skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If found liable (this is a civil action), at least it will be easy to articulate exactly what if anything he did wrong. Can you say that about the banking execs?

The SEC doesn't avoid people who are "juiced in" to the government. It prosecutes cases it can win. Bankers spend a lot of time figuring out where the line is and staying on the right side of it. To the extent they do anything wrong, prosecuting them involves getting a jury to understand reserve ratios and risk models and other things they won't understand. But insider trading is easy to understand. He had this insider information, and did this trade that saved him $750k. I can explain that to grandma. Its easy. Which is why bankers don't get caught doing it, but less plugged in people do.
How is one related to the other? If it is true that he wasn't as close of a friend with the guy as he thought, what does that have to do with facebook? Without facebook he might not have had any interaction with the guy at all. How does quitting facebook help in that situation? I know in my situation there are lots of people on facebook that I wouldn't know anything about what they were doing if they weren't on facebook.
but still, its someone's hardwork in making these templates and giving it for free, and thats appreciable.
But that's not much of a practical problem, since ZF set theory proves them both.
If they don't (viewpoint that I agree with), them pissing and moaning on Hacker News is completely pointless.
For people who post online heavily, I don't think this is as far away as some might believe.

Sure, it's not going to convince folks you're still alive, but it might provide entertainment to the great-great-great grandkids, let them know what you were like.
Give me a break. This is a single data point, in an industry (and country!) not known for its efficiency.
As these are fonts and don't implement any randomness like a captcha would, it will be trivially easy to just implement recognition matching of the fonts themselves
how a hackernews outage led to a quick link project
I'm willing to push past my visceral dislike of WYSIWIG editors to try it out again. I need to get a Cloud account sooner or later.
This version is easily the clearest yet.
This is exactly what I meant. I have no interest in learning languages for learning languages sake.

I am interested in making hardware do cool stuff though.

Never realized I needed an interpreter for that - but you did a great job!
I meant, if you need perfect sharpness for the zoomed image, you need to supply bigger PNGs, otherwise they're blurred
The ad-centric intent is clear and trying to cover it with "we don't see it this way" only further alienates potential users (and worse, makes fool of them). Be up front and honest about the product you make.
It doesn't say anything about Linux, but I guess more than one platform is technically "cross platform" :(
You're assuming that Haskell's monadic approach is the ultimate approach to managing effects (which include delayed evaluation). Personally, I prefer the model in Eff [1] and proven as an alternative to monad transformers (although, still a single-layer monad in Haskell) [2]. Eff's approach utilizes capabilities [3], called "effect instances", to restrict access to effects. Much nicer, in my opinion. Hence, I've been experimenting with the ideas in Clojure [4].

[1]: http://math.andrej.com/eff/

[2]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4786

[3]: http://erights.org/elib/capability/ode/ode-capabilities.html

[4]: https://github.com/brandonbloom/cleff
A friend of mine passed away rather abruptly. A year and a half later his last.fm account started showing him as playing music, and this was picked up by facebook through some app. A friend of his had turned his old sound system back on (he was a DJ) and was using it, having no idea it was scrobbling the tracks back.

Much better than a scammer, but still kind of a weird experience.
I have no idea what you are talking about here.

Who said anything about solving problems? Viable business cases?
It is possible to analyze the behavior of a program without access to the source code that makes it easy to recompile and distribute modified builds. I routinely open binary files in disassemblers to read through their behavior. Yes, it is possible to obfuscate the hell out of parts of binary code, and that would certainly throw up a red flag for me, but concentrating on the source code seems to miss the point that source code can also be obfuscated, if the source code looks "too weird" we probably aren't going to trust it either, and it is also possible to hide a bunch of behaviors across wide areas of "open" "clear" code (so nothing looks "too weird" at any given place in the code).

To be very explicit about this, as I think this is a very subtle problem that people tend to totally misunderstand: if I wanted to distribute a chat program and have it be "evil" I would not distribute a binary with hidden behavior (if nothing else, when you find this code in my binary I'm pretty damn well screwed ;P): I'd instead distribute an open source program that involved a threaded work queue for handling multiple socket connections to peers and which had a few very subtle use-after-free race conditions that would only come up under nearly impossible timing scenarios that I knew how to trigger and exploit, giving me complete control of your client whenever I wanted.

