skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why stop there? I fine them all of France. I now own France and they need to get off my lawn.
You don't, mostly[1], lose freedom by installing Skype. You lose freedom by becoming reliant on Skype, and by installing (and using) Skype you are putting yourself at significant risk of that.

[1] You also may lose some control over your system, which may limit your freedom. At the extreme, consider malware. Recent, relevant Dilbert comic that I assume is an exaggeration: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-11-06
Somewhat of a Hanlon's razor, a lot of open source projects arent maintained, they are thrown over the wall, similiarly a lot of project maintainers are very busy and unless they get a pull request then they are quite likely to ignore it, as projects gets popular it easily gets the point where maintainers have 'no' time to code, and spend their time guiding contributions.

Ultimately if a maintainer isnt showing interest in taking your contributions then it just isnt a project you want to carry on attempting to, it takes some a little time and maybe experience to find a suitable project.

Certainly dont make sweeping statements about nobody contributing to open source because programmers dont like helping each other, there may be exceptions but the people contributing to OS is growing faster than ever
Maybe the French are fed up with US judges doing this all the time and this is some kind of revenge?
Also at chess, new players can learn from the previous top players.
More information and caveats:

http://blog.firetree.net/2006/05/18/more-about-flood-maps/

Climate change predictions on sea level rise:

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

Snippet:

More recent research from 2008 observed rapid declines in ice-mass balance from both Greenland and Antarctica, and concluded that sea-level rise by 2100 is likely to be at least twice as large as that presented by IPCC AR4, with an upper limit of about two meters.
There would be enough jurisdiction to arrest the guy if he happened to travel to France though. Maybe not enough to have any charges stick, but probably enough to make his life misérables.
DevOps for the Agency
what about Go?
Hey I'm the guy behind the Etherpad Foundation, wanted to just say thanks for the Etherlove :)
Behind the scenes of a site redesign
Are the company specific icons on the bottom (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Google+, etc.) not copyrighted?
What does "independent" mean in this context?

She released stuff with XL Recordings (a label that had multi-million selling artists even back in the nineties) and then signed with Columbia.

Independent used to be somebody in a small label, like 4AD. Nowadays, it's somebody releasing his songs himself or such.

Adele hasn't qualified as such for over 5 years...
Subsequent letters will be in Swahili and SG will be required to respond in Swahili.
Moreover, the amount of work that he has done towards this end is incredible. His productivity (at least in the early days of GNU) was astounding and inspiring. Perhaps one RMS didn't get us there, but two? Or five? It'd be a treat to know what that would have looked like.
If I were at Mozilla my #1 priority would be fixing this situation. Google has been less and less "not evil" lately, and this is not a position that I'd feel comfortable in long term.

Alternative revenue models are needed. Unfortunately, reducing costs is probably also necessary.
The Death of President Kennedy (NYT app using Leaflet)
Conditionally loaded responsive content on the client side
>People are extremely good at spotting inauthenticity, trying to borrow that Cool Factor

What's so cool about some mass produced disposable widget that gets sold to grandmas at Walmart? This isn't the Apple of 2002. Cool is about exclusivity and membership into something grandma can't be a member of. Marketing telling you something is cool is actually uncool.

>As much as I like the Nexus products, they're not it.

I'm glad it lacks the pretensions you describe. Its a phone, not a religion.
The Deadly Genius of Drug Cartels
As the jury, I formally affirm this seems legit.
But U.S. judges don't do this all the time. Meanwhile, a number of European countries (notably the U.K.) are famous for dragging foreigners into defamation cases for conduct that happened entirely outside the country. The U.S. tends to invoke jurisdiction only when you do something quite targeted at the U.S.
How come that no other company wants to pay Mozilla?

There are many out there who use their products on a daily basis.
> Right but the use of men by women is almost always negative and dehumanizing.

I'm 30 and I haven't seen this be the case anywhere ever.

I have encountered some people who condescendingly use "boys" when they want to disparage adult men. It's always bugged me even when I was a teenager, although for some reason all the gay men I know use it. I think a similar dynamic exists with women and "girls".

I find myself using "female" occasionally, not to refer to women I would date but because English doesn't have another good word for "feminine humans of an indeterminate age". I occasionally use "chicks" for similar reasons.
Handling click-to-activate plugins using JavaScript
Mathematica on Raspberry Pi for free
Yeah openhatch is good. There was a bit of talk on it on the episode on Twisted (because Jessica is also involved in that) on the FLOSS weekly podcast, check out that episode if you're interested.

Edit: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/225
I don't know. As a "female" I started getting that squicky dehumanized feeling... until I realized the possibilities. Put that boy on mute and you've got the makings of a lovely subsidized evening!
Simplest is the DNS load balancing. You can define multiple A records for the same domain and you are good to go!
Writing it all as code would exclude nonprogrammers just as much as this excludes people not familiar with basic mathematical notation.

