skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blackouts don't make much sense in our always-connected world, but I think they should be swapped for "all policy must be announced 7 days out".

If you have no economic policy announced the Saturday before the election then you're going in to the election with NO policy and you're not allowed to talk about what you'll be doing in regard to the economy in that last week.
It's so easy to convince someone who understands nothing about how computers and the Internet works that "filtering out (child) pornography" is a good thing, easy to do and won't cause any collateral damage.

I wonder if all these spying scandals and the rise of censorship in the West will lead to an noticeable increase in the size of tor/i2p/...
> Your friends will know that they are in your Inner Circle by the star in the top corner of the moment.

And people will know they aren't in your "inner circle" too then. Something I really like about g+ is my groupings are private.
I wonder if big chunks of it will be redacted....
I gotta ask - what's with the tiny columns on this website? I'm reading on an iPhone and there's more white space than area that displays actual text!
And it is not just the policy on porn filtering that has been left to the last minute. The conservative party has waited until less than 48 hours before the election to release the vast bulk of their policy detail, including in major areas like health, education and the environment. I'd normally be tempted to vote for the Liberal party, but not when they perform cynical stunts like this.

Disgusting indeed.
Its a little surprising that bootstrap 2.0/3.0 haven't implemented a similar feature.

The actual
http://www.justinaguilar.com/animations/css/animations.css
sheet is more insightful in learning how to do your own animation effects.
I just wish the code snippets were side by side the animations as I scroll around and select the examples.
Nowadays hybrids are smarter. Combustion engine is used to charge batteries and provide power to the electric motor, it's more efficient way of using energy from gasoline. Using combustion with electric motor stands out to be much less efficient.
Elon Musk is not impressed with Leaf, Volt
Sorry, this link probably outlines the relationship much better than the above:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013...

"The answer, in part at least, may be the lobbying power of church conservatives, the Catholic Church in particular, and the office of Sydney Cardinal George Pell, more particularly still."

"And the Victorian and Tasmanian-based Churches of Christ Community Care has begun an online petition to save the commission, warning that the Coalition alternative would be ''an advisory body with no teeth''. That, say critics, appears to be the point."
I see a great many reasons to keep it closed, not least of which is many millions of dollars worth in intellectual property.
I bought a controller especially for that game and never looked back. This being said, I completed the game right up to just before the final boss fight on kb + mouse... but with the controller, the game is really incredible.

The port is shitty without the third-party fixes, but they also specifically said "we're not PC people, this will be a shitty port". They didn't launch the PC version with a lot of fanfare - and their customer base is on the consoles, not the PCs.

One of the weird things about the port is that the mouse movement is locked - it doesn't matter how quickly you move your mouse or how far, only how long you move it for. You move a set amount given a set length of time. Took me a while to figure it out.
On one of those free 50GB storage space that Box.net gave out.

Currently exploring if I should create a script that will backup the files to Amazon Glacier.
This is for bicycles what Tesla is for cars
"The filter will be contained in software installed in either people's smartphones or modems ... which can be disabled at their option." - Malcolm Turnbull (Liberal party shadow communications minister) on Hack[1] tonight.

Fucking scumbags.

48 hours before we go to the polls.

And apparently they plan on hacking our devices in order to implement it? They have no clue.

[1] 27:05 at http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_thurs_20...
Oh please, we get it already. We know about diamonds, their scarcity and price. I'm still getting my wife a nice diamond ring, and hell I might get one too, and no we did not marry the "wrong people" because we gave in a little to culture.

Any other breaking news? NSA Spying? What about that facebook!
As point of interest, why is it that hard? What makes the task (or mundane parts of it) less automat-able than driving cars (which I think most people would say isn't all that difficult)?
Maybe they could do rebates? Like you purchase an app via the app-store and if they have a record of you owning it they can refund some of the money?
I like a lot of things about Path, but they need to learn how to monetize better, because I just have no interest in buying camera filters and chat stickers, I find both annoying. I would probably support the company in some way if they provided something more for my money, but there's no way they can keep going on these micro-payments.
This is just not true. You can play the game fine without the wiki, and I did so on my first playthrough... with a kb+mouse. You just can't min/max without the wiki.

