skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was immediately what came to my mind as well.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was being developed around the time that PMC's were gaining a lot of public attention for their work in Iraq and the game seems very inspired by that.
Perhaps the author of this article has played the game, rather than being life imitating art, it could be reporter imitating art.
MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month
Pretty lovely. Too bad archlinux GHC package is too large[1], I'd love to learn Haskell through emacs extensions.

[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4858585/why-is-ghc-so-lar... http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1pid2r/why_is_the... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zp1T0M3...
Vincent Reynouard: “I Am Not Charlie”
The attitude of "they're just stupid people who don't know better" is kind of disgusting when we've got college and university educated people exhibiting the exact same behaviour.

I have no trouble saying that college and university educated people who choose to not vaccinate their kids are stupid people.
VPN is insanely easy today

How do I install a VPN on my SmartTV exactly? How do I make it actually work, even using VPN-on-a-router, given the importance CDNs have and how they use the location of your DNS resolver to attempt to give you nearest copies?

How do I explain to the hypothetical 68 yo grandmother why she has to disable the VPN to use (Australian geoblocked catch-up TV Service) iView and then reenable it to browse, but she won't be able to buy Kindle books when it is enabled unless she had it enabled when she first setup an Amazon account and her credit card also has a US address, and...

How is a user supposed to move the keys from their mobile device to their PC when most users can't even get photos off their phones.
I never understood the main differences between jails and chroots. Would you be willing to explain?
Most likely the true cost to you in densely populated area X is more like $30/mo and the cost to someone out in sparesly populated area Y is $170/mo. Considering most plans cost the same regardless where you live, you all pay the "true" $100/mo.
I'm with you on this one. After seeing this running at 15-20 fps, my reaction was that web technologies have finally been shoehorned in a place where they can almost provide the same experience as 15 year old native games, while running on a modern machine. Oh well, the 'hardware is fast, overhead doesn't matter' crowd doesn't care.
You can't allocate tax dollars towards specific programs, but you can allocate charitable dollars towards community colleges, and get a discount on your taxes. California community colleges are pretty inexpensive compared to most four-year schools, so a small donation can be turned into a scholarship for tuition, fees, and supplies. For a scholarship recipient, having those paid for can make a huge difference.

(I did two years at Orange Coast College, before transferring to get my BS, I will be donating to OCC this year, and my four-year school probably never)
I hope they can figure it out. They haven't figured it out on trains and those travel along a predictable track.
While it has meant both every two weeks and twice a week for a long time, this is an interesting case where convincing people otherwise would pretty clearly improve our language. Even the page you linked to implies this:

> The ambiguous usage is confusing, and might be avoided by the use of semi-
They claim the opt-out is stored on their servers and associated with the uid (implying that the optout=1 cookie isn't necessary)
I think you two might agree, but are talking past each other.

Of course TemMPOraL is right: There's nothing wrong with someone who truly wants to give away software for free. Saying that's wrong is saying that any act of generosity, kindness or charity is wrong.

But Daniel is not saying that free software is the problem, but that "People who think that software should be free" is the problem. When people expect software and web services to be free, producers who can't afford to give it away free are forced[1] to resort to other means. And when he says that for people paying "for software with dollars, this exchange was much more straightforward", he is echoing Maciej Cegłowski[2] of pinboard in his call: Don't Be a Free User[3].

The real problem is not free software, but software that dishonestly claims to be free. Ad supported software is not free[4]. Software that is monetized by pushing other software is not free. Software that sells your data is not free. Software that hooks people first and then pushes in-app purchases[5] is not free.

I'm actively working on how to get us out of this mess. If you're interested give me a holler.

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[1] I'm being generous. I think anyone who is ethical and honest with themselves wouldn't allow themselves to be forced into doing anything dishonest. "You can't get permission for the wrong thing and don't need it for the right thing" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8877192)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

[3] https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

[5] I call this the drug dealer business model. Microsoft perfected this in they way they got everyone hooked on DOS, then Windows and then Office, and then took it to a new level by giving away IE for "free".
Food examples are great and all, but the article is about an iron block that you cook food with. Per your numbers, one would only need to consume 80mg+ per day (of the elemental) to start getting into trouble territory.

My concern is over how cooking conditions (or other factors) may affect how much iron leaches out into the food, which would cause iron overload if high enough, just like those iron fortified supplements.

I never stated that the body can't adjust the amount of iron absorbed.

I stated that iron overload, which is when one's body already has too much iron accumulated, is not well handled by the body. This is true, because the body is very poor at excreting iron in response to excessive iron levels, because iron is conserved very well (unlike, say, Vitamin C).
To add to the other comments, there are also camouflaged bolts and hangers which are popular (and even required) in some areas.

