skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the last time in the 80s it did not work like you are implying.

During the "War on Terror" an old man and anti-Nazi
RAF veteran was arrested under "anti-terror" laws
for holding an anti-Blair placard at a demonstration.
During the IRA years, well ... Find me an example
of "security" that egregious during the period
I mentioned, I double dog dare you.

Stuff was blowing up all the time but the people
simply did not get all paranoid. Business as usual.

By the way, your wiki link refers to laws that were
put in place in the 70s. If I recall correctly,
Britain tried full scale internment in the 70s and got
bitch slapped in court by Ireland, and then stopped.
That may be the reason Britain was acting in a saner
way in the 80s, but I wasn't debating the history of it.

I was simply saying that 80s Britain was an existence
proof of a society not responding to terrorism by
turning into a police state. The IRA terrorism hadn't
stopped in the 70s, by the way - it continued into the
90s making it far longer-lasting than Afghanistan.

And finally, the topic was Guantanamo Bay, where people
have been held without trial for more than a decade.
You are trying to compare that to British emergency powers that held people for one week?

You can post that wikipedia page a fifth and sixth time, it still won't change anything. It will just make you look stupider and more of a liar.
Goroutines have independent 4k stacks.
What exactly do you propose as an alternative? At some point the card details need to be decrypted. Security always boils down to somewhere between total lock down and being able to actually get things done. The only semi reasonable alternative would be not to store any CC details and outsource that task to a payment processing company. It's not a great alternative though as you'd effectively be giving up the ability to swap payment processors (since they, not you, now have all your customers card details) for a potentially small and unproven bit of extra security.
Newry athlete caught up in Boston explosions
Gender identity is actually a quite tricky topic and should be approached carefully. I would discourage anyone from trying to use this library, the real world doesn't fit neatly in your multiple-choice view of gender. For more information, please watch this great talk: http://vimeo.com/61172068.
> I fail to see how we can expect government spending to grow without eventually consuming 100% of everyone's income or collapsing entirely (and I understand that many people may consider the former a good thing).

Both options sound good to me, in that if people manage to keep eating and living in houses and raising their children after this happens, we will have officially entered a post-scarcity economy.
14 years ago, I have survived a war. In the second day of NATO attack to Serbia, I have seen a huge explosion only 5-6 km away. That was like in the movies. That was the scariest explosion I've ever seen. First only a big cupola, and then a terrifying sound. Later I realized that this event changed my life. In better way. You learn to appreciate life.
I don't really like the idea of putting a lot of photos of traumatized people on internet, photoshit happens, the last thing that those sons, women, family could merit is to be lynched on internet.

...but

If you know or suspect that the bags were black, a reasonable solution that maybe could have success without to blow up all the remains of privacy could be:

1-to create a filter that makes a copy of the originals AND change all colors of the bunch of photos in a named directory to i.e. soft blue... EXCEPT a small range of black tones.

2- Thus, you could check or search then in the bunch with another script what photos have those suspicious black tones. And you could choose to move those photos to a different dir for a preliminary analysis, maybe saving a lot of time.

2- or you could search for photos taken from same place in different times (very frequent in a competition) that have black tones NOT changing of place in a specific time. People moves, claps, node, etc, bags with bombs don't.

3-You could refine the script to permit to enter any desired tone also and mask all the other colors. The goal is to find quickly a bag, but keep the privacy of innocent people and victims that do not deserve this.

I thing that should not be much challenging technically.
Really like the idea of this, and especially enjoyed that you took the time to make the 2 minute video walkthrough (it made it easy for me to say "ok, I'll give you 2 minutes, let's hear your pitch"). I think the idea of having a focused community will work quite well.

