skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>shady dealings come to light.

Most of the shady dealings that would come to light here will be within the organization. How much time have you spent in the Caribbean or the "third world"? Time and time again I see charities pop up but just to take advantage of donations.

Its always easier to point the finger in the opposite direction when time comes for accountability. Expose the shady dealings and set the truth free. Then you will see the "shady dealings" and yes if the organization is indeed corrupt exposing the truth should hurt them if not close them down all together. Let the donated funds go to a more effective and honest charity

DO NOT MAKE EXCUSES

All charity based organizations should have no problem being totally transparent. Failure to show the impact and details of what was done is indicative of an opportunistic organization that may be corrupt. “Money and funds without obligations and accountability?...Don’t mind if I do!" That is the apparent mindset

Sad but true for a large amount of charities
Vive Developer Editions Are Shipping
Sounds a bit like the UnmannedPolice.com project. Citizen run Unmanned Community Policing is the way to go.
Servo, when it's done. And from there, who knows!
Human body meets data
I always hear "in one fell swoop"
I suppose, as far as the web platform is concerned, we aren't really going to replace HTML/CSS/JS so increasing the speed and memory management of javascript rendering is the clear way forward, e.g. with Servo https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/
(If you make more than ~$100k)
S----L-----O-----W

It was basically Java before machines got fast enough to make Java practical.
Do they ship to the U.S. by chance? Their quantities per order look much more approachable than Soylent's.
Having grown up just down the road from the second building on this list and having tried to navigate its dilapidated, maze-like corridors and awkwardly arranged "open" spaces, I can testify to its horrendous design. It routinely shows up on these types of "most hated" lists both nationally and globally for good reason.

I wish I could understand the mindset of the original architect or, better yet, the local bureaucrats back in the day who thought it was a great idea to build something so large seemingly modeled on a random stack of toddler's play toys.

Now it just serves to suck the county coffers dry due to ludicrously exorbitant maintenance costs (I mean, come on, "80 roofs?"). A soon-to-be-demolished, barely-used monument to bad government decisions and a complete lack of foresight of the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Knowledge ≠ Understanding
You need to say "I am exercising my right to remain silent", then shut up.
Nice. Is that a future proof feature? Will I be able to download the data in any point in the future? After being punched in the mouth but other APIs I'm wary of integrating without some understanding of what the future might look like.
This is pretty amazing. I'd love to have lots of tiny private repos for small projects.
I would use caution when valuing any contract that contained significant provisions contrary to transparency.
I think your choice, swisspol, to use the 'free-with-in-app-purchase' model is the right one. You're selling to OS X users, who are willing to actually spend money on apps and software, and it allows us to use an app and then decide if we want to buy it. All that really needs to be said is, "GitUp is free with lots of capability to get things done. But to speed up your workflow even more and use all of its features, it offers an in-app purchase to upgrade." Plus, we as OS X users are used to noticing that little 'in-app purchases' note on apps and don't think it's a "slap in the face". I just hope that it will be available on the Mac App Store. I trust apps most that are sold on the App Store and I always look there first. I tie my card to my iTunes account or even have gift card money ready to make a purchase. Also, I can see when it was updated, what others say about it in reviews and share it quickly and easily. Just my thoughts, @swisspol
I do love the way Mozilla basically say "Bugzilla isn't the place to discuss things like this, you should discuss this down in Usenet, behind the sign that says 'beware the leopard'" for any controversial decision.
> Luck is just a lottery scratcher and hard work lets you get more tickets to scratch

I couldn't agree more and I tell a less elegant version of it to people myself.
Wow, I feel like the new Microsoft has been on a roll lately.
Twitters Latest API Victim: Politwoops
Can you please explain the difference between business success and start up success?
I've always seen the value proposition as saving time vs cooking yourself and saving money vs buying prepared food.
Hardly anyone commits three felonies a day. Harvey Silverglate is a defense attorney, and quite a good one, but you need to do your own research on any story he tells you because he only ever presents his client's side of the argument - which is very often what people like yourself want to hear. Every time I have gone to look up one of the cases and read through the legal appeals and the facts established at trial, the story turns out to be very different from the way he tells it. He'll talk about the feds coming in heavy-handedly to enforce some environmental regulation, for example, while omitting to mention that this client received repeated warnings and threats of legal action over a period of years in relation to the regulatory breach. I think he gives defense lawyers a bad name because while those hardball tactics are entirely justifiable in court (where the government has its own attorneys to refute his arguments and must provide evidence to back up their own allegations), using those same tactics in the sphere of public discussion borders on deception.
On that note, pancakes made of caffeine and whey would be... interesting, to say the least.
I know for a fact that Pale Moon stripped all test suites from their fork of the code. Any modifications that they have made to the browser are not fully tested. Caveat emptor.
Well, the advantages are more evident when you generate HTML dynamically from any source. Typically the data you want to render will already be passed in in the form of Clojure data structures (sequences). With hiccup syntax, all you need to do is produce yet another clojure data structure. This gives you a very simple task: when I have this vector, how do I produce that vector?

