skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experimental support ala prefixes is still happening, they just stick it behind prefs now, so devs can turn them on to experiment with, but they can't be used in production sites. This was done in response to webkit becoming the new IE6, especially in mobile land, where countless (shitty) devs were using prefixed properties as essential parts of their stylesheets, thus breaking sites for other perfectly good browsers like Firefox and Opera.

Also grid isn't really a case of IE being forward thinking, Microsoft just happened to create the grid spec, so it's more a case of pushing their own solution, rather than being fast on implementing a new tech.
Tech Trust Index shows consumers trust Google and Amazon but not Sprint and AOL
If only we lived in a world where refusal to believe a fact changed the reality of that fact.
> it takes a special kind of arrogance for this
young man to believe his moral judgment
on the dilemma suddenly trumps that of two
(incredibly different) presidents, both houses
of the U.S. Congress, both political parties,
the U.S. court system and more than 30,000 of
his co-workers.

Here's the counterpoint to this opinion:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsber...

> "You will deal with a person who doesn't have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you'll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You'll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you'll become something like a moron. You'll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours."

To be clear, I think this is a highly complex issue and needs a lot of careful thought. I'm not at all suggesting General Hayden is wrong. I am suggesting that he doesn't believe an open, democratic debate about it serves any purpose.

To be more precise, the most misleading thing in the first quote is the bit about trumping two presidents, congress, both political parties and the courts. Plainly, given what we now know, a large proportion of these mentioned have been misinformed and not allowed to consider and debate what has been happening. And I include the courts here, thanks to parallel construction.

Also on the same lines, about the lack of debate, David Foster Wallace:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-ask...

I don't think you should be surprised that most of Hacker News is currently upset and only considering one side of the story. This is the debate that everyone has needed but has been suppressed up to now. Naturally, it rebounds stronger when it finally comes.
An alternate opinion: Facebook is heading toward the Trough of Disillusionment of the Hype Cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Facebook was so ridiculously hot a few years ago that it couldn't possibly have met all of its expectations for changing how we all communicate, replacing all other messaging mediums, dominating how we shop and buy, the portal for all things entertainment, etc.

> Teens likely see Facebook the same way the Facebook generation sees LinkedIn – like a utilitarian place to manage connections.

This sounds a lot like the Plateau of Productivity to me.
I think you would be better off implementing something easier to use like dogecoin. The reddit community seems to be adopting it, and it seems much more reasonable to buy 1000 doge for $1 than .00001 BTC

BTC has a huge problem and the mBTC uBTC just ended up confusing people even more.
A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

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FTC != FCC. Also Google didn't admit guilt in said settlement.

It's not a question of deception, it's about a bug that was patched once disclosed with no indication to it being anything other than a mistake. It's a petty case brought by petty people, and your factless defence of their "cause" is puzzling.
I see it so much around me. Small Whatsapp groups, going back to sharing with just the ones we want to share it with. No content police. No long on-line history.
Opinion here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/191876642/Klayman-v-Obama
I think Facebook will change from a product to a technology conglomerate, similar to Yahoo or Google.
Europa (moon of Jupiter) may have plate tectonics
Moxie are you communicating with the DarkMail guys at all? I'm sure they would appreciate your input.
Why not let the person submitting the request set the value? All the maintainer would have to set is a cap, so no strange values slip by on accident. The value of specific issues and milestones could be determined as a function of the global cap.
EDIT: I looked at the opinion a little more closely, though I still haven't read it in its entirety. The judge's order only "(1) bars the Government from collecting, as part of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, any telephony metadata associated with their personal Verizon accounts and (2) requires the Government to destroy any such metadata in its possession that was collected through the bulk collection program."

So by its terms, the judge's order only applies to these plaintiffs. However, if the opinion is upheld on appeal (see below), it seems unlikely that the NSA would continue the bulk program against anyone without individualized suspicion. If the opinion is upheld it would indeed be very easy for anyone else to sue and get a similar order.

EDIT 2: Footnote 69 of the opinion confirms that it applies only to two plaintiffs, Larry Klayman and Charles Strange. Other plaintiffs did NOT get relief, apparently because they didn't prove they were telephone subscribers.

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ORIGINAL COMMENT

I have a law degree from Stanford, but I have not read the opinion in its entirety, so this is quite possibly premature. The judge ruled that the program is unconstitutional. Typically, the remedy for such a ruling would be for the judge to enjoin the program. That would prohibit the NSA from continuing surveillance against everyone, not just the two plaintiffs.

