skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the part I find terrifying:

The only reason Mayfield is a free man today is that the Spanish police repeatedly told the FBI that the print recovered from the bag of detonators didn’t match Mayfield’s fingerprints. The FBI, however, continued to stand by its lab’s findings until Spanish authorities conclusively matched the print to the real culprit, Algerian national Ouhane Daoud.

That "only" is not rhetorical -- the guy would probably be entombed in a supermax or frying in the electric chair if he had been flagged for a terrorism case in the US, in which case the FBI would have had sole jurisdiction and there would have been nobody with the power to say that a) you guys are mistaken and b) we've nabbed the actual culprit.
Wouldn't it be interesting if there were some way to undo the reset of memory, and you gained control over the continual reset to the point where, in fact at the end of this life, you no longer get the memory reset, but can remember everything, understand everything, and know who you are in the great cosmos.

Many religions have tried. Maybe one day one of them will make it through that barrier. Perhaps the nature of the game is that we play it until we learn not to play it any more - by making another game, perhaps ..
There's a difference between reading 1984 and seeing articles of how things play out in real life in your own country.

There is no difference. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change.

I was going to make a lengthy comment detailing all the possible ways that Americans could effect change, and then going point-for-point with reasons why none of those ways could possibly work in this case. But it's too depressing. Besides, I would love to wrong.

Our only hope is if a website manages to act as a "vote multiplier" in the sense that it serves a function analogous to a lightning rod: it focuses people by telling them who to vote for and who not to vote for, and when to vote, and even how to vote. No one will do their own research. Want to make a difference? Make that website, and then achieve popularity large enough to make a difference.
I remember this exact crush feature was on Orkut about 13 years ago.
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Microsoft has the best programmers money can buy. Mozilla has the ones money can't. ;-)

The IE team deserves credit for their technical and managerial achievements - it's not easy to actually do something on a company that large.
> That is, you can try to be delicate, but you mustn't allow their emotions to prevent the argument from being rational.

Trying to be delicate is paying heed to their emotions, and this kind of "manipulation" is an important part of communication. You are manipulating them to follow the same thought process as you, so that they can understand your (supposedly) rational conclusion, and if they respect you they will be happily allow themselves to be manipulated in this way.

Completely ignoring their emotions is an excellent way to convince an otherwise rational person to ignore your argument. People are not rational, and being right is not sufficient to be persuasive.
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"X-Frame-Options" is used to defend against click-jacking attacks, not to defend against CSRF.
That accounts for part of it, but light from different spots on the Sun traces slightly different paths to the Earth. One of the results of that is that shadows cast long distances don't have distinct edges, because there's a zone in which the Sun is partially, but not completely, obscured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra

The dark region of the shadow is called the umbra, the partially shaded region is the penumbra. This effect is probably most widely associated with solar eclipses, where the Moon passes in front of the Sun. Where the Sun is only partially obscured, the Earth is in the penumbra. Totality exists within the umbra.

In some orientations of the Moon's orbit, it's further from the Earth (and hence smaller relative the much more distant and constant-sized Sun), and despite the fact that an observer is directly behind the Moon relative to the Sun, totallity isn't observed. This is an annular eclipse, where the Sun forms a ring around the Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_eclipse#Types
Your argument is pointless since there was no such thing as "beating neighbors" by Georgian side.

The only one who was "bearing" the nerves was Russia and here's why: They were bombing Georgian controlled side by the hands of Ossetian separatists for a long, as soon as Georgia decided to end it and react correctly (by correctly I mean taking control over South Osetia, which in fact is withing the borders of Georgia) and that's were Russia decided to defend its "friends". Read my comments above on Russian passports.
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> If the universe is bound by a set of consistent physical laws governing the behaviour of all energy/matter, then every interaction is predetermined by the combination of those laws and whatever the initial state was.

Quantum theory disproves this thesis, and quantum theory is the best-confirmed of any current scientific theories, i.e. it's very likely to reflect a basic truth about reality. Quantum theory shows that, even though physical laws, and cause/effect relationships, still exist, outcomes aren't predetermined -- there is more than enough indeterminacy in outcomes to justify an argument for free will.

Someone might argue that, if quantum probability only allows a certain number of possible outcomes and one of those outcomes will be selected randomly, therefore free will is disproven by that essentially mathematical process. But if there are enough such outcomes in a timeline, the real difference between many stochastic quantum picks and what most people think of as free will, may seem academic.

> What we like to call free will is just the deterministic result of processes to complex to be understood, modelled or predicted.

