skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equally, I post many things on facebook that I would not expect an employer to like - but I restrict their viewing to people I directly know.

The entire scenario of a highly savvy person having a publicly viewable page that is then used against her is slightly absurd
There is this a nice John Gilmore quote regarding the internet and censorship, I sure hope it works out that way in this case. The big difference between NK and Iran is that in the Iranian case people will know what they are missing.
I have no idea what hustle tips could be, and therefore have no reason to give you my email. You should let me know what you are going to be providing - perhaps a couple example tips?
If this is bureaucracy, I don't know what to call pre-bootstrap world.
Are student loans actually debt instruments any more?

They seem to resemble a tax.

First off you can't default on them. The companies providing them are guaranteed by the government and have obligations to lent to pretty much anyone.

You can defer paying them back if you don't have a job or you're not earning enough.

Finally, they can't be inherited by your estate.

So if you never actually manage to pay them off they're effectively a graduate tax.
Before the Equity Crowdfunding Foray Begins.
Simple examples are good for people to understand; however, the reason people want macros is usually for much more complex situations where you otherwise end up with a lot of boilerplate or repetitive code: a macro is most simply a way for code to manipulate and generate other code.

Regardless, if you don't like macros (and your arguments are common among people who don't; that said, they are also common arguments against using higher-level languages or even functions), then you won't like this project or any other project attempting to provide similar functionality. ;P
Well Cupertino isn't too far from Hacker Dojo, which might be a good place to start. http://www.hackerdojo.com/
Sure thing. By hustle tips, it could be either business/startup or lifehacks. Eg. I can share how to cold email someone or how to guess anyone's email.
The problem is that I don't have enough screen real estate to have a search function that is literally "search everything for X".

Even Google the king of search separates it's searches down into different categories for pictures/video etc. What is the eventual endgame here anyway?

When I want to run an xterm, is it really necessary to spin off hundreds of HTTP requests to every retailer/social network on the planet to find stuff that's probably completely unrelated?

I run software programs probably 100x-1000x more than I do online shopping for anything.

Sure you can do Start+A to get direct to application search, but MS has spend the last almost 20 years training us that "Start gets your programs".

In fact even Metro for all of it's fault, still knows that it's important to give people a nice uncluttered list of programs when they ask for them.
> In this case I figure some special interests are being hurt and some particular individuals use their political influence to serve their ends. That does not say anything pro/con the government as an institution, it says something about the particular individuals involved.

Exactly! With the exception that, yes, it does say a lot about government as an institution.

A government mature enough to understand that it should not meddle with the competitive forces in markets should take a position of non-interference. It should have the balls to tell even those with political influence --as you termed it-- to go pound sand.

Ultimately, the decision to go after Uber. The decision to attempt to CHANGE LAWS in order to restrict or destroy their business model rests upon one or a group of government actors. Without their agreement to interfere with Uber's business in favor of the taxi industry none of this would be happening. It is government. It is not people who "use their political influence". Government becomes the gating element that enables discriminatory action against interests of an industry that evidence seems to show is in dire need of disruption.

I don't buy my children ice cream every time they ask for it. No matter how much they kick, scream or cry for it. It's about being the adult in the room.

I'll tell you why government agents help the taxi industry rather than Uber. In their political accounting they have no votes to gain by favoring Uber and a lot to loose by letting Uber function freely. Uber has no political value in terms of votes and other political contributions. That's the America we live in today.
The narrative is also likely to play out this way:

"Well, 9 out of 10 candidates we interviewed has some sort of health problems. Tina is great in all other fronts, I guess we'll just have to live with it."