However, the judge stayed his own ruling, meaning that he will not issue an injunction at this time. He did that to let the government appeal, which it will undoubtedly do. In other words, the ruling will not take effect unless and until it is upheld on appeal. The case was decided in the District of DC, so it will go to the DC Circuit, and (potentially) the Supreme Court. So it could be a long time before it has any effect at all.

Regarding Zikes's comment, unfortunately a district court court opinion has little precedential value. It is not binding on other federal district courts, even within the district where it was decided. It may be persuasive, and it can certainly be cited, but it has no power to bind other federal courts. If it is upheld by the DC Circuit, it will carry a lot more weight.
Even if we suppose that panspermia is likely, it is still important that we avoid cross-contamination ourselves. Discovering that panspermia took place through natural processes would tell us a lot about how prevalent and resilient life may be in the universe. Furthermore, two instances of life with the same abiogenesis point, isolated and diverged sometime in the past, would be very valuable for biologists.
Hi All,

We are working to set up a gear store. Hopefully, we'll be able to announce it early in the new year.

In the meantime, if you know someone who is an e-commerce / systems integration expert, please point them at this opening:

http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oOP3Xfwn

Thanks,

G.
As a liberal who supports social justice, the social contract, and health care reform and the like, it feels really weird to find myself cheering Freedomworks and tea party types on when we agree on something.
It's a different market with different customer mind sets. More importantly, "cool" is relative. Coke is family oriented, aka not cool. This allows pepsi to be "cool" by associating its brand with "hot" celebrities and trends. On the other hand, Facebook has nothing older to compare to. It's "cool" relative to myspace I suppose.
and if you keep going down the rabbit hole you'll end up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
The one I linked to ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400 ) would, it was a different example.

As for the original bug, this post: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349259#c82 seems to suggest every browser but Firefox supports changing line-height. Wouldn't Firefox be going against the expected behavior?
Yikes...

"In 2012, Klayman filed on behalf of a Florida resident an unsuccessful challenge to Barack Obama's placement on the primary ballot and claimed that the latter is not a natural-born citizen."
Another perception of this money driven world
I never understood Yuri's involvement. I always thought his investment philosophy was to enter at the Series B or later stage.

On another note, here's a recent anecdote (the plural of anecdote is not data!) about Khosla Ventures. A successful entrepreneur ($300M exit under his belt; CEO of $5B company) was in advanced talks (post-term sheet) to raise funding from them. Out of the blue, Khosla came back with a list of demands such as adding a 3rd co-founder. Obviously just one situation, but left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
The Business of Medical Marijuana
I think FB is simply transitioning from product to utility, like electricity.

Just one example is its utility to sign up and log in to other services, which is 95%+ of my FB activity.
That starts to happen, when you are halfway through your fifth red bull in an hour ;)
From their bottom line. Maybe the prices they charge are too low. If they can't afford to do business by the law, they shouldn't be in business. Someone who actually complies with the law will fill the void.
The PRISM documents (not the same as the PRISM program) proved that the NSA had access to Google's servers. Google claimed that they didn't give the NSA access, and at the time many people assumed they were lying.

But a later Snowden leak showed that the NSA was tapping Google's fiber in a way consistent with the extra information we knew they were getting for PRISM, so Google appears not to have lied about that after all. The codename for the tap is apparently MUSCULAR[1].

Google is still totally turning over tons of data to the NSA under PRISM[2], but that goes through Google's lawyers and the court system so bad as it is, direct server access is much worse.

[1]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/new-docs-show-nsa...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
I'm going to try this out. I'm a freelancer who wants to contribute front-end dev/UX/UI to OSS crypto projects but don't have the ability to join a project full-time. Plus most of my "free" time where I'd normally contribute to OSS, I'm now writing or maintaining my own projects.

I'm going to dig into WhisperSystems to see if there is anywhere I can contribute.

Hopefully more OSS apps do this.

It'd be nice if more projects open-sourced their marketing landing pages or homepage as well. I'd love to be able to do conversion-optimization and copywriting for OSS projects, instead of just programming.
I wrote that the alternative would be living on welfare with no prospects and no opportunities to learn skills.

Sounds pretty good.

Amazon is offering a real job instead.

As compared to what, a fake job? What does "real" add in this context, except dragging in a needless comparison to posturing sentences like "a real man never calls an ambulance". "Real" translating to hard work for low pay?
All social networks have remarkably short golden eras. That said, even though Facebook is declining, I still think all the articles about the "end of the Facebook era" and "death of Facebook" are sensational and exaggerated. They're still, what?... The second or the third highest traffic website internationally? Over a billion registered accounts (regardless of whether only half are legitimate and being used, it's a lot).

