skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm 20, don't drink caffeine or go out more than once or twice a month. Left to my own devices, in a few weeks I'd be falling asleep around 10AM and waking up at 5PM.

I'd bet that might not be so without electronics :)
>But for all bittorrent's success, Netflix (and others), which are centralized and highly controlled alternatives, are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video -- it is just less work to use Netflix, even though it doesn't have the benefits of being free and open.
>So for all the attraction of P2P decentralization, often centralized, commercial focused easy solutions win out. There are costs to be paid by being decentralized and often general people who are not ideological do not want to pay these costs.

I would disagree that the reason people use Netflix instead of bittorrent is not because Netflix is "less work" or that "there are costs to be paid by being decentralized". Your argument above is ignoring the legal issues with transmitting copyrighted data that deters ordinary citizens concerned about following the law. I would actually say that Netflix is more work than bittorret, espcially compared to the bittorrent clients nowadays that can stream bitorrented video. Plus in the past netflix always required a bloated plugin (silverlight).
Finally something interesting comes out of this whole thing. Who doesn't love a good optical illusion? (Well, blind people, I guess, have little use for them. Nevermind.)
Seems to me the pressing interest of the us and European governments is keeping Putin's power and influence in the region in check. He's very clearly shown his willingness to use whatever means he likes including military force and assassination to expand his power in the region. Everyone remembers the impacts of the USSR doing the same. A success here could embolden him further so its in their interest to push back.

No doubt economic concerns are part of the equation but IMO its a bit tinfoil hattish to suggest its purely about some particular shale gas deal.
The idea that you can represent a government, let alone an entire country or collection of countries, as having a single intent is faulty. I'm sure some individuals are motivated by economic interests, while others are desperate to have a worthy object of their Cold War chauvinistic sentiments, while others dislike Russia because of domestic homophobic and racist policies, while others like the face that the new government of Ukraine flattered their cultures and countries, while others just listened to Russophobic Western media, while others really dislike the idea of one country invading another and being sprayed with bullshit propaganda.

The search for intent and motivation as causal mechanisms in international relations is pretty dangerous.
In what way is it a public concept and why is it a priority to keep it that way?

I just don't see the real and non-technical difference between app.com and .app. We have gone from a world with a select set of TLDs to a world were almost anyone with a couple hundred thousand dollars can create their own TLDs. With that change, domains went from a relatively limited resource to an almost unlimited one. I think that allows us to be less dogmatic and loosen the rules on how they are managed.

I am completely open to other opinions, but I would need a better reason than just appealing to the philosophical superiority of openness.
I had never previously assumed that the any of the owners of these gTLDs were under any obligation whatsoever to open them for widespread public domain registrations.

OK, but many people (including myself) had the opposite yet equally obvious intuition that ICANN wouldn't allow closed generic TLDs. It was so obvious to me that I didn't bother to check the rules, so now we're in this situation.
Fair enough, I completely retract the astroturfing statement.

I am sick of the dress, however. It's a snake eating itself - the media feeds on itself and grows louder and louder about the same thing.
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Leonard Nimoy gave many of us a role model to look up to, and his work inspired many future works of fiction that inspired even more.

How many of us were called "Spock" by bullies, but actually found comfort in knowing that Spock was six shades of badass?
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>But the FDA/research system is not set up to deal with things like this, that are not to treat a disease per se, but rather to enhance ... healthy, young or middle-aged normals.

So how did plastic surgery get through? Would that kind of procedure not be approved today under current standards? Would they be allowed to experiment at all, given the (in the FDA's view) limited benefits?
I suggest you go with prose that clearer over prose that is more stylistic. For example:

Line six has a closing curly brace, and so main, and thus, our program, is over.

Could be rewritten as:

Line six has a closing curly brace, and so main is over. By extension, our program is over as well.

Maybe even with a quick reinforcing of the (hopefully earlier explained) concept that main is the main program block.

It's a fine line to walk, making the text interesting while also making it very clear, but I think there's something to be said for making the English easy to parse, since the people going through the tutorial will have enough on their hands dealing with the code examples.
I expected a response like this but didn't cover it in the question due to lack of space. However, even on Showtime and HBO there aren't uncensored depictions of sexual acts or full nudity. Yet there is plenty of violence intended to look realistic. I'd expect that if our society accepted uncensored sexuality in movies, there'd be sitcoms with it too, since that's already one of their main topics.
As other's have said, list what you are working on and apply asap. Apply to a bunch of places, not just one. If you miss out then just be ready to apply of fall of this year or early spring.

