skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for Panasonic Automotive. These things are universally awful because their tooling is still geared towards hardware-type systems. They can use linux all they want, but if it still takes two weeks to turn around issues brought up in testing, badly, then the result will be invariably awful.
But American exceptionalism is a real thing. Well atleast today I don't think it stands for "Well, America is awesome" but more on the lines of "Where in the world will I find 300 million people having roughly similar culture, and for whom I don't need to translate my product into a dozen languages (bonus if it's English since we program by default in English), and who're more probably willing to spend money."

Bam, America. I'm not supporting anything, but looking at it from a business point of view this is pretty tempting.
Gnumeric is better than LO and Excel for calculations. You can use several scripting languages (you can use Python, I use a functional, dynamic, term-rewriting language called Pure), it has more statistical functions built in, and is more accurate than Excel.

Regardless, it shouldn't matter what OS. Gnumeric runs on Windows, and I've had Excel running on Linux w/ Wine...
Windows and OS X are actually "cheating" regarding their boot time.

The UI becomes responsive before all services are loaded.
It's a Rails 4 app. Rack::Lock is removed by default.
I don't believe all of this claims about sleep. I sleep 10 to 12 hours a night and I always feel like shit. Even when I had to go to school, I used to sleep 8 hours a night and I was drowsy for most of the day.
I am the creator of Dmtri.com. It's a place where you can share thoughts anonymously whether you are signed up or not. Even when you sign up you have a choice to write anonymously to keep track of your writing.

Anonymity online is really important to me and I want to learn more about how to achieve that. As a rule of thumb, I use Tor when I browse. What other things can people do to hide their trace online?
The obvious example I can think of is autotools. If make had a built-in scheme 20 years ago, would we be suffering with the existing m4/shell monstrosity?
Its one think to "like" a business and another to have your face attached to an ad for it.
I would try outsourcing technical tasks.
Similar thing has happened to Yandex.Browser in Russia: http://browser.yandex.com/

A couple of vocal geeks suggested its icon looks like underpants on a sphere and now everybody thinks about that when seeing the icon.
Interesting that the first comment[0] on the reddit post mentions it happening with a deceased friends page.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o1ya9/til_fa...
A Singular(ity) Deception
U.S. adults lag many countries' in literacy, math and computer skills
cmon if there was +1 abuse by Google, you'd better believe it'd get shit ton of upvotes/comments
Software as a Service class (Berkeley CS169.1x)
https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/cs169-1x/software-servic...
If you look at the demo video at the end, you can see that they are using WordPerfect on Win 98 or Win 2k. I thought this was some kind of joke. But apparently not. So, I believe it when fosap says 2000-era technology.
Rat Park - Addiction vs. Living Conditions [WP]
Radio Amateurs: Say "HI" to the Juno Spacecraft
Psh, that's not even as big a logo botch as the Brits committed to themselves: the UK Office of Government Commerce unveiled -- to much tittering and whispering -- a new "OGC" logo back in 2008 which, when rotated ninety degrees clockwise, looked like a stick figure standing and, er, "'aving a wank" in the local slang.

OGC quickly reverted to its old logo, correcting the er, boner, but nevertheless in some circles (particularly Reddit), "OGC" remained for some months a sort of shorthand indicating sexual arousal.
whoa... THANK YOU for that!
Bitcoins were being used at Silk Road to buy drugs for assisted suicides
Yes, this is a useless post. And even if it did happen, who cares?! I am sure that SOMEHOW the Like would show up on her page during the investigation. She shouldn't even be on FB in the first place, so again, who cares.
It seems useful for calibrating your expectations if you're planning to start a startup of your own.
> So, you're saying we're at a default risk not a debt crisis.

No, I'm saying that debt crisis is equivalent to default risk, and that the only significant way in which we are in either (the two being the same) has nothing to do with economic or fiscal fundamentals -- the resources to service the debt are readily available -- and solely to do with the present political shenanigans.
Did you ever hear the one about the elephant repellent?
https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-n...