Climbers in general care a lot about the places they climb, and often tend to them as well or better than many other groups. There are organized cleanups and trail management and self-policing, and relations between land managers and climbers are usually OK, with climbers willing to cooperate with access restrictions for the benefit of an area (with the notable exception of Hueco Tanks and probably a couple other places).

If someone unnecessarily bolts a route, they can usually expect to hear about it from other climbers, and the bolts might even be removed. Given that casual observers often don't even realize the bolts are there, climbers really do fuss a lot over relatively little impact.

Of course, like any other group, climbing has some jerks too. (But proportionately less than many other groups.)
Tor Browser is perfectly suitable for everyday browsing. When's the last time you used it for any significant period of time? It's plenty speedy and very stable.

Please, instead of bemoaning your complete lack of privacy online, do something about it for a change. Download Tor Browser right now.

Tor Browser bundle on Win/Mac/Linux: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Orweb on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianp....

OnionBrowser on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448?mt....
Kind of fascinating that his preferred interface is physical buttons built into the cab, and a barcode scanner.

I can't imagine no one has built mobile software in this space yet, so there's got to be a reason he doesn't have a tablet sitting on his dashboard. He even built an app but curiously didn't opt to use that as his primary interface for the other functions. Says something about what a working truck driver actually needs & wants vs what a software developer would expect as the solution here.
Regarding custom kernels, DO says that BSD will be able to boot them: http://disq.us/8lqxh7.
Google's first test market for Project Ara will be Puerto Rico
You have to pay taxes in US dollars if you are an American citizen. So the intrinsic value is not getting thrown into jail. But you are right, we mostly use USD because we trust that we can always find someone who will want it.

All major fiat currencies have an army/police force backing them up. Not that long ago all major currencies were backed by gold or silver. Fiat is a very small, recent part of the history of currencies.

Talking about rice makes perfect sense in explaining intrinsic value.

If we look at major currencies that are not upheld by force we have gold and silver which have been staple currencies with intrinsic values throughout probably most of civilized history.

Other societies uses cigarettes (jails) as currency, because even non-smokers know they can easily find someone to trade with, so cigarettes become a storage of value that is not upheld by any violent force.
This guy would have been better off just saying "Angular 2.0 breaks Angular. The End."

They took out {{ }}, $scope, DDO, controllers, jqlite, angular.module, and are moving to ES6 when basically no browsers have even started supporting it.

Isn't that enough? Do we really need to complain about Java developers writing for the web?
Until they put the IRS investigator on the stand.
If the city owned the lines, do now have to fight [concerned parent] on getting internet upgraded to 2gbit/s in the future because billy will download porn/music/guns?
You're right in general. In fact, comparing Kickstarter and GoFundMe is a bit odd, because they're not competitors.

Kickstarter is more than just pre-shipping tech products like the Oculus Rift. In fact, they originally marketed it as a way for authors to pre-sell books, musicians to pre-sell albums, etc. and there's still a lot of that.
Have you ever ridden in a plane? Then you've relied on software to keep you alive.

Have you ever been to a hospital? Then you've relied on software to keep you alive.

Software controls everything from ovens to nuclear weapons systems. This is not a new concept.
I'm far from an elite climber, but I belong to the Alpine Club of Canada, have taken several courses and done more than my share of rock and ice climbing. I'm not good enough to give you a definitive answer, but I have a story about the mental side of climbing.

The first time I ever ice climbed was just terrifying. The entire environment, from the falling ice, to death cookies (if you wear crampons and step on a large piece of ice, your crampons become skates), to the slope is all designed to kill. One of my very first pitches, I was going up just great until I reached about forty feet. Then, the insanity of it all hit me...I mean, I'm afraid of flying in airplanes and there I was climbing a waterfall in the f'ing Rocky Mountains???

As the fear gripped me, my body failed. I started gripping onto my ice tools as tight as I could; so tight my arms spasmed until finally I had no strength left and I dropped. so, there I was on the side of a fricking waterfall, the ice tools (that I borrowed from a guy who bagged Everest) were six feet above me, and I had no strength left.

My fear created the exact situation I was afraid of...
One way to think of climbing is as a mix of mental, physical and emotional parts.

You just can't just be stronger than most and expect to finish the route. This isn't so different from other sports, they just have a different mix. A golfer needs a lot of technical skill, and a bit of strength, plus some emotional strength, to get through those tough shots. Can you think of a sport that requires less physical strength? How about a very intense gamer?

