skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance the blogs look very attractive - I really like the design. Do you have plans to increase the level of personalisation over time, or are you trying to keep the look relatively homogenous?
It is, however, an element of your credit score.
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No wonder why fresh graduates can't get a Job
How to Stop Procrastinating by Using The "2-Minute Rule"
Foc.us tDCS Device Shipping in July
I just wrote a little blog post that explains these terms and gives you my basic use-case for tmux. Let me know if it's helpful?

http://copperthoughts.com/p/tmux-simply-explained/
The network part is just something for later. Since when does medium use an algorithm?
I have about 500 Facebook friends, but only about two dozen in a family channel and another two dozen in a Close Friends channel. The bulk are in channels for work colleagues (big company), business contacts, and people I know who live abroad. Today, I wouldn't friend most of the business contacts, but that's ancient history.

I've lived in North America and my wife's family is Chinese so we are pretty widely spread. I have close relations in five different countries, but the majority are in Asia.

So, in an average Facebook session, I see posts from about 50 people, and I know almost all of them very well. I see a lot of baby and toddler pictures, with more to come ;-)

I have no relatives at all who use G+, and very few colleagues/business contacts who actually use it. Also, I don't see much new content there. I've usually seen it already via Twitter, Reddit, HN or RSS feeds.

I also use LinkedIn and Quora, and as a former /. and Digg user, I sometimes drop by those as well. They all have their niches. Unfortunately, it's hard to see anything that G+ does better than the rest, from my point of view.
If nothing is worth anything then by definition everything is worth whatever you want it to be worth. My life is inconsequential from the perspective of the universe but from my point of view its pretty important.

Also, you certainly do have the ability to actively engage with your world and you have an extremely limited ability to change how certain aspects of that world works. Of course this has to be based on the idea that doing so is inherently worth it which you seem to have abandoned.
I wouldn't expect that to work well in the long-run, since Ghost (http://tryghost.org/features.html) has the same features (Markdown + minimalistic design), and it's open source.

And that's not counting the fact that Medium itself is free.
As opposed to the Bush or Reagan administrations' records with leakers?
News from GoFlow Good and Bad
I focus on equal looks across all platforms but more custom stuff is of course planned.
Unless the best ideas involve terrorist groups, that's your problem
Exactly what my family said :) "Your doing a Doppler!"
While it is important to keep our egos in check, I think this article leans a bit on the side of discounting modern web computing. Not all of us twiddle around with CRUD apps all day. Running a site with millions of concurrent users is challenging, and useful. Sites like twitter or reddit enable social change and transparency. Running a site with one hundred users doing real work is challenging too. Allowing one or two people to do a job that would have taken 10 people just a few years ago (ie: sales force, accounting systems, gis systems, big data analytics, etc.).

Also, he talks about how web devs are like plumbers with toilet fixing robots. This would be true if the plumbers happened to build the robots themselves. Who does he think built Rails, Http, Express, Sinatra, Cake, Mongo, MySQL, and every other open source web technology out there? People like you and me. The web is an amazing thing, quite possibly humanity's greatest achievement so far, and we are still working on making it better.

One last thing. The author seems to think web devs just think about colors all day. Is he not hacking, exploring, and building things? Someone who talks about colors all day is a web designer imo. Nothing wrong with that, but entirely different focus.
I know the original comment was deleted but I wanted to comment on this anyway since I spent the last school year teaching in a low-income high school.

First off, don't assume that the two are mutually exclusive. One of the things you learn as an educator in a tough environment is that you need hobbies as an outlet to survive and not become depressed. If you do start to go down that rabbit hole of depression you can have a poor outlook on your and your student's ability to succeed and that is not what an ideal educator needs in order to be successful in the classroom.

