skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were kind of my thoughts. I love having a smartphone and even before they existed I tried to get the dumb ones to do the maximum possible via sms. I really like being able to not worry about finding my way someplace or being able to think "Hmm, I want to go to a museum/eat at 5 guys/walk around a park/swim. Where's the closest one?" and be told. I like being able to check my email or take a picture of something I find amusing. But it's not ruling my life, it's a tiny fraction of it. If people want to know so badly what I'm thinking, eating or doing, well, call or text I guess - I don't have time to document it. I've found very little disturbance to anything, the only possible time I might miss something is if I'm somewhere deathly boring and I choose to ignore it in favor of browsing and even that isn't common.
Quebec’s fund-less English school boards and the highly sought after anglo kids
I'm taking a wild guess and claiming that you have no idea about spending about a quarter of your life time (that's if you're lucky) in prison. End of story. You cannot possibly understand what it means to be in prison for such a long time and not being free but as if you could you're claiming that he deserved what he got.
GitHub epitomizes a "culture of shipping" to me. They're slamming feature after feature out the door (multiple features in the same day sometimes - like today). I like BitBucket too but, man, I would not want to be competing against the GitHub team right now. They're just prolific.
Make can support Python, or any other language you'd like. Just set ONESHELL to avoid splitting commands by line, and then set SHELL to your preferred language interpreter. Make will then hand that interpreter the entire body of commands to rebuild a target.
Isn't the whole node.js ecosystem subject to this criticism?
This is a great exchange program...Newspapers are strapped for resources and mired in bureaucracy that makes it hard to produce digital-age news products...but give some techies more domain-knowledge about civic data and they may be able to overcome the constraints of the average newsroom developer.

I say this as a former newsroom developer...One of the major impediments is the lack of digital literacy by the non-developer journalists. That is, before you can build a cool app based on their reporting and notes, you are going to spend a lot of time writing software that converts their reporting/notes into usable, parsable data...a problem that could be avoided if more reporters knew basic concepts of delimitation and data types...one workaround I've suggested is to take notes in a spreadsheet, instead of creating a folder of variably-named text files, i.e. "INTERVIEW WITH J.SMITH 9/5/12-Tuesday.doc"
> The former is about trying to change our society to make it more just, the latter is aimless introspection.

On the contrary, the former is something we probably won't change [1], while the latter is almost certainly something we can change.

> The comment was a bit of a troll and not insightful so I trolled back. If this were not pg's website, I am certain you wouldn't be defending the statement because it lacks substance.

I seriously doubt he was trolling, and you shouldn't be so certain. This being pg's site is completely irrelevant in this case [2]; I'm simply ... actually, disgusted is about the best adjective I can think of to describe how I feel about the nonsense arguments on HN lately. People seem to be in some kind of a hurry to disagree, because they aren't actually reading and comprehending what other people are writing, they aren't stopping for a moment to consider that perhaps the person they're responding to isn't an idiot or a troll, they aren't maintaining basic principles of civility, they're commenting on (and arguing about!) subjects that are way outside their expertise, and they seem to be nearly drooling at the chance to engage in a witch hunt.

For example, nothing in my reply was a defense of pg's statement. Nothing. Not a single word. The entirety of my reply was a tutorial on high school level reading comprehension and a snide remark about HN (well, and a question about you). So, how is it that you interpreted that as a defense of his statement?

--

[1]: I may yet be pleasantly surprised. I certainly wouldn't've guessed at how much press the Aaron Swartz case would end up getting, and there is some small chance now that it might end up causing some kind of change somewhere. That would be great. As of yet though, it has changed absolutely nothing.

[2]: Assuming of course that you don't find it significant that the founder of one of the programming communities on the internet is indicting the community's behavior -- although it's not clear if he's referring to the HN community or the broader programming or technical community.
You forgot 2100MHz 3g.
I was really expecting an article about parsing HTML when he said right at the beginning:

>> You cannot parse HTML with regular expressions, because HTML isn’t regular. Use an XML parser instead.

> This statement - in the context of the question - is somewhere between very misleading and outright wrong.

But nope, after disappointment and going back to the beginning, he says he's not talking about HTML:

> What I’ll try to demonstrate in this article is how powerful modern regular expressions really are.

And not even a warning about how easy it is to make really terrible regex.
I completely disagree. The FSF has every right to not re-license the software.
I don't think they have much to fear at all, they simply need to re-invent themselves.

Artists are no longer driving from state to state with their trunk full of CDs and tapes. They can now distribute on their websites. However, marketing is still the same online as offline. The big bucks will still win in the long run because they will have access to massive marketing deals.

Distribution is just one part of the game.

