skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating read. He did say what the question was though:
"What is six times nine?"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=6%20times%209...
You've nailed it.

I work in Seattle. Before I moved there, I lived and worked in Oregon, in the Valley. I grew up with working public transportation, with buses that were affordable and ubiquitous. The school that I went to, Oregon State University, came to an agreement with the city that it was in, and they cooperated to make all buses free within city limits. Yes, even for non-students and non-residents.

Portland's transportation is great, and Seattle's transportation is great. Every time I visit the Bay for work, I cringe, because I know exactly what to expect: Hours of trains and buses if I don't want to rent a car. It's utterly ridiculous.
Here is an easy answer: sum up the value of all the money laundering crime that (say) the Cyprus government protected its people from. Now sum up the value of how much the government stole from citizen bank accounts.

We've outsourced our personal and financial security to large and unresponsive governments; on net we are more rather than less victimized by criminals. The only difference is that these criminals wear suits and have names like Draghi and Bernanke.
Bla bla bla, title usually don't mean jack in mostly any job beside things like architect (of real building)

Does it warrant (another) blog post to tell us that our job titles means nothing? certainly not.
Where is this line exactly? None of that sounds like crossing "the line" to me at all.
Nobody, ever. Pretty sure OP is projecting his own insecurities here. Not social with you != thinks he is superior to you.
This choice should be considered a career limiting decision by any hiring manager.

Are you saying that you're holding a 17 year old student in Germany responsible for not understanding US labor laws?
Here is a Tron inspired DP helmet I made for Glastonbury 2011, was fun to make though took a good couple of months. I'd say around 70 hours and cost about £70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB9GHWFZUjE&feature=yout... - link to build pics and a load of me wearing it at various music festivals:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35189064@N04/

Was a real buzz to wear, organised a flash mob with about 40 other robot wearing types, ended up on a Glastonbury documentary.

If you have any questions about making props like this give me a shout. I started out knowing nothing, but ended up making everything from my own vacuum former to learning to solder.

I've been asked a few times when I'm out wearing it, to make one, but I'd be looking for around £1000 due to the man hours and the extra effort to make someone else's more perfect. I had thought about learning to slush cast to make a few for friends to wear this year, but I really don't have the time I'd need to make the as awesome as I'd like. Also there are the obvious copyright issues!
Great to see new Rust news every day.

At first I was most interested in Go: But now it seems that Rust is much more close to the metal than Go is, which I find more interesting.
git repositories aren't giant masses of text files; they're compressed on disk and the additional gains from compressing them with lzma are minimal (12 MB on a 306 MB git repo I have lying around). I assume Mercurial does something similar as the difference would be a lot larger than 17 vs 50 MB if not.
Brainstorming is broken
It is important that whoever builds this software is benevolent and puts user's welfare (privacy, UX, relationships, time, cognitive load, etc) above squeezing every last dollar of profit out of the venture (a la Facebook, for example).
If you are doing too many small time tasks that don't demand any serious focus. Its likely you have taken the wrong direction with regards to your career.

Great way of putting that. Can I borrow this? :)
1. seriously, you couldn't just say you're 18? nobody cares in fact.

2. well, fuck paypal!

3. not a good way to show PoC. Is there antiCSRF on search form? Can I see the whole flow?
My understanding is that the 1st amendment applies up to the point where a person makes a specific, realistic threat. This hardly seems like a realistic threat -- it is a stretch to even call these lyrics a threat -- and I am having trouble seeing where he made reference to any specific target for this supposed attack. I see typical outrageous rap lyrics here, nothing worth taking serious as either a threat or a music.
Great pointers, but are there any specifics you could share on 'brain functions that improve with age'? You seem to be saying there aren't any, by omission...

My non-factual opinion is that "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." means that an older person will get to the solution faster... unless it requires a complete reappraisal. So it's wise to become expert in things that change slowly: human nature, language, law, mathematics. Of course, there's nothing stopping an older person from becoming a beginner.

So, is it age or is it expertise? While there definitely are age effects, I think they are often overstated - as that study on the effect weight training for post menopausal women on bone density showed: elderly people aren't inactive because they're frail; they're frail because they are inactive. (to dramatise the point).
1) "In all fairness" was clearly a turn of phrase intended to indicate that whilst it was fair point, there was a bigger issue at play. I see nothing wrong with that.

2) Since when is the submitter not allowed to comment?

3) Simply googling for "Ansar Dine" turns up plenty of links indicating links to Al-Qaeda e.g. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-20/world/39379359...
I'm really annoyed by your refusal to stay on topic. I pointed out a specific problem with security in many higher level languages-- the presence of eval and eval-like constructs in the language. You changed the topic. I pointed out that minimizing the size of the trusted code base, and reducing the privileges with which code runs is the foundation of any successful attempt to make secure coding easier. You changed the topic.