Because you're basically massaging vectors and maps, you have all the standard tools from `clojure.core` at your disposal. As an example (untested):

(def render-posts [posts]
(->> posts
(map (juxt :title :url))
(filter (fn [[_ url]] (not (empty? url)))
(map (fn [[title url]] [:ul.titles [:a {:href url} title]]))
(into [:div.titles]))))

If you're not sure how to get there, you can play around in the REPL with test data, adding one step after another until you have the right structure of vectors. With time, working with these structures becomes second nature.
I will see if I can get Eric (the creator) to reply.
Right on. Thanks for that.
Illumina is building a cloud product of its own and we still need sequencers. So, Illumina still looks like a good investment.
OK, so that's about 17,000 users, or maybe twice that many orders if the typical order is the 2-week size. That's about 1000 transactions a day, or about 2 transactions a minute.

That transaction volume could be handled on a shared server with CGI programs. Why do they need so much computer infrastructure?
Whey protein & milk and he would be fine I think.
Have they added support for Git over SSH yet? That's something I felt was sorely lacking in VS Ultimate last time I used it.
Stuff like this makes me wonder what % of devs use IDE's vs text editors. Personally I can't see myself going over to an IDE, and I would have thought that most 'non traditional microsoft developers' wouldn't consider it either but maybe I am way off base.
Have you considered using a CalDAV server (e.g. SabreDAV) as a backend?
It's illegal if the hush money is being paid to cover up a crime, or other illegal activity.
Why Is Structuring the Crime with Which Dennis Hastert Was Charged?
As someone who very much enjoys the taste of pancake batter, you and I seem to have differing definitions of the word "good".
Lying and answering truthfully are not the only options.
> - a fully prepared container goes bad super fast, even in the fridge. I chalk this up to being full of nutrients, it's kind of like the opposite of McDonald's French Fries -- which will stay in good shape for months, even away from refrigeration.

Just remember that potatoes are supposed to store energy for the plant for months, so they are naturally resistant to rotting. (Cutting them reduce the durability, but frying them and adding salt increase the durability.) If you put the French Fries in a blender with some water, the mix will get rot in a few days.
Yes! We intentionally left "bio" out of the name, because we do want to be more general than that. We have people playing around with acoustics and optics, there's a Tesla coil and Geiger counter under construction, and I would love to play with some low-melt alloys. Plus there's tons of hardware hacking as well - especially repairing old or building new lab equipment.

It's probably fair to say that Bio is our main focus, but it's definitely not the only thing we do.
I've been involved in a start-up where the technical co-founder did some pretty bad stuff and ended up leaving the company. They survived, but it wasn't pretty.
Facebook? How about the entire country. When people laugh about being raped in prison it is because most people assume they deserve it. Not a very humane outlook.
What about inmates harassing victims though? Or managing ongoing crime?
Umm, it has always part of the general Bugzilla etiquette guidelines. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
I second the recommendation although my least favourite was the Revolution OS; It just felt like a propaganda pamphlet to me but still was insighful and entertaining.
Putting OpenBSD in the cloud
You're wrong. The US courts weigh nearly always weigh intent unusually highly, compared to the rest of the world.
The controversy I refer to is over whether the 1500mg-2300mg range is sensible. If you trust the IOM guidelines, that's fine, but my own reading of primary-source research has come up with nothing but null results and my personal experience has been that more is needed.
what harm is it for valve if it takes 10 years to take off. they can slowly iterate. in 10 years will xbox TWO or PS5 still be relevant?
I donate my time to various open source projects, translating.
We could make such a list, but I think the list all by itself will cause many people aware of the list and attempting to do a start-up a kind of 'All I have to do is avoid these 300 things and I'll be fine' checklist.

When in fact the real reasons why start-ups fail are often complex interplays between the various factors rather than just one single factor, and only a few of those are under direct control of the founders.
Indeed, the Speaker of the House is arguably the most powerful member of the legislative branch. In the disastrous event that the President and Vice-President die or are otherwise incapacitated, the Speaker is next in line to head the government. In his or her legislative capacity, the Speaker also wields a vast amount of power, (largely) deciding which legislation comes up for debate or vote, and what sort of practices are acceptable in the legislative chamber.
Not sure about UK, but in the US, they're occasionally overengineered because materials suppliers have a lot of say in determining the safety factor (think smoky rooms with bags of cash).
Expand the question to factor that the person struck will die with 100% certainty and you arrive to the same situation of which choice to make.

