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I viewed Lethal Weapon as one of the early movies to glorify torture to get what you want out of bad guys. On TV the Shield took it to a much higher level.
Why are there so many science PhDs?
Can pancreatic cancer really be “wiped out” in less than a week? Not yet…
For me, that is one of the best episodes of the best TV show ever made.

I say that because its not just the episodes its self, which is brilliant, its the fact that by the time you get to that episode it really means something. There is a hell of a lot riding on the torture of Sheridan. The TNG episode, while in itself brilliant, sort comes out of no where.

(Yes, Babylon 5 is my Linux/Mac. Of course there is opinion to the contrary, but Im openly deaf to them.)
Hell no. Business owners, please don't use this for wifi in your stores! I refuse to use Facebook to leave a trail of where I am physically just to use the wifi.
I've been noticing television and media getting more and more brutal over the years.

Batman and Robin have transformed from tights wearing guy's saying holy rusted metal to driving military hum-Vs with gatling guns.

The joker has transformed from a goofy prankster makeup wearing guy to a all out sociopath who slices happy faces into people with knives.
True strike, it should be a trend.
If you feel like you have a headstart in Django, I'd go that route.

Else, I might be partial to do it in something like Rails that would allow me to write almost 0 lines of code, instead just spend time connecting various gems, libraries, etc and make a push to Heroku and get a proof of concept up.

While Proof-Of-Concept is running (free on Heroku) I would probably spend time rewriting it in Python or if you become partial to Ruby, just sticking with it...
What CDN? CloudFlare?
> I really doubt the fact that NSA have direct backdoor in windows. A lot of countries will treat it as casus belli.

Against the US? I doubt it. Countries sometimes fail to treat actual armed intrusions without local consent by the US as casus belli because of the imbalance in military power, and you want me to believe that there are "a lot" of countries that will treat a backdoor in Windows as an excuse for war?
Apple Need Not be Panicked by the CES TV Blitzes
Reading A Novel May Change The Brain
At least in its current form, this application has nothing to do with search and barely anything to do with questions and answers. The video is grandiose, but the actual app has little to do with the video.

At the moment, there's no way to revisit past questions, search for questions, etc. You can only swipe through questions and answers one at a time, in the order the application presents them to you.

This application is just a structured version of Twitter or Vine or Instagram, where you have to take a picture (which makes the content more interesting to browse) and other people are encouraged to respond and interact with you because the message is presented as a question.

Right now, the use case is that you are bored or lonely, so you "ask" a "question" to your friends about whatever sort of dog or lamp or restaurant or funny-shaped cloud you happen to be near at the moment. Your bored or lonely friends who are also using the app at the time respond in a general social way, not necessarily with good answers. Everyone feels good about it, and no one had to actually impose on anyone else.

It's reasonably good at this. This app provides structured social interaction, not really question-and-answer or search or access to vast untapped reserves of human knowledge.

Although presumably the app will eventually have more of those features, the focus on these features in the initial release leads me to guess that the creators understand what they've built. It may or may not be successful, but I think if it is it will be in the Twitter/Vine/Instagram/Reddit/Facebook bored/lonely space, not Google/Stack Overflow/Quora/Yelp actual-answers-and-knowledge space.
(I think I accidentally downvoted you, sorry. :< )
Exactly this. I mean, consider that anyone who wanted to could be monitoring the Wi-Fi they provide to you already. Starbucks could be crawling huge amounts of browsing data daily.
I miss Aardvark.
A post trying to clear up some of the hype some journalists wrote about recent research looking at pancreatic cancer in mice. The original press release was discussed on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005169
Timing, channel, and political back drop.
Darlingchemicalia - Felt Goods Music Video (Inspired by David Lynch)
Vimeo debuts rebuilt html5 player, adds new tools
I doubt that NSA has a Microsoft-complicit backdoor in Windows, but would be amazed to find out that they didn't have its functional equivalent. For any given mainstream OS, assume NSA can own it up at will.
They lost me at "Check in to Facebook". Anything that requires me to use Facebook is a non-starter.
It's not just puzzling, it's almost criminal considering how much of the culture and important decisions get discussed here.

