skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA military-industrial complex may be soulless and evil, but it isn't dumb. The problem with the governments installed post-WWII in West Germany, France, Italy, and Japan was that they never evolved into belligerents. Iran, Iraq, Israel, China, Korea, etc. demonstrate a more sophisticated model. Repeat business FTW!

(While USA invasion has turned out well for some nations, that hasn't happened recently. If you care for your nation and its inhabitants, you really ought to do your damnedest to stay off the list.)
Facebook Saves All The Stuff You Type, Even If You Never Post It
Astronauts are doping? Do you think they will have to hand back the Space-Cup?
Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common
No informed/intelligent individual would debate that the moon landing was faked. It's absolutely absurd to believe the tech was around to fake a landing, but not actually land on the moon. There's no point in trying to convince every single person we landed there.
much attention. very legitimate.
Zecco started out with free trades. Then it was free trades if you had $10k. Then it was 25 free trades per month if you had $25k. Then they were bought by Tradeking.
MySQL single query performance - the truth
"indian ocean"
Facebook only exists because they got photo sharing "good enough"

I think that's an oversimplification. There was photo-sharing before Facebook, and there were social networks with photo-sharing before Facebook. Facebook got the whole package to be "good enough" along with some luck at being in the right place at the right time.
You're the product even if you are paying for it. You don't think for-pay services won't try to make more money or gain more value from the data you're providing them?
It didn't screw it up. Sentatorial elections (and state govts in general) were horribly corrupt.
That's not at all what the 9th amendment means. The 9th amendment says that the enumeration of rights in the constitution is not exhaustive. That is to say, it acknowledges that there are sources of rights besides the Constitution. These rights are those that exist from long standing practice in the English tradition. It does not mean that all rights exist unless specifically limited. You have to trace the right to some other source--you cannot simply assume the fact of its existence.

Moreover, while it's true you can do what you want unless it's made illegal, the interesting question is instead: what can the majority make illegal? That's is the situation where majority consensus is the rule, and rights are the exception. In a democracy, the majority can legislate however it wants, limited only by certain acknowledged individual rights.

In our democracy, we have two layers of legislatures, state and federal. The state legislatures inherited the sovereignty of the English King, and the constitution did not disturb that arrangement except in that the states delegated certain of that sovereignty to the federal government. But at the time of the founding, the power of the state legislatures was almost unbounded. They were not even limited by the rights in the Bill of Rights, which weren't applied to the states consistently until the 20th century (incorporated via the civil war amendments). Even now, the state governments are emphatically not ones of enumerated powers. The majority can do whatever it wants, limited only by federal law, or state or federal rights.

At the federal level, within the broad enumerated powers of the government, the majority can do what it wants, limited only by federal rights. Again, the rule is majoritarian control. Rights are a limited backstop to that general rule.

If anything, American education focuses too much on rights and not enough on democracy. K-12 curriculums tend not to cover any state constitutional law. They focus on enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights. But in doing so they paint a misleading picture of the Constitutional scheme. A scheme in which, as originally conceived, nothing would've prevented states from making it illegal to have sex with the lights on or outside of marriage or to use birth control or any of the other "moral" legislation that was very widespread at the time of the founding. I don't think expansion of rights of individuals has been a bad trend away from the original constitutional scheme, but it's misleading to paint the trend as pointing in the other direction. That characterization is simply a libertarian rewriting of history.
People find comfort in knowing when something starts, and when something ends. It stems from controlling, wanting control over your environment. You can let that go though, and then the universe being infinite is beautiful.
...but it is the result of an illegitimate process
Well, first, you aren't calling a method, you are sending a message. It's different. So, of course, sending a message to somebody that isn't home is going to yield you an empty response.

Again, message, not method.
I generally assume people will understand static/dynamic as 'type associated with variable' vs 'type associated with value'.

But you're dead on about strong/weak. You may get away with stronger and weaker, but strong and weak have no widely agreed upon meaning w.r.t. types.
I think our best guess is that our universe is connected to other universes, perhaps through a larger bubble / body, and perhaps through that connecting through to perhaps infinite other universes.
The interface is better - but otherwise, how is this superior to imgur (http://www.imgur.com)? Imgur has obviously already scaled.
My wife's comment: "That's because the Chinese are the only ones with any money to have a space program". Very true dear, very true.
Well yeah, I have done that, and I'm sure there is a great site that has the best cat pictures. Better than what google can find. :) Thanks for your help
It seems a lot of people misinterpret "don't reinvent the wheel" as "if they exist, use lots of pre-written libraries". End result is I see projects with ridiculous numbers of dependencies.

Reinventing the wheel is very useful as a learning experience and to take a peek at how things work behind the scenes. Often you may only need a portion of what a certain library does, and it is perfectly feasible and correct to implement it yourself.

