skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the prejudiced shouldn't be vilified as somehow subhuman. When you do that, you're taking a simple token and using it to lay a reductive judgment on a complex person.

I didn't say they were subhuman or monsters, I said they were assholes. And they are, they are no different than the guy who cuts you off on the way to work. And yes, they should be ridiculed for it.

> saying something racist over Thanksgiving dinner doesn't make them horrible people

Yes, it does. It is basically the definition of horrible people.

> you are engaging in a form of prejudice yourself.

Nope. A prejudice is "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." I called the author an asshole based on their writings and actions. I will call my FIL an racist asshole when he spouts racist remarks. I didn't say everyone in the US South is a racist.
This. There is the ivory tower and the real world, and in the real world, the license can't be GPL.
skype for work

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hipchat for developers

google talk and fb for friends

some times Y!Messenger
The title would be perfect for an article arguing for a non-copyleft license instead of the LGPL. Some who create projects mistakenly believe that if they use the LGPL or some other copyleft license that most of the problems with the GPL go away. I think Firefox has lost some developers to Chromium because of Chromium's simpler license. The EPL is also frustrating to some who would like to use Clojure (Scala is under a simpler license). I tried writing such an article: https://gist.github.com/benatkin/98e28b329842f021e6d3
Photoshop and Illustrator are not quality software in many ways, but for professional designers they contain features that competitors do not. And a bigger issue locking people in is that if you are collaborating with anyone, everyone has to use the same thing. Competitors to Illustrator are generally not fully compatible and can't perfectly open an Illustrator file.
I don't know about the "perfect" and the "good", but the "trivially breakable" is definitely the enemy of "keeping secrets from governments".
I thought one of the main reasons for the LGPL was to attract more people to use and contribute to your library, whether open source or proprietary; with the added advantage that developers efforts were not being wasted with needless duplication.

This approach seems to seek to create a much stronger 'us' and 'them' mindset which can only alienate a large number potential contributors.
I've certainly heard interest in that sort of thing but I don't follow it closely. It'd be a great project, particularly if it involved something like georeferencing TIFFs on the Wikimedia Commons.
And whose banks are currently releasing the names of tax evaders to every country that wants to know... Not saying that's in any way unjust but it does hurt Switzerland's reputation for being that anonymous safe haven.
I used to be terrible at interviewing. I know when I see other people going through similar problems, and make every attempt I can to work around them. There is only so much you can do though, and you have to accept that you will miss out out on some good candidates.

The phone screens I performed were just a quick first round check to see if a candidate would be a valuable employee for us. They weren't supposed to be super in-depth or time consuming for either party. The whole thing is basically one big ice breaker. Hoping that I can hit on some topic that will cause a candidate to expose some skill, knowledge or enthusiasm that would move the company forward. There was very little structure. It was all about finding skill overlap, and then trying to decide if they would pass an in-person round of interviewing. If I hit on an ice-breaker at the end of a conversation, it means I had already exhausted all of the others.
The same thing is true of a mail server in Switzerland that uses TLS and doesn't use clientside encryption.
Toronto might be a little better than Vancouver, but the difference isn't that extreme - we're not talking Silicon Valley vs. Des Moines here.

You're concerned about the weather - Vancouver's the clear winner here. You can finish your degree in twenty months - again, Vancouver's the clear winner. Finally, that twenty-month UBC program's got extra resources to get people who aren't programmers and are switching careers up to speed - it's designed for your situation, while Toronto's ordinary CS program is just going to throw you in with everyone else.
We started this project to show people that you don't have to do research like this in an academic lab and be dependent on NIH funding. The more projects like this that happen, the more we can reduce the barriers to starting there will be an exponential take off on the kinds of things that can be done. We are so dependent on plants for so many things that this will undoubtably solve some other problems as well. Plus maybe we can make plants for lighting villages in Africa or for marking the side of the road in Canada.
Skype for work/fun
Hipchat for projects
Google Chat/FB for friends
Taking test-driven development too literally?
IBM was beaten. They failed to evaluate the importance of the micro computer. Further, they failed to see the threat of micro computer-born CPUs to their business. The fact that IBM had enough momentum and clarividence to pivot into consulting is not relevant for this discussion. Today's IBM is not at all the IBM from the seventies.
hipchat? can you use that to add people outside the company?
It now uses canvas element instead of Flash, AFAIK. Maybe it falls back to Flash when the browser doesn't support HTML5.

