skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hy is great! Scriptor has an awesome Clojure inspired Lisp called Pharen that compiles down to PHP, and it's so much fun to use.

I highly suggest people have a play with Hy, Pharen, and similar, as they really make you look at your language differently :)
My temperature settings change depending on if I'm sleeping well, and my overall health level, and if I've been worrying about my financial future. If someone could see how I tweak my house temperature, they would actually be getting some small amount of sensitive information on those private matters.

Is it enough to do anything with? In isolation, certainly not. Combined with everything else they can get on me? Probably still safe, but not so certainly safe that it isn't worth thinking about some.
I understand that Yale and Harvard have a rivalry and compete for students. Out of curiosity, how might Harvard have handled a similar situation?
Askreddit has become pretty much /r/tellMeStories. /r/explainlikeimfive has, unfortunately, become what you are looking for.
tphyahoo, FYI, seems that you have been hellbanned for almost 4 years. That's such a long time that it feels almost evil. Maybe you should contact HN admins and ask for forgiveness.
I think you could mitigate the 'play short/silent sound on page load'. Each tab would have a max volume limit. The limit can be increased automatically while the tab is open, but it must stay within some % of that limit when the tab is not open. The default limit would be 0. You can add some restraints on the length of sound too, like require a sound to play for at least a second before adopting its new volume for the tab.
Since the mercurynews article didn't cover it, be sure to read the article where the plaintiff's daughter, a US citizen, was prevented from entering the US to testify at the trial.[1]

[1]: http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/07/no-fly-trial-day-5-par...
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Zapp — a new way to pay using your mobile phone and existing bank account
By giving it value, they illuminate the absence of value in all of it. Think of it like performance art.
While I agree with your general approach, I have to slightly disagree with your statement that photos are all we have from our life. For my own part, I'm preferring savouring the moment over taking a picture.

I have experienced lovely moments, being in nature with friends, experiencing a stunning sunset, when the moment was ruined by some who were more occupied taking selfies with "we're so awsome!" faces. I prefer moment and memory over photo.

Then I inherited a couple of albums of photos from my mother when she died (long ago). A lot of pictures of flowers and landscapes none of which is in itself beautiful enough to be of any purpose for me. And a lot of pictures from her friends, most of which I actually do not know or have contact to.

Most of my paper based photos were accidentally ruined by mold in a wet cellar. I was very annoyed when I discovered it, but then I realized that the pictures sat there for years without being looked at anyway. I was forced to let go. And in the end it was okay.

That said, after all, I recommend to everyone what you said: Make f*#@in' backups fer chryslers sake!
Why is this not a bigger deal?
how does the chat happen through bluetooth? what are the technical details?
"lunches to instagram" "credit cards from daddy"

yea I don't think you're a woman
https://hsivonen.fi/eme/ explains what EME is. Granted, it might not explain "what is going on".
>Well I did this for my passport for several reasons, foremost being I detest the idea of facial recognition, it's an invasion of my privacy and my right to digital anonymity.

Better get rid of those humans born with the ability.
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I don't how I feel about this, right after watching the 'her' trailer. I am speechless.
Net neutrality is not dead
The point is bytecode does not automatically make something more secure as the article, somewhat, implies.
I think its two difficult to put the US and UK (as examples) on the same scale as other countries. Miller suggests that tougher regulation has caused the US to loose points. I would argue the US needs more regulation, compared to smaller countries, for stability.
Dogecoin is going to be the defacto way to give kudos to someone on the internet, i.e., Doge Tip Bot on reddit/twitter. I think with that in mind, Doge is going to expose millions of people to cryptocurrency and actually give them the ability to own at least a few, unlike Bitcoin.
In that case, the site providing DRMed video and the NaCl player would have distribute an H.264 decoder (and potentially other encumbered stuff) to end users as part of a NaCl executable. It's much more convenient for a company like Netflix not to have to distribute the DRM component when companies like Microsoft and Google are willing to do it instead. Also, NaCl doesn't integrate with the HTML media elements, you'd need to implement the whole media stack in NaCl instead of just the DRM part.

Furthermore, since NaCl is sandboxed by the browser (and the browser is untrusted by Hollywood in the DRM trust model), it can't conspire with the GPU on low enough a level to hide pixels from the browser and the operating system.
Well the NYT may have something bigger in the pipeline that builds on that. NSA have this awesome ability, NSA abused it by spying on americans.
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I think you are mischaracterizing many of the comments. The abstract value concept is not new to people. What is confusing however, is what the uses are.

In the case of Bitcoin this is easily explained: Silk Road, "laundering" (for good or bad) and speculation. Since this is the first time many people have heard of this currency a natural question is: who is using this and why?

In the case of this specific currency, it seems like it's mainly used on social networks like Reddit for small transactions (tip), and due to its origins as a cheap joke currency it managed to get early traction. With this explanation in hand, the concrete uses becomes more clear.

