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Will Harp support adding plugins?

For now, I use Wintersmith. It supports Jade and Markdown out of the box, and you can extend it by writing plugins.

I wrote one to help me "load" dependencies, without having to use <script> tags. I use Devon Govett's importer[1] for that.

[1] https://github.com/devongovett/importer
It is commonly assumed that the NSA/CIA run a substantial portion of the exit nodes. Morever, they are a global adversary (one Tor is not designed to defeat).
Hmm. Tell Alan Wallace, the Shamatha Project, and the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain! There's a lot of interesting variables and correlations to study in relation to meditation.

My Zen teacher talked about some Shamatha Project study that found sustained concentration meditation to decrease neuroticism and increase conscientiousness. Anecdotally, he confirmed that this is what he has seen as a meditation teacher.

I find it really weird to measure the efficacy of meditation by arithmetic puzzles, though. Is anyone claiming meditation makes you better at math? That doesn't seem like a big area of interest to me.
I can see that as a reasonable precaution in a demo device. It all depends on the level of showmanship you want.
why is it so pro melatonin?
Which makes the subset that does not use adblock even more valuable.

They fit the same demographic but are actually open to seeing your advertising.

(I'm stopping here, but I could go on a whole rant about the anti adblock nonsense)
There were several obstacles to using SR, each of which would have been difficult or frightening to overcome when the alternative is doing transactions in person with cash. You needed to understand TOR (which, while not especially difficult to use in general, is harder than opening Chrome and going to Amazon), you needed to understand and obtain BTC (either mining them or purchasing them, which was generally somewhat difficult given that you couldn't use credit cards or paypal or other simple payment methods), and then you had to figure out PGP for sending your information to the vendor.

It's all definitely doable and none of it really requires much technical knowledge but there's definitely some friction that I assume would intimidate a fair amount of people.
Find someone else to play ego tennis with.

edit: basically, you read 5-6 things into my words that simply aren't there. I avoid aggressive bickerers like you because I end up spending too much time clearing things up. You're primed to take the least charitable interpretation possible. I have better things to do than to deal with someone like you.

Anything is a better thing to do. I've wasted too much time in the past arguing with perpetually perturbed people to let it happen again.
Catching drug kingpins is about publicity for the police and the unaccountable revenue stream of seizure proceeds for bonus income and toys for cops.

It is well known that the ostensive purpose of prohibition -- the reduction of harm from drug addiction -- is not served by going after kingpins and cartels. There are always candidates to replace kingpins waiting in the wings and catching them only promotes violence as the candidates vie for status.

The effective policing tactic is to arrest middle class casual users and subject them to the shame of felony records and probation. You hunt down the soft targets at their homes and parties in vast numbers and hit them where they care -- in their job prospects, reputation, and freedom -- by briefly imprisoning them long enough to disrupt their jobs or school. Then you require them to report for weekly drug tests for years with a guarantee of longer imprisonment if they use unauthorized drugs again.

But the middle class voters won't support the drug war if you do that and there's no cash reward for cops in it or big media display either. So we're stuck with the wasted effort and public violence of going after kingpins.

And the credulous public always goes for the lie that the really important work is going after kingpins. Somehow it sounds meaningful to people who haven't thought about the subject. It's the opposite of effective policing, though.
One interesting LESS feature I found when we were evaluating it for letting some users use it for customization: it can evaluate arbitrary Javascript and open and embed files. Just in case you thought it was some pure transformative shorthand CSS syntax.

Of course, letting users upload arbitrary CSS served from your domain is an XSS-level risk, but let's say you let each user have his own domain and let them upload .less files.

Or you have a say, node.js APP that lets a user enter LESS and spit out the -- escaped -- CSS.

Now they can do:

div.hack {
background-image: data-uri("/etc/passwd");
}

When compiled with lessc 1.4.2, this embeds the contents of that file as base64.

