skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they do similar things, but have different funding models. since ghostery makes money from selling stats to advertisers you need to be a bit more careful when configuring it if you want complete privacy (disable reporting and enable automatic selection of new updates).

there was a bit of a bitch fight between the developers here a few days ago - i couldn't find it on google, but if you can then it gives some context.

personally, i install both. they seem to run fine together.
They prided themselves on getting big without radio airplay, which is where I think the OP got confused. I think Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter got radio airplay, for example. They're certainly big enough now, and metal is big enough, that there is actual radio play, but things were different in the early 80s.
There's discussion on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957423
Are you reading the same book as me, there is NO (FULL STOP) chapter named becoming a better typist. There is a note with that title at page 100 (ebook not sure on book), its also 4 short paragraphs long.

Is the entire book great? No, to be honest it touched too little on the C side for me, and yeah the punk analogies was a bit annoying at times, but it did get me to look critically at how I wrote c. Much like this blog I'm writing for clarity first and not optimization.

What would you recommend for a c programming book instead of this book?
Seriously happy about this software - lastpass and its commercial ilk: why would I trust my life (ok passwords) to a car where I'm not allowed to open the hood?
Activation Energy
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Why that is even necessary. Stature and contribution of Turing is well beyond this royal drama.
This (the "no difference between AKs and machetes" stuff, which you seem to have edited out) would be a telling response, except that the Hutu had AKs; they did their killing with machetes not because machetes were all they had, but because machetes were what they preferred.

Thank you, all the same, for helping me boil down this argument to its very bones. I'm talking about killing; y'all are talking about guns -- but there doesn't seem to be a general recognition of the distinction between the two. I've flailed in the direction of recognizing that distinction before, but thinking about your response was just what I needed to put my finger squarely on it. Thanks again! I greatly appreciate that.
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Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.
I think you may have hit on the crux of it. If any stronger repudiation were offered, would that be the government opening itself up to 25000 expensive lawsuits?
My initial reaction was "it's about time", but I'm unsure what to make of it after reading:

"Unfortunately, I cannot feel that such a 'pardon' embodies any good legal principle. If anything, it suggests that a sufficiently valuable individual should be above the law which applies to everyone else." Dr Andrew Hodges

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the royal pardon was long overdue, but also due to "another 50,000-plus men who were also convicted of consenting, victimless homosexual relationships during the 20th century".

They haven't done enough.

Also, this article is much better than the BBC one. At least this actually mentions his influence in starting the field of CS.
Noah Glass deserves all the credit, IMO.

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-cofounder-noah-glass-...

"Originally, (Twitter) was all running on my laptop on my desk. An IBM Thinkpad. Using a Verizon wireless card. It was right there on my desk. I could just pick it up and take it anywhere in the world. That was a really fun time."
"TONE-DEAF DOUCHE EXPOSES ONE WEIRD TRICK TO GET YOU MASSIVE TRAFFIC AND HELLA BACKLINKS!"

"MATT CUTTS HATES HIM"
Thanks for the good link!

Ok, here they produce 1-sun intensity by having a 10 km mirror at 1000 km height, focusing on a 10 km terrestrial array.

That's a similar angular diameter, 1/100, as the sun, so from the receiver's point of view it can appear as powerful as the sun. I'm surprised that the numbers work out like that.

Maybe you could create a huge "death ray" constellation with 10x solar intensity and whose ground track (all sats in the same ground track) was filled with liquid cooled solar panels. Over the ocean it would just kill everything in its path.
Ture, but notice how easy and natural it is in Haskell. You can do the same thing in Python, as noted in the comment by jordigh -- but it takes ~40 lines, as opposed to ~8 lines in Haskell. I'm willing to bet that it's even more verbose in C++, and I don't even want to think about doing it in Java.
Passman's "All You Need to Know About the Music Business" is undeniably less slanted than Albini's piece already mentioned, but I think does just as good a job illustrating how crooked label contracts are if one is not careful. I have never seen contracts in software so bad. It seems to me like you're confusing the legitimacy of the general model with what actually happens in particular in this specific industry.
On the one hand, that makes me want to decry the state of the world and of our profession. On the other, it's kind of heartening to know that that's the state of the competition (so to speak) when I want to change jobs.
Haha, me too. I would think there should be "(2012)" in the title, but I don't know what the policy is for applying that.
I was under the impression this kind of thing - a stack of links at the bottom of content, with the same links duplicated across many posts/domains - was automatically penalized through the floor.
Excellent principled stand by Mikko.

Minor problem ".... In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans."