Abstract values don't exist in a vacuum. There's always a concrete use of it, even if it's just speculation (Tulips) or gestures of goodwill (~ tip).
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Fortunately, with Adblock Plus and FlashBlock, it's fairly rare.

The most common culprit lately has been YouTube with HTML5 supported videos and autoplay, which I fucking despise. My immediate reaction is to close tabs.

My MO with browsing generally is to queue material up for review later. Crap that demands my attention usually gets it by way of a fist.

Any other domain which commits the same or similar crimes either gets the offending page element removed via Stylebot, or AdBlock's element blocker, or with an /etc/hosts file 0.0.0.0 entry. Life's too fucking short for that shit.
Hm, my candidate:

A couple standing in front of an ATM, she ovviously pregnant, on the screen there is an image of a house, speech bubble "Oh! How does it know we were thinking of moving to a bigger home?"

Saw this on a wall in the conference room of an ATM maker, about 10 years ago...
Yes, it's more newsworthy when a 20 year old dies than a 70 year old. Why wouldn't it be?

I don't think there's any implication that this says anything about how much we value different people's lives though.
I've helped convince a few designer friends and colleagues to get into HTML / CSS as they progressed into their careers.

It always seemed to most of them like a daunting leap from the creative application of graphic editors to the very manual text-based tools (and sub-par graphical tools) for rendering designs in a browser. Most would refer to HTML/CSS as "Programming". The majority of their experience and education had been with graphical tools, so the idea of tweaking layout and composition with text was completely foreign.

Most [art] schooling up until about a decade ago was largely based on print design, which means photoshop and illustrator. There may have been a couple classes here and there about building a website, but the vast majority of college level classes for graphic design were all about print and various other analog mediums.

This is actually what eventually led me to drop out of graphic design school in 1998 because it was so far behind the times in terms of web design, which is where I wanted to be.

So with the reluctance of the most talented designers in the industry to learn the medium, it was left to the developers to cover the gap - generally, quite poorly. I've been through plenty of back-and-forth annoyances with print designers - in the very distant past - while they would ask me to tweak pixels that I could hardly bring myself to care about when I had so many other priorities on the project.

For years I'd require any designers I'd worked with to hire "frontend developers" to handle the pixel tweaking and html/css generation, which would eventually start counting against them as the design industry started catching up with the medium.
I think you need to parse it as

more (portable and secure)

rather than

(more portable) and secure
Perhaps more words and fewer symbols.
Any party that will make good airgap will make sure they are faradey caged too.
The only important question is, can you buy drugs with it?
Based on what I've read, it is meant to be a memory-hard coin, so I would assume GPU (and, if like previous coins, an AMD-based card), or possibly CPU to start. That said, I've not yet read enough, so take the above with a grain of salt.
Thanks for your reply.

> "The biggest issue with absolute positioned layouts (as with design for print)
is they can only scale, but not adapt to the various resolutions"

There's no reason you couldn't do exactly the same thing media queries do using JS i.e.
if(window.innerWidth <= 320){ layout.apply('mobile') }

> "If everything has fixed dimensions; it wouldn't be very reusable."

In my experience, practically speaking, there isn't much reuse of components anyway. How often do you put a sidebar widget in the main body? And if you do how many presentational overrides do you need to include to make it look good in it new home. Also using JS for layout doesn't mean not using CSS at all. Instead CSS can be used for what it's actually good for -> text styling.

> "JavaScript performance in newer browsers are pretty good,
but ranging from extremely to pretty bad on older browsers"

I dont think there are that may constraints to track on a usual webpage. Updating 15-20 nodes would (i'd guess) be 50-100ms on page load.

> "The amount of reuse you'll get from even writing a decent
interface for layout functions will be pretty low."

sorry not sure what you mean here.

> "Behavior of CSS using a reset is more consistent than JavaScript implementations."

No reason you couldn't use both. A reset mostly deals with normalizing presentation issues, not css layout issues.

> "that means using something like jQuery"

Many (most?) sites are already including jQuery.

> "specific layouts (ex. keeping an element always visible) as repositioning "

That's an edge case which could be worked around.

> "Waiting for your JavaScript to be downloaded and interpreted to reposition elements "

There's no reason the initial downloaded layout couldn't be already positioned correctly and therefore not requiring a layout operation on page load. A re-calculation of layout is only necessary if the DOM changes, eg some new content is loaded via ajax.

> "You should invest time in pre-processors such as Stylus, Less or SCSS "

These are great, but they're pre-processors which limits their usefulness.
The problem is Dell's cheap 4k monitor is also 30Hz, so you're not much better off than the Seikis there.
Percentage of what? Since there _is_ a relative value between cryptocurrencies, counting volume without taking in account value is meaningless.