Google could have locked it down as much as iOS if they wanted to. They didn't. Who do you think created developer mode?
You don't think the flogging would be done in the market square do you?

Corporeal punishments were not abolished because they are a way to exemplify what is wrong with a society but because they are inhumane. Prison can also be inhumane but you can't successfully attack the prison system by proposing a barbarian alternative, you need to offer a better option and just highlighting what's wrong with imprisonment does not in any way address the underlying issues and those have little to nothing to do with race, even though there definitely is a bias.

Prison is a means of last resort to remove dangerous entities from society for a while and to rehabilitate them, even the most civilized countries have them and for those countries flogging as an alternative is not an option.

The societal wrongs in the USA are not going to be fixed by attacking a symptom, they need to be fixed by addressing root causes:

- poverty

- unemployment

- drug use / abuse & associated laws (treat
drug use as a personal healthcare issue
rather than a criminal one).

All of these are social issues that either lead to crime or that have been criminalized. Only much later in the chain does the word 'prison' appear and unless you address those root causes the prisons will remain.

Provocative, sure. Practical, no and it isn't going to convince any person that still needs convincing.

What will work to convince people that this is not the way is to show the benefits to society as a whole from walking a different path, as long as those that make the decision are not at risk of suffering the consequences of those decisions that is very much an uphill battle.

Once drug users and unemployed people make it to the ballots and get elected you can expect some change in this respect from experience until then you're going to have to convince the elected officials that they are harming societies interests as a whole, which is a far more powerful argument than any medieval style provocative comparison will be able to do. Short term thinking vs long term thinking. What prisons look like and how they function is secondary to changing society so people do not have a large chance of ending in prison in the first place.
The laws in this case exist solely to enrich very entrenched interests, specifically hotels that legally bribe (aka lobby) politicians to regulate their little part of the world to keep competition out.

Nothing noble about that.
Seems to me a flaw in this argument is that much smarter humans do show up from time to time, without apparent ill effect. It's conceivable that we could at least enhance intelligence to John von Neumann's level.
Because your language was sufficiently imprecise so that it wasn't clear what you're talking about, and because, while being a first-generation immigrant may correlate with a higher crime rate, the same does not generally hold for future generations (when integration has happened).

Note that life in the slums of Victorian London was not any better than for post-Civil War African Americans, for example.

If you control for first-immigration immigrants along with socio-economic disadvantages, most of the difference in crime rates between minorities and the rest of population goes away. That minorities were/are imported and abused plays a role only insofar as existing racism and social stratification perpetuates the disadvantages they suffer.

However, flogging will not eliminate racism or social stratification; if anything, it will do the opposite.
If boot time is an issue, TinyCoreLinux has some of the fastest boot times and runs completely out of RAM, runs on x86, x86_64, armv6 (Pi), armv7 (GK802, AllWinner A-10).

[1]http://tinycorelinux.net/
This is so cool! This is the kind of research I do: molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical simulation. I'm not nearly as good at it as the winners of this prize though haha.

I'm glad to see computational research is becoming more popular and accepted. There's a (quickly diminishing) subset of scientists who think computational work is too theoretical, inaccurate, and inapplicable to real-life. This was the case when the field was developed, but it is no longer true.

The exponentially increasing computational power is allowing discoveries that simply can not be performed experimentally because laboratory technology just isn't advanced or capable enough. Who needs to actually study reality if you can just simulate what you need -- and the end result is the same?

I'm not sure many people know this, but our understanding of the laws of physics is advanced enough nowadays to describe almost perfectly everything we observe in everyday life. (Exceptions include things like quantum gravity which don't really matter [ducks to avoid physicists]).

The problem is that if you want to simulate these laws, it requires a lot of computational power. Brute-force approaches are simply ineffective and so simplifications and clever techniques must be developed to reduce the computational effort while giving increasingly accurate results. I think it's the combination of improving computational resources and improving simulation algorithms that are really driving this field.
"Faith does not 'need to expand'."

