skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be built on top of Mezzanine--in fact, the word "Mezzanine" appears in the upper left-hand corner in the admin in the demo.

Is this some kind of fork of Mezzanine, or is there something else going on here? Is this meant to run on top of Mezzanine? In spite of similarity in the admin, reading through the code quickly doesn't seem to reveal any clues (or much of any similarity at all with the other project).
On Tyrese's Instagram he clearly insinuates that it's a done deal. Why would they troll everyone like that? Sure they could just be playing along but it's not like them, or they haven't done anything stupid like that in the past that would indicate they're trying to troll everyone. Dre has all but directly said they were bought out. It is a done deal.
Source? I can’t see any others.
Revises but still tries to slip in a fast lane. Oh, but he is going to check to make sure everyone behaves.

Sounds like common carrier is the right answer. As the article mentions, it lowers the cost of policing and regulation.
If you are against advertising, how do you cease the intrinsic and instinctive self-advertising of human beings?

The study, published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology, found that 60 percent of people had lied at least once during the 10-minute conversation, saying an average of 2.92 inaccurate things.

I assume you do not find yourself very excusable.
Eric Bina Is The Unsung Hero Of The Web
My main problem with Django CMS frameworks is that they all use the django admin which quickly becomes a PITA when you want to modify it.
I'm really starting to prefer rolling my own easy to use admin interfaces to trying to override the django admin.
This midpoint displacement algorithm is also how a lot of the "plasma" effects from 1990s-era PC demos were created.
I have to admit I can't follow this completely -- dealing with file system file names that are not in ascii is a very confusing thing, and one I haven't done before -- plus I am not very familiar with python.

But I have done a lot of dealing with char encoding issues though -- in ruby.

In ruby 1.9+, I find ruby's char encoding handling to be quite good. Which does not mean it's not incredibly challenging and confusing to deal with char encoding issues. But it means I haven't been able to come up with any better approach than ruby 1.9+'s, anything I wish ruby 1.9+ did differently.

The mental model is simple (relatively, for the domain anyway) -- any strings are tagged with an encoding. If your string contains illegal bytes for the encoding it's tagged with, it's gonna raise if you try to concatenate it or do much anything else with it. Concatenating strings of two different encodings is probably going to raise too (some exceptions if they are both ascii supersets and happen to contain only ascii-valid 7-bit chars). You can easily check if a string contains any illegal bytes; change the tagged encoding to any encoding you like (including the 'binary' null encoding); remove bad bytes; or trans-code from one encoding to another.

It means that you have all the tools you need to deal with char encoding issues, but you still need to think through some complicated and confusing issues to deal with em. It is an inherently confusing domain (which is why it's nice that more and more of the time you can just assume UTF8 everywhere -- but yes, I've written plenty of code that can't assume that too, or that has to deal with bad bytes in presumed UTF8)

(The biggest frustrations can be when using gems (libraries) that themselves aren't dealing with char encoding correctly, and then you find yourself debugging someone elses code and trying to convince them that their code is incorrect when they're putting up a fight cause it's so damn confusing. There are still plenty of encoding related bugs. But I'm not sure that's ruby's fault).

You certainly can deal with everything as a byte stream (the 'binary' null encoding) if you want to in ruby, as far as the language is concerned, although I don't think you actually usually want to. (and some open source gems might not play well with that approach either)

It would be interesting to see someone who understands both ruby and python take the OP and analogize the problem case to ruby 1.9+ and see if it's any different.

(One important thing ruby was missing prior to 2.1 is the new String#scrub method. It was possible to write it yourself though, which I figured out eventually. Another thing I still wish ruby had built-in to stdlib was more of the Unicode algorithms (sort collation, case change, etc.), although there are gems for most of em these days, thanks open source.)
You're going to be so mad when you find out what they did to Auschwitz.
Microstrikes for the Modern Workplace
It's not a fork. It's using Mezzanine to structure the tree of pages, but Widgy is used to edit content on the pages themselves.

Basically, we made a really good content editor and wanted to get running quickly, so put our content editor in a Mezzanine page type. However, Widgy is a generic tree editor so potentially could be used for the page tree too.
Mobile shook things up. Zoosk got in early, and they're consistently among the top grossing apps. Tinder's taking off too.
Oh trust me, I use regular expressions in my CSS, when I reach for JavaScript to accomplish something it's because CSS4 (or CSS5) aren't out yet ;)
One of my all-time favorite programming books, about Smalltalk, is Smalltalk-80. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201113716/

That may be interest to those who want to investigate more.
Justin Beiber's Believe now at 1.5, just saying, and I believe that happened more organically.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3165608/
> Yes it does. The UTF-8/16/32 encodings are defined in the Unicode standard (chapter 3.9, page 89), they're not some kind of aftermarket add-on.