But regardless, social judgement/ranking is zero-sum game, if someone is losing out due to some social change, others are winning.
I guess I'd have to agree with some of the other comments here then, if the option of a less expensive education is available then getting yourself into that amount of debt is a gamble if you have no other means of repaying it.
Yes, in theory. Unless you run into a not-so-compliant mail daemon…
This is cool, I'm glad people are finding workarounds for Apple products.
It has links, but not live content fetched from the internet.
gandi.net, probably. They're located in France, you can register .com domains with them, if you wish, but they offer plenty of other TLDs as well.
That part was obvious, but the point is that if you're exploring, do it for the purpose of learning and growth, not for tracking metrics.

Thus, hit both sides of a problem and engineer the solution 2 different ways. As an interation exercise it's invaluable, and as a product market fit it's an excellent test of future friction.

Coding isn't building a business, even if it's exceptional. Many of the chefs I've known that are nationally recognized talents fail miserably when they open their first restaurant.

In order to stay humble to your craft, when you're entering into the new one, prioritize the pursuit of learning opportunities.
The correct headline should surely be 'Gen Y's Facebook Nightmare', Facebook isn't damaged in this scenario, unless it triggers a privacy backlash.
If you like Linux and want a DE like Mac, try elementary OS luna: http://imgur.com/a/AbCwV/layout/horizontal#0
Because it's mostly not a technology problem, rather a political-bureaucratic one.
Not heard of this before, but love the design!
I'm quite fond of both games, but it's dangerous to directly compare them. GW1 is a Diablo style game that flirts with massive elements, whereas GW2 is much more of a traditional MMO. They certainly have plenty of things in common - a similar approach to/focus on PvP, similar action bar combat with a lot of attention paid to status effects - but they're not even really in the same genre, and GW2's focus on ad-hoc collaboration means that GW2 plays much differently moment-to-moment.

GW2 does some great things with quests, their PQ-ish Dynamic Events work well, and their huge raid-boss-y world dudes are a ton of fun. The way you can join multiple guilds and the way you are scaled down in level based on where you are makes it really easy to play with friends regardless of your individual progression. It's definitely worth a look.
What 6 rules should be guiding your career?
Pretty sweet, although I'd prefer seeing it as an optional user agent feature than a web page feature. When reading long articles, I regularly use the text selection highlight to back-reference as I continue reading, or to mark my spot while I skim back. Obviously this breaks with a concept like Fokus.
Not sure how Google can be seen as hypocrites. They avoided the realm of patent warfare until it was clearly unavoidable.
Mind-reading wearable kitty tail wags when you're happy
This article, uncached: 237 requests, 934.01KB transferred, 8.96s (onload: 6.02s, DOMContentLoaded: 2.36s)

This article, cached: 223 requests, 75.66KB transferred, 4.84s

http://lucb1e.com/rp/randomupload/thatnews.html

Uncached: 10 requests, 163.10KB transferred, 0.54s

Cached: 6 requests, 0.16KB transferred, 0.19s

The only thing I did was remove html. The article looks identical, the menu and site structure is intact, and there is a lot less clutter on the page.

Fun fact: CNET has todo comments in their production code.
Previous discussion on Hacker News main page of original source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4553658
This could be seen as retaliation for stuxnet, widely believed to be a joint US and Israeli creation.

I wonder if the creators of stuxnet are surprised by this. We tend to think of cyber warfare as being less harmful than the conventional kind. But could Iran doubling down on online security be more dangerous in the long run?.
I bet most people NOT on Facebook have one person in their social circle that they would not hire base on what they've seen them do in real life - people they might have considered hiring if they'd interacted on Facebook instead.
As long as they don't put it in writing, there would be no case. People are not hired or fired for illegal reasons all the time. You just don't state those reasons.

If it is due to blatantly obvious handicaps, that's a different story. But good luck proving you we're passed over because the employer figured out you have headaches.
German readers: http://www.crackajack.de/2012/09/22/mind-controlled-kitten-t...

older product: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/5/neurowear-cat-...

Not sure how I feel about stuff like this. It could end up the modern version of the mood ring, or actually be a thing.
Where "financial aid" means "Loans you must pay back with interest which can not be discharged in bankruptcy." An odd definition of "aid" to be sure.

