skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently I am crazy, fair enough, won't argue with that.

I'm not offering anything, when I say gift I'm certainly not talking about a person doing the giving.

"the cost is way too high for such a minor lesson", a minor lesson like death?
I'm calling his advice to other people.
Anybody know why this got flagged off the front page? http://hnrankings.info/5893950/
But that also means placing massive limitations on what the internet can do.
> Because this totally ignores the reality that this other place didn't appear out of thin air. It has people there that care about these ideals, and most likely some that would be willing to die for them......In some respect, not attempting to change your country to be what you consider a better place and just migrating to a different location is leeching off the world, and those that work hard to make it what they consider a better place...... This is as true for neighborhoods as it is for countries.

I agree that we need to work hard to make a place (country/neighborhood/whatever) better. I personally protest, picket, vote, write to and call my representative, etc. etc.

If it gets to the point I need to die to make something better, it's not worth it.
Previous HN thread on this, which was not quite as popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794632
Nuclear?
Thanks! MongoMapper is at the top of my list. Hard dependency on ActiveModel 3.
By far my favorite quote against my most hated American.
Google especially tends to give in pretty easily to these outside pressures. Look what they've done for MPAA/RIAA over the years. They've automated the DMCA process for them for both Google search and Youtube, even though they weren't compelled to do so.

I bet they also believe they've washed their hands off this because they "report" these DMCA takedowns. Yeah, thanks Google - for creating an automated censorship system that no Court or law asked you to create.
GitHub issues is another kettle of fish, but does anything force you to use the github interface to use the repositories? Forking, or making buckets?

You can host a copy of your repo on github, another on, say, bitbucket, and another on gitorious, and as long as you take care of syncing between them, you should be alright, right?
"I find it difficult to distinguish what tech is doing to the valley and SF from what Wall Street has been doing to New York and London for decades."

I couldn't have said it better myself. And sadly the author doesn't see anything wrong with the statement while for many of us - this sums up EVERYTHING that is wrong.
What does leaking details slowly have to do with delusions of grandeur or arrogance? It seems like he is not operating as you would operate, so you are slinging unrelated insults.

I think that a slow controlled leak that keeps the story in the media is more likely to cause positive change, as I expect he does. Does this make me arrogant as well?
> a minor lesson like death?

I meant the lesson about "arrogant I-know-what's-up thinking".

Death is way too high a price to learn such a thing.
Not arrogance, practicality. Closed groups are a fantastic way to maintain quality. No need for moderation, no newbies, no stupid questions, very high signal/noise ratio, comraderie of many years together.

There's a great deal to be said about the value of exclusive clubs. That's why they're so popular.
I run a small IRC channel for webby types, mainly UK based and theres not many of us but anyone's welcome. irc.chatwebdev.com #chatwebdev
2 other common reasons to organize against airbnb are 1) neighborhoods don't like transient guests when their expectation was that the neighborhood were permanent residents and 2) airbnb is avoiding state taxes

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/03/28/airbnbs-tax-and-tena...

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newtechcity/blogs/new-tech-city-bl...
Did you notify AirBnb? Did they rectify the situation?
Wow, amongst other things, that makes a good case for giving law enforcement agencies direct access to our private information. You're right: why have "second hand testimony" if you can get it firsthand? After all, the NSA is only making copies of all our information, so we are not deprived of anything either.
IMO there is no "there" to this story anyway

I disagree, there have been significant leaks - confirmation of the NSA collecting every phone record in the US on a daily basis, confirmation that the DNI lies to his oversight committee, confirmation that the NSA has collected almost 3 billion records on the US in march 2013, allegations that the NSA is attempting to collect all internet traffic, both outside and inside its borders, in the broadest possible sweeps. If it was such a non-story, I don't think Obama would have done a press conference about it, would he? That's a lot of 'there' for a non-story if you ask me, and sounds like the NSA has significantly expanded its mandate without proper authorisation or oversight.