I'm really tired of the ideology that everything written in C is insecure, and everything written in higher-level languages smells like roses. Should we be surprised that things like Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, and even client-side Java are riddled with security vulnerabilities? Well, when programmers refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past, and think using a higher-level language is a magic elixir for achieving security, it's not a surprise.
As a software developer, very few things blow my mind - but this just did.

How did they do that?
No, I think he's just commenting on the amusing picture of eight $1 bills on top of a cat in the original blog post :)
Thanks! the major selling point of Go over Node.js on the Pi for me was resource usage.
I definitely share your excitement for the internet of things, hope I can dig deeper into Nitrogen over the weekend :)
Which means (in most cases) "I did not do a conscious choice based on reviews and comparisons and just followed the hype.". A bit sad.
If high intellectual potential means an increased awareness of how fucked humanity actually is, then it isn't super surprising that high intellectual potential is positively correlated with depression.
Oh, right, on a local machine I guess the X11 server doesn't need a client before the compositor.
Perhaps it was only one stupid comment. He saw the cat with the bills and remembered the cat's photo site. It's not a very relevant comment and it breaks the "no cat's photos" rule. But it's not extremely offensive or plain spam or tinfoil hat talk, and the older comments from the user look good. So IMHO I think it deserves only a few downvotes (maybe 0 or -1?), banning the user for this is too much.
Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
I purchased a Raspberry PI a while back, and have yet to do anything with it besides make an LED light blink. Are there any interesting projects to attempt?
Because nearly every supposed story along these lines grossly misconstrues and distorts the underlying situation?
Poor kid - his only crime was being a terrible rapper.
"The Math Gene" goes into some of the links between math and language--but that's not really central to my argument, which is that some people are not predisposed to attack problems linguistically. I only mention it to explain why there are so many linguistic connections to computer science.

I don't mean to sound defensive; and, indeed, I'm not sure I'm terribly bad at math (perfect scores on math achievements, AP Calculus BC, diff eq. modeling experience) or have terribly low verbal ability (perfect score on verbal SAT). But I do know that, of the tools I would use to attack a CS problem, linguistic is low on the list. And once I have a solution, my correctness proofs are not linguistic, either.
> So someone else could actually start new branch from commit which is in branch you just "deleted"

Well yes, of course. They could also start a new branch from any other commit that they happen have in their local repository. Branches aren't really 'things' in git. They're just a pointer to an arbitrary commit that automatically gets updated when you make new commits. It's rarely a useful thing to do, but you don't even have to be on a branch to make commits.
> That is what it is like for exceptionally gifted children who are mainstreamed.

Funny story: I was in special ed classes for my last year of high school. Half my teachers wanted me to be in the hyper-accelerated program, half my teachers wanted me to be in special ed; the latter teachers won. They took my resistance to doing homework and "disorganization" as a profound learning disability, despite never getting less than an A on a test.

A month or two before I dropped out, a story about one of my projects was featured in Forbes and other major publications. The same teachers and administrators who had forced me into that hellish existence were parading it around as this huge badge of honor for my little school; last I heard, it's still hanging up in the office somewhere. I never got an apology, never had anyone say "hey, we fucked up." They justified all of this in their minds; I'll never understand how.
By this standard, nearly every rapper from the last 30 years should be in prison on terrorist charges.
If your Firefox crashes sometimes then go to about:support and click reset (it should be near the top right of the page).

You should probably also go to http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/ to update your addons.

Maybe you have an extension that is causing your crashes ... I suspect something that is not used by very many people.

As a side not I am proud to work for Mozilla. The first thing we ask before doing anything is "Will this make the internet a better place?" ... too many companies do not live their missions or, at least, don't live up to them.
This is why big companies get slow and bloated. Behavior like this only happens when people are in it for the money and don't really care about what they're building.
A lot of people on Reddit, etc... seem to be misinformed about what illegal free speech is, so here's some relevant case material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

"Court held that government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite, imminent lawless action.

...In this case, the court found that Hess's words did not fall outside the limits of protected speech, in part, because his speech "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time,"[1] and therefore did not meet the imminence requirement."

From Cameron's case:
"The Methuen Chief of Police even stated: 'I do want to make clear he did not make a specific threat against the school or any particular individuals...'"

Vague threats are not illegal.
if the paypal search only accept POSTs then you're absolutely right. It won't be as easy as sharing a link. If it happens to also accept GET requests, then it would. I didn't test this.

Note that _if_ the form is already CSRF-protected, then attackers won't easily be able to POST from a different domain either, which would drastically reduce the attack surface.