A suggestion: Redis has a very cool documentation system, where the documentation is "live" - for example, http://redis.io/commands/set (scroll down to the example, you can type in the box). It'd be really neat to have something like that integrated with the code side of things.
On twitter, Sabre says they're not having any issues, and American Airlines retracted their statement pointing the finger at Sabre:

Clarification: The issue is w/ our ability to access our res system & not w/ @SabreNews. We apologize to Sabre & customers for confusion.

https://twitter.com/AmericanAir/status/324227267066736640
Non-Deterministic Newtonian system [2005]
I hope they roll out a new 1password version soon. I was just thinking of starting using it, after the linode incident, but now I might wait for the fixed version.
On the one hand, gender corresponds to identification and behavior, which this predicts (more so than biology). On the other hand, this produces binary output[0], and sex is more generally accepted to be binary than gender.

So, I think 'sex machine' is appropriate.

[0] Okay, three options, but 'andy' really corresponds to 'unknown', not 'person of androgynous gender'.
Funky horizontal scrolling on an iPad, pretty much unreadable.
How a late-night hack turned into Facebook's next big thing
> They do it because they're afraid of the precedent that might be set by not responding

What precedent? Isn't the whole purpose of terrorism to provoke a response -- to force a change?
Unless your destination is as low-budget as the airlines, it's pretty easy to avoid them. They're mostly the equivalent of a cheap holiday bus.

Also, although I will avoid the EasyJets and Ryanairs as much as possible, for a direct flight the duration of a bus ride it doesn't really make that much difference.
> As an aside it's worth noting that as this library is GPL3 it means you can't use this code in any non-GPL product.

Well you can always simply ask the author -- if he has got the copyright, he can grant you permission.
The favicon is slightly unreadable, and could easily be improved.
Yup.

They also subjectively ignored the post-WW2 period for most countries; coincidentally when countries had high debt and grew like crazy.

I bet that if you started with the desired results in mind for a study like this, you could create a list of variables to try and pick the combination that maximizes your metric.

Then provide a post-hoc justification for each choice.

For example:
* debt-to-gdp 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%

* Ignore years after ww2 (the war was an externality)

* Don't ignore years after ww2 (why would we? they're years.)

* Ignore years after ww2 for countries that got aid from US (removing an externality)

* Ignore years after ww2 for countries that did not get aid from US (most countries did, don't want to mix the sample)

* Ignore years after ww2 for countries that were in the European theater (removing an externality)

* Ignore years after ww2 for countries that were not in the European theater (not affected by war like rest of globe)

* Ignore years after any war (externality)

* Weigh by population of country at time of study (lazy way to account for size of industry)

* Weigh by population of country by year (better way to accounts for size of industry)

* Equal weight for all countries (easy to explain)

* For each country, take periods of high debt-to-gdp and compare against periods without high debt-to-gdp; then compare countries equally (easy to explain-ish)

* Take each period of consecutive years with a high debt-to-gdp ratio and call each period one sample point. Average these inequal-length points together and compare against all years of low debt-to-gdp (Come on! Nobody would believe-- oh no.)
I had a friend who insisted "gender" should be used for linguistic use (for example cheese being masculine in French) and "sex" for the boy/girl-ness of a person.

Determining the boy/girl-ness of a chicken is called "sexing" the chick. I see "sex machine" as a machine that sexes by name.
If you can find some kind of citation for that, I'd be interested. It is offset to a degree, but probably less than $50 per unit. Windows 8 costs more than that to the OEM.

Also crapware makes your product seem crappier, so you have to drop the price to remain competitive. I'm not sure there's much to gain from it despite how prevalent it is.
2014: The year of the Linux car?
Me and my significant other frequently impersonate each other when dealing with banks and hospitals over the phone (we're a gay couple). It honestly never occurred to me that straight folks can't get away with this. How unfortunate; it's quite a time saver!
On MacOS, my VirtualBox VMs regularly froze. On VMWare Fusion, they have frozen/crashed far less often.
Ohhh the controversy that would be generated if this gem ever got big.