Emotional strength is a huge part of climbing. Think about it: you're 1,000+ feet in the air. The last piece of protection you have is over 10 feet below you - meaning, if you fall, you fall twice that distance. There's a slight chance that the protection that you've placed could in fact come off, as you fall, making you fall even farther (say, another 20 feet!). Can you keep it together, to make the move upwards, or are you going to freeze, thinking about what could happen? A fall of 20 feet isn't going to be fatal, but it could be pretty messy, if you get tangled in your rope. Now (in the case of the Dawn Wall), you've been working on this project for over 7 years. When do you say, "enough!" and move on? I mean, look at Tommy Caldwell - he mistakenly chopped his own finger off, which could have ended his career, but he kept going, and look what he accomplished!
I prefer the original since it's more positive.
I started playing with this. I take each digit and normalize it by dividing by 9. Then use each normalized digit as an input:

Example sorting 987654 and 123456

Input: 1, .9, .8, .7, .6, .5, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7
Expected output: .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, 1, .9, .8, .7, .6, .5

You can then encode/decode the inputs and outputs accordingly. if (value <= 1) digit = 9; if (value <= 0.9) digit = 8; ... if (value <= 0.2) digit = 1; if (value <= 0.1) digit = 0; etc.

I'm able to get 100% accuracy on a limited training set with 2 hidden layers of 10 nodes. 33% accuracy on the test set (but likely need a lot more data to train with).
Some DO users will want this, others who aren't DO customers will also want this. As a growing company DO want to attract as many new customers as possible.

They're still in early stages though, I'm sure this is in the pipeline.
Maybe in the future, you should look up what a term means before you criticize it. You have no idea what free climbing means...
Funny, I remember Docs being realtime at the same time as Wave was around.

The problem with Wave was nobody knew what it was.
From what I've read that's spot on. Royalty had powers, but they were not all that despotic --they could not afford to be. They had to keep a good balance with their financiers, supporters, the church, asf., all the while keeping an eye out for shifting allegiances internally and specially externally.
This Man 3D-Printed His Wife's Tumor – And Saved Her Sight
Just a clarification: The latest commit is around a month ago. https://github.com/kenrick95/c4
GifW00t, a pure-JavaScript web recorder
A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You
Why? It's not that our (humanity's) goals are bad (they're good pretty much by definition); it's that we totally suck at formalizing them.
I'm confused. (It easily happens). How does adding an iron (Fe) object to a cooking pot increase intake of iron ions (Fe 2+). Note that I am saying Fe(2+) intake. As I understand it, haemoglobin has an Fe(2+) ion trapped in it's structure. This is required for the uptake of oxygen molecules (O2) from the lungs, carrying it in the blood stream and releasing it at sites where there is an oxygen deficit. This is a long way of saying that Fe (2+) is utilised by the body, not Fe. If this is unclear, think in terms of sodium. We use sodium ions (Na+) not sodium atoms (Na). We put NaCl on our food, not Na. Na is very reactive and would react violently with our moist skin. We know that once it loses its electron to chlorine, a similarly highly reactive element, and becomes Na+ (in combination with Cl-) it is in an unreactive form and is used by the body for propagation of impulses along nerves. Back to Fe (2+). I guess that talking about Fe is just an imprecise way of talking about our need for Fe2+. The question then in my mind is "How does the Fe added to the cooking pot become Fe(2+)?" Does it just become oxidised to iron oxide (FeO,Fe2O3, Fe3O4?). I am trying to think what would a soluble form of Fe2+. Wikipedia lists these as insoluble. Perhaps salt is required in the cooking pot and iron chloride Fe2+ Cl2- is formed. But I cannot see Fe winning in a charity tustle with sodium for the donation of it's electrons to chlorine. Maybe, the formation of iron oxides are an interim step. Who knows?
How is the iron from the fish absorbed exactly? Do trace amounts just fall off from the fish when rubbed against the cookware?
Google runs an internal version of Google+ for employees only. I dare say it is more active than the public version.
Making XML Parsing on iOS a tiny bit better
Stanford Deep Learning Tutorial
A service that is a bit ugly, here is what I feel about, you register, you give your credit card, and you just don't know how it will cost.
That point is just bad and make me feel that will cost an eye.
I don't understand how this video represents a departure from standard macroeconomic thinking. He presents the business cycle, with a boom as an inflationary period and a bust as a deflationary one leading into recessions, the idea of credit creating debt which can be an asset, a very simplified version of the role of the central bank (really, it's all very simplified, it's only a half-hour), and, most importantly, a complete lack of the insanity I'm used to seeing in discussions of economics.

In short, he might not be precisely the exact flavor of Keynesian which is in favor now, but he's obviously not a Marxist, an Austrian Schooler, a goldbug, an anarcho-whatever-you're-not, or any other variety of Flat Earther, so he seems fairly mainstream.

So he's presenting basically sound ideas (as opposed to "Sovereign debt is just like household debt" or "Gold is the only honest money" or "Bankers are pure evil class war villains" or "All government is bad") in a very accessible format. His models are simple, maybe even simplistic, but they're close enough to the mainstream that people who are otherwise out of the loop should be able to follow the discussion intelligently, as opposed to being terrified out of their wits that the government debt is a bigger number than their mortgage.
I'm just amazed this runs on my iPhone 4. Brilliant upgrade.
> It doesn't make sense to have them sitting idle 23 hours a day.