I understand Dogecoin has a use (Reddit) and could be a great investment in the future, but currently, it represents only a tiny fraction of what Bitcoin, or Litecoin are.
We've been considering an S3+Glacier combination for Trovebox. We're not consumer facing (pricing starts at $29/month[1]) but we're also open source[2].

Currently in the middle of a contract negotiation and if it goes through we'll build out support for seamlessly storing high res photos in Glacier and low res photos in S3.

At the moment we support S3 and Dropbox for storage as well as our own offering (default).

[1] https://trovebox.com/plans

[2] https://github.com/photo
The historical reason, as far as I can recall, is that it's an attempt to make the judiciary independent. If judges were elected, they'd have exactly the same biases as the other elected offices, which means they'd be a less effective check-and-balance system. That also leaves aside the many, many ways you can corrupt an elected official that cannot be used for an unelected official.

In most western democracies (and certainly in Westminster-style democracies, which I know best) the judges are bound by a certain set of rules that limit how activist they can be: specifically, a constitution. They're required to make findings of law, nor findings of morality, so they can't just manufacture law or destroy law as they see fit: they need a different law they can point to which overrules the one in question. Hence the US Constitution, which acts as the highest law in the land. A judge will always reference their decision, in the end, to an established law (or the constitution).

Conversely, elected officials are empowered to _make_ law. Less true in the US (where the constitution binds the hands of the legislature and executive), but very true in Westminster systems where parliament is the supreme authority.
> I think this a great way of presenting type features that interact! props to the author for cooking it up

It's a great way to present it, but like Scala's infamous "Periodic Table of Dispatch Operators", stuff like is rather off putting. Why use crude sigils when you could just as well use easily understood keywords (like ref, out, unsafe etc. in C-Sharp)?
Funny that an article written to describe why there are so many Python implementations, fails when comparing Python with C and Java.

There are quite a few interpreters available for C.

Although Sun/Oracle's implementation is JIT based only, there are other Java vendors with toolchains that support ahead of time compilation to native code.
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Not to pick nits -- it's not the thrust of your argument -- but web browsers have a complex relationship with worse is better today.

Yes, browsers started as a hack and it's reasonable to attribute a lot of their success to worse is better "survival characteristics". But having been in the trenches for a few years, I can say that these days, we operate primarily on the MIT approach. For example, WebSQL is worse-is-better; it was rejected in favor of IndexedDB, which is the "right way" (and was a ton more work). At least at Mozilla we were /obsessed/ with making the "right" api; a hack that we felt placed burden on users, like Unix's solution to the lusering problem, would be seriously looked down upon.

Indeed I'd argue that the fact that so much work happens in standards bodies may be browsers' biggest concession to the "right way".

There are, of course, plenty of modern counterexamples to this too. Like I say, it's a complex relationship...
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Right now my photos are stored in Trovebox into my personal S3 bucket. I have a script that mirrors down to my local NAS (photo file + meta data from API).

My videos are stored in BitCasa's Infinite Drive and a copy is also on my local NAS.

Disclaimer: Work @ Trovebox
I don't get not getting the negativity. This is straight out of the first part of a dystopian horror movie.
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In that regard you are right.

Although bytecode does simplify validation if you look at all the research work has been done in Assembly validation.
To be fair, Iv'e considered a Nest for the main reason that my programming changes every few weeks - weather gets colder, folks visiting, kids get sick, etc etc. These events last several days or weeks.

I want something that learns and adapts constantly. I'd really love something that also controlled window openings and my whole-house fan, but for now I'll take something that controls the central air/heat.
Seperation of power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers), but even so they are picked indirectly by the public through politicians. As a european though I am pretty amazed by all the direct voting that is done in US - you can hardly drive through a town here without running into a plethora of posters for people campaigning for various offices. You could argue that this is good democracy but I just can't imagine how voters can make informed decisions when voting for all these various offices - that is if they even bother to vote.
> No, asm.js is a JS subset. "bytecode" as boosted here would be a non-subset, like JVML to Java source.

Sorry for quoting Wikipedia, but bytecode is just a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter.

Maybe I'm mistaken on this, but from reading about asm.js I got an impression that asm.js-aware browsers use different approach to asm.js code and treat it more like a weirdly-encoded bytecode, not as an ordirary JS source. Or I'm misunderstanding things?

If so, asm.js is a bytecode. Whenever there's a correspondence between it and other languages doesn't matter for determining if it's bytecode or not, it's another (useful, but not related to being bytecode) property.

> They want a different syntax.

I don't think syntax matters that much, it's mostly semantics. Probably.
Maybe the lost a few to decoherence.
So, Defcon last year had a talk where they hacked things (including a Bunny ostensibly for watching your baby in another room) like this. And it was super easy. I wouldn't out this anywhere near my house or life.
Close but no cigar.

