skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy... I remember in high school (I think 2001) I gave a speech to my Social Studies class about Carnivore (previously DCS1000). I was incensed by it, and by what it represented. I now read this stuff, and just kinda quietly think "what next?"
Things that bug me: "setup" is the noun; "set up" is the verbal phrase. When I see 'setup" used like that, it drives me nuts.
> I am planning on doing a graceful back-flip out of this mess and quit. What are your suggestions for immediate and eventual haul until my tenure is over ?

Are you asking what you can do to improve the project while you hunt for a new job? I'm not sure what "immediate and eventual haul" means. It sounds like you feel some personal or professional motivation to help the project, even if you have already "checked out".

I recommend that you start your job hunt immediately, network with positive and connected people in the organization while you still can, leave a good impression with your managers if possible, and generally avoid rocking the boat.

Even though it may feel cathartic, burning bridges is unproductive. This is a small industry and you can only hurt yourself. The organization will not make any changes based on anything you say in your exit interview that might rescue the project or improve the lot of the co-workers you leave behind.
I would expect people on this site to have a slightly more sophisticated understanding than that. There are these things called numbers. It's not a binary question of whether or not the actions of the USA are to blame for reactions against the USA, it's a question of whether the USA's actions cause more frequent aggressive reactions.
Quality work is quality work. Getting scooped doesn't diminish whatever you've accomplished.
"Toxic workplace, what do I do?"
quit. F' that noise. It isn't worth the frustration. I did the same thing about a year ago, working for federally funded science. The worst decisions on earth were made, money was wasted AND they complained about budget cuts. It got to the point that someone was like, "you look miserable?" and I was. Toxic is a perfect word, it was literally eating away at me. I quit, had no job lined up, went on vacation while emailing my contacts about jobs, came back with a job. Done and done. Being in a toxic environment does nothing for you with the exception of teaching you how NOT to do things. But, it seems clear the author of this post realizes that, so your lesson is done. Quit. move on, don't look back. Simple as that.
Tracking PageViews and Events on a Single Page App
> I am copying verbatim or summarizing the FISA order

Why are you doing that? Did you randomly select and copy parts of text or did you pick that particular set of lines for a reason.

You also emphasized the word 'metadata'.

Now you can have a discussion or as soon as people respond to you, you can keep pointing out how they obviously guessed wrong your intentions, maybe finally someone will guess correctly, who knows, until then just reply in short snippets "i didn't say that", "nope not what i meant", "here is an exact quote of what i already wrote".
I think Github unnecessarily is having a LOT of its lunch eaten by Bitbucket b/c of its unwillingness to let people just have a bunch of small private repos for low activity work.
it's not possible to hide all of the content that ends up in the feed. If I could I would.
at the angelhack last weekend, my partner created streetcodr.com. it was well accepted and seemed like a cool way to code.
First B, Last N?
I'll continue to drive a jalopy and spend my money on something like this.

This makes regular travel to and from the place I want to be (as opposed to need to be, for an income) a real possibility.

P.S. Another person who would be interested in a two-seater. At the same time, it's only fair I note that my own purchase would not be imminent. (Been a rough few years.)
It'd be cool to see something like this built into a watch; Like the pebble but with gestures. I wonder if it'd still work further down the forearm.
Yeah, leadership is hard. That's why so few leaders bother with it.
"This is not some conspiracy theory. It's happening, and no one seems to care."

Maybe people are afraid. If you accuse the NSA of committing crimes that are only slightly unethical (wiretapping US citizens), then you're instantly on "the list" of arguably the most powerful organization in the world.

Not only would the story just end up being, "oh well, greater good", but the NSA would just slightly back off of the monitoring, then make sure that future leaks such as this do not happen again.

They are not an evil nor dark organization, just one with a very important mission, and when you have the real big picture on the table sometimes the unethical option is required to maintain dominance and security.

Imagine having the responsibility of protecting a country that is the #1 target in the world, that has 300+ million people within its borders that have the potential to cause major harm to the country, its citizens, and its allies. The NSA doesn't have a choice but to do everything in its power to maintain information dominance over the world.

The NSAs mission statement requires it to protect the US and provide foreign sigint. They're technically not allowed to spy on US citizens but what if it was absolutely required to protect the country? How many people are really qualified to make that decision?
I think this has great potential for things beyond gesture control; if it can be accurate I would love to have one of these on each arm to replace my keyboard to allow me to type in the air (I have RSI).

That said, I am not spending a cent until you ship and get a lot of positive reviews.
Still getting an error (+64). 10 digit number incl. country code...any tips?