And if you want to PvP, then sure, you need to min/max... but if you're PvPing, you're going to be going to a wiki anyway.
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Or Wankel engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
AFAIK we're still not doing it right. The best way is to make the electric motor the main motor, and having the gasoline engine be small and tuned to run at a consistent peak efficiency RPM, and only used to charge the batteries. This was figured out in 1979! http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/electric... (see the diagram in the fourth image).
Since you have a physics background, you might be interested in this book: Think Complexity http://www.greenteapress.com/compmod/

The book teaches concepts of Algorithm and Data Structure in the context of Complex System Sciences.

Though it's a bit light-weight, but it might be a good starting point.
Who is next: Canada, New Zealand, USA ?

Make sense, this 5 Countries work really close together, as we know it from PRISM.
Micromanagement is a management style, not something you do over a weekend. Saying that the CEO micro manages because she's deeply involved with the evolution of her company's brand is a bit silly.

Someone said that Steve Jobs wasn't a micromanager, only a great manager obsessed with details. I guess he should have stayed in his kitchen making sandwiches for his four kids.
> My company has prototyped on both platforms, and I strongly prefer Android for this purpose. Test flight is significantly more inconvenient for all parties than sending around Android apks. So is Apple's provisioning process for development (you'll certainly have to figure out how to re-provision your development devices a few times).

Mine has also prototyped on both platforms and I will personally strangle anyone who suggests we do that on Android again. Slowly and painfully.

Sending applications for testing is somewhat more difficult on iOS, but that's really the only gripe we had. Between the useless documentation and the horrible development environment, it consistently takes us about twice as long to get an initial demo up and running on Android. This is especially on UI-heavy applications, considering that Android still doesn't have a decent UI builder.

(Just to put things into perspective: iOS's has incremental/convenience features over the original NeXTStep GUI builder, which basically puts Android's in a pre-1992 state).

The initial costs were higher for the Apple hardware, too, but even in the short term (1-3 months), it was worth it. This is especially true for a small company, that should prefer being punctual and keeping short deadlines.

> Finally, the Android developers that I know simply don't use the simulator, they always use hardware.

I also used hardware when developing for Android. However, that was not because I'm an uberdeveloper who has some obscure skill, it's simply because it sucks. It's slow, the debugger borks every once in a while, the management interface is unusable and while the list of integration features is longer, when you start crossing out those that break every other build you're pretty much left with just starting and stopping the simulator.
* this summer being an exception!
This one annoys me as much as "bare with me"..
This is basically how everyone who really loves the game plays it anyway

No, it's not - NG+ is much easier than NG, because you start decked with all your previous equipment. People who really love the game do NG runs staying at level 1.

I've put in lots of hours, and NG+ is dull because you already have anything and can go anywhere. The challenge is gone.
Ask HN: Why I cannot up vote?
It seems like that I cannot up vote a story. Anyone know why? Thanks in advance.
Homeschooling is pretty common in Australia, so I've met a few people that have gone through that process. So prepare for anecdata!

Some of these kids have been somewhat inept in the social department. It's not that they are asocial, more that they are sometimes ignorant of the many small rules of social interaction that I presume we pick up naturally in school. Do you recognise this as a potential problem, and if so, what do you do to teach your kids social skills?
I have a nook right now and onyx with backlight - they both work really well.
What is needed is a simple "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" analogy that effectively communicates how it's a) impossible to effectively filter out such things and b) how easy it is to abuse said filters once they're in place.

Maybe something using cars? =P
Any suggestions of things you might pay for? Also, would you mind if they did twitter style in-stream ads?
I don't know if this would really fix anything, but it sure would be awesome to see the one-line pork additions to a bill tied directly to a Senator's name.
According to a radio interview I just heard with the opposition shadow minister Malcolm Turnbull on TripleJ, this is a "software filter" that ISPs will install and enable on "home broadband routers and smartphones" by default, and there will be "no server-side filter".

While this of course sounds terribly stupid, pointless, costly and technically infeasible, it also sounds fairly innocuous as far as these types of proposals go.

It sounds like users would be able to enable/disable it whenever they like, without adding their name to a central database at the Ministry for Censorship (unlike the UK proposal?). He declared that the point was to enable this kind of filtering for people who aren't technical enough to set it up for themselves, and that ultimately the decision and responsibility lies with parents.

In fact, it sounds a lot better than the system the current government (who is of course already criticising this policy) tried to ram down our throats recently.