Second, I could have used this app over the last year to make me a better teacher. The ability to capture thoughts with words and pictures like this app provides would have been phenomenal for my organization and let me be more effective. I tried other apps and they would not have been as useful as this one would have been so don't discount it because the time was spent working on it instead of other problems that you feel are more deserving of attention.
Full throttle on demand really works
A few months ago, for the first time in my life I could not get it up when I was about to make love to my wife. I don't know what caused it, perhaps it was the fact that we have been married for over 10 years and I know every square inch of that body, or if it was stress related due to my job working as a sales rep for an IT services company.<p>What I do know is that from then on it started to happen more often, most likely fuelled by me worrying about performing, after the first failure. In any case that was enough to get me worried, so I made the appointment, visited my doctor, went through all the tests only to learn there was no physical reason why this was happening to me. By then I was given the advice to take some counselling and got a prescription for Viagra to help me out in the mean time.<p>Well, the Viagra gave me migraines and I was not about to take counselling. The thought of sharing this type of things with a complete stranger still send shivers down my spine. In the mean time the “problem” continued and it really started to affect my marriage in more ways then sexually. I wasn't far from needing an other type of counselling, but then I started searching on this topic online and on one of those searches
Not necessarily. We don't know if what made him so incredibly productive sprung from those same qualities. In fact, refusing to learn new processes when the old ones still worked might have aided him in gaining expertise.
Right. The private key file format typically contains everything needed to regenerate the public key (at least the crypto parameters anyway).
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I know that people complain about Wolfram when his posts show up here (which I understand, even if I've always found his bizarre combination of eccentricity and stupendous ego endearing), I thought this was super interesting.

Surprisingly, I think he only mentions NKS once in this whole entry, and it includes a nice shout-out to Rob Pike.
If you login to Facebook, go to the search bar and type in the letter A, you will see a list of your friends whose name (first/middle/last) starts with an A, but it's sorted based on who you are most likely to be looking for. I don't know exactly how they determime this since it could be based on so many factors like messaging, profile viewing, searching, photo tagging, shared events... even pokes!

It's spooky accurate and yet Facebook goes out of their way to never mention this kind of thing: they don't want us to realize how well they know us!
Foc.us, a GoFlow/tDCS alternative
From GoFlow's newsletter:

Some sad news.
And some good news too.
As most have you have probably noticed, we haven't made much progress on the GoFlow project in the last 6 months. We hit some obstacles, both in the business and in our personal lives, that kept us from making the progress we wanted.

We love tDCS and can't wait to see it become available to everyone. Unfortunately, it looks like we won't be the people making that happen. However, our friends at Foc.us have just launched and offer a great alternative.

Thank you all for your incredible support throughout the last year, we wish we could have successfully gotten GoFlow into your hands.

Some exciting news!
Our friends over at foc.us have just launched, and they have devices for sale!

We wanted to make sure to leave you with an alternative.

We've been in contact with the guys over a foc.us for quite awhile now. They're some pretty awesome folks who are incredibly smart.

They just started selling their tDCS device last week, and have a limited quantity available. They have achieved much of what we were attempting to, and we're really excited to see where they go.
Check out the Foc.us tDCS device!
What would be real interesting to know is if they find out about any crimes committed by the politicians with responsibility for oversight of the NSA and what they do with that information.
The Lesson of Tumblr: Product Uber Alles
they haven't been doing this forever, so if you've been a customer for a while, you might not have been asked.

they also don't ask business customers (might not be true for all countries) if they supply certain details about their business.
Cease Overbroad Surveillance of the American People
Get this man a ticket to Waponi Woo.
The tech required to write data onto a physical card is pretty inexpensive, and the standards for how magnetic stripe data is stored is widely known.

It doesn't seem unrealistic that someone could take valid creditcard details and put them onto a physical card to swipe.
I'm painfully familiar with Carelink. Until just the last year or so I maintained an XP box at home that was only turned on once every 90 days, when my wife needed to upload data to print reports for her doctor. The Carelink hardware didn't work with anymore more recent than XP until 2011 or 2012.

That continuous monitoring is kind of cool in short bursts. It's only a matter of time until there is a real-time feedback loop that allows to pump to auto-adjust as needed.
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What do you mean by "that merchant wasn't properly verifying cards anyway?"

If you know of some method by which merchants are able to reject fraudulent card use of the sort alleged to have resulted from the Linode breach, please do tell.
yes thanks for the heads up, It has been fixed.
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Eeesh...

If you want to see a nicely curated set of good design for iOS, go here: http://pttrns.com/
Debug Assertion Failed! Implicit broken rule: "Startups rarely fail because of the competition".
Not to argue with the core of your point, but the "arrests" bit is missing the point. The NSA mission isn't law enforcement. Their job is purely to better inform executive decisions. And from that perspective they're equally successful if they prevent a terrorist event (or more broadly any harm national security) via putting someone in jail, killing them with a drone, blackmailing them, or just snitching on them to their family such that they're forced to give up their plan.