Keep in mind most internships are as much about you learning as it is about you doing some work for someone. While there are some out there looking for "all stars", most are just looking for someone who knows the basics and is excited to learn more. If you can convey that, which you conveyed in this post, then you are already off to a great start.

Good luck!
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The meme that PHP is a templating language may be technically accurate, but as a templating language, raw PHP is so terrible that the thought of using it as such should also be dismissed outright.

There is nothing great about this sort of thing:

<?php for($i=0; $i<$num_rows; $i++) { ?>

<div><?php echo htmlspecialchars($db_row[$i]['field']); ?></div>

<?php } ?>

repeated ad-nauseum across hundreds of files.

And then somebody decides to drop php variables directly into javascript and css...

No. No no no.
Funny. News to me!

It's not going to stop me from pronouncing the search engine name as "goo-glee" since it still appears in my mind as a misspelling of googol.
That reminds me of something that happened at the movie theater when I went to see Hunger Games. There was a couple with a small child maybe 5 years old. They asked what Hunger Games was about and the employee said it was about a bunch of teenagers brutally killing each other for sport. The father, without flinching, said "as long as there's no sex we'll take 2 adults and one child ticket!"
Using CSS magic tricks and JavaScript to make an unordered list appear like a menu or a toolbar just feels wrong, just as one example from many.

I liked the way XHTML was going to remove the semantic and pave way for proper components, sadly it never happened that way.

Anyone experienced with XAML and similar layout engines can see how much better the browsers could be, if people wouldn't insist into binding a document model into an application engine.

Even with HTML 5, which still is a problem to support properly across multiple devices without a "debug everywhere" attitude, has less widgets support than a 90's GUI.
I agree but I'd also add the question: is viral growth a right move for your product? what if the people your free users refer to are more free users? what if you all the viral attention just end up bringing hoard of freeloaders instead of customers? You are not facebook, you are not dropbox, you need customers to survive and you know have an army of seathing, angry, picky, freeloaders now ready to blog and spread negative word on the first chance they see something they are receiving for absolute free?

Free has no value. Free isn't a competitive edge. So does viral growth that just magnifies that aspect really make sense?
There is no need to drag shale gas into this. Ukraine is a big country, even if very poor (for now). The economic part of the association agreement was especially damaging to the economic relationship between Russia and Ukraine. The EU played zero-sum game here, hoping (and not without reason) that the government will be forced to sign it anyway. It's just the whole thing escalated well beyond anyone would expect. Apparently, it was a mistake to impose such dividing agreements on an already deeply divided nation, the lesson the EU learned too late.
i agree completely with your first sentence. Having distribution is just as important as the core use case of the product. In the beginning, it may actually be more important.

One of the most fascinating things about the recent explosion of the Magic service, was how Hacker News (and Product Hunt) essentially acted as a growth hack for a product that was developed in a weekend. Given that the people behind Magic were in the YC batch and probably had access to strong upvoting on Hacker News, that seems like a really good example of a growth hack (where the product is the marketing).
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Excellent -- a much gentler version of Lisp In Small Pieces. (http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...)
Glad it wasn't just me!
Having never been to the US and having no short-term plans to change that, I find the data itself somewhat ... not so interesting, I guess.

But the way the data is visualized, and the way you can explore it, is awesome. It's like a database you can query just by moving the mouse around. Strike the "like" - that is exactly what it is.
Of course this is going to be all over western media as Putin cracking down on dissent
A very short TLDR, in my limited opinion, is basically "Take an ML-ish, make sure everything has C-like performance, while prohibiting all memory safety issues and eliminating aliasing". From those basic principles things you can start reasoning a lot about what Rust must do.

But I agree it does feel a bit weird to need to explain pointers while also assuming people understand memory layouts. There should probably be a quick guide to memory usage, maybe even using C, and from there introduce Rust's concepts on top. It's certainly a hard problem to introduce a high-level, functional, language that also has very powerful low-level concepts.

Thanks so much Steve for doing this work. Reading the guide made it all click into focus for me when I started, and the rest is _mostly_ syntax.
It is a term used by people who dislike videos in portrait orientation who spout things like "my eyes are horizontally next to each other, not vertically". I have no idea how it started or what it is so successful, people have had no such zealous anger against portrait photography or art. Using an appropriate orientation is an advanced technique, blindly hating one is bad.
It's not binary, right? That Comcast did that once is evidence that their playbook includes that tactic. The less lucrative it is to build out their network, the more they'll run the "buy content providers" play.
I can't help but wonder if they registered `.dev` because they have it internally routed on their corporate network now, and they don't want to all of a sudden have to deal with an employee not being able to read an article on a new blog help.dev because they also have a product called Help being tested at the internal URL help.dev.