(Disclosure: I just heard about this policy on the way home from voting early, and the intent of my vote was to benefit the current governing party more than the opposition proposing this system, after my preferred minor candidates are eliminated...I like Malcolm Turnbull a lot, but I don't like his party's policies any more than I suspect he does, at the moment.)
The leader of the opposition is a devout Catholic. As the minister for health he tried to block abortion treatments until overruled by his party, and nearly became a priest before settling for lifetime politician.

He became the leader of the opposition by one vote (internal votes) after a debate between him and the previous leader over climate change (which he successfully argued to his party wasn't occurring, later changing his mind to satisfy the polls)
Congress should be following Bruce Schneier's advice, and appoint a special independent prosecutor with full powers to see everything that's happening within NSA, and to be able to take confessions from NSA employees, without them fearing repercussions. The NSA needs to be reined it, and it needs a full audit.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-only...
EFF continues to impress.
Here's the article if you're curious: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/fashion/weddings/amy-gordo...
Yes, Brits dressed WAY WAY better 60 years ago. I just took this trip a few days ago and was appalled and disgusted by the way that most people were dressed.
To anyone not familiar with the Australian Constitution, we do not have a bill of rights and no explicit guarantee of freedom of expression. (AFAIK freedom of expression is an implied right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_constitutional_law#F...).
Great article. Old discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3724560
uAs I ubderstood, systemd only uses symlinks. Any time you enable a service, systemd executes ln -s ..systemd.. ...service ...
Not that it ever really meant anything; it's not like you lose your job if you don't meet policy goals or attempt to do the opposite. Heck, you don't even lose credibility if no one even remembers what you promised.
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Hypertable has crazy fast increments-decrements(without reads). If the column is in memory it is updated on the spot. Else multiple values are inserted and merged on read or compaction. But it is a little different from cassandra, more similar to hbase.
Honeybadger don't care t-shirts
How to teach economics
We might need a few more than that before practical world domination plans can be conceived...
You'd think this sneaky behavior would be a fat red flag that the party doing it was not to be trusted.

FFS, if you can't even slap together, before the last minute, a theoretical document outlining what you are supposedly going to do -- which you're not even going to be held accountable for if you fail to accomplish it or completely reverse your stance on it -- then what good are you?
I upvoted this, but I can't agree with it enough.

Whatever you think about Assange, at least he can be relied upon to oppose: internet censorship, technologically retarded broadband infrastructure and sexual consent laws.
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Unfortunately, for the vast majority of voters (or people in general), counter arguments don't really matter if they liked what they heard in the first place. Then they just think "what you're saying makes things more difficult, I'd rather not hear it".
Or pirate party!
I have a close setup. It just needs a little trick to add subdirectories :

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You can check my .gitignore here [0].

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That's not hyperbolic bringing up Nazis. We are specifically talking about evil regimes. Nazi Germany is the canonical example. The point is that the people in the evil regime may not consider it evil when it is other people, outside the country, or unwanted internal people that are getting screwed so the evil regime populace can live in a richer country. When we are talking about settler or imperialist countries they are evil in that their lifestyle is bought by oppressing others.
IANAL, wonder what does FIOA ruling entitles you to? can the government redact everything except one sentence? Just wondering.
Yes, my thought is that you have to submit your full policy plan to be costed independently at least 2 weeks before the election. This is then used by a neutral party to draw up unbiased election material that is the only material that parties are allowed to hand out on the day.

It is crazy to give the public the costings of your promises 48 hours before the election. The average person isn't never going to have or want to take the time in that period to really look into what is released and the liberal party know that.
What's a PLT Redex, you ask? http://redex.racket-lang.org/
I read an article recently about how Leaf had a range between 22 and 45 miles. I mean, I know it's cheaper, but yikes. This is why a company like Tesla was so important for the electric car adoption. The others would've moved way too slow to improve the mileage of electric cars, or they would've just made them "hybrids" like the Volt, where they don't even care that much how much it lasts on battery, because it has gas to back it up. So no real incentive to improve the "electric" part too fast. Tesla is probably pushing the electric car adoption at least 10 years ahead of time.
Both of of the US's major political parties are more conservative than the Australian major conservative party. Particularly when it comes to fighting crime (when our police started fucking up with SWAT tactics, they were stopped in short order) and waging war.

