skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reluctantly flagged a few Assange stories on HN over the past few months. I'm a libertarian and I absolutely believe that we have too many secrets in the west.

But at some point the story became about Assange and not about the issues. It was at this point that I realized that he was part of the problem and not part of the solution. You don't fix the security state with hero worship and self-promotion. You just create a different set of problems.
Personally, I like that Mathematica uses capitals for functions: it means that the entire namespace of lower-case variables is free - unlike in Sage, MATLAB etc... In fact, this is how you're supposed to name your variables in Mathematica.
By "target" they mean "subject of FLIR cameras", because the drones aren't armed. I'm not sure why I'm meant to believe that drone cameras are more insidious than the thousands of closed-circuit cameras that watch the streets in the UK.
How did you avoid the 15 minute tutorial which launches up when you start Windows 8 and teaches you all of these things?
Companies can incorporate wherever works for them ie Delaware. If they are actually doing business in CA then they register as a foreign entity with CA (Foreign because they incorporated in DE) so there is nothing dishonest about it.
Few people are like you. Most people aren't tinkerers. Lots of people aren't curious, and many people respond to freeform environments with indecision and frustration that's self-defeating.

Ever seen a group of 3 year olds in a sandbox?

Most people may not be tinkerers, but it seems to me that most people have the potential to be. It is also a matter of historical fact that our school system was explicitly designed to train a population that would endure working in a factories.

I remember one class I was a tutor for while I was in grad school. I wrote up sample answers for the final, and I took a step that is seldom taken - for each question I wrote down 3 different answers using 3 different techniques. (Normally, of course, the person writing sample answers just tries the approach that is probably going to be easiest.)

It was a shock for the students. In a second year college course at an Ivy League college (Dartmouth College in this case) it was a revelation that there wouldn't be just one way to answer a math question. They had thought that if they tried one approach and the math prof another, that was proof that they had failed to understand the subject. It isn't. But far too many adults are walking around without understanding that.
A huge amount of those service jobs you listed, especially minimum wage, rely on specifically the 4 hour work day, or between 4 and 5. I just got out of food service and the 4-5 hour shift was especially common. Their reasoning is they're getting your best hours, so they cycle a lot of people working short shifts.
You're driving along a road and you notice a pothole. You pull over to the shoulder, put your hazards on, open up the trunk, take out a reflective vest and tape measure, then you begin to analyze the pothole. You spend an hour analyzing the depth and formation of the pothole and determine that the cause is due mostly to poor mixing of asphalt. You call the town hall and learn that the road construction crew uses a Caterpillar BG500E wheeled asphalt paver. After some extensive research you determine that poor mixing occurs from the inferior design of the BG500E's auger and that upgrading to the BG600D with its improved auger would cause better asphalt mixing and produce paved road conditions less conducive to potholes.

By now it's 9:30pm. It's dark and cold. You realize what your original purpose was: Dinner with friends. That was two hours ago. You missed dinner, but hey, you got some satisfaction.

The above was more of an analogy about Yak Shaving than Rabbit Hole Syndrome, but there are parallels. Like you, I used to be obsessive about details and solving subproblems. I used to come home from work and work on my own side projects for similar reasons as your own.

But then an advisor said something like, "You need to focus. If you want this thing of yours to succeed, you have to focus on making it succeed. Nothing else should matter." So I stopped my side projects and I became so effective at building our product that my employees wondered if I ever slept.

Stay on target. Make it to dinner.
Homosexuality exists for a scientific reason. Specifically, the genes that make a male gay, when expressed in a female, make her hyper-fertile, 3-5 children as opposed to the 1-2 on average. The homosexual males then assist in the raising of the additional siblings. So your position that homosexuality leads to population decline is an ignorant one. It's a boon to population, in fact, our entire evolution engineered it to insure the survival of the species. Gender bias may never cease to exist, but the idea that equality can be a bad thing was dead on arrival. No equality seeking culture has ever erased themselves. Name one, and point out what makes that an equality seeking culture that killed itself because it was seeking equality and not because of hundreds of more relevant reasons.
You said that I was wrong about some students wanting and needing a strict environment full of rote learning. I provided an example of one such environment that has been remarkably successful for a certain group of students. You said such an environment was worthless. I observed that the students coming out of such an environment were escaping poverty and finding new opportunities they didn't have before, which would suggest that it wasn't worthless.
If we live in a computed universe, which seems plausible, then it's trivial to change gravity or any physical laws. It's trivial to create a universe at any point in time. How would you know if the universe began 5 minutes ago? Your memories are easily seeded. Then we inhabitants of said universe go on to do "scientific experiments" by measuring the constructed virtual world around us, and we conclude religion is speculative based on... (wait for it)... faith in science. It's ironic that a belief in science requires just as much faith as belief in a god.
You'll need to outline a bit more of your technology stack before anyone will be able to help you.
America puts on skis to step on a slippery slope (Drones in 2011)
BAFTAs red carpet streamed live using 360 camera
Ask HN: How to License My Program
I have spent the last few months working on a program for a friend of mine who is an investment banker. His company uses an online service to track deals and allegedly provide meaningful statistics back for them, however the system does not correctly combine the data in a way useful to them. My program gets the raw data and combines it into what they would like to know. He mentioned recently that he knows many other people in their same situation that would benefit from my program, and encouraged me see if I can make any more money off of it. Knowing little about the business side of programming, my questions are: 1) Should I license my program in order to protect myself? 2) What license should I use? (There is no disagreement on ownership, as my friend recognizes the work as my intellectual property (Should I get this in writing? (I wonder if this guy knows lisp...)))
Thank you for any advice or wisdom you can give.
Except he's distributing his client via the Google Chrome Web Store, so if law enforcement had a way of requesting that a particular user's software be backdoor-ed [1], they'd go to Google, which would also be significantly less likely to engage in civil disobedience.

1. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be surprised if this were legal.
I think your last paragraph is most applicable. And I see this becoming a larger problem in the years ahead. What do I tell my now-5-year-olds when they're in high school? Is there a "low cost" way to marry the social/community aspect of college with the immediacy of online learning? At 40 yrs old now, my most valuable lessons from college are not specifics; rather, they're the general ability to reason/perform logic, work hard at a singular goal, and communicate effectively (in English). I'm left wondering if they all can't be done virtually.
Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet Sold Out, But ...
Not fully... http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909
Essentially,

"But the question remains how many units were available to begin with."
Which iPhone app may get you into Stanford? The one you make
NO! I absolutely resent that idea that "science" should only be something for the experts, and everybody without a PhD should shut up about it.

As long as it is just random ranting without any data, it is more than welcoming that "regular" people try to understand expert opinion and in fact challenge it. If "facts" are so clear and indisputable, than those amateur research should easily be shown as wrong.

If not, amateur researcher make a highly valuable contribution. They highlight the fact, that social science, especially on social phenomenons, is (often) based on consensus. In this case here, the author makes an excellent contribution just by highlighting how easy correlation and causation can be (mis)interpreted.

For example the other day I read and article published in a well regarded management journal, by authors who claim having found out that the willingness of users clicking on ads is based on the hours of sunshine per day in that region. The correlation equals causation phenomenon is quite common among social scientists who try to show how scientific their contributions are.
Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.

If you want advice, ask people you don't know. Friends will always tell you that the thing you're building is cool because they're your friends and that's their job. Strangers will give you cold, honest feedback, and that's what you need.
This case is a bit different than the Haber process because these seeds are used to produce organisms that manufacture more of the seeds. If you are patenting the process to manufacture this type of GM soybean seed, won't it cover any process that is used to manufacture these seeds, including plants in a field? It is a tricky issue, and I don't know what the precedent is.

However, if they did patent the organism itself, or the result of the process (as e40 said in a sibling comment), then I am against this type patent.

Personally, I think IP law should be small and narrowly defined. I think that patents are valid when it is a scientific (ie non-trivial) process that has a limited duration.

EDIT: After thinking about it, I think the distinction comes down to this: are they selling it? if so they have no ownership rights on the next generation of seeds. Are they licensing it? If so, yes they do have ownership of the next generation of seeds. In that case, they are licensing to you a manufacturing process where you are allowed to sell the output, but you do not own the process itself.
I had a Cr-48. It didn't last long.
I don't really know what graphics you're drawing in your app, but this approach will kill the performance of anything that relies on the GPU.

Since you're only using Core Graphics, this is acceptable. Core Graphics only has a CPU implementation on iOS. Core Animation has a CPU implementation that only gets activated under certain conditions; otherwise, it renders through the GPU by default.

If you're planning on using CA...

- outside of -drawRect:,

- with no shadows or masks (transparent gradients, for instance,)

- without text (CATextLayer, UILabels, Core Text, UIFont,)

- with -shouldRasterize: assigned to NO (the default,)

- without overriding -drawInContext: (which draws a CALayer's content to a CGContext,)

- with any OpenGL code at all,

...you're going to quickly end up in the land of seconds per frame instead of frames per second.
Yeah, I used to quote Gatto too, as well as the publishing house founder who established a publishing house to get Gatto's work published. It is super popular on homeschooling lists, even gifted homeschooling lists where people parrot this crapola like it is Gospel without ever engaging their brain. I figured it was kosher because it was repeated by so many smart, highly educated folk on elitist lists. (People who have been to big name colleges, like Harvard, some on scholarship because they were brainiacs.)