If that's the case, them registering `.dev` might help everybody. It will give you a TLD that you can use for internal projects, knowing it will never conflict with a real site. Considering Apple's asinine handling of .local domains on iOS, a known-good alternative TLD could be a good thing.
This article is fair though. It takes the buzz out of the phrase and essentially states that there is no hack, only a deliberate focus on process and a continuous cycle of experimentation and review.
Lol. TL;DR It doesn't, unless you change modern English and count working in hour long blocks 'multitasking'
I suggest parrying their ActiveX thrust with a counter-attack argument for NaCl.

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

If you have to do something inside a browser, Native Client is much more interesting as something that started out as a really pretty darn clever x86 hack in the way that they could sandbox all of this in user mode interestingly. It's now dynamic recompilation, but something that you program in C or C++ and it compiles down to something that's going to be not your -O4 optimization level for completely native code but pretty damn close to native code. You could do all of your evil pointer chasings, and whatever you want to do as a to-the-metal game developer.

-John Carmack, OculusVR [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk&t=2h36m18s
In Australia they have free phone numbers for people to call who are in distress for whatever reason. Don't they have that in the US?
The two aren't equivalent. Plenty of movies contain nudity\sex as well as violence and gore. Movies have ratings and are somewhat protected( ticket sales to R rated movies are restricted to 18+ in the US) therefore they have greater latitude in what they are allowed to do. Also the FCC has a number of decency rules that broadcast channels have to follow. That is why most TV shows with any "stronger" content is on a cable channel, and all the shows with movie levels of sex and violence end up on HBO, showtime, etc. HBO, etc. doesn't do sitcoms therefore no overly sexual sitcoms. Though there is still plenty of stuff on those channels like sex and the city.
How to keep up with Android development
Not working for me :<
Zend PHP JIT open sourced
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The talk sets up a straw man at about 1:30 with the Ellis quote saying, paraphrasing: "Most marketing departments are doing it blind, not looking at the data and not running experiments." Perhaps that's the case for most tech start-ups, where there is no one with a marketing background involved, but it's not the case for any moderately mature business that I've come across (in nearly 20 years of marketing) including 2-5 person shops just getting off the ground. Quite the opposite I find most marketers to be data-obsessed and will diligently test and track permutation after permutation of tactic to tease out what works and what doesn't.
This isn't just a syntactic difference. A Proc can outlive the method that defined it, so the interpreter must lift local variables from the stack to the heap. A block, however, can never outlive the method that defined it, so local variables can remain on the stack. In theory, the interpreter could perform an escape analysis and implicitly convert `block.call` to `yield` if no `block` reference survives local scope. Presumably MRI 2.3 does this analysis.

Python has a similar performance impact for closures. Defining a lambda forces local variables onto the heap, even if the lambda is never instantiated, e.g. when defined inside an infrequently true condition.
Because sitcoms are supposed to be family friendly and for some reason the world explodes if you show female breasts or male buttocks. People do complain about violent content on tv though. I don't think a show like A-Team would work today, with all the people being pseudo-killed every week. Maybe they're still being made and just not making it across the Atlantic?

One recent "sitcom" that has nudity, including some male nudity, is "Togetherness" which does it well and is also v.funny.

In the UK we have breasts printed in a (well selling) daily newspaper but we're a bit cautious about what gets shown at what times on TV. We have a concept called "the watershed" (9.00PM) Programmes shown before that have to be a bit careful about what they show; programmes shown after that can be more relaxed about what they show. The fines for the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction probably wouldn't happen over here.
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just wanted to ask, in the footer on wym.io it mentions "wym-core is open source software".. but I wasn't able to find the source or a repo anywhere?
From the blog article, note the last sentence in the quote below:

"Some other disinfection tools will remove Superfish from Windows, but not from Firefox. In order to ensure that these users are not vulnerable, we are deploying a hotfix today that detects whether Superfish has been removed, and if so, removes the Superfish root from Firefox. We do not remove the root certificate if the Superfish software is still installed, since that would prevent the user from accessing any HTTPS websites."
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Looks really good!

F:"\n"/:0::;C:,[;"\n"];I:`:index.txt;f:-<I;h:C F I;H::F`:chat.htm
.z.ws:{s:(" "/:($"du"$.z.Z),,x);{x y}\:[-!.z.W;s];h,::C s;f s}
.z.po:{(-.z.w)h};.z.ph:{H}

1. "\n"/:0:: occurs twice and can be made a function (F)

2. You can project the `y` argument by itself (C)

3. Shorten symbols (I)

4. No need to (-f) all over the place when -< will do. (f)

5. You can load chat.htm once (H; .z.ph), but unfortunately K4 won't notice changes to the file, so am a bit divided about this one.

