skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn! I was hoping that this apartment had just been opened... Although the type of website this article is on did not give me hope about that.

There is no other source for this information? Has anything happened to the place since then? I'd love to shoot some 360 photos in there...
The drunks were just as bad, however they are fairly bad everywhere in my experience. There was just an added layer of trouble. The guy trying to sell me a dolphin was memorable...
I wholeheartedly agree with your point, but why do you use Facebook comments, displayed in a whooping 11px ?
Dig a little deeper on the history of anti-cannabis laws, and you'll find they're rooted primarily in fear of Mexicans and blacks. Sometimes authoritarianism is the goal, not the side effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
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"...burn it to the ground. Then what? What will replace it?"

This is what I keep coming back to. Even if he/she is 100% correct, suggesting we burn it down without offering suggestions for how to make it better afterwards is nothing more than a rant.

Which is fine, if they have something to get off their chest. But this should be recognized as such.
I strongly suspect this depends on how one comes across C. In my experience, people who learn C as a first language seem to develop a much deeper intuition for these subtleties than, say, someone who has cut their chops in higher-level languages and only then progresses (regresses? :)) to C.
Is this like PaintCode or different?
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I would argue that the US didn't fully stabilize until the end of Reconstruction (about 90 years after the revolutionary war).
small typo, under 4 it says a 54-bit machine.

small remark: this will cover dates to 2050

that's a bit of a gamble, not sure I would have done that myself. It's probably ok but you never know in 40 years CVS and your code is still in use somewhere and you'll cause some people headaches :]
I am mentioning projects that have been around before 2013. I'm simply pointing out that one of the large complaints is being taken seriously. Documentation a year ago was basically "install and good luck." This is changing.
Nice post. Something similar that was posted on here a while back is the "Interactive Guide to Blog Typography": http://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/
> I'm not saying this is better.

Introducing weaknesses which adversaries can exploit versus ones which they cannot? It is much better.
Bummer that Hawaii is not in the DB. For once I was actually hoping to see my data leaked somewhere aside from the Adobe incident. Dangit.
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You beat me to it. =) Here is an introductory article http://lwn.net/Articles/335942/
Could you recommend a good place online to order good "tea"? I'd seriously like to try some to get a sense of what real tea is suppose to taste like.
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> Just pay $30 for a Chromecast.

I already own an HDMI cable. The "wrangling" involved plugging that in, along with a dongle for a wireless mouse and keyboard, then turning on High DPI mode.

I get general purpose computing from my couch. None of the living room solutions I've seen so far come anywhere near my experience.
I certainly did not intend to imply that it's somehow less morally reprehensible if it has been done before. I guess what I meant was that people should pay more attention to history - more people should realize that abuses of power like this will happen; there are way too many who still believe that surveillance is all right because the powers that be can be trusted to do the right thing.
Watching the video and looking at some other info, my take on this is that he was A) well aware that arguing points of law with officers on the street is a bad idea (argue them in court later) and B) quite willing to do so anyway. It's not so much that he refused search as that he refused to even get out of the car when told to do so by an officer after a dog alerted on the car. I'm not sure if he was tied in with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones before this or only after the fact, but if it was before then I'd have no real problem considering him an agent provocateur looking for trouble to get into.

I'm well aware that dog alerts are very questionable and are (arguably) regularly used as a pretext for illegal searches, but what you do in these situations is comply with ALL lawful orders (including GET OUT OF THE CAR) but decline to consent to searches. If you're not sure whether an order is lawful, you comply and let the lawyers and judges sort it out later.

Or put differently, "idiot."
Yes, you've pretty much said everything that could be said, without heed to whether any of it was true.

Ugh .. disappointing to say the least.
I wish that I could change do Disqus without losing all of my old comments. I had originally decided on Facebook I believe before this design of the site and now I'm stuck with it—if any one has a hack to change the type I'd love some advice. I can't seem to override the FB CSS.
Oh my. Project much?

Your attempt to rephrase his question to try to suit a silly ideology has nothing to do with "science", is merely your own appeal to emotion, and isn't doing a thing to advance the discussion, moldburg.

