skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ineresting read on a similar topic was covered in Credit Suisse's magazine (picked it up at an airport): http://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fus...

The linked story talks of death in isolation in Japan where it is a much more widespread problem due to two things: firstly, the work culture there does not incite interpersonal relationships so often people will only associate with their family, and secondly, people try to stay unintrusive in their old age, being ashamed to contact their children and other family.

The above is made even worse by relocation projects that took place moving couples into the suburbs out of the major cities, inorganicly forming "communities" overnight of people who have never met and never will leading to initiatives such as the Center for the Prevention of Death in Isolation.
That's true. It's very similar. In our history books we are taught graphic accounts of murder by the British raj and by this company.
And that too throught our student lives. It's pretty repulsive.

But then again that's exactly what this guy wants. They say that there's no such thing as bad press. He got mentioned on the BBC with absolutley no marketting campaign.
Keepass has two levels of access control: "you can access this database" and "you can't". You can use a single database per access group, but once you go beyond two or three groups that's infeasible. You really need a system with a highly granular ACL built-in.
The end of programming paradigms
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Are you asking how much we would expect a web developer at this example company to be making?

How much business does the company do? How much do they value their employees... ;)
In other news: A recent study has found that wool parkas found protect one from the cold far better than short sleeve shirts.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I actually saw this coming and invested a fair amount in kneezles. Now I wish I'd just bought kneezle options, since I could have gotten much better leverage.
Wait. You mean the guy is NOT on Facebook?
Do cell phones keep the same IP address for any significant period of time?
The US and or Western Europe are huge places with a crazy amount of differentiation between cities and states.

Most places it probably starts off with a similar salary to middle class wages.
Revolutionary.

An outbox would be pretty nice.
'-t' is also useful if you have machines behind a NAT you want to get to:
ssh -t gateway.example.com ssh protected_machine
Using this method, will OS/X use the remote machine for DNS lookups or my ISP?
Right, if he knows what he is doing then this is deeply unethical.

Sadly a lot of Indians actually pseudo-reminisce about the pre-independence era and make statements to the effect that we would have been better off if the British had never left. There's even a posh restaurant called 'The Days of the Raj' in New Delhi's Habitat Centre.
After considering my initial reaction I realise that the whole problem is that our emotions so stirred up by stupid stuff like this.
It'd be better if we forget about the british and get on with building a great nation. Yes I admit I have the same problem. :)

For non indians some context - the media in Indian loves to use the British raj and the political correctness associated with it to gain viewers.
autossh
http://www.debianadmin.com/autossh-automatically-restart-ssh...
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Hm, how about Berlin vs. Boston?
It's not "my" problem (we don't use automated scanners), but it is apparently a problem for things like WebInspect, in that they want to identify distinct functional areas of the application to subject to their battery of probes.

How would you solve it as a screen-scraper?
Unlimited undo to Gmail users until the E-mail is open would make sense too.
You can use salary.com to get charts of averages salaries

I just used "Interface Designer - Web" in Los Angeles and got 10th-25th-75th-90th percentiles of $77,029, $81,850, $103,169, $117,756

They describe a "Interface Designer - Web" as:

Designs html prototypes, visual interfaces and interaction of web-based applications. Designs and evaluates visual human interfaces utilizing user-centered design principles. Implements the user interface design. Works with the product development team to design online user experiences. Ensures user experience is formulated to achieve the goals of the online entity. May require an associate's degree with 0-2 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. Works under immediate supervision. Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment. Typically reports to a manager.
Introducing Nitrode - A dedicated HTTP server
In this context, human-meaningful really means human-chosen. With public-key crypto, you don't get to choose what your public key is.
Marc Stiegler's essay on Petname systems is a far better introduction (it's listed in the external links). http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html

He uses the term memorable rather than human-meaningful, which is a more accurate description I think.
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Notifo (YC) and http://push.ly do the same (for just Twitter) but the notifications arrive much faster than Boxcar.
This is a pretty good advertisement for Lisp.

The Clojure article is about a piece of code. The Perl 6 article is about all of the syntax that you need to understand before you can read the equivalent piece of code.

Including this gem:

That asterisk is a special value called Whatever. It generally does what you mean in a given situation.

Perl documentation is always good for a laugh. But, I wonder, what does "generally" mean?

...Due to a bug in Rakudo's handling of Whatever when combined with chained comparison operators, we have to write an explicit block for Adult.

