skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell it's some sort of interesting issue with the human condition. If you compare pre-presidential Obama's views with the current Obama's you see that he's become totally impotent regarding the issues he argued so strongly about in the past. So something changes once he's in power (I suspect there's a look of talk about what "is in the best interest of the people").

There's nothing physically stopping him - he's in a position where he addresses the world. He could very well stand up at his next speech and say "I'm very worried about the seemingly illegal activities of govt agencies... I've struggled change anything because... There are powers in play would prefer...". As a human being on this earth there's absolutely nothing stopping him from doing that but we all know it's never going to happen.

It's sad really.
I understand the trademark policy but I think in this case, it is vague. I can't see any difference between distribution and installation. What Dell is presumably doing sounds like a lame service monetization, since Mozilla is an open source web browser.
Thank you facebook
It's the unclosed h3 interacting with two unclosed font tags per line, not the unclosed h3 alone.
Anyone wanna share some QS findings they've made that changed their life for the better?
Jot some notes on the back of a napkin and the issue becomes less of one. The real problem, as others have said, is agreeing to things that you would rather not go through with... Now, that I can sympathize with. Not least because I struggle with it too.
Dell UK is charging £16.25 to install Firefox
> They're supposed to spy on the most important people in the world, and make sure that the important people don't plan anything the agency's employers may consider ... untoward.

Except of course for the part where the CIA is explicitly legally barred from domestic US spying, and where they were spying on their employers.

Am I surprised? No, not at all. I'm from Norway. Most people would probably consider Norway less likely to be involved in sinister surveillance activity than a country like the US.

Yet 20 years ago, an investigation into the Police Security Service finally got underway, and everyone were shocked - shocked, I say - to find out that the several decades of illegal surveillance of left wing groups that any member of either of the communist parties or socialist groups had known, and publicly alleged, were happening had actually been happening (they knew, because members of the security service made it abundantly clear, by e.g. occasionally stopping people on the street and making fun of them over details of conversations they'd had in the privacy of their own home).

When the establishment finally accepted that the security service had to be reigned in, a parliamentary commission was established. During the investigation into the security service, it quickly became clear that they were still engaged in the illegal surveillance while the commission was investigating them. Not only that, but it was revealed that they were illegally spying on the chairman - a well respected member of parliament - of the commission investigating their illegal spying.

So I'm not the least bit surprised. But that does not mean it is legal, or what they are "supposed" to do.
It loads so slow that seems loaded by AJAX :P
This is such a troll that I didn't read it 'till the end.

And I personally don't use Bitcoins nor do I intend to use them in the nearest future.
Does the author not see the contradiction in complaining that a decent, legitimate business would accept a currency which is purportedly only used for crime?
I'm wondering if the outcome of these stories is going to prove that claiming you've been hacked is an acceptable answer. If so, isn't it going to be tempting for struggling Bitcoin businesses to claim the same, and walk away with millions before they go to zero?
Actually it’s obvious that the author is an introvert. It’s just the negative connotations which make him deny it.
StackOverflow Search (SOS) mode for Emacs
Focus on writing, not on platform. Sign up for a blogger (or whatever) account and just start writing. Once you've published a dozen posts or so and gotten into the habit or writing, then you can go back and consider what you want/need in a blogging platform going forwards. Focusing on setting up the perfect blogging platform before you've written anything is just procrastination.
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Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 to be exact, lol
In college, one of my professor's syllabus page had this exact problem. It wasn't so bad at first, but half way through the course you had to scroll so far down the page that the syllabus was barely legible. So I downloaded the page, cleaned the markup and sent him the refactored HTML page, much to his delight.
I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".

If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!
Assuming millions will read your articles yes.
Anyone actually using frontpage... or dreamweaver visual editor... just saying...

You can say: "gotta start somewhere" but... make that "somewhere" be "notepad" ... please... thank u...
"H-motherfucking-TML"
A very nifty trick!

But it requires that the value is hardcoded inside the function. If it was given to an unreachable scope by some async action (like an ajax request) this trick wouldn't work.

One could possibly also wrap the function in an native .bind call to change the output of toString() to [native code]
Where are you getting this information? I've taught hundreds of kids SAT prep and I can tell you that it is definitely not "very easy" to go from 400-500s to 600-700s.
Arduino and RaspberryPi coding competition
I have to say this seems like an extremely elaborate hammer for a tiny nail. The question is: If you have an application that is much less trivial than this one, will the complexity scale accordingly or will it only increase gradually?