Unless I specify otherwise, media should play in a window only when it's active, unless I specify otherwise.

Media should not play automatically by default. Again, unless I've activated it.

A bigger issue is that browsers are absolute crap for managing content generally. My typical session is: start with a few launching points (project pages, wiki/blog, newsreader, possibly social page), queue up material to look at.

At this point, my preference would be that the material I've queued up doesn't even fucking load. Too many pages and too much memory simply pigs stuff out.

Most browsers currently have a "pin as app" option for tabs -- if you want your GitHub, CampFire, Jira, Gmail, or similar pages to run as apps, then set them to run as apps.

Unfortunately, the browser has, for some time, been stuck in a worst-of-all-possible-worlds limbo: it's neither a good reading environment -- for that you'd want something like Readability, Pocket, Instapaper, or an eBook management tool such as Moon+Reader, Kindle, or (bad as it is) Calibre -- nor a decent applications environment: it's bloated, crash-prone, slow, full of security holes, and underfeatured relative to native applications.

However in both cases the browser's ability to load and display or run arbitrary content makes it convenient.

What do I want? Vastly better content management tools. Bookmarks and tab management on steroids. As Jay-Z said: I've got 99 tabs open and your autoplay isn't the one I'm looking at. If something's in background, let it fucking die already, saving state somewhere and restoring it should I happen to navigate back to it. Keeping a small number of tabs (2? 6? 12?) active should be more than enough. Least used gets offed when I switch to number n+1.

And figure out what the hell you want to do with the applications space. I do use some Web apps, but still largely find them annoying. I've all but given up on G+ and Gmail for numerous reasons, but the fact that my Chromium session becomes completely unusable once I've got either open really doesn't help matters much.

Frankly, this is like providing cleaner, brighter living quarters for slaves when what needs to be done is emancipation. I appreciate the thought, but it's far too little, far too late.
I think the effect on lower resolution monitors is already being seen. I just picked up three Benq BL2710PTs, which are fantastic monitors, for $600 each in Canada. (And that's only around $550 in USD.) A month ago they were $750 up here.

Personally I prefer the large horizontal span of multiple monitors to a single large one, so I'm pretty happy with the choice. Plus, $1800 for three monitors vs $3500+ for one, even if it is an awesome one.

If you do decide to go with the 27s, I can't recommend the Benq strongly enough. I tried the Dell U3014 and the Asus PB278Q before this one, and it wasn't even close. (Brutal overshoot on the U3014, plus I found 3x30" a bit much, and I definitely found the PWM of the Asus fatiguing - although apparently many don't notice it.)
The edge cases just aren't worth doing any extra work for.
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My perspective on photos changed after having kids.

I'm doing everything I can to make sure that they will be able to see what their life was like growing up.

I literally feel like an archivist at times. I go through a lot of trouble to document and preserve their life so they have something to look back on.

1) Photos and videos ... I have a local and cloud copy of them all [1].

2) Notes I send via email to addresses currently hosted on GMail but at an email address at my domain (looking for a better solution in terms of ownership on this)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062209
Much value. Wow.
That seems like a poor example -- from what I've read (and vaguely remember) their revenue is huge (and they could easily be extremely profitable if they so chose) but they're choosing to keep re-investing all of their revenue into expansion, people, tech, etc..
Actually, branding and marketing something like this without invoking fears of total surveillance seems almost impossible, especially right now.
Its scrypt based proof of work function, its a litecoin alt-coin derivative. It offers little over other scrypt based alt-coins. A UK company has announced they will be selling scrypt ASIC miner appliances in 2014.

If this cryptocurrency survives, it will be uneconomical to mine by the commoners sometime this year.
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Are you working with remote developers or on-site only?
Please learn English before casually accusing someone of sexism.
Since the JVM is also JIT compiled to native, is the jvm python implementation as fast as pypy ?
Exept with us or course. So I take it you'd be someone willing to try the AI as shown in the 'Her' movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4
Because doge will make it to the moon. Such value. So wow.

In all seriousness, it's like a post-modern take on cryptocurrency. It's hilarious and thought provoking and stupid and intelligent, all at the same time. And it's so doge.
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supposedly FEDORAcoin or "TIPS" is the most traded or gifted currency within reddit.

This would not show on any external chain monitors like the story source as most of the trading is occurring within reddit; only when a client cashed out to their wallet would the transaction actually touch the blockchain.
If you're seriously interested in keeping your photos around for a long time (20+ years) you really ought to think about using a more resilient service and having local backups.
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Just ask yourself this - do you really want the judges to be politicians too?
I use Dropbox for sync.
You can use btsync too.

Digitalocean is working great for me.
Autoplay provides better UX for some sites, though.
Maybe, but just enough time to not blatantly rip off another product and not face any repercussions.