skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the chances of anyone ever being brought to justice for the CIA kidnapping and torture programme, anyway?
It's not incoherent at all to me, but it may have been a year ago. I think it's like the blub paradox in a psychological context. Wish we could get a beer and chat.
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Is there any reason why this tool can/should only be used by European citizens? Presumably an easy-to-read and nicely formatted resume is something that would be helpful internationally.
Moto X Force First Impression
Work long enough and with many different companies, and you will inevitably have had an experience much like this one. And it's not just in software. Any profession that relies on some form of engineering knows what this is like. There's a reason why Dilbert is so funny.
Not entirely.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowde...

http://morningconsult.com/2015/08/voters-want-edward-snowden...
Zero. Something like half the country still supports it; it's an ideological football.
> "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff."

I don't agree with this. Programming does not start from scratch. You are always building on someone else's work. Sure, there's the hardware and software you're building on top of, but there's also methodologies and philosophies that other people came up with that you're using too, even if it's only subconscious. It's not the same all-encompassing mental marathon that writing good poetry is. Or, at least, it doesn't have to be.

My work quality went up when I stopped caring about things I really shouldn't have been caring about. I now feel that the biggest source of problems in codebases comes not from so-called technical debt, but from programmers incessantly biting off more than they can chew.
People are probably assuming you are trolling and don't feel any need to explain the flagging. But... drugfreeworld is probably one of the last places to find facts about LSD or any drug.

I would encourage you to read the wikipedia entry about the organiztion behind the site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_a_Drug-Free_Wor...

Almost everything on that site is misinformation, and no sources are ever cited. There is certainly danger associated with the use of any drugs but misinformation and fear mongering are not the way to go.
Those are political stories.

For me, the question of whether it worked is scientific. Did the people who proposed the stimulus correctly predict the future results of it?

No. Nobody predicted our current economy, and the prediction's accurancy get even worse if we're about to slide into another recession in the next six months.

Of course you can argue that what we did was better than some hypothetical. That's so easy that it's not even an argument, which is why I don't consider it. What I observe is that the economy did not react as expected, we have not recovered anywhere near as much as predicted, interest rates are still being held low and we're talking about them going negative (again, I recall no predictions that such measures would be necessary seven+ years later), and a wide variety of indicators that were supposed to turn positive never have, or just barely have, shortly before what is very likely a recession.

The theories aren't working. Their predictions don't come true. Given that the theories don't work, it is scientifically foolish to then use those theories to themselves predict what couldhave shouldhave happened if some other course of action was taken, since the theories are already visibly nonfunctional. It is circular logic to use the broken theories to predict that the broken theories told us the right thing to do. This probably goes a long ways towards explaining why economics is still the "dismal science". (Though, to be sort of fair, economics does not have a lock on that error.) I don't have to have a better theory to say that; I need only have predictions in my hand and their failure to come true.
It's only disingenuous if you're stripping away the context of the thread, further upstream, ancestor comment said:

>>>On the other hand, that product stance helps [Apple] avoid Google Reader-type situations.

and GP replied:

>>Right, it gets them into more iTunes Ping situations.

followed by:

>But nobody was sad when it got killed, you know? Nobody misses iTunes Ping or iAds or MobileMe

Which is damning Apple with faint praise.

>It would be mighty disingenuous to somehow suggest that level of failure is a statement of the possibility of future success for them considering how big their hits are

That's a non-sequitur. No where in my comment did I extrapolate or attept to divine Apple's future failure/success.
Having both JVM and Web runtimes for JavaFX will be a viable solution. It will be a similar solution to multiple rendering backends like React.

If Oracle can innovate on JavaFX toolkit for Web as the next iteration of JSF (3.0 ?). I can see devs showing interest, as the current web component based development is not at all standardized and enterprise level toolkits are not available.

P.S Having worked at Oracle in the past I highly doubt this will happen.
Yet interesting enough, that definition doesn't mention any of the actual reasons why you'd build software and doesn't speak to end-user/customer/client happiness.

It also implies at least, that we can collect requirements in some adequate way, which is really a circular argument. Requirements gathering is even less mature than other parts of software development.
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No, that shouldn't fail. `postMessage` is not a random function defined inside the window at ssl.comodo.com. It's a function defined by the browser, available on every Window object, including ones returned by window.open():

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessag...
Exactly, that is all science 'fiction'. Its not possible to add data that was not there before.
Well it isn't. Officially it is a republic. A democratic one, but a republic. Unofficially political power is so unevenly distributed it should be called an oligarchy. Officially, North Korea is also a republic.