Looks pretty clean, I like it. Also a one man team, keep on trucking!
Thanks for mentioning Ordoro (https://www.ordoro.com/). Yes, we have integration with Shopify and a few other carts. And we can batch print shipping labels for USPS, Fedex, UPS (more shipping integrations coming soon).
In the corporate world, this is because the purpose of enterprise data is less to drive decisionmaking, and more to justify decisions that the executives were going to make anyway, which will usually just be whatever has the greatest benefit to their own careers.

In the public world, though, it seems to me like big data has had pretty huge results. The most commonly cited example probably being Nate Silver predicting the 2012 US presidential election results correctly for all 50 states using big data sources and techniques--this degree of predictive statistical analysis was previously unheard of in politics.
Thanks staunch, that's great feedback. I think you're totally right that getting the entire process replace would be tough. I like the idea of an objective measurement score. It wouldn't be everything but could help out deciding between a couple candidates that were otherwise equal.
TMobile is great until it isn't. I had them for years with a $19.99/4ever plan grandfathered from Omnipoint many years ago.

Unfortunately for you, that means that you can't make a phone call 30 miles from your city center (or in remote locations like Brooklyn, NY or the state of Maine) , or in the back of your home, or 1000 ft from the interstate, etc.
Apportable (YC W11) is hiring C++ hackers to build the next Humble Mobile Bundle
Humble Bundle (YC W'11) and Apportable (YC W'11) are bringing great indie games to Android through the Humble Mobile Bundle, such as Osmos, EDGE, Cogs, Spirits, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Eufloria HD. With your help, these bundles have raised $5.6 million to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Child's Play, and independent game developers.

We're working on a new bundle that has the potential to be the best yet. And we’d like to try an experiment: would any of you like to come to San Francisco and help us finish it? We're looking for strong C++ programmers who love games. Familiarity with Objective-C, OpenGL ES, and Python will be helpful, but mostly you just need to know C++. (No Android experience necessary! You'll be using the Apportable SDK.)

What's included:

- All-expenses paid trip to San Francisco (if you're not already here)

- Work from the Humble Bundle and Apportable offices

- Learn from the source code of the world's best indie game developers

- Your creation will quickly end up in the hands of millions of Android users

- That warm feeling that you made the world a better place

This is a short-term contract position, with the option to continue on after your project ships.

Interested? Contact humblebundle@apportable.com
In before michaelochurch.

Since this is non-profit, it almost certainly doesn't pay you well enough to waste your days on a massive death march project like that. No unit tests? You've gotta be freakin' kidding me. Cut and run as soon as you can get another offer.
Ah, you must also be one of those "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" people.
this thread is about posting websites, not finding the meaning of life.

congratulations on accomplishing writing the comment, have a cookie.
Google piloting Shopping Express – Same-day delivery from local stores
My goal was not to participate in this discussion at this particular time, but instead to read others' valuable opinions.

My reason for posting was to correct factual errors in the discussion. Factual errors seriously reduce the level of quality of discussions of topics such as this one. Things get much more interesting when people hone in on the nuanced elements of the actual fact pattern.

My replies were to correct people who seemed to think that my curation of quotes from the FISA order implied something about my views on whether the order is good or bad.

And now this is an attempt to make the whole series of responses clear.
This is a reflection of humanity as a whole. No matter what you make, no matter how great it is, everyone will try to tear it down and maintain the status quo. It's human nature. The trick is to parse through the criticsm to find what is legit (and make changes accordingly) and what is just complaining and ignore it. Being able to judge feedback like this is an invaluable skill.
The original of the book in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_paresse (roughly "Hello laziness")

The company was French electricity monopoly EDF, and their reaction to the book was instrumental in propelling it to success. Its creator is now widely known as the French version of Scott "Dilbert" Adams.
You work for Southern California Edison. Quit.
Change your job. If you can't, change jobs. - that worked so far good for me :)
Yahoo Mail launches Infinite Scroll and Vertical Preview Pane
A lot of well-reasoned arguments are laid out in the Tcl advocacy page here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/590
Why would the {front|back}end framework matter to the {back|front}end?
A similar example are couriers who travel handcuffed to a briefcase - having keys for neither.

However, in both these examples there is a very important difference. A thorough strip search would reveal that the person does not in fact have the required/desired keys.

Also, usually such people have superiors who may be contacted in order to get access (if they want to push it that far). I'm not sure if a person could use such a defence if they are a normal traveller or their company does not carry much weight.
But Amazon is not "Most companies". Amazon has done a brilliant job so far, and has changed from a bookstore to a cloud-provider, mega store, content generator and ad network (and probably many things more); utilizing the medium "internet" in a way most companies can only dream of.

