skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming you aren't actually asking me to prove a negative. If a reading of NISPOM doesn't clarify it for you, then there's really nothing more I can say that will persuade you from your conspiracy theory.

http://www.dss.mil/isp/fac_clear/download_nispom.html

Army Grunts are required to have a clearance. General Infantry (18yo cannon fodder in your parlance) must have at least a Secret clearance. Army Cooks, may even be required to be cleared.

Think you can run around with 5th generation night vision goggles and state of the art body armor, talk on encrypted radio equipment, know troop movement information, chase after specific enemies and report back on activities on Secret level systems without a clearance? Think again.

Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say we can say there's a piece of information that is so dangerous, so important, that releasing that information could endanger the entire population of the planet. Say, the nuclear codes.

These are arguably the most sensitive information in the world. Why would there need to be a classification level above and beyond TS and the appropriate compartments and or SAP program to protect them? Some sort of Super Top Secret?

Or for fun, let's say Area-51 has alien tech there, or we have a secret military base on the moon, or a Stargate. Why wouldn't it just be protected under a SAP? A Super Top Secret doesn't buy you anything at all in terms of protecting that information. Nor does a Super Duper Top Secret. As somebody not in the SAP and not with a need to know, I wouldn't even know the SAP exists to protect the Stargate program, or the alien autopsy videos, or whatever. Only the people in the SAP and a handful of people managing the SAPs of the agency that created it even know of the SAPs existence and/or what it protects. SAPs can even have sub-compartments that provide even further protection.

Practically speaking this offers what can be perceived to be "high levels of clearance" but in fact are all just plain jane Top Secret.
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I don't know if this is a joke, or spam, or a really poorly implemented... something? Color me perplexed.
The latency is the problem, not the bandwidth.

(By the way, considered as a means of transferring information sex has lots of bandwidth, too. Not, yet, useful for sharing patches, though.)
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No, they are going to populate them all, test them, then sell them.

We’ve made 100 of these betas, which will now be populated with components... Raspberry Pis from this very first, small batch, will be going on sale when they’ve been tested

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/389
This is a risky subject to talk about. I guess it's mostly because everyone has a different background and view things differently. I do know however that different women will handle things very differently.

For instance, I'd open a door to a women and she'd put her best smile and thank me while another one might be offended that I'd treat her specially. (Happens to me from time to time in the metro.) Who's right? I guess both.. it depends of their background.

I always feel there's a blur when working with women between professionalism and amiability. I.e. If I talk with a colleague (man) about his weekend, it's fine. If I have the same conversation with a girl, it'd seem I'm trying to date with her. I don't know, maybe it's just me over-thinking things. What do you think?
Looks like i was biased towards america after all.....surprising to know that, given that am in India..Hmm
If by "now" you mean July of 2009 - check the URL.
But here, you are forced to eat it too.
Well, I already had the VM implemented in Python, so I really wanted to do that in C or C++. Go was not an option because (1) one of the goals was to understand how other VMs are implemented, and most VMs today are C/C++, and (2) I wanted a language without garbage collection (which Go has, AFAIK)
Perhaps, it's time we as a society reconsidered the negative connotations we attach to the word "slut"
Apple Is Worth $370 Billion, More Than NASA’s Space Programs
J Plus. Hong Kong. Full time/intern.

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I agree. I think the solution to SOPA and PIPA is nothing, not a "lesser evil" or a "compromise". The music labels may die, but I don't think it's the Government's job to save them, just like it's not the Government's job to save the print media against Internet bloggers. I also don't think that there will be less music if the current music labels die. Copyright extensions have become ridiculous, and I think the labels have had their way for way too long in influencing the Government against the public and against the new creators.

I think it's time to be reminded once again of Larry Lassig's TED video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

Also when you watch it, and see the airplane example, think about it how it could've been if they "compromised" on saying "Airplanes are free to pass over properties, but helicopters not". It would've still been just as ridiculous. Perhaps not the perfect analogy, but something to think about.
It's a motion command that means from the beginning of the selected area to the end. It's really two different commands ("'<" and "'>") and there is a good description of them in the vim help (":help '<" will bring you there).
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Why is he somehow more "important" than all the other people on the bone marrow transplant list?

Does it matter? His situation is bringing attention to this, and getting more people to add themselves to the registry. Whether or not he is personally saved, it's likely that several other matches will be made as a result, so I'd say it's a good thing overall.

