skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more. There is a reason corps like GE and Comcast buy up media companies, and it's not for direct profits. It's to sway public opinion.
ReactiveCocoa & Complex User Interfaces
Times Reporter Plans to Take Fight to the Supreme Court
yes and that has been done already. I posted somewhere on this page links to it, in case you're interested.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but why wouldn't you just use Erlang?
At least this one is trivial to fix: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17413002/60188
DeviceColors - app to retrieve iOS device colors
If you are appalled by abuses of government power under Bush / Obama then Theodore Roosevelt's record will terrify you. Woodrow Wilson was very friendly and supportive of the Ku Klux Klan and rumored to have been a member. These men should have never been near the Presidency. Much of the problems we face with an over-powered President started with them.

Party bosses are no better pickers of candidates and their influence continues to be a true pain for this country.
Wait, weren't you complaining about all the "wizard clickety clicky" things in another thread?

If you hate wizards, and you hate "obscure incantations", which I'm assuming means code, then what do you like? Do you program in natural language with voice recognition?
What is the perception around VB.net as a language?
I spent the first few years of my programming career as a VB.net developer. I worked on the systems side with multi-threaded applications. Over the course of the job I dealt with classes/objects/interfaces/events/cross thread delegates/threads/socket communication. I read about design patterns to structure my code well. I understand that there is an amount of abstraction that lets you achieve what you want to slightly easier, but I assume that this is just the mark of a well designed higher level language.

Since then, I have moved to an open source shop. The database design is a mess, the code base has been sloppy, frameworks have been used without any understanding of their benefits. The day I joined a sys admin asked me what my background was. When I told him I worked at a Windows shop, he asked me "Why did they hire you?"

Today, I received an email about how a company was interested in me, but they would continue their search somewhere else because my prior experience was all VB.net.

As a collective, open source developers seem to look down on Microsoft shop developers. Is there any substance to this?
It's not clear to me that conservatives want strong state power in general. A small number of hardline libertarians do, but mainstream conservatives have much more mixed views. The mainstream view wants stronger state control of some things, but strong federal control of other things. Which way it aligns often has more to do with other policy preferences of liberals and conservatives, rather than any consistent view of states' rights on either side.

To take one issue on which the conservative/liberal alignment on that question is reversed: conservatives tend to oppose state control over regulation and product liability, and have been strong proponents of uniform federal regulations, which through the doctrine of federal preemption displace state regulations.

The reason is that they consider it impractical to have to comply with 50 mutually incompatible auto-safety laws, since cars are not built separately on a state-by-state basis. Instead, they have lobbied (successfully) for the federal government to "occupy the field" with a comprehensive set of automobile safety and emissions regulations, which, through the Supremacy Clause, preempt any state regulation. This has generally been the "conservative" view in both legislation and jurisprudence: conservative federal legislators have been more willing to explicitly preempt state economic and environmental regulation, and conservative judges have been more willing to apply the preemption doctrine broadly. The "liberal" view, meanwhile, has tended to be more in favor of preserving the prerogative of each state to regulate sales, pollution, and product liability within its borders.

National security is another one where the alignment is typically the opposite. Many liberals would support a return, at least partially, to the classic decentralized view of armed forces: each state maintains a national guard to be used in case of invasion, and the federal government provides basic coordinating and informational services, but doesn't maintain a large standing army in peacetime. Conservatives generally oppose any significant reduction in the size of the federal armed forces.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes
"Please install Internet Explorer 10 and then retry installing Visual Studio"

Internet Explorer 10 also insists on Windows 7 SP1 installation. I'm using this Win7 install since 2009. I'm very scared the update will jinx it.
It sort of is - they have the Express Editions which are free:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2013-e...
What's your credential to claim that system is over complicated? Are you a security professional? Have you performed a full blown security audit of the system? Have you designed an alternate system which is less complicated and equally secure?
Here are arguments that the only way to survive is to relax http://mattbernico.com/2012/11/27/after-the-future-franco-bi...
Same approach here in our team! Basically a very similar model to what "git-flow" propagates. And actually one that is very easy to understand.
Teens Are Still Developing Empathy Skills
I suspect there are also a lot of Linux users who keep around Windows to run Steam and games in general, and who happened to be in Windows when they ran that survey.
I find the name pretty funny myself...

Speaking on behalf the the Deis team, it's nice to see another public PaaS getting an open source implementation. We're obviously bigger fans of the Heroku model than the GAE model, but that's the beauty of the new Docker PaaS world. Choice.

I just hope their Docker containers/images end up being portable. Some better docs wouldn't hurt either.
I would actually call GP a post of useful tips to make Windows 8 less annoying.