The X-to-Javascript tools work best if the language actively embraces the Javascript roots (TypeScript, CoffeeScript, etc) instead of trying to hide it in abstractions. Sure, it's convenient to be able to use Scala collections but do you really need to? Granted, this can be said of anything ("Do you need to use C when there's asm?") but whenever you'll do something complex in a language like this: At some point you'll have to debug, and that's the point where you need to somewhat understand the underlying abstraction.
Wouldn't surprise me, given that congress and their assorted hangers on would leak confidential information for political advantage.
I'm not allowed to use these exciting things like credit cards with my bank account after taking too long too pay off student debts many years ago.

I'm keeping an eye on bitcoin as it might finally let me spend money online without first having to ask permission to do so.
Why Samsung Ditched Google In Its New Smart Watch
I use it a bit, but my focus is on the back end, so I never seem to get to the stage where I really understand it. Especially the nesting.
Wordpress is a really good choice if you just want to blog.

Other alternatives than already mentioned:

1. Go oldschool, use serendipity: http://www.s9y.org/. Really easy to install, easy to use/configure, full support for everything blogging related. And there is a cache-plugin (which of course also exists for wordpress).

2. There are quite some new takes on the classical blogging system. Habari is an example: http://habariproject.org/en/, has an interesting backend interface. Ghost on the other hand would be too new for me.

If you want to have an internal comment system, static content blogs are the wrong way to go, afaik.
App Store Discoverability is broken
> I have to agree with that, even if it's very hard and is on the edge of blaming the victim. I feel for people losing everything, but really, don't keep your stash at exchanges.

The main reason that's unsafe, is because the exchanges themselves are unreliable amateur outfits.

Keeping the wallet on your own decive sounds smart, until you realize that your own device isn't very secure either, and every bit as much an amateur environment as the worst exchanges. Your PC can be stolen, or compromised by trojans and viruses (and you can bet they'll be targeted if lots of money is stored there), and you can lose your money in a hardware crash. Backups help, but every backup is also a new way someone else might get access to your wallet.

> To make a comparison with fiat money, would you throw your main bank account at trading ? Chances are you would have a main bank account and a secondary one for trading that would only contain money you're ok to lose. To push the metaphor further, would put your whole money at trade in an obscur online bank that was created just a few time ago ?

No, the proper metaphor here is to have your money in a bank, or to have it at home in a pillow. Most people have their money in a bank, and well-regulated banks are pretty safe. (The recent banking crisis was due to lack of regulation allowing banks to take crazy risks.)

What we need is well-regulated, safe bitcoin banks and exchanges.
Happy user of VersionCake here! I am using it to support older versions of our iPhone apps while our backend can improve and expand without problems. Thanks for your work!
The Epic Git Bomb
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Free to use for commercial and non-commercial use under the creative commons license, Leroy is a stable, fast, lean threaded tool written for multiple platforms in C++. Since its launch in September 2013, a new feature has been added to Leroy that allows the creation and templatization of application configuration. This is done in such a way where Leroy's internal properties are shared with the application's properties.

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We made this 'Game of Thrones' style t-shirt to reward developer-authors
It's a major WTF that Chrome even allows this.

Still, I suppose it is google...
1) OP is an asshole

2) I accept bitcoin as payment for web development freelance services (specifically WebGL/3D development). I do it because, I'm not troubled by the exchange risk, and because the only way that people can pay otherwise is wire transfers from their bank. These are costly, slow, and increasingly, they fail. There's many reasons why they fail, but they basically boil down to that banks suck. And don't even think that PayPal would be better. Conducting business trough paypal is basically, much more risky than being exposed to bitcoins volatility.

It's extremely refreshing to send out an invoice, and receive payment within seconds, and have it securely confirmed, irreversibly within an hour.
The one remaining business where cash makes sense is crime - to the extent that most $100 bills contain detectable traces of cocaine.

I think there may be a different reason for the connection between $100 bills and cocaine, which has nothing to do with how they are paid for.