Now, do you have anything at all cogent to say about the obvious cultural and economic forces that create differences?
I find iOS autolayout to be horrible, so I agree. Even dealing with iPhone4 vs. iPhone 5 is ridiculously hard for no reason.
You could probably leave off the "faster" in the headline.
What I meant is that abuses of power like this ought not be surprising - there are too many people who think that the powers that be can be trusted to do the right thing wrt surveillance.
ASP.NET Web Forms may have been fine if it was only UI and UI logic rather than an odd mashup of UI + business logic + a crazily complicated page life cycle. The initial versions of ASP.NET MVC used Web Forms purely as a view layer which worked quite well.

At my previous workplace we were converting a classic ASP + ASP.NET Web Forms app to MVC. I really love MVC but I did like the component encapsulation in web forms.
Gotcha, thanks for the additional info. I might give this a try. I like how your approach requires some active work in order to check a day off, and how it automatically gives you a history of what you've done each day. I've tried the "Jerry Seinfeld calendar" approach, but it's a bit too easy to get lazy or cheat when your only sign of progress is an "x" on a calendar with no real evidence of work attached to it.
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NSA spying has triggered a crazy chain reaction of countermeasures
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I don't have my own idea, but I am looking to join someone's journey.

I am developer from Europe and I can work part-time if anyone has an interesting idea or startup. I can work with: PHP, Ruby on Rails and Android.
Websites that offer products/services but don't list any pricing information other than contact forms for quotes might be my biggest industry pet peeve. I will find a way to not need that product and go with a competitor or an open-source implementation. It's what led me to do research on e-discovery companies and confirm what people like David Tempest fear - if law firms knew how cheap it was to develop their own technologies there's no way they'd pay what they do except to prevent discovery in the first place.

Except in this case, there is no way or extremely limited ways of getting the same information so they get to profit from that as well. Hopefully the academic community comes together on this topic and maybe forms some large alliance with the resources to compete.
Depends on how you interpret "mistake." I don't think that improving the language is necessarily a mistake, but the way they did it is a mistake. It should have been an absolute requirement that, one way or t'other, a user could employ 2.x libraries transparently. No change should have been allowed until and unless a way was found to make it not impact backward ecosystem compatibility. This is a law of nature that was ignored and 3.x is paying the price that anyone could have predicted (and most did.)

Not ensuring library compatibility was lazy, egotistical arrogance and will ultimately relegate 3.x to being a historical footnote.
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Seems silly to say it should mimic a book, without acknowledging that many different type sizes exist in books.

Though, in general I agree with the font size needing to be larger. I'm curious if it is as important as portrayed. Probably depends on the type of reading being done. And, as always, effective use of graphics trumps most "text size" decisions, I would think. (As I look over a comic with ridiculously small type.)
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To be fair, if all you want to do is get high, there's no reason to go to Colorado to do it.

I think wine country is a pretty good analogy.
Which bank are you with? I'm on Lloyd's Bank (what used to be Lloyd's TSB), and they won't send me a text message or email when I go into overdraft, only snail mail.
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2. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/illegal-...

3. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/12/06/moonshiners-...
I could imagine a future version of React using self-adjusting computation like you describe.
It's especially weird as an optimization when an unsigned int would last until 2118. (Or 2106 if the weird base-changing was removed)
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Two cultures of computing
I suppose this is intended as a sports-themed The Onion. But I didn't find any of the articles funny.
Ironically I found that page hard to read. I think it might the constantly having to switch my eyes back at the end of a line breaks the mental flow of the sentances. Anyone else experience similar?
Here is a pretty good web app tutorial, albeit a year old, that I'm almost done watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVd4ow-ZcX0
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130925/news/3092...
Let me try :

- politicians will keep lying, bankers will keep ruining good people and stock markets will keep not reflecting the actual state of the economy amidst general apathy, mine included.

- taxes will go up, employment down.

- Miley Cyrus will somehow be nude somewhere on TV and this will appear on one of the many thousand news I will inadvertently consume this year.

- in the same vein, Linus Thorvalds, RMS, Mark Shuttleworth and Theo de Raadt will make outrageous comments (and or gestures for Linus) that will agitate the community (not taking risk here ;-).

- the start-up bubble will implode and common people will pontificate on how investors were throwing millions on stupid apps that a 14yo could have coded in 3 hours a rainy Saturday afternoon.

- on a personal note as a .net developer I will still be paid the same salary as a bus driver reflecting my management's valuation of my work. French job market outside Paris being what it is, I will keep churning business apps each time my manager has a brain fart ... huh ... idea ... while dreaming on the start-up stories that i will read on HN.
The problem as I see it is very simple. When you hand over cash, that's it, that's the end of the transaction. The 'seller' can't use this cash to access any more of your money. On the other hand, using any of these systems, you don't hand over a fixed amount of money, you hand over the keys to your account, and allow them to take out as much money as you want.