Now don't get me wrong, I am for free distribution of culture. I'm just speaking my mind here.
We're not talking about Jean Valjean who stole a loaf of bread to feed his family. It's someone who committed a violent crime of robbing a bank because they wanted someone else's money, and they didn't want to earn it the slow, hard way. They knew what they were doing was wrong. They need to accept the consequences of their actions, including 18 years in jail. I'm sure the person in question has done this, and that's why I have problems with any efforts in rehabilitating him now that he has served his time.

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. It's as simple as that. If the punishment were death for robbing a bank were death, and you still went ahead and did it, whose fault is that? People need to take responsibility for their own actions. They didn't accidentally rob a bank, or they weren't somehow tricked into robbing a bank. They knowingly decided to do it. If the sentence was 18 years, then I'm satisfied that justice was served.
Maybe I'm missing something, but do people actually see Twitter Cards in general? I mean, how many regular Twitter users actually use the web interface to interact with Twitter?

I don't know anyone that doesn't use a third-party client. And, given Twitter's clear desire to restrict 3rd party client API access, in order to get more eyeballs on more easily monetizable web-pages, Twitter Cards are never going to be seen by many users.
Ever look back an on sector and see an unhealthy cooperation between government and industry? It doesn't start with conspiracies; it starts with well-intentioned programs like this one.
Yes, it's also obvious that the government is in bed with the corporations (crony capitalism).
RailsApps Tutorials Launches, Learning Rails Will Be Easier
Basecamp Next Todo Migrator
Perl was created as a replacement for sed, awk, grep, and other tools of the day. It can be used as one command to perform anything you could ever want to do, with a minimal amount of typing and several command-line arguments to perform useful tasks with ease.

When admins use it, they often simply shell out to the identical console tools. Why? It's easier. They just do everything you need, they're universal, and they work well together.

Go ahead and write a new Perl in JS, and nothing will change; the console tools will still be there, better than anything else.

I agree that it simplifies the workload. Unfortunately, it does not reduce the workload.
> People could (or may) have been killed over his greed for money.

Yes, but according to the OP, noone was injured. This is not Minority Report.

> That being said, I have no problems with the notion of helping ex-cons try to turn their lives around, after they've paid their debt to society

The thing is: he hasn't! We was locked up, so we could not pay for anything. The only thing that he lost was time, and society gained nothing - and incurred in even greater expenses.

If he was instead forced to pay his debt by working off, then we could say that the debt was repaid.

And, from his point of view, his debt will never be repaid, as he is now unemployable because of his police record.

I have never been convicted, arrested or even questioned by the police (US or otherwise), but the system horrifies me.
Self defense sprays have come a long way in 30 years, and they can stop a bear. In fact a person using bear spray to stop a bear attack is less likely to be injured than a person using a gun. http://www.bearsmart.com/docs/BearSprayVsBullets.pdf
Enjoyed this post. And my initial reaction to the headline before reading the article was: Duh, of course you can :) Autodidacts for life.
If you are asking "why can't I just go to France and do it there", it is generally illegal [edit: my knowledge of this situation for end users--as opposed to those distributing tools--is apparently somewhat flawed; read the responses to this comment] to knowingly do something illegal in the US while traveling in another country so as to evade US law, so if you intend to return to the US you are still somewhat screwed. (Also, FWIW, many of the core people who do iPhone unlocking research are in the US, such as planetbeing and MuscleNerd.)

[edit: The main reason I left this comment was that the other person responding didn't directly address that Spooky23's question was more about why the US citizen can't just wait to unlock their phone until they arrive in France, rather than doing it before the leave. Maybe someone else who sees this, maybe someone who has experience dealing with international travel, can comment on why that is or is not sufficient, given that the extra-territorial illegality argument that I was making is flawed. Is it really that simple? ;P]
The actual objection here, the reason why pg's comment is "fallacious and ignorant", is a bit fuzzy. People have pointed out a difference between HN users and federal prosecutors, but not why that difference is important. I can only think of one possible line of reasoning, but it's unbelievably hollow. Are you sincerely arguing "It's OK for me to be an unsympathetic asshole because I don't send people to jail"?
Instagram's Fake Changes To Your Image Rights
Inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee predicts dynamic web future
Okay... but I still don't understand your point. You are saying that the contract exists so that telcos can push additional services (over limits, roaming etc.). But there is also an unlocked option. Are you saying that people are not aware of unlocked full-price option? Even if they are not there is an option to buy out the contract any time. And it appears completely reasonable comparing it with original costs. Here is from AT&T: $325 minus $10 for each full month
of completed Service Commitment. I would like to know why you think AT&T is ripping people off.
There seems to be few differences between Drake and just rolling out Makefiles for data processing, but I definitely see this project has potential. Distributed processing over AWS/Compute Engine/etc. clusters would be one nice thing to have, as a kind of simpler alternative to Hadoop.