There's one - or two - more legitimate case for bitcoin I can see - and strangely enough I don't see bitcoin advocates arguing for them: buying embarrassing things online, or donating anonymously to causes you might not want to admit your support for in public

The main reason most people ever got to hear about Bitcoin in the first place was that it was, for a while, the only way to donate money to Wikileaks, after PayPal and the credit card companies cut them off. I know this was more than a year ago and time moves faster on the internet, but has this been forgotten already?
.innerText is an MSIE extension, .textContent is a DOM standard property.
Yes, it's Mozilla who should be paying people to have them install Firefox.
It's time for those of us who believe in the rule of law to put a stop to this. I don't suggest making Tor illegal - enforcing such a ban would require truly scary violations of liberty. But what we can do is establish a social norm of treating Tor users like the criminals they are. Don't accept any HTTP requests from known Tor exit nodes, and look twice at a website operator who accepts them - if you can find a similar website that blocks Tor, use them instead.
> Android isn't optimized to run on wearable devices like smart watches

Nonsense! I've had a Pebble since it came out and it is running Android.
This.

I understand that now it's a little different because we had hard evidence, but it shouldn't be as surprising as it seems to be to people!

It is obvious that if something can be done and can benefit folks with enough money, it will be done. There are no "checks and balances" on the level of intelligence agencies, because by definition we pay them to do things that would be prosecuted if discovered.

It smells to me like the "hammer and nails" proverb in reverse. Spies are building super sophisticated hammers and people really, really don't expect them to use those hammers to nail things everywhere?
phpBB is free but self-host obviously. VanillaForums is a decent hosted option.
I see your point, obviously, but well, we could also consider it would be more convenient to never lock house door and to let car keys ready to use in car :)

There is indeed a huge problem with the sync thing in cryptos wallet apps. But there are apps that fix that by only downloading part of blockchain, like the dogecoin android wallet or electrum for bitcoin. This is what we should advocate, and stress that any online wallet is a risk of loss.
2 sites does not equal a trend.
Why do decent people accept bitcoins ?

Because they see value in it.

The whole article goes on to paint every single bitcoin user as a criminal of some sort while completely ignoring the fact that the title itself is a glaring contradiction of the content.

Furthermore, a lot of bitcoin criticism comes from very US centric viewpoints. Consumer protection in the US (for the most part..) is miles ahead of many other places in the world. You can return stuff after 30 days and in some cases even after using things! On the flip side, my CC was fraudulently charged by Greenpeace a few months ago in India and I would've had to jump through some serious hoops (including cancelling my credit card) to lodge a case to recover my money. Considering the amount was small, I decided to just forget about it. But I still pay the 3% charge built into prices that are 'credit card friendly'.

Not sure if the article is just trolling because it seems heavy on the criticism but quotes other critics as citations. (eg. Stross)

One thing I love about bitcoin is that a lot of folks seem to be very passionate about it. There's some serious fanboyism and there are some serious haters. Personally, I like bitcoin but I don't feel polarized by it the way some people do. I can see why fanboys are excited about it but I fail to understand why the haters are so against it. This is like Mac vs PC or Nintendo vs Sega kind of stuff all over again.

I honestly want to hear from people who have actually been burnt by it. (MtGox victims ?) Did they turn into haters ? Or what happened there ?

The only cases I know of MtGox victims (guys demonstrating outside the Gox office in Japan) seemed to indicate that they clearly blamed Mark Karpeles/Gox and not bitcoin in general. So why are the Gox victim sympathizers so keen to blame bitcoin ?
They should instead open more dev centers in other locations. e.g. Singapore, HongKong have a lot of talents in the South East Asia area.
~(introvert || extrovert). Or perhaps a better definition is that there is no common mutex for introverts and extroverts. Or we're all a little introvert and all a little extrovert.

Introverts are powered by self-reflection and alone time spent understanding the things they love. Extroverts are powered by spending time with other people and reflecting on what they love. Most of us are a linear combination of the two. I'm about a 0.6i + a 0.4e (factors subject to change; some amazing people's factors add up to 1.0; warranty void where prohibited).

Introversion and extroversion aren't necessarily a dichotomy and aren't anything to apologize for. We partake of these modes of socialite as life permits. If you're binary on the scale, great - that helps other people understand you. If you're analog on the scale, great, you can help others understand you where you are currently.
Actually, while I had exactly the same reaction as you initially I realized, once I had calmed down a bit, that assertion being made is about perception not reality.