It's not inappropriate to view this as a huge overreach. But neither is it correct to treat them like the FBI.
Domestically, that's true. Globally, wifi is the deal-killer.
I thought about making an app like this for a long time. Kind of like indexing your thoughts. However, I feel like evernote may have taken the space in a way that wouldn't allow any competing apps to scale.
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1) What do you mean by fundamentals? If you've been programming for a few years you probably already have the fundamentals of programming down (variables, functions, callbacks, loops etc). Rather it sounds like you need to be prepped some more advanced problems that show a higher level of thinking (sorting, searching, optimizing, data structures etc). I would recommend a good algorithms book and a good data structures book. The Algorithms book you're reading sounds good. Some programmers who got the "fundamentals" in school will still pick up a book and go over those types of problems when prepping for interviews. Don't forget to practice working problems out on a whiteboard out loud.

2)Are they important? Yes and No. Will you use your knowledge ofdata structures and algorithms everyday? For most jobs the answer tends to be no. Will it help you overall be an efficient developer? Absolutely.

3) There are so many, Khan Academy and Coursera are quite good I think, give them a shot.
Why Mission Beach over Hawaii?
Looks like they have punted on encryption for over a year, which seems like a very weird and careless thing to do:

1. http://dayoneapp.com/support/passwords/

2. http://iphone.appstorm.net/reviews/lifestyle/day-one-a-gorge...

3. http://web.archive.org/web/20120902234719/http://dayoneapp.c...

The app looks really interesting, though, and I would probably have used it otherwise. Maybe now's a great time to address encryption with the focus on the Vesper app.
Note that Binney resigned on October 31, 2001. While he may have been privy to planned initiatives, his knowledge is now 12 years old. We don't know what new tech has been developed since then.
Think of all the strings that cold be extended out to as well. If there's any justice in the world this will be at least an option.
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Oh L@@K! To the left of the humidor, we see a straight billard briar, with a makeshift DIY(`EDIH') tube stem! Today he'd prefer BIC(tm) ballpoint's durably chewable breakthrough white trade secret high-polymer cylinders. His office is certainly more interesting and inviting than keyboards and laptops.
Encryption 101.1: move signatures and ciphertext, don't move (non-public) keys.
But it doesn't excuse anybody related to the problem.
Climate change can't be solved with a social photo sharing app
And Zeno stirred...
I suppose my wording is a bit ambiguous. It is not that Republicans don't do this, but rather than they are not unique in doing this.
I agree that the quote suggests that gvb disagrees and thinks the analogy is wrong, or at least inferior to his analogy.

I mean, gvb's alternate analogy is also a good one. Yes, writing software is like configuring the assembly line, and yes both of those things are expensive work for highly-trained professionals. And yes the interesting difference is that 99.999% of the cost of making software is this design, whereas in car manufacture it's maybe 5% or 20% or something (and the actual stamping is the rest). This is a good analogy, sure! It's also hopefully old news for basically all of us. Isn't it?

But sologoub's analogy is a different one, and it's also a good analogy, and in my experience a less-overused one. And insofar as it's more-novel (to me), it's more instructive, and thus "correcting" it with an overused analogy suggests lack of understanding.

Sologoub's point, to attempt to restate and simplify, is this: the value and scarcity of modern engineering is comparable to the value and scarcity of pre-industrial artisans. Industrial artisans because less valuable when industrialization commoditized their work. And sologoub proposes that this could one day happen to software development (and other engineering), and if/when it does, (software) engineering will cease to be lucrative. I think it's an interesting model; I have no idea if it will be possible to industrialize software development, short of god-AI taking over all human labour.
> Why do merchants really need to store CC numbers?

They need to store them transitionally to use them, but in general you don't really want to keep it around. The only legit reason is for subscription/recurring based charges, but if you're doing that you want to make damn sure you're not stupid with how you store them.

Stripe makes it super easy to never even see a CC, so I use them for a bunch of stuff, you can even do reocurring charges pretty easily. If you have any doubts about storing data safely, DO NOT DO IT.
Wow, do you actually reconstruct /boot on every unplanned reboot, yourself?
perspective is important. It was a micro-blogging platform for 15yrs.
Most people just want to see funny pictures of their friends, privacy and advertising concerns aside. Ride yo high horse outta here!!
This app Isn't For You. Sync is great if you want it, or have a need for it, but the majority of iOS users currently have a singular device, so why invest time and resources into a feature a lot of people won't need? Why not just focus on a majority share?

Yes you're trapped, but think of it as being stuck on a desert island happily, rather than being jailed unwillingly.