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1120-gogaruco2012-schemas-fo...
This was my only issue with Air Canada: my first and only (to date) flight with them was several hours late. It wasn't a problem for me so I think of them as being one of my preferred airlines because of how good everything else was. If the lateness had been a problem I might have seen it differently, though I didn't think the delay was their fault.
Heathrow has the most aggressive Skytrax campaigning I've seen (note: some compared with nearly none) in the 7 of the top 10 airports I've been to, which might have something to do with it. It's definitely not in the same league as the likes of Incheon and Hong Kong in my experience.

One serious issue in Heathrow is that gate numbers are not shown (not even printed on your boarding pass) until 30 minutes before departure, and the gates are supposed to close 15 minutes before departure, but it takes 20 minutes to walk to some of the gates from the waiting area. Of course they bend the rules so that people make it to their flights, but what happens when they don't?
I did actually look into that, but it kind of did the exact opposite of what I wanted. There's a few reasons I'm not too impressed with Boxen:

- Its goal is to install a whole bunch of binaries and development utilities onto my local machine. I want to keep those segregated.

- It only works with Macs. My only computer at the moment is a mac, but it's not always what I use. I use computers at work that are linux based.

- I found that it was buggy. I wasn't very easy to get it actually working. It required a lot of effort and installation.

So, Boxen isn't for me.
I find IB (and storyboards in particular) to be amazing for rapid prototyping (MVP anyone?). I can put together a basic app with 5 views, buttons, maps, whatever I want (as long as its a standard iOS control) in like an hour.

HOWEVER, in the long run storyboards can get annoying, because you're constantly switching between code and a visualizer. The first time you can't find what exactly is making that button do what its doing is quite frustrating, to say the least.
Funny. I had plans to build one of these in a month or so time. Now I can crib the answers, Cool.
Let's try:

Please download Scoutti from goo.gl/ifGJC (Google Play) and take a funny photos of yourself waiting for the results.

If you don't have Android, just email us your photos to contact@scoutti.com

We will publish those photos on our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/scouttiapp) in 12 hours.

Again, wish you all good luck. All of us are working hard and deserve to participate in YCombinator.
This product is used for linguistic purposes, not for deciding whose head to cut off.
we all still fake it with jQuery

this
> As an aside it's worth noting that as this library is GPL3 it means you can't use this code in any non-GPL product.

Of course you can. Usage != distribution.
On making mistakes
Could the 66 Ghash/s Bitcoin ASIC's be easily repurposed for password cracking? It's something I've been wondering about.
I'm just beginning with emulators and I wrote my first one to emulate CHIP8 a few months ago. I'm now working on a gameboy emulator. Anyways, having no experience with assembly, processor instructions, bitwise operations, etc, I started with this tutorial:

http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulato...

Also, good reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

I think that tutorial quite good and I emerged with a solid understanding of what exactly emulators/interpreters do, and what it means to emulate a certain device. CHIP8 is very simple, so moving to gameboy is actually a very big leap. The gameboy's instruction set (you'll know why that is a crucial piece of information after completing the CHIP8 tutorial) is much larger, so it requires a lot more work and understanding.

Let me know if you have any questions
"is" != "is (mostly) made of"
> CPUs are extraordinarily wasteful.

I've seen this claim before, and I've even accepted it at face value before. But it seems to me that it isn't adequately supported by evidence. What evidence do we have that a substantially more efficient (therefore less wasteful) CPU architecture is possible?
Gold: The fear bubble bursts
I think he's trying to describe a pulse jet with an external heat / fuel source?
Huh... Explain how Southwest has done so well then? They are cheap, profitable, and have the best service.
I'm still a bit confused - what if you are simultaneously working on two projects that each require a different version of Ruby? Do you have two different vagrant boxes lying around?
Chrome, Safari, and soon Opera are mostly open source, but not totally.
> I'm not familiar with the implementation of Go, but at least this program didn't explode the stack:

It does, it's just that Go is so slow printing to the console that it would take years to run out of stack space. If you redirect to null it will use up all your memory and swap space in a few minutes:

./main > /dev/null

In most other languages this same code would run for a short time and then abort after exhausting the stack. This is the best behavior since algorithms that use unbounded memory are where you certainly must handle out of memory errors and set limits; using too much stack space is an error that should be caught quickly not postponed. Go on the other hand uses a growable stack, so the code you gave will use up all available memory and swap before finally crashing.

