skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because Snowden used TOR doesn't mean TOR is necessary. And, BTW, it is worth noting that Snowden did not use TOR in order to remain anonymous.

Anonymity can be useful building block, part of the solution. But it is not in and of itself the solution, and it is not without its costs.
Would you rather work on the linux kernel instead of windows?
Reddit turned up a picture of the clock

http://i.imgur.com/jGZ8RBU.jpg
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There will be some change. Maybe not as much as there should be, but we shouldn't completely discount the effects this story will have. Next time a school administrator or police officer is about to abuse a kid for no good reason, they might pause and think, "Wait, what if this gets me in the national news like those guys in Texas?"

It's not going to stop all of them. Or most of them. Or even a whole lot of them. But there are going to be a few people reevaluating their approach.
Every feature has a flag that you can turn on/off to your heart content. Releases are cut at head. No need to use the version control hammer to screw all the zippers.
It's scalable with the right tools. If you can write a transform at the level of the AST that will make the change for you, you can do it in one commit. FB has written about this: https://medium.com/@cpojer/effective-javascript-codemods-5a6...

Not that it's a silver bullet, but it can make a lot of these cases non-issues.
I think the federalist papers show the value of pseudonymity over anonymity. The credibility and force of the middle and later pieces was strengthened by the reputation built up by the early ones. Though there were multiple authors, they explicitly coordinated, so it wasn't like an anonymous collective or even NT-esque pseudepigrapha.

There are some famous single work dissent publications though. What about the The Gulag Archipelago?

Comex's point about building verifiable pseudonymity on top of anonymity is also well taken.
256MiB RSS when active, hahaha.
Chrome isn't memory efficient, but this takes the cake.
Let's talk about the teacher's work day.

Your link says it's 6 hours and 55 minutes, including lunch. So 6 hours and 25 minutes is a work day.

Plus there's 150 minutes a week (2 and a half hours, or 30 minutes per day) for training, professional development, teacher collaboration, parent engagement and other professional activities.

150 minutes for all of that is a joke, and if any teacher was actually following that rule (union or not) then you'd be hearing about it.

What are "other professional activities?

Students that need extra help?
Students that need to make up work/tests?
Grading homework/tests/quizzes

I have about 150 students. If I give a test, that's 150 tests to grade. If it takes me 1 minute to grade each test, then I've just blown that entire quota of "other professional activities"

But I still do my job.

I grade all those 150 tests. Then I grade the homework that I gave all those students. Then I write my lesson plans for the next classes and I write the next test. And I email/call parents. And I meet with parents. And I see students before/after school to answer their questions and have them make up their work and tests. And I answer emails from students that have questions about their homework.

I spend 6 hours and 25 minutes a day teaching. I spend plenty more time making sure students learn.

But at least I get summer vacation, right? Sure, it's just full of mandatory Professional Development (so I can keep my teacher license up to date) and lesson planning for the next year.

But hey, in New York you can make up to $105k! After 22 years AND earning a PhD (which you paid for with your own money ... and where did you find the time to get that degree?) Rent in NY is 3x rent where I live, but the max $105k isn't even 3x the starting salary of my school district.
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Handcuffs also make it harder to run effectively.
I find it amazing that India doesn't have a more digitized form of payment available. I wonder when they will be able to have mobile pay available on their phones.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/ios-9-thoroughly-review...

Ars thoroughly reviews iOS 9.
Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
Really looking forward to the the stereo rendering of non-WebGL content, HTML+CSS, which the Mozilla team is working on. More challenging path to figuring out but will open a lot of possibilities.
(I work for CockroachDB) This is something that we're definitely interested in. We haven't decided yet exactly what form it will take, but we plan to offer some way to ensure that the DB will return an error instead of silently falling back to an extremely inefficient query plan.
Bitcoin question; if cash and digital don't exist in India, does this make for a better bit coin atm scenario?

Then you could link your uber account with your btc wallet.
Thanks, that is great. I always used to claim to hate Hemingway to get a rise out of people, but man, that guy!
Systemd: Assumptions, Bullying, Consent
Steve Jobs didn't look Middle Eastern in the same way that this kid's clock looked like a bomb. Which is to say, it's not true, but "looks like" often depends on what the observer thinks a thing is.
Ha, that would be something! "Dear Colleague, Please click this link to read something I just wrote in an email, so you can read it on a webpage (maybe, if I still feel like it)"
Colorado spent over $7 billion on education in FY2012-2013. The marijuana revenue number in the article is $70 million.