An NSA contractor claims that the government is listening to all digital communications, but is somehow able to transfer classified files, taken from the NSA, to a journalist in the UK. If we believe the first part, how could the second part happen?

Just because lots of data is collected, that doesn't mean they can find what they want from it, except in retrospect, so I'm not sure where the contradiction lies there for you - I think his communications with Greenwald were encrypted (according to the film-maker he contacted first) after first contact.

Also, I don't remember him saying specifically that they are listening to all digital communications, just that they can if they want to listen in to any communications, did he allege that somewhere?
"Because this totally ignores the reality that this other place didn't appear out of thin air. It has people there that care about these ideals, and most likely some that would be willing to die for them. In some respect, not attempting to change your country to be what you consider a better place and just migrating to a different location is leeching off the world, and those that work hard to make it what they consider a better place."

This times one million. Thank you.
Don't know where the OP is from, but that's more or less how it works in most of northern Europe.
Nicely complements the nearby thread "Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888705
Well, what would you propose?

I mean, pretty much every photo and video I've seen of the guy comes from the guardian - they could easily just be of a Guardian intern. So a photo of him holding a sign is out. A GPG key which is reputedly his is of extremely questionable provenance so a signature from that would be meaningless. He could leak some new top secret data to establish that he has access to it - but we know guardian journalists have had access to such data already and surely they have some stuff on file for future reports.

I'm curious as to what sort of proof you'd like?
I end up redirecting people to a mobile version of the site. I don't think this should work in a mobile experience at all. mobile should be lightweight and really accessible by many mobile devices simultaneously. I wouldn't recommend using this if you're target is mobile (excluding ipad > v1 mayybe).
Lots of (big) differences. For example, you can write Objective C code for iOS apps in the Binary editor, the code compiles on the Binary platform, and the compiled app is returned to your iPad home screen.
This would be interesting if, instead of anecdotes, it had actual data.
I didn't mean to imply it's a good idea or not. In my own code I'd use the null check and throw an exception. It's suspicious that it's trying to update a non-existent record, so I'd usually want it to break so I can fix the underlying logic bug.

I was simply pointing out that the technique is available in other languages without using lambda and/or blocks.
This is kind of my pet project for the summer. I've already got the lights in my children's rooms done. I've got dawn/dusk sensing to turn off my outdoor audio system. I've got a temperature controlled attic-exhaust fan (my attic gets over 150F / 65C without it). I played with IFTTT a bit last year, but kind of forgot about it since I don't need it. But thinking about it again, I really do need it or something like it because the other residents of my house aren't programmers, but they might like to automate some action. I mostly use PachubeCosmXively for remote control of actions, but I don't think IFTTT has any integration with them. PachubeCosmXively can send emails based on trigger thresholds so it shouldn't be too hard to get something working. A great complement to IFTTT would be direct integration to an rPi or other open-ish platform cum home automation server.
I have a Rails 2.3x ecommerce app that is not our primary product but still makes us a good amount of money.

Personally, I'd like to upgrade to Rails 3.2x (and eventually 4) so I can take advantage of some newer gems. However, the task is a little daunting given we use some older authentication and file upload libraries. All that to say, if I can't get it done soon, I will definitely go the Rails LTS route.

BTW, If any Rails devs out there want a challenge and have some time, please get in touch with me.
Take a look at your comment history. There is so much unnecessary hostility!
Well it should have redirected mobile viewers, but I'm still working on the mobile version of the site so either way the experience still wouldn't have been very good. :)
Wall Street money made NYC a lot nicer and safer. The tech industry hasn't done the same to SF.
Maybe name it after a cloud type, eg. Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus
How to 'backdoor' an encryption app
It makes it easier for me to read your code when I checkout a copy: there's not a bunch of unused cruft I have to mentally skip over to look at it. You'll be glad later that I'm not leaving a bunch of left over Rob's stupid crap (TM) that you have to wade through as well :-)

It's not just imports, assigned-but-not-used is also a failure. This keeps the cruft down.
I'd rather face terrorists than TSA.
Can major hub airports handle 4x the traffic of smaller planes vs large planes (I honestly don't know)? In the NYC area, in particular, air traffic congestion is a huge problem so "adding more flights" is not a practical option (unless those flights can be stacked more densely).