Fair enough, but would you not agree that the word is overloaded? The fact that a few encodings are listed in the Unicode standard doesn't make it ok to wave your hand and call it all "Unicode" in essays like these where it very much matters what actual encoding you're talking about. If you mean UTF-8, stay UTF-8, etc.
Poll: Are you married?
Oldest tricks in the chart book. Why do people lie in such an obvious manner and think no one will notice?
I wish I had his click-through rates. I earn about $50/day from AdSense, sending them a million impressions. POF earned $2,500 for that same number.
Ask HN: As a recent Comp Sci Grad where can I find jobs (NYC)
I'm a graduating CS student and I want to learn more about iOS development besides what I've taught myself on my own (tutorials, screencasts, teamtreehouse, nsscreencasts). Where can I find a job where I can learn and contribute but also get paid reasonably enough (NYC)
There's a significant difference between Copyrights (and Patents ... same argument, really) and trademarks. Passing off your knockoff Mac as an Apple product is actually a class of fraud, and should be treated as such. Selling something that just happens to look exactly like an Apple, but you clearly explain to the customer that it isn't? Go right ahead.

Re. mechanisms for paying authors and musicians (and other creatives) without Copyright or Patent law, take a look at that Molinari site. History is replete with examples.

Furthermore, even if your argument were correct, it still wouldn't justify the initiation of force inherent in Copyright and Patent law. That is, the desire of authors to earn a living from writing ought not to be sufficient cause for the State to coerce people into paying them for their writing.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731756
Why care about your logs?
Fun stuff, amusing that the definition of a distributed system used; "Where a computer that you never heard of can bring your system down." is actually one of Leslie Lamport's more famous quotes.

When I joined Sun in '86 I thought it was the pinnacle of technological excellence to be a kernel programmer, and I joined the Systems Group, the notional center of the Sun universe, in 1987. However I discovered that the primary reason you had to be picky about kernel programmers what that their bogus pointer references crashed the machine (as they occurred in kernel mode with full privileges) but discovered that network programmers could crash the whole world with their bugs. So clearly they must be in a pantheon above kernel programmers. :-)

The author has come to discover that in the network world things can die anywhere, and this makes reasoning about such systems very complicated. Having been a part of the RPC and CORBA evolution I keenly felt the challenges of making APIs that "looked" like function calls to a programmer but took place across a network fabric and thus introduced error conditions that couldn't exist in locally called routines. (like the inability to return from the function due to a network partition for a simple example).

Lamport's work in this space is brilliant and inspired. Network systems can be analysed and reasoned about as physical systems when they exhibit discontinuities when considered as simple algorithms. The value here is to realize that a large number of physical systems tolerate a tremendous amount of randomness and continue to work as intended (windmills for example) while many algorithms only work consistently given a set of key invariants.

I gave a talk that was inspired by Dr. Lamports work titled 'Java as Newtonian Physics' which was a call to action to create a set of invariants, in the spirit of physical laws, that would govern the behavior and capabilities of distributed systems. It was way early for its time (AOL dialup connections were still a thing) but much of the same inspiration (presumably from Lamport) made it into the Google Spanner project.

As with many things, at a surface level many people learn an API which does something under the covers across the network but having come up through their education thinking of everything as an API they don't fundamentally grasp the notion of distributed computation. Then at some point in their experience there will be that 'ah ha' moment when suddenly everything they know is wrong, which really means they suddenly see a bigger picture of things. It makes distributed systems questions in interviews an excellent litmus test for understanding where people are in their journey.
Discuss HN: why not have a company with no employees?
What's better, a bunch of young guys working on a startup full time for equity, but not having all the skills, OR a bunch of professionals who are kickass at what they do, have been doing it for many years, but have done it for more than one startup at once, for a mix of equity and money?

I think there is something to be said for classical Liberal ideas / Libertarian ideas for how to run a business. Adam Smith spoke about how self-employment allows people's careers to grow over time and not do mindless work for their "boss". And I shared a PBS article recently about being paid to look busy: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-says-notorious-occupy-academic-job-exist/

I think it's better for people to be doing something for MANY clients, and have a growing network, portfolio and experience. The startup should be one client of many, that compensates for work they do for the startup, e.g. stock options vested over time. But the people don't work full time on the startup. They have personal and professional lives that only partially intersect with it. As our motto goes, "People live lives. Companies create products." The company is an entity that should have capital to compensate people, or attract them to do pro bono / open source contributions.

Replacing employees with contractors is also cheaper for companies, as expensive lawsuits about insurance for employees, and dismissing employees are eliminated, this is especially true in Europe where there are far stronger protections for full time employees: http://www.adamsmith.org/sites/default/files/research/files/self-employment.pdf
The reason I do it is because of shortfalls within CSS. I USE JavaScript for styling, really simple stuff, but my sites WILL be broken if you can't run 4-10 lines of JavaScript. I don't think that's outrageous to ask for from a resource standpoint, and to rule out JavaScript because some bad things can be written in it to me sounds like ignoring English because some bad or hurtful things can be spoken in it.