By my understanding, this isn't a matter of supply and demand, or him trying to "jump the line" by making a direct appeal to people - it's a matter of sheer volume, it's relatively difficult to find donors for anyone that match well, so having more people in the system is a good thing for everyone.
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- San Francisco
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- Working on my idea (easyvino.com)
- We're building a private sommelier that anyone can use to pick wine at restaurants and liquor stores. It's a recommendation engine that automatically classifies wine and consumer taste and offers a recommendation based on pattern recognition (i.e. Netflix model)
- Looking for someone who can join full time. We have a prototype almost ready. We need to take it to the next level (add features, scrap online data, connect with some major wine databases)

If interested, email me hugo@easyvino.com
Nope. We are very much a real school with real people doing really cool things. I compiled a list of articles and videos about the school a few months ago which you might find interesting:

http://jordanbyron.com/rbmu.html

They are a bit out of date, but the videos are still a lot of fun for me to watch. Enjoy :)
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What kind of informed choice can you make when the market is run by a conspiring oligopoly?

CarrierIQ is the case in point. It may be tracking a different subset of things on different devices but it seems to be on all brands and it seems to invade your privacy surrepticiously on all of them. These are the cases where regulation is required because otherwise your only choice is to forego smartphones altogether.
> ...I think that a more constructive strategy for solving the problem isn't to attack political contributions (which is bound to get into thorny First Amendment questions), but...

If you have reached the point where, at a fundamental constitutional level, you really can't distinguish industrial lobbyists buying laws from the freedom of individual citizens to express themselves, then you've already lost any chance you had of fixing this problem without building a new system of government. You have accepted that artificial entities such as corporations should be treated in a similar way to real people. At that point, you might as well just apportion votes by something like market cap and be done with it.

Personally, as a non-US citizen but part of an international community that is inevitably affected by bad government in the US anyway, I am hoping for a bigger version of what we did to our MPs in the run up to the last election: find a convenient political excuse to remove a substantial proportion of incumbents from the running altogether, and then not give any party outright control of the following Parliament. That should have led to fundamental reform of our voting system, but the campaign in favour of such reform were so incompetent that it was a damp squib in the end. In any case, I think we are being damaged considerably less by the coalition government we have today than we would have been under any one of the major parties alone (which is intentionally a pretty damning indictment of all the major parties). The US is in a much worse state than we are, because the whole deck is stacked so heavily against minor candidates that you're basically locked into a two-party mess until something revolutionary happens, but ruffling enough feathers to remind the public's representatives that lobbyists do not (yet) actually have a vote would be a good start.
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I know some people at my coworking space are working remote from the rest of their company/team. It seems like a pretty good solution to not be socially isolated despite being physically isolated from your company.
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No it's not like a blood donation.
It's misinformation like this that cause people to sign up to donate, and then back out when they find out what they really have to do. Bone marrow donation is a surgery. PBSC donation requires you to get injected with a drug for 5 days, and then have your blood drawn out from one arm, go through a machine, and passed back to you through the other arm. If you have thin veins it'll even require a central line (tube in your neck).
I've felt this pain deeply as well, and a non-technology company. Founding one of the earliest successful coworking spaces, lots of other "shared offices" have popped up and even Regus has co-opted the term coworking and the physical attributes of a coworking space without considering the underlying decisions or core values that we've established.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
I'm using a crippled DroidX with Motoblur variant (ex. can't hide blockbuster app, limited homescreens, etc) and I've found a solution for waiting for the table scraps to filter down from Android releases: Go Launcher X (no root needed)

With home screen replacement apps you can more or less configure whatever you want on your mobile and strip out the stuff you don't want: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/10-awesome-go-launcher-e...
One interesting thing about Amit Gupta's efforts to get people to register their bone marrow is he's actually helping other people much more than he's helping himself. The key point is that everyone who needs bone marrow is more likely to find a match because of the additional registrants.

Serious question: is there a game-theoretic name for this? It's kind of the opposite of tragedy of the commons or free-rider. Amit's actions actually seems structurally similar to contributing to open-source software: he's trying to solve his own problem, but at the same time helping thousands of other people.

In any case, you should sign up - wouldn't it be great to save someone's life in this way?
Regarding your edit - I can't understand why anyone doing a startup wouldn't want to be based in the US!

Better executive talent, great engineering talent (but perhaps expensive given demand), plenty of VCs, angels etc & importantly, exit opportunities. As another commenter mentioned, the sheer amount of successes (in the Valley especially) isn't coincidence.

The Startup Visa initiative is a great idea, but is that ever going to happen? The current US immigration system is an extremely good filter at keeping generally law-abiding entrepreneurs out, but letting in the exact kind of individuals it purports to protect the US from.