I didn't test this, but I'm not sure the form is fully CSRF protected though. I tried to explain the potential exploit from this discovered vulnerability. Perhaps I should have stated more clearly that this is more a general comment, and not specific to this particular case.
Making Perl more accessible
I find these decisions are easier to make if you reverse the roles. If you were in their shoes, what would you want/expect your competitor to do?
The saying, the perfect is the enemy of the good sums up a lot of Ted Nelson's life.

He has a lot of ideas. They inspire people. He's been working on them for ages. (Xanadu was started in 1960.) But he never is satisfied, he's always changing it, he never releases (OK, an incomplete form of Xanadu was released in 1998...), and the key parts that people care about have been released elsewhere in a form that he doesn't like.
Job titles don't mean anything ... except to the next person to hire you.

It's true that your job title doesn't influence your day to day work. But it's a mistake to think your job title doesn't play a great big part in 1) how your coworkers interact with you and 2) the way possible future employers think of you.

Job title is a signal, just like the way you dress, the tone you use to communicate over email. Ignore it if you choose, but even if you do ignore it, not everybody else will.
> I would almost call FUD there, [...]

This depends on the combination of hardware and distro. And Windows simply has the advantage that every hardware manufacturer out there is developing for Windows. So yes, you can get similar power efficiency with Linux as with Windows. And you can get better efficiency than stock Windows, if you are willing to work a bit. However, if you compare a stock $DISTRO install with a stock Windows, then chances are that you get less efficiency because the manufacturer did optimize for Windows.

In case of the ISS, I do not have the slightest idea if this matters. But I would not be too surprised if the ISS guys are quite happy because they now operate a 22W Ivy Bridge in place designed for a 60W P4.
You could team up with a technical person, though!
Too much money isn't an actual problem when you have the massive pile of debt that California does. The only thing California actually has is a discipline problem: they need to be responsible and put any surplus funds toward the debt.

A person has $100k in debt, a modest income, and they inherit $20,000... it'd be like claiming that person has too much money.
After watching that, I'm amazed X works as well as it does every day. :)
It should be noted that it's not the feds holding this kid, it's the police of his small-town Boston suburb. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/cameron-dambrosio-b....

"Police learned of the threats after a student alerted a school official, the Herald writes."

"'When we're just recovering from what occurred in Boston, to make a threat and use what occurred in Boston to enhance your threat, is extremely alarming for us,' Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon said at a press conference after D'Ambrosio was apprehended."

Also: http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x326078366/Judge-Hes-a-thr....

"Cameron D’Ambrosio was in Lawrence District Court yesterday in a suit, tie and shackles for a hearing to determine whether and how he could be released from custody after being arrested May 1."

Not that it excuses the local police department's actions, but small-town shit like this has always happened. News of it just moves at light speed now thanks to the internet.
Sure, we now care about that. But we've been breeding animals for over ten thousand years. During that process, what did we lose? What of that can we get back with scientific supported breeding?

Or to state it differently, was the prehistoric cow significantly healthier for us than our current cow (or chicken)? And will it be possible to breed that extra "healthiness" back in?
What if it emerges? For instance, the computer can be programmed with the notion of "doing things with or for" something. What do you do with or for a self? Preserve it.
Use Google Drive on Android to save receipts 
Do you keep the receipts for everything you buy? Like me, you’ve probably noticed that the ones printed on thermal paper can begin to disappear over time. Soon, you’re left with only a blank piece of paper that can’t act as a proof of purchase or help you at tax time.

Wednesday’s update to Google Drive on Android lets you easily store all of your receipts and even search through them. Doesn’t a nice digital archive sound better than piles, folders, or boxes of receipts all over your home? Here’s how to get started:

Note: This new version of Drive seems to be having issues on several devices, particularly the Galaxy S III. Although I didn’t reach out to Google for comment, the amount of comments on its Google Play app entry and Google+ have likely alerted the developers to the situation.
Am I the only one scared by the thought of uploading my whole photo collection to Google's servers? What about creating an offline database of object fingerprints that can classify my pictures without privacy violations?
I think the positive and negative effects of open floor plans vary per person and the type of work being done. For example, I can find music disturbing when I need to do work that requires a lot of thought and concentration but it's perfectly fine if I'm doing something mundane.

The comfort of having a door to close is also nice so you can focus. Also it's great to be able to every once in a while take a few minute break and do something mindless and non-work related and not have people think you're slacking.

Like some others that posted here I think you need to mix and match for a semi-open floor plan that includes, conference rooms, lounges and private offices that people can take turns in.

