skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You fix your code so that it runs against distro-packaged Ruby.
That's a very useful report but where does it support the claim of "the current move towards fracking as climate suicide"?
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Rights are not granted. There are those that believe that they are inalienable.
Not only does it put the public on a higher alert, but also law enforcement from neighboring jurisdictions, creating somewhat of an all-hands-on-deck situation.
If so then just make subletting illegal and be done with it.

Which it is, without landlord permission. Which, pretty clearly, most people are not obtaining.
Just GPG on a text file, checked into a private Github repo.

It's actually a great excuse to give business and designer types an intro to Git / command line.
I don't want to get into this either, suffice to say you're wrong.
As far as I can tell the seized address has 27k BTC about $4m USD at the moment (see https://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5G... )
Actually tax collection works quite well in Switzerland and even though tax declarations are based on self declaration (albeit based on an earning statement by the employer) tax evasion, or even - fraud is relatively low.

This is despite bank secrecy laws (which only apply in case of tax evasion, but not - fraud).

A big reason is simpleness of the tax declaration, transparency and - overall fairness of the tax code. Even though it's a rather progressive system.
The alternative solution is pushstate with an acceptance that you will need to either do some duplication of effort on the server side rendering or creating something along the lines of the AirBnb Rendr framework. I am in the process of doing the former with the plan to do the latter with a future iteration.
To my eyes the whole "maker" concept is exactly that. If you like making stuff, awesome, but don't pretend it somehow makes you better than people who don't.
Real Entrepreneurs Need to Accentuate The Positive
In our times, it takes only an ethical decision to start producing artificially 'evolved' humans.
Berkeley, CA.

The reviews were mostly positive, except for one negative that did result in a flame war. I'm not sure what changed, but I heard from another one of the tenants that AirBNB was going to send a representative to check the place out after a number of complaints, but it sounds like the guy never came.
The point is control -- look no further than the Carter Doctrine to understand the basis of America's foreign policy in the Middle East.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_doctrine

It's the reason the US Marines have their own air force -- they don't want someone else second-guessing their decisions.
Crowdsourcing KILLER app is online
Anyone else finding the text of the article really hard to read? On my screen it looks like out-of-focus grey text and I can feel the eye strain. I had to highlight it all to be able to read it easily. Just an FYI in case the OP reads this.

Edit: I am noticing a difference reading it in Chrome vs. Firefox where I typically browse. Definitely clearer in Chrome.
At least you know exactly what you are getting.

Something in alpha, mostly. Messy code, half baked features, that kind of thing.

I could see it being valuable for people who have a hard time getting started but go like gangbusters once they have something to bang against.
FWIW, current nokogiri 1.6.0 bundles and compiles its own libxml.
Fishing Net Technology A Big Catch For New Zealand
What do you do when "pragmatism" doesn't produce the results you need?

Maybe convincing people to cut their energy consumption in half isn't in the cards. At the same time, maybe that is what is needed. The universe doesn't have to cooperate to give us pragmatic solutions.

If the "impossible" solution is required, and the "pragmatic" solution isn't sufficient... why should climate scientists advocate for the latter over the former?
There's a discussion in the Java community on how to do this best. Security is a problem. You need to make sure the compiled code matches the bytecode (that undergo security checks). But how do you compute a checksum for the compiled, cached code, if in order to test that checksum you need to re-generate it from the bytecode?

So Java caches the compiled code for the JRE classes only, and it's possible to add your own code to the cache (requires root permission, etc.)
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Graphite... not graphene. Graphite is to a sponge what graphene is to paper.
Forrester Study: Cloud Services Remains Elusive For Many Enterprises
Who does this? Who storms a restaurant because a bunch of sad old Holocaust deniers are having dinner there? What important world problem are they correcting? Holocaust denial? Just calling someone a Holocaust denier is enough to entirely marginalize them. Are these "radicals" living by their principles? Or are they really just looking for excuses to fuck shit up?
This is old at this point so I have no idea if anyone will see this.

I'm in the 5% according to this[1] based on my salary (not properties or anything like that, just salary).

Based on the tone of the thread so far to this point, people aren't going to want to hear this, but I also lack access to capital and ability to network with the wealthiest in my area. I'm literally an employee. I very high paid employee, yes, but an employee.

I too am only working a job and similar to you, it is only going to get me so far.

I started working at McDonald's at 16 in high school. I worked my way through school (RA, Dorm tech, other odd jobs), worked my way into an internship (skipped junior year to do internship), finished school and was lucky to get a job (2000). That job started at $40k, which was amazing for a kid out of school, I guess. From there it was extremely hard work, lucky breaks, taking some chances before wife and kids came along, getting a master's degree, having a few setbacks (financially) and starting over.