That may be true, but it cuts both ways. It can be used to argue for a purely mechanistic unpredictability with no involvement for conscious agents, but it can be used to argue for the opposite case (conscious choices, "free will") with equal justice. And we might never know which is true.
I think Asa is focusing more narrowly than you are. Both arguments are valid.

As a browser, MSIE 11 is vastly better than previous versions. They took what was just about the shittiest browser on earth, and made it more or less OK. (Although Firefox and Chrome are both better.) From that limited perspective, kudos to them.

As a corporation, though, Microsoft is still a toxic entity with poisonous effects on the ecosystems it participates in. It actively, brazenly works against the interests of the Internet user community as a whole, and those of its own customers. Microsoft the company is a bad actor on the scale of Oracle, Monsanto, Halliburton. So you're right, too.
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Huh? The facts of his life were suspicious? Seemed like bullshit confirmation bias to me, coupled with ignoring Spain telling them they had the wrong man, over and over again. None of this is okay, and he should've received compensation for the ordeal.

Is it because he converted to Islam? That covers 1.25 billion people. In fact, the fact he did army service (yes I know there was the Fort Hood shooter, but for the most part people who do voluntary military service aren't your best bet for finding a terrorist, least of all one to bomb Spain of all places...), he had no valid passport (travelling under a fake ID In the western world is far harder than other places), etcetera. They ignored anything that would push them in the direction of "Oh he's not a terrorist". That's not very good, and that's horrifying as that could literally happen to any of us by nothing more than some bad luck.

And yeah, I agree with you on the spycraft thing. Those agents should be removed from field work if they're that terrible :/
Lots of suggestions about JS in this thread, which I disagree. I think we have currently very poor visibility how browser tech will evolve. If you look what Facebook is doing with React, it is obvious that the browser rendering pipeline will look very different 5-10 years from now. Also divergence of device UIs is going to continue - think Glass, watches, TV, car control and this will definitely affect web UI technologies too.

I've been a mobile UI developer for over 10 years. World of mobile looked very different 12 years ago. Technologies changes that fast that I wouldn't make career affecting predictions about tech for that long time span.

Learn to ship. It's hard, surprisingly rare skill and doesn't get old.
Yes. Paxman—though he is great at holding politician's feet to the fire—is an Oxbridge old boy who has very little time for science and tech and is very much stuck in the old Two Cultures model of science vs. humanities.

In his mind, there are the privately educated, Oxbridge Classics/PPE (Politics, Philosophy, Economics) crowd who run the world through politics or business, then there are basically not particularly valuable "geeks" or "boffins" who do their bidding on technical matters.

He's great at interviewing Prime Ministers and holding their feet to the fire, but like a lot of journalists, he doesn't really get science and tech stuff.
There isn't a name for the political system we find ourselves in at the moment. It works like this: you free to act as you wish as long as you respect a series of red lines that are never clearly formulated. All these red lines pertain to making changes of substance in the dominant political and economic system.

If you do cross over them, then you find yourself inside the prison system, in a psychiatric ward, or simply disappeared altogether. If large numbers of people cross these lines at once, I suspect we will find ourselves overnight in a totalitarian system, since all the tools for mass control of the population are already in place.
The article misses a very important thing Microsoft still does very well: makes money [0]. Irrespective of one's opinion on the quality of their products, they still produce software the provides value for real people. They employ a ton of people, all across the world [1]. Microsoft may have lost a decade in the visible consumer segment (mobile phones, tablets), but they still make boring, profitable, enterprise software that helps them on their way to $22B in annual profit. They're not shrinking either, according to their fast facts page [1]. Microsoft still does business very, very well. Even though I personally don't like most of their products, I'm genuinely excited by the change of CEO, because Microsoft has the resources (perhaps not the culture) to build awesome new technology in the next few years.

[0] http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx
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Dissapointed that it contains only fiction.
You could do the same with a POST by just running the following in a hidden iframe on your site:

<form id="form" method="post" action="https://accounts.google.com/Logout"></form>
<script>$('#form').submit()</script>

The correct way of dealing with this issue is to rely on CSRF tokens.
JavaScript didn't exist 20 years ago, so if you chose it 20 years ago you were quite prescient! (First released as LiveScript in 1995.) These things do change more quickly than people realize...
Just about the smartest thing Microsoft could do is port Windows to run on the Android/Linux kernel.

Ironically, they would buy themselves a tremendous amount of hardware support that way. They'd lose very little in the process. The Windows kernel is pretty decrepit.
> I disagree. Every such story has the potential to make people re-think their false belief that "I've got nothing to hide".