Oh. It means that sometimes -- even in the context of a trivial nine-line example -- the damned asterisk will mysteriously fail and will force me to bang my head against the keyboard for half an hour until I finally figure out that I just can't use it. Because, apparently, this works:

subset Foo of Bar where *.baz < 16;

and this works:

16 < $bar.baz < 66

but this does not work:

subset Foo of Bar where 16 < *.baz < 66;
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If people can maintain a sustainable advantage through being nasty, those that are willing to be nasty will rise to the top.

I think that relying on feelings of "don't be nasty" to keep businesspeople in check in the face of nastiness that confers sustainable advantages is... not so sustainable. Some people /enjoy/ being nasty. So yeah, we have to build the world we want, and social mores are strong things.

One thought, from a market efficiency perspective, is that when I see an apparent sustainable advantage to being nasty, when there are successful people not being nasty in that way, is that maybe it's not as much of a sustainable advantage as it seems?

In this case, I think that jacquesm nailed it when he pointed out that this can happen, at most, one time for each programmer, and relying on only fresh programmers is difficult, just because without past experience, it's very difficult to judge the quality of a programmer.
Circa 1984:

(defclass person ()
((name :initarg :name :accessor person-name)
(age :initarg :age :accessor person-age)))

(defmethod person-age :after ((someone person))
(let* ((age (person-age someone))
(category (if (< age 16)
:child
(if (>= age 66)
:senior
:adult))))
(values age category)))

Instead of having some outside "ticket" function to categorize the age of a person, you should just instrument the generated PERSON-AGE accessor to add the extra info you need. That way you don't need to modify the rest of your system to use this data in non-standard ways. The accounting module, for example, can take care of senior citizen and kid discounts of tickets without having to be told about it. The system would extensible, without rewrite, once you want to add seasonal discounts and other business-requirement unapparent during development. (Looking into ContextL and Context Oriented Programming.)

Similary, print-name shouldn't exist as a standalone function for something so mundane. You should just augment the builtin PRINT-OBJECT method that specializes on the PERSON class to print suitable titles. You don't even have to instrument the main PRINT-OBJECT, just the one that prints the actual receipt to the paper-printing HARDCOPY stream.

(defmethod print-object :around ((someone person)
(stream hardcopy))
(when (next-method-p)
(let ((obj (call-next-method)))
...
...
(with-open-printer (lpr #p"/dev/printer")
(format lpr "..")))) ...

I mean, seriously; I hope we're not blogging back and forth about CLOS-101 applications of methods.
How much would you expect a web developer at such a company to make?

Sorry, I guess I should have provided more detail for this question. I'm really just looking for a general number or even a range from your experience.
So I buy the impressions from you, or the blogger directly? AdTaily lets the blogger keep 100% when the ad is purchased from the website directly. They hope to then get people who have advertised in the past to advertise on other sites through their marketplace, where they take a percentage, similar to BuySellAds.com, who takes 20%. There is another company, iSocket.com that is taking a similar approach (e.g. https://www.isocket.com/group/techcrunch), except instead of a commission, they do a flat fee per month.
Dictionary words can get mixed up on the phone. I sometimes find myself asking for words to be spelled out when I talk on the phone.
The inflation/deflation debate is fascinating to follow, and in my eyes currently the most important topic to make a correct call on financially. I'd recommend searching for "Mish" to learn more about the arguments on the deflation side, and "Marc Faber" on the inflation side. Both offer compelling arguments and both are entertaining to read.. My best guess is QE will eventually catch up with the US but it could be a while coming.
Awesome! Thanks. Any ideas for Berlin/Europe?
It may be interesting to note that one way objects are discovered now is by automated sky surveys ("event factories" or "robotic telescopes") like this one:

http://voeventnet.caltech.edu/feeds/Catalina.shtml

The essence is to make multiple passes over the sky, comparing current images with past images. Large image-differences represent moving objects, which are looked up in a database. If they are new, they are entered into an event queue, represented above. In principle, other robotic telescopes can scoop up promising events and follow up on them.
Google/Facebook acquisition spree continues
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GraphLab: A New Parallel Framework for Machine Learning
I hope all browser makers should show a warning message when user submit a form contain the field "password", if that action is not protected by SSL.
Great. Yet another instance of anti-Net Neutrality.

Thoughtful question for the day: would an ISP that prioritized P2P traffic be considered amazing, or evil?
The blog post makes it confusing about what was actually improved.

Gmail just increased the time you have to "undo". Before the max was 10 seconds. Now you can choose up to 30 seconds.
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"Somebody in the audience was quick to give a counter-example to this absurd claim by using a numeric example ('how do you specify an exponentiation function with a test?')"