Especially horrible is the message encouraging use of Bootstrap to style web pages. The last thing web design needs is more generic and blatantly obvious Bootstrap layouts. It can be a useful tool, but most people use it wrong and it very often leaves a bad taste.

Rather, the idiom one should follow is "Don't reinvent the wheel, but feel free to refine or re-implement it, as long as you don't end up reinventing the flat tire."
Sources, please, or Google terms for further reading? I find this terribly interesting.
List of common physics notations
It is consistent though.

Sending a message to nothing gets your nothing. Adding nothing to something that expects something causes an exception.
If you replaced "total authority" with "effective management and control," and "all aspects of public and private life" with "most politically and culturally potent trends," would that be more accurate?

By the definition you quote, perhaps only North Korea qualifies in terms of pursuing control "wherever possible." It is a definition of comic book villainy. It doesn't even encompass Soviet occupied Eastern Europe.
Just thinking out loud but if I went on a hiking trip with a couple of friends and we all wanted to show off an album of pictures to other, it makes sense I would give a view-only link to people who wanted to view the album and an edit link to those who came on the trip to contribute photos.

It could be something as simple as selecting "Yes" generates an edit var with the associated link. If someone pastes the edit URL into their browser and the edit var = the album id, allow edit. Else force view only.

Edit* This is just an opinion and what logically makes sense to me. Would love to hear what others think.
Yeah that's not going to happen. Cc companies don't charge back really old transactions.
I'm Uruguayan too and I don't feel safer in Buenos Aires.

I do agree security has gone down the drain and is now the #1 problem here (I was robbed twice this year).

And I also agree we're far from perfect. We do get some things right at least :)
Seems OK - but is anyone going to trust this? One idea is a low-amount "test" fund to keep around a year or so? Anyone have ideas on how to feel better about actually using this for larger sums of money?
A conversation with Pether Thiel
http://www.twitch.tv/dvcolgan <-- this guy is using VIM and CoffeeScript to make a game...

I now find CoffeeScript scary... and I use CoffeeScript...
I just read through the whole document and it felt like someone was narrating a bad infomercial. It takes 30 pages for the document to get into the technical bits and then the research (and mitigation!) methods feel somewhat half-hearted.

1. The "fix" is to log in to the system and manually disable at runtime the VLAN and firewall rules. Nothing is said about making the fixes permanent - as if the authors have never experienced a wedged modem or router. Or had their power go out. (Perhaps they assume everyone has an UPS in place.)

2. The presence of extra VLAN is clear, that's true. I would have wanted to see redacted traffic dumps from a controlled lab network, where the authors actually show that the device attaches to a known VLAN. Right now we have nothing but their inference about egress firewall going up shortly after device boot.

It looks like a real deal. It's just presented in a way that puts me off. I'm waiting for external confirmation and more technical data.
You are clearly a government plant spewing lies!

Naw, just kidding. But that would be a deliciously ironic way to interpret your comment.
It is flatly impossible to build such devices and prevent them from being weaponized.
I agree. Lack of insurance was not the problem. The problem is the totally astronomical markup on any and all medical procedures and products. Universal insurance just means that can continue on.
I worked on the original Zecco.com (originally called Gekko from Gordon Gekko).

It was developed and designed in Denmark by an agency i co-founded and then incorporated in the US a year later.

They merged with TradeKing a couple of years ago.

The intent with ZEro Cost COmmission was to be free and making money on margin accounts. But as I think these guys will find its going to be tough to build a business on that.

As circumstances will have it I am having lunch with one of the original zecco people today :)
You have to sort it yourself, but it's super easy.

For NSArray's:

NSArray * sortedArray=[array sortedArrayUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
// your code here
}];

For NSMutableArray's:

[marray sortUsingComparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {
// your code here
}];
It's interesting to contrast this to what Apple ended up doing in OS X - HFS on the bottom with some indexed, extensible metadata bolted on, then the Core Data API for structured storage backed by SQLite, but still represented in "files". I wonder how far Core Data could be stretched - could they replace all of HFS/a traditional file hierarchy if they were willing to kill (or hack in backcompat) support for legacy formats?
Note: I own a windows phone. It syncs photos with SkyDrive, allows you to post to facebook etc.

It allows choice. Suprisingly, Windows has always allowed choice.

Web mail won for consumers for a bit. Now it's heading towards apps and sync which are omnipresent on all platforms now.

WinFS was replaced with metadata indexing which didn't incur the system-level performance hit. Metadata indexing is there on iOS, Windows at least.

Edit: I don't actually take photos with my phone unless it's a quick shot of my car parked to make sure I don't get a dodgy ticket.
> Google becomes the prefrontal cortex to Boston Dynamics' robotic central nervous systems.