Even if the pot revenue completely disappeared, it'd be less than a 1% change in total education funding.

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobhea...
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You make it sound like Texas has no other stories about a regressive education system.
I was just playing with this today. I didn't realize it was so new! I filed a bug about the extension with the related emacs mode and it's already fixed: https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/issues/585
I understand the sentiment, but isn't that unlikely? That's like asking startups to stop using the long landing page design that's become so popular lately. The PR department (if the resources even exist) is interested (usually) in expressing information without "rocking the boat", one way to do that is probably to avoid treading new ground where prose/wording is concerned.
Hey.
Thanks for the feedback. I've just implemented a way to edit+repost. About syntax highlighting, it'll be implemented in the following days.
I'll check out the dropdown menus as well.
> diversity is good/desirable -> minorities are more valuable than white people at your company (since you clearly already have enough white people) seems to be the point of a lot of blog posts/conversation.

when blog posts that make such absolutely ridiculous claims get commented on here, then we can discuss that and heartily agree, ok? :D but in this discussion here, you are the one who said that this action implies minority founders are more valuable. this is simply not true.

i do agree that affirmative action is a bit crude, but it's done for a greater social good, by people who recognize the problem, sympathise, and want to help. the field is, after all, uneven. an asymmetric situation that needs asymmetric action to correct it.
Nothing hugely sexy in this release, but a few small nice things like custom type guards.

Really looking forward to async/await support[0]. This will simplify vast swaths of async code trapped in callback hell or promise purgatory.

It appears async support has been pushed out until TypeScript 2.0.

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1664
Carnegie Mellon University.
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I can agree with that if they actually take responsibility for it. I'm just saying that running one with no logs and little oversight is inherently irresponsible behavior.

I rather like that UK precedent.
I don't understand the hype... this is destroying the market and will cut margins of hotels, potentially affecting quality in the long run. How can travellers profit from it longterm?
Assuming these numbers are right...

(15 million lines of code changed a week) / (25,000 engineers) = 600 LOC per engineer per week

Is ~120 LOC per engineer per workday normal at other companies?
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Happened to me last week in San Francisco; an Uber driver accepted a Lyft pickup, as I was still in the car for my Uber ride..
Type guards offer just a bit of magic, similar to type switches in Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#type_switch
It is unfortunate that encryption systems for email never really found widespread use.
There are some examples of speed difference at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

Basically if you have green threads with only one core, you don't need to do as much work with locking.
Likely they are doing X euro damage pr song, pr album.

And they are free to do so, as most copyright law is written based on the assumption of for profit copying. Meaning that said law assumes the person responsible is doing it industrially, and therefore has deep pockets.

These are assumptions that belong back in the Gutenberg era. Yet any time the call to modernize copyright law, the legislators stay well away from actually considering the assumptions that copyright is based on.
Whilst abroad, I've used foreign sim cards in my phone and all Whatsapp does is prompt to keep the existing number or change to new number.
That feature was added to iPhone OS 1.1.1 with the Apple Bluetooth Headset.
Google's product explosions / surprise deprecations possibly hint that this is what happens? Changing the API becomes cumbersome, so you just make a new product with a new API to do an end-run around the requirement...
Isn't IPNS a centralised component? If not, how does it work?
I feel the complete solution is pretty well understood though: use an anonymization technology like TOR to hide your real-world identity, then use cryptography like gpg to link your messages with your pseudonym. That's what Satoshi Nakamoto did too, isn't it?
Ignorance that was likely being exploited for political purposes. As in, his father probably encouraged his son to do this. The father knew that it would likely cause someone to freak out, student or teacher; that it beeped helped and even better that it was in a metal case. There was no reason to bring the item in, let alone a the week of 9/11.

The school admins reacted as stereo typically badly as they could have hoped. It should have been assessed quickly and immediately removed from the school. Instead it just got stupid quick.

So this father will now get images of himself with his son with our President. We get some immediate attention to the horrible plight of Muslims in America (there isn't any horrible plight other than some people don't trust them)....
Why don't you list those "tons of open security issues" ?
Well first of all you are violently agreeing with me if you go back and read the second sentence of my last reply.

