skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of two thoughts on this. Obviously, sucks a lot to be dude, but no one is being violent (though some of the rhetoric veers toward threats, which is absolutely inappropriate), and this strategy puts immense pressure on Google. Additionally he's well-chosen as a target: quite wealthy, working on a product that's closely linked to military applications, and unluckily enough (for him) someone involved in the changing urban landscape of Berkeley, which helps protestors tap into a channel of great resentment. It's a tactic that's typically been used against CEOs in the past (e.g. after the Bhopal disaster): using it against someone lower on the totem poll makes me a bit uncomfortable, but it seems like a natural extension.

The real WTF is this: what the hell are they hoping to accomplish? Everything in their manifesto is scattershot, and comes off as just a spray of resentment. I could maybe imagine a demand for Google to cease all contracts with the US military, but (1) they failed to make that demand the explicit focus and (2) they've not laid the groundwork for that demand. You don't jump into harsh escalations until you've built a community organized around the demand, but few people have heard of the Google car-military connection. The goal seems more just to express inchoate anger at Google and gentrification without having some specific outcome in mind.

So, on strategy I give them an F. Tactics a B, mostly because the execution is flawed because of an absent strategy, leading to their manifesto reading as frothing rage than an intelligent indictment of him and Google. All the neighbors who receive this flier to are going to walk away sympathetic with the guy and respecting him more.
What you're talking about can be pretty easily implemented with template inheritance that uses blocks/sections. Pretty much any templating language can do this for you (usually static site generators use templating languages, so by extension, static site generators will do this for you as well). For instance, jinja2 is a common one for Python that I use for my website.

You can read about jinja2 template inheritance in their docs [1]. The gist of it is that you can define a layout in HTML, with placeholders for specific things like the title, author, content, etc. Then your actual post is just a file that inherits from that layout template and only defines the relevant blocks. So in "template pseudocode" your page might look like this:

{{ extends site_layout }}
{{ block title }} Title here {{ endblock }}
{{ block author }} delluminatus {{ endblock }}
{{ block content }}
<p>Content!</p>
{{ endblock }}

[1]: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#template-inheritance
Protests against the government shouldn't require a permit from the government. That's really, really dumb, I'm sure we can all agree.
For the past four days I have been looking at this non-stop streaming channel of the revolution. Really crazy that we can do that nowadays http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-action-spilno-tv
Yes their record iPhone 5S sales and what will surely be record iPad sales reflect that is a large scale thing that is actually happening.

The overwhelming majority of people don't follow silly patent slapfights and tech news. It just has 0 bearing on their life and how much they like their chosen telephone.
The concept of psd to html is dumb from the start.

I would not hire one translator to translate from Russian to English, when the Translator only barely understands English, and one other second translator who Fixes the first translators work.
Teambox rebrands as RedBooth
I work at AirWatch. This a great win for the Atlanta seed ecosystem.
Hey, you have the exact same email address convention that I have. Weird. I'm "me@fullname.info". I don't see too many people using this convention.
@JetSpiegel http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
Al Jazeera has been covering it.
WhatsApp for PC is a banking Trojan in disguise
Now I see. Modern Web = Power Point
> Things

Cultured Code are in Stuttgart
Only individual persons have moral agency. The NSA is not a proper target for the expression of moral outrage because it is not a moral agent [and neither is Google or any other corporate entity]. If you call up the NSA to express moral outrage it is likely to be handled as a matter of law enforcement one way or the other though handled not in your favor is more likely. Call Google or Microsoft or Apple and your moral outrage is treated with standardized customer service protocols.

The NSA is not a proper target for expressions of moral outrage, the individual elected officials who allow, facilitate, or collaborate with its behaviors are as are those who are just following orders. The people responsible are responsible whether the context is some three letter agency or a publicly traded company. A corporation doesn't shield one from moral liability.
"The clang developers very carefully do _not_ say that they aim to make GCC obsolete and relegate it to the dustbin of discarded tech. But I believe that is unmistakably among their goals"

Beliefs don't need them, but I don't see a rational argument supporting that. IMO, clang developers just won't cripple their product to prevent the potential collateral damage to gcc.
I've used the Ruby version of Faker to do fuzz/property/quickcheck-style testing in Ruby. I believe this to be an incredibly important, under-recognized form of testing. Faker is not the best tool for this as you really need more sources of randomness than it provides, but it's not a bad start.

The best places to learn are from the canonical libraries, quickcheck in Haskell, Quviq in Erlang, simple-check in Clojure, and there are others.

The challenge with all of these methods is that you want some notion of referential transparency in order to make useful properties. You can at least do that in certain contexts for certain expressions in Ruby and doing so will improve code readability.

