skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a reminder to please donate to the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/donate/index.php They have tons of old twitpic pages! http://web.archive.org/web/20140304234132/http://twitpic.com... See that timeline at the top? You can go to any date and browse around.

And the Internet Archive is more than just the "Wayback Machine" that lets you browse old versions of websites. They have massive datasets of video, audio, and texts too - check out the examples on the homepage. And you can add your own collections now. https://archive.org/create/

They just finished ingesting 2TB of public Fotopedia photos before it went down. Do you know how much it costs to store a terabyte permanently? Not an offline backup, but accessible 24/7 forever? About $2,000! Power, cooling, redundancy, and especially dedicated people to keep it all going. https://archive.org/donate/index.php
If it isn't generating markup then why is it a React component at all?
Because "force" means you're not willing to talk and argue your point. You are advocating that someone can pull a gun to other people's head and make them do what he wants, and this is unsustainable, detestable and immoral.

So you should care because I am advocating a philosophy that is cogent and supporting of a peaceful society, while what you are arguing is the opposite of that.
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18 pages of pure bullshit. I devoted 10 minutes to reading parts of it; I couldn't find anything of value.

It goes as far as to compare the "highly probabilistic predictions" of psychology to those of quantum physics, and it even cites Richard Feynman. It's just laughable.

In one instance it uses the word "stochastological".
Author here.

That's really cool! Thanks for posting it, it's giving me more ideas for improving the Clojalyzer.

What are your favorite or most useful features of godoc?
"There really should be a .gov entity that handles IT and application development."

I think this is the USDS, the "US Digital Service":

https://playbook.cio.gov/
> "Unlike other frameworks, Pure's design is unopinionated, minimal and flat. We believe that it's much easier to add new CSS rules than to overwrite existing rules."

Sample layouts look great, thanks for posting. Long live "unopinionated" frameworks.
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No, very low-pile carpets and Orientals.
Helpful. Are you using this in production with European banks?

I saw that on one of the interactive maps on your site there's no line to/from the UK, which is hardly surprising if you are - I would be staggered if they got on board with anything outside their little circle. Are banks in mainland Europe open to this kind of innovation?
It's rude to all non Portuguese speakers not to conform to the official language here - English. if you want to address the Portuguese community here, just say your comment in English, and add "By the way, I am from Portugal as well, feel free to contact me." or whatever.
Looks interesting at first glance. I was always wondering if DSLs like this one require too much boilerplate code. What do others think? Is this a feasible tool to use for testing a larger web app?
Why didn't Twitter acquire them instead? Did they try that and fail?
Lots of drama here.

>I would like to know how this is different from jabber/xmpp and how likely it is that these differences are worthwhile.

I thought the question was fairly content free, and something that someone would be able to answer themselves if they had enough knowledge of XMPP to actually care, and 10 minutes to read the announcement blog.

>I wonder if improving the way XMPP works wouldn't ultimately create a better result. After all, a lot of thought and experience has by now gone into it.

A vague objection and a truism. Sorry if you felt bullied or something.
Author here. Thanks!

What other features could the Clojalyzer provide that you would find useful?
Pretty big straw... Not many fully functional and profitable companies can handle a "Drop your trademark or we'll sue" legal demand from a company like Twitter.
Yes, our motor burned out after a couple of years, and then we had to chase all over kingdom come (about an hour's drive) to find a dealer who could fix it.
They gave up some money to reward valuable employees. That's not, per se, being magnanimous or generous, it's being smart businessmen. All of these founders made out just fine, financially. When they start their next big thing, they'll be remembered not only as the guys who had a successful exit, they'll be remembered as the guys took care of their people along the way. That's about the smartest way to recruit top talent you can come up with.
Tell the hiring manager that you are uncomfortable with the idea of working in the same workplace as other family members.

No more explanation should be offered or provided.

Be aware that your expectation that your coworkers would talk to you before contacting your sister was rather unrealistic.

Also be aware that that this is essentially "she goes or I go." Take the steps necessary for the latter situation. It's a business and who to hire is a business decision.
What are common use cases for client-side permissions, given you can't be sure the code won't be tampered with? I could think of adapting the UI based on roles: it's nice to have but not critical. What else?

p.s. thanks for sharing
> Dreadnought's head was probably about the size of a horse's head.

That seems pretty strange. You'd think they'd need huge mouths to eat enough food to survive.
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It seems we completely agree, but you have a peculiar way of putting things. I'm not the one accusing you of writing papers "just for jobs and tenure"... you are! In the same post! ;-)

I think it's good that you're "sharing the beauty of new mathematics" with your peers -- that's what I've been talking about all along.

But I also think it's presumptuous to want to have a job that "betters the world"; most jobs don't make any difference in the state of the world; many worsen it; and of course a lot of people don't even have a job in the first place.