Also, with 1.3.x."@import" lets you open any filename and insert it, but it's required to be valid .less. I suppose you could try to @import /dev/random or urandom although I don't know if there's any practical attack surface for decreasing entropy. I don't think I could offhand find a valid file.

However in the theorethical web page evaluating .less, the error output will contain the contents of the file @imported.

Oh, and the evaluation of Javascript... I couldn't make it do much useful, as it seems there's some kind of limited JS environment that code executes in. The worst I could do was:

div {
background: `process.kill(-1, "SIGKIL")`;
}

The "fs" object does not seem to exist there, but I don't know enough about node.js/V8 environment to see whether there's equivalent of jailbreaks.

So, uh, don't compile arbitrary LESS files and send users their output, and LESS files someone sends you or checks into a project can kill your processes (at least).
I bet it has more to do with them pushing new cards and wanting users to replace them with new ones.

I have the 560 Ti and it's capable of playing most current games comfortably. The newer cards seem to be able to do 4 monitors, but the 500 series is being left behind by nvidia as they push the 600/700 series with their shield and shadowplay features.
No Drugs, No Bitcoin.
It's a combination of uneasiness that someone was attempting to steal from you and you have to do work to remedy the situation.
Too much sugar not sweet for health
Reading this makes me think of Jobs as a Railroad baron of old. Kind of heartless, gruff, and willing to crush anyone in his way, but a guy with a vision so strong he will do anything. And it changed the world, it's hard to overstate that.

I remember seeing the iPhone unveiled and thinking "It's cool, but will people really buy such an expensive phone?". I think it was $600. That was pretty expensive at the time. I also remember thinking about how they wanted all apps to be web-based. A disaster for certain I thought. The phone market was all over the place and brand loyalty was in short supply. I'd seen compaq go from dominating PDAs and nosedive off the cliff. Motorola took their brand loyalty (remember how many people had Razrs?) and went into hiding. Time and again I'd seen phone platforms rise and fall. I was skeptical.

All I knew was one thing - I certainly wasn't going to buy one.

Years later and I now program for iOS a lot. Everyday pretty much. I'm a full blown Mac convert and I'll be honest, the iPhone was what caused it. I bought my first iPhone at version 4. Then I specifically bought my first Mac so I could use the SDK for that phone. I fell in love with the platform, in all its insane glory.

I might move to another platform one day, but I can honestly say I never imagined this is what I would be working on.
Ability to move independently, with their own power source, be able to navigate our environment, homes, use our tools and do our bidding, following simple commands

Apart from "use our tools", that's Roomba+Siri. Honda's "Asimo" is coming quite close.
Hearsay and strawman arguments don't make for an intellectual discussion.
Yes, i bought a machine with intel graphics for that reason but i never had as many kernel panics before. i915 leads http://oops.kernel.org/ :-/
Why was the title changed from the informative "Adobe Accounts Hacked" to the useless and generic "Important Customer Security Annoucement"?
The technical details of the presentation are interesting, but less relevant than how well the device worked at launch. It worked. The iPhone was a success not because it was the first, but because it was the first really usable device, it put everything that came before it to shame.
Oregon State boosts Open Source Lab by bringing it into academic fold
> That's criminal behavior that stems from criminal thinking.

There's a problem with how you define "criminal" here. Before the release of various chemicals into groundwater was recognized as harmful and his was taken into account in the formulation of laws and regulations, it was perfectly legal.

In many such instances, where harmful behaviors were not recognized then subsequently made illegal, there were many people who claimed they weren't aware they were doing anything wrong.
If it reduced the net amount of violence? absolutely. Look, People are going to do drugs. Why not provide a peaceful community that harbors responsible consumption instead of adopting a puritanical view that only attempts to make matters worse?
I think that is one of the biggest mistakes github did. I don't care what the spec says, you should always default to 401, so that requests can be retried with auth. Then after getting through the 401, you should fire the 404 or 200 (as the case may be).
you can write a "cache that persists to disk" in a few lines of C code. ever hear of memory mapped files ?
Remember when Apple was failing? Jobs responds to insulting question (1997)
I know drugs aren't safe

All I can do is sigh when I read statements like this.
I don't think there's anything stopping them if they really do. The grandparent poster is talking about people who think they "above" the work. Someone who really wants to do the work isn't going to act like they're above it, and is probably going to do just fine at it. That's the system working as intended.
Model S Fire
Twitch desperately needs a competitor as they're running in a space virtually unchecked. Youtube doesn't count because they're not putting their full weight against video game live streaming and the article was simply throwing Azubu a bone by mentioning them.