Sorry, let me clarify: I'm not calling for the Jewish faith to proselytize around the world and try to seek converts. Judaism doesn't need to go viral. Rather, I'm saying that Judaism's numbers have historically been threatened, and strict bans on (or at least strong stigmatization of) marriage outside the faith is self limiting.

If I'm a Jewish man and I want to marry a gentile woman, why shouldn't my children be considered Jewish, provided I raise them in a Jewish tradition, culture, and set of values? Why should we intentionally threaten the preservation of the worldwide Jewry by placing such a limitation on organic growth? When I say "growth," I'm not talking about expansion, per se; I'm talking about being able to maintain the numbers at a rate faster than they can decline.

"That's why there are few Jews, but they own the world."

I'm not going to touch this sort of comment, sorry.
Doesn't compiler complain about assignment in condition?
Quasar IV: A Self-Authenticated Cipherphone
Yeah, I'm really surprised they started selling devices as consumer-ready so early. They're great as dev test devices, but I wouldn't want to use one day-to-day.
I don't literally mean having a glass on your face while you drive. I mean integrating the technology that Google has built for Google Glass into your car - the new text-to-speech system and whatnot. Attach the physical display to the rear-view-mirror or project it onto the windshield or something.
What rights do you give up by using an OS that is almost entirely open source? (keep in mind Linux has closed source parts too, some drivers for example)

If you dislike the paradigm that's fine, but don't claim it's hurting your freedom when

a) it's open source and

b) you can modify it the way you see fit.

Heck, you can change the Chromium OS source, recompile it and throw it on a Chromebook if you want...
If Elliot Spitzer were still the AG, RICO would have been invoked already and they AirBnB officers would be looking at jail time.

Some violations of the Multiple Dwelling Law are misdemeanors while others are civil penalties. But in so far as NYC is concerned, AirBnB is facilitating and profiting from illegal acts.
OPSEC. Read more from the blog posts author (grugq). He talks about how hackers hide themselves anonymously.

It's not just a technology choice, it's lifestyle changes and it's a huge commitment.
Why use .h1 instead of actual h1?
How YesGraph Got Its First 1000 Users
I've definitely seen some weird looking likes (similar to "why would that person like that...?") and Facebook have a strong incentive to do this so I upvoted in the hopes more investigation is done.
+1 Charles. Post Mortem would be soooo valuable, but agree with phil on likeliness.
Serious question; What happens when you stop paying? That's why I use CDBaby for my stuff. I don't have to keep paying out for tracks that MIGHT sell 1 or 2 copies over the course of a year.
Even better is "can I bum a fag?", which wins odd looks on both sides of the pond.
Popular Travel Myths: Separating Fact from Fiction
AMD — Yes, AMD — Paves Way to Computer Server of the Future
PlacePhant - an image placeholder featuring elephpants
Lots of people immediately jump to the "hotel industry protection" line of reasoning here. There's a pretty good write-up from 2010 covering common myths and reasons for wanting short-term rental protection in a place like NYC. I recommend everyone read this if this topic interests you:

"What New York State's Illegal Hotels Law Means for Travelers"

http://www.frommers.com/articles/6912.html
But not watching your cooking process can also result to blowing up whole building due to gas explosion. More often it would be just bad meal, of course. But more often small mistake in a program will just result to a compile error or bad behavior.
That's debating society stuff, though, not an actual reform proposal, and highly conjectural. Plenty of people make prison rape jokes already; I don't see them having a problem with flogging, either. Especially since it would likely happen behind closed doors.

To not hide it, people would have to see it, and the current prison system is brutal enough so that showing it would be enough of a shock; the problem is that it's not being seen enough, and I don't see how that would be any different with flogging.
EXACTLY. A better experiment would be to create a fake Facebook profile, never like a single page, and THEN see if that name ever comes up with any ads. What Mike (guy who made this Google+ post) is saying is just nonsense and so bias, with no true fact.
We need to start using all the big data muscle on basic research of cell chemistry, less on analysis of patient data.