These are the kinds of bugs people use to attack open source "secure" web browsers like Chrome year after year at Pwn2Own because people are simply bad at concurrency. In this sense, I'd thereby trust a closed source web browser that had no threads or which was implemented in a type-safe garbage collected language (executed on a simply-engineered runtime from someone separate that I trusted, which could also be closed source for all I care) a lot more than I'd trust Chrome. I'd even probably have an easier time understanding what it is doing disassembling it than reading Chrome's code. (To be clear, such a browser doesn't exist: probably you should use Chrome.)
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No Chrome OS version? Disappointing.
That's why I said "new… for a vast majority of people."
But that would defeat the point of opening the source, the part we're interested in is the security of the transport not how that pretty UI is made.
I got to play with one at work for testing purpose. The UI is actually not that bad but as with anything Microsoft it had some pretty major flaws... like date and time having to be set manually before SSL certificates works.
LibreOffice is much better than OpenOffice, but both still pale in comparison to Excel on Windows. However, Microsoft Excel for Mac sucks, and that hasn't slowed Mac adoption. It's now relatively standard practice for anyone doing serious Excel work on a Mac to install a Windows VM and a Windows copy of Excel.
which still means that the bitlock server could grant anybody the ability to unlock your lock
If they're embedded iframes, you should still be able to use e.g. adblock based on the URL. If not, you can probably go back to element blocking, same as now for static containers. If they're invisible / removed from the DOM tree, it should be a lighter weight browsing experience :)
Used Win all my life, and for something like 5 years for web dev (not really serious web dev, but getting a technical degree on it).

I was thinking on moving to Ubuntu because I like the Python/Django stack and it was more difficult on Windows. Then I bought my new laptop that came with win8 preinstalled.

It got me kicked out of windows... Now I'm a happy Ubuntu user at home, at work, Win XP
The thing is the Windows Phone is actually quite good. In many ways it is better then Android (consistency across the OS & apps, Visual Studio is better then Eclipse, C# better then Java). Much, if not all, of the bold choices around flat visual style have now born out as great choices. Lots of things going for them. Pretty cool seeing it born out in higher adoption numbers.
(You mean 'losing' not 'loosing', please fix comment so I can delete this comment :))
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission? :)
Well. Let's start with the Wikipedia version of the quote as if it were canonical.

>Nevertheless, he also expressed his belief that "if one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity."

The disjunctive arrives from the first comma and that there aren't any conjunctive prepositions linking your object1 and object2. Thus the disjunct statements combined in this form are

A) "if one purges the Judaism of the Prophets one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity".

Wherein I'm not sure which group of prophets are antecedent here. "The prophets" in Christian theology refers to the minor prophets of the latter part of the OT.

and B) "if one purges Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity."

As I said I accept the alternate reading that these two teaching, those arrived at through A and B, combined should instead be used to create the ultimate teaching.

However you appear to believe that he said it didn't create any teaching, it created an absence of teaching. You've heavily modified the scope of his intent without there being any indication as to how it should be modified. You say the Gospels were "written by priests" and so should be purged. Yet they are primary sources of what "Jesus Christ taught" (and indeed were not written by priests). He claims this process leaves one with an ultimate teaching. But your bowdlerised version of the methodology leaves one with nothing.

You appear to want this to say "imagine no religion" (or words to that effect), that such a thing would cure humanity of all social ills - despite this being outside of Einstein's area of genius I still can't believe he was such a fool.

Primarily the point was that based on my reading Einstein and Russell take importantly distinct positions, both agnostic. That categorising their attitudes to religion, and hence the scope of agnostic beliefs, as indistinct is unhelpful verging on disingenous. I'll hold that position for now unless you have much better arguments than you've so far put.

>Try it yourself. //

Ha. I became an atheist as a child until I realised that position is scientifically unsound. Going forward I studied philosophy, maths and physics. Then I became a Christian based on personal experiences.

Studying - and being presented as trustworthy - Haeckl and Hubble at high-school taught me not to trust someone for their reputation; neither the teachers nor the purportedly eminent scientists.

I use scientific methods which rather preclude me "turn[ing] to the scientists" who are as likely as any priest to have a bias. Ultimately I'm a pyrrhonist but practically, beyond first axioms [trustworthyness of sensedata, continuity of time dimension(s), and such] I'm a Christian as that is the empirical conclusion.
Cuban argued he was allowed to sell. And this judge agreed. So this still might be a gray area. But I am not a lawyer... or an inside trader.
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Yes, it's that way on C64 too - it didn't save any space.

People certainly did do a lot to save space through omitting spaces, using ";" to separate statements instead of new lines etc.
What does memorialize mean? My father died some years ago and his account is still there, so I'm curious.
Readability is in Safari, so many (many) millions of users. There are extensions for basically everything, bookmarklets for everything else, and many news-reading applications use the same scripts to render their 'text' views.