Apparently their last real competitor, Own3D.tv, couldn't make good on payments owed to streamers and closed up shop. That should be a pretty good indicator about the profitability of this business model. Twitch has some interesting exclusivity deals with Xbox, PS4 and Mojang but forced ads for a Honda Civic I don't care about on the video preroll can't be paying their bills.

Twitch is still powered by venture capital, with their latest $20 million Series C round a few days ago. No doubt the exit strategy is to reach critical mass and then unload the business onto a company that can handle the bandwidth bills + stream partner payouts.
Going through the comments (and most of the HN comments on platforms that tend to divide people), I still find it deeply distressing that even geeks/nerds chase hard after the one-true-way approach. You don't see one true type of bread, you don't see one true type of car, you don't see one true type of anything. Yet, when it comes to things like mobile phones and platforms, we behave like absolute twerps.

People have different circumstances, levels of understanding and fifty to the power of three other factors that determine their choices in life. We want to ignore all of that and dismiss every person who does not see the same merits that we do. And that is sad beyond what can be expressed in words.

Can you imagine in a world in which it makes sense to have both the Apple and Google approach? If you cannot, you should step out and see a lot more of the real world. Choices, no matter how disagreeable or flawed, are welcome in a more open world. I hope we will all, eventually, understand that, even if we don't like what that understanding allows for.
Why doesn't Microsoft just fork Android like Amazon did, give it a Metro interface (it could look exactly the same as WP does today)? I can't think of any reason for them not to do this now...
Man, I'm ready. I'm pretty tired of ads that randomly ignore mute, have "skip" buttons that don't work, or otherwise just don't function correctly. Also, I always feel like I'm cheating when I watch from my tablet or 360, which don't get ads.
For those of us who haven't heard of Wonga, it's an online payday loan service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonga.com
Doesn't seem to change his point.
YourMechanic (YC W12) Introduces Pre-Purchase Car Inspections
Nigel Cabourn
You should checkout ShipBuilder [1][2]. ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source self-hosted PaaS -- it aims to be an open clone of Heroku.

It uses Go, LXC, and HAProxy.

[1] https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder

[2] http://shipbuilder.io

Disclaimer: I am a committer on the project
Excellent. I look forward to that downtime number getting worse (or better, depending on how one looks at it).
Whaaaaat?.. Needs "merge" and "rebase".
I like having a chime tell me when I leave the keys in or forget to turn the lights off. A baby alarm seems to be much more valuable.
Obviously, the feelings are mutual.
Do you think they have some kind of SLA, you get your money back a la amazon EC2 ? :)
It's still is not your job or that of anybody else to interfere in the transactions of adults where no third parties are harmed.

To be at least logically consistent, please spend your energy fighting the sale of alcohol and nicotine.
"There might be some ethical defense of Silk Road that makes sense, but that sure wasn't it. This is what passes for thought on the techno-libertarian internet? Really, tech crunch?"

The same law enforcement tactics we might sadly accept to save us from murder are obviously outrageous when they're applied to crimes we don't really consider crimes.

Quite a lot of the middle class, a vast majority of techies, and a majority of the working class and underclass consider drug use and trafficking to be less of a crime than double parking. The cops and statutes treat drugs as if they were in the same class as rape and murder.