I could probably fit all well-structured data elements in existence for all medical patients in the US for a year on a single DVD. (and even the unstructured non-image data is pretty sparse.)

This is not really a problem where "big data" techniques are the right tool- There's too little data. However, I believe we should be experimenting on cell cultures in laboratories at large scales. None of this is happening, I believe... no laboratory is running hundreds of thousands of cultures in parallel with carefully manipulated chemical environments and generating data from them.

A data set generated from such cell culture analysis could be petabytes in size. With that type of data set I believe it would be possible, using big data techniques, to get a lot of rigorous and causative details of chemical cell pathways relevant to disease formation that we currently lack. This is the direction I think we need to be going.

I certainly would love to be wrong and would love to get news that IBM has cracked heart disease with this new project. However, my guess is that this is a very inefficient way to apply big data techniques to cure diseases.
One of the Julia creators did a fractal demo [1] recently, including the Sierpinski triangle. Julia is now quite nice for interactive work via the IJulia notebook (IPython kernel for Julia). As a bonus, it does not require a C compiler to get good performance.

[1] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/beowulf.csail.mit.edu/18.337...
This is a valid complaint, although probably has more to do with the fact that someone in product believed this does translate into a like (before the like system existed).

Also I believe Facebook does not show these ads for minors, so most likely she lied about her age... but I remember just vaguely reading about this at some point in the past.
Isn't this also what makes computers so wonderful? Small amounts of code let you do amazing things.
Akamai APIs - OPEN
No issues here I'm afraid (UK).
But... the ability to use macros to create forms that look like "real" syntax is sort of the point. I don't think you can fix this with a language feature or style convention.

Metaprogramming is "dangerous" because the meta constructs don't (can't!) act like what they look liks. Metaprogramming is "great" because the meta constructs look like simple programming but have surprisingly deep behavior.

As I see it all you did was add a "!" to the confusion, honestly. People likely to get tripped up by e.g. the "address of macro" problem above are going to be no less confused by the extra syntax IMHO.
Weild your disapproval consistently

You have no idea what my opinion on the military-industrial complex is
I don't think any of the results really does it justice at all. If I didn't know what a hackathon was, I'd still have no idea after reading most of these.
> In 2013 why does capitalism and technology allow this to occur

I'd ask why music is sold at all when people will freely distribute it for you, and marginal costs are gone.

The answer to both cases, though, is legislation. Tons of law around recording, labels, etc that make it even if Apple wanted to be kind and play nice it is probably a legal morass to let anyone sell music next to labels.

Though the more likely case is that the middleman exist because they are powerful. Apple couldn't have launched itunes and had the success they did by trying to ignore labels - when all the popular bands are on labels, and new musicians think they need a label to be successful, Apple has to play ball with that mindset.

And mindsets change slowly. Expectations will evolve much slower than technology. It is the same reason apps took 15 years past the launch of the Internet to come to fruition, because moving past pieces of plastic in ones hand took some time.
Rack::Lock was removed as a default in Rails 4.
How is it as a replacement for Excel, though? By which I mean, shove in an OOXML spreadsheet with VBA in it. That is the use case that counts as a "substitute" for Excel for the users I'm talking about.
Mobile Developer Day by Parse and Facebook
German Soldiers and Unix worse is better
Start with this piece "observations on OPSEC" http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/61960027685/observations-on-ops... which sets out some broad outlines of what is involved.
Very cool!

If you could add the ability to stage by line/hunk, perhaps from within the diff view, that would be pretty rad.

Also too bad that you can't initiate an interactive rebase using SublimeGit.