If you're going to keep potential job-creators out in this economy, why let anyone in?
It's an allegory, it's not meant to be genuinely believed in the first place.
And the cover idea on profiles. But Facebook's app is still barely usable. For me, profiles take at least 30 seconds to load.
Should financial institutions offer location-based deals?
But it's not really a deal if you don't get paid.

Up until today, it was illegal to seal the deal (i.e., pay your donor). Now that people actually have a rational financial reason to trade a little bit of their own lives to strangers (needlesticks aren't painless, and donors need to sit for hours to actually donate the cells), they'll go through with it a lot more. The donors win, and the recipients win. That's a great thing!
I love Chrome since I don't have to install external flash player plugin which is kinda annoying. Chrome has a built-in flash player. You don't have to update flash and restart all your browser.
Side tabs have been abandoned by chrome at the moment with no sign of coming back. The lack of vertical sidebars is enough reason to use Firefox over Chrome. Even when side tabs were working you couldn't modify its behaviour.
I'll start off by saying great job. Good clean design.

But I follow with - why? What was the problem statement? Have you heard feedback to suggest that the current YT player is subpar?
> Why is that the case? Any ideas?

The situation gives men an enormous advantage. And the vast majority of the 90%+ of Fortune 500 CEOs and tech startups and VCs who are guys don't seem to have any interest in changing it. Why do you think that's the case?
Probably Roy Baumeister's book Is There Anything Good About Men?, which discusses possible gender differences as trade-offs in evolutionary terms.
Numbers for India is low because Indians are just waking up now =)
It appears that there are two methods: 75% of the time it is PBSC, which is the 6 hour long blood donation. 25% of the time it is through surgery under general anesthesia. The doctor decides on which one based on the patient.

http://marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Steps_of_Donatio...
Honestly, cheap bike components aren't inefficient, they just wear out very quickly. Low-end components use plastic where high-end components use metal, and really high-end components use titanium instead of aluminum.

In my opinion, cheap components look and feel ugly regardless of what kind of bike they are attached to. The good news is that you can build a fixed gear bike out of good equipment for what you'd pay for a racing bike groupset.
Inventiveness and compellingness are orthogonal. Facebook's mobile applications are excellent. They don't feel like a crippled, compromised version of Facebook. They feel like Facebook. Instagram and Path have the opposite problem: their web interfaces are second-class.
> Why stop at bone marrow?

I would draw a very clear line: Renewable tissue and organs can be sold, non renewable ones can't.

Blood, sperm, marrow: All sellable.

Kidneys: Nope, donation only.

Liver, skin: On the fence. (They renew, but only with scarring, and can be taken only a limited number of times.)
Ask HN: Why is it acceptable for a employers to (think they) own my free time?
This is something I've been quietly getting stressed out about for quite some time. I'm currently unemployed, but reading posts on HN and reddit has me concerned about my future as a developer.

I've seen a lot of posts concerning non-compete agreements, and the concept that anything you work on belongs to your employer, not you. As someone who likes to tinker, this scares me.

I'm not saying I'm going to create something that becomes the next Facebook, or even the next Bingo Card Creator. I'm unlike most people here in that I'm risk averse (and self-conscious) to the point of being afraid to start my own business, but I do like to tinker. I've had a number of ideas, ones that mostly don't finish because I get enchanted by my next idea and move on too soon, but I do have the goal of publicly releasing things if they ever finish. I just like to play with code.

I worry, after reading certain posts, that just playing with code, and especially releasing things in public, is playing with fire in this industry. I worry about starting anything because I don't want to get a job and have to kill my project because I hate the idea of some other company being able to swoop in and claim my IP. Maybe these sorts of agreements aren't as popular as I've been led to believe, but the idea still scares me.

What finally led to this post was a comment thread on reddit[1], where someone wanted advice about taking a job with PayPal. One piece of advice was to be wary of these sorts of NCAs, and I commented on it, basically stating there what I'm stating now - these sorts of agreements scare me. I got one reply[2] which said (paraphrased), "if you're working outside the job, then you're not fully committed to me". Statements like this make me want to go dig ditches for a living so that I can keep coding as a hobby without fear.

I'm young and naive, so I definitely assume I'm overthinking and overcomplicating this whole deal, but I don't understand why anyone would give up their every thought to a company.