Also readers should notice the parent post's qualifier "in state tuition".
Your prof was onto something that seems to be very in the zeitgeist today. To "understood how to represent your data" you have to understand what it is you're trying to represent. Eric Evans popularized this notion with Domain-Driven Design.

If you follow this line of thinking far enough, you realize that computer programming is just applied analytic philosophy. You have your metamodel (logic/programming language) and then you build your model (ontology/software).

I really like your assembly line metaphor. Knowing that a "customer" has a name and email address is almost of no importance compared to understanding how the "customer" information arrives, the actions around the "customer," and the end result of the actions. That's the assembly line.
> The big difference between NK and Iran is that in the Iranian case people will know what they are missing.

To begin with.
You'd probably find these on Tor, and in Persian (and putting the protesters in great personal risk).
Show me one country whose people think like its government.
"This is not ... this is the internet."

That is exactly the type of conceptual roadblock I was alluding to in my comment.

But if you look at what people, not just nerds, want to do over the internet a significant portion (perhaps even the majority) of it is the same old stuff they did in 1970's. Send person-to-person messages and make person-to-person telephone calls.

The new dimension is of course person-to-person video, and we now have more ubiquitous bandwidth to make this happen that we didn't have in the 1990's.

Whether you see possibilities or just impediments depends on how you define the problem.

If you define the problem as achieving some sort of perfectly anonymous communication, an anonyous interchange of bits, then you are outside of the problem I'm discussing. It may be a fascinating problem, but it is not one that interests me.

I'm talking about doing those same old things we were doing in the 1970's, with the same degree of privacy we had (absence of advertisements and senseless statistical analysis of every word we say for commercial purposes), using the internet.

Millions of people manage to call their friends and family despite the issues of "discovery phase" and "trust". Millions of people have a connetion to a telephone network despite the potential of "spam" (cold calling? telemarketing?)

Again, if you redefine the problem your own way++ you can argue endlessly against any sort of simple proposal, e.g. one that aims to make something we've all been doing since the 1970's easy, for everyone, not just nerds: connecting, directly, to people you know.+++ Facebook seems to revolve around the idea of communicating with people ("friends") you know in real life, not online acquaintences you have never met. Is that the reason it's popular? I don't know. And I don't really care. Even if there was no such thing as a "social network" (buzzword), I see a utility in being able to stay in contact with people I know in real life. I fail to see Facebook, which is roughly the real world equivalent of a megaphone, as being necessary to do that. Why do I have to route all by bits through Facebook's website? The answer is: I don't. And NAT traversal is the solution.

++ We need a way to have anonymous communication with strangers. As other commenters have said, that problem is for the cypherpunks.

+++ And I'm pretty sure this is how the very early internet was, before firewall mania and NAT. People had met the others they were connecting to in real life. Or, at least, they had their real life contact information and could pick up the phone and call them, or send them a letter.
Watch "Simple made Easy" or something like that. I think there is no contradiction, Rich Hickey probably just thinks the least complex efficient data organization is the simple one. I don't think Rich Hickey is saying that you can't use AMQ's or other "fancy" stuff :)
if you have a newer mbp, with the oversized trackpad, you can select text with less frustration using three fingers
Enterprise customers will love that their employees are being enticed to go visit amazon.com the whole time instead of doing work?

