skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read those excerpts from this report, I assumed it was written by some extremist lobbying group that doesn't have any real power. Then I read this statement from Congressman Mike Rogers (Chair of CHPSCI, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence):

“It is already clear to me that this report is going to make a very important contribution to the discussion about the grave danger that IP theft poses to our economic well-being. In particular, all should carefully read what the report has to say about Chinese economic espionage. I heartily agree that Congress and the Administration need to act quickly to help American companies defend the hard work and innovation that is the life-blood of our economy. That must begin with getting cyber information sharing legislation signed into law."

https://intelligence.house.gov/press-release/chairman-rogers...

The report and Congressman's statement came out on the same day.
Good point. I think the same is true for a lot of things that you do in college. For example, in college, they force you to keep deadlines. If you can do that, consistently, for four years, then later in life, you can occasionally miss a deadline and know that it was for a good reason, and not because you're a slacker and procrastinator.
The caption says that he lost his arms in a dynamite fishing accident! Losing a limb is a terrible thing, but if you have to be handicapped, that is one hell of a back story.
For commandline proficiency, i think you will benefit quite a bit from the software carpentry website: http://software-carpentry.org/4_0/shell/index.html
Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: IF EXISTS and IF NOT EXISTS
Unfortunately in America power is way too concentrated in current times for this to be true, it haves more military power than all other countries in the world -minus China- combined. The damage-power of the weapons that America haves now are also beyond any historical precedent.

Also, America controls all the communication channels including Internet (domain assignment is done in USA, see ICANN), there is still no direct filtering and content control but politicians are slowly pushing laws to get us there.
This paper barely even mentions music or movies, and its proposals are for going after foreign entities who steal intellectual property, such as R&D, to develop counterfeit goods.

This is less about going after little Timmy for downloading a movie and more to do with a Chinese firm stealing biotechnology secrets from a U.S. company to produce its own products.
Of course not. But it's easy to maintain a list of public bugs for different kernel versions and also a list of 0day bugs that may have been found, and then exploit the appropriate privilege escalation bug depending on the kernel version.
Hey guys! I built this, let me know if you have any questions.
I'm kind of shocked by the extremist label. I don't think Richard Stallman is a nut at all. Eccentric, sure, but only for the unfortunate reality that it is rare for most people to stick with a principle over decades.

EDIT: ok, that foot eating thing is weird.
They have the money to pay people who can though!
I believe it's the same in every field of work. Even working in the garden or doing some fixing around the house. I'm now approaching 40 and find myself much more physically able than I was 10 years ago, mainly because I'm more patient and know better how to use my body.
This is from 2011. They're over 3M now.
Thanks! I forgot about that site. I was looking at it before, but was waiting for a Rails 4 update. It looks like a Rails 4 version of it was just recently put out, so I'll definitely go through it.

Not in reference to railstutorial.org, but I think the hard part about finding resources online is that it's hard to determine if it's still a good resource or outdated. This one looks good though!
Reminds me of a Cory Doctorow short story that takes place in the near future. In it, US Customs can't view your Google search history, but they can view the ads served to you as a result of your searches.
Anything good is feminine.
Something I have done recently: read bandwidth consumption off the firewall and use the Raspberry Pi to control two tachometers to show the bandwidth at all times. Haven't quite nailed the tachometer frequency generation, but I'm close.
Welcome to the free market. This is what happens when you underprice tickets. If you priced them appropriately, there would be no role for bots to play.
> [...] "enthusiastic consent" - you ongoingly and genuinely want to. From this improved perspective, contract is unacceptable (it's there to allow you to be forced despite no longer wanting to), [...]

It is a very important right to be able to bind yourself via contract. In exactly the same way as is the _right_ of getting sued. Tom Schelling wrote about these issues in e.g. The Strategy of Conflict.

The right to commit yourself is important, because it will make other people more likely to commit themselves to you.
Angolmois Rust Edition, a music video game ported to Rust
All bases are base 10 within that base. So actually, base 10 is about as non-arbitrary as it gets. </nyuknyuk>
> mostly for the publicity, and 'cheap thrills.

You mean... for the lulz?
So instead of taking down human traffickers pimping people who are essentially slaves, we should be going after the ones who aren't smart enough to hire a great accountant?