The choice of children vs elderly rarely comes down to value - but rather life. The elderly person has lived their life while the child, potentially, has many more years ahead of them. Humans don't tend to give a value to life other than life itself - and extending life or saving multiple lives over a single life tends to be the popular choice. It would be impossible to judge a persons' "value" or measure it without having information on them prior to the event.

See: The Trolley Problem

[0] http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/05/would-you-kill-one-per...

[1] http://philpapers.org/archive/BOUWDP
They should give it to them in monthly chunks rather than a yearly lumpsome. When you're poor it's easy to be financially irresponsible.
C3.js[0] has a built in image exporter[1] you can use from the command line if you want to generate chart images programatically. I use something similar that I wrote just before this became part of C3 to generate the chart and upload it to S3. Then my email links to that image. Works very nicely!

0: http://c3js.org/

1: https://github.com/masayuki0812/c3/blob/14e92c54f9286bf28ff4...
...back to Seamonkey? :D
It's not. They're introducing a "better" (read: worse) pricing structure, and they have a reputation for deliberately making their platform worse (see also: the switch from intelligent to random load-balancing on dynos).

If anything, migrating away from Heroku to EB, Kubernetes, Cloud66, etc. would be a better strategy.
This makes even less sense... I also assumed the Pocket integration was a paid placement, in which case I was fine having to spend the time removing the button and disabling it in about:config, since I saw it as a cost of actively developed free software (same with having to change my default search engine away from Yahoo all the time).

Integrating a third party API for free when plenty of browser-centric features are left as extensions makes me really question Firefox's goals.

How is elevating an arbitrary third-party service from an extension into native browser code "promoting openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web"?
Wait, if I want to pull $2k out of the bank I have to ask for permission and there's a mandatory waiting period?
"pls stop using github"
Works Great! I was looking for this. Few points you should consider: 1. Mention that the extension is for Chrome. 2. Add a screenshot to the extension page too. 3. Add an option to 'not' choose any notification sound.
Then again you wouldn't have the initial JVM bytecode interpreter without p-code and the p-system, which were the bytecode and runtime environment used by UCSD Pascal. These were a direct inspiration for the Sun engineers developing Java.
Some number of these people only go to university because they are told they need a degree to get a good job. (The fact that they need the right degree to get a good job is strangely elided.)

What we need is more trade schools, without the stigma that they are somehow a lesser choice than a university. Rather than being judged on how many prestigious scholars and elite businessmen graduated, their main criteria is typically job placement after graduation. That's good news; it aligns their interest to properly prepare you to have a professional career after graduation.
Absolutely. I don't understand why Hastert didn't just have his lawyer set up a trust of some sort. There are so many ways to do this without attracting attention that it's not funny.
It's a WSJ story, which has a paywall unless you access it via a Google referrer
Its a shame that every Microsoft post goes the same way.
Surprised no one mentioned this already. I was a KS backer for Kung Fury and pretty sure that Blood Dragon gave them some "inspiration". Love them both!
I was thinking today that Apple could plow that money into Solar City's SolarBonds [1]. Short maturity dates are available, so they'd be getting their capital back quickly, its a safe investment, and it both helps their image and the environment.

https://solarbonds.solarcity.com/
What's wrong with powershell?why can't you substitute it, and why is it inferior?
Why is Facebook involving itself in these kinds of issues at all? It is free to enforce its own policies, which say nothing about inmates not being able to use the service. It seems that no good can come out of this, but plenty of bad things can.

While I have never run anything the size of Facebook, I have run a (small) social network before. We blocked any IP resolving to a .gov address from accessing the site at all, and had a policy that we would only respond to actual court orders (or NSL's, but we never received one). Facebook would get far fewer requests from local and state law enforcement agencies if their employees couldn't browse the site from work.
Moving from MySQL Database to Postgres Database with Django 1.8
I am at the moment trying to get hired by the US Government as a security hacker to protect its systems against other attacks from other nations. I want to use this as a platform to eventually gain US citizenship. You know of any resources I can read up on to help me achieve this goal? Thanks a lot ..
btw, browser.html is a Servo experiment with "future UI paradigms":

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/
That takes time to put together. Even if you come back saying, "It only takes XX minutes to do!" that's still time it takes. Soylent is aimed at people who really don't have that time (or think they don't). People who have multiple jobs.
Reddit's “the button” has ended
I have a friend like that too. I'm really happy I stfu when I was tempted to point this out to him because he actually did make it - against all odds - and is a fairly wealthy fellow nowadays. Good for him, and a good lesson for me. In the past I've seen a couple of those 'impossible' stories take off despite my misgivings and I've learned to temper my impulse to tell others what they can't do. Just like I really don't like it when people tell me what I can or can not do.

