skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people want to be "the idea guy", because it's cool and relatively easy. The problem is that ideas are cheap.

The value of any given idea is really low - I would argue that for many organisations ideas even have a negative value on average, because you are going to spend a lot of time dealing with the idea without it actually becoming something that generate value in the end.

Even if you have an idea, that works, and that will generate significant value if realised, until that idea IS realised, it is a negative cost.

People who can generate a large amount of those ideas are a commodity.

People who can cheaply identify an idea that can be realised and that have access to resources to realise it, and that can go through the process of actually realising the idea are not a commodity.

The bottle neck for putting new ideas to market is not the idea generation, and so the people who consider themselves "always starters" is not a scarce resource, hence I dont need to rotate them from department to department - every department I have already have access to more than enough good ideas, so adding the "always starter" to that department would be a negative cost.
Their response is very cool i have more respect for them now however that still doesn't change the fact that trademark is too vague.

They need to be more specific on what their trademarking.
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Thanks! Yeah, the bubble is the new concept, but of course the only thing that we can do now as UI/UX designers is make sure we have actionable buttons at the bottom of the screens wherever possible and needed :)
Hopefully, till the end of time.

The military interventions are the primary reason for political Islam to have such an influence over the Turkish society.
Can you save html5 video as file as easily as gif?
The Swiss. They have a strong currency as well. Hmm, wonder if not becoming a part of the EU has anything to do with it?
For profiling I'm pretty happy with JRockit Mission Control in Eclipse[1]. Plus, jvmmonitor[2] is a good lighter alternative, and there is YourKit[3] as well.

[1] http://download.oracle.com/technology/products/missioncontro...

[2] https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/jvmmonitor/

[3] http://www.yourkit.com/overview/index.jsp
Do you happen to know where I can find translations for the youtube videos?
18 Minimal Web Frameworks for PHP
C# is a good choice even if you are on linux. Look into mono framework.
Nerds like weird tricks when they discover Turing-completeness in their favorite language.
I suppose that was a throwaway quip directed at HSBC who seems to have managed to get away with laundering on a large scale with some slapped wrists.
But you can put up that argument for all guidelines. Reading about coding guidelines? You have to follow them too. Best practice security practices? You have to follow them.

If you don't do it of course it's not going to have an effect.
The Windows EULA is quite scary in many places however the worst thing is the dev tools EULAs.
Change date only for a single non-root user in Linux
(I'm very much an amateur.)

You should be able to evaluate something very similar. Typing EdgeDetect[CTRL = The Edge image] (where "CTRL =" indicates "execute the key combination CTRL and Equals key") should give you the result in anything which runs the Wolfram Language. I believe that will include Mathematica and also the Wolfram Desktop. WolframAlpha is an instantiation of the Wolfram Language with a huge knowledge base and a parser - it used to be Mathematica+knowledgebase+parser, but now it's explicitly got the cloud capabilities of the Wolfram Language which I am under the impression that Mathematica will not have.

Note that you can access Alpha from Mathematica (by dint of the command WolframAlpha, or by typing two Equals signs before what you type), but you can only enter the crudest Wolfram Language commands into Alpha and have them executed. However, using the Mathematica tie-in as above, it is possible to write your own Mathematica expressions (and soon Wolfram Language expressions, when it's released properly) which make use of the Alpha knowledgebase.
Yes, it is foolish, even if like everybody else, you haven't read the TOS. I know the analogy is unfair, but it is also very foolish for young women to dress lightly, then go walk out alone in dark streets. Yet sometimes, circumstances are such that people do it anyway, and it doesn't mean they're "asking for it". Drunk after a party? Used to using "your" webmail for all your communications?

People often do foolish things, it doesn't mean other people have a moral right to take advantage of them. (Alas, they sometimes have the legal right.)

By the way, in this case, it seems Microsoft spied on the blogger's account, to know where the leak came from. The leaker may not have used hotmail at all. While it's easy to notice cloud spying when sending from a webmail, it is a bit less easy when you send to a webmail: you're not even legally expected to have read the TOS. I mean, you still have to be careless to make that blunder, just less so.
Can you explain this one:

"- PM calling son to ask how much money there is at home, son replies saying about 1 trillion, then switches to 3-5 kurush (cents in turkish)."
What makes you think it's only exchange providers that are incompetent and/or crooked? Exchange providers tend to hold the largest balances, that makes them targets, but anyone else with a big sack of bitcoins and security by "my cousin knows Linux" is vulnerable too.
I'm not the OP, but I think I can see what he means, and I think he means it in a non-pejorative way too.

One of the functions of banks is indeed to hide the source and destination of your money. My grocer doesn't get to know who employs me; my employer doesn't see where I spend my money.