Go uses a growable stack so that programs can use many goroutines on 32-bit machines. This is bad for performance due to extra checks on calling function to see if the stack needs to be grown or shrunk, the overhead to actually do that, and less efficient use of cpu data cache. It makes it complicated to call functions from any other language. It seems like any modern language should work best on 64-bit and make trade-offs for 32-bit, not the other way.
I don't think he understands Brownian Motion.
Only at larger sizes. At the 16x16px version, there isn't anymore.
Your parent meant "disirregardless" of couse
:)
> That one's easy: what tangible benefit will people suffering from the events of the Boston Marathon get from a donation to Watsi? None? Then it has nothing to do with it.

This is becoming pure wordplay now. Sure, if you take the vague phrase "something to do with" and redefine it more specifically as "provides tangible benefits to", then you'd be right. But who gives you the authority to redefine it so? PG made the relation clear in his tweet: "When terrible things happen to people I can't help, I ... help people I can." In other words, he uses tragedies as a reminder to donate to the less fortunate.

Seems pretty simple to me.

As for the rest of your post, it seems that your argument rests on the belief that PG's tweet didn't cause anyone to donate. If so, your argument fails, because some people did donate as a result of PG's tweet (or at least claimed to).

But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that, instead, your argument rests on the belief that getting a few people to donate is not worth causing offense to others. In that case, I would denounce your argument is immature, selfish, and immoral. I would gladly give offense to 10 or 20 people (and tell them to get over themselves) if it caused 1 person to donate to Watsi.

Lastly, you haven't provided any evidence why people should be offended. I completely disagree that anything PG did was crass, insensitive, or tasteless. Au contraire, I think you are the one mistaken for interpreting it that way. You've misappropriated an arbitrary societal rule for reasons you likely cannot defend.
Opinions about government spending have nothing to do with economic science, they are political decisions. There is a reason most deficit fear-mongers come from the right.

austerity -> cuts to social programs -> more poor people with less resources -> labor market who will work cheaper
>> d.get_gender("Álfrún")

Out of curiosity, why did you choose that name?
Looking forward to the upcoming submissions

1. Rename "Sex Machine"
2. Why Women Don't Like Rubyists
3. Don't Publically Shame the Person Who Suggested the Name Change
4. Take Your 'Sex Machine' and Shove It
Yes, you're right. Hosting has a different meaning in the software industry - the correct term is 'Airline reservations system' but the colloquial term used in the travel industry is 'airline hosting'.
Imagine the evidence collected in 5 years if Google Glass is successful. You could probably recreate the entire crime scene in 3D using tech like Photosynth.
Yeah, SmartyStreets sucks for a few reasons:

1) They are abusing the USPS api and charging access for it.

2) The USPS resolver sucks anyhow. "388 Townsend San Fran" yields an error. Google & Yahoo both correctly match it.

3) Their pricing is pretty expensive, imo.
I am sure that it was not your intention, but please do not spread misinformation about the concept of natural rate of unemployment.

You are right that there will always be some unemployed as people need to find the next job after a surprising layoff. However, this is known as frictional unemployment, and can basically not be more than 2%. In practice, you'd expect it to be well below 1% in an otherwise well-functioning labor market, though I will admit that it depends on the exact institutions and laws surrounding labor.

What economists mean when they say "natural" unemployment is something else entirely. It refers to the (contested) idea that there is some "natural" rate of unemployment that the economy "wants" to achieve, in the sense that you will supposedly see some unintended negative side-effects if you use policy (such as classical demand policies) to push unemployment below that level. This unintended negative side-effect is typically said to be inflation.