Now, if the person thought the President was a king of a monarchy, then I would say they have been listening to too much talk radio.
https://www.wealthfront.com

Haven't tried this myself, but Tim Ferriss seems to advertise it a lot and I have a few coworkers that use it.

Minimum is $500 with no management fees (up to 10k I think)
Yet here we are :) I do it to feel a little better about my productivity waste compared to reddit (and if I want to feel OK about reddit, it's /r/programming which is basically a crappier version of HN)
Thank you for your confirmation, I will do that then.

Not sure when or frankly even if it will go public, but I hope it will. Still have a lot of work to do on it before it's worth anything.

Edit: Also, thank you for the name suggestion. One of the other things I've noticed is that a lot of web security is... well... let's say, named in a way that does not always make it clear exactly what it means. I'm trying to make this stuff more clear in the naming too.
Shouldn't that be "British" airspace?
If the Scots don't like it, they should declare independence (but that failed) and maybe build an air defense network to shoot down unidentified possible CIA rendition jets (not very feasible).
First, we don't know that Snowden is harmless, even now. Most of what we know about Snowden comes from media stories, all of which are operating on incomplete information.

More importantly, back in 2013, we --- including the USG --- knew far less than we know now.

(The question of whether Snowden is "harmless" is separable from the question of whether his actions are defensible or justified.)
and, as noted, the source as well.
I think this is a little far to go to try to get a new laptop outside of whatever Google's laptop upgrade/refresh policy is.
> I'm sorry but I don't think you should call this an Evernote alternative.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Being a new company, calling yourself an Evernote alternative says to me that you're either available everywhere or you will _eventually_ be available everywhere. Maybe not being available everywhere right now is too much of a down point for you but it may be fine for others.

This strikes me as an MVP and it looks like a good start. Saying Evernote took forever to hit 100MB and this app just starting out at 100MB doesn't mean anything but you're implying it'll only balloon further. When they get a revenue stream and / or funding and go full native I would suspect that size would go down considerably.

I think your points are fair but I think you're looking at this company as something far, far more than what it really is.
I thought it used to be: a british billion is a million million i.e. 1,000,000,000,000.

Thus a british billion is 1000 * an american billion.

Nowadays we use the american billion of 1,000,000,000.

Pretty sure we all agree that a million is a thousand thousand.
You are missing the human aspect. An insult can be true but still insulting. If a random person calls me on the phone and tells me that I was incredibly lazy this weekend and I'm just a lazy, lazy person on the weekends, that would be true, but it would also be insulting.
errors are not zero-sum. There's no finite pool of error that we're whittling down - there will likely be new error types we didn't know about or introduced by the new code.
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To me I could really care less what the plane was used for in the past.

A plane flying from anywhere that doesn't file a flight plan is just plain wrong, especially when it crosses foreign airspace.
No, no one is sure about that. It's very unlikely that the Russians don't have copies of everything he took, unless you think he and Greenwald, et al are somehow masters of infosec that could withstand the actions of the FSB, SVR, etc.
Amazon recently launched a new app store that pays developers by the minute in lieu of all other monetization techniques, it's great if you can come up with engaging apps.

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/underground
Time to call Elon Musk
I support the couple but I am uneasy with it.

The stance that "a private group has every right to refuse service for any reason." is the same thing that they said in the South with Jim Crow laws and racial covenants. So how can I say that what the couple is doing is within their rights but at the same time say that Jim Crow laws were not right? I can't quite square that circle.
This isn't really passive. Most people need lots of support and the servers will need to be constantly checked for abuse.
Parse is gone. Now what?
Don't you find it disturbing that behavioral genetics, as a field, is unable to find actual genetic evidence for its most replicated correlations? (See the response to your linked article.) Rather than reevaluating their assumptions, instead they've decided to punt to the idea that it _must_ be that it's actually many small effects that they just happen to be unable to measure?

Additionally, if you were a parent, what would be the practical advice from this finding?
a) The point was made very plainly regardless of how implied it was. I don't think the pedantic details of it really matter.

b) I care less about the legality of it and more about the ethics of it

c) Literally the first sentence of each Top Gear presenter on Wikipedia labels them as a journalist. Make whatever label you want for the TV show, the content is largely journalistic. The segment about the Roadster was largely journalistic. The can hide behind the "it's just entertainment" veil as much as they want, but it's a huge grey area at best. Regardless of this, you can still libel and be damagingly deceitful even without being a journalistic program - as far as morals go, it is only slightly less shitty.
Expired SSL cert killing stylesheets on http:/predicto.ai.
Perfectly readable on lynx!

http://imgur.com/JmZq2jt
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Zero is the number of TLS experts I know that would unreservedly recommend PolarSSL over Go's crypto/tls. I know several who wouldn't even recommend it over OpenSSL, but it's worth remembering that not only does Go's TLS not use OpenSSL, but it's curated by one of the world's experts in TLS security.