Then one day, on a forum unrelated to homescholling, I repeated the bit about how literacy rates used to be lots higher, before public school was instituted. I made an ass of myself. Yes, I have visited old ghost towns and seen the poor spelling conventions and other physical evidence of low general literacy. Yes, I used to be a history major and I know details like you used a pictorial sign for your tavern because so few people could read and that the purpose of church stained glass windows was to share some of the bible stories in pictorial form with the illiterate masses. I was taken in anyway, as are lots of very intelligent, educated folks.

Yes, I also know that there is a huge, important difference between a real education, which teaches you to think effectively, and mere training, which typically prepares you for a particular job. I have spoken of that many times. (FYI: "liberal arts" is designed to teach you to think. They are called that because they are supposed to be very freeing: If you can think effectively, you have much more genuine choice in life than the average person. Liberal Arts gets pissed on a lot as a really terrible thing to major in. And it may well be terrible, at a lot of schools. I don't really know. I think there is some truth to the idea that "90% of everything is crap".)

These days I find it questionable to quote anything by Gatto. The book was published with a hugely biased political agenda. The publishing house founder is a homeschooling crusader who would love to have public school abolished. For that matter, he would like to also have private school abolished. He would like homeschooling to be compulsory nationwide in the U.S. (if not globally).

That's a much more questionable agenda in my opinion than whatever agenda the powers that be had when they dreamed up public school.

(I homeschooled for many years. I think it can be a wonderful thing. But I see zero reason to believe that compulsory homeschooling would be inherently superior to what we do today. In the U.S. today, homeschoolers are generally rebels, defying the system in order to do right by their children. So they are typically very devoted parents. There is no reason to believe the excellence in education typical of homeschoolers today would remain the norm for homeschooling if it was the only avenue for getting a k-12 education.)
Pythonception!!
Well to be honest we decided to use go for a couple of things rather than c# (out logging back end and configuration store forked from doozer) and it ended up being used for considerably more in the end precisely because it is very easy to a) get deterministic GC behaviour and b) profile it.
They have special deals with some sources, such as Associated Press. For example, search Google News for "site:google.com" and you'll see addresses like "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...
The UK does not have stricter rules regarding extradition than Sweden. That's a meme that germinated from a revision to the extradition rules that closed a gap between the US and the UK in which it was easier for the UK to extradite from the US than vice versa.

Moreover, Sweden can't extradite without the UK's approval in this situation, so the whole issue is moot.
The ad hominem attacks and annoyed tone of your argument betray a disintrest in any argument that does not match your established view. I invite you to consider new ideas.

"crank": An eccentric person, esp. one obsessed by a particular subject or theory.

John Taylor Gatto is an education crank who has dedicated his life to improving education and fighting schooling. I think we would do well to have more such cranks among us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
I don't think I can endorse this, necessarily. I learned C from "C by Dissection" back when the cover was purple. I then learned C++ from a combination of Bjarne's book and "C++ in 24 hours". Before that I only knew qbasic and vb, so it was a fairly big transition and I was young and had no experience, so it was difficult to get to a point of understanding (I did this in HS when no CS courses were offered at my grade level, so it was heavily self-guided).

I recently read K&R for the first time and found it thoroughly enjoyable and understandable going into it with the mindset of a first-time reader. I thought "I wonder what it would've been like to read this instead of how I did it, since everyone recommends it." I think I'd recommend it to others, even people new to programming.

What's bad about really terse or difficult to follow books is that they densely pack information or lack explanation and that really inhibits learning. I find that K&R raises a lot of questions without leaving the reader unsatisfied or confused, which I think is the exact opposite -- if you're really interested, you'll use that as motivation to go learn more. You might not immediately see why language features are very valuable, but I think that improves for everyone as you learn more.
Certainly, there's no practical difference between pointers+arrays, polymorphism and conditional statements. That's the whole point: We're "simulating" or "creating" if-statements/polymorphism using other language constructs.

My goal was to show that you can do conditional statements and polymorphism without having those constructs by implementing them on top of other constructs (and possibly vice versa). And by looking at them from a different angle, you may end up with some ideas which may or may not be of value, such as the debug-thing. Building a separate branch stack would be the same thing, the question at hand is how you find such an idea/solution to a problem.
Cute. This looks like the code from an existing Chrome Experiment.
The UK has not only cooperated with the US to render terrorism suspects, but has cooperated with Libya to render dissidents to Muammar Qaddafi. There is no reasonable argument that Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden.
Buy organic! To support farmers who don't use Monsanto seeds.
Of course it may be some kind of selection bias, but my impression from seeing many startups, is that:

with good execution, bad ideas often lead to good ideas. I know more than one nontrivial business that essentially started out with a bad idea, but the execution was enough to see what was bad about it, and that there's a related idea that's good.