I'd love to hear from others with experience using these techniques in Ruby or Python.
I think it's "cute" when people in other countries can actually fight the police.

If there was even the smallest "attack" on police in the US, every person at the riot would be dead, beaten and imprisoned, or hunted down, which is why this never happens fortunately.
That's not quite right, because as long as Exchange plays well with the devices people are using who cares what it's running on? The money is made selling the server anyway.

iOS adoption in big companies has been driven, to a large part, by the fact integration with MS servers wasn't so hard. MS have been playing Windows platform lockdown for too long and, with the exception of the Exchange group, forgotten the embrace and extend idea, which currently finds itself at home more in Mountain View.
It is $1 per bus per stop. Basically, every time a bus pulls into a public bus stop, they pay $1. So at a minimum that will be $2 a day (pick up in the morning, drop off in evening). But I believe buses make multiple stops.
Easy-to-use Live Coding Tool for Webix UI
I read Sacha's blog and really like the idea of Folyo, but it appears to be only for contract work, not full-time.
This is coming awfully close to bullying, if not terrorizing an individual because of a difference of opinion on what they do or whom they work for.

This is awful. I might not agree with some things Google does or any corporation does; however, this approach will only serve to alienate dissidence since most people will not want to be associated with this kind of awful tactic. Just because people (public) is not taking your side should not signal you the protester to go gonzo, off the reservation, as it were.

This is not the way to dissent. It's a desperate and counterproductive approach which _might_ get sympathy form the choir. In that sense, it's a very selfish (self-pleasing) act.
Paradigms of Computer Programming
"This course covers functional, object-oriented, and declarative dataflow programming in a unified framework."

Probably a fantastic course that follows CTM, which I have always thought to be in many respects SICP's sequel: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConceptsTechniquesAndModelsOfComputerProgramming
The site appears to be infected - it's trying to do something with "https://ssl/" and "http://www/", and it's on a domain that's eerily similar to Blogspot.com.
It is exactly like those things.
Anyone who is relying on autocorrect while posting comments on technical issues kinda deserves what they get.
Reminds me of the "AOL sucks" or "Thank you for not using AOL" animated gif buttons that people plastered all over our geocities sites back in 1994
Your robot helper is on the way now it can learn from its friends
Oh agreed on that. Was just pointing out you don't need a TV to discuss TV shows or have something to talk about with someone who watches TV for their entertainment.
Y Combinator Announces Female Founders Conference To Offer Startup Guidance
Are housing prices in San Francisco really so insane that a two-story house is "pompous" and a "palace"?

> developing "war robots"

Technically, since their acquisition Boston Dynamics, Google is indeed in the business of war robots: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-buys-major-military...

Though they've said they're only going to fulfill their existing military contracts, not seek out others. I guess we'll see what happens on that front.
Well, they do offer an API (CalDAV); they just don't offer an oAuth solution on it.
Some context:

http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2014/01/20/04/20140120045601963/...
http://cs313830.vk.me/v313830150/6f8f/54NP95_-Eh8.jpg
Algorithmic Music Recommendations at Spotify
Last I heard it was down to a single person.

However, CCWs in California are state-wide licenses and many of the more rural counties are pretty liberal with giving them out. Even Sacramento is close to a "shall-issue" county. I've heard San Diego is pretty decent too.

In other words, if you live in a county where you can get a CCW, you can carry it legally in the entire state.
This really is a nitpick and I don't mean to detract from your point in any way, nor from the horror of that war, but that war looks like it's quite a bit farther down the list from #3 in terms of death toll.

It's kind of shocking to take this list and sort it by number of deaths:

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

We're generally taught, at least implicitly, that the two World Wars were uniquely terrible. I'm assuming (and I certainly could be wrong, here) that this is the basis for your "3rd biggest" comment. But it's not really true. Even if you exclude long, ongoing events that aren't really single "wars", like the Mongol conquests, there are still some astonishingly deadly events farther in the past.

The An Lushan Rebellion is the one that amazes me the most, personally. It's one of the deadliest wars in history by absolute death toll, and since it happened so long ago (in the 8th century), that means it killed a huge portion of the world population at the time. The low estimates for deaths in that war amount to 5.5% of the population of the entire planet. The high estimate is over 15% of the world population.

And it's not the only one that rivals the World Wars. The Taiping Rebellion killed 20-100 million. And, well, you can see the list above. It's amazing how many of these things involve China. I mean, that's where all the people were, and thus the greatest potential for killing them, but even so it seems a bit excessive.
Nice. I've really missed stupid/short games like these.

Most Flash games have a separate instruction box for what keys to press. Any way to add this?
> because of the crisis in developed countries

You mean that crisis which started in 2007?

> because SSD is quickly growing its share of the market.

