skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that I highly doubt you've met that many Americans, not enough to state an opinion on a "significant portion of Americans" at least -- hence my statement about judging us as a homogenous mass. Perhaps I should have been clearer: I suspect you are over-extrapolating. I also believe there are plenty of people from other countries with similar (and equally vocal) beliefs as well.

I visit Canada frequently, Nova Scotia to be exact, and in my time there I have run across some interesting viewpoints, but I would not pretend to have a firm grasp of any significant portion of Canadians. I understand it is one fairly isolated region, it is small, and I don't have full context.

Now, to give you some perspective, there are 310 MILLION Americans, which is 10 times more than Canada. I think people often don't realize this. There are as many people in California alone as all of Canada (more actually). Within the span of 9 hours we could drive and visit cities within California with such different ideologies you'd not understand how they can all operate together.

So excuse me for being highly suspicious of any person claiming they've met some Americans and thus reached some conclusion on how a significant portion of them think. Especially when normally something like this could just as easily be explained by confirmation bias and particularly vocal minorities.

I suppose my point is that I don't understand the need to bring "Americans" into this at all. You were having a discussion with one individual that you know little about, so what is the need to essentially say "I bet you are of nationality X for this negative reason". Outside of being a by the book presumptive and prejudicial position, it will also serve to alienate people that may otherwise agree with you.
Welcome to Europe...
For what it's worth, though I posted a post concerned about how Svbtle will make money (with some analysis), I have nothing against Dustin and I wish him the best with Svbtle and other endeavours. Just can't see how this thing makes money later. As a blogger myself, I'm somewhat attracted by Svbtle (there is something desirable about it), but I can't see the sense of blogging there rather than on my own platform. It seems inferior in every way...

boggles

Svbtle is a strange puzzle.
18k projects?? Think of all the ukulele players needed to create the bg music on all those pitch videos!
I've been working on my own stats tracker in my spare time (it's gradually getting there, and aside from accidentally DOSing Pusher, it's going quite well), and I've taken a mixed approach to the site dashboard. It has the usual counters and maps around the outside, with a stream of activity in the centre which shows how users are progressing through your site.

This seemed intuitive to me, and it's kind of a combination of ideas I've taken from other stat tracking applications like gaug.es, Mixpanel, and Chartbeat. Each application seemed to be missing one or the other.
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Interesting. Same could be done by docking a Tablet in Car
I know HN is not reddit (and the link is relatively old), but check this alternative take on the history of Ping:

http://www.amazon.com/Story-about-Reading-Railroad-Books/dp/...

BTW, someone has to write a long form article or a thesis on the Amazon Customer Reviews scene…
I would guess the risk is not all that significant in the scheme of things. Just another one of those, "Look, you say human lives are priceless, but here I will prove they do have a price (whatever that might be)" type deals.
"This has enormous potential," said study co-author Alex Bayen, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science. "These findings are going to come into practice in the near future. This is not just a scientific study."

``... not just a scientific study.'' Reinforce engineering v. science stereotypes much?
> it's relatively easily changed. Find those people, usurp their levers of power.

If it's so easy, could you please do us all a favor and usurp the levers of power of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and Goldman-Sachs to start with? Waiting patiently, thanks!
Good article. Counter-cultural without being conspiritorialist.
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I'm not sure that the $40, as a percentage of wage, would even cover my sick and annual leave, professional indemnity insurance, insurance against accidental injury, professional body costs, registration costs, mileage and expenses claims, clothing costs, immunizations, continuing professional development costs and the other things I guess I have missed. My employer is good.
A shell script like the vocoder one in the article, this works:

ping google.com | while read line; do
echo $line | sed -n 's/^.*time=\(.*$\).*$/\1/p' | xargs say
done

Says the ping time to google out loud on a Mac.
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Would you run a service on EC2, that you are planning to run over, say, next decade? And want it to run in a setup&forget mode?
Having worked at Yahoo! and being directly involved with an instance of a few million phished accounts I can only say that they take this stuff very seriously. We had a team of 5 or 6 people working about 2 months to resolve this issue.

When you're the size of Yahoo! it's not just a simple code push. The process of letting users recover their accounts is very tricky.

Anyways, I have plenty of gripes about Yahoo! but how they deal with security is not one of them.
The last mile problem is mostly caused by poor urban planning, where the urban planners did not consider future building of public transport.

And in Sweden this poor urban planning was basically caused by people thinking public transport was uncool.
THe best solution isn't better public transport

I disagree.