At least everybody should share some common mathematical instruction from school. The same certainly cannot be said of programming.

As somebody who can read both code and math, though, I'd greatly, greatly prefer to see math in math notation, not code. Code would be so much more verbose that it would take easily twice as long to digest the information. You'd also completely lose all the incredibly powerful visual reasoning that comes along with modern mathematical notation.
Original article from two days ago: http://www.renesys.com/2013/11/mitm-internet-hijacking/
Full Stack Javascript
FYI your link is dead.
it's about personality. some players do play on for a while and it is part of the rules and has nothing to do with tournament invitations. You can play for as long as you want within the rules, and every once in a while, people do just that.

Others will resign very prematurely and they say so. They say they just didn't "feel" the position. Computer analysis later on says they are equal in position, though.
To declare a crisis before Mozilla properly launches their mobile OS is premature.
I'm so sick of this argument about Mozilla. It is like saying a Principal Engineer at Microsoft relies on Microsof because it provides 90% of his income. Last time Mozilla's contract was up for negotiation, they caused bidding war that increased their value over the previous contract...it wasn't Google's generosity. You are a fool if you think Mozilla is beholden to Google.
The main thing I wish google would take from apple, is not a place to show off and sell their devices, but an easy place to go get support on those devices.
The only thing I accept is reality.

No, you declare your belief as reality and then hide behind that unsupported declaration.

Nice that you use Jihad Jane as an example without knowing the facts. Jihad Jane was not an old solitaire playing lady. She converted to Islam and became radicalized. She got caught by her writings by people running the Jawa report blog, blog dedicated to profile islamist terrorists. So profiling worked!

It's funny you should mention the "Jawa Report" as supporting your "reality" those guys are some of the most bigotted people on the net. Even the name of the website is bigotted - who do you think the "jawas" are? That they occasionally get something right is like saying that because a stopped watch is right twice a day, no one needs a working watch. You keep saying you aren't bigotted but every time you cite something as a defense it turns out to be just another example of bigotry. How many times will you quack before you realize you are a duck?

From your answer I take that you would spend time searching the old solitaire playing ladies.

If I believed in all the hysteria of terrorism, which you have defined as "reality" then yes, I would. If being an old lady playing solitaire is enough to get someone past security with less scrutiny, then terrorists would be stupid not to start playing solitaire, we already know they've got old ladies.
I bet they get solicited all the time but there aren't many ways to make money on a web browser without ruining the user experience.
Subsequent letters will be in Navajo, and the recipient will be required to respond in Navajo
Ask HN: What technologies are used by Healthcare.gov?
Ehh, Google has meaningful ties to France; ie. they do business there.

Google Paris

8 Rue de Londres

75009 Paris
Say goodbye to the llama, Winamp dies on December 20th
Lead like the great conductors
One of the key "all is well" arguments here seems to be that Google could lose a significant chunk of search/ad market share by losing Firefox to Bing.

Are there any "danger, danger" arguments that directly address the amount Google spends on Firefox in relation to the market share it gains in return? This TNW article seems keen to point out that Firefox is wearing a shiny pair of handcuffs, but conveniently leaves out the other half of the equation.
They are trying to be as anti-septic and vanilla as possible in order to avoid causing offense. Which is ironic.
I am surprised by this. Mozilla is literally pumping out good open source software and no other company except Google is backing them?
Yup, I did one or two recently. Some are even just find and replace, like this one: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/3303
Cash-Boycotts: How to Use Bitcoins for Social Change
Thanks for the input!

I agree Nginx does it and does it well. I've look at this option, getting another VPS and setup load balancing on it. The only things that worry me is having only one front-end.
What do you mean by "no jurisdiction over someone?" If a crime was committed in france they can ask for extradition. That would probably not result in anything in this case, but as long as it's a crime by french law committed in france the case may as well be valid. So all the court will check whether a punishable crime was committed in france.

They could collect the fine when the blogger enters france or maybe, depending on the case, the european union or an associated state.
As long as Firefox has good marketshare Google will want to be its default search engine.
You could just sell a copy, but hey I guess I'm old fashioned thinking selling a product in exchange for money is better than selling eyeballs to advertisers.
I am curious to see what you base this on. Sounds like a lot of hand-wavy speculation to me. If you would have talked about Americans going for American Football in college rather than say, Olympic Weightlifting, that would be a different thing.

When exactly does someone like a Carlsen (Norway) or Anand (India), as "gameplayers", choose to go into a different game than chess?

As an example, I used to play chess when I was younger. Plenty of people later took up things like poker and starcraft, and a few became quite successful at it. These people were generally not the best chess players, instead they were more likely to be average / slightly above average (for being serious club players) in chess.
The author isn't the point. Maybe he thought more about the game than he put in the story. Maybe not. But in the universe of that story, the game existed! And that's what matters.

