skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually just go fullscreen. One of the biggest peeves I have is that Chrome doesn't show the Omnibox (nor does it let you type a new url) while in fullscreen mode.

I do love Sublime Text 2's distraction free mode.
Oh, I'm still stuck at Haskell, which doesn't suck but could be better. A friend of mine did some playing around with automated proof assistants, and I've been to some talks about seL4, a microkernel prototyped in Haskell, written in C, and proven correct in Isabelle.

From Haskell you can of course go the route to Agda or Isabelle. But Curry is also worth a visit, it combines logical and functional languages.

I, for one, am still learning how to do left-fold based IO in Haskell with enumerators, at the moment.
yo zach, you from baltimore? go ravens!
Looks more to me because they are trying to hire an intern to do actual work for the company. That is a huge no-no. The general rule of thumb is that intern's should be there to learn, not help the companies bottom-dollar.

Just a quick example we had a paid intern communication design student for a short while. She would come in and take direction from the Art Director on her semi-plausible tasks as if she was working except we never used anything she produced.
I am indeed! Are you? Go Ravens!
I'd pay a few dollars a month or year in order to: (1) never see ads (promoted tweets, etc.; retweets from channels I follow are ok), and/or (2) premium features like a more sophisticated Twitter iOS app, etc. I'm always surprised by any debate on the web around "OMG how can they monetize? Ads are annoying. Conundrum!" because I thought this was a solved problem in the business domain a long time ago. Identify things people are willing to pay for, and then sell that to them. Those things exist. Do it, rinse, repeat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent says the revised patent was confirmed and they've been paid for licenses to use it (by Apple and possibly B&N). I don't see any effect the backlash had.
The Open Source Beach
> I felt it would be too overwhelming to go to a new country by myself and also deal with a foreign language [...]

Monolingualism is such a loss to the world.
Bitcoin isn't inherently anonymous, but neither is TCP. However, that doesn't mean you can't send data anonymously over the internet through services like Tor, and the same applies to bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be made anonymous by swapping coins of equivalent value between accounts; as there's nothing that connects an account to a person, you can muddy the waters enough so that it's impossible to know which coins belong to you.
Chrome doesn't show the Omnibox

It does:

- View > Enter Full Screen mode -- with Omnibox and tabs.

- View > Enter Presentation mode -- without Omnibox or tabs.

Or click the little button on the right to switch between modes: http://i.imgur.com/GD1LX.png
Because lock-in is the only reason Windows is still so heavily entrenched on
the market. This isn't even about the merit of Powershell as a program. This is
about a tool which is designed to work on Windows (and Windows only[1]), and
thus to increase the strength of the chains that bind you to the operating
system.

Ever wondered why Microsoft didn't just make a bash-compatible shell? It's
not like they couldn't - it's that they don't want. It would make it easier
for people to jump ship, after all. And that's something they hope to prevent.

[1]: Yeah, yeah, there's a PS port to Unix land, but no sane human being will
seriously use that. It's pretty much just another waste of time to save people
from their mistake of investing into a proprietary tool tied to a proprietary
environment.
yessir! also live in SF—our apartment is adorned with all sorts ravens paraphernalia.
> Trust me there are a lot of countries where they don't like to spend money at all (consume).

Are you talking about Germany?
"For more than two decades, Silicon Valley has played a vital role in Nasdaq’s evolution,” said Joseph G. Christinat, a Nasdaq spokesman. “Nasdaq will always strive to be part of the Valley’s start-up ecosystem."

Maybe the Valley needs to start its own exchange.
For CSS, perhaps you're right. For Javascript, it may only take an extra hour or so to monkeypatch their JS implementations for things like Array.indexOf().

Now many of the things I do involve Canvas and SVG for information display. Try a map of the United States with a few layers of SVG with a few thousand datapoints. It simply won't happen on IE <= 9. You can try all the shims all day long. It just won't work.

Saying "it's not that hard" means you haven't tried anything more than CSS2 box model stuff.
Really, primary thing I dislike about the US (relative to other countries) is that we have a huge (and growing) underclass, just like in places like Brazil and Mexico. We need to shrink (ideally, eliminate, at least as a multi-generational thing) that group (there's no single solution -- but blindly cutting down the successful would be worse than what we have now. Some combination of better education and healthcare is part of it, and I support negative population growth in the world in general and the US in specific.)