Most people will easily rationalize this away and just think that he was a Muslim after all. Good Christians don't have to worry about a thing (except Muslim terrorists of course).
Relax, in a way my own response was too harsh; you needn't feel bad. For the record, murder is not the answer!
In the US you have rights, and being denied your freedom requires a high bar evidence. They clearly did not have it.

Living in a free society requires a certain toleration of risk. That means letting suspicious people go, even if they 1 in 100 might be guilty. We don't lock up the other 99 just in case. In fact, we do the opposite as expressed in Blackstone's formulation: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_formulation
Tried running it twice, all I get are emails informing me they can't do it ( http://i.imgur.com/zlFgQX4.png ).
>This little CSS experiment is usually the kind of irrelevant demonstration that is commonly frowned upon because it has no practical use.

How does this not have a practical use? This isn't "I designed Twitter's icon with CSS", this is actual text styles.

Anybody doing an 80's style project, for example, could use those.
Same with Java, actually (first public release was in 1995 as well).
If I shoot stones at your house and broke your windows every night, would you finally run after me to fight?

Yes, Georgian. And as I guess you are Russian.

I have nothing against Russian people, actually our nations had a deep relationships for centuries, But I'm really pity for you... Putin makes you to live in dictatorship, withing unfairness, Vors and I can imagine how much that sucks in 2014.

To help you have a better understanding of the conflict let me invite you in Georgia, you'll be my guest. I'll guide you through the places where all happened (OFC Georgian controlled ones) and show you facts of Russias' wrong reaction. I'm inviting you, seriously, no joking :) Let me know if you're interested.
Things have changed. They've changed many times in the course of modern history. The Church commission happened, the Senate Intelligence committee happened, the FISA court was set up, things change.

Gov'ts are designed for slow change. The advantage of this being that it should avoid massive populism to dismantle everything in one go (imagine if the Tea Party had control of the Senate). There are movements both in the judicial and the legislative branches to start pulling back the excesses of the executive.

Sure, Obama could "executive order" everything away, but why would the executive neuter itself? Luckily checks and balances are a thing, and we're fixing this.
Where are you getting these 'facts' about how people are going to behave from?

Truly, if it changes one person's mind then it's done some good. This alone won't change anything but spreading this to allow people to see there are kinks in the armour will allow people to perhaps vote in the future for difference.

When the majority is against something, sometimes some good can be done. Not always. The government is all powerful, but there is a chance.
Probably; but could be something like lftp.
It's name belies its capabilities.

Or maybe Kermit? Half-smiley; only if he's a masochist.
http://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html
I code for fun. Having a favorite language isn't a "good thing" why?

Because some manager-type smuck thinks I should be more flexible?

Even top notch programmers like Carmack and Torvalds have a favorite language.
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> Even top notch programmers like Carmack and Torvalds have a favorite language.

Yes, true, but they're not married to their choice.
* Greg Egan - Wang's Carpets - http://bookre.org/reader?file=222997 (not exactly in the same vein, but would very much recommend nonetheless)

* if you like this, then two of his novels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel) ("Wang's Carpets" later became a chapter in this book) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
Heh. This is the power of the Visual Novel medium! :)
It might be a coincident. But since I started creating an archive I do not get any more email to that account. And it already takes some hours.
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Recursive simulation layers! it's good stuff. :)

Perhaps also check out his "Fine Structure" http://qntm.org/structure (different kind of thing, but it's good scifi..) and perhaps the ongoing series / work in progress "Ra" http://qntm.org/ra
It is rhetorical, because in front a judge, you would have to have actual evidence.

Of course the burden of proof for investigating someone's behavior is lower than to get a conviction: if it wasn't, why would there be investigations? I don't want to defend the FBI's idiotic handling of this (namely ignoring all the evidence against the theory), but acting like the FBI has sole discretion to throw someone into prison with so much evidence against their theory is very bizarre.

The only reason he might not be a free man would be that the court system can be very slow.
What does this suddenly have to do with BSD? kashchei claims that Lennart is incapable of ever producing good code and that all his creations must therefore die. Nothing about BSD.
>Who said they were "OK" with anything?

The casual tone by which people (including you) were discussing this. If a bank had even week long issues like that people would be frothing at the mouths (and rightly so).

>It's just information for understanding the situation.

Yes, it's the "understanding" part that I don't get (except if it's pure technical curiosity, but from the excuses people make in this thread it doesn't seem so).