How about a test that picks a bunch of random x values, and calls the function to get f(x), then checks to see if those perfectly fit an exponential curve?
> I do wish keepalive could be turned on/off more dynamically

PuTTY can do that. It's GUI though.
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Mine usually does for at least a few hours. You can check by going to whatsmyip.org!
Apple's existing agreements with content providers for the iTunes store and their consumer marketing prowess set them apart.
Good to know. I'm out.
Apparently U and J came into English in the sixteenth century as undifferentiated alternatives, and were split into separate letters about 1700. It was very surprising to me to learn that English picked up three new letters only three hundred years ago. Note that "w" is pronounced "double U" rather than "double V", which seems to not be an accident.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2696/why-is-the-alp...
just to be clear, multiplexing happens on the client side, right? What's the difference between multiplexing and ssh-proxy?
Got a blog that makes no money? Philadelphia wants $300 from you
This point was raised when Gmail originally launched the feature. The problem is that it would essentially act as a read receipt, which is a privacy concern.
Maybe I'm weird (and I've been accused of that before), but I can't think of a single beverage that tastes better to me through a straw.

All cold drinks taste best (to me) direct from a glass (and, I mean one made of glass). Hot coffee, tea and cocoa taste best drunk directly from a ceramic mug. I can't think of any other hot drinks I've had recently, but I suspect I'd pick the ceramic mug for them also.
You can create 'fake' hosts but with the same hostname:

~/.ssh/config
Host serverWith
HostName server.home.net
OptionBLA yes

Host serverWithout
HostName server.home.net
OptionBLA no

It also has autocomplete, so you can type ssh server<TAB>
From the link:

Please don't use this as HTML5 vs Flash firewood. I do it because it's fun. Not because it's HTML5.

I hate Flash just as much as the rest of you, and I'm thoroughly impressed with these HTML5 demos, but I think it's premature to pronounce Flash dead. Just another nail in the coffin, I'd say.
I looked forward to his little five minute vignettes into the night sky on PBS--called Star Gazer. He helped spur my interest in astronomy. He made a difference in my life as I'm sure he did in many other people's lives. (We'll miss you, Jack.)
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I wish cygwin supported multiplexing. Emacs + TRAMP is noticeably slower for me when I'm running on Windows. Anyone have a good workaround or alternative?
Well I never said they are actually planning to assassinate him. I was just commenting on the fact that assassination are certainly nothing new for them. They assassinate Pakistanis even as we speak using UAVs piloted from Langley.

As for Julian. Well, I think the best way to deal with him is to smear his moral stance. You see Wikileaks is presented to the world as standing on a high moral ground, fighting a warmongering and murderous giant empire. It is the classic "good little guy" vs "big bad guy" battle. So far the little guy is doing very well.

So the best way to deal with Wikileaks "problem" is to pop its moral balloon. Implicate them in child porn, rape, molestation -- anything that would completely discredit them. And it just looks like Julian has actually been accused of rape in Sweden, a country he just happened to set up some of his servers and where he planned on staying a while. Maybe it's a coincidence and not connected to the CIA at all -- but somehow I doubt it.

On another point. I think if any of the adversary intelligence agencies managed to actually assassinate him and made it look like a CIA job -- it might turn into a major win for them by making CIA look bad.
I've been using it for the past 2 years on a Linux box, it's rock-solid and format-compatible with KeePass 1.x
Intel’s McAfee Deal: A National Security Nightmare
It does make sense for TVs to eventually shift to this, even if Apple isn't the one to do it (though there are few better innovating companies - if any). 9 months of the year I don't have cable, and I barely miss it. Agree with what others said about content, and if major players refuse to commit then it'll be a slow transition, but that's where iAd comes in.

If Apple really is serious about AppleTV (more than just a hobby), then iAd is brilliant. Ads suck these days, the best ads are probably the ones by Apple (okay and I love the dos equis ones too). iAd brings interaction to the already visual experience, basically it makes an ad that I'm much more interested in watching. If Apple can get major networks on board by providing them comparable revenue through iAds, then it really could change everything.
Could you point out specific holes in his arguments?

I find your comment to be too much relying on metaphors and not backed up with example or data and without any specifics?

E.g.

One of the recurrent themes in his books is how forecasters fail, and how when they fail they fail by huge margin.

In My experience I have found this ideas to be quite insightful.

Why do you think that his main Thesis about events with large impact and low expectation and their effect on our ability to make predictions is incorrect?

I agree that he himself gets involved in narrative fallacy and that his arguments could be more succinct and sans the Tony and other character that he uses in his book. But Maybe those are there for the hoi polloi and not for people who understand Machine Learning, Search and stuff.
Personally, the "Undo Send" feature is one of my all-time favorites in Gmail. A lot of people are comparing it to an outbox, but while the two are functionally similar, they are psychologically different. The undo send simply gives you a few extra seconds to re-read your email and catch any small errors before sending.