A bit OT but:
Shouldn't it better to use native CSS3 font feature instead of canvas? Guess I know what I'll research this evening.
Flip! The skype founders or founder created it.
Practical Tmux
Go ahead and take the analogy further still. It's like people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas actively preventing other people from attending church on Sundays. Even the largest libraries have a limited amount of shelf space. If we can't get rid of some of the books that are using that space, we can't add new, appealing, useful books for the people who want to read them.
While it's true that GPL is often incompatible with specific strategies chosen by companies (and often those are the most effective strategies in the current environment, and maybe in any reasonable environment), there is still a tremendous gulf between GPL - which permits commercial uses that abide by its restrictions - and anything with a non-commercial clause.

Not that this entirely undermines your point, just promoting deeper awareness/understanding of the issues.
You may have some luck opening a support ticket[1]. I had the same issue and they sent me a shipping label to send the controllers in for a firmware update. I haven't turned the console on since I've gotten the controllers back, so I don't know if it fixed the issue but they claimed it would.

[1]: https://support.ouya.tv/anonymous_requests/new
Not in this case, I don't think. If there's a way to break encryption, even in the smallest way, then it's not really encrypted, and calling it "good enough" does a disservice to people who actually expect it to be flawless.

Look at Lavabit, which was good but not perfect... everyone thought they were protected enough, and then the government came knocking and all of a sudden the little gotcha of "Well, Lavabit did have access to your data after all, even though they promised not to look and also be really careful about their encryption keys" is the crack they use to blow the entire thing open. (Though that was a pretty damn big crack, admittedly.)

If there's a way to break in, then it will be broken in to--and then "good enough" all of a sudden becomes "tragically and dangerously broken" for the kinds of people who trusted it the most: activists, whistleblowers, informants, political radicals, etc.
yes (bird police), and
no (birds have adverse possession rights? - hahaha).
There's no DRM on that page, it's just a Web page. Just copy and paste the content. "Save as HTML". Print to PDF. Whatever floats your boat. :-)
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I wonder if XHTML would make sense here, to make XSS attacks more difficult.
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/wired_opinion_patrick_ball/all/
It's about cryptocat (secure chat) but the same principles apply. Note that cryptocat has switched to a browser addon-based design afterwards.
You can send encrypted emails to non-protonmail users, but they have to click a link and enter passphrases, and not to mention that the emails will expires?
You choose to ignore my point. Obviously you know about "perfect" and "better than gmail", right?
Dark patterns on the Tesla Motors order page
http://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/order

The website it collecting user information that they aren't authorised to. I half-filled in the form on the order page but didn't submit it and yet I received an email from them the next day. I've looked into the code and can see that once you move from one contact box (eg. Name, email address or phone number) to another, the information is submitted despite the user not authorising it.
Tyranny is a strong word for "please only use this free code in the ways that I have outlined".
My frustration doesn't stem from the FSF's stubbornness; my frustration stems from the fact that they don't realize how it's holding free software back. The EFF has been very successful at accomplishing their goals because they, unlike the FSF, understand diplomacy and relationships.
xkcd had a comment showing relative depth of the oceans and lakes. The kola borehole was also on there.

https://xkcd.com/1040/
Healthy Midlife Diet Staves Off Dementia
Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman - Dave Hoover , Adewale Oshineye
Why on earth doesn't that player have a volume control?
I never understood why I need a transaction number for every wire transfer I do (this is Germany) which is sent directly by the bank via mail with no mention of the associated bank account. Account numbers are public and printed on every letter head, but the TANs are the key to withdraw money from it online. Been using it for 17 years, never had a problem. But I cursed the system a lot since it's such a hassle. Some banks even send you a piece of hardware you have to put against the screen (!) with a bar code to show you the next TAN. It's ridiculous.
How visible? Any pictures without really long exposures?
Xkcd API
Also on https://www.npmjs.org/package/xkcd
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Then Gmail is more secure than this service, because Google's servers are pinned in browsers, so you can't compromise them by compromising any CA in the CA hierarchy.
OCR isn't even necessary. There's also The Internet Archive's BookReader which I noted recently:

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

GNU Affero Licence, on GitHub:

http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader
But the PS4 is $400, and makes a lot of heat. The Ouya is $100 + money for other controllers (which could be Ouya, PS3 or Xbox controllers). If you just want Towerfall and Nidhogg, the Ouya is a much better deal!
Which one you end up using more while you are on the go?
That's fair, and I do not want him to stop warning us. I recognize his expertise.

I just feel that these sorts of criticisms, that are not sandwiched with at least a little positive message, are keeping people paralyzed in gmail and yahoo and msn while they wait for perfection.
> Can we recognize that this is a good first step, and definitely constitutes a huge improvement over gmail/yahoo type webmail solutions?

No its not. "Browser crypto" in the form of JS is broken. There are many different possible attacks. So a false sense of security is actually worse then no security at all.
The Infinite Space Between Words
Because most machines these days have volume control built in. You can pause the talk, though, if you want it to shut up for a moment.
I feel I should plunge into this mud puddle.