US foreign policy is a bit too interventionist for my taste, but I'd prefer it to pure pacifism. A better-armed UK or France is probably a reasonable compromise for that. However, most US foreign interventions (except Iraq) aren't that horrible for most citizens (and even Iraq wasn't that much worse than Iraq 1991-2003 or 1980-1988) of the foreign countries, certainly compared to invasions and occupations by other countries.
Based on BMI, yes? According to that, I believe Brad Pitt at his peak was classified as 'obese'. There is a weight problem, but our tools for measuring it are subpar.
Opening Note: Personal views- Practicing Jewish most of my upbringing, now agnostic by choice

"If the Danish prime minister started confessing her belief in a god she'd be laughed out of the room."

As an 18 year old American, active in American politics (I've done minor campaigning, father is a US History teacher), this is utterly strange. A politician that was not some denomination of Christianity would be, most likely, completely unable to win a Presidential election. And that's even if they were a religion the Christian majority feels close to, such as Jewish. If they were Muslim, or so help them atheist, they would stand no chance at the White House.

I recently had a friend of 6 years from the UK come and visit for two weeks, and we had a number of discussions on cultural differences. When he mentioned that the majority of people in the UK were not religious, I was dumbfounded. I (foolishly) thought it was everywhere as it is here. In my community at least, to openly question the existence of a God is a social faux pas. I have an interesting perspective having been on both sides of the coin, but in the end it scares me as much as it scares you. The concept of God abounds in our Pledge of Allegiance, in our graduation ceremonies, in our political speeches--it is almost universally accepted and above question.
We should hang out then! Shoot me an email zack @ zackshapiro.com and let's grab coffee and meet up! Maybe we'll end up watching a Ravens game together in the Fall!
There is a working patch somewhere out there that adds lion fullscreen support to emacs.
"it’s very hard to truly question your beliefs if everyone around you shares them."

This gravitation toward a shared belief makes it not surprising that living where most peoples' belief is that God does not exist would result in one sharing that belief.

Thanks for the article. It's always great to see other perspectives on the world.
I've been able to do the first 3 without leaving (perhaps because I wasn't born here), and number 4 doesn't seem so certain.

What I noticed about living outside America when I did it later as an adult was that it made it clearer what was distinctive about the US.

Many of the distinctive things I noticed could be summed up by describing America as a young culture. Americans have the optimism and energy of youth, but they're also comparatively unsophisticated.
"Living and traveling outside the US for ~15 years convinced me of the inherent superiority of the US"

As an Australian who has travelled the world extensively, spent a great deal of time in the USA, and currently lives in Canada, I strongly disagree with this statement.

It should also be noted that in most quality of life indexes, cities in the US rank far below many of those in Europe, Canada, and Australia - that is one such meaningful metric in my mind when declaring the "superiority" of a country (which I think is a pretty absurd notion anyway)*

* http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/quality-of-living-repor...
"Some service in the future is going to curate the top 100,000 or 1,000,000 queries into a list of great, precise results"

Isn't this exactly what Mahalo tried to do?
As I mention in another comment, atheism is shamed in America. You could say you're viewed as...immoral? A belief in God (at least in my community) is expected, and it's certainly expected in our highest political figures and celebrities.
Anyone know how your eye can focus on a screen so close to it? How do they pull that off? I have a headache just thinking about it.
A week ago I finally got myself to patch my Emacs (24.1.1) using the procedure described here:

http://www.sanityinc.com/full-screen-support-for-cocoa-emacs...

Although that post (and the patch) is a bit dated, it worked fine for me (one hunk didn't apply cleanly but after reviewing it I decided it's obsolete, so I just ignored it.)

The result is just what I expected, I can't believe I waited that long before giving it a try. Highly recommended, if like me you prefer native Emacs over one running in a terminal.

(Somehow it even manages to avoid that annoying full-screen animation which so far I didn't manage to completely turn off for iTerm.)
Hashing on the client-side wouldn't make a difference if a MITM already has control of the SSL connection. They could just spoof the login form, swap out HackerRank's hashing code, and take your password anyway.

If you don't trust the connection don't trust any part of it. Especially not the code your browser is executing.
Let me do some digging. I suspect not. I use Command + Tab to switch apps and then when I want to isolate I pull up my dock and click an icon (my dock is usually hidden).
Yes, judging by your questions Haskell is a good language to learn for you. To give you a sneak preview: You can use the type system in such a way, that your source program will safely discriminate between the two types of strings (e.g. tainted and untainted), but there won't be anything left in the compiled assembly (tags or wrapping or whatever).