When the feature first launched, I was worried I would eventually adjust to it, and stop re-reading emails before clicking "send". So far, that has not happened - it's effectively a psychological trick that continues to make my emails better proof-read.
It so happens that SO(3), being a Lie group, has a well-defined space of derivatives: its associated Lie algebra so(3) [notice lower case]. In fact, the generators of the group fundamentally arise from the derivatives of rotations around the identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group#The_Lie_algebra_assoc...
Plus it would add to confusion - you see it in your inbox (unread) and then you don't and wonder what happened. With Exchange you can do this and it usually just gets ugly in practice.
For extra safety, go to the database settings and tell it use 2148000000
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That would require either a drastic reduction in the size of the key space, or a drastic increase in key size.
As someone mentioned, I think this is a media test and a warning of the things to come.

They probably asked 2 women to cry "rape" to see 1) how media and people would react and 2) to discredit him. It doesn't matter if charges never stick -- it discredits him by creating doubt. It is the basic "OJ trial" situation -- "just because we couldn't convict doesn't mean he is not guilty" -- so just convicting someone and having all the media report it, is enough to tarnish Julian's morality image.

And it just so happens that Julian and Wikileaks is on a higher moral ground and that is what keeps them popular. They are the modern day information Robin-Hoods. If they can be made to look immoral their image and credibility will forever be destroyed. No matter if charges don't sick.

As for the warning. I think some operations that CIA engages are intentionally not kept too secret as to serve as a warning and intimidation without actually putting in a press release. It is basically the same tactics that FSB (ex KGB) used when they assassinated Litvinenko. They could have probably arranged an armed robbery or freak car accident, but by using radioactive polonium with traces all the way to the Sheremetovo, they issued a loud and clear threat to anyone willing to criticize or betray the FSB in the future.
I get the feeling that some of these tools just meet the minimum qualifications for PCI compliance tools and don't go much further.
EDIT: Perhaps I was unclear in my comment below. I am by no means endorsing this law. I think it is unreasonable and I do not agree with it. However, that is a separate issue than the question of whether or not the law applies to bloggers trying to make money from their blog, given that the law was already in place. /EDIT

When I first started reading this, I was outraged. "This is a violation of free speach!" I thought, acknowledging that such a law restricts public writing and blogs to those who can afford it.

Then, halfway through the article, it finally clarifies the city's stance with this:

[...] the city requires privilege licenses for any business engaged in any "activity for profit," [...] So even if your blog collects a handful of hits a day, as long as there's the potential for it to be lucrative — and, as Mandale points out, most hosting sites set aside space for bloggers to sell advertising — the city thinks you should cut it a check.

So, the city requires a business license fee from anyone setting up shop to make money. And by putting ads on your blog, that's exactly what you're doing. This seems reasonable to me.

To the Philidelphia bloggers complaining that they have to pay a $300 licensing fee even though they only make $5-$20 per year from ads, I have some advice: remove the ads. It's not worth it. In fact, why would you undermine your blog's credibility [1] for a few measely dollars in the first place?

[1] See item 9 on http://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/index.html
It would have to be based on any interaction the receiver has with the email, including viewing the inbox. However, if we're already worried about that level of privacy, even that change would do no good since it would mean the sender would know when the receiver checked their inbox.
It seems like a lot of the examples are missing the part where you close the file.
What am I doing to improve? That's my main one.
friendly correction: at BSA our commission is 25% :)
It would be interesting if CIA managed to send in one of their young sexy female agents to pose as a journalist, sleep with Julian and then cry rape so charges can be filed and he can be discredited.

As an interesting aside. KGB back in the 40-50 used sometimes use their female agents to set up honey pot operations. They would entrap foreign diplomats or nationals, then under threat of blowing their cover, try to get them to collaborate.
Just because the law applies equally to everyone, doesn't make it a reasonable law. It's dumb to charge every entity that brings in revenue a $300 license fee. From the sounds of it, this law applies to every kid who shovels snow or mows a couple of lawns in the summer. How about if you have a yard sale or sell your motorcycle through the classifieds? When does a person become a business? What this law ends up doing is encouraging people to lie about any minor sources of income they receive. Activities that are done primarily for pleasure should not be treated like businesses in the tax code. That's just unreasonable.
There is also a python port available @ http://wiki.github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans/
It's weird that your solution is to not make any money at all. Isn't the correct solution pretty easy to implement too? Just make the licensing fee apply only after you've met minimum revenue requirements (like $10000 or something).
I think my advise would be not to report it. With that rule my kid's lemonade stand would be require to pay $300.