skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea. So basically any word with greater than 3 characters could be converted into beginning / end char and a number representing the number of chars in between.

I wonder how much of our ability to read text like that is based on context though. Also, I'm going to assume that this only works with fairly common words (which is unique for each person). For example, I'm guessing running said compression on the works of Shakespeare wouldn't work as well, since most people struggle to make sense of them to begin with.
That was fine, flavourless mesons. Clearly I'm behind in my reading.
Yep. That was dumb of me.
Was on my ideas list as well! I think it's something that's just begging to be done. Good luck!
> For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data.

https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/
How can I get certified as a developer? I've done a few disqus projects before.
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I would think the impetus is on not clearing "bad apples" in the first place and getting physical security improved (he walked off with a USB pen drive). After all, you can still trivially leak from inside the US - also, it's not like you can keep NSA employees from ever taking trips abroad, and if you have measure in place that can find people who are about to leak stuff when they put in their 30 days foreign holiday request, the much simpler solution is to just run that measure all the time.
I don't think you meant it that way, but you dishonor their suffering by using the word gift associated with watching a loved one slowly die. To a highly empathic person, this event is nearly equivalent to the death of self altogether.
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That's a huge assumption on your part. You should show me an example in code of what you think I'm saying.
Hey there!

Just sign up as a developer, and during the signup process it'll ask what API you want to request certification in.
From the comments: "iphone/ipad app is done and will launch on the same day as the web. android will follow by a few weeks."
How good are you with hardware? I'm building mine with rPi, Arduino, msp430, self-designed circuits (LM35 for temperature, phototransistor for light), COTS relay boards, all sorts of stuff I have lying about. I had thought about making it a serious design effort, but I hate doing printed circuit boards, and since you can buy this hobbyist stuff so cheap now, I usually just use what I can find cheap at the time. Someday I may put it all together after I've got the kinks worked out. Here are some sources: moderndevice.com, adafruit.com, sparkfun.com, pololu.com, mpja.com, taydaelectronics.com, surpluscenter.com, futurelec.com (flammable gas sensors, CO sensors, misc components), and then Allied, Digikey, Mouser, Future, etc. I used a cheap little relay breakout and 74HCT595's to control incandescent/halogen/fluorescent lights and 120VAC devices (search for "sainsmart relay"). Audio stuff came mostly from PartsExpress.com

Good old X10 stuff works with OSX (it's just serial port controlled RF dongle), I think that new fancy Phillips HUE works with iOS, but it is mega expensive, you can create the same functionality from COTS parts for much less.
How long does it take to get verified?
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It may be too early to dismiss Occupy as having been "marginalized". Sure they're not camped out anymore, but camping was never really one of their top priorities. Who can say that the example of Occupy didn't inspire Snowden to a degree?
Your comment demonstrates the subjectiveness of the "right tool". I personally have no problem coding on a laptop, and even find myself more productive with the MBP's trackpad than a mouse. While I don't like working on the iPad, I can imagine somebody having as different an opinion on that as between your opinion on laptops and mine.
That seems a lot like Peecho (http://www.peecho.com/)

A few questions:
- Which area are you able to ship to?
- Do you or plan to print posters (80x60cm and larger)?
- any notable difference compared to Peecho?
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You'll find your "A players" allright, you'll find them politely completing your interview, and then declining any offers you might make. You might consider researching the company where they end up working for tips about how to find your A players, and, crucially, how to get them to actually work for you.
If you see a craftsman trying to drive a screw into a board using a hammer wouldn't you wonder why he doesn't just use screwdriver?
I wonder if the line can be repurposed into a high speed data line. DSL seems to handle noise and crappy wiring well.
Author here, I did look at some of the assembly output from C code, especially for frequently called functions like get_block/set_block, but other than that I used no reference but the original C code to write the assembly.
Dunno, for instance, this family might leave notes for him for the future, and a descendant might pull him out if technologically possible and not a massive financial thing. Other historians might pull people out for curiosity or something.
I would be interested to hear how that goes. Do you know if they listed on VRBO or some similar service? Is the service involved in the case yet?

These are the kinds of things the supervisors in Sunnyvale wonder about in terms of "What happens when ..." and it sounds like some case law might be available (ideally in California but you don't mention where this is)
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All good fun.