However, when I worked at companies with open floor plans I tended to hang out with my coworkers more outside the office. It was good for team building and for pulling some funny pranks on one another.
It appears to recognize some famous mountains, including Mt Robson (Canada), Mt Rainier (USA) and Cerro Torre (Chile/Argentina).
Nice but I wish people wouldn't use names like "w", "tuple" or "string" for variables. Tuple of what? The analysis that is needed for the reader to figure that out, however short, is friction you are adding to the code readability. The shame of it is this kind of friction is totally unnecessary. Looking forward to giving this a whirl though.
honest serious question: do we have evidence that high IQ (beyond say 120 or so) is useful for anything important? Seems like a lot of people seek high IQ, but what's the advantage exactly?
I'd totally do moria like adventure with google glass.
Maybe what you really mean is:

Display <- X server <- Compositor/WM <- X server <- Your app

Where compositor/WM and your app are X clients, i.e. there's lots of context switches between clients and the server.

I personally don't see much wrong with this design BTW, despite the context switches X is pretty smooth even on some pretty wimpy hardware (eg. Raspberry pi, or Nokia N900, or the wimpy Pentiums I ran X on 15 years ago).
This is the correct interpretation--looking back on it the wording is ambiguous.
"BASIC" is probably the key word in that title.
I believe I read this in The Salmon of Doubt, where Douglas Adams explained he pretty much chose it arbitrarily. "42 will do", were his words, IIRC.
People hate the Google bus because humans do not want to feel inferior or that they are being treated unfairly. SF has a lot of poor people and a lot of rich people, and the number of rich are increasing. When you're poor and your neighbor is poor, you feel, if not OK, decent. When you're poor and you're neighbor is rich, it pisses you off--especially as they crowd you out of the city. The bus is a symbol of class divide, pure and simple. Argue about how techies provide value, how government is broken, etc., but recognize that the fundamental issue is human psychology--specifically, envy.
I wish that I could take a 30% pay cut and work 30% less and do something else with the time. Or even a 50% pay cut for 50% less time.

I like programming, but I find sitting in an office chair 50 hours a week incredibly boring, frustrating, socially stifling

I don't know what else I could do, having no experience and would have to go back to minimum wage. Odds are I might just get bored with whatever that would be after a short while
One of my professors used to relentlessly say "name it for what it stores, not for what it is", and would mark off for anything less.
A bit worse than that; from a friend who looked at it:

They didn't do the basic end to end work, so creating a client to display a Xanadu document was almost impossibly onerous. You had to grok and use around 6 different things, and, well, however nice the backend might be, it just wasn't practical.

Also an example of the perils of stealth mode, I found the above believable simply because they'd been in stealth mode for decades.
There is a strain of libertarian contract theory that (while perhaps still problematic on feminist grounds in its likely implications) is more compatible with the idea of enthusiastic consent.

Rothbard's position was that the only proper subject of an enforceable contract was the transfer of title to alienable property. Therefore, the only permissible use of force to compel specific performance would be to compel title transfer. A slavery contract, under this theory, is unenforceable because one's self and one's labor are not alienable.

This breaks down around edge cases relating to alienable property strictly necessary for life, though there's a case to be made that any property strictly necessary for life isn't alienable. That's a hole big enough to drive a system of socialized medicine through.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that about Evernote.
I've not used Evernote myself because I tend to use Linux, but I'm definitely going to try it with Wine.
Same here. When I heard about the large Buddha sculptures in Bamyan Valley (Afghanistan) destroyed by the Taliban, my heart sank.
I actually deployed a production embedded system running a large chunk of code written in perl once (on a 180MHz FreeBSD/arm board). The performance was just enough, although the critical components were implemented in C.
Some ideas I had:
* record your snoring patterns over night
* capture webcam images over long periods of time
* track wlan devices in the vicinity
* use it as a low-distraction terminal
* network-accessed storage
* use it to train a parrot (microphone to detect tunes, treat dispenser or LEDs for reinforcement)
I have been writing a framework that supports building what I consider to be the Minimum Viable Product of any successful social app. (One that will go on to success in this new environment of 2013, mobile phones etc.) We took care of everything, from user signup, to realtime updates and offline notifications, to access controls, roles, contacts, invitations, and even auto-scaling in case you get to millions of users. And it took me two years and help from two additional developers.

I guess that's a huge amount of effort for the number of people, but overall it's something that a large company like Google or Facebook already built in-house.

Just goes to show some problems require more than others to solve. And also, by leveraging existing libraries, you can more quickly build an MVP that may not scale but can show off the capabilities.
Google Groups is used by such a tiny number of people, and has such a poverty of functionality, that I'm fairly certain it has no measurable effect in suppressing innovation in this area.

Whatever reasons there might be for why forums/discussions aren't getting any better, the existence of Google Groups is not one of them.
Were view?

For a moment I thought this had something to do with werewolfs.