skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you from the perspective of one transgression not being a reason to ruin a life but unfortunately, that's the system under which we live even if you are innocent.

Accused of something? The arrest and pending charges show up in all background checks until the charges are dropped or you are acquitted and even then the police have the discretion to decide whether or not to remove them from your record. If you are a professional, this is a death sentence to your career that needs to be handled with incredible care.

TL;DR there is no support for the innocent in the justice system either.
> "one transgression is not a reason to ruin his entire career life."

I think you overestimate both the reach and the net effect of this. There are still employers who don't google people before they hire, who will never see this. And there are plenty of people who disclose criminal convictions to potential employers and still manage to get hired.

"Basically ruined his life" is a stretch.
This is an interesting study, but I found the HN title to be misleading. Here are the bullets from the concluding paragraph:

* The American public has long held generally positive attitudes toward the space program, but is not very familiar with its details.

* Over the history of the space age, an average of more than 60 percent of those polled rated the job done by NASA as either ‘‘excellent’’ or ‘‘good.’’

* Most Americans have shown support for space exploration and view it as important over the years, but also believe that federal money could be better spent on other programs.

* Most are also in favor of NASA as an organization, but are relatively unfamiliar with the majority of its activities and objectives.

* These polls also suggest historically close relationships between public perceptions of NASA and spaceflight depictions in popular culture, especially film. These images from popular culture, coupledwith real-world accomplishments in spaceflight, work together to create powerful visions affecting the public consciousness.
I never hear from recruiters on linked in. Am I doing something wrong?
I started consulting instead of going to college and (almost) always said yes when asked if I knew how to do something, whether or not I knew that particular task yet. Once I said I could do something, I was locked in and forced myself to learn it.
That's really disappointing. I think there needs to be more mercy for criminals. And the situation you described for the innocent is quite appalling.

Can this be fixed?
I've got more to show though, available by email only currently. It will be up on the site in a couple weeks.
I like clang for it's by the books C implementation, but unfortunately some of the software I use doesn't work on GCC > 4.4, so I doubt I'd have much success with clang. If I'm writing software though, I'd make sure it compiled correctly on clang though. If it did then I could almost be assured that it would compile fine on GCC. Specifically the software I'm speaking about is pyrit. However, I'm going to try compiling with clang real quick just to see if I'm correct.

Actually, I take that back. Pyrit compiled fine with clang.
Yahh!!!!! the CIA needs it's worker database not going to happen until someone bringsthem to their knees.
A.
Objective-C literals!

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/398-objective-c-literals-part...
Still has to happen...
Sorry, I was mocking the notion that someone is supposed to interop with Word and that not magically converting from Word is somehow their fault instead of Word's. I can only image it's non standard. In fact, it's probably handled by the user-agent.
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i remember at a conference (ETech, a while ago) there was a geohackers BOF and some dude from a handset mfg said they wanted to work with us, and the way to do so would be to create proposals for them to evaluate, and then they would decide.

they actually told a roomful of hackers to ask permission.

fuck that?
this story is about California, not Nevada. (though Nevada did previously pass legislation allowing driverless cars.)
FOI: I removed that line you quoted to make the flow of the paragraph a bit smoother.

But I guess yes to some extend it's a stretch. I was just feeling bad for how it might affect his future prospects for work. I think a little more mercy for criminals is a good thing.

Norway has a really good criminal justice system that works wonders.
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Great idea and great implementation. Focus on a real issue. Can't wait for trying it!
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Disregarding how "much more reasonable" this interpretation is, there's a lot of space between "no physical force" and "something she only felt bad about after things ended". Jumping to the latter conclusion and implying promiscuity on her part ("because who's counting!") is completely unfair.

We should presume that Mr. Nazre is innocent and not attack his character. We should also do the same for Ms. Pao.
Where we value the ability to obtain goods and services over people's health.

Not savings, but purchasing power. Better?
So, let me get this straight. You will not have this near your food solely based on the fact that FDA has approved of it? That's crazytalk if you ask me.
The L4 microkernel was verified that it faithfully implemented the system specification. The system specification is written in (executable) Haskell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#Current_r... So, how do they know the Haskell specification is correct???

I guess it's turtles all the way down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
No, I was going for Page Fault[1], which, if I recall my comp. arch. lectures, suspends the requesting process until the required page has been read from disk and put in memory somewhere. So wall-clock time passes, but the process itself doesn't know about it until it resumes. Even then, I don't think it can know definitively why it was suspended - it could just as well have been pre-empted by some other task.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault
It doesn't if you use alot of custom views and animations.
I came to post this, you beat me to it. I assume 4mls of ketchup might not be worth much per bottle, but in mass production it would account to a lot of lost money.