But to your last point, things you have to do to take care of your kids are emphatically not the same as "I have a thing I want to do". These things are all on a continuum, but kids are far more demanding than hobbies. I'm guessing you don't have kids to make such an equation.
I get what was done, but what was the upside for the Paralegal? Was he getting kickbacks or something?
More "compatible" than easier really (I mean, two subtractions is hardly a heavyweight process). The trick was already in long use in shipping OSes and they didn't want to break anything.
It is mandatory that each code change is inspected for correctness, language style and approved by a code owner (all 3 may be the same person, or require multiple, depending on the situation).
Do they not count the most recent income? What if you get laid off (or even quit) and suddenly have no income, but for the last year you were making a lot?
Until I got to "viewing screen" I thought this was going to be a transcript of some real police encounter. (I didn't notice "but his face felt cold.")
I was worried this was about them rolling this out in North America, which would be absolutely terrible. Part of the safety tradeoff of Uber is that it's considerably more safe to be an uber driver than a cabbie because you don't have to carry large quantities of cash. I'd really rather not see that change.
That's why you sign it with a key. Only Satoshi can sign as Satoshi. Using an anonymous broadcast network to publish it is just another layer of convenience and security.
Sure: California recently increased it's sales tax by 1%. Sales Taxes are 30% of the California budget, so that equates to a 3% change in revenue. That's more than 10X the revenue generation of Marijuana Taxes.
Why tax the hell out of it? It sounds like some sort of psychological projection where the government are your parents and to appease them, you're willing to bargain badly for something. "If you just let me stay out a few extra hours, I'll clean the entire house tomorrow." Why be so groveling and weak?
In particular as smoking seems to tie in directly with the stress response. Stress any smoker, and the first thing they want to do is to light one up. And what is more stressful than being "downsized"...
I left my job this Monday, and decided to leave app support jobs behind for good. I am getting up to speed on python, bash and linux for a start and try to get a position more oriented towards sysops. I will be making some smaller projects related to automation. Nothing extraordinary, just a guy turning 30 this year looking to turn his life around for the better.
Lyft is Twitter to Uber's Facebook.

They should accept being a tenth the size of Uber, and having a meaningful business, instead of trying to compete head-on with Uber and destroying their potential. Investors of course don't like that premise, as a $3 or $5 billion market cap won't cut it after taking a billion dollars in VC.
Hi S4M,

- Do you conjugate verbs?

Sure you do in English and there are also the irregular verbs problem to crack such as go went gone / read read read (As you know, the past and past participle are pronounced as the word "red" and there's no clear non-ambiguous rule governing this usage you just have to memorize it sucks big time, doesn't it?)

- IMO, gender-based languages make much more sense to me and genderless langs like English are very confusing and suffixing every noun with -o or -a is not really a huge investment to take to avoid this confusion.

- I acknowledged that French is a bit more difficult to master than other Romance languages like Spanish and Italian and it takes much more effort to write or read but it still if you get around the rules in French and get familiar with the sounds, it would be far easier to guess words pronunciation or spelling without looking up a dictionary compared to English.

By the way English still retains some of the influences of the French language as a result of the Norman Invasion of England such as the subjunctive mood where you need to pick the right tense to express doubt in your communication. It's also worth mentioning that some people would argue that the complexity and tediousness in English spelling is attributable to adopting French words into the lexicon but seriously I don't care not my problem.

So, I would disagree with you that English is a simple or an easy to learn language. On the contrary, it's a life long investment and very high maintenance not only for the most complicated parts such as idioms or poetry but for the most basic ones such as reading and writing.

I'd be compelled to add that even Arabic and despite all the negative publicity it gets for being a complicated language which in some aspects it pretty much is, it still has a more streamlined and straightforward process than in English to reading and writing once you get your head around the concept of weak and strong vowels to start reading and writing and there's no need to memorize words one by one to be able to speak properly.

Lastly, the nerve of him calling a Romance language not pretty. I might not favor French over Italian or Portuguese when it comes to the domain of musical sounds but it's definitely way way better than English in that regard.
Yeah, and it's pretty easy to verify when they are full of crap.
I looked at the pictures. Any adult with even the slightest understanding of how a bomb must physically work--like, "have something that can actually explode"--should be so utterly certain of its purpose that your concern trolling should horrify them.
It would be much nicer to use coroutines instead of state machines. This means that you could write code as if it were doing i/o in a "blocking" fashion, but behind the scenes it is actually asynchronous.
(I work for CockroachDB) Our architecture is broadly similar to FoundationDB's, although in our case the separation between the layers is not as strict as I believe FoundationDB's was. This will allow us to improve performance by distributing parts of the SQL processing down to the nodes where the data lives, instead of doing all the processing on a SQL node that is distinct from all the data nodes.
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It's a form of efficiency due to vertical integration. I agree as others mentioned that it would be possible to do this without a single code base but it would be very unwieldly.
It is not saying that.