I'm making the money now, but I know this job won't last forever. I'm highly paid in this moment in time (and for the time I have this job), but when it ends, I can't expect another to just come along. So I'm saving. And preparing. And making sure this time doesn't go to waste.

The truly wealthy don't think like this; they don't have to. There is not "what if" future. The OP and I seem like we are in the same boat and, frankly, I get what he/she is saying. Salaried employees that happen to find themselves in the top X% are likely not living large or without worry like the truly wealthy[2].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

[2] - We are not "living large", we are comfortable. As an example. Wife drives a 2006 prius. I drive a 2007 minivan. Bought both used. We rent our home b/c rent-mortgage ratios in our area don't make sense to buy. Our kids go to public school. We worry about saving for the kids future like most anyone. We worry about retirement (neither of us have a pension) and we worry about health. A single high-cost health event could wipe us out. It almost did years back when wife got very sick and was in hosp/ICU for a week. Wiped out saving and had to sell car we had at the time and use CC to fully pay.

And, yes, I Know that we were able to recover in part b/c of the higher than normal salary. The point is, we aren't living like the silicon valley millionaires/billionaires people would expect us to be. We also worry about money.

The wealthy do not worry about money.
Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem
> "The key is to find places that have lots of reviews and read them."

I've done this, I'm rather risk-averse with it comes to AirBnbs, and I've still run into bad places. I've had two bad experiences in this regard:

- One was a nice apartment, but I found out the landlord (the word "host" is both disingenuous and inaccurate for AirBnb and I despise the attempt at newspeak) lived full time in the room I was renting. She was old and clearly needed the supplemental income, and I displaced her onto the couch.

This was not made at all clear beforehand, and her place had many positive reviews. I did not sign up to displace an elderly person from her own bed, nor did I sign up to deny someone their only source of badly needed income. I suspect a lot of the positive reviews came from this. There was nothing otherwise wrong with the apartment.

- In the other one the bedroom was nice, at a good location, but the landlord had a dog that pissed and shat all over the common areas. Her place also had no shortage of good reviews (over a dozen at the time IIRC). In this case also it was clear she needed the supplemental income, and she was so damn apologetic about it and spent so much time trying to clean up after the dog that it was hard to write a negative review. I suspect, again, that this is why the place was so positively rated.

AirBnb's system is far from foolproof. In both cases I abstained from reviewing the places - a move I'm still unsure about. One thing I am sure about is that I resent being put in a position where I have such profound influence on someone's (badly needed) livelihood.
I understand your point but having a son diagnosed to be in the spectrum, I don't appreciate the "Aspie" reference.
I fail to understand how this belongs on Hacker News.
> Some public web apps simply don't work without behaviour.

Every app that uses a solution like this to generate static views of a website is an app that simply works without behaviour.
Universe has a new Sound - Izzy Church releases "Sound of the Universe"
No, I mean racist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)
I guess you want to pick names that have lots of false positives when searching

I think that's right. I got my first modem in 1985 and been on the Internet since the start of the 90s. I never re-use user names between sites, frequently delete my accounts and start with fresh ones.

I've started recently using random word generators to generate common words to use as usernames.
So the FBI needs to spend it as soon as possible?
Based on a quick read of [1], it seems that using saline water is more expensive because of the preparation that is needed, so for now, it is easier to start with fresh water and add additives.

Also seems the consideration is about saline aquifers and not ocean water. I suspect the cost of transporting ocean water is the issue leading to this consideration.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrou...
What? Your theorem doesn't even match with the basic prisoner's dilemma. True, in the classic version of this game there's no communication... but the point is the same - just because an outcome is Pareto efficient doesn't mean that it's a stable equilibrium - people's rational self interest can result in worse outcomes. I don't know what kind of economics you're talking about. Most of the absurd simplifying assumptions really have to do with the idea that people have perfect foresight and their statistical guesses are unbiased - and that we perfectly understand variance/risk and all that jazz. It doesn't have as much to do with how we communicate with one another, rather that we are super awesome flawless statistical machines when in reality we all suck at statistics (have all kinds of biases and heuristics to rely on) in every day life.

And just because information is cheaper doesn't mean it's free. At the very least it costs us time - at least in the current form of the internet it's not like there's simultaneous, effortless, instant communication between every human being on Earth. Now that might change things.