But in all seriousness, don't do this on your site.
It is horrible.
Yes he does, further down.
Really? Do you know the title? I once worked on developing a romantic comedy along the same lines, but the NSA guy was a matchmaker. I would be interesting to see how such a film did in the marketplace.
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...he had given the information to a number of extremely influential Senators...

I guess the NSA learned from that episode; apparently they preemptively told every member of Congress about all the awful things they've been doing recently. Of course the secret setting in which they admitted these transgressions was designed to put the legislators at a disadvantage. Multiple Representatives have denied ever understanding what the briefings were about.
Unwise. What if mr icecube is a smallpox carrier. (or equivalent... or worse...).

Not as unlikely as you'd think.

Going the opposite direction, poor icecube man might be revived only to die almost immediately due to measles or something similar. Assuming that "able to cure all diseases" must come before "defrost cycle" on the civilization tech tree is not a good assumption because there seems to be no obvious technological link other than both being kinda difficult.

Being defrosted, assuming it actually works perfectly, probably means spending some time (maybe rest of life) in a biohazard lab. Or worse, yet maybe more likely, getting defrosted to live in a bioweapon lab.
Tangential question, not intended to the poo-poo this, which I think is great, but more of an information query: Do people actually find this better than upgrading your phone to do tethering and using an ultra book?

I attempted to use my iPad in exactly the way he described, and it was largely unsuccessful after about a week honeymoon period. I didn't even have that many requirements. SSH plus a web browser was sufficient.

The main issues I had related to the glossy iPad display, the crappy keyboard support (not all control keys supported), detached keyboard making lap use... awkward, and pointing to things on the screen (for cut and paste or rdp use) was tedious. Almost all of which were solvable in some indirect way, but kind of made the exercise pointless if you have the money to spend on an ultrabook.
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Regarding the original comment of permissions blocking vs seeding fake data(pdroid) are two different issues. Thats why the new incognito mode is not facing a similar backlash.
That's the one job interview question for me that identifies "B" companies. Funny how that works.

"A" companies set realistic goals, realize that their employees are valuable, and have intelligent and experienced managers who know how to estimate projects.
Well then, if you own stock in a theater company you should probably sell, because they're doomed.
Congrats, this is a great concept and we are (https://getAmbassador.com) happy to be one of the launch partners!
What sort of working conditions are you looking for? Do you want a steady, corporate job, or is it working on programming that matters most? It might be possible for you to latch onto a startup. Look for cofounder dating meetups in your area. Lots of business people who don't know programming at all have ideas that need to be turned into software.

Another thing, and this is big... where do you live? The programming side of the IT industry is strongly concentrated in certain urban areas. If you don't live in a major city with a real software industry, you may need to move for opportunities. This doesn't mean you have to live in Silicon Valley, but you have to live somewhere that the jobs are - cities like Minneapolis, Denver, and St Louis all have substantial software industries.
I think the best part about this is he is not completely willing to say that the U.S. should or should not be doing what it is doing per se, just that it should not be doing it without the consent of the governed. He wants us to ask where the line should be drawn as a people, and his basic concern is that we are not being informed, not that the wiretapping is happening. This shows a profound respect for democracy and the country, since he seems to have faith that if all the facts are laid bare our country will do the right thing.
That's a false dichotomy. We can fight to extend life at the same time we accept death as inevitable.

I have a friend who's a very dedicated doctor, and a very dedicated Buddhist. So much so that they're arranging a version of the charnel ground [1] meditation. But rather than sit in an actual charnel ground, my friend has requested photos from the research facilities that study human decomposition.

To the average American, that sounds hopelessly morbid. But people practicing it see it as necessary to fully understanding death. And thereby, to understand and appreciate life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnel_ground
Wow, unless I really needed a job I'd leave if I was asked this.

At a previous interview I was asked how I maintained a healthy work-life balance, which was extremely encouraging. They had a heavy focus on sensible working hours, and my managers had told me on several occasions to go home (adding, if there wasn't enough time to finish it before the deadline, it had been planned badly).