There is some truth to this idea; the criticism is mostly in how one responds to it. There is truth to this idea because low unemployment increases the wage bargaining power of labor, which may result in higher inflation via the wage-price cycle.

However, the standard reaction to this is disappointing: Central banks purposefully generate unemployment to keep inflation low, making unemployment a macro-level problem, while the rest of policy (and public opinion) acts as if unemployment were the fault of the individual. This is clearly schizophrenic behavior.

The more intelligent response is to say that infinite demand for labor should be created at a fixed wage. This eliminates unemployment without enabling the wage-price cycle. This idea isn't exactly new, but it is not yet widely known, even though its supporters come from a surprisingly wide range of the political spectrum (the supporters disagree on the how of the implementation details; the main search keyword is "Job Guarantee", though I have also seen some superficially quite different proposals such as this one: http://www.morganwarstler.com/post/44789487956/guaranteed-in...).

Why is it not widely known? I believe it is a combination of (a) efforts to make this idea known outside of small academic circles are relatively recent, and (b) while individuals clearly benefit, there are no truly powerful individuals or social institutions that clearly benefit, hence the advocacy is not as well-organized as e.g. Austrian propaganda.
Hypothesis: The thermoelectric effect is screwing with his force sensor.
We can, it's just a little more tricky... example being while looking up plane ticket information for an S.O. I'm usually her "personal assistant".
This isn't a problem unique to Linode though. The same risk is present for every system that needs a password/passphrase to decrypt. This is why effective security (not absolute - which is impossible for any system that has to connect with other systems) can only be achieved through a layered approach.

Linode layered pretty well: Hashed and salted passwords, isolated systems, encrypted CC database and passphrase protected decryption key with no written record of what that passphrase is. They didn't do a perfect job but then who does (or even can)?
I imagine that paperwork was on quotes because that's what one of the employees told him/her.
Actually, it's a very good first language as it's easy to get up and running building and learning the basics... I'd rather start out using PHP than Python or even Ruby... And with most of the internet using PHP it's a very good track for them to be giving.
Frankly, it is none of your business what the sex or gender of a user is. I understand that sometimes there is money to be made by collecting this information but it is also alienating and just plain irrelevant (and I think there is also money to be made in recognizing that people can be fluid.)

You can give your users an option to provide you with these details but guessing/requiring is not a good practice.

On a side note, it's interesting that the most common gender neutral title is Dr.
Oh wow, I didn't know about Mono on linux. Very interesting!
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
My cat also looks me in the eyes very often. I should write an article on it, called "I bought a cat that looks me in the eye - now what?"
If the person searching Google wanted a tutorial on Go, they should provide a search string with the word "tutorial" in it. If they just wanted an answer to the question of how to concatenate strings, they'd provide the query shown in this post, and get the answers they were looking for.
> I wonder if there were people saying that to Romans about the barbarian Germanic hordes.

I'm not sure why Germans would be bombing Boston because of the Romans. You aren't really thinking this through. The Romans don't even have an empire anymore.
NYC subway passenger study inspires new car seating plan
As a Canadian I've used AC and other regional carriers quite a bit. Have to give a shout-out to Porter, if you're flying to the few cities in North America they service, they're top notch. Especially flying into Toronto, they exclusively use the Toronto Island Airport (YTZ), which is much more pleasant and better situated than Pearson (YYZ).

I think AC has gotten better, at least on domestic flights, since they've had more competition.
> I heard quite a few saying things like, "No wonder they are going out of business" and "I will never fly American again no matter what".

Yeah, they'll never fly American again no matter what...until it has the lowest price ticket for the time/destination they want.
PySide: Standard Dialogs and Message Boxes
Going into debt to pay your medical bills is very different than going into debt to buy a yacht.

No one thinks a ballooning deficit is good, some of us just think it's less bad than cutting social security and medicaid in the middle of a recession.
Interview with Jean-Louis Gassée
KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy