skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the excuse that was given, but the regular bombings had been systematically doing precision raids during the day and indiscriminate firebombing during the night for months at that time. They were running out of significant cities to bomb well before Hiroshima, to the point where they'd started firebombing much smaller cities with no air defences or military presence to speak of as well - some of which were almost entirely obliterated.
KlearGear must pay couple that left negative review
For those who want the data without the layout:

Already have:

Digital literacy

Virtual dissection

Curated online information

Smartwatch

Digestible sensors

Real-time diagnostics in OR

Personalized genomics

Robotic interventions

Telemedicine

Inter-disciplinary therapies

Virtual trials

AI in medical decision support

In progress:
Microchips modeling clinical trials

DIY biotechnology

Medical tricorder

Robotic nurse assistant

Augmented reality

Semantic health records

Embedded sensors

Wearable e-skins

Evidence-based mobile health

Optogenetics

Customized mobile apps

Meaningful use of social media (lol)

Artificial organs

Adherence control

3D printed biomaterials and drugs

Still needs time:
Full physiological simulation

Gamification-based wellness

Holographic data input

Home diagnostics

Multi-functional radiology

Remote touch

Humanoid robots

Nanorobots in blood

Augmenting human capabilities

VR applications

Redesigned hospital experience

Virtual-digital brains

Recreational cyborgs

~

TL,DR: In the future, it'll be even more awesome to be rich and sick.
Pulling up some quick numbers, the IRA (more properly the Provisional IRA) killed roughly 1600 people over 3 decades of operation during the troubles, with about 60% of those deaths being of military/police and slightly more than 600 killings of civilians.

During Obama's administration alone (6 years) more than 2400 people have been killed by US drone strikes, nearly 300 of them civilians (89% "terrorists"/military). Certainly that is a better ratio than the IRA, but the fact that we are willingly waging such a devastating war with significant "collateral damage" (in another 6 years or so we will have killed as many civilians as the IRA did) with so little public debate or oversight should be chilling to anyone.
To quote Walter White: We are not in danger, we are the danger. And would we want it any other way? Could we as a nation accept being second best at the delivery of death and destruction?
>1) The name of the function is file_get_contents, however you're not getting a file.

No, you are getting a file. It's from a remote location, but it's a file nonetheless. Are ftp:// resources not files? Are ssh:// resources not files?

>2) It provides you with a lack of control.

Does it? Stream context options give you a degree of control. If file_get_contents isn't quite right for you, there's also fopen.

>3) It's pretty sloppy, to do anything like POST requests with bodies you have to do hacky stuff.

$ctx = stream_context_create([
'http' => [
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $some_post_data_here
]
]);
$result = file_get_contents('http://example.com/post_endpoint', false, $ctx);

Where's the hacky stuff?

It's also shorter and more readable than the equivalent in cURL (the PHP cURL extension, not the command-line, obviously) and you don't even need to install an extension!
Oh god, it's a battlestations thread. On HN. For shame. :(
Haha you may have parsed bitexploder's comment slightly incorrectly.

> The non words were gems, blurishness... why did I say yes to that?

Try reading that as:

> The non words were gems. Blurishness... why did I say yes to that?
For what reason do you consider 'codec' an online porn word? I would think that most men would be acquainted with this word because of movie piracy.
I use bigger fonts and I code all day. Having no problem after first 30 minutes.
There was a time when we could view html just fine and we didn't need color monitors. Then web developers happened. CSS happened, javascript happened..
Ok.
I accept and appreciate your view. After three responses in agreement apparently the rhetoric is somewhat inflammatory, and (although I do feel how I posted), maybe a different approach is better.
It might be fair and it might be progressive, but how is it "democratic"?
>file_get_contents only works on external URLS if the fopen_wrapper have been enabled in the PHP.ini. Most the shared hosting I've come across have this disabled, so it would show an error.

Oh, that's a shame. Though there's nothing forcing you to use any particular shared hosts. There are plenty of awful ones, but you don't have to use them.

>cURL is the functions you need to 'get' a URL, not file_get_contents.

Well, many shared hosts have that disabled. ;)
I enjoyed reading some of their results. I see some methodological issues here, however:

1) The test makes you distinguish between real words and a set of words they've made up in some way. As others have pointed out, some of them are pretty obvious non-words. I would expect the results to change depending on the method used to generate non-words.

2) Measuring the performance of a binary classification is a well studied problem with many metrics and approaches to quantifying performance (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_classification#Evaluat...). Subtracting the false positive rate from the true positive rate is not among them. The final score is not a consistent estimator of the fraction of words in their corpus you know.
Explanation: A protestor at yesterday's Google I/O keynote shouted “you're all working for a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people.”
How I got a medal from the Army for writing code
Vector Racing
Dir Bruteforcer In Go That Doesn't Work
Then why don't the sites provide the same options that you get with some ios apps. Default is free with ads, otherwise pay a nominal fee to remove the ads.

Without the latter the ads being compulsory is just enforcing advertising on your users without knowing if they even want it.
The /r/linguistics thread on this subject does a pretty good job of pointing out the flaws in the way this data is presented: http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/288ed6/12_engli...

The test that they run is pretty cool, but this conclusion is super weak.
Wow, that is terrible. I'm not even talking about the shitty defaults, but look at the code to make it "secure". String-based programming and all of the underlying OpenSSL crap just spills up to the API.

No one should be using that, if only because with the magic strings everywhere it is not guaranteed to blow up when there are breaking changes.
I tried to only answer yes when I knew what the words meant rather than guessing. I also said "bubba", "bumf" and "nonsuccess" weren't words which it disagreed with.

Most of the other things that I didn't get were from biology. "lymphoid" (guessed it might have been a word but hadn't heard it so entered no), "dabchick" etc.

"bubba" and "bumf" are interesting ones as they ask the question of where the language ends and local dialects and slang begin (or are local dialects and slang within the language in which case an exhaustive list is impossible).
As India's Tea Gains Fans, Seeking a Faster Way to Get It to Them
Ages ago I read "A Hacker's Guide to Tea" here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934051), and since then I've become much more of a tea person.
This seems to explain the sentence. Thank you, now I have something to read about for the next few hours.
I've got a couple of PDP-8 computers and they are all TTL. Its fun to pull out the three boards that make up the CPU and point out individual things like registers and instruction decoders, but its also something we'll probably never do again.

As an intellectual exercise, when Intel announced their 28nm parts a friend and I tried to estimate if you could get the entire TTL catalog into a single part. Turns out you should be able to, pretty trivially. We imagined a fun (but useless) part with 14, 16, or 24 pins that you could drop into a programmer, pick which chip you wanted and "poof" it would be there (every chip would have every component in it). At that point an FPGA makes more sense though.

Some of the 'classic' parts, like NAND gates and inverters are still pretty useful in teach digital logic concepts, and its fun that folks using Arduinos and other pin limited devices are using shift registers to get more effective pins, but the heyday of discrete logic is well and truly past.
I wonder if Google would get them banned if this happened.
For the curious:

We pay $1 for each approved post. Each post is 50-100 words, has to follow our simple style guide, and must to link to an original news article.
https://rawgit.com/Wiredcraft/Moleskin/master/examples/angul...
Author here, ask me anything. And don’t miss the related work section at the end — there’s a ton of links there to inspiring work.
How about to put some food on the table?
4 Years Ago Evan Spiegel Left A Comment On TechCrunch And Got Slammed
I built something similar a few years back. Walking at a snail's pace for a few hours a day was nice for bloodflow and focus. Then I started getting major headaches. I went to the doctor and couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Then I realized that my head bobbing up and down while staring at my screen was causing it. Stopped using the desk and it went away. I raised my screen to eye level and that helped. But the headaches still occurred so I reluctantly quit. Maybe I walk funny or I'm sensitive to it, but I'd like to warn anyone doing this to make sure you don't make yourself sick. Beyond that, have fun and good luck explaining it to others :)
> as long as you are within a radius of 100 miles from the border.

The rule is more nuanced than that. Until you cross all border control points then you can still be searches as if you were crossing a border. The rule you're talking about is that these border control points can be within 100 miles from the border to allow for efficiency of operation of border controls. Imagine if literally every border crossing to Canada had to have a dedicated CBP outpost manned every hour that the road itself is open.
I'm too lazy^H^H^H^Hbusy and I don't want to be sourcing the lenses, NFC tag, etc. This is great for me.
There are other benefits than SEO when thinking about guest blogging. Personally I see guest blogging as awareness building first, with any bump in SEO a nice bonus.
Awesome Sysadmin: Open-source sysadmin resources
Sorry, all of that is proprietary.
your svg-preview url return 404, isn't it https://github.com/lloeki/svg-preview ?
Nearby Super-Earth, Gliese 832 c, is the most Earth-like Exoplanet
I think the real point there is that the professors still get paid.
Wearable Device Breaks The Smoking Habit
I think he means that lot of the new website designs change the scroll behavior because they think it's cool (just like <blink> was), but they make the user experience worse in most cases.
The secret to successful team tasks
One of the interesting aspects is how the mere existence of cheap drones will need to alter defence. Consider that for a terrorist group, once they've demonstrated the willingness to use drones, they can drastically increase the cost in defending against attacks by using very cheap fakes.

A government targeted with drones would not dare take the risk of finding out the "wrong way" whether or not the incoming drone is loaded with explosives, or is a cheap toy. Now imagine a steady stream of hundreds of cheap toys, with one every now and again loaded with explosives.

Say (just to pull random numbers) that a real "homemade" drone costs $10k/piece, and a fake one drops down to $100/piece and you can send out 101 w/one real for the cost of 2 real ones. Yet the cost of defending against the attack has gone up 100-fold.
Of course, one of the researchers is named "Ray".

I love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism. :)
I think the argument is that the semantics really only matter to who's making the definitions. If you're a civilian and you live in fear that you or a family member may be the casualty of an unprovoked bombing, be it by insurgents, terrorists, or drones, the distinction is irrelevant.
One problem with Markdown is that every Markdown app uses a different version of it.
Stereotypes are a primitive form of decision heuristics. We must use heuristics when dealing with the enormous volume of information that we are required to process on a day to day basis, or we would never get anything done as we evaluate every micro-decision at an atomistic level.

As far as missing out on great opportunities by using heuristics, it happens all the time, and not just with race/sex/age stereotypes. It happens with food, it happens with color, it happens with sounds and temperatures and fabrics and pets. We require heuristics based on generalizations and abstractions to even function in the world.

There is no easy solution to this, but the saving grace of a semi-free society is that if your particular heuristic excludes a great opportunity, it's very likely someone else's heuristic does not.
Why would you be embarrassed about something you do? It's your reality.
Breathtaking work!

Found a ton more interesting examples here: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
A lot of these were strange formations of regular words.

For example, I said I didn't know "symphonize and "discussible" because I have never ever seen either form used anywhere. But obviously, I know the words "symphony" and "discuss" so I can infer their meaning from the suffixes.
I find Markdown best for writing in but looking at the processed output best for proofreading.
Anyone know of any applications using this in the wild yet?
You can easily deal with spaces in bourne shell. Quote your variables. Change the IFS to make it only newlines. Of course, newlines in filenames are perfectly valid too.
What's that book you seem to have a thousand of?
From your linked post, it seems there's just not much SEO value to gain from guest blogging, but it also doesn't hurt (unless you're obviously spamming).

Groove's post is all about the traffic and trial sign ups they received from guest blogging, not about the SEO value.
"With periodicals, though, there usually is a contract with writers where rights are assigned to the publisher. Maybe the copyright, maybe just a license. There's usually something along those lines."

Publications usually allow the writer to retain IP ownership, but with an exclusive license granted to the publication for a certain period of time. For instance, "Joe Writer agrees to license to PublicationMagazine the exclusive worldwide rights to the work for a period of N days." Depending on the contract, many publications will also want the right to sublicense or syndicate the work during their license period, but will compensate the writer X% of syndication revenues.

I've never written for HuffPo, and I have no idea how their process works. I do, however, think it's a raw deal for any writer to contribute for free on an ongoing basis to a successful, for-profit publication. Not that there's anything illegal or immoral about that, per se. It's just that the writer is selling his time and product very short. Plenty of successful, respectable publications will pay a writer for his work. It won't be much; journalism isn't exactly renowned as a path to material riches. But at least it'll be something.
I built one of these too! http://reustle.io/blog/cant-stand-sitting
I feel that Adblock is a serious threat to Facebook. If it gets the viral traction, imagine half of the Facebook users using Adblock. The result would be disastrous.

I use Adblock and love it dearly. I don't have to watch annoying ads on youtube or deal with intrusive banner ads suggesting I a guide on how to make $5000/day at home in an instant.

I do sometimes want to see ads, and that's when I google something and I want to actually see the advertisements. This is a good sign for google although overall, adblock will slowly cannibalize their ads
Those are fair points. Another nit I just noticed in the second example is the extraneous semicolon.
In which case, compare Reddit instead. :P
It might make sense to squash so you only have compile-ready commits in your log.

In a sense I work this way, without the squashing. When I write a test, the build fails and nothing has been done on the application codebase so I don't commit. When I fix the build by writing new code, I commit.

Maybe I should be doing small intermediate commits and squashing the commits into one commit.
Sorry I'm super dumb :( what does 'snoozing' your email mean?
By that reasoning nobody should ever be embarrassed about anything. And that is definitely not a good representation of reality.
and of course, it can't be installed on chrome.

almost makes me want to switch to firefox completely and use adblock-edge.
Funny, I hadn't even thought of that. It comes from &yet (http://andyet.com) :)
The web is truly the new <canvas> for the artist.
Anyone writing about humanizing javascript, has my respects. Worth a serious look. However, I would have pitched it, based on its own merits rather than trying to highlight the shortcomings---if any---of backbone.
That's true, although many of the core backbone components have been significantly modified/basically completely rewritten, keeping a fair amount of similarity with the backbone APIs but extending them too, for example:

* Views have declarative data bindings for updating your html with model data automatically; out of the box, sensible render and remove methods just work; collection rendering is easy.

* Models have explicitly declared properties and types, as well as evented + cached derived/computed properties. You can access model properties without .get('name') and .set('name', value) and events and things just work.
For the last month and a half, I've been using a treadmill desk for 1-3 hours every day. I walk at 2mph (a nice slow pace I can do consistently without thinking) and it's been absolutely fantastic. It doesn't make reading or typing difficult (the desk is well-stabilized and my Thunderbolt display is on a very heavy arm), and I'm down nearly 25lbs since I started, thanks to a combination of diet and exercise.

I truly can't recommend a treadmill desk enough.

Edit: You can see my setup (sans laptop) here: http://imgur.com/Jqfy8eG
See also
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949183
Browser fingerprints are largely unique, so it's far more identifying than just the color of your car.
>String-based programming

Are we talking about the same language? This is PHP, not Tcl.

>all of the underlying OpenSSL crap just spills up to the API.

None of it does. I mean, there's an extension for OpenSSL, but that's not what's 'spilling up'. What's happening is there were poor defaults, so people have to change them. Luckily, PHP 5.6 fixes this.

>No one should be using that, if only because with the magic strings everywhere it is not guaranteed to blow up when there are breaking changes.

"Magic strings"? Are you seriously trying to compare using string names for keys to specify options (standard practise in many languages) with magic numbers?
I would like to know this as well. I am very curious to know how they are able to do this with both bluetooth and wifi
this is only slightly tongue in cheek, but do you ever get tired of being so awesome? Seriously. this shit is amazing.

thanks for all the time/effort you've put into d3. my side project (machete.io) certainly wouldn't be possible without it.
I have the same memories of a UNF required computer lab course in 2002 or so. We were required to learn about flip-flops, various other hardware gates, and using truth tables and clocks to form hardware logic.

By the end of the course we had to make a 4-bit breadboard CPU that could handle a couple of operations; a push button acted as the "clock". It was all very simplistic but at the same time I learned an incredible amount about how computer hardware works.
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DB schema change from varchar(64) to 255 takes 4 yrs and counting
WP transients being cut off because column is too short (64 characters). Considering you can add underscores and make sure transient unique and self explanatory when searching for it to debug - it's very easy to reach the limit... And extending varchar doesn't need that much of the debugging anyway prior to deployment. Good job Wordpress.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13310
Really? they top other brand surveys, example: http://marketingland.com/study-apple-loses-1-spot-worlds-val...

The merits of these protests ought to be taken into consideration, protesting Google for net neutrality issues (instead of say Comcast) and killer robots isn't really grounded in reality, it's attention seeking behaviour.

Many entities use Google's name to get attention, and the media outlets use it as link-bait, the housing issue for example is mainly a local one, and one that Google is being unfairly singled out in, see the media referring to tech shuttles as "Google Buses".
If you look from the right angle everything it's win-win, the point is how much one win is worth compared to the other. Your boss tells you he would totally give you money if you do some boring chores he doesn't want to do, it's win-win. But if he gives you $1000 and then proceeds to make 10 times that with the product of your work, then it's actually a WIN-win for him.
Ampersand has evolved out of the client and product work we've done at &yet over the years. So there are a number of client projects with various evolutions of it in production, as well as our own products: http://andbang.com and http://talky.io, and https://otalk.im/
> any country should be allowed to use drones or any other technology to target individuals who target their civilians (eg, terrorists)

According to Russia, this definition have in several instances included regular Ukrainian troops, who according to the Ukranian government, is fighting terrorists/insurgents that are targeting Ukranian civilians on Ukrainian territory. See how this gets messy quickly, when either side have completely different versions of events?

The "we need to protect our civilians (even if they live in a different country, were born there, and have never been our citizens) against individuals who are targeting them" argument is one of history's oldest excuses for going to war. Sometimes it may be justified, but it also very often conveniently ignore that the "targeted civilians" may themselves have been insurgents or terrorists or infiltrators who were legitimate targets.

It's a popular excuse whether or not it is true, because assuming your attacks go well, it gets very hard to find out the truth when everyone involved has been conveniently killed.
This one is also interesting (requires WebGL) http://ottoallmendinger.github.io/js-quickhull3d/
Since PRs on Github auto-update when the branch they are based on is updated, they would not need to create a new pull request:

Bob requests that Alice merge bob/bob-feature into alice/master.

Alice requests that Bob merge alice/fix-bob-to-conform-to-pep8 into bob/bob-feature.

Bob merges that into bob/bob-feature, and Bob's PR into Alice's repo is now auto-updated to reflect the changes that he merged into his branch.

Alice is now satisfied, and merges bob/bob-feature with alice/master.
One could argue that should be okay for a class of certificate without identity/organization verification.