In my opinion, like i said, Amazon has a very unique POV on long-term strategies and it collides with people (or stock markets) expectations on making a lot of money in a short time.
A conversation with the Go team
Enigma Machine Had a Keyboard Converted To Hebrew
You need to install FBPurity: http://www.fbpurity.com
How tiny commuting app Transit is beating Google Maps
This is superior advice to quitting immediately. You're much more likely to get a good offer if you already have a job and don't need a new one (talking in the financial sense here) than if you quit first and then have to negotiate a package from a position of unemployment.

I've seen people quit their job and be forced to come back when they couldn't find work elsewhere. Why take that risk when there's no need?
Nice, that's an interesting idea. Couldn't really play with it since there were no opponents but I think I get the gist of it.
Can you put up the CBSE results please? Simple csv aggregate file will suffice. I will do some analysis on that too.
Ask HN: Best progressive way to learn web development
I am novice in web development, but I desire to learn all aspects of web development like web security, web API development etc. What is the best approach to learn them all progressively (a step by step way) ?
I'm still getting an error using +86 or 0086
Check. As a developer and entrepreneur i like seeing new and interesting projects from same-minded people. Most of the articles posted on HN are interesting. But sometimes i just want to see what is created by HN people to test it, support them or to get inspired.
When I see posts like this, I get the sinking feeling that HN is going the same way as reddit for 4chan /b/
Greenwald is great. Conor Friedersdorf and Radley Balko also do quality journalism on civil liberties issues.
Stock Google Keyboard now available on Google Play
Even if you do: it runs super slow on my Mac Pro.
In a flash it's occurred to me that the sharper would-be perpetrators of antisocial acts might now decide not to use the telephone to communicate their dastardly plans. However all is not lost because the information collected will no doubt be put to good use.
Isn't it a bit strange that US did not persecute AT&T for the hole/lapse?
> Python and Matlab are not interchangeable.

Matlab and Python are perfectly interchangeable for the overwhelming majority of undergrads and graduate students. Claiming that they are not interchangeable based on the difference between pass-by-reference and copy-on-write is just silly.

You're ignoring the typical use case for an engineering student: general math & plotting. In Python, that is easily accomplished with NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. These are all free.

Kudos on knowing how these languages work and understanding some low-level design specifications, but negative kudos for not understanding the education system and the immense fiscal burden it places on students for books & software. Sure, many schools provide a free license... here is a little tidbit of information for you: ain't nothing free.
The big insight of the very first lisp is that treating everything as a symbol (pointer) together with conditionals and functions is good enough for almost everything, and it is as elegant and complete as Lambda Calculus.

The pair of functions at the very core of a Lisp - eval and apply - has a deep correlation with philosophy, and captured the essence of the general process called interpretation.

Since then lots of things happened, most notably, use of parenthesis to unify the notation (and representation) of code and data for the reader function(s), which, as a consequence, makes macros possible. With macros everything was possible, so CLOS and other "monsters" were created.

Lisp, perhaps, is the greatest example of how a few selected ideas (very clever ones) could be put together to create something exceptional (and beautiful) and, on the other hand, more subtly, how it is not possible to create an ideal (unfortunately, not everything is a list, and by adding new data structures the beauty fell apart), how implementation is always clumsy and cumbersome (all those ugly machine types deep inside) and how crowd of mediocrity quickly produces piles of crap.
It might be a black spot in his career. It will be difficult to explain what went wrong while staying positive. Beside, this can strongly affect his moral. A back flip, if possible is in my opinion the right move: get the hell out of this.
It is an extremely simple language.

It admits to enough metaprogramming to do many useful DSLs; it's always been a half-ass version of Lisp in that regard, but with more congenial syntax, and before any other language embraced the idea.

It was the first of the scripting languages to do a truly good job at embeddability.

incr Tcl has a very clean design.

The language is designed from the bottom up to work well in event loop programming, in much the same way Golang is designed for lightweight threads.

It's true that the language hasn't aged well, and I have a hard time coming up with an example of a project I'd bring it into (for extreme embeddability I assume I'd go with Lua; for DSLs I'd use a Lisp dialect or Ruby [aka Japanese Tcl], and object oriented design has fallen somewhat out of fashion.

Do you work at Cisco?
As others said - commit to Quit. Create two options for yourself - one job and one working for yourself. Staying will tar you with the brush of the company.

But before you leave write a very well considered and professional memo and send it to the CE/board/exec team, offering to meet with them as well.
Keep it internal, and leave it there.

I would aim at communicating three things:

1: That a problem exists at your level, and give three examples of how this manifests. Focus on how things work rather than on people and personalities and the overall implications for the project and organisation.

2: Your understanding of the root causes of the problems. For this it's best to canvas other people but make sure the conclusions are your own and not blamed on others. Focus on causes that are not people but processes/structures that have et the organisation up to fail.

3: Your recommendations for the senior exec/board etc. Again I would give tangible things they can do that do not involve individuals, such as immediately de-scope the project, bring in certain external help, separate out this department and that and so on.