I don't know why the system hasn't been designed in a way where you only authorise 1 payment at a time, and the combination of information provided goes stale after that transaction so it can't be used again.
I hope that this article has at least caused you to think about the way your web page displays text.

I find it sad that the web page (every web page) has to do it. It would be so nice if the web page were text, which the browser displayed.
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It is incredibly difficult to untangle the effects of culture from those of biology, especially when dealing with the measured psychological differences between men and women. But when the effects are purely biological, as in this article, a cultural explanation is extremely un-parsimonious. The burden is on the proposer if he wants me to believe that the age of brain structure maturation is determined by which toys a child plays with.
no problem - I'm not an economist, but thought I could follow the article and thought it made sense, as far as it went.
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Great. Cherry picking at its finest. Were you saying something about "science" down below?

> there are large genetically distinct human population groups that correspond ~80% with our notions about race.

Oh really? What exactly are "our notions" about race? Who precisely are you referring to as holding "our" notions?

And why was it so important for you to try to insert [again] your own everlasting axe-grinding notions about "race" into this particular discussion?
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Certainly, software is complicated, and we're always managing risk and complexity when choosing our tools.

The reality is that CentOS is a more stable platform than most of the alternatives. It doesn't provide cutting edge software across the board (though it is possible to get newer versions of common tools that people want to stay on top of, like languages), but it does provide a reasonable level of confidence that what you deployed years ago will continue to run today. Moreso than any other Linux distro out there (in my, not at all limited[1], experience), most likely. And, the security concerns you raised are the ones I wanted to address in my original reply to you; you alleged that CentOS/RHEL provided old and thus insecure software. I wanted to make it clear that's not the case; all software is subject to bugs, including security bugs, but CentOS/RHEL are not shipping software with known exploits. It gets fixed, along with the upstream. In fact, the RHEL developers are often providing the upstream fixes, as well; Red Hat employs huge swaths of FOSS developers...really good ones.

1-I work on systems management software that is installed a million times a year, on every Linux distro and nearly every UNIX variant, and have done so for ~15 years. I don't know everything, but I know which Linux distros provide a stable platform and which ones have a good security record.
I had the opposite experience, although I would have preferred it just a teeny bit smaller. Coming back to read long lines on HN is quite awkward.

There's a reason I limit my source lines to 78 columns too. Well, many reasons if you consider 80x25. :-)
I just open sourced the code: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/snapcheck . Can verify, nothing tricky going on.
Check again. The text-only snapshot is 44 GB of XML compressed to a 9.5 GB .bz2 -- that's just the current text of the English-language wikipedia. And XOWA's snapshot, with images, is 75 GB compressed.
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Fair enough, it is off-topic. Edited
I'm also a developer looking for a cofounder but only local ones (I'm in Silicon Valley).
Large fonts stress my eyes more than smaller ones. I fit less words in the center of my vision with a large font, which means I read slower and my eyes have to travel longer.

Having ~60 character columns is the important thing. Large fonts, not so much.
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To be fair, he didn't claim that by writing this document he was a master of C, or that a master would only know this document, just that it was a piece of knowledge a master would should definitely have.
Phrasing I guess.
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You have no idea what you are talking about because you do not understand copyright law. It just doesn't work that way.

You can't make a new version of something and not have it be a copyright violation, even if it is significantly different from the original. I'll give you an example, the movie Blade Runner was an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie was very different from the book, but rights still hsd to be secured to use the source material and characters and money was paid. I can't even make a completely different movie and have Harry Potter come in my movie because J.K. Rowling, etc owns that character. The exception is for parody.

Plus the burden of proof is on the defendant in a copyright lawsuit - the copyright holder can still sue even if its fair use, now you gotta defend yourself in an expensive lawsuit.

Another example that just came of my head, the movie Apocalypse Now was an adaption of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness however the setting was changed from The Congo to Vietnam.
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I believe he was referring to what we call New Federalism, or "states rights".
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They are hardly unique in that regard:

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

(They both have direct and indirect initiative statutes, but plenty of other states have one or the other (with more states having the direct initiative, which is probably closest to your "citizens of those states are able to create their own laws"))