It's be real here. Smugglers and criminals have been around for eons, and motivated police forces have been able to control them.
I don't like the look of that helicopter with flimsily attached wooden rotor blades. Even on the ground it would be ridiculously dangerous to run. And everyone on these photos near this contraption are truly Darwin Award candidates.

edit: I actually have some rights to have an opinion, as I'm a licensed pilot and an experimental aircraft owner.
Considering the outrageous prices charged by motels in every city I've been (up to Chicoutimi) and even by road side motels near nowhere, I'm not surprised :-/

>Business groups like Montreal’s Bed and Breakfast Association have been pushing for the government to crackdown on home rentals for years.

Yeah. I sure wonder why.
You should try not coming up with bad reasons to not hire qualified candidates.
Since there are few corporations that have a corporate interest in "freedom," then the money and resources have to come from individuals.

I'd disagree. The majority of corporations have a financial interest in freedom. Getting them to commit resources to any lobbying effort is the challenge.
The Travelling Salesman’s Power
Mr. Jifa is obviously very inventive and resourceful, but dynamite fishing is actually quite detrimental to underwater ecosystems, kills more fish than are harvested, and because of this, is illegal in most of the developed world.

"Underwater shock waves produced by the explosion stun the fish and cause their swim bladders to rupture. This rupturing causes an abrupt loss of buoyancy; a small number of fish float to the surface, but most sink to the sea floor. The explosions indiscriminately kill large numbers of fish and other marine organisms in the vicinity and can damage or destroy the physical environment, including extensive damage to coral reefs" [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_fishing
Video of Wu Yulu's walking robot and other his invention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MoNLYFk_k
I'm not arguing worth, just what they actually paid :) (There is no likely world where what Google paid for Slide was worth it, for instance)
There used to be a saying, "only in America". Its starting to feel like maybe we replaced that with "if you see something, say something." How many of these things could you realistically build in your back yard without a come-to-Jesus meeting with homeland security resulting?

There's a little sign up the the tax assessor's office here that says something to the effect of if you're about to do something around your house and you're not sure if you need a permit, you probably do.

So, "only in China" then?
If he is a nut, he's our nut.

If advancing a rational cause is nutty, being a nut sounds like a good plan.
He was actually a really attractive guy. [1] You can still see he's fairly attractive for a 60 year old under the disheveled hair and beard, and excess weight.

[1] http://en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/linux/33921-the-young-r...
Completely off topic, but the boundary logo is one of the coolest I've ever seen. Just wanted to give a public kudos to the designer.
The Stone Age
"I don't even know what to do anymore."

Code.

People use Skype because there's no clear alternative (maybe work on Jitsi... It still needs a server for the good stuff). People use Facebook because there's no alternative (maybe work on RetroShare). People let their government tell them what to do because they think it's better than anarchy (maybe work on a political Kickstarter). Copyright enforcement against BitTorrent users has gone into high gear because BitTorrent is good at sharing but weak in anonymity. Fix that. Don't make tools to break laws, just make tools. Write software to empower individuals and make institutions unnecessary and you won't have to spend as much time cleaning up after institutions and the egos that run them when they get carried away.

Promoting open-source software as a way to counter spyware, and general activism, is better than nothing, but the best way to change the world is still to invent it IMHO. (Just don't throw yourself on the fire unnecessarily either... Bitcoin's author was wise to keep his identity out of it.)
It's always good to see people building stuff - anything! - but many of these are less original, viable inventions and more just plain models. Number 34, for example, is quite obviously not a serious attempt to build a working aircraft. In fact I wonder how he managed to spend so much ($6,400) on such a piece of crap.

Some of the other pictures, like the artificial arms, are far more worthy of merit.
Some of those gadgets would be right at home at Maker Fair.
"It seems like it's all about saving dev time these days."

It has always been about saving engineering time; otherwise, why aren't you handcoding things in assembler? Any reasonable development process involves at least a subconscious decision about how much hardware to give up in exchange for a manageable engineering cost.

For the problem domain, Go seems like a reasonable point in the continuum of efficiency and engineering costs.

Another part people overlook when they say "well, my low level language has a library for that, too" is that there is also a cost decision when adopting a library. How quickly can you vet libcurl has no buffer overflows or memory leaks? Compare that to Go's net/http? Does the library have enough public usage in your problem space that you can assume someone else has found and reported the bugs?

Dependencies are like puppies. They are cute, right up until they become your responsibility. The author might have felt more comfortable with his chances of updating and maintaining "net/http" and the lower chance that he would need to.