There have been many solutions proposed to this problem (usually expanding smaller, "nearby" airports) but it seems to me a better option would be to expand and improve regional passenger rail to reduce demand for short and medium-leg flights thus freeing capacity for longer distance flights.
I think this is spot on, both as the interesting question and as the answer that seems most likely given what's been reported.

Defend ideals and the civil liberties that cost so much to achieve, but China or a controlled territory seems a terrible place to make that stand.
I selfhost ttrss and it's functional enough. Not as pretty as Google Reader (and probably most of the above), but it works.
Someone ought to build a presentation tool on top of this.
On the other hand the standard passwords for the encrypted synced keychain are 4 digits. And then apple says it can't decrypt it. The option for longer passwords can barely be seen on the iPhone 4.

I guess this will still change.
If that's what he meant, then we can agree, and I was too harsh in what I wrote.

virtualwhys: If this really is what you meant, then please, start using a different word.
And in the likely event that your dataSource is at the other end of a network link, or even in a different process on the same machine, the network overhead will completely swamp whatever memory allocation can't be optimized away.
I loved this line. A lot of people don't seem to understand that our constitution explicitly denotes between rights provided to citizens and rights provided to "persons." Most of the constitution and the bill of rights is worded to apply to persons, not necessarily US citizens.
Good suggestions :) thank you!
> You can't magically arrive somewhere and become a citizen of that place under their protection and rules of law.

Correct. So I have to work hard, and spend years on paperwork to be legally allowed to immigrate into some other country. I was born in country A, which I love. I moved to country B because I wanted to, and have spent 5 years on paperwork becoming a legal resident, and in about 2 more years I will be a citizen of country B and retain A. Also, because of my father's citizenship, I am now a citizen of country C, which happens to be an EU Member country, so I can live and work anywhere there too. At this point in my life, I think I'll eventually float back to country A, because I love it there.

I'm confident that if I worked hard, I could become a citizen of any country in the world I would want to live in (my personal list)

>What if the place that you go to has fewer liberties than the US?

Obviously, I'm not going to choose such a place.
> and I wanted my iOS apps to be compiled, shipped over-the-air, and installed on my home screen for instant testing

How is the compiling online and installing on the home screen achieved?
Would you be willing to send/provide the link to this barge you stayed on? I'm taking my wife to Europe (last major trip before children), and I would absolutely love for her to have this experience.
Perhaps in the sense that predictably broken clocks are correct twice a day.
And, if you want to know more about generating functions, you can check out the book "generatingfunctionology" by the recently late Herbert Wilf gratis at http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html
Learn how to code!
This might be a nice update, I'll opt-int for some projects and try it out, but it doesn't address my biggest problem with GitHub: the lack of decent code review tools.

I have to use an external review tool like Reitveld to get side-by-side diffs and better comment and patch-set management.
Correct, there is no trial period and it is a bit harsh, but I already decided I wanted to pay for RSS this time around and something about feedbin appealed. Only thing I would like to see it stats, and I suspect Digg Reader will be good at that.
Looks interesting. The "Get Binary" link doesn't work though. I was expecting it to open the App Store, but then I saw the email form at the bottom. It should link to that section.
(FYI, lesedilino, it looks like you were hellbanned for your comment below. This wasn't done at my request, or with my approval.)
Feedbin, according to reederapp.com
The point is that it's a ridiculous nonsense statement. It can be applied to anyone about anything. I have no problem with someone believing he's a spy based on evidence or even intuition. I do have a problem with a tautology being used as evidence, or to sway opinion.