Incorrect - NSA surveillance most definitely HAS targeted Americans in America. That is precisely what the Snowden disclosures show - leaving aside all the contortions of "Only Collecting data is not surveillance - Metadata is not Surveillance, etc, etc"
Buggery. It's been illegal many places for a very long time because it spreads disease. The sodomy laws were effectively repealed and we got AIDS. It was not a coincidence.
Price gouging is supply and demand. It's just supply and demand in ways that seem particularly unfair, like withholding food to make a profit.

As noted elsewhere in this thread, the alternative is a shortage—that is, not being able to acquire it for any price. Wanting to make a good or service unavailable to anyone at any price is... odd.

See http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/01/munger_on_price_1.h... for more.
Pfft, it's not fashion sense when you're wearing shades indoors. It's a boorish debauchery, utmost disrespect.

Furthermore, it's easier to be a douchenozzle with shades on, because eye contact tends to make one more susceptible to the crowd's feelings.
That's whack!
Homebrew DIY EEG, EKG & EMG
I've found going from Gnome to E is like going from MS Paint to Photoshop -- the basics are largely the same, but the latter has a ton more power-user settings and features.

(The things that I personally can't live without being the treatment of multiple desktops on multiple monitors, and the vast variety of key bindings)
Yes it is a terrible word to use, but these pardons have been issued to innocent people in the past and I suppose it has just stuck over time.
> straw man argument

In what way is it a straw man argument?

> copying software is not zero sum.

This doesn't seem to contradict the parent post, nor affect its argument.
Note up until this transition around 2001 the NSA was focused on controlling the key length of cryptography available.

They gave up on that and chose to focus instead on stealing the keys
Good with one liners? Post a Christmas themed one.
Here is my first submission:

https://gist.github.com/bliti/8107315
> Silicon Valley: Strong Democrat

Sure (though its a horrible name for the Greater Bay Area as a state.)

> West California (Santa Barabara, right?): Medium/Light Dem

West CA is the big state in the proposal [1] -- it includes LA. Its pretty solid D.

> Jefferson (Humbolt?): Strong Dem

If it was just Humboldt and Mendocino, sure. But the rest of Jefferson is strongly Republican. Overall, Jefferson seems pretty red.

> South California: Strong Dem

South California is strong alright -- strong Republican. The Democratic-leaning parts of Southern California are in West California in the proposal.

> Central California: Medium Dem (because of Sacto)

Sacramento County itself is only weakly Democratic (Going for Dems in Presidential elections every election since 1992, but for Republicans for Governor every election since 1982 except 1998 and 2010) -- and would probably become less Democratic if a lot of the current state government headquartered there was redistributed out to the other new states.

But, in any case, Sacramento County isn't in Central California in the proposal, its in North California.

The counties that are in Central California in the proposal would make it a solid red state.

> North California: Solid Dem (?)

North California's is probably the most competitive state of the six. Its got some strongly Democratic counties, some strongly Republican ones, and Sacramento, which we discussed earlier. Its the one I see as potentially swinging the balance between 4/2 in favor of Republicans to a 3/3 balance.

But, either way, its a win for Republicans in the Senate (+2 net margin for them if it goes from 1/0 in California to 3/3 in Six Californias) and potentially much bigger win in terms of Presidential electoral votes.

[1] https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/13-0063%20%...?
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Agreed. I cannot recommend that book enough. It's a natural extension of The Good Parts and should be considered required reading (in the same way that Effective Java is for Java developers).
From my interviews over the last few months, apparently it is a large number of developers. I've had interviewers check that when I say javascript I don't mean jQuery.
Something in what you wrote reminds me of the many men shot for "cowardice" during WWI, some of whom were pardoned[1].

Many of those shot were suffering from PTSD (then called shell shock).

It is painful to consider the unjust fate of many people in the past, and even those alive today (would you care to take a walk in the Congo or Rwanda and discuss justice with those you might meet? Or perhaps take a walk in Syria?).

I really don't wish to contradict the sentiment of your statement, but only to say that "justice" is sometimes a luxury, and one which we should try to provide for everyone.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/hundreds-o...
> > South California="Strong Democrat"

> This is not true. Orange County and San Diego County can go Republican and drag LA County with it.

Well, except for LA being in West California. Which makes "South California = Strong Democrat" even less true.
>Everyone expects them to be performing espionage

This comment is very trite. Everyone expects them to be performing espionage, but dragnet surveillance of civilians on this scale, domestic or foreign, is completely unprecedented and unacceptable.
It used to be complete overlap [1], I don't think it's that way anymore but Amazon is still worse by a lot.

[1] Circa Sep 2012: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEwtLdSs6cc/UFUeVg1WMiI/AAAAAAAAAA...
I thought I was watching an Onion video for a while there, but nope.. real.
I went cold turkey with the freelancing. I got a job big enough to pull others into, we worked well together, we formed a company.
Now, fill the house with renters paying 10% of the purchase price per year. Mortgage property to 75%, recouping capital at a fixed interest rate. Re-invest capital into index ETF.