Your post, not so much in the 'value-add' department.

Edit: Well damnit. For that matter, neither is mine :(

Mustn't feed the trolls. One never comes out ahead.
Thank you 616c for your message!
About the minimum hardware required, Cozy made some progress on the memory footprint (lighter framework and usage of javascript runtime instead of coffescript one). Now you can use it with only 512MB of RAM instead of 1024MB. You can make it run on a RaspberryPi (B model) too.
Excellent. Thanks for pointing this out!
I don't believe you!
Assuming you are running 13.04 currently then you'll have a 3.8 kernel. 13.10 has a 3.11 kernel so you also get:

(3.11) http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.11
(3.10)http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10
(3.9) http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.9
a) Tons of other places have a variety of startup employers. You don't seem to be counting B2B startups that serve particular sectors like air travel, energy, manufacturing, government, insurance, etc. They don't blog about javascript, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

b) Are you talking about a metro system? I can count on one hand the number of U.S. cities that have the population density to support that. Feel free to make that a deal-breaker, but realize that you're paying a premium in cost-of-living and limiting your career options and exposure to other ways of life.

Otherwise, I don't know what public services means. The DMV in smaller towns tend to be much better. They have museums, concerts, conventions, and theaters in other cities.
No surveillance agency in the world has the resources or the technical know-how or easy access to a selection of the world's finest companies offering Internet-enabled services and operating systems and standardization committees for encryption algorithms. The US government also has the longest arm in terms of demands it can make to other governments. And us foreigners have no chance of fighting the NSA, because we aren't US citizens, remember? (surprise, us foreigners have feelings too)

And "filtering, censorship and worse" happens in spite of US governance. So we have to worry about the US government, in addition to local threats. Because 1 + 1 = 2.

And don't get me wrong, we never trusted the US government, but we trusted US companies to do the right thing, given your strong and stable Constitution. But apparently your government found ways to coerce your companies into doing whatever they want and make you shut up about it. And that's why it's not the US government's governance I'd worry about, but rather I'd worry about the bottom line of your companies that have brought so much innovation and that are going to get punished in the international marketplace while not being guilty.

The US really needs to do something to repair their image and fast. And statements such as yours really do seem disingenuous or ignorant about what this whole thing means for us and does nothing to repair the loss of trust.
> There's no reason in principle why they couldn't do their job while keeping the total amount of law constant or even reducing it.

Actually, there is! The reason is because Congress can only make laws -- that includes laws that repeal other laws! Note how we still have the Eighteenth Amendment despite it being nullified by the Twenty-first Amendment.

While there can be, in theory (and again, with such a large mass of people, it's really only in theory) laws whose sole purpose is to repeal other laws, such laws almost never make it to the President without a sizable layer of pork slathered on top in order to gather enough votes.
Man this guy is verbose. Here's what he was getting at:

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From where I sit, there was a massive shift in the 1970s in how the American political system operates. [..] Political bosses controlled the selection of state convention delegates, and therefore the bosses controlled the delegates to the national convention [..] The reformers wanted to break the hold of the party bosses over the system and open it to dissent, something party bosses disliked. [..] This severely limited the power of state and county chairmen, who could no longer handpick candidates.

Money, not the bosses' power, became the center of gravity of the political system, and those who could raise money became the power brokers. More important, those who were willing to donate became candidates' main constituency. [..] Money has always been central to American politics. [..] But with the decline of political bosses, factors other than money were eliminated.

A candidate in either party [..] needs the votes of the majority of voters who will show up. In the past model, voters showed up because, say, they got their job on the highway crew from the county boss, and they had to appear at the polls if they wanted to keep it. [..] Now, people show up because of their passionate belief in a particular ideology, and money is spent convincing them that a candidate shares their passionate commitment.

But it is the senators and particularly the congressmen -- who run in districts where perhaps 20 percent of eligible voters vote in primaries, most of them ideologues -- who are forced away from principle and toward ideology. [..] I would argue that the problem is that the current system magnifies the importance of the ideologues such that current political outcomes increasingly do not reflect the public will, and that this is happening at an accelerated pace.
Ubuntu for phones install page --> http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install

Galaxy Nexus (GSM) and Nexus 4
People First, Ideas Second
My rules for good docs:

1. Begin with a usage synopsis in the form of sample code. It should hit the most important functions and show how they fit together. E.g. for a drawing library, show how to instantiate an image, draw a circle with arbitrary fill and stroke colors, and write the image to disk.

2. For each function or method, open your comment with a straightforward description of what the function does, even if it's absolutely, undeniably obvious. If you're writing an math library, you should even say what the sqrt function does. It doesn't hurt, it costs you very little effort, and you might help someone who's just beginning to learn about the problem domain.