If I have to drop to the terminal for those two things (which I do quite frequently), realistically I'll end up just using the terminal for all git operations.
I would also add sittercity.com if you're good with kids/pets
3% of the UK population = ~3m potential customers or detractors, so yes.
What about the London 2012 Olympics logo? That can't be undone, and it can't be unseen once you see it (ie. the Fedex logo effect not in a good way).
Thanks. I'm not using make, so I don't really need a make rule, but I can see that gcc -M does something useful:

$ gcc -M src/value.c
value.o: src/value.c src/memory.h src/value.h

The result of my grep/sed gives me just the header dependencies alone, which is really all I need:

$ cat obj/value.i
src/memory.h src/value.h

So I might consider replacing the grep/sed with gcc -M, and strip off the first two entries, which would give me the equivalent result, but it doesn't strike me as a "must do" right now. Again, I don't use make, just /bin/sh, so I don't need a make rule per se.

Thanks for the advice about the ".i" suffix. I don't think there's a conflict though, because all my intermediate files go into a completely separate "obj" directory, and no pre-processed source will be going there. However, I will consider choosing a different suffix just for the heck of it. I'm sure anything I choose (such as ".dep" or ".inc") will mean something to somebody somewhere, but since I'm in the entirely orthogonal context of the "obj" directory I don't think it matters.
Word Counts and Reading Time in Jekyll
I've always thought there was a subtle genius to Facebook's approach of showing ads in this manner. On the positive side, it _should_ filter the in-stream ads down to the companies that your friends are generally happy with.

However, one interesting side effect is your implied endorsement of whatever message the company has in their current ad. It's set up to feel like you are sharing the ad in the same way you might share a news article. And it gives you the maintenance of making sure the values of a company you liked years ago still are still in alignment with your own.

In the end, I just stopped liking any businesses on Facebook because I didn't want to become a pitchman. Wasn't worth the hassle.
> I don't believe it when research claims X because of personal experience.

That's a horrible way to look at any research conclusion. Have you considered you are possibly oversleeping? 7.5 hours might be a magic number (exactly 5 rem cycles) as opposed to 6.5 which will put you waking up in the middle of a rem cycle. Studies can be faulty for a whole bunch of reasons but dismissing a body of work because your little n=1 experiment didn't sync up with their conclusion is just willful ignorance.
You don't have to be from the UK to see that that logo looks like whitey tighteys. (I'm from the US, and while the title of the article definitely solidified how I saw the logo, it still looks like men's underwear to me.)

I would suggest adding/removing more sides to the dodecahedron rather than rotating it... ("hendecahedron"? "nonahedron"?)
Confusingly, in the north of england and in scotland, pants means trousers, just like in the US.
I don't know that this is exactly new.
Extending the Brackets Code Editor with JavaScript
Bitmessage messages are encrypted IIRC. I read that bitmessage would fail a security audit but it's still designed to be encrypted.
>>> it cannot be understated that good security is hard to quantify until shit hits the fan.

One of the reasons I stopped being a hacker a long time ago. You never know how good you've covered tracks until the Feds show up in your dorm room, take you to a windowless room and grill you for about an hour, scaring the shit out of you in the process.

I was lucky, I only lost some network privileges. Today the stakes are way higher and the Feds have some insane resources at their disposal. It's a zero sum game to them. You will lose every time.
The biggest deal about FFOS so far is that I don't own a phone with this yet.

This propably doesn't matter for most end users, but I think the big delay between countries where it gets available is pretty bad in terms of marketing.
Agree completely. But publicly announcing you're going to ignore the state AG amidst (a) claims by Albany that AirBnB is ignoring prior agreements and (b) an election season bringing in more populist, pro-renter candidates is bold in the wrong way.
While the ubiquity of Skype is nice, I remember a time when people used other things. That might change someday as well. Either way, that's out of Google's hands, it's up to MS.

I've always found getting Skype running on Linux to be easy though (Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Arch are all trivial)...
Yes, it's not scalable. Even the Bitmessage creator acknowledges this. They've been at an impasse for quite a while trying to come up with a better system with which to scale.