And popup / cookie blocking has been standard (not just common!) for a while, so I assume you didn't mean that.
No, i think it's true. Programming for mobile and programming for desktop are both about equally challenging, and have their unique difficulties, but the threshold for what constitutes an "app" is a lot lower on mobile than it is on other platforms. Desktop apps are expected to have a full feature set, mobile apps are often only expected to do one usually simple task. Think about how hard it would be to write the client-side of 'app' for iPhoto on Mac vs the instagram app.
Note I'm not saying he did anything wrong. What I mean is that if he did, it'll be easy to explain what it was he did wrong. It won't be something like "he should have classified these tax credits under this accounting rule you don't understand instead of this other accounting rule you don't understand."
Knowing what kind of scientist this guy is would help.
> After all, if you're not an expert on a particular subject, how are you to know that even an article which seems neutral in content and tone isn't subtly selecting for and emphasising a certain portrayal of its subject?

I need to echo my sibling commenters. You can't know that. You can't know that because it is; there's no other way for text to be.
Agreed, but the point is that the "total worth" of an app is the total utility that it creates in the world across all its customer base.

Of course you're right that to each individual customer the worth remains less than a cup of coffee; if this affects the app writer psychologically, hopefully the size of his/her bank account will be a consolation.
Well he can make his point any day now. Still waiting. For now all I have is that he doesn't like javascript, because it can't do binary. (although it can. so the conflict should be resolved right? Did he have another point?)
My best friend since 5th grade recently passed a few months ago. People are still tagging him in pictures and whatnot. Occasionally people will tag him in photos I haven't seen yet and for a brief second I think he's still alive. Very distressing.
Hadoop cluster of of GPU + SSD'd up machines is not going to be cheap.... (but would be fun)
I'm pretty sure they're already trying to make an example out of him for show. If I remember correctly, this first popped up right after Cuban announced BailouthSleuth.com
If the writer chooses to use words that alienate his readers

You (seemingly) are an example of everything you argue against, tho. Shoot the messenger is not a strong or attractive argument. Neither is failing to (properly) understand a literary reference, have a sense of irony, history, humor, etc...

Lighten up and argue your point, properly. With trasnparency, not FUD and oblique credibility attacks. This is also a good time to think about whether you are a cultural fit with HN.[1]

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[1] <sarcasm tag> Be Glad I'm not your boss. Oh, wait, that would be an asshole comment. OK folks. Carry on. NOthing to see here.
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It's not hidden that Google makes its money through advertising.
This was my thought too. The OP's friend seemed to be responding to each communication with leading statements and not once does it elicit a "tell me more" or "Oh goodness Mike, what's wrong? Is there anything I can do?"
If you have issues with privacy in your own country, take it up with your government. The US Constitution only guarantees rights to US citizens.
I mean no disrespect to the original author. It is just that online social networks use the term "friend" when it really doesn't apply.

ex: If you spend time with a friend weekly or even monthly and then suddenly you never hear or speak to them again. Don't you think you'd actively pursue them to find out what is up before too long? I'm sure you wouldn't wait two years to investigate.

Quitting facebook/social networks will show you who your real friends are.
Doesn't have to be, Xamarin is doing great with their framework :)
Actually, there has been some recent research [0] in cryptography that shows it is possible to produce binaries that are obfuscated in such a way such that they are computationally infeasible to deobfuscate (see the linked reference for a formal definition of indistinguishability obfuscation).

[0] - http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/451.pdf
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It is possible to analyze the behavior of a program without access to the source code

It may be possible, but it's not easy.
If you ever forget your key just hide in the bushes and wait for a thief to unlock it for you.
windows at work, ubuntu in a VM on windows at home for certain reasons
I do, but only because I'm doing primarily .NET stuff.
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I'm happy to see this tool because we do need to get those ad developers/designers (whoever they are!) to stop producing output which consumes high cpu. But if this doesn't fix that problem then we're spreading the issue to our non-flash tablets and mobile devices, which could be a painful change from the static ads we currently enjoy on those devices.

However, I'm disappointed to see that this deals with fix-sized units exclusively. The web is supposed to be fluid, ads and other content should be encouraged to be percentage-width based, or at least responsive to different screen sizes and layouts. This tool produces fixed-size ads, when they could have used it to encourage a big change towards responsive advertising.
In addition to the excellent services mentioned in the article, I'd like to recommend Rollbar (http://rollbar.com/) -- we've been using them for almost a year and have come to rely on them exclusively.