But I don't think you fully made the case that the internet is fundamentally different than a "better" or more effective printing press. My point, I guess, is that maybe we approach that zero cost world, but will never reach it. And that there's a fundamental distinction between being at zero cost and being at any positive cost... so that the internet is more like a printing press rather than a zero cost communication mechanism.
hello there sandeep. this is peter. ;) keep on hackin!
You are right, but newer Java versions have what is called "GC ergonomics": you simply define either a throughput or a latency goal, and the JVM tries to dynamically change the settings until to achieve your goals.
Swarm of Rivals Seeking Share of Social Media Pie
Request #65469	Define CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A and CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME constants
KeePass

http://keepass.info/help/base/keys.html

Open source, multiple users, key files, can be restricted to windows user account. Most downloaded password database program on sourceforge.
If they really wanted the money, they might be able to offer him limited immunity against any evidence revealed while transferring the coins to their wallet. I.e they won't use his doing it as evidence in court that the Bitcoins were his or similar things. This removes the 5th amendment problem and since the goal was to confiscate his funds, not collect evidence, the government looses little.
What I like most about Java is that you can switch more easily to certain fashionable languages (Scala and Clojure) which have good interopability with Java because they use the JVM.

Sources for this claim:
http://www.slideshare.net/tackers/how-we-mostly-moved-from-j...
http://java.dzone.com/articles/moving-java-scala-one-year

Counterpoints:
Couldn't find any data on how well Clojure works with Java apps.
Scala's decent interoperability appears to stem from a Maven plugin rather than directly from its ability to use the JVM.
Actually, in terms of PC gaming, flops can be more devastating simply because of the quality options available that don't treat customers as hostile parties. It just depends on whether the game is flop because it isn't good or because the game would be good if not for the publisher's incompetence and/or stupid decisions.

But then again, many of the big publishers tend to write off PC gaming every few years as a lost cause until they "discover" this wonderful new source of revenue. This usually happens during the lead-up to a new console generation release. But then it doesn't always work out for them at first because the core audience has long memories. Plus these days, as you say, there are other, and often better, options out there.

I, for one, am still hesitant to buy anything from Ubisoft because of their incredibly stupid online DRM fiasco. Yes, I know they've moved beyond that era of hating their customers for buying their products more than the people who steal it. I don't care, I still hesitate.
What if the distro-packaged Ruby contains a bug, and the distro does not provide an update?

What if the distro only provides 1.9 but you need 2.0 features?

It sure is easy to wave your hands and accuse people of being insane.
Maybe "blogging tool" would be the correct description, a cms is should support much more than just one content type.
J2EE was last released 10 years ago. Since then its been JEE and with the latest you should not have to use XML for configuration only when you want some really odd config instead of going by convention.

JSF2/Facelets replaced JSP in the most recent JEE standards and is much nicer to work with.

I mean JEE 1.6 was released 4 years ago (around the time of Rails 2.0). For a standard that is not bad.

We actually use a lot of apache wicket which is a very nice framework for website/applications.
Only if the job I was hiring for was to write code in a vacuum or a closet. If they needed to interact with customers or my team, I'd have to assess their personality as well.
EA does not hold a monopoly on sports titles, although they have the license to use NFL teams.

But 2K Sports also has a license for NBA teams, in NBA 2k14 for instance. And I actually do like the Nintendo-based sports games a lot. :-p
Juce: An extensive, mature, cross-platform C++ toolkit
Nice design, next step, a mobile friendly CSS.
Sure. Go is pretty much a JVM-less Java. To me, it seems the exact wrong things to take from Java. Go takes the language (Go is a simplified Java, with some modern improvements) - which is only OK, but drops the JVM, which is awesome.

It does have one advantage over the JVM, which is a much shorter startup time. But Java has better performance and far better monitoring tools (as well as dynamic linking and hot code swapping).
LastPass could be useful: https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/features/sharing/

Feature summary: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...
"Dropplets is compatible with most server configurations [...]". Requires PHP (at least), I guess none of my servers has a common configuration :)

EDIT: the installation part in the README.md needs some extra info. Like it requires PHP and some file/directory permissions.
Please elaborate - why would that be?
You're decades late. The Peace prize lost its meaning and prestige long before Obama got it.

The committees presiding over the other awards are completely different from the Peace committee, and the other awards still carry an enormous amount of merit, and if you're a biologist you'll know how important vesicle transport is. However, you probably aren't.

Don't pick at strawmen and use your arguments somewhere else.
You didn't even read your "web citations" which are actually someone found this Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extraditi...) and put some countries not on it in article form.

If you did, you would find the last one points to this PDF on the US Dept of State Website: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/71600.pdf which is CHAPTER 209--EXTRADITION of CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

That lists Yugoslavia which isn't even a country anymore, but has a note

\1\ For the successor States of Yugoslavia, inquire of the Treaty Office of the United States Department of
State.

Croatia is a successor States of Yugoslavia, however, I originally ignored that because I thought I'd have to contact the State Department. Then I decided to see if that info is published. Alright, Lets check out the Treaty Office of the United States Department of State.