Opportunities are what you make of them.
Ahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha. This is so amusingly silly and ignorant. No wonder the commentor's other posts are nearly full scale denial of racism and sexism.

Yep. HIV has been waiting around for centuries of humans screwing each other (m/f, f/f, m/m, m/m/f/f/x/y/z) and they just waited until the British Empire came along, passed buggary laws, and then repealed them to take off.

I wish I had you peoples' power of self delusion. I could just convince myself of all sorts of things that just fit my world view instead of reality.
I hope so, it should pay, and heavily. If it was my tax pound I'd support this. The minimum amount of harm this discrimination caused is pretty high, and there is little than can be done to correct this. Financial compensation is about the best thing actually possible, so do it while the victims are still alive. The lame option of waiting until 99% of the victims are dead, then offering some kind of pardon is vastly more likely however.
So much this. It drives me nuts that the narrative on this issue always seems to boil down to the idea that Turing somehow earned not being persecuted for being gay through his efforts in the war and the injustice was that the government didn't live up to its end of the bargain, not the fact that he and many others were driven to suicide or horrible lives by this terrible law.
I don't know what they mean by 200%, but E has the best crash handling of any app I've ever seen -- where any other desktop environment crashing would send you back to the login screen, E pops up a menu allowing you to attach a debugger, or you can just click "continue" to re-launch the WM and have it pick up exactly where it left off (in particular, remembering which windows are attached to which virtual desktops and stuff like that)
I do delight in the use of formal language, and thank you for the compliment inherent in the adverb you chose; the best things in life, after all, are the result of artifice.

It's obvious enough that killing someone with a firearm is easier than doing likewise with a brick. For a civilized, i.e. domesticated, human, acting upon the urge to kill at all is harder than either; a large part of what we call "civilization" consists in overcoming our murderous heritage. (Or did you think we humans have ended up our entire planet's uncontested apex predator, so much so that many of us never even have to hunt, because we're just so nice?)

And have you considered the possibility that, once you've clobbered somebody in the head with a brick the first time, your perspective on the matter might change? God forfend I should ever find myself in such a position! But I think it reasonable to imagine that, once there, it might seem at least as sensible to keep going as to stop. "Escalation of commitment," I think it's called.
Have you read the accounts of people in Wisconsin having their signature on the "Recall Walker" petition begin retaliated against by state officials? This is the most well-known case, but not the only one.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-with...
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Interesting. I haven't really read that book but it seems that most really successful people have had to behave in very cutthroat ways no? Of course I may be saying this with subject to some selection bias. We have our standard set of Bill Gates, Zuck, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, etc to provide some weight to the statement but I'm sure there are many many noble leaders that I haven't heard of that weren't as ruthless but maybe that's why they haven't achieved the same level of success? I'm not sure.

I'd love to read the book but I'd love it even more if you could give an overview of the sentiments echoed in "Hatching Twitter".

In any case, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you that Jack is an unlikable person, but was simply pointing out that almost every time someone has said "Oh he thinks he's Steve Jobs", it's often to downplay the story at hand. It's cool that Jack is on the board of Disney, that a significant accomplishment.
> This is just an attempt to get attention. States can't just decide to split themselves into multiple states, it requires federal legislation.

It requires both State action and federal legislation. But the State action is clearly a required step.

> The only state that can split itself up is Texas, which was part of the agreement to bring the Republic of Texas into the union.

As your own link notes, that agreement specifically cited that it could only be done subject to the requirements of the Constitution, which would seem to mean that Texas can do it exactly as much as any other state can -- that is, with action of the State legislature and the federal Congress.
Do you really think the law made that much difference? Why not just pass a law requiring condom use. Would that make you happy?
I also have some knowledge on the industry - I am tied into a musical scene myself. Naturally I have lots of close friends who work in the industry, most through freelancing & some pretty successful (with music featured in big name TV shows, film, and AAA game titles), but a few in decently known/well-known bands.

Not all labels are corrupt - there are some I've heard bands praise effusely. However, all I have heard about the big 4 is pretty damning. Some of the smaller ones out there also suck too.

I speak this as someone who is passionate about music & has many more friends who do music for a living than most. I don't like some of the exploitation of artists by tech companies either, but that's a completely different topic.
Why, you flatter me, sir! I am just a half-bright reader of old books who feels himself moved to imitate, however poorly, the gracious use of language he finds therein -- but I thank you very kindly, all the same.
"We're investing this now". Those 4 words are the Kiss of Death.
Shameless plug: you can also download their latest accounts for free from http://www.twilam.com/ as long as they are among the 90% (and growing) of companies who file their accounts electronically.
There are quite a lot of anti-pollution and other laws that work very well. Why wouldn't they?
You have to protect the society as well. If someone does damage to your property, I assume you'd think it's ok to protect you against that? What if the property is owned by the state? Or is an important natural resource that is not owned by anyone, but depended on by millions, or even billions?