Yes, you can achieve that with cash, without directly involving a bank. But the money is still issued by a bank.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to achieve this level of information hiding without banks, but I can see where the GP is coming from in his argument.
How do you figure that?

Look, the military interventions are far from ideal, but if I had a choice between a country with a military that steps in lightly when my country's secular ideals are threatened, and a country ruled by a strict authoritarian religious monoparty that strives to weaken democratic establishments, I know which one I'd choose.
One man can only do his best. Every man that stood against fascism was still only one man. And yet they won.

Also, there is some indication that Schindler sabotaged the bomb parts he made so he saved more people than is immediately obvious.
This plugin should be preinstalled by default for all platforms.
The contract law behind buying a loaf of bread is well-codified and settled.

The term "social contract" means whatever the person using the term wants it to mean.

Not the same thing. At all.
I think this is the best you can do right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297985
How is this related to webmail? That's just a choice regarding email clients. The matter of privacy and access are related to who has access to your email server.
These things might be backed into the social systems they exist in and therefore very hard to engineer.
Except that taken as a whole, the bailout money was already been paid back in full, with interest over 2 years ago.

But that doesn't stop this old sore being rolled out regularly. Who need the truth when you've got Truthiness on your side, eh?

http://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2012/oct/...
Google "Boundless Informant" and "Room 641A." Most of abilites are in the U.S. and more is collected there than in most of the countries. Why? "Becase we can."
Flash-based online game version of Only Connect:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg/features/quiz

edit: which they've massively expanded since I last looked, I think they only had about 14 boards, now they have hundreds and seem to allow you to submit your own.
Twitter could have been written in any language and worked, but given their old architecture decisions, they'd been just as likely to mess it up in every language.

They blamed RoR a lot because they needed an explanation for their problems, but "many to many" messaging even at their scale is a "solved" problem and has been for decades and is fairly easy to scale.

(Think of Twitter as a bunch of mailing lists and mailboxes; you scale it by decomposing it: map accounts to virtual "buckets" that becomes the domain part, and map tweets to messages; break apart large follower lists into smaller ones and introduce a forwarding reflector; break apart large following lists by splitting "mailboxes" and doing zipper merges on reading it; add a caching layer -- this is not rocket science, and you could do it properly in any language)

Note: I think RoR was a horrible choice for them, though I love Ruby, but I also don't for a second believe RoR was their real problem.

Edit: Your overall point stands, though. Especially given that Facebook is a far more complicated application.
These countries are more democratic than most of the rest of the world. But in public opinion, transparency actually hurts the overall perception of democracy, whereas transparency is needed for a democracy to work its magic and deliver the benefits.

I think most western nations got more democratic over the past decades, rather than the opposite. It's just that we have reached a point were current dirt can be discovered in bigger quantities than past dirt.

You won't find a lot of antidemocratic scandals in Russia... No TV Stations is going to point out that the Krim-Referendum was a little hasty and done under russian guns. Does absence of transparency mean Russia is more democratic than the west?
The redaction was of the bit about passively detecting which routers have been hacked by other parties (primarily concerned with the Chinese).
"The idea guy" is not brilliant guy.
From my understanding, the brilliant guy should clearly know when, what ,how to do the correct thing. The "correct" thing is which may suit for current business demand or for future business requirement.
Navy hydrophone network and search for missing plane?
The US Navy used to have a fairly extensive network of underwater hydrophones, used for tracking Soviet subs. They have more recently been used by researchers interested in tracking whales. Seems to me that if a plane came down hard i the ocean, that would generate a fairly large sound event that might have been picked up by their networks?
Unless you have a seriously depressing sex-life, it's hard for a single agent to seduce 100s or 1000s (or more) clerks based on recorded behaviour of the entire connected part of the human race for the past few years in a few minutes.

So it's worse in one way because of scale.

In general spies break laws, that's what's make them special. It's why it's "ok" to torture spies, or kill them, or hold them in a hole -- they're not considered soldiers, when (if) they're caught, they are treated as scum (or as we say these days, as terrorists).

I don't think anyone's saying: "Oh, we're mighty miffed you've stolen all our data. We'd be ok with you just coming over on foot, seducing a few, killing a few, and stealing our military and industrial secrets."

No-one's ok with that either. As for the American People, they are (rightfully) miffed because their so-called foreign intelligence services, that are supposed to break laws only abroad, are violating privacy on a scale that makes the Stasi look like child's play.

If a US agent seduced me and installed a back door on my computer to access the networks I have access to -- and I found out -- I'd be mighty upset about that, too. And I'd try to help counter intelligence get hold of the perpetrator. But that's not bloody likely to happen, is it?