It wouldn't surprise me that if you did a global poll that the democracy in the US would be subjectively be regarded as "best" - for a lot of reasons:

- The size of the US (probably the single biggest factor)

- The fact that a lot of people from the US genuinely believe that their system of government is the best (a view they are perfectly entitled to) and are rather evangelical about this belief

- The strength of US consumer brands that, at least historically, were associated with "freedom". A lot of the US worldview often seems to have remained frozen in a rather Cold War perspective (e.g. referring to the US President as "leader of the free world" - which always makes me grind my teeth when I see it).
Why do charities accept bitcoins?

Because a deflationary economy means in the long term you don't have to worry about inflation eroding the value of your accumulated donations which means less participation in potentially morally questionable[0] endowment management practices.

You could claim that accepting bitcoin facilitates an economy that has morally questionable elements, too, but that is also true for dollars.

[0] for example, investing in stocks which are of companies that run counter to the purpose of your organization, having investments in countries that engage in political practices that are questionable (e.g. apartheid), or just plain old subjecting your donor's funds to risk (which they may not want).
You make an outrages claim that I believe to be false, so I would like to see a source.
I'd love to write. Which pen should I use?

Short answer: it does not matter. Writing matters.
And responsive too
This is truly awesome. It's just like using a Chinese dictionary with handwriting input (like Pleco or Nciku).

I don't use LaTeX but now I'm looking for an excuse :)
> it would be more convenient to never lock house door and to let car keys ready to use in car

True, but those implications are easier to understand and manage for most people. They can open an unlocked door, so they understand that anyone can. And when they lose the key to their house, at least the house is still there.
See http://boardofwisdom.com/togo/Quotes/ShowQuote/?msgid=35154
That's exactly what I thought. I can't help feeling this is yet another "do it this way" post by a person that is big on theory but probably very low on real life in-the-field practice. You can't advise 301 when you had to actually implement it. IMO this post does more harm than good by misleading its readers. It reminds me a lot of (sometimes very well known) people that feel entitled to teach you how to write javascript SPAs after trying their hand at the most simple case, like a todo app. The incentive to be seen, known, collect points here or there is totally biasing the game.
Note that the current evidence for chakra and "subtle energy" teachings is inconclusive, which means it has not been disproven. So it is not unscientific to work with them as a tentative hypothesis.

I do understand it can be annoying when they are presented as some kind of absolute truth though.

I can recommend the material in "Mastering Your Hidden Self" by Serge Kahili King (1) as a very good way of working with various unproven-but-reported-effective-by-some techniques without being required faith.

(1) http://www.amazon.de/Mastering-Your-Hidden-Self-Guide/dp/083...
Agreeing with the comments here and the post - I'd like to add that having experience with many different languages also shows that the dev has a drive to learn, and that's a + in my book.
Most CS profs are far too busy doing Computer Science to bother keeping up with the latest trends in web design.
Great job, it's the best HTML5 animation I've seen so far that doesn't stutter like crazy on this (admittedly underpowered) laptop.

And it does a great job at actually communicating exactly what you wanted it to, which is also an uncommon skill.
Cool! I definitely have trouble using CSS, I depend heavily on CSS frameworks & libraries to lay out anything remotely complex.
Because it adds a single point of failure, and erodes privacy by irrevocably linking accounts. There have also been security fails with many single sign in systems (including at Facebook...).
Discovery Networks Int’l commissions “Mind Control Freaks”
> Keeping the wallet on your own decive sounds smart, until you realize that your own device isn't very secure either, and every bit as much an amateur environment as the worst exchanges.

You can't compare both. Am I saying that with a local wallet you have absolute security from everything possible in present and future ? Obviously not. But it's certainly not as easy (and that's an euphemism) to steal money put on 1M people computers than on one or a bunch of servers.
They'd probably secretly take down the government, one executive at a time, and then the (new) president would say, "yeah, this was kind of pointless, let's leave the two agencies be".
I'm not really sure why SAT scores matter to anyone other than kids trying to get into their university of choice, other than some sort of bragging rights. I had some of the highest standardized test scores in the history of my high school, but I'm certainly not the most accomplished.
This is an art.
That's why people have KeePass, or even LastPass if they are overly trusting of third parties.

Having a different password for every service is more secure than one for everything.
That's awesome, I thought my aversion towards CSS was just lazyness and lack of experience... I am not alone! yay!
There is a deeply imbued adoration for America as a model of "all that a country can aspire to be" — and this image is what I'm referring to.

There may have been briefly, just after WWII, but that hasn't been even slightly true for decades. Certainly not since Vietnam.