I'm not sure what to do about the people who turn JavaScript off, the reason I reach for it are when HTML and CSS can't do something.
Should Your Driverless Car Kill You to Save Two Other People?
In this world of technology, full time employment is gradually being eliminated for may people, and being self employed is better: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243038/As_the_digita...

And with emerging social technology like http://holacracy.org/ and the one we are building, we should be among the companies taking advantage of it.
Khosla testifies in Martin's beach trial
Okay, last one. Most concise counter-argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack#Theoretical_...

Derived from the Landauer limit.
IBM Unveils Software Defined Storage Technology for Era of Big Data
Intel's OSS driver is maintained in git.

So, wordplay.
The article's not particularly accurate on that note. There is a project to port launchd to FreeBSD, but it's basically stalled: no commits or mailing list posts in over a month, and it's not clear that it's even been successfully compiled on FreeBSD yet.

https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd
A paper written by Albert Zorbist contains a Go record of the very first human-computer Go game.

http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1969/5073/00/...

The transcribed game record is at:

http://eidogo.com/#3BfnBvgMz

I have asked Albert if he can find the old ALGOL code, as it is of some historical value. The code might be stored on tape, which can be read by Scotch brand IBM tape drives (http://3480-3590-data-conversion.com/). He's going to look for his old dissertation, as well, to see if the listing was included. Otherwise, the tapes will be mailed for a data dump.
Another example: the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane was hampered because regional governments were reluctant to release their radar information because it would reveal their systems' capabilities to other regional governments.
Southern New Hampshire University offers the $10,000 degree
Well, from a philosophical perspective: a sniper acting to save a life is acting in an emergency, whereas (presumably) an assassination ordered by the President (welcome to 2014, kid, please check your optimism and youthful enthusiasm at the desk) isn't.

"In an emergency situation, men’s primary goal is to combat the disaster, escape the danger and restore normal conditions (to reach dry land, to put out the fire, etc.)."

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/emergencies.html

My take on that: under metaphysically normal circumstances, a court process is entirely appropriate. If you're in the position of the sniper, though (armed, and in a position to take a shot to save an innocent life) it's entirely rational to take the shot, and hope like hell that you were right.
>U.S. history is not at long as you think, nor as one-sided as you might think

Well, I'm pretty sure it's about as long as I think. But, admittedly, it may not be as long as you think I think. :)

The salient point is that there is a history, it is complex, and it is reasonable to consider that it is significantly responsible for disdainful sentiments toward the West. I'm not sure that's in dispute anywhere. Also, note that I frequently reference the West and not just the U.S.

But, really, I think the history lesson itself doesn't really address my point, which is precisely that such historical discussions are not a part of our (the public's) reckoning with regard to the symptomatic issues with which we are dealing.

I know you've expressed bewilderment at that statement, but your reasoning for that bewilderment is, effectively, that the history is known and has been discussed somewhere by someone (even Obama). We agree there, though the degree of causality for everything that we are seeing is arguable. In any case, where we really differ is simply that my view is that such discussions should not just be somewhere between someone, but should absolutely dominate the public discourse. Instead, it is largely absent from the public arena, which really provides cover for policymakers to push through agendas that are orthogonal to solving the real problem, and instead serve other interests. Here, they have moved the goalposts from solving the problem to providing the public with a set of false choices based on the foregone assumption that the problem is well-defined somewhere and otherwise unsolvable.

So, the question is allowed to become not "why do they want to kill us?", but "how much power should the government have in invading our privacy?" At some point, the causal element is so far divorced from the symptomolagy, that any real relationship between the choices we're making and the actual problem is only illusory.

You say I shouldn't look to cable, HN, etc., but should instead presumably be pulling from Foreign Affairs, history books, etc. I say that's the problem I'm describing. I mean, an NDU speech? Should we really be content with confining the discussion to channels such as these? If so, then why is it reasonable to have a discussion about our liberties (e.g. Snowden, etc.) via the various public media, but not one about why such a discussion is neccessary in the first place?

Because, that's the problem that I'm identifying and, by suggesting that I turn to more esoteric channels, you're basically acknowledging the problem and responding that such public discussion is not only missing, but should be missing. So, I suppose the obvious question is why--in your view--is it OK that it's missing from the wider public arena?
Unless the cars reach a Nash equilibrium or something they may just all go off the cliff to save the others. That wouldnmt be too good.