A lot of the time you have people who are direct parties to <insert thing here> come and talk about it only for it to become forever inaccessible because Google can't get it's mittens on it.

Let's not even get started on how some urls expire.
He has absolutely maxed out these 15 minutes of fame. Subway at least has other ways to make money. :-)
I love x220, but they are far from perfect. Some serious glitches:

- Small & noisy fan
- Awful trackpad (but awesome trackpoint)
- Low resolution wide screen

I cannot understand why Lenovo is destroying the x2 series. Now they:

- Replaced the standard processor with a ULV one
- Removed trackpoint buttons
- Introduced island-style keys
- Removed ThinkLight

They should have simply improved a bit the glitches i mentioned.
I'm using a T440s, and I haven't had any problems with the keyboard, other than hitting PrtSc. Between Right Alt and Right Ctrl is not the proper place for that key.

Fn+Escape turns on Function Lock, and it stays on permanently through reboots.

I agree with you that the clickpad buttons are inferior. It's much harder to drag and drop, for example.
Interesting choice of NewEmail() over the more idiomatic email.New().
c:\>ping dangrossman.github.io
Pinging github.map.fastly.net [199.27.72.133]

Fastly (http://www.fastly.com/).
I'm uncertain if anyone is synthesizing this particular bacteria's antibiotic, but there's some research in using it as a natural insecticide: http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Photorhabdus_lumines...
I click them knowingly. Personally, if they have provided a resource that is of value to me, and I am not losing anything in the process, then fine, let them have their incentive. I win a good resource, they get a few dollars, no one is losing here.
>However, now that the U.S. government, and the NSA and its collaborators in particular, have been shown to explicitly not have this goal – in fact, their goal has been to strive for less secure systems and more difficult standards ­– what should be done? The logical thing to do is to exclude any person or organization revealed to have an agenda explicitly contrary to the group.”

it should be an obvious and routine matter for any organization/group that have a conflict of interests policy.
I wouldn't be so sure, I am positive Amazon still bombards me with Kindle Ads despite owning a couple already :)
A good thing about SVG icons is that it's possible to provide a PNG fallback: http://pauginer.tumblr.com/post/36614680636/invisible-gradie... (apparently people in OP's post did this too).
But those cases have mostly been open unauthenticated wifi, no?

If I'm understanding this, this provides the courts a traceable way to go after an authenticated person (or at least, a facebook account) rather than just an IP address. I think the courts that have pretended that "IP=person" have done so because they don't have anything better.
SVG rendering performance leaves a bit to be desired: http://codepen.io/adrianosmond/pen/LCogn
The fact that their plans appear include a certain number of Facebook likes seems very sketchy. However, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and just assume that this number is the number of users who are given the option to like your page.
Sort of funny, but it looks like their Linux developer laptop keyboard has a Windows key. Licensing issue, or just an unfinished project?
Really? I'm the OP. I just binge watched all of Fringe and it's jam packed full of torture. The very fact that you don't remember it is perhaps part of the point I was making. It's very much just the done thing. Torture doesn't have to be conducted in a dungeon with hot irons. It's any situation where you cause serious distress to a helpless person you control. I would argue that fans not being able to remember torture scenes is my point precisely. Oh, it's so blase and mundane that you don't even remember? Oh the government's torturing people you say? So what? I see that shit every day. It's not that bad... etc.
Spec writing is only half the challenge (and arguably a relatively easy one!).

A big problem with HTML and HTTP is the fact that error handling has always been undefined (the current HTML spec is the first real attempt to define error handling!) — so different people implement different things, and then when you end up with a single implementation with ~90% marketshare, everyone has to reverse-engineer that (and probably not perfectly!). Combine this with the fact that the majority of implementers of HTML and (to a only slightly less extent) HTTP are web developers who just want to get stuff working — they've never read a page of the spec in their life. So, guess what, they end up relying upon client's error-handling (typically the intersection of clients they care about — which when IE had 90%+ marketshare was often just IE, then see above about reverse-engineering).