Here's the Treaties in Force list.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202293.pdf

Under Croatia it lists

JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE
CROATIA — INVESTMENT
Agreement on enhancing cooperation in
preventing and combating serious crime.
Signed at Washington February 16, 2011.
Entered into force August 19, 2011.
TIAS

That's pretty vague, but there is some agreement there.
"insiders know good from bad"

while often true, science and scientific journals do not serve solely the scientific community, they serve humanity, which includes the non-professional public. while you may be an honest person and would never knowingly abuse wrong information to harm others, gain, or advance a broken agenda, plenty of people do. the "vaccines lead to autism" people, for example, do that.

the history of science shows that careful, accurate and correctly performed experiments and publications are what give humanity progress. their absence, history has again shown, causes humanity to retreat, sometimes with disastrous consequences.

this is not an idle, "i sure wish more 'scientists' could publish" debate, at some level the very question of human progress is at stake.
"once prestigious prices"? Tell me of a more prestigious price in science, there is none. Maybe the field medal in mathematics comes close.

Peace and Economics Nobels are non-scientific and only share the name with the original prices.
No, I do actually disagree.
Reflections on a week of tech consulting in Iran
Pretty sad really. I'm a boxing fan. Floyd Mayweather made over 90 million dollars in his last fight. Nobel winner - 1.25 million. Where are our priorities?
Sure, they might be, but what do I care what the Chinese govt knows about me? They're 10,000 miles away and I have no foreseeable plans to travel there. My own government, who I want to be free to criticize when they do something I disapprove of, that's something else.
Short edit-run cycles: check (Scala REPL, JRebel, Play Framework)
Functional programming: check (Scala, Clojure, Java 8)
Metaprogramming: check (Scala macros, Clojure)
Modern object systems: don't know what you really mean by this, but Scala's object/type system is pretty cutting-edge.

Now, what about static type system and IDEs finding type-errors when I write code? This is making development fast. Having to run unit-tests or the app itself whenever I change somehing is damn slow.

Also, what you gain by short edit-run cycles in Python/Ruby, you waste when you have to do any major refactoring (again - lack of static type checking). I programmed a serious app for a bank in Python, and, long term, just because of this, development wasn't any faster than with even pure Java.
Giving constructive feedback
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"Exploring the possibility" is more about deciding how to spin the fiasco to show that they intended to offer an offline play option from day one and it was all a big misunderstanding on the customers' part. You see, they'll have to show that the initial problems with the servers was because the online option was so popular and so heavily desired by customers that they had to focus on that before offering the option that hardly anyone really wanted in the first place.
Cracker usually entails "black hat". It would be proper to call him a "cracker" if he broke the DRM and distributed it on Bittorrent.

Although if you crack the DRM, and then distribute it as a patch-file that modifies an already installed version of Sim City, that would be a "Hacker".

Methinks he's using the term correctly. I'm just musing because it seems like a lot of people here are not accustomed to underground lingo.
Surviving In The Era Of Free
If your manservant brings a telegram during a soiree your guests expect you to pause to read it and respond. Someone casually reading their phone like a newspaper would I think deserve censure, but responding to an incoming notification feels acceptable.
Interesting that facebook does better on islands that aren't Oceania.
Nice service, but it's already a saturated market with service providers like splurgy.com and rafflecopter.com
Exactly. From just scanning the website my impression was Wordpress without a DB dependency. Even though Wordpress is used a lot as a CMS and this might eventually take that route they are clearly pushing blogging.
It's our company blog, but I didn't hold back in calling out the problems
The problem with our Africa "policy" is that it appears to be a purely military one. We're content to spend billions playing World Police in a series of endless skirmishes with local terrorist and insurgent groups. Meanwhile, China's pouring serious capital and resources into industrialization, supply lines, and economic development (a move occasionally referred to as China's "colonization" of Africa). We spend the blood and treasure to keep China's profits flowing.

I don't understand our strategy here. It seems blindingly misguided. It seems as if we're the suckers at the table, and round after round, we keep anteing up. Perhaps there's a nuance I'm not seeing here, and if so, I welcome someone with a bit more geopolitical knowledge and experience to set the record straight. I'm 100% earnest in asking. I just don't get it.
What would you do if you required SEO enhancement AND dynamic loading of content? Are you supposed to just let that portion of the site go without indexing? Surely there are sites that have both requirements.

What's the alternative?
The Internet Trolls the FBI’s “Private” Bitcoin Wallet
Constructing an Arbitrary Scale
MLKJr: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"
How I Went From 0 to Game with Sprite Kit in iOS 7
Note that the debugger (jdb) isn't listed -- for a good reason. I never understood why jdb is so poor being such a critical tool.
Quick link to demo: http://dropplets.com/demo/
Sure, but the number of ways to (accidentally) rely on UB in C++ is order of magnitude higher than in Java.