Their major selling points for us were GitHub integration and filtering by user-agent/other strings (baiduspider tormented us for a while), plus their packages for logging server-side errors (we use them for Node.js). Their price point is also very generous for startups :)
Quitting facebook will show you who your true friends are. It also allows you to focus on people that matter, and not people who are no longer a meaningful part of your life.
My bad. I did not mean to imply you said he did anything wrong. What I meant was that if it is a gray area, even if he did do something wrong, it might not be so easy to explain it to grandma either.
Isaac Schleuter (of node.js) "Building Compassionate Communities in Tech"
I uninstalled that piece of crap months ago!

Ok it isn't "that" bad, at times Windows is pretty unbearable.

As of 10 months ago, I totally wiped the hard drive, and installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu on there. I've no reason at all to go back to Windows, as Ubuntu handles everything I need done, and much better too.

I only have Win7 installed on another computer for my gaming needs. Hopefully with Valve getting on board with Linux, we can eventually scrap Windows altogether.
Nobody has mentioned the abandonment of SVG 1.2 as a factor. It was dropped by the W3C and never implemented in any browsers. This not only stalled improvements to SVG 1.1 but created a situation where the editing software (e.g. Inkscape) allows the user to create files using SVG 1.2 features which are invalid in SVG 1.1.

The abandonment has resulted in much-needed improvements to SVG being delayed. The last full release of SVG was 1.1 which was in 2003, we won't see another full release until SVG 2 which is expected in 2014, over a decade later!

Never mind the fact the browser implementations of SVG are still riddled with bugs and none are complete.
you're right.

you can also soundly construct an analysis that asks "is this program safe" and answers with one of {yes, no, maybe I don't know}. and then, you interpret a result of "no" and "maybe I don't know" to mean the same thing and re-write the program until you get a "yes"...
I want to know who ever trusted Microsoft to begin with?
Thing is, this is aimed to create nice writtings. Long or short, make them pretty, so you can share them. They can be happy aniversary or a song, or a blog post, or a resumeé.

We have more collections coming.
Very. Before my best friend passed, that morning his final tweet was "Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die." He died in a drunk driving accident in which he was the passenger several hours later that afternoon.
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He's probably talking about professional line of graphics cards (e.g. Tesla), where $1k is considered quite cheap. Titan is the first consumer oriented card by nVidia that can be used as a pro-grade card (no throttling on compute tasks) so maybe that's what the OP was talking about.

Of course for gaming the Titan is not considered cheap at all.
I do, but mostly because I have to have Adobe and Visual Studio running.
Dayum. That was weird story man. My condolences. Makes you wonder why your friend didn't reach out in his final days.
I really like this. A couple of random ideas:

* Test integrations with various CRM type systems. Hubspot, Salesforce, Mailchimp all have huge ecosystems that you can leverage!

* Offer per page configuration (on/off)

* Expose CSS for easy skinning. This could be a text box on your portal.

* Offer configurable fields to be collected

* Implement a "send to your webmaster" button.

* Expose that you are a whitelisted sender (if you are)

Good luck!
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The name is going to be forced to change, the OP should just rename it now while it's not an issue.
Yeah.. those were other times though... when MS used to crush their rivals by using its monopoly as an advantage. Remember when people used to use Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and Harvard Graphics?

However, today is way different. Developing in Windows is not sexy anymore. Young developers prefer a Mac or a Linux box over Windows, and young windows programmers are seen as substandard developers. All those are insulting stereotypes of course, but are the stereotypes that Microsoft have to deal with unlike the old days.

I just going to grab some popcorn and see what happens :)
the problem is that you are evaluating the recruiter, not the job.

There are many places, most famously google, which have shitty recruiters, but are actually decent places to work. (Google is legendary for it's poor taste in recruiters. I've known a few people who didn't like it an left, but most of the people I know there seem to think it's pretty good. The weird part, to me, is that it seems like the time between "I don't think google is great" and no longer working for google seems to be... shorter than at most companies.)

Really, it's a lot like the problem employers have; resumes and interviews are a shitty way to evaluate potential employees... but what else do you have? This is an example of the same thing in the other direction. The style of the recruiter is a shitty way to evaluate company culture... but what else do you have?

Either way, if you know someone on the inside? that's going to be your best channel for evaluation, really, in both directions. But... that has all sorts of other problems, many of them having to do with only being able to move within your existing social group.
The most important thing it does is remove them from suggest a friend requests list which can be very disturbing to receive.

'John wants to connect with you',
Oh that's cool, wtf?! John's dead?!
I think that's the charitable view.

More likely:

#1 "we need an ad builder tool"

#2 "OK, but it can do more than ads..."

#1 "Good one. Then it it will seem like we're giving back."

#2 "?"

#1 "Don't worry. Just make sure the focus of using the app will be ads. That will help our users the most, and provide the biggest impact with our limited resources."
This is great. Now a just a single place to ignore all the blogs on growth hacking.