3. For each parameter, document its possible types if your language doesn't encode that information in the function signature. Even if you're using something like Haskell where it does, you might need to comment on the type. E.g. if sin takes a float, say whether it's in degrees or radians.

4. Provide sample code for functions that have to be used in tricky ways. E.g. if the function requires special setup or context.
Don't get me started on Javascript. It's a problem with dynamic languages in general - the signature does not document what interface the parameters should implement (eg, a parameter 'file' may be a file path or a file handle, but you'll only know that by looking at the implementation), but it's particularly egregious when nothing tells you at first glance which parameters are optional.

I've now started to document public functions. As my classes usually have few public functions, but many private ones, the code to comment ratio remains acceptable, though maintaining the documentation remains a challenge.
Claims of any nature, then. If I release a paper saying I have any kind of theory then the scientific method requires that I (or someone else who is sympathetic to my claim) provide a valid theoretical or experimental proof that my theory is valid. If I do not fulfil that expectation then it is fair to decide that my belief was not based on any proper reason, and you can choose to think it is nonsense as you wish. You do not need to waste your time proving that it is nonsense.
United States Becomes World's Number-One Oil Supplier
Thanks for pointing this out.

I think the messages are inheriting from Mezzanine's messages app here https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanin... - will fix it.
This is a bait-and-switch title. But while we're here and talking of eating octopodes [side note: octopii is way off the mark, mixing classical languages; octopuses is probably in the end the least obnoxious plural], we might bear in mind our obsession for killing rather than wondering at nature with this cautionary tale:
http://io9.com/vacationing-family-finds-exceedingly-rare-hex...
From their TypeScript blog post re: path to 1.0:

"There are now dozens of large applications written by teams in Microsoft, including Bing, Xbox, TFS, So.cl, as well as in projects such as Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Windows 8.1, Zud.io, Away3D, and Turbulenz."

I think they've been pretty serious about it from the start due to the design decisions in Metro.
They're super cool and ridiculously smart. Quite possibly among the smartest animals on the planet. (It's difficult to say how smart, exactly, because their neural anatomy evolved very different from the mammalian systems we've held up as the gold standard. But they meet certain indicating criteria that a lot of mammals fail.)

http://io9.com/5626679/three-arguments-for-the-consciousness...
I had the same reaction, but when he got to the point about the Hard Yes (+2) and Hard No (-4), I assumed the number of interviewers was closely tied to having enough of a sample size to using this scoring system effectively.

But yes, I agree that 8 people is a crazy amount of interviews. In this market you can't expect to do that unless you either have a stellar reputation and an influx of excellent candidates that you're trying to sift through.

Very few startups are in such a position today.
7 UX sins (of startups)
I'm sorry, but if Breitbart told me the sun rose today, I'd go to the window to look for myself.
how long before the Windows version will be ready?
>>> There's plenty of revenue, and plenty of other spending to cut before we get there.

The sequester should take care of some those spending cuts. Getting a Democratically controlled government to cut spending is pretty hard considering they believe the way to stimulate growth is to spend and increase taxes.

EDIT: Not saying Democrats are the only ones who like to spend - Bush pushed the debt up quite a bit while he was in office so Republicans are not blameless either. However, most Republicans believe in smaller government, less taxes, and being fiscally responsible.
That's nice, but is clearly illegal. The Voting Rights Act basically requires safe minority districts. Elegance of district lines is a secondary (or less) consideration. Might work for particular large homogenous areas, if you can find some.
Politics Makes Healthcare Exchange Issues Hard to Pin Down
What has been your the worst experience in the "secondary".

I had the dubious privilege of being sent to secondary upon arrival in Houston earlier this year.

The experience reminded me of old Soviet Union or something out of Kafka.

My wait was not very long maybe 30 minutes and after that I was sent on my way without any interview or anything, but those were some extremely long minutes.

I first made the mistake of sitting down in the "comfy" chair, which apparently was reserved for those poor souls who have to remain in secondary overnight or longer.

Then I noticed a sign No Electronic Devices Allowed, which meant no tablet, no e-reader no nothing. So better bring a book ("Consolation of Philosophy" perhaps?).

There were no progress or status updates or anything. I saw some misplaced NATO soldiers sent on their way quickly, while an elderly Russian emigree couple was berated for leaving US to travel.

Then there were people in the comfy chairs who had resigned to their fate and simply were sleeping or pretending to.

Again, this doesn't sound that bad, but the problem was that there was absolutely no indication on how long this process could take. No queue numbers no nothing.

I am supposed to go to US again soon, but I am extremely wary now.