What's more, history shows that most or all of math will be useful, eventually; the way it's put in the OP, it sounds like math should turn into some kind of vocational school producing teachings that should be immediately applicable; don't be in such a hurry.

You don't know what the future will need anyway; you only know the needs of the present, which are a very bad predictor of the future. It can be argued that by thinking about the present less, one helps the world more.
Better Development Through Emotional Intelligence
Ora, precisamente porque tirei a oportunidade de desenferrujar a escrita. Vê-lá tu, para mim fazem anos e anos desde que escreva em português :P.

Regresso com frequência (tenho que marcar viagem mas em princípio daqui a duas semanas…), mas como emigramos enquanto eu era catraio não tenho network nenhum e é-me difícil ficar acompanhado com as notícias.
Tool to convert 3rd party libraries to Meteor packages
Twitter Puts the Timeline on Notice and Hints of Group Chats
YC investment trends visualized
>The major problem is that people who need to learn something are by definition the least able to evaluate what they need.

I have to respectfully but firmly disagree with this assertion.

Kids are born to learn. They seek out experiences that involve learning, and they lap it up voluntarily when given the chance.

School, as it's currently designed, does its best to remove all of the natural fun from learning.

Read about Sudbury Schools if you don't believe this can work. [1] They have no curriculum or standardized testing, and yet 85% of the kids who graduate go on to get higher degrees.

>More direct connections between education and employment would help, but the connection is often weaker than one would think from the political rhetoric thrown around, especially considering that education is often a proxy term for "credentials" or "signaling" in public rather than knowledge.

You're referring to the current (i.e., completely profoundly broken) educational system. The current system was designed for the industrial age to create interchangeable cogs in the manufacturing machine. It actively suppresses creativity and individuality. It requires all the various kids to learn in lock-step, which in reality they never do.

So of course what currently passes for "education" is poorly correlated with employment results. But what I want to do is fix education so that it does a good job, not optimize the current IMO broken system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
Aaannddd let the nostalgia for CDs commence.
Because if everyone starts doing that, no one will understand anything in this community.
> Economics, conversely, is as popular as beer, topping all majors at Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn. In what Deresiewicz calls “a stunning convergence,” it was the top major at 26 of the nation’s top 40 universities and colleges.

In a society that sets up severe and aggressive punishments for having less money than someone else, why would anyone go into any other field? Only the masochists and the selfless will be outside the world of finance soon.
A 2010 interview with Mixergy, the founder Noah Everett stated: "TwitPic is generating $1.5 to $2 million in ad sales on an annual basis, with 70% profit margins. It was roughly similar revenue in 2012.

In interview last month, he said his other company, Pingly will revolutionize email. He's changing focus on something that has real revenue potential and possibly good VC?
How to Easily Build Online and Offline Mobile Forms
Is there a way to prevent this?

Use a browser with separate search and location fields [such as Firefox]. Type search terms into the search field when searching.

For convenience, the search field in browsers with separate search field can receive focus using ctrl-k key combination.
Yes, Windows XP without antivirus for more than 2 years. Once a year I install an antivirus, full scan all drives, and then uninstall it. I never had any problem.
Twitpic Calls It Quits After Trademark Dispute with Twitter
i'd go further and say don't waste a second of your precious time and energy developing for someone else's closed platform. the sharecropping metaphor has only gained in relevance since tim bray first proposed it.
I see your point, but my argument does not actually hinge on the existence of other programs. It's multifaceted and draws from sources outside of the leaks as well, including the mission statement of the NSA. If you look into the nature of how the NSA uses the phone information you'll find that it is used for political and espionage purposes. None of the programs exist in isolation - they all hang together. An example of this is the NSA's program to discover company hierarchy structure from phone metadata - which is used among other things to find targets that give the NSA leverage into and/or access to the parts of a company they want to infiltrate. Finally, Merkle and other political leaders _were_ (are) part of the phone metadata program.

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metada...

If you want to know what the FBI does with guns, you can't just inspect what their guns are capable of. You have to look at their mission statement, their actions, their other technological investments, reviews and investigations of the FBI, etc.

The NSA works with bureaus that handle domestic terrorism. They provide some small tools and data for that. Some selectors and social analysis of phone metadata are surely part of that. But if you look at what the NSA does, what their capabilities are, what their mission is and objectives are, and reports about their internal posture and attitudes you quickly learn that their programs are not broadly about counter-terrorism, although sometimes they partner for these purposes.
Seems to be pretty consistent for public schools, but the current school district is the worst so far. The last one (in another state) was 5 minutes between classes instead of 4 minutes, and 30 minutes for lunch instead of 20.