Not sure about regular users either, "I'm trying to run this program my grandson told me to run why does it keep sending me to amazon?"
I haven't heard of Apple's legal team going after anyone for OS X piracy. Either you've purchased the Apple machine already, so whatever, or you're trying to make a Hackintosh in which case it's a bag of hurt anyway and probably not that lucrative to go after you. (Besides, the legal team is busy with Samsung, anyway - much more money in iPhone patents.)
If you start with false premises, you end up with false conclusions. How is faster travelling a gauge of human progress today? If anything, we need to travel a lot less than we did in previous decades for reasons other than leisure. We can counter energy needs with green and sustainable living. 'More' is not necessarily better. The author may be unaware, but amazing and exciting things are happening in science, just not in computers or physics anymore (or alchemy, or agriculture, or psychoanalysis for that matter). We have more scientists and better tools than ever. There will be leaps, but they take decades to build up, genetic therapies and brain computer interfaces being 2 of them.
Here's a tip on how to hustle: Show me a sample, so I know i won't be spending time on spam when I could be doing something productive. I need to feel like you got some skin in this game...
I really hope something awful happens to Apple over the next few years. They deserve it.
> Iran threatened in May to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula nameless.

A search on Google Maps yields: We could not understand the location arabian gulf.

Persian Gulf though shows up.
…you can do all of that on an iPhone.
So this hypothetical Narrative Data company would have a largely-illegal business plan, and nobody would notice? There wouldn't be any whistleblowers? People would be willing to contract their HR stuff out to them?

In my view, there's a pretty bright line between the described business and today's background check companies.
You should definitely put some examples up there. I've signed up to see what it is, but I suspect most of the people won't as it's just a text box to enter your email on some random page on the internet.

Also maybe consider sending todays tip or whatever (I still don't know what this is about) when you sign up, so the user gets instant something and is not surprised the next day when he already forgot subscribing to something ...
I'm not giving my email away to something this ambiguous. Provide a sample... please!
Perhaps those people have "disappeared"?
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Before Twitter-Bootstrap 2.0, we had bootstrap 1.0 which was essentially BlueprintCSS renamed and ported to lesscss. It had almost no variable parts except for grid size and base colours. Most people just plopped in the 32kb of CSS and continued with their day. Today we have 112kb of minified CSS with 25kb of JS widget functionality requiring jQuery, all of which is heavily customizable and themeable if you edit the lesscss.

Before BlueprintCSS and other grid-based frameworks, we maintained a couple of kb of CSS reset that we'd plop at the top. It handled some basic differences in cross-browser defaults.

Before resets, we just wrote CSS files straight up. It just needs to work in IE, right?

Before CSS, we inlined styles and did inhumane things with tables.

Over time, the amount of up-front non-coding work has steadily grown. But, most of the time, we get a lot more for it down the line. I call this bureaucracy.
All good advice. Right now I only write out major tasks and outlines of procedures to achieve them. Maybe I first should abstract out core data structures and operations on them. I will try that.
Single finger click and drag on the pad thing to select?
I think it would be difficult for them to start charging for the system at this point.
Since everything is open source, if they added some kind of paid activation system or a charge to download the .iso or whatever, someone else would simply grab all of the code, remove the activation features and put it up somewhere else as "freebuntu" or whatever.
Sample hustle tip #1: how to harvest email addresses with a 5 minute website and a cheap domain name!
The ability to reach is a problematic one; consider e.g. Google's Play Store or Apple's App Store in which you see literally thousands of new products appearing daily. Technical excellence is secondary and often neglected(see e.g. WhatsApp's security issues!) which results in poor quality software and poor progress.

Simply the barrier of entry is much lower, which in turn reduces the programming talent. I'd be interested to see what the quality of software would be when average 65 yo granny would be reading API documentation of some "web app" because it's just so easy and it just works. :)

I think the difference between "average programmer" 20 years ago and now is the fact that back 20 years ago you had nothing fancy. A text-based editor, command line and a compiler. You were perhaps able to set graphics mode with some obscure commands and get some pixels on the screen. And that was just so fascinating. You really had to me one-in-a-hundred kind of person to be proficient with that stuff. If you put an average programmer of 2012 to such situation, I really bet a huge percentage will just drop the hobby and do something else. Though, on the other hand, things were so simple back then. What does it take these days to have access to the screen pixels as an array? Libraries, frameworks, documentation, APIs and whatnot. Back then you just moved a value to CPU register and called a certain interrupt and voila, 320x200x256 graphics mode with framebuffer starting from a well-known address. Then it's just a matter of writing to memory addresses, very simple. Couldn't be any simpler really!
Reading and writing quantum bits on a single electron spin
I've tried Tor with a 24mbps connection, it's about as slow as 56k.