In fiction, especially fantasy and science fiction, the universe is as much important as the main narrative. And we like exploring the "how do they"'s and "how can it"'s of these universes.

I understand your position. I have people in my family that don't read/watch fantasy or science fiction because "it doesn't have real stuff" and some only read historical novels or "based in real events" books because "if it isn't true, it's not worth it".

I, on the other hand, can't read historical novels, because I don't know what is "real" and what is "not real". If I want a story, I get fiction. If I want to know stuff, I buy a technical book about it.
And if I'm reading for a great story, I might as well read one set in a fictional universe. Two for the price of one! I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi nowadays.

To end it all, you have to see that fantasy/sci-fi/comic book/etc fans love exploring these worlds. And in a corner of our minds, they're almost as real as our world.
While I agree with your complaints (I too hate how crowed the stores get) the crowing is exactly what Apple wants. It's instant social proof.
Plotly: collaborative data analysis and graphing tool
Hilarious. It baffles me how this country continues to operate given the massive public spending/benefits, delightful reforms (e.g. proposed 80% tax rate for high-earners) and pretty xenophobic view on immigration. ALL of my (highly-skilled) French friends do not plan to return in the foreseeable future.
If Carlsen started playing out all his games do you think he wouldn't be invited into tournaments?

He'd be in the tournaments, it would just be a waste of time for him to play out all the games, when he is certain to lose. instead, he resigns and relaxes his mind and winds down before the next game.
Maryland prepares move back to paper ballots for elections
> a sudden increase from a slowly declining level

That's worrying. I'm much more concerned about a Sybil attack or similar attack on the P2P network than an attack on the cryptography. Given the current size of the ledger, the average person will not want to run a node. I guess one mitigating factor is that the mining pool operators can take steps to ensure they are well connected to each other.
It's a bit more subtle. French judges consider that they have jurisdiction if one of the party is in France or (for internet-related things) if the intended public is french.
See LICRA vs Yahoo! linked in another comment.
I doubt it. What would be the point of paying your way into the top grossing? I'd bet that almost all "normal" users go only to Top Paid (cause that's the default) and Top Free (cause it's free).
Ah... too bad... this is how innovation is killed. Kill the big companies, it will foster innovation.
As a chess player and fan, this will never happen. Poker can be very fun to watch, even for people who don't know how it's played. Chess is often boring to watch, even for people who do know how it's played. Can it's profile be increased? Absolutely. Will it ever compare to the television success of poker? I doubt it, but that's OK.
Show HN: Zanda.com – Rate Everything 
Finally! I have been looking forward to posting this on HN and I am very excited to hear your comments.

Zanda is a rating platform where you can do the following:
- Rate and review everything: items, people, places, events and more.
- You can create compares between two or more items and have the users or your friends cast their vote on an item.
- There are toplists which sort highest rated items based on all Zanda users.
- You can follow items, toplists, compares and users. All new actions around the items you follow will show up in your stream.
- You can earn badges for adding reviews, photos, ratings and many other actions you take.
- Zanda will rank you for the keywords you interact with. For example, you could be #1 in books because you comment and rate several items with the keyword “books.”
- If you do a search or check out toplists you will see items the people you follow have interacted with.
- You can see lists of trending items, compares, toplists and users.
- All items you own, have experience with, viewed, visited, listened to, etc., you can check as “Have” and they go to your achievements list
- All items you set as “Want” will go to your wishlist

Apps for iOS and Android are currently under development and are planned to launch in the near future.
So the greatest of all time? It's getting hard to argue LeBron is not...
You are old fashioned, even commercial browsers abandoned that strategy years ago.
Sometimes

1) doesn't scale well. The amount of work just to get Ubuntu into a usable shape is increasing per release. I can't tell you the number of hours I've pissed out of the window on it over the last few years. It's the equivalent hack status of Windows now which removes every competitive advantage I have by using it to start with.

2) There are no explicit benefits to using Ubuntu other than you probably already have it. The benefits are disppearing faster as to be honest it's not really a fairly compatible Linux distribution. There are Ubuntu-isms creeping into other things and this is seriously bad news. Canonical just want their slice like the Unix vendors in the 1990's.
Two points:

Mozilla is pumping out mostly user facing open source software, which will probably attract less money than, say, Red Hat.

Also, it's not that no company except Google is backing them. It's that they get a huge amount of money from their search box - currently paid by Google. Microsoft might well be happy to become the default and pay just as much.
Second, was about to post this. This guy is amazing. Entertaining and easy to follow, even for beginning players.
As I mentioned in another comment DNS load balancing prevents having only one front-end.
I used to be a host, here in Edinburgh.

But I stopped after a few crazy-guests. Not horrible experiences, but enough to make me decide I had no desire to do so again. I'd often considered surfing, but since I deleted my profile it seemed a little cheap to look for a place to crash when I wasn't reciprocating myself.