Or to put it another way, Google's computers plan the strategy, and Boston Dynamics' controllers take care of the tactics.
Sky Customers Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Steal BT Fibre
They appear to charge TAF and other regulatory fees (https://brokerage-static.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/robinhood/l...) -- and based on the fee numbers it looks like they don't have significant volume -- but the website shows "FEES $0" in the app screen. The fees may not seem to be a lot, but saying that fees are zero is a factually incorrect statement.

The fact that they don't list exchange fees seems to suggest that they may end up routing orders to a market maker and collect fees from that (the exchange fees are generally 30 cents per 100-share lots). If so, they should note on the website that they are making money by selling flow
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleVentures/posts/XbTiwbzaL6e
What would be a better translation?
So are you saying that novice developers (i dont think the author would even call himself that) should not use bootstrap and instead waste extra time learning how to structure their pages? Its not hard to insert a 'pre-written' bootstrap css stylesheet and completely change how a bootstrap page looks while still taking advantage of the grid system etc.
The chilling effect: Snowden, the NSA, and IT security
Firstly, I like it.
It's an elegant solution that gives excellent results and works as it says.

Secondly, I don't like it.
In the general case, this is not something that should be left to the client to calculate - whenever you are serving the image, the server ought to know what the dominant colour is. Why make the client calculate this every time the image is displayed?

This is a case where JavaScript harms the user: a JavaScript/jQuery solution to this has significant potential problems: there are numerous cases where it will break, some of which are identified in the other comments.
Good job, I couldn't get past page 15 and all the messiah-complex text before
Actually they did the same on Windows Vista and above.
No fees baby - it's the future, and it's coming in 2014 to payments as well.
That may be where the tld belongs but you'll find a disproportionally large amount of .io sites serving up APIs
Looks great. I'd love a way to view full resolution images without having to download it.
In the U.S. dental issues are not considered a serious health problem even though you can die from it. Teeth aren't covered by "obamacare" and well, if the side of your mouth rots out then tough shit. Poor Americans have trouble affording dental insurance. I know this probably isn't as interesting as 'local product search' and the like, but I thought I would chime in. Thanks
Out of curiosity, could this work in node.js to avoid the server VS client thing?
This looks great! I love that there is no account required.

However, since I can use it without an account, why would I register? You may want to add some motivational copy to the registration page to tell me.

Also, these two statements from the "Free" section don't seem to match:
* Original, full-size photos are stored for one month.
* Full-sized photos can be downloaded for $0.99/album after one month.

Maybe the second one should be "for up to one month"?
> being a well travelled kiwi, who always feels the warm glow associated with arriving in perhaps the sanest place in the world when I get home.

> dollars to donuts you'll be welcomed as if you are coming home too. If you come to Wellington and are so inclined message me and I'll buy you a beer (or a coffee) and welcome you personally :-)

Thanks so much, but I'm headed for Christchurch.

Since deciding to move, every kiwi I've met here since has offered to put me in touch with some cousin/uncle/sibling to help us get on our feet, and I've had a remarkable number of perfect strangers make similar offers via e-mail and forums such as these. Being that we're going through such a sad time right now as we pack our things and say goodbye to our city, friends, and family, these kinds of gestures are really very encouraging. It's nice to think that we're moving someplace where people are so friendly and helpful toward one another.
Is there any way to download a high-res version of a page?
What about according to Gravity's Rainbow?
What is the "wrong way" to use bootstrap?
There may be some hypothetical situation in which there could be such a difference, but in USA politics right now, your suggestion amounts to a vapid, lame attempt to curtail discussion. There are very few controversial policies that haven't arisen through all manner of illegal, unethical, and otherwise corrupt (what is your word, "consensus"?) processes, on all sides. If something exists in the current environment, then of course it arose at least partially through "illegitimate process", and it's certainly apropos to acknowledge the specific factual circumstances of that.

Elsewhere on this page reference is made to the "democratic" way we elect legislators and certain law enforcement officials in the USA. Polls repeatedly show clear majorities for the legalization of marijuana use, possession, and distribution. Yet somehow we still have (poor) people going to prison, and (not poor) LEOs and attorneys paying off their mortgages, due entirely to marijuana enforcement despite this wonderful process of consensus?

I guess you should just hope you always find yourself on the "majoritarian" side, if in fact you don't continuously censor and mold your own thoughts to ensure that.
imgur is more about sharing a single photo or creating a meme. This is more about creating and sharing an album of photos. The features of SimpleNeat include things like reordering photos, custom urls for albums, easy downloading, and, eventually, easy printing or creating mugs or t-shirts.
Because everyone has the same taste in literature.
If so, it's doing it with the cooperation of the supposed victims.