While Tor is great, it's not a suitable replacement for the open internet until it gets faster.
I won't have time to read big books in foreseeable future, especially if they are not related to my core research areas. But I will try this and see what I can get out of it.
The first hustle tip is probably that you can get a lot of people to provide their e-mail addresses in exchange for vague promises :-)
That is so incredibly un-user friendly and undiscoverable, it is absurd. How would my mother know to do that? Why didn't customer support have Rob do that?
No, you have not been a slave. Slaves did not have the option to stay at home and get fired. They were not getting paid.

You just had a shitty job at a warehouse.
Could Iran filtering the internet be more dangerous than a conventional war between Iran and Israel or Iran and the US?

No, absolutely not.
Cool, I'll definitely make the trip to see the Dojo!
In the UK at least its definitely a red tape bureaucratic mess thats causing the problem. Hopefully things like http://openhealthcare.org.uk/ will break through somewhat
I'm finishing my CS degree at a state school at around 25k, which includes the two years I spent at community college. A lot of that was paid for by grants.
Because Ubuntu is the most widely supported distro out there. If someone releases a program for Linux odds are that there is a .deb or some installer that has been tested with an LTS Ubuntu release.

My days of being willing to google around for "how do I install program X version A in distro Y version Z" to install an MP3 player or whatever are long over.
The term "wage slave" is fairly well understood to not be literal. So your one line dismissal of this article (which has been posted before) is obtuse.
I think many people have been trying to unwrap the true value High-Frequency Trading brings to the market. Cuban makes a good point equating them with hackers - people trying to find weaknesses in a system to exploit for profit.

But the Wall Street system needs to improve to close these loopholes/weaknesses just as computer security improves as people discover hacks. The problem is Wall Street encourages exploitation of these weaknesses because it makes them all rich in some way - trading commissions, rising stock prices due to speculation, etc.
hahaha..this made me laugh. Hahahaha
Mobile Safari renders  scaled on Canvas?
I think this just reveals bad hiring practices, more than anything else.

There are 1,000 different things that can affect your productivity. Maybe her migraines cause 15% "lost productivity", but her enthusiasm causes 35% better quality work, her daydreaming cuts 10%, and her intelligence adds 20%, the fact she's stimulated by spicy food adds 5%, etc.

Companies that might attempt to do this kind of micro-analysis miss the forest for a few trees, will be less competitive in the long run, and over time will die out.
All of my financial aid was in the form of grants which I don't have to pay back. However, I am the sole supporter of my family so I get a hefty Pell Grant every semester.
Traveler upgrades to iOS 6 mid-trip, compares maps
Mypy - An experimental Python variant with dynamic and static typing
Not many that are general, but tons that are language specific. I've found that language specific ones often cover relevant topics, even if it's not your language (such as TDD or DI). Many have shows that are completely off subject matter (I learned of PhoneGap for the first time on a .NET show)

In my rotation:
(.NET)
.NET Rocks,
Hanselminutes (one of the hosts on This Developers Life),
Deep Fried Bytes,
Herding Code

(Ruby)
Ruby Rogues,
Ruby 5 (5 minute news, 2x/week),
Ruby Show (seems to be on hiatus)

(JavaScript)
JavaScript Jabber (sister of Ruby Rogues),
JavaScript Show (same hosts as Ruby Show - also on hiatus)
Things are rarely ever clear when an entire nation digs itself into a hole. I'm reading about recent riots all over China about some islands that Japan claims to own. If China was a democracy, they might not have been able to avoid going to war.