Until something happens to make engineering time limitless and free, it's ALWAYS going to be about saving dev time.
We need more activists. And without them, we are fucked.

You can change the system from within as well. While it is impractical to go out and run for President and hope to win, one of the things I hope the current crop of young adults will see is that they have the power to become the system and change it. First build a resume in public service (city council, county supervisor, state representative) then use your training to help you and your fellow revolutionaries move into a position of power and change.

One of the saddest things is that the folks in power have convinced the youth of America that they are powerless and nothing can be done forcing them into acts of "activism" which allows them to be identified and eliminated.

Perhaps an example that doesn't resonate with you but has been doing what your compatriots have not, is the Tea Party. These folks have shown you that it isn't about dominating the world, its about setting a theme, recruiting to your cause, and then using the institutions that are in place to allow you to affect change, to work for you.
I would entirely agree. So many regulations in the US! So many of these things would not be legal. What are we stifling in the US by prioritizing safety and security over freedom?
I'm bad at math, anyone know what's 6% of $11.5 billion?

In all seriousness, congratulations pg. You've played your cards very well the past 10 years.
What about as a UEFI image? I've never had a board that was supported by CoreBoot.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was looking for which specific entertainment firms to blame, and found "The National Bureau of Asian Research" instead.
Um, no. I think the git data model is perfectly good for real life version control. It turns out you don't need a higher level of abstraction. The problem IMO is that the UI doesn't map cleanly onto the natural operations on the data model. It might just be my ignorance, but the fact that I can have an operation in my head in terms of the git data model (which is fairly automatic) but not automatically know how to translate it into a git command is problematic.
Then why would Hollywood propose that with its own money about an issue it don't care about? Surly it won't mention movie download because it doesn't want to stimulate you. But it will screw you.
The establishment hotels/motels want protection from competition, which governments are often only too happy to provide, sure. But don't forget the taxes that Quebec no doubt hungers to collect, whether the $250 permit fee, or unreported income. For all parties involved, follow the money.
IANAL.. but I can't see how asking a parent to represent him would relieve PayPal of complying with labor standards for minors... he's still the one doing the work.. and advising him to have a parent represent him is just written proof that they knew.
If it were bill gates he would probably delete all their stuff.

I am not saying you should do it, but a lot of successful people got to where they are without being too nice.
Well I just got unsold on Godus.
So, rootkits are okay then...?
Be careful, you might start a debate about whether or not Google is good.
Ah, thanks. Those paywalls are sometimes nothing more than traps for the unwary.
It's striking how many of these mention the creator did not complete <some level of education>.
Linux.org forgot password page gives 404
In academia there's an author metric called the H-index

> A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each.

I wonder if you could apply this same methodology to VC (the v-index)

> A VC firm has index v if v of his/her Nc funded companies have had valuations of at least $v million, and the other (Nc − v) funded companies have had valuations of no more than $v million. (In some inflation adjusted dollars.)

$mm 0 0 0 0 5 10 10 15 22

v-index = 5

$mm 2 4 4 5 8 8 8 10 14 17 20 22 25 50 55 60 100 200

v-index = 10

Python snippit for calculation.

def vindex(valuations):
return max(v if sum(x >= v for x in valuations) >= v else 0 for v in range(len(valuations)))
I'm feeling some hyperbole coming on, but governments rarely seem interested in serving the interests of their constituents.
You can build a cli parser exactly like git uses (positional and short/long) using argparse.

But what if I want something that isn't like Git? I'm slightly amused that anyone would suggest Git as some sort of example of a good CLI, but in any case, not all platforms share the command line conventions of *nix shells.

Suppose I'm running on Windows (where options conventionally start with '/') and I don't want all the magic that argparse does with initial '-' characters. If I set prefix_chars to '/', does that also disable the '--' pseudo-argument? We were originally talking about documentation, and as far as I'm aware, the documentation for argparse doesn't actually specify this either way.

Suppose I want to have a set of basic choices, each setting a flag to say it's there. What if I also want some shortcut choices that represent combinations of the basic ones and set all of the corresponding flags? As far as I'm aware, you can't quite do this with any of the standard actions, so you have to start writing an entire new class to define a custom action instead. At least you can do that, but what was wrong with accepting a simple function, and where does anything say how argparse.Action is actually defined and why it's necessary instead?