On the other hand you may gain customers to account for that loss.
I think that's a broad leap from "uses a computer for work" to "understands technology". My grandparents use computers for work, but they do not know much about technology.
One advantage of clean, automated cars over trains: they are far more agile (in the buzzword sense), which is another point for why they're likely to be more sustainable.

To elaborate what I mean: regardless of how you evaluate the pros and cons of the California HSR project (I'm skeptical myself), some unfortunate realities of it is that it will be far more centralized, require far more planning, necessitate the build out of a complicated and new infrastructure, and not be cheaply scaled or repurposed. Automated cars are the complete opposite. They can easily be used on our existing infrastructure. If you need to go to a new place, you simply flatten and pave a long rectangle of area that's a couple meters wide. They merely need to be allowed instead of planned for (the problem is small enough and the incentives easily created enough that a corporation can realistically accomplish the necessary R&D and planning). And if they turn out to be a hit, it's relatively easy to just sell more of the automated cars.

And let's grant, for a moment, the rosiest projections of California HSR, and it's just a matter of doing it right. It's still a complicated, multidecade-long undertaking: all it takes is a random idiot in Sacramento or DC hellbent on sabotaging the project to change it from a convenient way to get from SF to LA to a one-way ticket from Fresno to Bakersfield. Needless to say, there are lots of random idiots in government ranging from incompetent to hellbent on sabotaging any potentially good government program: should we really be betting a costly attempt to ensure our ecological well-being on the hopes that neither type will come into power for the next 20 years? (This might be construed as giving into metaphorical terrorism, but thems the breaks.)

This also is not a matter of public versus private transit: it's trivially easy to imagine buses taking advantage of them to lower costs significantly, and not at all difficult to imagine totally new forms of public transit being made available.
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> The community is full of MDA (model-driven-architecture) types: too often is the focus on increasing complexity (for ego boosting / job security) instead of simplicity and accessibility.
> .. instead of locking it up for fun and "profit".

still, if you ignore the MDA and executable uml silliness, there's quite a few ideas that can be picked from that closed space, imo.
For some interesting history about the development of the B5000, see "Stories About the B5000 and People Who Were There" (http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html)
I don't like the "kudos" widget. It's not clear you're "giving kudos" just by hovering over a widget and there's no way to retract a vote. Kind of cheesy to me.
> simply because the different companies will have to start competing on something other than "look, we're in space!"

Price, safety, quality of the trip? It seems a long way out before space travel is a commodity such that a large percent of those wanting to travel can afford to do so. The majority of air travel now doesn't compete on style of the vessel, does it?
This version implements C++11 lambdas, user defined literals and atomics.
Check out Aboriginal. It's Linux in an ARM VM specifically for compiling to an ARM target.

http://landley.net/aboriginal
The first thing about L4.verified is that formal verification, while admirable, doesn't really matter, at least not in a world where exploits are commodities, exploitation a continuous process: if a program is only a few thousand lines long and written with attention to security, the number of vulnerabilities can at worst be counted on one hand, and attackers will find them all for you in short order. If you're Iran and have an attacker capable of pouring millions of dollars into a single hack, it might make a difference; if you're Microsoft, not so much.

The second thing is that while a microkernel (if used with an IOMMU to prevent a malicious driver from DMAing all over your code) appealingly prevents an attacker from exploiting a malloc overflow in some random network driver and immediately gaining full access to anything (the current state of kernel security!-- but performance is key), it doesn't prevent an attacker from using that network driver pwn to hijack the user's Facebook session; full access is appealing, but in a complex system there are many, many "lesser targets" that are just as bad from a user's point of view.

Microkernels and their little cousin sandboxing can help, but the resulting trusted computing base is still much, much larger than we can formally verify in the foreseeable future.

(A sibling of this comment mentioned Singularity, but that's a fairly different beast: instead of proving that fast code is safe, you try to make obviously (memory) safe code fast. The only reason Singularity is able to make interesting performance claims is that it uses verification to completely avoid system calls: pretty cool, but a NaCl-like kernel could do something fairly similar for C; it doesn't really change the correctness/performance tradeoff.)
The idea seems appealing but as many "dating" apps it won't work:

People want to meet new people all the time, the more the better and preferably close to their own personality. The problem is: if you just say, 'hey guys, you should meet up, you are both coders, you should like each other' or in a real dating environment, 'hey guys, just meet, you are both singles' it won't work.