The other big problem is the lack of generic test suites for the standards — far too often each implementer ends up writing their own tests, and then not sharing them (the IETF still has no real general infrastructure for hosting testsuites for RFCs!). At least around the W3C, there's been a relatively large movement in the past three years or thereabouts towards developing shared testsuites, in large part down to various Microsoft and Opera people (myself included, in the early days, as a disclaimer) and several WG chairs (trying to push specs to REC — which nowadays requires two interoperable implementations, and hence practically a testsuite), so things are at least slowly changing there. But there's still a lot of work to be done — and it's one area where improvements can have large effects, as it increases the consistency of all implementations, and makes it easier for smaller, and newer, competitors to enter the market.
Same here. I'm probably in the minority, but when I see founders in their own marketing, it creeps me out. I mean, it's one thing to have a picture of the founder saying, "Joe Shmoe - founder and CEO". But when they're actually speaking in ads or sign letters to me, it just seems so forced, and often egotistical. Leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
Here in the UK most 'free' hotspot providers like BT or The Cloud already require you to register and give up your personal information to get access. When I've been travelling abroad I've encountered hotspots that require a (local) mobile phone number to get access. Today I accessed a wifi network that wouldn't let me get access unless I agreed to receive marketing material. I see this as an easier way to get access, if you must you could always set up a fake Facebook profile for this.

Also I haven't seen the terms, but I'm wondering if Facebook give out direct personal information. Assuming they don't, would you rather be seen as John Smith of 14 Main Street, DOB 1990-08-23 or 18 - 24 male who likes football?
Ah, that raises a good point.

When I left my first company Inkling (http://inklingmarkets.com) to run what became Draft (http://draftin.com) full time, I realized I didn't have my own "brand". People know me through Inkling. Especially when it came to writing. All this writing that I was really proud of was on the Inkling blog. And now I don't work there anymore. No one even knows that writing exists.

Your friend obviously ran into a problem with this approach, but I predict it's more frequent that we create assets like company blogs and Twitter accounts that get thrown away as we move through life and our projects and we don't build anything up for the long term.

You can definitely balance this. Today I make sure I spend a lot more time on building up assets that directly reflect me: my blog Ninjas and Robots (http://ninjasandrobots.com) and my Twitter account. But I still have a Draft Twitter account I use to do some "corporate" messaging.
Intel Dual OS: Stuffing Android and Windows Into the Same PC
I applaud your appreciation for diversity.

Taking it a step beyond occupation alone, I currently believe it to be a necessity for a healthy and contented life; specialization, due to imbalance, causes harm. Excessive amounts of one type of physical activity (say, running) can cause tissue damage, excessive amounts of most foods (including water) can be toxic, excessive sleep even has shown to be harmful, etc.

The only way to avoid overdoing one activity, is to incorporate more of them. Don't think of this as a purely physical practice, either; casual reading, learning and thinking apply as well.

This is not easily accomplished when one is expected to devote a majority of their waking hours to a specialized task, however. Nomadism seems to compliment this way of thinking well, as does homesteading.
Most cafés and restaurants offer free WiFi so not sure what you're on about.
I wonder if there are there any figures on how many paid apps on the average iPhone compared to the average Andriod?

I didn't intend to pay for anything on my Android when I reluctantly got it as part of my internet / phone bundle 9 months back (I didn't want a smart phone, but price was the same with or without one). But after 6 months of using Swype, I found out it was a free trail, and at that point it was too difficult to go back to the normal keyboard. Likewise I am using Whatsapp a lot, and I think the first year is free, then its a small amount. Will still be cheaper than sending international texts to my mum, so I will pay the small price.