As the author noted though, Facebook can still thrive in the "cool factor" with their acquisitions.
I'm not sure where all the bitterness comes from but obviously I'm not comparing an amateurish attempt at optimizing a terminal-based snake game written in Pascal to the genius of Carmack, those are two entirely different things.

And yes, I did that while I was in highschool, which is still years after Carmack did his deed. It was around uh... 2005?

I thought I'd just share an interesting "hack" I did when I was a teenager which, to me, felt like a real genius trick to smooth gameplay. Back then my code was literally a lot of messy spaghetti goto hell, so you can understand how much of a novice I was.

I recommend re-reading what I said, I never claimed I "pretty much" did what Carmack did, just that the idea behind incremental upgrades was "pretty much" similar to Carmack's genius. No more, no less.
Another way to avoid the flickering was to wait for the screen refresh interrupt before writing to the video buffer, but it did slow things down if you weren't careful.
Slow rolling a launch reminds me of how the Facebook mafia tends to roll out their companies in measured and targeted ways, rather than trying to go viral all at once.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/13/inside-the-dna-of-the-faceb...

(scroll down to "controlled pacing")
I don't suppose they'll use the same definition of 'related' while destroying data as when they actually collected it.
They've been doing it since you could tag people in status messages and comments just by typing their name, which has probably been around 2-4 years, maybe longer.
Very interesting. A few years back, I was fascinated to see how much Facebook had become the native medium for the whippersnappers. Some of our interns thought of email like I thought of fax machines.

But even if Facebook is prone to stumble, I'd encourage entrepreneurs not to try to be the "next Facebook". As I wrote elsewhere [1]: "Honestly, there probably won't be a 'next Facebook', for the same reason there hasn't been a next Amazon, next Oracle, next Google, or next Apple. There hasn't even been a next Yahoo, because the secret to success for many startups wasn't being another Yahoo, it was being different. Something you should think hard on: Zuckerberg didn't set out to make the next Facebook, or the next anything. He was just making something fun for himself and his fellow Harvard students. It was only when he saw how powerful his creation was that his ambitions increased."

This seems especially relevant to me now that I'm seeing ads around San Francisco for two new social networks that are lamely trying to be the next Facebook.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Entrepreneurship/Is-it-foolish-to-go-t...
A lot of us are in it not just for the money. Sure enterprise companies can pay many times more, but who cares? Literally, who cares? You will never be "cool" by building the next oracle. And that's why most of us don't want to be the next oracle.
If you are located in a major city and are looking for low-cost legal services, seek out intellectual property or entrepreneurship clinics at local law schools.
In Chicago: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/elc/
In SF: http://www.usfca.edu/law/ipjustice/
Let's have dinner—but don't bring your wife, please
That was written before the October leaks that showed what's actually going on.
Only if you adopt a libertarian's view of the word and concept of "force". On the other hand, if you're willing to accept that life has nuance, it makes a great deal of sense.
Ha, didnt notice that! Korea really was the Forgotten War.
That is it ? What about prosecuting the people responsible ? When are they going behind the bars ?
The constitution makes a distinction between "person" and "citizen" and is careful to grant rights to "people" and not just "citizens". This is why freedom of speech applies to illegal immigrants and visitors and not just US citizens.
I've been looking at Rethinkdb for an upcoming project that has a decent amount of relational data. Rethinkdb seems a lot different from Mongodb in that it's partially designed to accomodate relational queries. Has that been your experience?

Also, does Rethinkdb have any kind of transactional capabilities?
> Learn a systems programming language and a functional language

Not trying to start a language war or anything but would really appreciate learning what you (would have) started with especially on the functional side of things.
"I never gave anyone (especially not the users of WhatsApp or Telegram) permission to upload my personal information to any cloud services."

On Android you do by granting rights to access your contacts and give full network permissions. So you never know what a program will do with your contacts and a network connection.
If the contract is voluntary it is advantageous to both or else it wouldn't be entered into.

I think the fundamental disconnect here, is the people you are debating with believe that Amazon should have made it more advantageous for the workers, because as the workers have no other options it would be the nice thing to do.
This portion of existing US copyright law is a bit curious. On the one hand, letting artists 'have a second bite of the apple' if their work turns out to be so lucrative that the original terms are inappropriate sounds good. On the other hand, not letting someone sell all of their rights seems a limitation on personal freedom and we should recognize that publishers often risk paying an artist for a work that is a commercial dud.