Here's another angle: try to help your friend succeed.
Standard things you would expect from a browser, like a way to easily disabling javascript

That is very far from being an expectation of the average user.
I would definitely move to Git if you have the choice. TFS is a dog compared to Git. And don't even get me started on the shambolic 'local workspace' in TFS, how it's possible to make local access slower than server access is beyond me.
Cloud Computing, Server Utilization, and the Environment
We're obviously Min/Maxing charitable giving. Why would you give to a local soup kitchen where you can see the effects, and even donate time and labor when the cost/benefit ratio is so much less than giving money to far away lands for cheap materials that protect against incredibly deadly diseases, which is obviously a better option?

Or, every one of us could do something different, instead of loading all our eggs in one Red-Cross basket? Sorry. I don't see a reason for this disagreement. Anyone that donates time and/or money to help other people, whether they are on the corner of the street they are standing on right now, or literally thousands of miles away, is a good person in my book.
I don't think this guy actually read the book (or read but didn't read carefully enough) and based his post on what he read online, and a lot of people online are misinformed about the concept of "lean startup'. Most of the "flaws" he mentioned are his on flaws in how he interpreted the theory. The main takeaway from the lean startup book is that you should be more disciplined with your business instead of just doing it without any measures (which is what most people end up doing and I am also guilty of that), and I can totally sympathize with it. The rest are just details.
It's also a pretty good use for a VPS, too. I mostly just use local version control for my stuff, but I enjoy being able to just push to the Mercurial repo on my Linode whenever I want to back stuff up.
good god

Cue the whinging in 2 years when people discover free means someone is paying, just not you, whereas you will be paying with something, just not cash. Apparently we never ever learn.
No, we know people do fine on traditionally healthy food. We do not know whether they do fine on Soylent. My guess is that anyone 100% on Soylent will become malnutritioned either very subtly or over a long time frame. Personally, I think that's fine as the body can handle pretty fucked up diets and no one is really going to go 100% Soylent anyway. Like, I'd replace 80% of my diet with Soylent if they shipped to me and I liked the taste, but I understand why someone would be a little skeptical.
Oh of course. People are too hung up on tools to get the job done, but you're case is oh-so different.
https://sandstorm.io claims to support gitlab; it seems pretty easy to install, configure, and run...
I don't know about the CTO role, but since Dave Herman has been leading Mozilla Research for a while now I wouldn't be surprised to see him take over.
The post is all about cross-platform development with the Visual Studio Online service for source control (e.g. git) and project management. You use the text / code editor of your choice, no IDE required.
Fighting for Privacy, Two Years After Snowden
That's not exactly how it happened. IBM already knew about CP/M because it was already powering the non-Apple PC market. Knowing IBM's desire for an OS as well as Basic he sent Steve Balmer across town to license 86-DOS, aka Seatle DOS which became his offering MSDOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

IBM eventually offered three different OS on the original IBM PC but Gates shrewdly made sure his was the lowest priced one and the rest is history.
Issues with 'current' (2013) TFVC, as far as I'm concerned:

- Slow as molasses for every operation

- No offline commits. You do have 'client workspaces' now, which just basically means that the broken and insane 'The server remembers your last known state' goes away and you have something similar to svn: A local 'baseline'

- Branches are 'copies'

- Merges are a PITA

- Conflicts are a PITA

- Depending on what you're doing you probably _WILL_ need to get a specific version (and yeah, please overwrite) because get latest is broken/doesn't work (probably not relevant for client/offline workspaces anymore)

- (The UI is terrible. Far worse than the git CLI could ever be, in my world)

So, my preferences:

- Git

- Any other DVCS

- SVN

- CVS

- TFVC, SourceSafe etc., because they're the same thing in terms of usability for me (now, safety/stability is something else. TFVC would probably win when we check out the camera at the finish line).

It is really, really limited and bad.
I was very surprised Albany's plaza was on the list. Having grown up there I have many memories of staring in awe at its monolithic towers as they soar up from the plaza. I always really liked it and the plaza's great. They put shows on there and small festivals I believe.
The Pocket conversation has moved from Bugzilla to the mozilla.governance list:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
On the other hand, I had no trouble upgrading 2007 MacBook Pros to Mavericks, even with third-party hard drives and RAM. Your nightmare experience is certainly not representative.
Hacking Apple Pay to steal credit card data
Amazon's Fire TV is cleaning it up with US consumers, according to report
I keep turning all that stuff off, and wonder if I missed anything. I don't want Firefox "social integration". I don't want "Pocket" in the browser. I don't want "Hello" snooping on my contact information. I don't want Yahoo (Yahoo? They just resell Bing) as the search provider.

Someone may have to fork Firefox. It's still open source, more or less.
Good old null pointer.
was kinda rooting for gitlab. this will be interesting
Is this comparing 4 database engines to a Redis hosting service instead of Redis itself?
Building a portfolio using Polymer
I doubt that will happen here. By doing this, Microsoft is really pushing their tools and hence pushing developers to start thinking about Windows as a platform to develop for first. Not just, Apple and Android.