What is the worst experience in the secondary that you've experienced?
He switching because he's losing motivation and hopes a new language will solve his problems.
Atheism is a matter of ontology/metaphysics and not science. Science, too, is a matter of ontology, in that it says that there are electrons and they have such and such properties.

But atheism, while accepting the results of science (what science says there is), it goes a bit further. And the keyword in understanding how and why and where does atheism goes further is the word 'evidence'.

Many times you'll here people saying "There is no evidence!" for that or that matter. However, in understanding what kind of evidence do we expect to see (etymologically, evidence holds the reference to what is seen), we need to have a clear idea of what is there to be seen.

Atheism expects and denies that there is evidence of a God. A super-natural being, a person, conscious, free, and able to do whatever they may wish to do. And this is where atheism CAN NOT apply any of the methods available in science. Science has been able to understand nature (its laws and ontology) because what happens in nature, happens in virtue of law. That is, all the time. Repeatedly. Experimentally verifiable.

The actions of a person are not like that. Be it a God, a bird, a fish or a bug. The intentional behavior of a conscious being can not fall under the umbrella of exact, objective science. Unless there is some sort of determination which resembles a (statistical) law. Which, by definition, it's not the case for God.

So, yes, atheism and religions are not scientific. Which is not to say they may not be true. One of them all.
On Destkop there is reason to upgrade if you are using stock software and kernel (as I'm). Unity in 13.10 feels more responsive than in 13.04 was.
Pretty much everything is bumped to newer versions. Even things in VirtualBox work faster now (13.04 was installing 4.2.10, but 13.10 is installing 4.2.16). Dont know what is the reason for speed gains - Kernel in Ubuntu or newer VirtualBox.
One thing to do after upgrade is to disable smart scopes. No reason to share search queries with Canonical.
I was hoping that 13.10 will solve my sound problems, but no luck. Just like in 13.04 i hear crackling noises. But those are specifics of my laptop.
Wait, where was this small government with no ability to pay its social debts? Because I sure as heck didn't see that outcome. Just because a bunch of people on the TV kept talking about this supposed default doesn't mean the government wasn't willing and able to pay on the debt.

Your biased one-sided complaint completely sidesteps the issues at hand. The article that sparked this discussion quite correctly points out the problems that led us here when two sets, TWO mind you, of ideologies refuse to back down and compromise. You say conservatives got what they wanted with the shutdown? I say both groups got what they wanted out of this in their own way and we'll go through it all again in February.

You need to get out of this "us-vs-them" attitude and realize that two different people who strongly disagree with each other may still have a point on the topic at hand.

The only way the states will restore their former power is not through civil war, but through the total collapse of the federal government. Things have gone too far in terms of centralizing power for anything other than total failure to reverse the trend. It's just that no one knows when or if this would be.
This depends entirely on your language and environment. Working on embedded systems, where memory is at a premium, the way an algorithm or data structure is coded up may be entirely non-intuitive, merely to get under the memory limits or to eke out a bit more performance. Good documentation + good code is far better than just good code.
> There should just be a client side HTML5 drag and drop that encrypts files pre-transmission.

The problem is that you'd be doing crypto in JavaScript. We're not currently at a point where that's viable:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

Currently, if you want to securely transmit a document, you're pretty much stuck with learning and using something like PGP/GPG. Which is a pain for a lot of people, because there are new concepts to learn, software to install, and keyrings to manage. But it's the best we have right now.
Parker and Stone Missed Tonight’s “South Park” Deadline Due To Power Outage
Some find a gui more usable. You can use tshark of you disagree.
There's a good numberphile video on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg
And, at roughly original numbers, ~7,400 representatives.
Scaladays 2014 call for papers is now open and will close on November 29, 2013
From every blog post I've read, their CFO writes you a check based on the amount you tell them. Honor system.
Two things, first off attributes are rarely placed on closing tags, and secondly you forgot to enclose the value in quotes as in level="big"
Thank your rdubigny for this awesome application for Cozy. Only the external contributions like yours can unleash the full potential of the platform.
Configuring Node.js agent to look for memory leaks on ghost blogging server
Of course I stood up a Node.js ghost server on Digital ocean ; but I wanted to keep an eye on it. so I dropped in an agent to track memory, cycle, and endpoint latency. It was so easy to do I thought other new ghost blog might want to do the same.
Customize your WP login page with this easy to use plugin
Love this. Berate as many as possible
It's done well for me so far. Only time will tell :)
<< Soft No(-2) means “Nah, there’s just something that doesn’t feel right” << or “Loved her, just not for this role”

<<So remember this when hiring: the person you are interviewing may be <<terrible for the role, but perfect for your company.
<<When you find that awesome person, hire them.

I hope there was a little bit more consistency between the rules explained here.