I really like the inline, multi-language scripting though.
Here hear.
True enough.

It'd be very interesting to collect a large pile of estimates like these and see if they come even close to following Benford's Law[1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law
I believe this is a possibility that is dependent on state licensing laws. In some states, the licensing body may not automatically disqualify felons. In other states, they make exceptions on a case-by-case basis. And in the third category, it is automatically disqualifying. Something to definitely look into, though.
This is a big thing for Simperium. I really hope that Simplenote won't disappear. It is the best notes app for the iPhone.
In fact, this was the key argument made by the copyright office: that the landscape has changed since the original exemption, and now it is commonly possible to purchase unlocked phones in the US (even the weird recent "no unlock ever" phones, such as the iPhone, can now be purchased unlocked), so there is no longer a need for a specific exemption on unlocking.
Applications for Lightspeed Venture Partners Summer Fellowship Program Now Open
Hmm. pg and jcampbell1's comments predate that thread by several hours, and I don't see the connection anyway. Did you link the wrong thread, or am I missing something?
Can you point out some things that don't become part of people's identity? My experience is that anything that someone spends more than a tiny amount of time with immediately starts becoming part of who they are.

The boundary of our self is constantly spreading outwards onto the things around us. Seems to be part of human nature.
What other features would you add to this "find clothes on sale" website?
I made http://www.lovesalesagain.com/ just so I can answer the question "Where can I buy the cheapest jeans?"
I want to put search on it (lucene), make it so that its doesnt look like it was made by a dyslexic male (thats me).
What other things would you add to make it more useful.
Its Gr8 to read about such people
There attitude towards life is refreshingly unique.
There are tons of trades that do not require you to ever leave a machine shop or electronics lab. If said person is very capable of coding then I would also strongly encourage them to pursue it, but to convince them that it's their only chance? That statement seemed to be a bit of a stretch. Whatever endeavor though, I wish them luck.
I would tell him congrats for going through all this with a positive attitude and I wish him the best of luck in his programming career. As for financial independence, may I suggest that he start on elance with a very cheap price to get experience and build a reputation. A beautiful portfolio website really help (At first there would no "past project"; Just a beautiful splash page offering services with X years of experience; then best projects could be added as they are finished.) Also, it's easier to get paid more and be taken if you get specialized in marketing/SEO/business strategy. It's very hard to compete on elance with a psd->html 8$/hours. Lastly, may I suggest that he assist some weekly tech event in his city.. if you say he's got few friends, that would be a good way to meet people sharing his own passion.
Nice job, guys.

http://www.lolbrary.com/post/35279/gamer-girls/

headdesk
FWIW, they do support some Open Graph markup as a fallback [0]

[0] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards (last headline, no anchors...)
It passive-aggressive nerd rage and it typifies the the gross sense of entitlement many android devotees online.
30+ useful (and cool) office gadgets you must have
Look back over the course of Apple, think back beyond the early 2000s.

hardware-hardware-hardware-nerd-spec-wars is a funny reference--for quite some time in the desktop space, Apple was the performance leader, right? And it did not save them. Compaq and other vendors destroyed their market share.

Apple is a desirable brand among people that can afford it and aren't concerned with bleeding-edge tech--do not overgeneralize here. Most people (the rest of the market!) bought iPods and iPhones because there wasn't a good competitor at the time; this is no longer the case.
Yeah, of course. Because of lights on a bridge, tens - maybe even HUNDREDS - of thousands of tourists are going to flock to the city over the course of the year.

What's so hard to believe about that?
Oh, that's good to know. What if a security guard had pulled a weapon on him? Would anyone have been injured then? Or what if one of the other customers had rushed him?

I used to think that a man (it's almost always a man) brings a loaded gun to a crime for one reason - to murder someone who got in his way. I've since mollified my stance on that, but still, the fact that no-one was injured isn't in itself really exculpatory.
Bitcoin market cap now +$200M as prices keep rising
Yes, a lot of people do use the Twitter web interface. An I would imagine that number will only go up as Twitter keeps adding features to it while also squeezing third party apps.
I'm glad, and I hope he is able to reintegrate back into society easily. There are programs like the Delancey Street program in SF that help ex-cons reintegrate by providing them with jobs and support. And then he should try to go to school and further educate himself at night time. Hopefully he gets a break, but he needs to realize it's a tough road ahead, since many people without criminal records are still unemployed, and having a felony conviction will likely make it very hard for him. If he joins a religious organization, maybe he can get help through them as well.
Does Canada even have an issue with immigration? I mean they already give visas on a point system, so most of the people who could qualify for this visa would probably qualify under their normal immigration system too.