Further, this means that code that was once GPL or public domain could be reverted back to private ownership by the author or his heirs after 35 years. This would likely be a mess, would subsequent revisions be considered derivative infringement?
Remote voting sought to ease coast-to-coast commute
No, the odds for switching at the real show are 66-33 and the odds at the fake show are 50-50, you might as well switch after the reveal (what you are calling 'better odds' boils down to 'sometimes you can see the car so you switch to it'. When you see a goat, you have equal information for the remaining doors.).
Bad idea, US could shoot up their own rocket and that rock your threatening with is now falling on you instead.
Nobody said it yet, so I have to do it: Happy Hacking Keyboard
Antibacterial soaps have been shown to be slightly more effective at removing bacteria than non-anti bacteria soaps. (http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02405-07)

Safer? Probably not. Probably not worth the risks.
C and Lisp.
I'm a Software Engineer at a small time company and I have two semesters of general education at a community college but I don't hold a degree.

Our Senior SE doesn't hold a degree either and he's worked in the industry for over 10 years.
Either definition works. You can take advantage of (exploit) someone at their expense, or your can take advantage of (leverage) their capabilities to mutual gain.

Frank took advantage of Amazon's 2-day shipping to do his last-minute Christmas shopping
I believe MS came up with the grid spec, or at least the original draft editors were three MS employees and glazou: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-grid-layout-20110407/ . This was published five days before the first platform preview of IE10.

It does seem like a neat spec though, I’d welcome inclusion as another tool in the box.
I'd argue that Facebook is actually the next AOL (a tool for managing your connections, communicating, and viewing curated content in a walled garden). Teenagers in the late 90s/early 00s lived on AOL in the same way that they later lived on Facebook. But you don't become the next anything by trying to be it, you try to become something different, and it's only in hindsight that they look the same.

It's also true that the company that looks indomitable today is seen as an anachronism tomorrow. At one point there were lawsuits against AOL to open up the instant messenger network because it was seen as an anti-competitive monopoly. Now nobody seems to care.
I don't need to. The BND, MAD, BfV and LfVs are not remotely doing anything like the NSA - not in scale and not in breadth.
I have had this happen to me once. I am from India and we used to have this quite often when cell phones were just starting out, we even had a name for them - "cross connection". I could hear conversations but it happened only once. For what its worth, Skype tends to act up for me whenever there are rains in the location where I am calling to.
>> Teens likely see Facebook the same way the Facebook generation sees LinkedIn – like a utilitarian place to manage connections.

This is why the "millennials are leaving Facebook" worry isn't actually real. Yes, middle schoolers and high schoolers aren't using Facebook. They are at a stage in their life where the idea of their parents being able to see into their life is scary. Their social circle is also disproportionately made up of people they can easily see every day. Facebook's utility for contact management, event planning, and keeping in touch doesn't really begin until people turn 18 and go out on their own. This doesn't even begin to touch the ease of using it to sign up for other products that are built on top of it.
Hi all,

Your suspicion is fair enough. Price range is from $200 for individual domains but will be happy to discuss if buying as a group. I'm not looking to make five figures off this.
Federal courts apparently as per the constitution.
Yes, there is risk in buying dedicated hardware but the risk is quite reasonable. The R9 290x GPUs are brand new and in high demand. If for some reason the altcoin market collapses I can sell them close to their original cost.
It's not really that easy. The spread is still not zero and you may still get bad fills if you are slow or if the latency is high enough (assuming that you are taking liquidity).
Your words "this approach is pretty much what Carmack did in his old games."

Let me rephrase in less words, it is absolutely not pretty much what Carmack did. You just "rediscovered" cursor positioning feature introduced eons ago on the character-based terminals. Carmack did something else and with the bit-mapped screens using the specifics of the graphics adapters of that time. The tracking you try to refer to he did on the scrollable pixel addresses, you just did simple character prints for $deity sake!

For the explanation of my opinion, see my previous post.
"If your social views include the view that life should be easy for everyone, ..."

That is a gross mis-characterization of the liberal worldview. The social contract in most modern capitalistic states is that we allow a winner-takes-all economic model as long as we ensure equal opportunity and social mobility. However, wealth and income inequality are at all time highs, and many people on the lower economic and social rungs are stuck in a poverty trap. This isn't about giving people a free lunch, it's about reforming the system to provide more opportunity to those in dire circumstances.

Regarding your craigslist exchange, you took advantage of someone's dire economic situation in order to improve your own. While not illegal, I would argue it is immoral, and this is happening on a much larger scale with Amazon. It is immoral to employ an individual for less than a living wage, regardless of what the market dictates should be the prevailing wage. It might not be Amazon's fault that poverty exists, and no one can blame them for exploiting it to their advantage, but they are benefiting enormously from our capitalistic economic system, and it is entirely reasonable to impose regulations and reforms on the winners in order to restore mobility and opportunity.