- If public transport arrives and departs often enough, you don't have to plan your life around the transport.

- If the public transport network is large enough, you can eliminate the "last mile" problem, either by making it short enough to walk quickly or by connecting backbones to local distribution. Classic example, train + bus.

Of course the Bay Area has nothing close to this kind of network, but you said "the best solution", and I'm pretty convinced an idealized public transport system is much better than driverless cars. Superior passenger density, superior fuel efficiency, superior materials usage, etc.
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Making progress. Looking through my old code shows me just how much I've improved :)
Is it possible to travel and believe this 100%? Capitalism might be the best option but I'm not that confident after seeing the so-called progress it has inflicted on a lot of places. I don't know what a better option is, but I the warts of capitalism sure are ugly.
Note that people who are outside the American madhouse, those who live in developing countries like the Philippines or China, very much want to adopt American customs.

Few of them want to live a monastic or back-to-nature lifestyle. These people can learn from Americans' experience, yet there is no mass movement to adopt the good part while staying relaxed, centered, and happy.

I'm not saying that they prefer employer-linked healthcare to single-payer, or that they want to be stressed-out and depressed, but they very much want TV, possessions, yuppie-style jobs, etc., without worrying too much about the alleged misery that we Americans experience.
"The less income someone has, the more taxes cut into basic living expenses (because a greater portion of that person's income is spent on basic needs)."

Covered by Milton Friedman's proposal of a flat tax with a minimum standard of living deductible, e.g. 10k USD. Furthermore, those making less than that 10k would get the 'refund' as some sort of social security. Developed in his book "Capitalism and Freedom".

"I'm not very good at describing this idea yet,"

What your describing is, as far as I can tell, the concept of "marginal utility".
I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern?

My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features is god awful because :help is so overwhelming.
That's what people look like through 'Truth sunglasses.'
I received an email just yesterday from my sister saying that she clicked on a link in an email and that her yahoo mail account had been compromised ("hacked" were her exact words).

I didn't actually believe her at first but now it all makes sense.
Do you like to create tools where user drops an image into browser?
Neither version does AVX, the old ones because it's not hardware-supported and the new one because it's disabled in the hypervisor. But some packages apparently don't fully check AVX support: they check that the hardware is AVX-able, but they don't check if it's been disabled.
Yes, if you are registered by the immigration authorities they skip the questions.

Even if you are registered by some other country in Europe (which was my case, they asked that before I said that I was registered)
"I don't understand why someone living on government's check, and having poor health due to a financial inability to go the doctor, is voting against it."

Because maybe these people actually see the immorality of taking from others by force?

"The problem I am describing is people being manipulated to vote against their own interest."

So morality has no bearing on your position? "Fuck morality and others, as long as I get mine, and then some?" Seems like your position is in direct contradiction with the values you claim to defend.
Artificial cooling makes hot places bearable—but at a worryingly high cost
what you have described - big enough a network, running often enough, etc - are all the properties of the driverless car. In effect, the public transport system no longer consists of trains/buses, but a huge pool of driverless cars you hail.
No, I haven't. Should have put the "security measure" in the quotes.
I am looking forward to playing Angry Birds while driving.
If it's unclear, I am not a supporter of the Secret Masters interpretation of history or modern society.
The Crazy Plan to Save the Economy With a Trillion-Dollar Coin
Work it out this way: founder's round is the first round. That's before any cash goes in. Who is going to be quitting their job is usually the best indicator. If everyone is quitting their job, and everyone has technical skills to offer, and everyone is 100% focused then presumably it's a 33/33/33 split. After that has been done, money goes in either as a loan or for equity at a price agreed by the company. So if a founder put in $100,000 for 10% of the company, all the founder's round equity would be diluted (33*0.9=29.7%).
God Complex. It's impossible to narrow down the cause of today's complex society to the work of marketers.
Sci-Finance: The Great Cybernetic Experiment
A friend of mine would habitually run late for meal get-togethers. Since we went to "late guy pays" it hasn't been as bad.
Did not know that, thanks for pointing that out. In that case the encoding is necessary. On top of that I just found out that even Unicode characters are permitted (RFC 6531).
Yes, it is a valid critique. You are right that just deactivating XML parsing is a reasonable workaround - and in my opinion so reasonable that it should never be activated by default in the first place.