Aren't SSDs still like 5x more expensive on a per-GB basis?
They're trying to build an end-user computing portfolio. Citrix has a pretty good story with Xenprise.

MDM is a crowded space without alot of differentiation, and the big players are all moving in to soak up market leaders. Citrix bought Zenprise last year. IBM bought MaaS360 a few months ago. I'm sure MobileIron is next.
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Why Bitcoin's Deflationary Critics are Not Even Wrong
This flyer is just plain nuts. Some choice quotes:

"The self-driven car has been another pet project of the
DARPA for many years. It sponsored a recurring Grand
Challenge for people designing self-driving vehicles,
hoping someone would crack open the new technology.
Anthony Levandowski was one of the wonder kids who
flocked to these competitions, looking for a federal handout
and fame. Now, with Google handing him more money
than he could ever dream of, Levandowski is working long
hours bringing this dream of the military into reality."

"Levandowski
started a company that created computer tablets designed
to display blueprints at construction sites. The reasoning
behind their venture was that updating and then printing
new blueprints took a few days and slowed construction
time. With this new product, construction companies
could create condominiums, malls, and subdivisions with
the least possible delay and the maximum profit. In praise
of his prodigious business acumen, the administration-run
UC Berkeley News decided to run an article on him in 2003,
championing his ability to make money and enable the
housing bubble that was just starting to expand."

"The proposed project is a testament to the arrogance,
disconnection, and luxury of the ruling class. Growing their
own vegetables in a rooftop garden and selling them to
other wealthy people allows them, somehow, to pretend that
the planet is not being ravaged by the same economy they
depend on for their wealth, comfort, and safety."

"Preparing for the action, we watched Levandowski step out of his front door. He had Google Glasses over his eyes, carried his baby in his arm, and held a tablet with his free hand. As he descended the stairs with the baby, his eyes were on the tablet through the prism of his Google Glasses, not on the life against his chest. He appeared in this moment like the robot he admits that he is."

Seriously? That last one is particularly horrifying and almost sounds like an implicit threat.
You'd have to be completely insane to believe #3 is in any way related to #1 and #2. I personally feel the world is a much better place (certainly Oakland is) with highly skilled employees flushing out the trash.
GCC is a monolithic mess of shit that is virtually impossible to debug

This is the “RMS loophole” in the GPL. In principle you have the right to modify GCC to suit yourself; in practice, the barrier to entry is too high.
I'm in south america and it is on the news too
I don't understand what this supposed difference is. In what way are government aid programs optional that war and drug laws aren't? Why does it make sense to allow people to opt out of one but not another?

You say "clearly", but it's definitely not, at least not to me.
Motion-Activated Hunting Camera Rigged to Capture Train Graffiti by the Hundreds
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This is how Google is killing the Web
> Use a password archive (e.g. KeePassX) encrypted with one really, REALLY good password you'll memorize (plus a keyfile, should you feel paranoid).

One more vote from me for KeepassX with both a long, unique passphrase and a keyfile. Once you start using a password manager it's impossible to go back to trying to memorize individual passwords (which is a good thing) and you'll be hooked for life at the convenience.

One tip: make sure to increase the number of rounds of key derivation for the master password (should be under "Database settings"). The default is relatively low. There's a handy button with a clock on it that will perf test your computer and pick a number of rounds that is approximately 2 seconds of CPU time.

> For default, I have chosen 60-character password length, upper-lower-numbers-spaces-special characters mix (as a rule of thumb, a longer password is preferable to a more complex password).

Yep when it comes to passwords, long beats strong.

For answers to "secret questions" (which arguably are one of the stupidest concepts in account security) I follow the same rule. Long, random gibberish answers. Ex:

Q: What's your first pet's name?
A: gVr5nlLy0BLPu6OpW5YUPVMtHXqy5xxr2UMUbCoSTIR3KmPTfdl8Ml8ckfbDC7Pw

Q: Where did you go to high school?
A: Wdn3hohFxq2H4f7y8n501gwlPGZLlKDIDusWA0dGm9NEaabwogh9DUKngDy2zabC

I think it'll be pretty funny if I ever have to read one of those over the phone.

>One of the worst offenders seems to be Skype, with its "maximum password length: 20 characters, no weird characters allowed."

Yes that's pretty stupid and it's not just Skype, it's also Hotmail/Outlook and "Microsoft accounts" in general (ex: Windows Azure). I don't remember if it was always like that for Skype or if it happened after the Microsoft acquisition though.
I stopped using MS Office entirely with the introduction of the ribbon. Granted, that's about when OpenOffice.org was about on par. I now use LibreOffice which I find, in many ways, superior to Microsoft Office.