Now, we pretty much know that any value target (network, and by extension admin) is reachable in a few keystrokes. The effort needed is minimal, to quote Sarah Connor: "No one is ever safe."
Talk to people pirating your products
My UK bank account (Bank of Scotland) does not have two-factor auth, and there's no stated plans to implement it, as far as I can tell.
This is the problem. Take your current code, host it on a different url (gifcrush?) and remove audio support.
Sure, but the regulations worked. NatWest and HSBC were brought to book.

Nobody is saying that traditional financial institutions are perfect, but at least they are regulated and at least there are checks and balances in place. By and large the examples people roll out of these institutions behaving badly are examples of the regulators and legal frameworks working the way they are supposed to.

Knight capital were in a risky business and they blew it. It happens. But they're the exception, not the rule. In the wonderful world of Bitcoin, the goings on at MtGox looks like the rule, not the exception.
I can understand the need for lowered bandwidth, but the need for better cross-browser and cross-platform support is more important.

For example; Github README files, we can insert a GIF of a screencast, but obviously we can't run our own JS, CSS, or embed video. There is where GIFs are the only option, unless of course you want to redirect to an external site, but for small repos it's overkill.

The other issue, is saving and sharing. How many people have a folder full of GIFs? Has anyone tried saving a GIF from the polymer element? As you can imagine, it saves a frame, which makes it useless. Sure, you can add a button to Download a compiled version or the original, but why should we add custom controls when everyone knows Right Click Save As?

For me, cross platform compatibility without requiring an extra file (HTML to actually play) per GIF if more important than filesize and bandwidth. Bandwidth is obviously costly, but maybe the issue is knowing when to create a GIF and when to create a video instead, why is the issue with the playback why not emphasise on the creation size?
It's not so poor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7441530
Gone with the web
I thought it was clear I wasn't trying to draw an analogy between PHP/Hack and Python/Nimrod, but rather pointing out that Nimrod is a very nice language for someone who enjoys Python but wants static typing.
Don't assume you represent "the rest of us". You don't. Your choice is valid, but it's not mine, and that will be true for many others.
The maker community is important. It does fluke no favours to piss them off. Nice to see a switched on company.
Well, just watch your latency. If the rate of kozy kitten images increase, you're being hacked! ;-)
You clearly have some strong biases against this that I can't help. But this is the future whether we like it or not. Name calling doesn't change anything.
I used to work on a CMS in the telecoms sector. We found the authors absolutely hated using online editors and much prefered word. We decided to use WebDAV to let them directly edit articles in word. They were able to hit save in word, refresh the browser and see their changes instantly. Because we were parsing the word docs ourselves we were able to choose which formatting to support. This meant we could allow different size headers for example but not different fonts.
So.. can I disable australis somehow?
The son refers to a trillion as "just a few cents". Which indicates they probably have a much higher amount of money kept secret.
Because people have faith in handing out their money, which is much the same thing. The concept of a bank or exchange literally running away with your money is not a thing which happens to most people.
Actually it's the Interior minister, the original OP probably made a mistake.

The phone conversation goes like this:

+son, tell me what do you have at home? is there anything...

-no dad, what can I have?

+how much money do you have at home?

-only left overs from my own money, just few cents((3-5 kurush is an idiom to describe small, almost neglectable amounts of money)), you know about it...

+how much?

-about 1,000,000 Turkish liras(he says 1 trillion, in old currency - Turkey dropped 6 zeros from it's currency but people often use the old numbers) dad...

1,000,000 is about 450,000 USD

you can listen to the recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwlEpShpTM

here are some photos from the raid, leaked to the press : http://i.imgur.com/mqBxsRB.jpg
In this new version, Mozilla presents a major user interface overhaul Australis that makes it easy to customize your browser.

The amount of doublespeak Mozilla has been putting out recently is astounding. Read the comments here for example (I don't know if they've changed anything since then, but I doubt it):
https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-...

All they appear to be doing is chasing Chrome's design decisions.
Yes, a lot of people seem to agree with you - going by the comments on the article!
You shouldn't trust that interpretation by Wolfram Alpha.

1. Distance. One obvious discrepancy is that the closer you look at the photo the less detailed it'll look. That's the opposite of how actual "vision" works. Even in dogs. You need to know how far away you should look at the photo, at what DPI screen in order for it to be even remotely representative for what it "feels" like for a dog to see.

2. Original image dpi. The second flaw is that if that image was a 600 dpi photo McNamara processed through the same filter, it wouldn't have lost nearly as much information percentage-wise, as a small image would.

3. What is "human vision"? The original image doesn't represent "human vision". It's a photo captured by a camera, resampled to a specific (small) resolution. Wolfram Alpha can't know how typical human vision "dpi" applies to that particular photo, because it needs to know a lot of information about the camera lens and sensor, which it doesn't know. So it can't approximate the dog version out of it by using relative human-to-dog metrics.