Also see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem
Embedded [nVidia] developers "optimizing" games by rewriting and hand compiling shaders to replace shaders in shipped games isn't enough of a clue as to why these drivers aren't OSS for you?

The article is rich with the reasons behind this. Some of it is IP encumbered, some of it is benchmark hubris. All of it is the shroud of secrecy that the graphics market prided itself on coming back to bite them in the ass as their driver stacks are now massive piles of virtually unmaintainable code - code that can't even be rewritten because the companies themselves (well, at least AMD and Intel) are hiding details about how the hardware works from itself!
I don't understand why you're being downvoted because you make a valid point. It has no iOS or Android client, no cloud storage (unless you buy your own), no versioning and sync conflict behaviour is very different. Ergo, it's not a replacement.
The article says the "NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers." The word"receives" suggests that the manufacturer knowingly sends the hardware to the NSA.
The laws are different, but the underlying idea is the same: that one can lay claim to an idea, and enforce that claim through the use of force.
I clicked through and after reading that subtitle ("Human fat cells can be used to regenerate damaged hearts and ageing joints. So should we start piling on the pounds?") concluded that McDonald's paid for the article and closed it.

If McDonald's didn't pay for it, it shouldn't be written as if they had.
Genius – My answer to NewsGenius
If we count ascii art it goes back further than that.
Parrot launches drone with 14MP camera and 180-degree fisheye lens
When you register WatchGuard firewall it asks all kind of questions which are absolutely strategic. What kind of data it is used to protect, are you in tech or military business etc. And you won't be able to even use it without registration. And they call it security appliance. Lol. How about honestly calling it spy appliance.
Why would this particular group be looking for that?

Thankfully humanity doesn't work on a single task at a time.
(and in the case of the mh370, a pretty unimportant task to be honest at this point)
Huge numbers of people only have a laptop at home which sleeps when they're at work. So the only sync service that's going to work for them is something with online storage as an intermediate step.
Irony is people who always whip out this quote.
I feel like we're close to an important tipping point -- a phase change, if you will. Soon, the arguments from the denialist camp will morph from "humans aren't responsible" to "there's nothing we can do anyway".
Assuming you're in the United States or one of the few countries blessed by Stripe.
The distinction between copyright and trademarks was my point. When you say "intellectual property," you're lumping together a bunch of things that aren't alike. (Also, if we do abolish all intellectual property, my crappy Gentoo computer with the aluminum case not only looks like an Apple iMac, it is an Apple iMac — just not the Apple iMac you're thinking of! Trademarks exist to prevent namespace collisions like this.)

As for the Molinari site, I looked at it, but it was very hard to find anything noteworthy in the wall of links with anchor text like "Copyright is murder," "The War on Copyright Nazism" and "On the Subject of Genocidal Rage." If you have a good piece in mind that argues against the historical utility of copyright, I would be interested to read it, because I've never seen such a thing.
FCC revising Internet rules after public backlash
These kind of problems are more elegantly solved in logic (aka relational) programming languages like Prolog and similar logic programming implementations like miniKanren & Clojure's core.logic. Here's the same problem solved using Clojure's core.logic library https://github.com/swannodette/logic-tutorial/blob/master/sr...
I'm not really faulting you for giving the standard response. I probably would have too. I was just explaining where it came from.

You can have interesting conversations about this stuff; you just can't have it with people who aren't ready to move past the routine.
It's amazing when part of history has been found or discovered.
> "Good" government is "bad" if you believe monopolies are "bad".

It sounds like there's some loanable funds thinking lurking behind that statement.
It's an issue with Archlinux package. The 64bit nightly from Mozilla worked for me with no issues.
I don't know why, but I felt compelled to make it spin. http://jsfiddle.net/X53Ju/7/
I have twice tried to install DevStack/OpenStack/RDO to get a proof of concept replacement for vCenter up and running and have ran into nothing but half broken implementations. There are so many moving parts under the hood that I am afraid OpenStack will never be anything more then "Enterprise Grade" software running behind dozens of engineers in large corporate data centers. I can get almost any other Virtualization technology up and running in a cluster faster then I can get a single DevStack node up and running.
It's #2 on the front page right now...
Because the majority of people will not notice, and many of us live in a majority-rule society. You can't fool all the people all of the time, but pay the right ones and the rest will fall in line.
I'm currently pursuing my math degree here (1.5 years) and have enjoyed it and learned a ton. Currently enrolled in Abstract Algebra which is already a tough course but then also add t ok it that the online classes are more intense 8 week "semesters" and it equals pain. But it's rewarding pain. This seems like a logical fit for them and I think it could be a great experience for those who are interested.
This time China’s property bubble really could burst
Just wait until they discover PHP :)
@damncabbage is right. I wanted to use it to integrate it into photo sharing application for mobile devices but I couldn't because it's closed source. This has a lot more promise.