(I always find it amusing that this is the story I was told about how drug dealers operate when I was in school, free trail then once you are hooked bump up the price. Never hear of anyone get drugs like that in real life, but its completely common in the corporate world).
Doesn't look like it:

dig +short NS github.io
ns2.p16.dynect.net.
ns4.p16.dynect.net.
ns1.p16.dynect.net.
ns3.p16.dynect.net.
So I'm not the only one who went looking :) Not sure why they don't mention the specific CDN on their blog post. Possibly because they host at Rackspace but don't use Rackspace's CDN? (Which is white label Akamai last time I checked).
I am guessing you are referring to the USB 3.0 DisplayLink Docking Station. Yes, DisplayLink has issues with supporting Linux. We can only hope that Dell and other PC manufacturers will put pressure on them to support Linux.
Aye, they didn't exactly plan it out this way, but the fact that they were able to do the launch on the 6th even after the SES-8 launch was pushed back demonstrates that they are capable of quick turnaround.
Yeah, but by then, 24 had become a cartoon. I watched it as though it was a slapstick comedy. As a big dumb cartoon, 24 made sense to me. If I took it seriously, it just made me angry. I came to absolutely love it as an outrageous joke.
No sorry. I did come up with the name a long time ago but (like 1999 or something). I've used this username on /. for a while.
I disable third-party fonts primarily because of the poor choices of "designers" out there, but also in case they become an attack vector. As a result, I need to use a combination of guesswork, tooltips and URLs on the status bar when navigating some of the more fashionable sites.

Strong vote in favour of SVG from me.
Free wifi would actually help Google more..
If your business depends on WiFi (e.g. Coffee Shop), this could potentially hurt business. Only ~50-70% of US Internet users use Facebook and that is dropping.

As a business owner I'd be concerned about alienation. Facebook is far from universal and many avoid it (especially the younger crowd).
I'd say that most of the vendors selling commercial Hadoop derivatives aren't adding that much value, and that's the problem.

With Hadoop, running a 3 machine cluster is about 30% of the work of running a 30 machine cluster. It gets really amazing when you realize you can get so big so fast.

The area where organizations run into trouble is in planning architecture, figuring out how to implement algorithms in Hadoop. The actual infrastructure software is a commodity.
If by ouch, you mean AWESOME. Then I'm totally with you! Wohoo!
San Francisco's Most Popular iPhone Apps by Neighborhood
CES 2014: GM and AT&T Blur Line Between Car and Smartphone
> And so Facebook encroaches upon the physical world to anchor itself

Reminded me of this limited edition like counter, called Fliike.

http://www.smiirl.com/
They continually point out that trickery gets you farther than torture.
I'm trying to make something I build as a hobby more popular- http://www.thrusong.com. It's a social songwriting and song discovery site- think GarageBand and iTunes in the cloud- with support for VST plugins.
You could even call it... GMail.
You need to hit a subdomain of github.io (any subdomain) to see the CDN; that's where user pages live.
Does Jelly feature Stack Overflow-like gamification? At least some form of gamification (e.g., a visible karma score) seems the default today for any platform for questions and answers; I haven't install the app but I saw no evidence of it in the screenshots. If they chose to not have it, I wonder why that could be (the boring answer would be "probably because MVP" but there may be other, more interesting, ones).
That's is the opposite of what one usually hears on HN.

"Ideas are a dime a dozen, its the execution that counts stupid...."
Any television series in a modern setting in
which characters that are portrayed as "good guys"
use torture to achieve their goals is despicable
propaganda.

Yes. Absolutely.

I must admit, though... when compared to the cartoonish patriotic jingo-fied violence of the 1980s, where Rambo and the A-Team defeated countless enemies in settings that always felt like a walk in the park... perhaps the torture thing is the lesser of the two evils?

The 1980s seemed to want to tell us that war was a melodramatic, often bloodless struggle between the white-hatted good guys and the black-hatted bad guys.

If there's a small silver lining to today's torture-promoting crap, at least it's that war is portrayed a bit closer to being the horrible, bloody, morally-confused hell where the "good guys" often look and act an awful lot like the "bad guys."