Also about the HTML: You can of course use different syntax for what I proposed, one that's closer to actual HTML. But I think as long as the syntax tree is preserved, it's still close enough to HTML for me, and all your accumulated knowledge about HTML is still applicable. (Not to be derisive, but if your years of learning are no longer of any use upon such a cosmetic change, you should probably examine your level of comprehension.)
Coda Hale: The Other Side of Software Engineering
Seems like quite the oversimplification. So everyone in a committed relationship is trying to get rich and everyone else is either trying to get rich or laid? Sounds like a theory that may apply say to people under 25 or so, but it doesn't really model any real world beyond that that I have ever seen.
For various definitions of "world-changing" (i.e. one disruptive enough), the US is the worst possible place to do it.

A fair example being how fucked all the bitcoin startups are going to be once the market is big enough for FinCEN to care about... or e-gold if you want a historical one.

The US is fine and dandy... if you don't mind not having privacy, and keep your "world-changing" ideas within the lines of what the military-industrial complex sees as acceptable.
This quote from the article "I don’t view the USA as the center of the world." seems rather fitting with the part where you mention America as culturally superior to other cultures.
Saturday’s ‘Leap Second’ Added More Heat To This Weekend’s Tech Meltdowns
Yes - in fact there are several. You can even do it with external apps (http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.html). But meh, this ancient macbook runs hot if you even ask it to show a flash video, I'm not going to set it on fire by asking it to compile emacs or run more stuff.
The thesis of the linked article is "publishing with strong anonymity is impractical with current internet services".

You seem to be saying "getting yourself beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and killed is just part of exposing corruption, get over it".

I don't see that comment as particularly constructive.
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> Living and traveling outside the US (Europe, Middle East, Asia) for ~15 years convinced me of the inherent superiority of the US (culturally, economically, etc.).

To be fair, most of the places you lived in that 15 years sucked really hard, even just objectively. The good non-US places are way better than the states in almost every measurable aspect.
A Simple SqlAlchemy 0.7 / 0.8 Tutorial
Agreed, but how realtime API business would have made money?
>If you have Java installed on your workstation, click here to launch ArgoUML (UML editor). This is what I expect from a "desktop class application" from deployment to usability

Is this a joke? That would be barely tolerable for 2000.

Slow, clunky, non-native feeling, the bad kind of cross-platform, a UI beaten with the ugly stick and very little thinking about usability issues.
> Tracing mass flows, the concept of guilt by association, and general investigation say otherwise.

Those arguments could also be applied to Tor. In fact, I'd contend that bitcoin is easier to anonymise than a TCP connection, as you don't need to obscure the transfer in real time.
Religion seems to be much more pervasisve in public policy in America than anywhere else.
40% of voters believe the Rapture/end of the world will occur in their lifetime. This is unprecendented in any secular country, and it affects all spheres of life. Why worry about global warming when Jesus is going to come back and fix everything in a few years anyway?
Faces of Change: A Fighting Chance
Reviews on DailyCred:

From CodeCodex - domain registered to Schorzman, Julius.

From ShopoBot - same (funny: "So much cleaner than the custom system we were building.")

From Shreddy News - domain registered to Stoever, Hank (developer at DailyCred).

They really like their products!
#1 is the huge one. Americans say "the world" when they mean "the whole country". For most USAians, it is pretty inconceivable that anyone lives drastically differently than they do.

It's inexcusable, considering the breadth of information available to the contrary, but most just never expose themselves to it. I know I didn't until I moved away.
Wow, that's even uglier. But you did not only propose an alternative syntax for HTML, but also for its manipulation. So that's a good enough excuse.

Have you looked at how Racket (Scheme, Lisp) deals with encoding HTML in S-expressions? I find that rather nice, and even prefer it to plain HTML or XML. Racket is a fine language for manipulating S-expressions, too.
Also, if you're going to make webapps, you'll need more then HTML, CSS, and JS. You'll need a framework (well, need being a relative word) for database storage and the like. Many exist (Django for Python, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby, etc), but as a personal recommendation, Rails is extremely powerful and has a vibrant community. Plus, Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial is available in HTML as a free book, and will walk you through every step of creating a web app.
I've been an out American for 7 years now, first two in Switzerland, the last 5 in China. I still think America has a lot going for it. Switzerland is efficient and fair, but something is missing because of restrained competition and protectionism. China is the exact opposite, and its hard to believe the system works at all. For whatever troubles America has, our system still works and is rather effective; no one is really coddled and you have to work hard, but social mobility is still better in the US than anywhere else.

There are people ignorant about the world in any country, I'm not sure why we always single out home bound Americans for being apathetic to world events. There is plenty of that to go around, even in Europe where people tend to travel more to other countries, but especially in China and even in Japan where people have many misconceptions about the rest of the world.

There are no more superpowers, not when IEDs are easy enough to procure by anyone.
At the rate its been dropping, that will happen very soon. In fact, they're already trying to introduce a faster/easier airport travel with "trusted traveler" programs (leave it to the USA to make money out of something that used to be free :-)).