I was part of the RSS shakhas. My family has been, for generations, part of RSS. Advani stayed at my house at the time of emergency.

> I do not know the "agenda" you are talking about.

Have you ever read any of the autobiographies of RSS 'sanghsarchalaks' (leaders)? I am not even talking about Gowalikar. Any recent ones? Have you ever read any issue of RSS mouthpiece magazine? Have you ever visited http://rss.org ?

> Communist, Church and Muslim organizations...

In short, the evergreen enemies of RSS and Hindu Nation.

> write unsubstantiated bs about RSS...

Do you have any backing beside RSS mouthpiece magazines?

> I would rather listen to Dr. Koenraad Elst

Because a true nationalist listens to outsiders who agree than nationals who disagree?
The takeaway of the article is: give me your email, I want to sell you stuff.

I like the other approach better: provide useful, actionable information to assert your expertise and foster trust.

Then provide additional products and services for a fee (without stupid pricing tricks).
Tablesaw – A group of plugins for responsive tables
You can be extra noisy.

It's obnoxious, but sometimes it's the only way to be noticed.

And a little noise will not kill anyone.
Your article says you can't wait to ship next summer. Does this mean I might get seeds in July of 2015?
I don't remember, what was the original goal?
I'm excited about Sportsfriends, but is it really part of a trend?
Quill (Open Source NP) Receives 200k Grant to Develop Free Writing Activities
Just to play devil's advocate here, what if there were only two parties you could effectively vote for, because the system was rigged in such a way that regardless of which party you voted for, the actual underlying system still penalised the majority whilst benefitting the corporation.

To be fair, my use of the word 'revolution' was misleading. I meant fundamental change, and not a violent overthrow of government. I did not realise and was naieve to the fact that many people only see revolution as a word that is both negative and violent.
Late reply.

I don't think ducks are rare in the US. They're common in asian and french restaurants, but not much in any other I've been too.

Rabbit is almost never seen on a menu, there are few asian restaurants that I've seen it, usually in the form of stew.

Horse meat is also rare in restaurants, only a few in the entire US and Canada serves it.

Cuteness is always subjective =)
How Mozilla Changed the Face of RSS
Good points in this article. Note as well that the LGPL requires you to permit reverse-engineering of your proprietary code. There are good reasons for this, but it's unrealistic in a lot of organizations.

A lot of developers (and a lot of lawyers!) rely on the rule of thumb that you're fine under the LGPL as you don't modify and don't statically link. That's a fine rule of thumb, but that's all it is.
Most of my books are available used on Amazon for $.01, which makes the real price $4.00 including shipping, plus tax.

Unfortunately, that doesn't make it worthwhile to sell those books.
Linux (sorry, GNU/Linux) is ample evidence to the contrary.
It's worth noting that libraries do a lot more than circulate books[0]. For many people, we're the place they use the internet, or where they print things out when they need a printer, or the place where they rent movies, or borrow CDs, or study, or attend programs, or get together with their friends to play videogames or tabletop games. Or even where they learn to use 3D printers: search on libraries and makerspaces.

My point is, libraries need room for a lot more than books. We love books; that's pretty much a prerequisite for becoming a librarian, but we do a lot more for the people in your community, which is why libraries hire architects who understand that libraries fulfill different needs for different people.

[0] http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2014/how-well-are...
It sounds like this is not a healthy approach for you, so I retract my suggestion. I will defend it somewhat though, hopefully to give you an idea why I immediately started thinking along those lines:

> You believe in testing things, and for some reason, you don't seem to consider the many games I've played with luck components to be tests, but somehow gambling is a legitimate test because money is involved? Why?

Actually, it's more that the gambling scenario brings in an extra level. Learning what the universe is like is usually very useful. If I thought that the universe were against me in games of chance, there would be a whole load of follow up questions - is it just me, or are there others like me? How many? Are there others opposite to me? How would it work if I followed a lucky persons bets? How predictable is its behavior? Does the effect get stronger with larger amounts wagered? What are it's limitations? Can it identify schemes at one level removed? If they go wrong, do they go wrong because I start winning at the game, or because of higher level scenarios (like the friend I trusted reneges on the deal)? Is my knowledge of the scheme important? What if the friend chooses on a case by case basis whether to mimic me or to oppose me and I don't know which they will do?

One of the first few things I would try, would be to try to trick the effect somehow, leading to the friend/casino scenario I suggested. The money aspect is not to cause the test to be legitimate, but as an extra incentive to myself to seek the truth of the matter. This wouldn't work with everyone, and may not work with you, but I think it would help me stay objective.