Go has one of the best TLS stacks in the world, and I expect the distinction to become starker in the future; in a few years, barring something unexpected from something like BoringSSL, it may end up being unquestioned best TLS stack.
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That's just not enough data for either side. And the 2 you refer to were test pilots flying an experimental aircraft -- a dangerous profession in the non-space aviation world as well.

17 out of ~600 isn't really something to brag about.
Ubuntu's Juju gets a new look
> Besides petty vengeance, what's the point?

Ignoring Snowden would imply that espionage isn't a crime, or that in effect it only has a statute of limitations amounting to a misdemeanor offense, which isn't really a precedent any state wants to set.
Slack, Hipchat and the Embedded Messaging Apps Revolution in the Enterprise
The Verification of a Distributed System
That feels like many a new England town. But with Churches.
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The google answer for "what is a pull request" is quite good.
It's possible to create multiple derivative works of an out-of-copyright work, each of which will carry its own copyright. E.g. modern Sherlock Holmes stories. The question that matters is whether the scan involved enough creative work to qualify for copyright in its own right; as the sibling says, a simple scan won't, but a thorough restoration might.
Sounds like a 'you have a better than average income so you shouldn't complain about stuff'. Two problems:

1. Fiscal income is not the end all be all of determining quality of life.

2. The argument itself doesn't work; one only needs to apply it to others to see how it works. Take a poor person on welfare and tell them they don't have to worry about things that people in third world countries where welfare doesn't exist do. The whole 'how are they poor if they have refrigerators' argument. You quickly see how empty the argument is.
There is a limit on how much user malice should be tolerated vs the cost (additional components used, larger devices etc etc) to implement all of that. Especially as someone can always just rip the device open and circumvent all that causing breakage. How many stops there should be versus malicious usage?

USB devices can handle things like the ground and voltage being shorted, as that can happen in normal use through wear and tear. However the flip of ground and voltage lines can only happen if it is done intentionally. As an example either by malicious user or by a factory just randomly mashing wires together and then lying to the customers that they're selling an USB cable.
I don't see why you quibble over the use of 'rendition,' then turn around and minimize the generally understood. If he was just being extradited via official and lawful process, shouldn't that be the term, rather than apparently grabbed via secret flights and skullduggery?

You also can't say what the intentions of the US government were regarding bringing Snowden back to US soil, and even if that were the case it doesn't seem to mean much especially as it seems the Chicago Police are operating a "black-site" on US soil in contravention of the Constitution.

In fact, I would say the evidence is far stronger for the supposition that Snowden was intended to be "extraordinarily" renditioned than simply and lawfully extradited and your post subjects are ill-argued.
>in realty the only time you would ever need to do this is if you're using a font that is poorly made, or if you're designing your own typeface.

Or logo design. A few examples:

FedEx http://dab1nmslvvntp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/...

USA Network http://dab1nmslvvntp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/...

ebay http://www.howdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/i-also-find-this...
"why you build software" = requirement.
end-user/customer/client happiness = Customer satisfaction surveys and ratings help you acquiring it. Basic KPIs such as retention rates and engagement can also help you understand this.

A/B testing helps the process of testing assumptions in a data driven way.
I do something similar counting powers of two then three.
Why do you assume that the UK (and all the other European countries this plane flew over) weren't involved in coordinating this flight?
* Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness.

* Solar Panels. In the UK, the government pays you per kWh generated. Needs an upfront investment, but stable income and you reduce your own energy bills. See http://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar

* Renting out property. Needs a much larger initial investment, and requires ongoing maintenance. On a good month I only hear from the managing agent once per month with details of how much rent is being paid.

* Stoozing. Find a credit card with 0% interest on balance transfers. Stick the money into a savings account. Or, if you like risk, on a horse. Need a good credit rating and decent savings rate to make more than a few hundred a year though.

* Affiliate marketing. If you can find a good theme (e.g. Halloween) and a decent place to put the links (somewhere that wants them - not spamming them everywhere) it's possible to get a moderate passive income. Well... not quite passive, requires upfront time commitment of selecting links and locations.