Also, I'm surprised France is the most visited country - what do they have besides the Eiffel tower and bad roads :-)?
Even with static typing, you might end up implementing using run-time support. (Of course the holy grail is to compile away all type information. But that's not only attainable. Even Haskell's ghc compiler keeps some information around for runtime. Something to do with typeclasses, if you want to look up the details.)
I think there's something to the not being born there that helps. #1 was a huge revelation to me (I'd like to think I'm observant and well-informed), and continues to be so to Americans I've had the opportunity to tour-guide for.

I'm really curious where it comes from. Perhaps because of the ubiquity of American mass-media? Every European knows the New York skyline and what "NYPD" and "FBI" mean.

How many Americans can spot the difference between Hong Kong and Seoul, or know what "BKA" stands for?
Mars Water: Parts Of Red Planet's Interior As Wet As Earth's, Scientists Say
Except you can't change your default shell to it, and expect your system to work. You also can't expect that it's installed by default.
Living in UK, NL (well, for 2mo), Anguilla, Dubai, Thailand, 3mo in Japan, and visiting a bunch of other "good" countries is my basis for this. Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Horn of Africa, etc. are known to be write-offs. (and actually Afghanistan minus 100% of the people there would be a pretty awesome place, if inaccessible.) Hong Kong is the one place I've spent >2mo where I'd like to spend 5+ years, but it's too small to be the only place I'd live (it's a great city, but doesn't compare to a larger country).

Raising money in Germany or the UK is a huge pain. Purchasing things is a pain. Hiring and firing. Finding people who actually understand startups.
"""But after you settle in, both places are great."""

Found this in the comments. After having lived in different countries for the last 15 years (originally from Germany), that has become my conclusion, not only regarding the US and UK. It takes some time (years) to get really used to a culture and understand its thinking.
Perhaps you already have the cookies.
As an interesting aside, there's a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and religion; the richer a country is the less religious it is. America is the exception that sticks out like a sore thumb on a graph.
This article will make experienced heads nod.

This article will make no sense to inexperienced heads who think they can force their will on anything.
With an average BMI of 29, the UK isn't that far behind on the obesity front.

More importantly, stereotyping an entire country of people as stupid is about as uncivil as it gets. When the country of stupid people in question has been continually transforming the world with scientific breakthroughs, engineering, and producing most of the movies the rest of the world wants to watch... it comes off as sour grapes.

I say this as someone who's spent nearly my whole adult life on the opposite side of the globe from America.
And you might even write a `lint' like source auditer to warn you about those conversions, even if your compiler doesn't.
The cost of bandwidth for US servers is little of an advantage to the tech start up (or later) world. Being outside the US doesn't make using US servers more expensive, plus, when you are the size of those you mentioned, you are multi-national anyway. Servers need to be near the consumers, not their owner; and again multinationals will have servers on each continent.

One significant advantage for the US is that you have 300m customers to hand, while European citizens will have a 'only' a home market 60-100m. To move above that, you have to deal with multiple languages, legal systems and tax issues etc.

So where would you start? Not to mention it is also the richest country, low tax (especially if you are choosing your state), and seems to have no other major issues (decent education system). The VCs multiply the advantage, as does the community that arises because it is attractive in the first place.
Scala really makes Play2 shine. We really need a good example of using Play2 with ZMQ.
I have, Flask is better. Pylons and Pyramid aren't that great.
Really? That's actually very interesting, if you have source material for that I'd love to see it. Though I wonder if it's biased by very religious middle eastern states lacking in natural resources other than oil (which benefits a very small group).
The US has a large problem with people entering on limited term visitor or student visas and then never leaving. While most of those people are harmless, others aren't (including a number of the 9/11 hijackers). By taking fingerprints of all foreigners, those prints can be entered into law enforcement databases if they overstay their visas. I don't really understand why people would have a problem with it. What bad things would having your fingerprints make it possible for a government to do that having the information from your passport and visa forms wouldn't?
The US basically is the center of the world (any alien who landed on Earth would recognize that, since 1945); it's just not the whole world, which is the default US view.
Doesn't anybody realise that affiliate links to amazon.com don't catch users from the UK or Europe. Surely it's not that difficult to install a geotargetting plugin to rewrite those links to amazon.co.uk, .ft .de, etc.

Also a question if any Amazoners are reading this. Why when I click from the amazon.com to amazon.co.uk does it not remember the book I'm looking at. Come on guys it's not the 20th century anymore.
You can use Tor on mobile devices.

I don't see much point in ensuring that all the nodes are on Wifi networks.