These days it seems there are several alternatives to couchsurfing.com, with a less "corporate" feel to them.
Finally! I have been looking forward to posting this on HN and I am very excited to hear your comments.

Zanda is a rating platform where you can do the following:

- Rate and review everything: items, people, places, events and more.

- You can create compares between two or more items and have the users or your friends cast their vote on an item.

- There are toplists which sort highest rated items based on all Zanda users.

- You can follow items, toplists, compares and users. All new actions around the items you follow will show up in your stream.

- You can earn badges for adding reviews, photos, ratings and many other actions you take.

- Zanda will rank you for the keywords you interact with. For example, you could be #1 in books because you comment and rate several items with the keyword “books.”

- If you do a search or check out toplists you will see items the people you follow have interacted with.

- You can see lists of trending items, compares, toplists and users.

- All items you own, have experience with, viewed, visited, listened to, etc., you can check as “Have” and they go to your achievements list

- All items you set as “Want” will go to your wishlist

Apps for iOS and Android are currently under development and are planned to launch in the near future.
But the average person has been given the impression, however inadvertently, that the average "hacker" is engaging in clandestine, nefarious activities on the Internet. When I was in University I lost count of the number of people who freaked out because they saw me using a terminal and vim from my laptop during class.
Why we shouldn't be teaching people to code
The goal of any public pressure tactic is to force an organization to change its policy. Not to deny it revenue. If you're not doing the former, then all you're accomplishing with the latter is making yourself feel good about 'doing something'.
Well, yeah. The whole point of a text editor it to edit plain text.
> Retail has moved to this aesthetic

If you notice, it's exactly the same style of store that high-end fashion boutiques and perfumeries were based on. Apple took this approach and replaced a few hangers with high end clothes with computers and tablets and stuck a tech support desk in the back.

The problem with knock-off stores is that they try and copy Apple's take on the style rather than going back to the source and just copying other high-end fashion stores.
agreed- DNA is a puppet, RNA is the puppet master.
Those bugs will definitely get you started working with a larger Rust codebase. You might want to at least scan the Rust tutorials on http://www.rust-lang.org/ , though, as just reading Servo code is probably not a good way to initially learn the language. Servo has a lot of foreign function interface code and many parts of the architecture are optimized for performance, making some of the data structures and task communication patterns fairly advanced.

Rust itself also has its own E-easy bugs, many of which are in libraries that do not suffer from the same kind of heavy optimization that we've done in Servo:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues?direction=asc&labels=...
Down hear Hilton Head.
Or just ignorant, like me. Thanks for the info.
In an ideal world you'd use a VLAN spanning locations, with a shared IP to point to the load-balancer.

The load-balancer would route to your real servers, nginx, in your case. I've had good success with ucarp for IP-moving, and both nginx and varnish for load-balancing. (Varnish allows me to do caching at the same time.)
Printed money is a helluva drug.
How about making emacs close when I hit the "close window" button on Windows 7?
Good job, but you have almost 300.000 lines of code according to your GitHub commit stats, why is that damn large? It is almost equivalent to Linux 1.2 kernel code in 1995.
I agree DNS load balancing is very easy and free.
I've also done it in the past. Thanks for the input!
>In the narrative concerning hydraulic fracturing, there seem to be two dominant points of view: those who unequivocally oppose it, and those who actually understand it.

I work in oil & gas data, so I'm surrounded by a bias from people that both benefit from fracking, and also have intimate working knowledge of the process. In my limited experience, I have found the above statement to be true.

I always love to hear informed arguments against fracking, I just seem to hear fewer of them than those in support of it.

Thanks for the share, good read.
Is there a reason why you've written your own license, instead of using an established free software license like the GPL?
The memory usage of a join has many more variables than the size of the joined field (in some cases it might not matter at all as long as that field is not included in the result set) so I would not say that joining on a short string is that much more predictable than joining on a possibly long string. What matters the most is what the query actually does, what the data looks like, and what indexes you have.

Joins are usually implemented in one of these three ways, and the planner can select which one to use depending on the query and table statistics:

1. Hash join: Build a hash table of all the joined fields of set 1 and then traverse the rows of set 2 looking them up in the hash table.

2. Merge join: Sort both sets of rows and merge them. With the right indexes you may not even need to sort anything, just traverse in index order.

3. Nested loop join: For every tow in set 1 find matching entries in set 2.
> Also, for people who don't see this as natural (and I agree that it looks almost mechanical), is this a misguided "51%" attack?

No. The whole point of the POW mechanism is to frustrate cheap easy Sybil attacks where someone sets up a few thousand IPs and dictates what the network says.
Dmitry Boldyrev's take on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6773648
Software Engineering in Crisis – Healthcare.gov is Just the Dead Canary