They messed up, they are not a worthy exchange, that kind of fiasco is insurmountable -- end of story. I wouldn't try to "understand" a restaurant that served my cochroaches in my pizza, I'd just avoid it and bad mouth it to everybody I know.
You should also learn a server side programming language with good performance(Java, C#, Go). I think Java is the best because it is mature, multi platform and you can also use it for Android programming.
This error might have come up because you have an open Gmail client session running (or another Google service), or simply that the new service is completely overloaded right now.
Generally your migrations folder is supposed to store a complete history of your DB. Maybe doing it the way you suggest is a better way, it's just a bit outside the standard and to be honest I haven't thought carefully about the best way to structure code this way.
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A surprisingly poor move from someone who historically has been a game development hero.

Before reading the article and understanding the campaign, I initially thought Notch axed it because this guy wanted to create a film about Notch. It would be reasonable to cancel such an endeavor: leaving your legacy up to filmmakers is not a wise move, as Woz recently discovered. Since that's the only scenario in which this cancellation would be reasonable, I assumed that was the reason.

Actually not. This is purely a creative work which has been completely sunk for no reason other than "You didn't run it by me ahead of time." It was clearly a work of passion. Watch the video: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/878782324/birth-of-man-...

Yes, it's Notch's right to cancel this artist's dream. It's also his right to add in-game purchases to Minecraft, and force people to pay extra for the privilege of using diamond pickaxes. Both of those decisions wouldn't reflect favorably upon him, however.

EDIT: My main problem with this move is that the film didn't involve Notch in any way. It's unrelated to him except insofar as it uses his game as a setting for an artistic work. It seems like the primary motivation for the cancellation was rooted in greed.
A slightly paradoxical advice: learn Objective-C. Learning of one thing never stops.

Suppose you're now top 5% iOS developer. 5 years later you'll probably be top 1%. That's cool.

I can see only one hugely improbable risk in doing this. If Apple goes down then Objective-C developers will be as valuable as toilet paper.
It has "All the President's Men" and "A Brief History of Time", nonfiction. ... A quick scan shows that about 1/3 of the titles are either nonfiction or based on real events.
I was recently watching a talk given by Rich Hickey where he talks about serialization formats and how they can have all their metadata in-band or have to depend on out of band information. The latter situation is where bugs can be introduced.

The example in the original post relies heavily on out of band documentation. Your suggestion of an intention revealing function name puts the same info in-band.

One should always ask themselves: Does my code depend on out of band information? If so, can we correct this?
Yeah, I didn't know whether it was worth it on the caching, I'd already turned on a 5 second cache-control just to eliminate this kind of quick back-and-forth mouseover on a list ;)
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Lost me at That brings us to high-frequency trading (HFT) hedge funds. These funds use computer algorithms—a.k.a.: algobots

No-one says this. I'm not involved in HFT myself but I know a bunch of people who are, there is a jargon word, but it's not that.
basic code design: put your stuff in function

Aye, and with intention revealing names!

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IntentionRevealingNames

Also: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LawOfDemeter
whatever happened to ethics and demonstrating problems without victimising people?

its not big or clever. :/

once again disappointed in the community...
> The FBI did an excellent job of making connections between suspicious facts,

Define "excellent" here?

If you mean "the search returned a result" then great, it was technically excellent that they found a best match.

If you mean that the best result was actually relevant and useful, then nope. And they harmed a person and his whole family because of it.
You wear foam ear plugs at work?
This is what I was going to say. Basically, learn to be intellectually agile, ready to accept new ideas, and be good at getting up to speed quickly with new things.

Want to learn a language? Take a weekend with it, write something that's useful (even if not suitable for production or long term use). Do that often enough and you'll be mentally agile enough to pick up anything when you need to.
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good work. not enough people who use source control really seem to know what its for...

whilst i'm a big fan of making code good enough to read - and learning to read code properly - its easier to not have to do both
I'm not sure it's working for me, I don't see any special network activities in Firebug while using the website.

Also, you should take into account the focus event of links, I tried and it seems you doesn't when trying on the "click test" page to tab tab tab on the test link and then hitting enter.
Indeed, the title says "Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on Google.fr", not "Fined".
Is there some kind of row-based security approach in postgres?

Let's say I run a hosting company, and when a user logs in, I want to limit DB access of this particular connection to rows that actually matter to the logged-in customer (like purchased services, associated accounts) and still allow access to general-purpose information (like list of available TLDs, stock prices for services etc.). Can I do that somehow?

Then I'd use authentication outside of the database (like with LDAP), and only allow access to the database after login; that way information leaks should be pretty much contained to the logged-in customer.

EDIT: Seems it's a work in progress: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Row-security
This is crazy, how can someone publicly raise money for a project, when he hasn't even negotiated property critical to the whole idea of the movie?

Just think of the negotiation position of both parties. How much money did the guy budget for the rights? What if Mojang wanted more? This is just bad business practice and Notch is right for nipping it in the bud.