Doesn't take away from your point at all. Totally agree that when torture is portrayed as anything less than evil, there is a very serious problem.
Also consider reading the book, "Venture Deals" by Brad Feld.
The "don't use it" argument falls apart when you realize that Facebook builds shadow profiles for people who don't use Facebook.

http://www.zdnet.com/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-are-frig...
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Well, that whats you have been taught to believe, sure.

See, how do you know you dont think that because of decades of the media tell you to think that? Not just that but American culture is gun culture rooted in the Wild West way of things. Look at how the gun nuts can even consider life without guns. Something weird, amusing and scary to many civilized countries.
We'll see what we can do. ;)
In Go isn't `email.NewEmail()` more idiomatic?

To be fair, you could write:

e = &email.Email{ [fields and values] }

The only thing NewEmail does is give you a pointer to an Email.
To me it seems like a slower human version of Google Goggles, I even tried it with their example in the video[0] and Goggles was able to tell me the result faster than a human, I understand that this will not work in all cases, but it's likely (in my life at least) that Goggles will know more about objects in the world than the collective knowledge of my friends (we don't leave Wales much).

[0] http://i.imgur.com/ch3uRMm.png

Also, without sounding like a Cretin, I don't really want Jelly to succeed because I dislike Bono so much. (Bono was a seed investor, or series A investor to Jelly)
How to Sort a Divergent Decentralized List?
That's a fairly extreme outlier, though – other than font/icon preview pages, how many sites want to display hundreds of different icons in rapid succession?
Go with Flask Restless [1]. You're gonna be up and running in minutes.

[1] https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart....
Hadoop and NoSQL: Friends, not frenemies
ever found this special christmas-picture you wanted to send to your friends, but actually the new year has just begun? So why not send yourself an email for next december? Add the picture as attachment and be suprised when you get back your mail several months later.
Jesus Christ, have we all learned nothing?

It's a swarm of lemmings being led by blind moles.

Fucking awful.
I think bottom line is that you need to figure out if the execution can be done with him, within a certain time period. If not, what are your other options. It seems like you don't want to partner with him.

In the scheme of things, the absolute equity percentage is not that important (diminishing marginal utility of money). Also in the scheme of things, 1-2 years hacking isn't that much either. So don't make it about fair share. Make it just about whether it's a right fit or not.

Is this person honest, hardworking, bright? Or is he a schemer, short-cutter, and a bullshitter? If he is the latter, just tell him straight up you don't think he has the right skills for it to work. If the former, have him start building things or selling to customers. Pretty soon he'll figure out on his own whether he wants to or can continue. Make it clear it's a valueless exploration period and don't sign any agreements until the project is more mature. Maybe he'll develop into a good partner in the future, without any obligation from you.
Mapping Poverty in America
Well done on the logo. It's very nice.
I have one of the first-gen (non Sputnik) systems. I simultaneously love it and hate it so much that after one year I had to put my (mixed) feelings in writing here: http://lorenzo.villani.me/2013/08/19/dell-xps-13-l321x-the-r... (this is little more than a pondered rant, unlike OP's thorough review).

However, I think this year I'm probably going to bite the bullet and buy a 13" Retina MacBook Pro.
In the early 'net there was an ethos that the domain names system was an identifier service, not property. A domain name was an identifier that could be requested as needed, and in return for payment of a nominal fee would be delegated to the requester. The requester should then, if following netiquette, relinquish the identifier when no longer needed.

If instead the initial registration was taken as the sale of a commodity, the original way they were distributed didn't make a lot of sense. It would've made more sense to auction them off at fair market value, rather than registering new domains first-come/first-serve for a nominal fee.

I suppose that ship has long since sailed, though a few ccTLDs still retain that position, at least officially. DK Hostmaster's policy statement says that Domain names cannot be purchased, but borrowed. In other words, by registering a .dk domain name, you have acquired the right to use it. However they've given up trying to enforce that, and allow this "right to use" to be fully transferable, making it quasi-property. They still maintain a vestigial waitlist by which you can register to be next in line to receive a domain when the original owner relinquishes it, but this is in practice no longer used for anything that's in demand.