Also, where do the laws come from? Many environmental laws enacted by nations are influenced by international treaties - this is required because many environmental problems don't respect borders. Take for example waste water cleaning and the Baltic Sea.

It is hard to create such treaties. But it has been done and can be done in the future.
Re: JVM back-end, there hasn't been much work on it lately.
It currently passes a portion of the test suite, but progress is stalled due to lack of effort.

Re: Mono, they are always improving it and it's definitely better than it was several years ago.

Cobra does not currently place much emphasis on immutability and pattern matching.
Sexual intercourse of any kind spreads disease. AIDS didn't become an epidemic because of anal intercourse. It's pretty clear that AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases spread just as well from almost any kind sexual activity, and many of them -- including AIDS -- spread from any transfer of bodily fluids at all.

Going further, I'd wager that any form of interpersonal contact, even non-sexual, is as likely to spread some form of disease. Why not enact a law which requires any person to don a hazmat suit before venturing into public space? Or better yet, a law which forbids any person from entering public space?
Similarly, I've had nice results combining Zapf Renaissance Antiqua text (via XeTeX fontspec) with Palatino maths and Optima headings.
Second one:

https://gist.github.com/bliti/8107423
Pardon everyone convicted under similar statues and knight Turing posthumously for his efforts during the war and his contributions to computer science.
Thanks for taking a public stand against this. I like to muse about whether the rot is so entrenched that anything can clean it out now, but principled people taking a stand is a good thing.
Ask HN: Is anyone else disgusted with UEFI?
BBC please do not make any of the royal drama news headlines.
Awesome, thanks! I just found out about google Script today - was thinking my only choice would be something like Greasemonkey - so very grateful for all this.
Oddly, you're the second person to have misspelled it as "investing" when quoting it on this thread. Is this like a rogue / rouge thing that people get commonly tripped up on?
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Thought I'd stick this link here - great place. http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk
Last time I was there, 10 or 15 years ago, they were redecorating the house (can you call it that?). They had a load of really old fittings like taps etc in a skip. I still regret not asking if I could take one or 2. Having a few taps from that amazing place would be so great. I spent days of time there over the course of a year, and met a few of the people who worked their who knew Turing (by sight, not personally). You can see Turing's room at the place too. It was fascinating to talk to people who worked there during the amazing period Turing worked through.
New CNN Poll Shows Obama Is Losing His Own Base Over Obamacare (Video)
I think they just mean that Iron Maiden have never got that saturation level of mainstream radio play that some top pop hits get. At least in Australia they are massively popular among metal fans but in the mainstream they don't have anywhere near the brand awareness as say someone like one direction.
Why post this when you only have a single insertion sort in C? Practically, this has zero use compared to books which include algorithms, illustrations, and code.
They used to lock you up for adultery, too, right up to the 60s. Disease was a consideration. So it's not just a matter of targeting gays.

> AIDS didn't become an epidemic because of anal intercourse

Yes it did. This is not remotely controversial. Aids and many other STDs are spread chiefly by buggery. This is why the red cross does not want blood donations from homosexuals.
I think the ridiculous outfit and antics is part of their shtick...I am sure they are aware that they look and act ridiculous.

If there is a point to criticize them on, it would be that they are making fun of rappers and rap/hip-hop culture, the same culture they are no doubt trying to appropriate to the tune of many millions I would guess.
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I believe that the above comment is misguided on a number of levels, especially the (assumed) bigoted nature of the writer, but first, note that in New York, one of the major American centers of the HIV/AIDS crisis (with the other being San Francisco), sodomy laws were only repealed by court order in 1980 [1], while AIDS was first clinically observed in America in 1981 [2].

Second, it is widely considered that the spread of HIV (which causes AIDS) was a result of (heterosexual) prostitution. If you look at [2], we see that it was spread extensively by African prostitutes from rural Congo, an almost uniquely heterosexual phenomenon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Onofre
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#History
I might be able to help you look for a position at my current employer. Email is on my personal page linked off of my profile.
I'd turn the question around: what's the evidence they want well-crafted apps developed with native SDKs or otherwise?

I don't think there is anything like evidence (in the scientific sense) for either position.

I do think the ratio of free to free+IAP to up-front-purchase apps supports my contention rather than the other--people get what they pay for, and they apparently don't want to pay very much for apps. To my mind, this means they don't want to pay for the development effort required to sustain well-crafted apps (or else they believe the development effort required to be either less than what it really is or else that it's overpriced).

This is of course a generalization; as such there are exceptions.