FTA:

> There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees.

The vast majority of code is visible to everyone, though.
I met an one of the entrepreneurs behind the jitterbug(now known as a different company). Initially they focused it at parents wanting phones for their children, but now it's mostly for the elderly.

He said they failed at their market research - they tried to make something that appealed to parents, but neglected to see what kids actually wanted(to have things like the adults do). American kids knew it wasn't a real phone, and rejected it. Their parents then got them a flip phone instead of a "kiddie phone".
> But I think that the charter school movement took off shortly after and directly because the voucher movement sunk.

I remember both taking off in parallel with very different support basis; the movement for privately operated charter schools has taken off when and where vouchers-for-private-schools haven't succeeded, but the publicly-operated charters that function as alternative-model public schools still exist and are still something that reformers that aren't supporters of the education privatization movement push (and sometimes nearby areas -- possibly even the same districts -- will have both kinds of charters.)

> There's a lot of isomorphic economic policy between the two, although if I had to pick I'd say charters are better than vouchers.

Between vouchers and privately-operated charters, I don't think you can make a useful of which is better; it mostly comes down to conditions, management, and accountability measures; charters probably make it administratively simpler to avoid the worst problems, but also tend to be greater single-point-of-failure systems.
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Agreed, I find Apple Maps to generally look much better than Google Maps in London (more specifically west London).
No, it specifically says the opposite:

"Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees."
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But I guess the original programmer can never be the same person as those other 3 roles? :)
Unicode has things for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner

And customization is done declaratively, not imperatively.
> things you have to do to take care of your kids are emphatically not the same as "I have a thing I want to do"

Nope, wrong, full stop. Your kids are important to you. They take time to deal with. My side interests are important to me. They take time to deal with. From the perspective of the business, there is no meaningful difference.

I don't have kids. I don't need to have kids to understand that your parental activities are not more demanding than, say, building a startup or developing a video game. But thanks for trotting out that tired chestnut. I'm more annoyed with your sneering attitude towards the childless than anything. You should stop.
Thank you SO much for supporting non-qwerty layouts!!!
It isn't necessary in the same way that a guard rail on a cliff isn't necessary. It's still a very good idea, cheaper, and less risky than the alternatives.
Well atleast they documented it. Intel does mention the conditions under which a #GP(0) will result in their instruction set manual. I'd say Microsoft is partly to blame here.
I remember somebody wise had said once: "Every line of code is a constraint working against you."
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I don't think it's necessarily accurate to say that people are complaining in bad faith. They might just be wrong.
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I wrote this a while ago, mostly to clear up my own thoughts and document the knowledge for the future because inevitably I'll forget about the details again and again since they're so freaking complicated.

It used to be an intimidating .txt, but I just converted a few of my scratch documents to fancy HTML pages using some minimal CSS, thanks to MarkDown, pandoc, and bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com, so I thought it might be worth sharing now.

Enjoy the brain-melt!
Wait, so how does the driver pay Uber their cut? They have to deliver the cash to the Uber depot? And what happens if they get robbed on the way? (Or say they did?)
I suspect he was trying to imply that you're high, since cannabis is legal in Colorado ("CO").

Hence why his post is being downvoted.
So I tried it in some simulated Cessna, and as I predicted, upon rotating so that my head pointed at the ground, the plane started to descend. I'm a pretty terrible pilot, though :)

I think this has a lot to do with the wing's angle of attack (most planes' wings have a slight upward tilt; when upside-down, that tilt goes downward instead). It would be more interesting to see the effect on something without an AoA bias.
The argument here is less about the performance difference existing or not, and that the decision in question sounds to have been made due to the lack of something we care less about.
That is certainly a solution. Not necessarily the solution.
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I wonder where you draw the line, when there's no real way to verify lineage.

Later pieces were strengthened by the reputation built up by the early ones... but how did people know they were from the same author(s)? Just because it said so? Well, anyone could say so. Does that mean it's anonymous, or does the fact that others are unlikely to borrow the pseudonym mean it's effectively pseudonymous?
I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
If they had done it in LISP, it would have only been 200K lines.