Edit: I'll rephrase singular as singular device with an Apple provided operating system.
If you're uninsured in the US and break your leg, yes, your debt is now $10,000.
NSA Chief Denies Domestic Spying Story (2012)
Depends what he wanted out of life really. He may just have run into the point where having a little extra leverage would have been meaningless, or at least more bother than it was worth.
Haha, fundamental constant counting fail.

b^)
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This is kind of rolled into compilers, but automata and state machines are another. I've seen a lot of wheels partially reinvented by self-taught programmers, with bad results.
It only took him one flight to learn to use 40+ apps? Impressive

True, but this is a guy who: (...) often scores over 1 million points on the "Bejeweled Blitz" online puzzle game.

so he's obviously quite 1337.
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Google, Microsoft Infringe on Startups' Trademark
Developing software, hardware or mobile apps is hard enough as it is... Combined with developing a unique brand identity... For many startups, the task seems daunting.

On January 28, 2013 IIICTECH announced two products, WINK, a free mobile app to better inform consumers and eliminate overdrafts by aggregating their bank balance based on geo-location & BLINK, a new smart wearable device that extends the smartphone interface.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/WINK/BLINK/prweb10367324.htm

Seven days later Microsoft Reasearch Labs revealed an app named, Blink. Sixty-five days later Google announced the Webkit forkage and named their new Chromium Web Rendering Engine... Yep, Blink.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/04/15/microsoft-google-blink-trademark/

At least Google isn't a 'Trademark Troll'.
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Hi HN,
I am summer interning at a nearby tech company and am having an impossible time finding somewhere affordable to live - does anyone on here have a room to sublet now til mid august or need roommates?

edit: forgot contact information - you can reach me at [my username] @mit.edu
I am a 29 year old self-taught developer. Like you, my experience lies primarily with ruby and javascript (though I have developed a habit of doing project euler problems in clojure).

1) Practice. Glassdoor is an indispensable tool for this. For example, if you're interviewing at Facebook, you can basically compile a list of the algorithms that have been asked and practice that set, until you have it completely down. Rehearse in front of peers, friends, pets, inanimate objects, whatever. You can likely find a working solution to any of these problems on stack.

2) Yeah, they are pretty important, but probably not to the degree that they are emphasized in the interview process. For example, a common theme in algorithm problems is finding a solution which works within a certain time complexity (linear, log, etc). In practice this often reduces to the following situation: You are doing some calculation which involves a bunch of nested for-loops. Eliminate one of the inner for-loops.. or something to that effect. So yeah, it's important practically. It becomes more important when you're dealing with millions of records and terabytes of data, and an extra for-loop could mean that your program effectively runs a month longer than it should.

3. The only online course I took for CS stuff was a MIT open-courseware class on Algorithms. Additionally, I highly recommend the book "Algorithms" by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.
Why can't you just push it upstream? Is there resistance?
Yes. Under Obama, the Justice Department has prosecuted more leakers of confidential information than prior administrations. However, the number is 6, so whether this is due to a difference in policy or random occurrences is not clear to me.
There is some incompatibility, like the gettext module in the g++ theme, the way themes are imported, unicode support, the print statement…
But maybe it's still possible to write a code that work on both versions?
Or much higher, but this is unrelated to credit cards.
Just curious. If it could be circumvented by a moderately clever attacker. Why hasn't it been?
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...which is utterly irrelevant to credit cards.
I can just imagine the pre-briefing with NSA's PR people

"we need to establish your tech credentials, what are you really good at"

"err, Bejeweled Blitz?"
If you had to look for the definition of exponential function, perhaps you should start from here - http://www.mathsisfun.com/basic-math-definitions.html
>Businesses are looking for people who know how to program, why do you think the market is not great?

Because basically the only interviews I got in the last months were in other enterprisey gulags. It's not enough to know how to code, you need to be able to market yourself, be part of the attention-based economy (I am an introvert, I don't really know how to leave an impression in the web 2.0) and presumably invest a ton of time in grooming your open-source projects.

I am no complete failure, over the years I have done quite some stuff - but a lot of that is NSFW, so not so great as a showcase.

>maybe I'm naieve but you should do something about your confidence, aren't you raising a child?

I don't really know what to make of this - I do, but it's not like I can just pull myself together to raise my self-confidence. I have been making gradual improvements, but I just can't flick a switch.
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Exactly. Just look at the Spitzer thing - outed for political reasons based on data collected "because of the terrorists".

And do those who say "if you've got nothing to hide, it's not a problem," I ask the classic question: "so, why do you own curtains?"