* Hosting / simple websites. Again, little bit of up-front commitment. Works best if you can find a local niche of people who want a friendly face to host their websites. Usually as simple as buying a domain, setting up WordPress, and turning on automatic updates.

In general, the best passive schemes require a large initial outlay and/or a dubious moral outlook. A better way to enhance your income is to eat out less, stop buying stuff you don't need, and shop around for deals. Boring but true!
This is about North Carolina's extreme position. I think the title should indicate that.

That said, one would hope this gets overturned as it basically wants to keep all the dirty laundry in any industry out of scope for whistle blowers by exposing whistleblowers to fines of up to 5000/day of recording activities. That's chilling.
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Even amongst boroughs, all are not equal. Eg, it's the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_with_roy...
EBay has no plans to fix bug that allows malware distribution
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Sure, privacy comes at a price, but projects like Sandstorm are (at least in part) aimed at reducing that price relative to the large-scale SaaS services. I've looked into a physical colo, but there isn't one in the town/city where I'm from and it'd be a minimum 2.5 hour drive to the closest site. Unfortunately re: hosting at a friend's house, a small-ish city like mine doesn't have anyone in it other than large businesses who have decent upload. And that's a big reason why I'm still on Gmail, Dropbox, Wunderlist, etc. -- the cost to self-host is just a little too high. For me, as attractive as I find the idea of proper privacy, the price is almost there but not quite low enough.

I look forward to a future where I have access to a symmetric fiber connection -- but that will require either a decade of development where I'm from or a move to a more metropolitan area (the latter is not out of the question, of course). In the meantime I have plans to evaluate a bunch of different self-hosted SaaS options on DigitalOcean in the next few months.
"As far as how it utilizes cores in the main UI, that's really up to the underlying javascript engine, which most likely will be single-threaded unless instructed otherwise."

So I haven't looked at the code yet but there are many ways to make a web / JavaScript app feel snappier. There is the basic "do everything async" so you, more frequently, release the thread back to drawing / changing the DOM. Some others including:

- Making sure you got rid of the 300ms delay on mobile devices (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12238587/eliminate-300ms-...)

- Making use everything is minified, combined and loaded up front to ensure initial loading is quick

- If you're using a front end framework look into whether there exists optimizations for speedup otherwise if you profile and find a lot of time is being spent in the framework you may want to work directly with the native DOM APIs

I won't keep going but I've seen a very small, handful of html / javascript mobile apps that have felt practically native in speed so it's possible. But I certainly agree that when first starting up it's a great way to go. React Native may be another good stepping stone.
There have been a lot of advances in this recently - I'll have to go and find some of the submissions here on HN that suggest that it's not as far fetched as people often assume.

You'd expect it to be science fiction to read sound off vibration of leaves in a room, but that's been done. You'd expect it to be science fiction to eavesdrop using a cell phone's accelerometer, but that's been done.

Correlate several frames together, increase the contrast, who knows what might be possible.

Or, you know, build the next "To Do" list manager or Candy Crush replacement.
From a referring article[1] which translates into a human-understandable format,

"Interestingly, the same kinds of harmonic waves are thought to explain other self-organising phenomena in nature, such as the patterns that sand forms when sitting on a vibrating metal plate, or the development of biological patterns such as the stripes on tigers and spots on leopards."

[1]http://www.sciencealert.com/resting-brainwaves-function-in-s...
So if I understand this comment correctly, you're suggesting that the DOJ was going to fly Snowden to CPD Homan Square?
I imagine many of these species will still live in other parts of the world, even if they go extinct in the US.
Isn't everyone looking for love...
Just wondering if EU going to give Obama another Nobel prize.
The quote is "claim the flight, travelling well above the standard aviation height at 45,000 feet and without a filed flight plan"

If it flew below FL660 it should be inside controlled airspace, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class#United_Kingdom

However the flight plan might have been filled through defense channels rather than civilian ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_plan
$18,000 is a hefty chunk of change for something I'm gonna throw in my crockpot for 8 hours.
Not to brag, but I have a pretty well put together resume in HTML: http://greg.team-duck.com/resume.html

While almost no one accepts .html as a resumé format and it's difficult to convert to .pdf or .docx seamlessly, it works pretty well for converting to .txt for some job applications.

I've thought about making a simple resume builder for this format.
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"the JSON format wasn't intended to be human readable / editable"

Recruiters, not developers, generally read resumes. They are not used to reading JSON and it is hard for them.
London software engineers can command higher salaries than elsewhere in the UK.

I hear the salaries are less than in SF though. Cost of living (rent) may be a little lower to match.