What we really, really need though is a US startup visa (or even better) a point-based immigration system.
> he deserves whatever punishment was meted out to him

Ok. So if we chopped off a hand from every thief, would have he deserved that? Or how about hanging? We used to hang horse thieves; if we hung bank robbers, would that be just?

It's true that he shouldn't have committed the crime in the first place. But we aren't just allowed to consider whether punishments fit crimes; as citizens, it's our duty. Our government is of, by, and for the people. It's entirely reasonable for eduardordm to question the length of the sentence.
Ironically, he takes a swipe at PHP. And the swipe is a bit silly since PHP does have a strlen function.
This is excellent. I wonder if they can open source it so I could use it on my sites :)
It was released in the fall of 2011. I would be surprised if it ran well under wine.
That analogy makes absolutely no sense. You are claiming an intended use. And then contradicting yourself by saying you don't use it for that intended use. The analogy would be "I don't use C++ to write programs, I use C++ to write words that have a particular syntax that a C++ compiler can understand and translate into executable machine code". And that statement is just as contradictory as the one you made.
"Hammered asinine requirements": Now there's a secure password
I'm seeing a lot of "he got what he deserved" and "he's gonna have to wash dishes, nobody will hire him" kinds of comments here. This is one of the really broken elements of US culture. We have a culture of revenge and shaming, rather than healing and allowing reparations. This is why we have the highest prison population per-capita in the world; higher than China, higher than Russia, higher than Iran, higher than Cuba, higher than any other place you might think of as "repressive" or a "prison state" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...).

People change. Prisons make some folks worse, this is true. But, many people come out of prison with no desire other than to lead an honest life. One of my best friends over the past year or so is a felon; spent several years in prison on a drug-related crime (a serious drug-related crime, not a little weed in his pocket). When I went to Mexico for a month, he's the person I trusted the keys to my storage unit (with tens of thousands of dollars in gear) to. Why hold a mistake made in someone's youth over their head for the rest of their lives? How does that make a better, safer, more peaceful society?
Okay, before I say anything, this isn't official in any way, as I only work on the web-facing side, so this is just my experience:

I couldn't really respond about either, because I don't know, but I know that the Silent Text sources are on GitHub: https://github.com/SilentCircle/silent-text

The rest of the clients's code is probably being cleaned up, but I guess we're trying to build more functionality and are very busy with other stuff, and publishing the code has fallen behind a bit. That's just my guess, as, as I said, I don't work on that.

From what I've seen in my time there, though, everyone is extremely capable (I have yet to see a single thing that wasn't done correctly) and very focused on security (again, I have yet to find fault with something, and I'm really paranoid).

From what I've seen (and this probably comes off a bit too PR-y, but it's true), I have absolutely no problem trusting SC with my communications, everyone takes every precaution to safeguard users' data (even in the web part, we don't want to use third-party services, our analytics are hosted by us) to avoid compromising users' data.

Anyway, I've raved too long about this. I'll just say I'm very happy to work there.
Involving a firearm in the commission of a crime is an instant ticket on the Felony Express. If he hadn't had a gun (first offense or not, discharged or not, loaded or not, real or not) he likely would have been out a long time ago.

When you have a gun in that situation the number of things that can go wrong increases by an order of magnitude. The adrenaline could make him pull the trigger when he didn't really mean to. Someone in the bank tackling him could make it go off. Hell, it could jam and he could blow his own hand off.

I'm glad he's turned his life around but we can't have people committing armed robbery and going back out onto the street in three months.
It would probably be offloaded into yearly registration taxes that are based on the amount of damage your car would create on the road. A heavy truck costs more than a lightweight miata or motorbike.

For now, govt. wants to subsidize electric car's introduction to the market, so this tax deduction will probably stay for quite a while.
Why do people direct comments at AC assuming he will read them here? Isn't that a little self-centered? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to leave such comments at the original post?
Original ruling (Section III.C of 77 FR 65260) from Copyright Office, Library of Congress available at, https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/10/26/2012-263...
MindSumo - Helping students gain experience and land jobs
Yes. Although Canada has transparent metrics for who gets admitted, there is a huge skilled immigration backlog. This backlog is from four to eight years, depending on the source. The immigration reform is intended to flush this backlog and speed up the process for future applicants.
Here's a thought: out-sourcing hospital cleaning services to the lowest bidder is a really bad idea. Because the other term for "hospital cleaning services" is "infection control".

Similarly, elderly patients frequently end up suffering from malnutrition in hospitals because of poor food and/or not enough staff to feed people with difficulty eating. And malnutrition leads to immunological depression. Again: shaving margins on this stuff costs lives.

New drugs actually come some way down the checklist of things we need to be doing to contain infectious diseases.
GoDaddy Websites Now For Sale at OfficeMax