I've seen much fewer cases where, despite bad execution, a good idea shines through: sooner or later, usually sooner, the competition wins when the execution is bad.
I've been thinking about getting a chromebook but as a macbook air user I'm not sure if it's worth it. Do you have any thoughts on an Air compared to the advantages of a chromebook?

Thanks!
Even within the context your product, surely there are cases where you're presented with a problem that can be solved with several different depths of thoroughness. How do you, generally, choose a solution which optimizes for, success, time, and personal gratification?
Traced from iPhone stills?
I think it's an excellent reason for not having something in a language.

It's not you or me I'm worried about; it's all the other people, and their libraries that I may take dependencies on.

The more error-prone the constructs available in a language, the more likely artifacts created with the language, on average, are to have errors. The easiest way of eliminating these problems is to eliminate the constructs.

This only becomes a serious problem if the workarounds are too verbose, too inefficient, or impossible. Not all applications will need the workarounds. If that subset of applications is productive, the language may be viable - or at least, won't be non-viable because of lack of the given constructs.
TimeHub: Generate good-looking invoices from your GitHub repositories.
The ASUS eee pc 701 was dirt cheap; had limited hardware; had a few problems; but was robust.

It should be easy to replicate it with better hardware and avoiding some of the biggest problems (tiny SSD soldered to the motherboard; weird trackpad; tiny keyboard) especially if you're not trying to cram it into a teeny tiny package.
I hear that nginx is good for static pages, but every article is silent about, what is the actual difference between apache and nginx when dynamic, heavy websites are involved.
If this was how criminal law worked, Hans Reiser would be working on another filesystem from his house in Oakland right now. Nobody on the Internet believed the case brought against him either.

You cannot reasonably believe that he is less safe in Sweden than the UK. That's an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence. The list of reasons why his safety changes not- at- all after going to Sweden is compelling and widely documented. Occam's razor strongly indicates that Assange isn't going to Sweden because he simply doesn't want to face criminal proceedings.
Sure, if the server supports it.
Raspberry Pi + MakeyMakey + Scratch + Fruit & Veg = Awesome
This app provides easy installer for a bunch of Linux distributions.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linu...
I recall a Grace Hopper interview where she said you had to memorize the heirarchy of the navy; you couldn't derive it.
Great post thank you
Wow! Does this say that as long as key generation, key distribution, and message authentication are trivial, unbreakable cryptography is a cinch? What a shock, here I thought that all those billions of dollars of research and thousands upon thousands of man-hours devoted to the development of secure communications throughout the last three-thousand years meant that this is a difficult problem. Had all those people simply read this article, we wouldn't have had any sort of issue whatsoever...

Not only are the three problems I mentioned above the most serious open issues in cryptography, but the actual encryption of information might be the least difficult. As long as they are implemented correctly, and no one has some quantum or otherwise impossibly powerful computer lying around someplace that no one knows about (or has solved the Riemann Conjecture), then RSA, El Gamal, AES (w/ proper mode), Blowfish (ditto), and numerous others are unbreakable as well. In fact, with the lack of restrictions the author includes for what constitutes "unbreakable" cryptography, a one-time pad will also work just as well.

And yes, I do realize he gives mention to this at the bottom of the article, but it's still hilarious to title this "unbreakable" cryptography.
Why this link from "rawstory" instead of the guardian? http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/feb/09/soybean-farmer-mon...
Yeah as a Canadian, pretty much all cities can fine you if you don't clear your snow with in 24 hours. Ironically I just got back to Canada from Dresden yesterday and I didn't think much of the German efforts to clear their sidewalks.
I thought that was in fact Monsanto's strategy. It's certainly the fact pattern in this particular case.
Read onwards to where he gives a summing-up speech to the uni.
The problem with Step 1 is "all". The whole point of my initial post is that children vary, and the methods by which they're educated need to vary as well. "All children will be lead into the forest by an experienced guide who will let their curiosity guide them in a journey of self-exploration" is just as wrong.

Can you give me an example of such a form of curiosity?

My friend's son is endlessly curious about dinosaurs, so much so that he refuses to invest any time in math homework. In general, curiosity leads to specialization, which is great only to the extent that it doesn't preclude some time being exposed to other subjects. Curiosity is like having a favourite food: Children need to learn a balanced diet, lest they die of malnutrition for eating nothing but candy.