If the person is trying to deceive you they will attempt to deceive you. Well, duh.
In Europe, barges handle the freight traffic that fills the US railroads and trains handle the cross-continent traffic that runs in airplanes in the USA. It's mostly a result of Europe's many great rivers and the USA's vast open spaces.

That doesn't mean we can have great high speed rail from Boston to DC and Florida, from SF to LA, and from Chicago to New York, just like Europe can run freight trains under the Swiss Alps.

The main reason quality passenger rail doesn't get built and run well in the parts of the USA where it should is politics. The FRA regulations, the national transportation funding process, the state funding politics, the work rules, liability rules, labor regulations, safety regulations, and environmental regulations all work to make high speed rail five or more times as expensive per mile as in Europe. At that price, we should just live with the low quality infrastructure we've got. The only alternative is to reform the process and even supposed rail advocates like Obama haven't lifted a finger on the most obvious abuses, e.g. to loosen FRA buff strength standards or strict Buy American rules for rolling stock.
My brother did something similar a number of years ago.

http://whaleycopter.blogspot.com/2007/09/project-jteg-compre...

It's interesting to see the same ideas pop-up over and over again. (Note the patent-pending message is a joke).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 software stack still under wraps
I don't think that CO2 is the limiting reactant in plant growth. If I remember my bio/chem right, plants use sunlight to produce sugars using the carbon from CO2. The sugars act as an energy store, and the energy can later be reclaimed by doing the inverse reaction, which involves taking O2 and producing CO2. Providing more CO2 would increase the theoretical capacity for them to store energy, however CO2 is abundant and it would not help with the limiting reactant, sunlight.
I've tried to include all the Google Reader alternatives here: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader
I've been nailed with cleaning fees on Airbnb that make the cost higher than nearby hotels, which always include cleaning in the price. The cleaning fees are listed out separately so they're easy to miss, I wonder if this article took them into account.
"She is also capable of taking her wealth and helping people at levels of magnitude that the rest of us can't, yet she does nothing."

This is a fact stated from a point of view of a clear philosophy - that the powerful/resourceful people have to use their power/resources for the good of humanity. All it takes for her (and alike) is not to share this philosophy and prefer let's say, a more hedonistic one. Let's enjoy the philosophical diversity, shall we? ;)
I look my 5-year-old daughter in her innocent pretty face and wonder what she'll think if Daddy "goes" early (which I very well might, she almost lost me at 3 months). I envision her someday saying "Do I remember Daddy? A little, he was very nice and I loved him..."

I find your sentiment downright cruel. Excuse me while I go cry and refrain from punching a wall.

ETA: Fallout from death may be construed as a "gift" insofar as some good may come from something bad, but that doesn't make the death itself a gift. Discovering that the wall desperately needed repair anyway doesn't make punching it, out of anticipatory grief, good.
??? JPEG uses the redundant(or neglect-able) information in 8x8 blocks. I do not see how text is information of 8x8 blocks with neglect-able information within this block...
Digg’s Google Reader Replacement To Launch Next Week
The one job interview question you need to ask to find your A players
MTA is heavily subsidized (it only covers ~50% of its expenses from its operational income), AmTrak is probably not.

Also, a train e.g. from NYC to Philadelphia looks inside much more like a plane (seats, tables, power sockets, wifi) than like a subway train, and obviously moves much faster. This all ought to cost more, even at zero profit point.
Right now, I'm in a "wait and see" approach for my Google Reader alternative. It's a bigger decision than at first glance, especially if you rely on phone apps for consuming.
Just do the antibiotics and don't worry about it, it will kill the bacteria if it exists. The standard lyme test looks for the antibodies, which won't exist if you take the antibiotics within a few days of the bite.
Compiler can ignore unused dependencies and variables, since it detects them anyway and still guarantee that no extra code will be compiled when building the program, which minimizes compilation time. So the argument itself is flawed and only gives a perception of rational decision, while not actually being rational.
You're right, the USA has always been a wonderful place for those folks.
Does anyone have recommendations for good vendor(s) for home automation devices/systems/software/etc...? I'd love my house to be more "smart" but not really sure how to approach it. I need stuff that is either hidden or good looking, works well with iOS and OS X. Ideally would love a combination of home automation, HVAC control, alarms (smoke, CO, etc...), and security.