A lot of people get bitten by a component they never consciously used and activated in the first place. While the second part is true for almost every part of a framework, the first one is problematic. ("XML? Why do I have a vulnerability through XML and YAML in a JSON-only app?")
Yes, you can specify a git repo in your Gemfile (and optional tags/branches) :

gem "rails", :github => "rails/rails", :tag => 'v3.2.11'

You can also specify multiple gem sources (http://gembundler.com/v1.2/gemfile.html), but usually only rubygems.org is used unless you need a private geù repository.
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Its worth noting that zipdial is using this missed call model very successfully. They were recently funded by 500 startup India and are planning international expansion.
Looking forward to this one. The last one was a blast.
Marx was actually not so much concerned with fair compensation as with fair distribution of power ( of which money is one aspect).

> The workers are actually are super fortunate to even have and opportunity to make $200 without taking any risks at all.

I think the most important point about Marx analysis is, that this statement may or may not be true. There is nothing in the 'capitalist production process,' which guarantees that the workers are treated well ( or even survive their workday). If the bourgeois gains a advantage by treating his workers well, he will do it. On the other hand, if he gains a advantage by hurting his workers then he will either do it, or be replaced by someone who is willing to hurt his workers.
I agree...I couldn't trust an article that thinks JS is "treading water' ... It's so far from the truth it's not funny. Keep in mind things like MongoDB use JavaScript with map/reduce and other commands. Then of course look no farther than the mobile world. If anything I would expect JavaScript to become one of the top most used and popular languages out there. Given that it can be used for many, many, things including some decent graphics work. Desktop apps, mobile, server, databases, and of course (and always since the 90's) blinky text in HTML documents =)
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I'm interested in learning LISP.
How good a choice is learning Clojure as a way of achieving this?

I've read a page[1] listing differences between Clojure and other LISPs, but I'm not sure that I fully understand the implications of these differences.

[1] http://clojure.org/lisps
You can use cell phones to estimate vehicle journey times.
I am using Windows more these days, because of work. I will start documenting what I have done to make Clojure and leiningen work properly, and see what can be contributed.
Usage of Tumblr looks surprisingly high (at least for me), according to that graph. Even though that stats are exclusively for the younger segment of users, they don't seem to correlate at all with overall data I've been able to gather. For example:
- Facebook's unique visitors ~160M http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/net-us-facebook-us...
- Tumblr unique visitors ~24M http://blog.compete.com/2012/10/10/pinterest-surpasses-tumbl...
All dashboards should be widgets. A widget could contain a feed. But the most important part about a dashboard, is giving the end user the flexibility to add/filter whatever information he desires to see in my opinion.

Show live updates, but allow users to also see older data.
It's already out. They've actually got several less expensive versions of the iPhone on the market, which trade performance for a lower price. I believe they're selling under the name of "iPhone 4S" and "iPhone 4".
So?!

It is ok for Apple to force me to buy a Mac, but not for Microsoft to do the same?

At least Microsoft does not force me to buy a specific hardware for their operating system.

Talk about double standards...
The cheapest and easiest way I've found for the lunch problem is making it in the office. Buy a loaf of bread, some cup-a-soup, ham, cheese, pickle, whatever you fancy and then make fresh sandwiches every lunch. Takes five minutes and saves a fair bit of money.
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Asterisk Vulnerability: "DoS? Then Who Was Phone?"
I couldn't disagree more. $350 is about what it costs to get your kid an xbox/ps3 for Christmas. My family danced with the poverty line through my entire childhood and they could manage a one-off $300 purchase once every few years (provided I agreed to getting nothing else for birthday or Christmas).
It's still showing as LearnFastIOS for me: iPhone 4 5.0.1, iPad 3 5.1.1.
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I thought you were starting the story with an ipv6 address to ping...!
Let me propose a maturity scale and suggest where things are...

Level 1) Are you recording metrics?

That's the first basic level of maturity, without recording data you cannot have data from which to support any decisions. Without data you are blind. The assumption here is that you are able to record everything that you need to... recording 3 metrics isn't enough, you need to be able to get to all your data and record it over time.

Level 2) Are you able to visualise your raw data?

This is the basic dashboard. Whether you build something pretty or use an existing software package it's just the ability to see the data that you are collecting. This relies on people to figure out the inter-connectedness of data and to make inferences from it. Basic graphs and trend analysis fit in here.

Level 3) Are you able to visualise insights in your data?

This is about changing your dashboard or reports such that you can start to consider metrics that are abstractions from the raw data but important to you. Think of cohort charts, revenue relationships to user behaviour, UX funnels, engagement charts, etc.

Level 4) Are you able to record exceptions in your reporting?