If they are smart they will meet with you, and even keep you on in a role where you can help make changes. I suspect they will not, but at the very least you will have tried, and they will have evidence that they should not ignore.
I always thought people want to suicide all the time but are too shameful to confess.
First time I attempted suicide was at 12, when my fathers divorced and my mother left.
Then I had the misfortune to be the classic tiny nerdy good guy, always in love with some girl. Young girls can be cruel.
Suicide was always in my mind from 15 to about 25. But it is not a dreadful feeling, in fact at that times, it can be very liberating.
To think everything has a very simple solution, I saw death like the end of suffering and the beginning of peace, whats not to love about that? Suicide thoughts always comforted me in those sad moments, like a pressure valve. Nothing can be so bad that death is not a fix for it.

But its easier to think about it than to do it, that's for sure. Something changed in my mind about the time I had 30. Never had those feelings again. But I always will remember the times I contemplated death as moments of hope in between desperation.
It's not quite bogus, but it's very close.

http://pratyaya.nationalinterest.in/2013/06/05/the-bogus-cla...
"what do I do?"- If you can jump ship ASAP, there is tons of opportunity out there.

I was in a similar situation (not quite as bad), but I couldn't leave because of a business obligation. I survived by insulating myself from the dipshits. We formed an isolated 'blackops' team within engineering that was beholden to nobody but ourselves. We were able to move at lightspeed compared to the rest of engineering.

After a year our small team actually began a major pivot for the company (culture, technology, etc..) and breathed new life into the company. Most of the diphits were jettisoned and the others were moved into supporting roles.
Cosmography of the local universe highlights structures of local galaxies
Although this only means that the order for VBNS was released - for all we know every telco could be under a similar order that just hasn't been leaked.
The glitter, the bling… it looks like a perfect icon replacement for Sublime Text.

Whoever created that icon doesn't get Vim at all, IMO.
Anyone else reading this in their mind as YOLO reader?
I thought this was going to be about how
there is an opportunity for someone to build a company around preventing military suicides (which is something my team is working on). But cool stats, thanks.
Hit the nail on the head. That's what it was. Fun but I ended up giving up my account to another player to manage and haven't looked back.
This is terrible advice. Don't send anything other than a neutral message to your immediate supervisor informing them of your 2 week notice.
I run hiring for Matasano, which is one of the hiring-est companies (in its size tier, I guess) on HN. We've looked at a couple tools like this and none of them have kept us too engaged.

A feature idea for you: when you do the scheduling, have contact information for all the interviewers enrolled in the system, and the candidate, and (optionally) SMS them 15 minutes in advance of the interview.
Motion capture doesn't look animated.
> This is not some conspiracy theory. It's happening, and no one seems to care.

It's true that no-one seems to care. And what's more, if you do care others will look at you funny, like you're paranoid. "Why do you care so much about anonymity? You don't have anything to hide!"

Literally the only argument that I've ever had luck with is to ask them whether they are okay with the police searching their house whenever they want. After all, you don't have anything to hide, right? This takes them aback. I ask them, so why do you think we need search warrants? And most people agree that we need them, but clearly they've not thought a lot about why we need them, or what life would be like without them.

The odd thing about the situation is that we have a population which has it's head on pretty straight when it comes to search and seizure in the physical domain, and totally uncaring about whether these rules are applied to the digital domain. It's as if information on paper is some sacred thing, but information on disk platters is free for the taking. Very, very strange.

My hope is that, like with pot legalization and gay marriage in many states, public awareness will crystalize and coalesce on the rational position. This is actually a very simple situation where there is unequal application of the 4th amendment depending on media of all things, and this is totally, completely insane.
HN is a community. It's not about "posting websites" any more than a club is about bbq's. And comments with aggressive overtones, such as yours, make the community worse.
Google Ventures' humans.txt file
A Tale of Two Clocks - Scheduling Web Audio with Precision - HTML5 Rocks
For the love of all that is holy, when people offer you their email addresses, take them! Don't look for alternate ways to engage prospects long term. Get email right, right now.

There's a reason email drip marketing is such a hot topic in startupland right now. It turns out that email is a pretty damned effective way to stay engaged with people, especially compared to "hoping someone subscribes to this RSS feed or ever remembers to look at this website again". Don't make your prospects remember things; do the remembering for them.

Try using Mailgun instead of an actual email server you run; we've had a lot of good luck with it.
Ask HN: When did tech hiring start to suck?
Steve Jobs, walked into Atari unannounced, unqualified - immediately hired. Steve Wozniak, no degree, scruffy looking - hired by prestigious HP.
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always makes me laugh
Perhaps nothing perfect has yet been posted?