There's also some logic that I haven't seen offered, for instance: if someone drives up my driveway, I'd like to hear a chime (and/or get a text with a photo of the car). If they drive up at 2 AM I want to be woken up! Unless it's me or my wife (RFID chips in our bumpers for ID?). Etc...
If I could give you HN-Gold, I would.

Also, the "..'abusive'.." quotes serve to show a disdain for Snowden's position; "Snowden claims this was 'abusive' - and we know him to be a criminal traitor, if you think the acts of the NSA were abusive, then you clearly are a traitor sympathizer.

I recall the reports of CIA handlers years ago in CNN, clearly they are still there... (I am looking for a link, but so far came up blank)
That could explain childhood and adult injury/illness, but not in-utero fatality, which the article is claiming. I didn't try and check their claims, however.
> Our focus will be on
*Android app...

And no mention of iOS.

Does that mean they're not going for iOS first? If so, that's a very interesting decision.
Edward Snowden: Whistleblowers and the economy of esteem
That's because Javascript is a line oriented language like Ruby! :-)

Use semicolons like you would use colons in BASIC: to stack multiple statements on a line.

The C programming language is not the be-all & end-all template for programming languages.
That's a misunderstanding: I am not saying there's nothing wrong with what is happening (and my personal beliefs are very much to the contrary). My point is rather than much of the criticism of tech seems to be a criticism of capitalism. So if you want to have a debate about inner cities, poverty, etc, by all means, let's have it, but it's not a tech phenomenon.
You can install on your device if you jailbreak. But you should be using android if you want that kind of control anyway.
Fun times in high energy physics. Can someone point to a reference describing particles with both regular and anti- flavors of quark? There is a mention here of particles with both charm and charm- quarks in the same particle.
Went to their website, and all I see is a prompt to be put on the waiting list, and absolutely no other information.

I wonder what's in the box.
Or may a zip-style algorithmn, but as the "quality" setting gets lower, unique/low frequency sequences are replaced by the closest common sequence.
There is Yeti, an ML style language for the JVM:

http://mth.github.io/yeti/

(edit to address questions/comments)

I haven't actually used it so I have no idea if it's ready for "real" use (whatever that means! everyone has a different definition) However, it's under active development which is more than you can say for ML. I only found it when I saw the above comment and thought "I wonder if there is an ML for the JVM" but I have put it on my own todo list to check it out.

And I know the pain of which you speak pjmlp, I have to use PHP for my day job...
That's true of the list in its current form because the security agencies have (or had) zero interest in making it otherwise and because they're largely insulated from public pressure.

However, having realized that this inflexibility means it can't be used to effectively govern the travel of people with security clearances, there's a very good chance that the system that was perviously impervious to change will suddenly become very flexible - at least so far as development benefits the security agencies.
You are of course entitled to your own personal philosophy, as am I. That doesn't mean I have to silence my disagreement.

And in fact I find that "viewpoint" totally incomprehensible. I can asure you, I loved my mother much, much before cancer killed her at 52. That was not a gift, that was her body malfunctioning and our ignorance about how to fix it.

I have no need for death or grief to love or to value life, thank you very much.

And I don't keep my mouth shut about this because I worry about the real consequences of that philosophy. At any other moment of human history acceptance of death was perhaps the only sane thing to do, because there was no alternative. But we have now a scientific civilization and we should be fighting it, instead of rationalizing it.