As in, can you create thresholds against a metric such that if the metric goes above or below the threshold an event is triggered to record it. Exception tracking coupled with the insights in level 3 should give you the ability to do things like release a new feature and see the resulting effect on certain metrics and be alerted when those effects are outside of some normal range.

Level 5) Are you able to visualise your exceptional events?

And here we are at the newsfeed of data, the events which stand-out are highlighted and all of the other noise drops away. This is great for producing a list of things you might want to know or react to... but you can't get here without going through (and still having) levels 1-4 and it's important to understand that different people in your organisation still need all those prior levels (try telling your sysadmin that he can't have log files or munin and that instead he's got a news feed).
Good answer. I'm not saying that including code you don't want to use isn't going to shave of milliseconds, I'm just not convinced that the problem is being adequately identified. The problem honestly sounds like the codebase itself. And if that's something built with Zend, then perhaps that doesn't reflect well on Zend's innate structure, and Zend's only effective way around this is through 'autoload'.
How Lisp is Going to Save the World
Not necessarily anything to do with YC; the vulnerability was discovered and posted on twitter shortly after last week's vulnerability.
"On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs"

Abstract. Many applications benefit from user location data, but lo- cation data raises privacy concerns. Anonymization can protect privacy, but identities can sometimes be inferred from supposedly anonymous data. This paper studies a new attack on the anonymity of location data. We show that if the approximate locations of an individual’s home and workplace can both be deduced from a location trace, then the median size of the individual’s anonymity set in the U.S. working population is 1, 21 and 34,980, for locations known at the granularity of a census block, census track and county respectively. The location data of people who live and work in different regions can be re-identified even more easily. Our results show that the threat of re-identification for location data is much greater when the individual’s home and work locations can both be deduced from the data. To preserve anonymity, we offer guidance for obfuscating location traces before they are disclosed.

http://xenon.stanford.edu/~pgolle/papers/commute.pdf
Very good article !
I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For example this HN news thread: France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update [1].

Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
sql injection is possible, but how to work around to get remote code execution
Telecoms look at pan-Europe network
FYI, a link to your portfolio,linkedin,github, etc. may generate more lead for you.
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This is very surprising given the statistical machine learning approach of Google Translate. Surely this adds in too much noise to be trustworthy.
Out of interest, what do you call customer services to do for you? I bank with a big bank, and I think I've needed to call them twice in the last decade.
I know Perl is no longer fashionable, but it’s still the simplest way to do this sort of ad hoc processing I think.

ping google.com | perl -ne '/time=(.*)/ && system("say", $1)'

Of course it’s only a little more awkward in Ruby:

ping google.com | ruby -ne '$_ =~ /time=(.*)/ && system("say", $1)'

(No criticism is intended of your perfectly fine code. I enjoy comparing different ways to do things like this, and perhaps others do too.)
The difference is the cost. Public transport has superior fuel, space, and materials usage.

Another difference is that public transport is a known working solution which has been implemented with great success in many cities since the 19th century. While driverless cars is something we just now is getting the technology to build so it is untested.
"Please know that Rails is definitely very secure"

It might be secure NOW. But restrospectively, it never was before this patch.
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Google Rolls Out Biggest Free Wi-Fi Network in New York City
Considering the chart doesn't even have Apple suing Samsung, I'd say is either very inaccurate or very out of date.
Probably because they are trans compiled languages. Fantom also runs on the JVM and the CLR. Dart can run directly in Chrome.
Would you use a hammer to drive in a screw?

Edit: The promise of cloud hosting is to be highly dynamic and let you scale up or down at a moment's notice. In order to achieve that, there are tradeoffs. It's silly to live with the cons if you don't need the pros. Each tool for it's own job.
As much as it burns my nose hairs to admit this ... HN is not a hivemind.

Different people will react to different things.
Google recommends webmasters follow the industry best practice of using responsive web design. Why then google is investing heavily on "gomo" campaign in association with dudamobile.com?
It was a homemade spark gap transmitter!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter

"Another problem with the spark transmitter was a result of the shape of the waveform produced by each burst of electromagnetic radiation. These transmitters radiated an extremely 'dirty' wide band signal which could greatly interfere with the reception of other transmissions on nearby frequencies. Receiving sets located relatively close to such a transmitter would have entire sections of a band masked by this wide band noise."
I agree with this, but I have the feeling that some people have mixed feelings regarding this problem. Hence my (rather precise) question: Can someone that like this article AND dislike [1] explain me.