Anyway, particularly if you find yourself with mental health concerns, avoiding games of chance (and particularly those involving money) is probably wise. The only reason I've continued with this discussion so far, is because you seem to have mistaken my enthusiasm for testing outlandish claims with baiting, and I'm trying to explain that that isn't it at all.
There Is No Such Thing As An International Wire
Just what is a data scientist anyway?
We Are Dead Stars
"she was young so the role was a stepping stone into a very different position"

In the old days the secretary position was a vocation in itself. Now I see two types of people:
- someone who actually wants to do something else. They tend to at least not be stupid, but they aren't going to give a ton of time to honing their secretarial skills either and are going to leave as soon as they get the job they really want.
- someone who frankly just isn't very bright. Secretarial work is unfortunately not very high status these days. People who are ambitious and intelligent don't generally chose to be secretaries.
This was written initially for sending to people who asked me tips on how we ran the campaign, and I missed that in editing. We are targeting a shipping date now in October, having raised more than our goal the research is taking longer as we can do more.
This seems fun, but apparently you can't get them shipped outside the US.
Types of programming languages for becoming a better dev
What positive message are you looking for here? Are you just glad people are trying to protect people, even if they're failing?
I can't get past the fact that people almost certainly aren't paying for it. Insurance companies must be as very few could afford those costs. As many can't afford insurance, it's more like the free(ish) market. Thanks for your reply, I see what you mean now.
First off, great work! I'm the primary authors of RxJS and made a quick comment on your Firebase interaction. We need to ensure that we minimize the number of handlers created. Comments should be inline! Keep up the great work!
Android 4.4.3 KitKat Update Roll Out on May 23
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My father made the hop from iPhones to the Galaxy S5 recently. He couldn't love the phone more, but also had this same iMessage debacle. It just made him dislike Apple even more, they were awful at resolving the problem, and just left a sour taste in his mouth.
Or use Wifi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, :)
Actually, according to the ARRL band map, 434MHz is for repeater links, so even with a license you really shouldn't use it for this kind of stuff, unless it is below the "intermittent" limits on that FCC link.
Can you answer this question directly?

Do you have an idea of what the max achievable illumination (quantum efficiency; surface area; florophore denstiy)?
You can (and should) use Futures independently of Akka actors. You're correct, hidden mutable state with Actors can be a problem, as with mutable state in general.
This is truly puzzling. If you spend that much time on logo design, you ought to at least devote some effort to ensuring that it doesn't look pixelated across a smattering of typical displays.
I'm using Chrome on Linux and I got "You are using an outdated browser - You are using an old version of Chrome whis is 28."

That's a little snarky. Chrome on Linux doesn't have automatic updating and I tend to forget to update. Here's a mirror:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LWDDNOb...
I don't really agree with this. Gmail is compromised by the NSA sending one email to Google.
German official mulls breaking up Google
A number of people have been using React with RxJS as noted here: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/FutureJS . We also have native support in RxJS for jQuery/Zepto, Angular and Ember events natively (if of course they are referenced).

As the primary author of RxJS, I'm curious why you chose bacon.js over RxJS.

Anyhow, these architectures go well together!
seems like a cool site
Thanks for letting me know. I made sure the ATtiny84s could be re-flashed in circuit in case something like this came up. (I also have 315MHz modules, and will prefer those in the future. Swapping out the transmitters and receivers will only take a bit of resoldering.)
Is there anything similar that works in Ubuntu?
Oracle buys desktop software virtualiser GreenBytes
Every local government in America?
We so need a drone that saves us from poop in San Francisco.
But you can't search the resulting map or get directions. I have an Android phone, and the last good Maps for it was version 6. I do two things: (1) use copilot GPS with the whole U.S. and Canada (takes 1.8 GB); (2) keep my old Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.2 which cannot be upgraded and has Maps 6.
So I recently created a simple RESTful API. Nothing fancy here in 90% of the resources. 10% do some funky things (BTW, which HTTP verb should /login use? POST? You are not creating anything? PUT? PATCH?! Really it should be a GET in this case as I am just retrieving a pre-generated token...). I did add a set of tests to keep me honest about what the API should do. I added them after the API was completed, and based on the assumptions I would be making when working on the client-side part of the app. I figured the tests wouldn't show anything: I just wrote the API so any quirks/weirdness should be carried over to the tests. Boy was I wrong. Several subtle but important bugs did immediately appear. It is tough to test a sufficiently complex read/write API as mocked objects get more and more complex, but for this relatively simple case it was worth it from the ROI point of view.
App Engine is rolled under the cloud services. Drill down into the description of some of the Cloud Services talks; you'll probably find App Engine mentioned.
Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum, although it's more basics, still relevant for low-level stuff.