The result is going to be some foolish opinions and practices about law enforcement and privacy.
The problem is that evolutionary causes often don't link cleanly to psychological causes. The evolutionary reason that I like things that taste sweet is that back when most of my ancestors lived, sweet usually meant "calories", and not getting enough calories was a more pressing threat than diabetes or cavities. But no matter how deeply I internalize the fact that this reasoning is obsolete, that calories are bountiful, and that my best strategy is to eat a well rounded diet, I'm still going to enjoy sweet things.

The same problem comes up when you talk about psychology. Yes, the evolutionary cause for consistency pressure is to prevent rejection, as rejection could easily lead to death for early humans. But that does not mean that the psychological basis for consistency pressure is fear of rejection. High level psychological phenomena are a beautiful solution for an ever-changing environment, but with relatively constant factors (like rejection -> death), hardwired instincts are far more reliable.

That doesn't mean that fear of rejection as a high level phenomenon doesn't also exist. There's no optimizing flag in our brains that says "If there's an instinct to handle environmental factor X, ignore X while adapting". But those high level phenomena do not motivate our instincts.

So given the universality of consistency as a need during most of our evolution, and the apparent universality of consistency bias as a flaw in human reasoning, I would give a very low prior to it being something you could reprogram by "digging it up by the roots". Rather, overcoming consistency bias is likely to require high level compensation techniques.
_And_ they have been donating to the Conservative party, presumably to erode the social security safety net to drum up business for them.
Quick, quit your job and become a blogger.
Keep this story in mind when idiots on the internet talk about a "rectangle with rounded corners".
Don't they mean Dropbox clone? Isn't that space already really crowded?
That looks cool! I'm having a hard time finding a good way to discover good music. Currently my favorite, although not optimal - is to go over grooveshark playlists published on /r/groovesharkplaylists.

Some concern about this approach is that I think consuming music in such way wouldn't be much fun - unlike hn, on a music site a 'play all' would make more sense than playing one by one, but here's the catch(es):
1. No way to listen just to the new (to me, sort of 'unread') good music
2. Playing from top to bottom would mean the songs get progressively less good.

I would add a 'best songs' list - all the song above let's say 20 points. This is something I could automatically play on shuffle, occasionally getting new entries from the recent days.

anyway, best of luck! I'll give it a try!
Is 15 minutes enough time? It might be a small point of contention, but why not an hour?
How to add a website icon to iPhone, iPad and Android home screens
The Money Flows in the Collaborative Economy
If this information fell into Samsung's lap, they'd be fools not to leverage it whether they got it by accident or by design. Nothing so far (that I've seen) shows evidence that they obtained this information illegally. If anyone would be sanctioned for this, wouldn't it be their law firm?
...and we are just supposed to assume that addictions to those drugs represent a special category? Not only that, but you yourself distinguished between someone who takes methamphetamine as their doctor prescribed and someone who freebases it to get high -- yet prescription stimulants are just as addicting and have the same withdrawal effects.
Very cool news - I'd missed that part of your post. Thanks for pushing JS performance so hard, too.
> I can't think of any reason for them not to do this now...

Besides the fact that it would be a total rewrite?
I'm always amazed when I see stuff like this. Nvidia's windows drivers crash all the time too. Neither company is capable of producing quality drivers, yet fanboys still want to insist one of the turds is made of gold.
I rubber duck a lot, but to my cat. He doesn't seem to mind and often gets petted as well. Win win.
No, it's thinking based in classic American political philosophy[1], not a worn-out internet meme.

[1] "Vices Are Not Crimes" by Lysander Spooner

http://www.lysanderspooner.org/VicesAreNotCrimes.htm
I have had issues with going to sleep my whole life (nap time in preschool I was last to fall asleep and last to wake up). First I have to say I took 3mg as a test run and it did nothing. My gf then said they give 10-15mg for patients at the hospital.

9mg was too effective at putting me out in 30 min (I weigh 200lbs). It was too difficult to wake up in the morning. 6mg seems best. My minds eye feels like it's wearing a sleeping mask because dreams are few and far between.