People need some guidance, some hook and reason why to meet and more important what to talk to each other, small talk without setting people into context won't work. This app is missing the hook to meet up, just grabbing a coffee together because both code in similar languages is no sufficient plug or starter.

Examples that work:

- On a typical network event you have small hooks like the presentations shown. There're great starters to get into small talk and carry on with deeper conversations later. This environment leaves the agenda open about who you talk to and what you talk about. That's good and keeps conversations and new encounters thrilling.

- On a hackerthon you have even stronger hooks because you have to work together or you just have a very good reason to talk to each other—mingling will happen automatically and excitement wil be at its max because everything is new (people, context, tech) and you face a challenge which you have to solve in a short time which makes it even more thrilling. The stronger these kind of excitements are the stronger the initial bonding will be between the participants after the event. And this bonding is everbody's goal: not just meeting random people for coffee but meeting like-minded people in order to build strong relationships with them. Or to put it another way: the context (=> the event/guide/task/excitement) is the actual cause for strong bondings and relationships and not similar personalities or preferred languages. Interactions between people are context and behavior driven and not because of similar profiles.

You have to give people a task, a mission. Just telling them to meet and talk will make them feel awkward.
I don't believe he's saying he would not use the product BECAUSE the FDA has approved it, but rather FDA approval has not always been the best indicator that a particular product is indeed safe.
We'll have something for you. #startupvisas
but you could take the sign away and imo people would still open the door - simply because that seems to be the only thing they could do. plus with the whole door surface being available, why would you use just your hands? use your shoulder or even back (if you happen to be carrying stuff in both hands)!

seems to me like that would be more affordance.
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It's a shame the data only seems to be available up to 1997 for the study. For those curious how recent private space initiatives have impacted these numbers, here are a couple more recent data points I could find:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/121736/majority-americans-say-spa...

http://www.people-press.org/2011/07/05/majority-sees-u-s-lea...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/gen...
Not very practical if you needed to deliver the integration over the Internet in a web app
Update the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976
Or they'll just reduce the quantity of food in the bottle in addition to marketing it as "easy-access" or "lower wastage" on the label.
My organization (and I know one other) will be very interested.
What about cross domain requests?
And anyone who wants to state that any version of IE is a good browser can only look to the need for such a tool, along with conditional comments and hundreds of web sites that do nothing but help developers find hacks and workarounds to make current, standard markup and code work in IE.

IE...the world's worst browser.
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I think economic reasons will actually come first. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past if all the cars on the road are automated, and the length and slow speed of the daily commute is a bigger issue than the risk of death from driving for nearly everyone I know (of course that's anecdotal).
> If not: you don't agree that this remarkable tolerance for violent right-wing extremism is unusual among your social and intellectual peers?

I don't worry about being unusual, I worry about being right. Lots of people are intellectual and emotional five-year-olds. That's not my problem, but whether I'm one of them is my problem.
A little side note, riding in the desert might seem like a no-brainer, but it's really really really hard for a computer to make sense of the terrain or what's ahead, which is why it took some time for the first cars to even finish the race. A lot of the technology that has been developed just to make sense of the terrain is now used to keep track of pedestrians, other cars and obstacles.

But this is so freaking awesome!
I think we really need to look at this historically, the first sailors used smaller ships which were only able to follow the coast or travel short distances up rivers, further development in navigation and hull designs allowed them to cross the great depths even further. I think we are still in the Raft stage of space exploration, although it is a great idea, I think we need to work on those little steps.

Getting back to the moon and/or perhaps chasing asteroids seems much more practical at this time I don't think colonisation of mars will ever happen unless we gain the capacity to build bigger ships in orbit of earth, it just costs to much to get things up there. If we can solve the issue of getting basic materials and manpower into orbit and then set up supply lines that do not involve earth then we will be ready to start making caravels instead of rafts.
Thanks for your rant Bart and I'd largely have to agree.
If you want pixel-perfect equality between all browsers then supporting IE6 is truly a pain. Why anyone would want pixel-perfect equality is beyond me though because the end-users simply don't care.
The real argument for the stuff I've worked on wasn't IE vs. the rest, it was HTML4-ish (IE 6,7,8) vs HTML5 (IE9, FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera). Even then using jQuery + Knockout on the client side solved nearly every compatibility problem.
There was also an actual advantage with testing against older versions of IE as it enabled us to identify weird performance and behavioural problems earlier. When we ignored a given problem in IE6,7,8 during the development phase the same problem would turn up later in all of the other browsers when the system was under load. Fixing the problem for IE6,7,8 got us a massive jump on fixing the problem for all of the other browsers.
Personally for my own stuff the oldest version of IE I test against now is 8. The massive number of XP/IE6 users still out there are in China running a hacked version of XP. As I don't develop for the Chinese market this isn't a problem.
Tom,

