear to be arguing both for and against quantified self-style living in this thread, I can't help but wonder what your angle is. Are you actually just arguing for Soylent? Your position makes no sense, but you're enthusiastically defending the product, and you've done it in prior threads about Soylent, too.
App.net does provide an account export. But more important they've embraced open standards, see:
http://blog.app.net/2013/08/07/response-to-brennan-novak-par...

This type of interoperability combined with sections of their API that are public (tokenless) provide a way to consume App.net content without needing an account unless you want to participate.

Then there are 3rd party apps and additions that bring even more open interoperability.

For development, there is Dev-Lite, so if you want to play around with the API, you don't need to spend $100/year until you're ready to join their Developer Incentive Program. And most Developers that have built anything for app.net have made their $100/year investment.

And App.net's annotation are another great example of creating new open standard of interoperability. These attachments can be added to any App.net API primitive to provide additional structured data to enhance interoperability between developer applications. Here's a link to their document repository for this:
https://github.com/appdotnet/object-metadata
I too like the image of the old Eton boys club handling things smartly and discretely but my gut feeling is that once 100 billion of foreign money is on the table and politicians are involved, things can get a little primitive, very quickly.

My feeling is it's probably more important to certain parties at this point to maintain alliances and justify budgets than to maintain certain civil liberties of the public at large. At least that is the way it seems.
Right. I would wager money that this is why they were suggested; to measure muscle preservation
Graphene transistor clocked at 427 GHz [pdf]
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.
Technology Leaders Launch Partnership to Make Internet Access Available to All
All Grown Up? At YC, the New Consumer Was the Enterprise
Ideally we want to say "Businesses that started as blogs". SEOBook is a great example, Aaron started it as a blog in 2005 where he used to put daily seo news, then he slowly converted it into a business and is now offering tools and there is a paid forum. SEOMoz is another such example.
Yes, the game has somewhat skeuomorph graphics but don't have skeuomorph behavior. If the letters would look more like buttons then i think you wouldn't try to drag it because you don't drag a button in real life (when trying to use it intuitively).

Edit: If they would look like keyboard keys then that would also suggest that you can use the keyboard too as mentioned in another comment.
Guardian Has Advantages in Battle With Government Over Secrets
Bananas are mostly carbs. In Africa, plantains and bananas provide over 25% of carbohydrate requirements for 70 million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantain_%28cooking%29
Consulting and Patent Indemnification
> allows for the single-threaded non-blocking I/O in a way that no other popular language does.

C# Async and Await - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh191443.asp...
Well, I think they captured some imaginations, to the point where they were told it's impossible. So it's an interesting experiment. Especially since they've been success and on-target to deliver most of their promises so far.

It's a huge risk, that not many investors would take. The financial returns are questionable, but what it could do for the Internet as a platform is disrupt the current mega social providers and IMHO I think that's worth trying.
Translated version:
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Decision making takes a long time in any bigger company. Changes often take month to years before implementation starts. I guess, the business effects of the US/worldwide internet spying will not be visible right now, but in a few months or years.
I believe it to be neither and as a counterpoint ask if it really is a problem as you frame it. Scrolling on a touch enabled device, and all Apple devices are supplied touch enabled in one way or another, is performed differently. It is instinctive using OS X to scroll with 2 fingers. Obviously, this is a learned behaviour for adults that have been around computers for a while, but an intuitive one none the less. The old paradigm of scrollbar with arrows and thumb is redundant with touch input, to the point it actually gets in the way. What we have now in OS X and iOS serves more as a page location indicator that occupies the same position in the container.
Maybe there could be a Vim Users Anonymous or something.
If what Snowden showed us is true, the same thing for the (recent) versions of MacOsX. I'd say things are looking up for Linux on the desktop.
Seems like bad business strategy to build on top of those if it means it's easy to steal away your userbase. Sounds fine for mid-size apps who can't justify rolling their own though.
I think they include a one pixel transparent image that is stored on their server. When your email loads that image, they know. Something like that anyways!
Actually Gartner would disagree. We are near the end of the Hype Cycle and enterprises who were once skeptical about the security and risks of the cloud have recently begun embracing it. They pretend this trend is set to continue in the fuTure. The current NSA talk might make some weary but the US cloud is in no way toast.

Sorry I don't have a link to the Gartner report about the current state of adoption I'm referencing.
What is the reason to use a continuous integration system like travis-ci.com, or codeship.io? You could simple run "rspec" in your shell! The reason is automation!
When is it ever healthy to rush preparing and eating your meals on a regular basis?
The top 5 consumer startups from Y Combinator Demo Day , agree?