6. Save brackets! Join-enlist (,,), negate til (-!), and amend (,::) (.z.ws)
a "noindex" robots meta tag would work too
The pictures are so ridiculous - awesome, but ridiculous. Two thoughts: few people are working, and everyone is young (presumably because older people who don't want to live the dorm life can't afford single family homes in the area).
The Iraq sanctions didn't prevent the Iraq war. Sanctions are the staging ground for war. They eliminate domestic stakeholders in the enemy country, reducing domestic opposition to a hot war.
Thank you for the kind words. You know, even if you are not interested in US data, you now have the piece of knowledge in your memory installed there in the most aesthetic and gentle way, I call it 'visually transmitted knowledge' J
And, yet, the results for users are stunningly great. I heavily use both WordPress and Drupal for sites. WordPress may be uglier on the backend, but to people just using the software, the differences could not be more stark, and Drupal does not fare well.

Things like upgrading the core software...with WordPress it's so easy that it doesn't even take thought; hell, they've made upgrades automatic by default a few days ago. With Drupal, I'm months into a migration process to get our site onto Drupal 7 (not even kidding). It's been more complicated, and more error-prone, than the process of migrating from OpenACS to Joomla and then from Joomla into Drupal 6.

WordPress also seems to have the ecosystem right. No matter what kind of task you're trying to solve, there are a dozen plugins for it, some free, some commercial, some a hybrid of the two (sometimes annoyingly spammy about it). I've whipped up several websites in the past few weeks for various side projects I have, and it's downright fun to build complicated sites with WordPress. And, because there are more themes than there are people using WordPress (exaggeration to make a point), getting a site looking good and not like every other WordPress site is trivial and cheap. I find myself wanting to make new websites because it's more fun than working on my company website running Drupal. When it comes to building custom code, I prefer Drupal (mostly), but I do that pretty rarely; I interact with the frontend and admin interface daily.

I've almost talked myself into migrating my company site to WordPress+bbPress. I wonder if there's a really good ticket tracker option for WordPress...
In what sense this introduction is alternative? It's just like every other intro that explains basic and easily understood things about the borrow checker, but doesn't go into details on how you actually live and work with the damned thing. The second thing you do after learning basics is trying to implement some simple data structures, like lists, or even (horror!) double-linked lists. In Rust this is the moment where you start hitting roadblocks, and then you read somewhere that implementing "basic" data structures in Rust isn't a basic exercise at all, and that is kind of discouraging.
Building ProcessWire with the best editing tools (2.5.21)
Why dont browser makers add a function where the browser would tell you if your SSL connection is being intercepted? It's trivially easy to check, all you need is a known good site to sign a message with the cert of a specific CA, and if the browser sees it's signed by anything else, it would throw a warning. Chrome already does something similar with cert pinning.
This exact thing (with methane) has happened before and it is believed to be the cause of the extinction of extinctions, the PT event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Relevance of Posix in the Big Data Era
Agree. Lived in Mountain View (mtnv?) for a few years. Never saw the MTV acronym. Maybe it's a google thing?
The Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction - less than a sexond of onscreen obscured nipple - resulted in heavy fines (although they were overturned later); but violent content is often shown at similar times of day on similar channels. People get shot and killed all the time on tv. Admittedly, they're not gruesome murders and the fake blood -if any- is obvious, but it's still a bit weird to see such a clear acceptance of violence and banning of any nudity.
"So is it old, buried organic (flora, fauna) matter thats causing the methane ?"
Yes, I believe so, though it could be still younger than the normal gas and oil fields (personal speculation).

1.) I think it may be possible, using a mix of infra and normal optical observations with a good algorithm to identify it on the images. Another but even smaller possibility would be the inspection of differences in the gravitational field * (though there may not be enough gas to be measurable this way).

But for either of these to be even remotely possible, we would need a good idea of what to seek, namely a not-yet-popped methane lens under the permafrost.

2.) Unlikely. Suppose if we manage to find some intact ones, tapping into those would be dangerous to a currently unknown extent, maybe even compared to the normal hazards of working with explosive and flammable hydrocarbons. Secondly, the amount of gas may not be enough to clear the costs.

Edit.: * Gravity gradiometry
>There is a direct relation between the volume of transactions and the amount of miners needed to process them,

Almost the entire cost of mining is in running ASICs to produce proof of work, not in validating transactions. The cost to produce proof of work is not affected by number of transactions.