When I stopped taking it, dreams became vivid and memorable. I also took ZMA before and that does nothing in terms of getting to sleep, but you get some crazy strong dreams while on it.
Is this offer open to people other than the OP? I work on an Android HN app.
Python code for converting images and text directly into 3D-printable STL files
A small code I wrote in the free time that I now have due to the gov't shutdown. Enjoy!
We didn't need these revelations to know CAs are not generally trustworthy. We already had proof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority#CA_compro...
Hmm, I had a look, but it's very light on documentation. So light, that it didn't really explain what the advantage is, or why I should try it, or how it works. (I tend to tune out the "open-source PaaS" offering because it's consistently been something too hard/heavy/weird to set up).
unhandled exception, maybe :P
What if you ran scripts on your phone and computer so that it would appear as if you were browsing the internet and using your computer during your regular usage times?

Also using public transportation (and paying for it in cash) will help mitigate the first issue your brought up.
I am not seeing what relevance this story has to patent disputes.
I thought the arrow thing could have been a lot clearer. On the other hand, Tup vs the Eye of Sauron is both beautiful art and perfect test case.
Have you been able to reduce your ADHD meds after taking melatonin (or getting better sleep from melatonin)?
A rewrite of a failing product shouldn't be an issue.
Because a fork with a metro skin on top isn't Windows?
It is my understanding (never smoked myself nor owned any ficus that lived for more than a week) that growing quality plants is actually a very complicated process which takes up a lot of space, requires adequate lighting which in itself is hard to conceil, spacy, as well consuming a lot of power. I doubt suburban kids could be that deep into it.

I mean, just look at what some people are doing in terms of selfbrewed beers and stuff. That is hightech meticulously planned do it yourself machinery and botany.
I chuckled at the "A SysAdmin would be pissed." line and then checked the source to see if there was any javascript which was going to change this line as the uptime % dropped lower and lower.

I was disappointed there wasn't, but perhaps it is some dynamic magic that happens on page load or something....
> if you are at liberty to do it, it's not criminal, and if it's a crime, you are not at liberty to do it.

I perceive it elsewise. If someone abuses their liberty to commit fraud or violence, then they're a criminal. Criminals, by definition, seek to use fraud or force to get their way.

Not all things deemed illegal by the State are crimes by any definition except the State's if they have an interest in regulating some form of human behavior or interaction.
You could have three sets of contra-rotating flywheels, which would give you much finer grain control of the motion.
Just staying with the Google example, I don't remember any major Google product having a major failure. The new Google Maps may be. I know many people complain about the new GMail but it's just about choices of design they made and not about some bugs in the product. So again, Google products are iterative and not buggy irrespective of whether people pay for them or not.
My genuine question: how many people watched the tv ad and didnt ignore it?

If I wanted 5$ CPMs, at 60k per ad, I'd expect 12,000,000 people to see it -- not unreasonable by prime time TV standards

From there, I'd argue that for brand advertising TV is more powerful because TV watchers will prefer to continue doing the same thing (stare at TV) vs ignoring the commercial or pressing mute.

Arguably the big difference is the entry requirements, you can't do anything on TV for less than 4 figures, whereas you can get started on twitter for single digit ad spends
Development Hacks to Prevent Mistakes
But that's exactly what someone would say and do to draw attention away from the fact that they may be doing something sketchy :)
Funny or not, it would be awesome if phones could boot multiple OS as easily as a plain PC/Intel Mac
What does ``Service level for last year:'' mean?
I think "stuck" means you don't have any idea how to make progress. It's not the same thing as, say, encountering a problem in an area of the code you've never dealt with before. In that case, spending an hour or more working through the source is likely worthwhile.

15 minutes of documenting exactly why you have no idea how to proceed sounds about right. If you need longer, you probably haven't whittled down the problem sufficiently, and you can make progress that way.
UEFI+SecureBoot can be implemented on ARM devices. And already is in almost every case, it just isn't turned on except for, as an example, most Verizon/ATT variants of phones.