Thanks for the awesome feedback, we agree it seems like a dating app, and we'll have to work hard to overcome any awkwardness and craft the best experience possible. Our focus is on finding Coders in Silicon Valley, but our big idea is much much bigger. Hope we can solve all the problems you've brought up.
The term "metro area" almost belies the argument though--most people who live in any given "metro area" are in the rings of suburban hell, not in the city center. And precious few city centers actually have functional public transportation by first-world standards.
I too am bullish on sandboxing, but I suspect, like all security boundaries that have come before it, that it will be secure in inverse proportion to the amount of functionality that is allowed to pass through it. App developers will poke more and more holes through the sandbox to enable new ways to cater to users. E.g. the WebGL^H^H^H^H^HGPU command buffers channel leveraged by PinkiePie.
So true. Google Calendar should rule this space, and it drives me nuts that deciding to attend an event usually involves multiple rounds of copying/pasting and manual editing when the amount of data involved is so trivial and well-specified.

On a broader level, there's a huge disruptive opportunity for a time-based search engine. When things happen is often very, very important, but gathering, collating, and connecting this information is painfully difficult. Take a simple example: Federal Reserve Board meetings. There are of tremendous importance to economic analysts, and worth knowing about for any politically aware person. Here is the calendar page: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.h... There isn't even an RSS feed. On a more general level, there isn't any obvious tool for browsing recurring events to look at their periodicity. To stick with the economic context (because it's one that matters rather a lot), consider the quarterly earnings and filings of public companies. As someone who likes DSP, it's perplexing to me that I can't add and subtract periodic data about companies' year-on-year performance as I would other sorts of periodic signal to explore the contributing factors.

I thought that this is where Google Trends/insights for search would go. Look at this search: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=toys%2C%20mattel%2C... You can see a big spike in searches for 'toys' at the end of every year, which is obviously related to Christmas. You would think that with so much lovely cyclical data, the obvious thing to do would be treat it as a signal, but no.

At first blush, events and trends seem like two different and unrelated things, but it's a fact that almost the entire human race uses the same calendar and clock system, so that both one-off and recurring temporal data both involve fairly straightforward cardinality problems. IT infuriates me that I can search out particular word combinations from billions of documents and get results within a few seconds, but that trying to locate things in time feels like it has hardly advanced at all in over a decade.
You are referring, of course, to this excellent (and somewhat frightening) article: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
Yes, things were a lot different back in the day when I was a youth. Which wasn't as long ago as you might think. It's both very alarming to me the way things are handled in schools, and that so many seem to think it is a good thing and that so few realize the dangers. To someone who went to school even 20 years ago who hasn't been following the changes the above post might seem an outlandish scenario that could never happen in America land of the free.
It worked fine for me until I tried to post a comment, then I saw the caching online/offline issues from cloudflare.
I think Theodore Kascynzki would be insulted by your implication that he is a leftist.
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Julien Renvoye new Portfolio
This is the new portfolio of Julien Renvoye. Thought it could inspire a lot of people
Commitment is Hard Work
The JS that drives that is awful. Why are they not using an array?

nytg.buttonText="What else is facebook worth more than?,What else is facebook worth more than?,What else is facebook worth more than?,Keep going?,One more time?,Another one?,Again?,It might be time to stop,I can generate thousands of these".split(",");
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ya... that too.
Thanks to technology it is now safe to drive drunk.
He doesn't have to cater to you or me and I think it would be a mistake to do so. Visual Studio is very popular... When Light Table comes out, at the end of the day I'll still be using vim and I suspect most emacs users will still be using emacs. We're not the target audience. I disagree that Light Table needs to be anything like emacs to dominate, it can even have a proprietary license, it can skip over us just as Eclipse, VS, et al. have done. That's fine. I'd rather that be the case and see a pretty end-product that serves its original goals well (and I may even try it for fun if it's free) than having a half-baked "vim-mode" stuck on at the end just to try and attract me.