Well, I agree. That's why I expect that, along human drivers, the very concept of car ownership will disappear. It's much more efficient to have those cars available on call; they can serve someone else while you're not using them, and they can be parked&recharged at night with much better space-efficiency than cars are parked today.
We can have them work on getting people to click on ads.
Helicopter FTW
Nice work! I've been wanting something like this and I really like what you've got so far.

Some feedback for you:

- Dropdown for sorting repos:
- What does "Best Match" mean?
- It would be very helpful to be able to filter down to only the repos that aren't tagged.

- It would be nice to have the option to control how many repos are shown in list.

- I'm not sure why lists are useful? More info on this would be great. There was something on the home page about sharing lists but I don't see anything once logged in about that?

- When tagging a repo, if you click "create a new tag" the tag is created but the repo is not tagged. Since you were creating the tag in context of tagging a repo, the new tag should be attached to the repo.

- As an extension to the previous item, if you add one tag that exists and create another one at the same time, the list of repos does not get updated with the existing tag that was added. Ideally the newly created tag would be applied to the repo and the repo list would be updated to reflect all new tags when the "add tag" modal is closed.

Hope that all makes sense. :)
Marketing hype. If you look at what the substance of Soylent is, and what the product actually accomplishes, it's basically Ensure, except marketed to hipsters instead of the sick and elderly. The fact that the founder can write science-fiction blog posts about facial recognition based vending machines and 3D printing? Big deal. Writing science-fiction blog posts about stuff you want to invent is the easy part.
Physical, by far.

The number of people who lead climb multipitch walls is much bigger than the number who can climb a single 5.14 pitch, even on a toprope in a gym.

Keep in mind that these climbers spend years relying on their gear and taking no shortage of falls. They trust themselves and their partners. I don't want to minimize the mental challenge here (I struggle with it when I lead climb in a gym, let alone "trad" outside with my own gear), but for climbers at this level with this much experience, the fear of falling is sufficiently small that they're thinking about the climb rather than the consequences of a misstep.

Climbing 5.14 pitches is a whole other story. Perfect technique isn't enough; you also need a perfect physique -- lean and muscular in all the right places -- and not muscular in the wrong places, because muscle is heavy. Conventional climbing wisdom is that persistent hard work can take a fit person a long way -- to about 5.12 or so -- but after that it comes down to genetics. I'm reasonably athletic, have been climbing on and off for over a decade, and multiple times per week for the last 18 months. I'll be ecstatic if I can ever do a single 5.13 pitch.
Absolutely. They're interpreting the situation with strict literality because it is in their benefit to do so.

They have a perfectly valid reason for what they do: it's strongly beneficial to their business model to operate in a scummy but probably-legal way. They are hardly unique in this.

Since we have little market recourse (Verizon is often the only option, and we are not customers of Turn), and we have no legal recourse (again, scummy but almost certainly legal in almost all circumstances)...what is left?

Well, there are technical solutions to the problem. TLS is a good start. Browsers can be smarter about third party cookies. The Verizon Overcookie can be stripped by a proxy. VPN can solve many problems... This glommed on tracking junk is fragile.

I strongly resent being drawn into the arms race, but it is winnable.

It will take something dramatic (and who knows how long) for our outrage to be shared by a critical mass of customers/voters, so for now, I think technology is the solution.

But I donate to EFF too.
"Irregardless" isn't ambiguous, either. Everyone knows what it means. The debate is over whether it should be in the language, in a moral sense, which is different.
Experience in business dev, sales, marketing. Perhaps theoretical but you better have some proven successes behind you.
> I personally think its rather unfair to ask a for-profit company to compete against a tax funded service.

Those for-profit companies have been granted extremely valuable rights-of-way by the municipal governments without needing to negotiate individually with each and every landowner whose property they cross with their lines. Their networks wouldn't be nearly as valuable if they had to negotiate and potentially (gasp!) share revenue with landowners.
Baidu translate works great in China and will translate anything you copy to the clipboard automatically. Requires the usual insane Chinese app permissions so Xprivacy or something similar is a must.
> If you're still carting people around in the truck, then you will have a difficult time competing with large personnel and technology expenses.

The response would be to have people fixed at these scales/fuel stops/docks that handle what the driver would have been doing.
Dear NSA: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging
ISPs can vote just like everyone else. Even more so, in fact, because they can influence others to vote their way by buying ads. Governments are constrained by those votes. ISPs therefore have leverage over the way in which governments have leverage over them; they just need to convince their potential customers to vote their way, much like they need to convince their potential customers to become actual customers.