Listen to the most recent quarter's conference call with Cisco executives: "NSA" was mentioned once in an analyst's question, and he got an outright evasive response. While bleeding billions of dollars the jobs that go with that foregone revenue, tech companies are dithering.
I have to say, as a "business guy" cofounder who is finally pushing out his first apps, that starting with Codecademy is probably the worst way to go about things. I don't know how many times I started different Codecademy courses and ended up saying, "OK, I can create a loop... now what?" That is decidedly not the first step in learning how to program.

The first step is learning how to use the command line, getting a text editor, linking those two, and figuring out how to push something live. You can code loops all day long, but until you have any practical implementation of that (i.e. building even the simplest of apps and pushing it live), coding will feel abstract and unreachable.

If I were to start over (I'm learning Ruby/Rails) I would start with a tutorial (Michael Hartl's rails tutorial, Treehouse or One Month Rails), but really I would use them all at the same time, because their emphases are different and each picks up on parts that the other leaves out. Only once I had "finished" a couple of apps following the tutorials (which cover everything from getting a text editor to using github, pushing to Heroku and connecting Heroku with a DNS) would I go back to Codecademy and learn Ruby. The context of knowing what you can actually do with those snippets of code is incredibly important.

And yes, as others have pointed out, building a simple rails app and putting bootstrap on it is not the goal of programming, but knocking that process is like saying "You shouldn't learn to count on your fingers because really you need to multiply."
Good to know. That wouldn't be too hard to add.

Out of curiosity why do you want to view the full-resolution photos vs. the ones that are scaled to fit your screen?
Uruguay is probably among the most expensive places to live in currently (I'm Uruguayan, with family in Europe and Canada, so I can compare).

Cars are the most expensive in the world (at least 100% over US list price, often 200%, so a Honda Civic is a rich man's car and I'm not joking).

Salaries are South American standard, U$ 2000 / month is a HUGE salary, yet it doesn't get you that far !

Electronics are also expensive.

Housing is really expensive, rent is higher than anywhere in the U.S. excepting New York or San Francisco, unless you go to REALLY bad neighbourhoods.

And as scott says, it's really bureaucratic.

The only really big pro is that healthcare is good - basic stuff for free and really good coverage for what an American would consider incredibly cheap prices (U$ 70/month gets you coverage that includes house visits and emergency services which I've heard are impossible at any cost in the US, and U$ 100/month gets you into the very best hospital in the country.

The country is nice, we have nice beaches, I believe the people are friendly, etc. but that's true in several places :)
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That's the gist of the article... that the state achieves control over society not via forceful means, but more subtle psychological action, political apathy and instilling materialism.
64GB of RAM isn't possible on consumer hardware, and costs almost as much as a 1TB SSD. A high-quality cache drive on the order of 120-256GB is way cheaper and gets rid of most disk bottlenecks, and is automatically managed rather than requiring the user to write scripts to create a RAM disk for each game.
How about bittorrent sync for that purpose?
Here's a bitcoin/tor "equivalent": http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion/ or http://torbrokerge7zxgq.onion.to/
I disagree with your negative views on Bootstrap. Most people don't need, nor can they afford a custom webpage, and bootstrap is perfect for that.

Developing a webpage for $500 is going to get you Bootstrapped the fuck out, nothing more, nothing less.
Just see some images. Not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at.
I actually debated this quite a bit and went back and forth on it. I eventually decided that I wanted to keep it as simple as possible and figured that people might have a bunch of people add photos and then they could switch it to view-only to share with other people. Or they could create a copy of the album that they can reorder and delete extraneous photos that they can share in view-only mode.

I'd certainly consider tweaking it, though, to make it possible to share a view-only and collaborative album simultaneously.
There's RubyMotion for the Ruby crowd as well. You can use Java as well (though possibly just for Games): http://www.robovm.org
Does your e-mail client auto-complete?
Related: clipboard history tools eg. ClipMenu for OSX
http://www.clipmenu.com/
When is the US not at war though? Almost never as far as I know.
I think that there are a lot of professional-quality robotics projects that one can do, if you look at specialties that use robots. "Robot" is a loaded term that conjures up generalized images of the stuff you read and see in movies. Look into keywords like "automation", "mechatronics", etc...
Examples: Silicon wafer handlers, pick-and-place machines, vacuum cleaners, beer pourers, recycling sorters, package handlers, CNC machines, etc... An especially interesting field is open-source prosthetics.

There are prosumers making these types of robotics projects in their garages/local hackerspaces. There are many online forums where people sharing their builds as well, and many times these builds are actually used in production situations.

Also a high-quality robotics platform in no way needs to cost $1000. If you're on a budget just go to a local hobby shop, spend $100 on a chassis + wheels + motors and order some $0.10 sensors online.
It screwed up the balance and if state governments are "corrupt" then it is up to the citizens of that state to fix it.

Given the ability to travel, my dream amendment would be to have the sitting governor of each state be that states single senator. That would stop some of the budget busting stupidity of Senators who have never done a budget.