And don't even get me started on the complete idiocy of ALL CAPS MENUS. It's demonstrably proven that all caps has a big negative impact on readability. To include ALL CAPS as part of the UI is just asinine.
Thanks. Resubmitted it as there was no way for me to correct the link.
Is it? Shortcuts are not discoverable anymore, most actios are hidden within tiny icons (or dialogs full of tabs, oppened from actions hidden within tiny icons), often there is no logical grouping of the actions (ok, maybe the old menu wasn't better), ribbons appear and disappear out of nowhere, and there are hiden ribons that take a Google search to get.

I quite like the "ribbon" idea, but the Office's implementation? I see no reason to think that it's more productive, and I certainly do not feel more productive on it even after years of training.

By the way, MS also had lots of actual user testing supporting their decision to take the start menu away and maximizing every window.
I never claim effectiveness. Reading an article about a protest and a protest causing actual change are two very different things. I don't see what job was done.
Invite code for my HN friends: unicorn
also: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan/pop-out
Indeed, and Google News has had headline items for a while. I've heard about it here in the US at least 5x a day for the past few weeks.
The forced password change seems to be popular with enterprise software managed by a corporate IT department. A favorite policy they enforce is something like the following..."You must change your password every 30 days. Your new password must be different than your last 8. It must contain at least one number and a mix of upper and lower case letters. It cannot be more than N characters in length." It's kind of ridiculous and counter productive in that it destroys an otherwise sensible strategy like the one you proposed (referring to your first comment) and in its place you get employees doing silly things like making their passwords Password1, Password2, Password3, etc with each successive forced reset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8
By "everybody else" I think you're excluding the people who run the Free Software Foundation, in other words the very people ESR was addressing.
Interesting that the employee targeted appears to be an immigrant and not a WASP.
Huh--why would newbies get the added benefits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor
Anti-Nazi.

There's some light(?) political right bias in some parts of the German police.

I'm not saying that german cops generally are nazi sympathisers but you're more likely to meet a right leaning cop than a leftist one.
Some people start making fun of everything that does not affect them.
Unity3D is not just a text/program editor but rather an IDE for making games (as far as I understand, I've never used it).
Maybe he is too busy, saving damsels in distress, fighting dragons, making 180 gazillion dollars, inventing a cure for Dyslexia, and making toast to watch TV...
This PDF is so far from reasonable. This is a group of people that seem to be angry about anything and everything tech related - from exploitative production labor all the way through to not paying enough attention to your family. The PDF reads like an anti-technology manifesto and anti-government war cry more than anything else to me.
Heard about the "Arab spring"? [1] That was three years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_th...
Grooming Startup Harry's Buys a Factory to Become Vertically Integrated
The fear is that the rate at which escalation occurs is tightening significantly, especially with regards to the mobilization of a civilian populace.

It stands to reason that the rate at which escalation occurs directly correlates with the usage of violence by a government, and that the correlation is with the rate of escalation rather than the maximum level of tension.

Or, more to the point, the level of violence applied by a government depends on how quickly shit hits the fan rather than how badly of a mess there is.

If shit hits the fan in America, it will hit it very quickly.
Comes with a single PCIe 3.0 x16 link on die, good for 16Gbyte/s. Kaveri was the first PCIe3 capable chip, good to see that in server-land too.

There are a couple people out and about for whom 8GB/s just wasn't enough- dual port IB-FDR, & storage controllers are right at that threshold.

Apparently the PCIe competes with one of the HT channels? Kind of under the impression one is limited to 2P if using the on-chip PCIe, but not 100% on that.
Automatic client-side localization
That's a pretty old list. Just to name one, I would recommend taking a look of Radamsa

https://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/Radamsa

...from the Oulu University. It's more like a framework for generating intelligent fuzzers than a shrink-wrapped product, though.

The OUSPG guys are really good at fuzzing. There is also a commercial spin-off, Codenomicon, whose tools are quite widely used.
Aikuma: An Android app for preserving dying languages
The direct source of this information is the github page mentioned in the article, https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764
Either that, or they don't understand what a revolution really, truly means for those involved.
Yeah. It's an extremely serious situation and there are people who are injured and dead. fre5h's reply was fantastic and darkly funny, but the people trying to turn it into a running gag are being deeply tasteless.
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No one deserves to feel unsafe, especially in their own home. Just because they haven't literally harmed his person doesn't mean that they're acting morally.
Weapon retention is an extremely stressed training point for most law enforcement agencies (even over effective shooting in many places). That's because many LEO shootings involve their service weapons that have been taken (I've seen estimates in the 8-12% range).

This is in a population that is trained in weapon retention. I've rarely met non-LEO folks who spend adequate time on the skill.
Awesome - thanks will checkout!