Can someone shed some light on this? Are these agreements common? Why does anyone agree to them? How can I get a job without being worried about writing an answer on StackOverflow and not getting fired/sued for it?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/mwnva/just_got_a_job_offer_out_of_the_blue_from_paypal/

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/mwnva/just_got_a_job_offer_out_of_the_blue_from_paypal/c34in7o?context=3
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I wouldn't say Google+ is a utility, I'd say that Google+ is about integrating existing and new services that Google offers so that the overall package is more useful and more compelling. For instance, there is integrated support for jointly watching a YouTube video or sharing and editing a Google Doc from a Hangout (though, oddly, the first requires an ordinary Hangout and the second requires Hangouts with Extras).

The reason Google+ is primarily social is that, before Google+, most of Google's services were, at best, poorly integrated from a social perspective (if they were socially integrated at all). That naturally encroaches on Facebook because they provide a number of social services, but the more I look at it, the less I think Google+ is about "beating Facebook". I think it is more about addressing weaknesses in Google's service portfolio that Facebook (and Twitter, etc.) have highlighted. And that can be done without "beating" or "replacing" alternative social services.

For example, one thing Google+ is very good for is for interacting with Google engineers and product teams. That's a part of Google+ that has nothing to do with Facebook (or Twitter, etc.), but is still social and very valuable to Google.
Ask HN: Hacker wannabe demotivated & depressed in need of help
Hello HN,

I have been stuck in the Java enterprise world for the past 5 years and I believe I have lost my passion and the ability to learn new things.

I dream of working at a startup and contributing to open source working with cool technologies like rails, python, clojure, node, android...etc having a github repo full of interesting projects and being part of a community of passionate coders, however whenever I try to teach myself any of these technologies I keep failing and getting frustrated as soon as I hit a wall, I didn't used to be like this but now everything seems too hard! I keep looking at people's githubs and seeing thousands of hackers around the world with so much projects and technologies and I feel like an idiot, I feel like I will never be like them, I feel like I am stuck being a worthless developer for the rest of my life, this has made me depressed and demotivated, I really feel like a failure and I just don't know what else to do...

Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a hacker, maybe I lack or lost the hacker mentality...maybe I should just switch careers and become something else...I feel worthless and stupid but for the past few years my dream has been to become a top notch developer,I have tried "building things" but I never know what to build and as soon as I get an idea everything seems too hard to implement and I loose motivation, this has been building up for the past few years and now I feel depressed and hopeless...

What should I do HN? Sometimes I feel what I really need is a mentor but I keep thinking if I can't help myself then who can?
I am desperate HN I am willing to do anything to get out of this hole I have put myself in...but I really need some advice to help me get up again.
> I realized this after experiencing burnout at 19, spending two years where I was capable of doing absolutely nothing traditionlly productive. Therefore, it's really surprising to me that a lot of supposedly older and wiser do this rat race for years, losing sight of the goal along the way.

This hit especially close to home for me. I'm 19 years old, in my second year of university, and looking to get into the industry within the next couple years. Even just finishing high school I was left with this emptiness: I had worked my ass off doing all kinds of crazy stuff--academic and otherwise--to get into a college of my choice, often getting 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night for weeks on end, only to start the whole thing over again right after I graduated.

I still work my ass off, deprive myself of sleep, overwork, etc, but I definitely see it all in the same context as you. It's short-term craziness for a benefit I want to see slightly down the road. And if it doesn't work out, I'm not going to force it. If you're not where you wanted to be at 35 by the time you're 40, maybe your plan wasn't the right one for you.

So yes, thank you for reminding me the point of all of this.
I just realized I messed up the title. That's what I get for changing it around so much.

Also, here are the clickable versions of my links:

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/mwnva/just_got_a_job_of...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/mwnva/just_got_a_job_of...
Has anyone examined the possibility that wage is less of a motivating factor for the women in question; they don't negotiate because they are getting something out of it more important (to them) than the money.
I'd never seen the theory laid out so, so thank you soundsop.

Regardless, this is from 2006 when Deadwood was on the air. So just for kicks, reread the headline in your head as if Al Swearingen were saying it.
"I've had my access to sales data revoked (turns out the CEO doesn't like it when you put dev milestones next to sales increases)"

Giant red flag. If someone's wiling to hide information that helps you do your job in order to minimize your credit, something is horribly wrong.
Joe Hewitt's original native app was great. But now that Facebook is moving to using HTML all over the place, it's slow as can be.
Also, here's a live, playable demo that you can interact with --

http://www.pieceable.com/view/bundle/p/3ed77/com.lunaapp.Awe...

Disclosure: this is running on my service.
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Not a PHP programmer, but a fellow Richmonder. Howdy.