Parent input does have some effect - the lunch time at the previous school had been 20 minutes as well, but parents complained because the kids needed more time to eat the new healthier lunches. (It takes longer to chew fresh produce than canned.)

The school's argument against longer breaks between classes has been that more time leads to more drama and problems in the hallways, and there isn't enough staff to monitor all of them.
Twitter has basically lost all my loyalty because of actions against the developers that made them who they are.

Whatever the reasons may be, or even if Twitter is "on the right side of the law" I would rather see them embrace this entrepreneurship than go the route of the bigger tech companies and squash any bit of choice. Typically people use third party add-ons because they enhance the experience. What would twitter be like if they banned all the third party services that convert longer messages and post a shortened version on twitter? I can imagine a similar scenario if, for example, reddit decided all of a sudden to threaten the creator of "reddit enhancement suite" or if they decided to shutdown Imgur, which I think that symbiotic relationship was already mentioned here.

Time to look for alternatives.
Dialzoo got 500 users registered just in the last 24h, linking their emails to a phone number. The buzz seems to be taking up :-)
Why not just fine the provider that brought the call into the US? They would suddenly have a strong financial incentive to find a way to pass these fines onto the originator.
History of Nombas (2012)
Symphony Commerce Raises $21.5M to Build Out Its Commerce-As-A-Service Toolset
Something still in the early stages we've been kicking around for component demos is this: http://cmpnt.vistarmedia.com - you can see how the documentation and demos for each component is generated in the source tabs.
Why would they? What assets does Twitpic have that Twitter wants? They built a "better" service on their own. They don't need the brand Twitpic. What's left?
Nice site Nick. I am learning meteor these days. Good use of the Telescope application.
As I just mentioned in another response, you should look at Sudbury Schools [1] for inspiration on how education should work.

The entire current educational system is based on creating interchangeable docile workers for manufacturing jobs.

What we need moving forward are creative, intelligent, and self-motivated individuals who will create value in a service/information economy.

I just listened to a story on public radio that talked about business-without-employees, and referred to the new "Participation Age" as the future. It's worth a listen. [2] He also brings up Sudbury Schools as an example of this philosophy as it applies to education.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school

[2] http://www.cpr.org/news/story/why-employees-are-bad-idea
> Walking at our own pace creates an unadulterated feedback loop between the rhythm of our bodies and our mental state that we cannot experience as easily when we’re jogging at the gym, steering a car, biking, or during any other kind of locomotion.

As a keen cyclist I find the opposite I do my clearest thinking on a bike not while walking (with the proviso I'm on a quiet road).

If I get really stuck on a problem I'll whip out for a quick 15 mile bike ride then if I solve it great and if not at least I feel more relaxed when I get back.
If words have meaning and if we try to stay away from hyperbole, you are not dependent on Chick-fil-A, never have been, never will be.
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Any experiences with a walking-desk setup anyone would like to share ?
XML syntax was not invented for rendering UI components.
Cockatoos can teach each other how to use tools
Seems like that stuff doesn't cover the firmware updater. The infringing code is dated 2006, those files are from 2001 or so.

WDC opensourced all the GPL code inside the firmware for their "smart" (read: linux-based) product, not their desktop code (see also: http://support.wdc.com/download/gpl/)

[edit: added info]
Lott has also said "[A] nation's wealth [is maximized] if a crime is not deterred when the benefit to the criminal of a particular crime is greater than the total social cost of that crime." - a very Chicago School view of the world.

Therefore the obvious question is, is the purported increase in violent crime outweighed by other advantages in total social cost? If so, then by his own statements, it's worthwhile.

(Eg, does violent crime then decrease by 5% in the second year?, does the number of petty crimes drop by 50%?, is there an increase in the tax base?, etc.)

Without that, picking out only a single negative is not enough to be actionable.

Also, the data for the paper comes from 1987, 1990, and 1993, and it uses murder rates as a estimate to judge if there are confounding factors. (The paper rightly points out the numbers are based on reported crimes, and not actual crime numbers. It's possible that the report rates go up if, say, black citizens are more likely to report crimes if they feel there won't be a racial bias against them.)

However, the homicide rate in the US in the 1987 was 8.3/100K while in 1990 it was 9.4 and in 1993 it was 9.5. The rate now is half that level. Despite the statistics in the paper, it's impossible to say if the current low level is a direct result of those actions to diversify the police force.

I also think the baseline is rather short, and we have another 30 years of the same sort of data, so it really need to be repeated with a larger data set before I can place any sort of trust in it.
> It's a shame Twitter has become so developer-hostile

Nothing about this is developer hostile. I'm rather surprised this did not happen sooner.
What is Big Data?
Hey, the box is there for a reason. I like thinking inside of it. I feel safe in there.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue
Interesting prize money amount of $3,133.70. I assume this is supposed to reference leet?
soon google glass will ensure you can't think while walking neither.
I wish the bad posters here would start writing in another language. Maybe Klingon.
If you think there are ambiguities, please comment at http://talk.standardmarkdown.com. This is meant to be a provisional spec, up for comment. There is undoubtedly room for improvement.