Outside of politics, it really depends on what you look at. There's certainly a strong urge to conform in mainstream anglo America (clipped lawns, identical houses, visible laundry is unsightly, etc) that doesn't really have a parallel here, but on the other hand, Americans are a bit more socially outgoing than Australians.
> the current government handed over regulation of charities (including churches) to an independent regulator last year

That's pretty awesome that that was even done, though. I cannot imagine something like that happening in the US. I am so sick of seeing religious institutions abuse their tax-free status to play Real Estate Tycoon.
Afraid you've missed the point in the same way as Justin did... Those people (me included) are perfectly aware of that. The argument is that your mother isn't, and while it's reasonable to expect her to be, you can't just assume such.
We've moved from a world where I can put my hands on a book, glance at the copyright page, feel the paper, see the condition, to one where every version of a work, from annotated to abridged, can be lumped together as a fungible commodity.

Yes - really a rather profound change. The entire way new books are produced has changed as a result as well. Print-on-demand in particular can result in you literally having a "one-off" edition of a book. The benefit is quicker integration of corrections. Am not sure we really fully understand some of the negative consequences...
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"The Coalition said it would work with mobile phone operators to install the filters onto handsets."

Yeah, that's going to happen.
Honey badger don’t care
A quantum access network
BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23946488
I love Dark Souls, and constantly recommend it to friends.

And if they say 'Yeah, I picked that up on Steam!' I get really sad.

It feels like a game that is pretty exquisitely tuned, and that tuning is towards playing on a console with a controller. I'd even go so far as to say on a PS3 and a really nice TV.

Like how some people can't stand playing an FPS on consoles, only in reverse.
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I'm sure there can be, somehow tying together intricate details how how our brains process visual data and how various associations are triggered.

I'm pretty sure no such process exists today though, which (at least to me) makes various statements that sound as if they were part of such an objective evaluation sound so hilarious.

Note: I have nothing but respect for the skills of good graphic designers, but it's just very strange to hear some of the justications made. My favorite regarding this logo was from the second bullet:

We preferred letters that had thicker and thinner strokes - conveying the subjective and editorial nature of some of what we do.

What does that mean? Am I supposed to look at the logo, and somehow conclude "ah, it uses both thin and thick strokes, naturally that is because Yahoo are sometimes subjective, sometimes they're editorial". Is "editorial" even the opposite of "subjective"?!

Hilarious.
Likely true re: your friends. Most people's friends are. I know the ad he's referring to, and have enjoyed it enough that I've let it play through more than once rather than skip it.
Wikileaks preferenced One Nation ahead of the Greens, Labor and Liberals in the senate. Since the final senate seat will likely come down to One Nation / Greens in 1 or more states, the only effective outcome of voting for them is a vote for One Nation.
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The blackout is for election advertising, which these days seems more about muckraking than policy advertising. In any case, it doesn't stop politicians from giving speeches to journalists, only paid advertising. This policy released today (Thursday) is within that blackout period (midnight Wednesday eve).
> "jdtwbv" hashed using scrypt is stronger than "H.W8Jz&r3" hashed using MD5*

But "password" is still grossly insecure in either case, it'll still be the first thing that someone performing a dictionary attack will try. Never tell people how good your key derivation function is, lest they misunderstand and think it means they don't have to chose a non-obvious password/passphrase.
Well, what you can do is ask people who have worked with logo design, won awards for logo design etc.

Of course, these people may be biased, but at least they have more experience in evaluating logos than others. So in general, if many of them like it there's a good chance it's actually good.

The other thing you can do is to look back. In 10, 20 years, it might be more obvious whether a logo was successful or not. But again, that may be influenced by the success of the company.

I think saying that it all comes down to personal taste is bit misleading, because that personal taste is generally shared by a large part of the population.
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49 kg, too heavy to use it as a normal bike.
This means people will use always use it in electric mode.
Hmm, this takes some of the appeal away...
Yes. https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/images_insert/FISC%2...

Edit: 4th paragraph for another example. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/eff-victory-results-ex...
Don't forget the studies implying that, when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger. The more I learn about everything, the less certain I am about anything; I wish more people were the same.

The idea is to come up with a metaphor that is as short and sweet as it is compelling. As much as the idea of "selling" truth disgusts me, we need to "market" the unpleasant realities of a filter as effectively as politicians have sold the lie of it being "for the children" in order to have a fighting chance of preventing it.