I love Wolfram & all their products.

However, sorry, but that "dog vision" image is not scientific. It's just bullshit.
A 'Babelfish' could be the web's next big thing, says AI expert
Australis is such an improvement that I'm tempted to come back from Chrome. Everything feels very fluid and fast. I'd be curious to see the latest benchmarks on startup time, Javascript performance and such.
Haskell in the browser: setting up Yesod and Fay
> Italy (3 PM's in row without elections whatsoever!

Bullshit. After Mario Monti's govern we got elections. The Democratic Party won. It put Letta as PM. Then Letta resigned and another man from the same party continued to govern. Since we do not elect the PM directly, what's the problem? We elected a party, and the party is still there. Is your concept of democracy "nothing is right unless my party wins"?

> Napolitano, Italy's President should commit suicide out of embarrassment IMHO)

... speachless
As I see it, there are only two fundamental ways to pay for health care: you can can pay for treatment as and when you need it, or you can pay a flat rate in exchange for treatment at no additional cost. Hopefully we can agree that the former option is barbaric, as you are effectively denying modern medicine to anyone not rich enough to cover it up-front, which is most people. The latter option is essentially health insurance. Paying the doctor a retainer only when you are well is tantamount to making your doctor a de-facto health insurer (and all of the horrible consequences that entails).

Insurance works off averages, so it works more efficiently the more people buy in. Logically then, the most efficient health insurance is where everyone buys in. Hence, the most efficient system is nationalized health insurance, which comes with many other benefits - for example, it lends massive bargaining power to the people for reasonable drug prices.

You state in your original comment "I feel very strongly that our current "health care system" is very broken and one of the things wrong with it is not that it is monetized but how it is monetized." This implies that you don't believe in socialized medicine. What in your opinion is wrong with it?
Actually the concepts of "religious freedom" and "islam" don't have the same presumptions.

Islam contains aspects that aren't "religion" from the western point of view. Many muslims will say Shariah law is an essential part of the religion, handed down by god. Shariah does not guarantee religious freedom, nor is it compatible with most constitutions.

So without restricting religious freedom to a smaller "common core" of religious practice, or a bigger part of the muslim world lowering the importance of shariah, there is always a conflict between islam and democracy.
What I would like to know is what kind of event do you imagine happening (beside practically completely obliterating Earth) that would make Mars more hospitable than post-apocalypse Earth?

I'd imagine polluted water and air with still some flora and fauna would still be better than none of those things.
How to leverage npm modules in your next node.cljs project
WebP matches the criteria. It just lacks widespread adoption. https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq?hl=fr#why_shoul...
You can always use Aurora which is Firefox two versions ahead of release. So you would have had those features about a month ago.

I was for a long time hesitant thinking that it would be unstable, or cause compatibility issues with my favourite extensions... Nothing like that. At least in my experience. New sync worked completely flawlessly. I now use it on both Ubuntu[1] and Android[2] almost exclusively.

On Android it's faster than Chrome beta, perhaps partly due to AdBlock, and it has a nicer interface, especially closing tabs is much easier. It's not available from Google Play but it updates itself so you only need to download the .apk manually once (make sure you do it over ssl).

On desktop some changes brought by Australis are, let's say, not to my taste. Of course, there's already an addon to fix it[3]. You can keep whatever you like from the new UI, and revert whatever you don't. For example, I like the drawer but didn't like the inability to move back and forward buttons to the right of the url bar. They're back on the right[4]. Same goes for rounded corners of tabs, or any other control issue.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/firefox...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/aurora/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

[4] http://i.imgur.com/LE8UZHY.png
Have you at least tried it or are you simply change averse?

I have done the move a few weeks back, and I don't regret my decision. The toolbar and my add-ons located there still work very well, also the new menu gives a quick access to useful features.
They are worried that the negative PR of them reading users mail when it suits them will result in stricter legislation about these matters. So to head that off, they've invented this legal circus show to legitimise the whole thing.
"Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves, since obviously no such order is needed. So even when we believe we have probable cause, it’s not feasible to ask a court to order us to search ourselves. However, even we should not conduct a search of our own e-mail and other customer services unless the circumstances would justify a court order, if one were available."
Well, we don't really know enough about collaboration between tier1/2 and intelligence services, but I think it's reasonable to assume that any large network provider that has close financial ties to the US or NATO countries provides intel to the "NSA machine". I'm not sure about Russia and China (along with China-friendly neighbours). I would guess getting data is a high priority, and that NSA would go to great lengths to get taps in -- but what or how they do it I wouldn't know. Bribery and/or running a telco or two sounds reasonable given the (large) budgets, and mission statement(s).
Two words: Nelson Mandela.
There's an extension called Classic Theme Restorer that aims to do it, as well as customize australis.