Suppose I want to present the same data as the automatic help option, but reformat it in some completely different way that makes more sense for my program before it gets printed? There are assorted functions to display or return formatted help strings, but nothing seems to just give back a neat bundle of the relevant information for further processing. Collecting the data and rendering it for output are conflated.

Argparse, like much of the Python standard library, has a lot of power as long as you want to do things exactly its way, but it's not designed in a way that is particularly easy to extend. IMHO, a better strategy for designing standard libraries for languages is to create templates/frameworks/whatever you want to call them, and then to provide some specific implementations for basic cases. This way, when inevitably someone needs to go beyond the out-of-the-box functionality, they can still fit in with established conventions instead of starting over from scratch, which is generally better both for compatibility and for minimising the amount of extra logic that much be built on top of the tried and tested standard library. Of course you do have to be careful not to go too far and make simple cases look artificially complicated, but no-one ever said designing good APIs was easy. :-)
It's pretty cool to do it with yard sticks. The only problem was that the ones I was using were pretty warped, so they were hard to balance. I'm pretty sure I still got the top one to be all the way over "the void" once.
Parent's comment is a little overblown, there are plenty of people in the US who build all sorts of things just like this and have no trouble(helps to be away from populated areas). Regulations aren't necessarily a bad thing. For example, I'd hate to be in the crowd of onlooker when something explodes/comes flying off, or to have my property crashed into by a DIY helicopter or some-such. Note the kids just feet away from the rotor assembly in picture #37.
Totally.

Taking it a step further, if you're able to find a friend or a willing mentor, pair program for a couple sessions to get the flow of things. You'll get into it quicker, will be able to ask complex questions and get solid answers, and probably have some fun along the way.

And both the easiest and hardest way to learn a language or framework is to put yourself (or have someone else put you) up against a deadline. Urgency is a good thing.

Don't sweat the nitty-gritty when you're just starting out. You'll get to that stuff when you need to. You can always refactor in better code. And that refactoring will encourage you by showing how much better you've gotten.

EDIT: Meant to mention the great http://railscasts.com. Together with the pairing I mentioned above, RC really got me up to speed on Ruby / Rails - came from a generalist C#/PHP/JS background a few years back.
Competitive disruption considered harmful.

If it really was to protect the turism economy and the people of Quebec, they should evaluate how many more people can visit Quebec now that there are options like $25-40/night rooms.

I know AirBnB was a big reason I visited NYC since it made the trip significantly more affordable.
Django 1.6 alpha 1 released
In the US, the 'Google' voice that provides spoken feedback is a woman. In the UK, it is a male voice.
Or you can even pay someone to come over once a week and do it for you.
Trac is pretty bad. Can you remove yourself off a subscribed issue yet?
Wow, thanks for the positive reaction to my comments. A breath of fresh air.
From another comment:

> pg says in a later tweet reply [1] that it is 37 out of 511.

So ycombinator's v-index is likely 37.
Nah, it's not that bad. Here's Homebuilts at AirVenture 2009 gallery for your enjoyment: http://www.eaa.org/apps/galleries/gallery.aspx?ID=258
It took me a couple seconds to figure out there was content below the auto-resizing header image. I tried to click on both the "Documentation is easy" and "FLATDOC" text to see if either were links to the content before realizing there was a scroll bar.

I'd suggest not having such a large image, or at least resize it to only expand to a portion of the screen, to prevent confusion.
The three primary needs in China appear to be aircrafts, submarines, and... floating spherical homes.
After Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo Mail improved marginally, but the aesthetics of the Yahoo home page deteriorated and while Fickr added attractive features such as 1TB disk space, many users are begging the company to restore the previous user experience. It is clear Mayer is not living up to the hype.
If you're using your house as a commercial establishment (short term rentals) you are paying commercial taxes on it, there is no reason why you should somehow be exempt when others are not.

It's not just a fine, if you using your house as a commercial space when you go to sell your house it will be taxed on sale just like any other commercial entity. I'm surprised other regions are not more adamant about enforcing this.

ps. This is not about Airbnb, they crack down on any listings no matter what the site (tripadvisor, homeaway, vrbo, craigslist, etc).
God said 640x480 16 color and single voice.

God said no child windows.

God guided the whole process -- it is divinely inspired, just like the Bible.

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hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their
calves home from them: 6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it
upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a
trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,
that it may go.

6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that
happened to us.

6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the
cart, and shut up their calves at home: 6:11 And they laid the ark of
the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the
images of their emerods.

6:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and
went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to
the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went
after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.