The C and javascript implementations use a parsing algorithm that we could have simply translated into English and called a spec. (That's the sort of spec vfmd gives.) But it seemed to us that there was value in giving a declarative specification of the syntax, one that was closer to the way a human reader or writer would think, as opposed to a computer.

Re (3): we have an asterisk which can open emphasis. So, to see if we have emphasis, the rules say to parse inlines sequentially until an asterisk that can close emphasis is reached. The first inline we come to is [b*](url), which is a link. There's no closing asterisk, so we don't have emphasis, but a literal asterisk followed by a link.

Re (1): I believe you are right that the case of a referenc e definition before a setext header line should be clarified. However, the other case seems clear enough. ~~~ starts a fenced code block, which ends with a closing string of tildes or the end of the enclosing container. The underline would be included in that code block either way.

Re (2): I believe the talk of precedence may be misleading here (I thought it would be useful heuristically). The basic principle of inline parsing is to go left to right, consuming inlines that match the specs. This resolves all of these cases. Perhaps the talk of precedence should be removed.

I am no stranger to formal specifications. I wrote what I think was the first PEG grammar for markdown (peg-markdown, which came to be used as the basis for multimarkdown and several other implementations). PEG isn't a good fit, especially for block-level parsing. It almost works for inline-level parsing, but there are some constructs (like code spans) that can't be done in PEGs. It might be worth specifying inline parsing in a pseudo-PEG format to avoid worries like those you've expressed.
Thanks - it does help. So now I have a better understanding what it does - if I were to express my understanding in a single sentence, it would be something like "Mjolnir allows you to script Apple mouse events or system dialogs in Lua and assign them to a hotkey - no need to use Apple C API".

Again, if you target Mac power users (which is the right market you should probably target - much bigger than just developers), I would emphasize higher-level stuff you can do with Mjolnir and ease of use comparing to AppleScript.

For some inspiration, go to App Store and search for "Automator" - you'll see several bundles that help people automate programs like Adobe Illustrator, etc.

Just my 2 cents. Good luck!
So it's time to try this backup tool https://github.com/Stantheman/Twitpic-Backup
How does ATT know it's a robocall? Also, the FCC (not FTC) mandates that ATT or any tandem-interconnected company accept ALL CALLS that come into their network via a tandem
the said valid concerns are specific to terrorist activities, but one should not forget that these are quadcopters and do not qualify to be a DRONE in the first place. Mumbai and other places all over India have been prone to terrorist acts , most of them were executed using Motor Cycles and Bicycles, have the police then considered to ban any of these. More over the Police are in no authority to impose a ban , the regulations is in the Scope of DGCA or WPC ( wireless commission of INDIA ) . Its a Gun fired in the wrong direction.
Reposts are ok after a year or so.
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I think supporting single sign on services like this: https://github.com/ojarva/sso-frontend might be beneficial.
Not sure which part isn't true in 2014 - that highcharts is way better than the competitors or that some people like the simplicity of paying money for things? For me, the first is less true than it was 4-6 years ago but still true and the second is more true than it was 4-6 years ago.
It would probably be easier to write a program to transcribe your piano playing from a silent video aimed at the keyboard, than from an audio recording.
How to zero a buffer
Plus, do those 50% of the people tend to get lost going from place to place in their daily lives? And do members of the other 50% have a need to be able to precisely locate any of those people without maps, addresses, or street names?

I humbly submit that this is a very nice solution in desperate and ultimately fruitless search for a problem.
DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at Oracle
It's provocation!
Which begs the question: why didn't the former/current CTO, appointed in 2009, do just that?
My credit union has absolutely negligible fees and, since I don't carry a balance on my CC, I give them a negligible amount of money as well. The cost of merchant fees passed on to the consumer is not something that I notice and therefore not something that I care about. I really do not have a reason to want C+P.
The card attached to my main account (where my employer sends my salary) is private. My main credit card is from the same bank and I pay it directly from there. Credit card gets used at places that I trust. Dispute charges can be a time consuming process, and you have to pay some token amount to avoid punitive rates anyways.

I have another account in a different bank, were I send small electronic deposits periodically. I retire about 1/2 of that in cash at ATM, to pay either at places that do not accept cards or I do not trust (i.e. gas stations). I have to keep a small balance in the account, and it is not always practical to use cash, so I use the corresponding debit card at places I neither trust or distrust.