"this isn’t to say that a healthy work-life balance isn’t in order — after all, if health fails, work failure is not far behind"

Of course, because the most important reason why you would treat your employees with some respect and hope they stay healthy is because you need them to work, not because you in any way care about them. How nice.
The creativity bit was about the conspiracy theories of others, not things that he's said.

I do think that things he's said and things he's done actually undermine his stated cause. He started out by portraying himself as a conscience-driven individual who wants to expose what he believes are gross violations of civil liberties without becoming a focal point of the story.

He's now made himself the center of the story, has expanded his motivation to moral outrage at all forms of spying, etc. Add to this the various inaccuracies, melodramatic over-statements, tangents into matters entirely unrelated to civil liberties, and really, just the act of flight to begin with.

It seems to me that much of the time he does or says something he's moving perception away from somewhere on the the 'mildly ambivalent moral actor' end of the spectrum where he started and towards 'clueless opportunist'.

That's a terrible thing because, and I agree with you, a number of the things he says are not just extremely plausible but important matters of civic discourse.
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Send me an email. jordan at zenzen dt org. I've stayed in plenty of other Airbnb's in Paris too. So far, I haven't gone wrong.

This was a little more expensive than normal (but we had company staying in the other two small cabins so and really utilized the deck on top since Pont des Arts is one of the best views of the sunset in Paris and it is docked right there) and I happen to love boats. If you don't like a little gentle rocking, it may not be for you.
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I'm curious how many people browse github from their smartphones. Right now I'm on my desktop and see a pretty column of unlabeled icons, right next to three inches of unused whitespace between the icons and the edge of the frame. It's a somewhat inefficient use of space...
I helped my friend upgrade a 2.x app to 3.x about a year ago, and attachment_fu wasn't compatible. The Internet seemed to be pointing to other alternatives but they required database schema migrations (no drop-in replacements).
"...I don't give a whit about the man who exposed two sweeping U.S. online surveillance programs, nor do I worry much about his verdict in the court of public opinion.

Why? Because it is the wrong question. The Snowden narrative matters mostly to White House officials trying to deflect attention from government overreach and deception, and to media executives in search of an easy storyline to serve a celebrity-obsessed audience.”

Good crosshairs. I'm sure ES agrees.
"Unlabelled Y-axis"

Its a metagraph where the Y axis is the number of graphs produced by humanity with unlabeled Y axis.
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Also, a great tutorial for the relationship between shutter speed aperture and available light.
I'll chime in with my Airbnb experience. There's always one out there that's going to bite you, I'm travelling around Europe and using AirBnb mostly. I've had great experiences with using them in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France. Then there is the outlier which makes you question using it at all. There is one thing you pay for in hotels and that is service and it is a requirement. With a hotel you won't ever be stranded in a foreign country, but with Airbnb it's possible.

I recently booked a stay in Prague which seemed positive, with quite a large number of positive reviews. Normally with all my other airbnb stays, I contact the host many days before and organise a way to check in and a time. This has worked out well, we simply meet at a specified time, talk and get given the keys and shown around the place. Back to the story in Prague, I contact the host 4 days prior to check in and receive no reply for those 4 days. The listing on the website becomes 'disabled' and the last calendar activity of the host is 6 weeks ago. There are then reports saying that previous tenants where 'bumped' to a different apartment as there was a problem with the listed apartment. This raises alarm bells to me and the last thing I want to do is arrive in a foreign country and be left stranded. Which is exactly what happened. I contacted AirBNB a day prior to the event detailing the 'fishiness' via online medium and have only received automated replies.

Luckily our host in a previous city had a friend who could arrange us a stay at short notice. Don't get me wrong, people are people and there are fantastic people out there.

So really the price difference is a multitude of services, and how much you will risk being stranded or mislead.
I used to go to the Globe pretty much every week (it's open air, so plays were only on in summer). One thing that I did not mention is the fact that the £7 tickets are actually "standing" -- I kindof prefer that as it means you're up right next to the stage. I always bought tickets on the day and they're pretty much never sold out (popular days/weekends could mean a fairly tight view :)

About scalability, as someone already said, there are so many venues available that pretty much whatever you wanted to do, there was always available seats for you -- just perhaps not in your first choice of venue (even after restricting your ticket price to £15 or less) Heck, as you're already in London and the public transport is free (you've got a travelcard as you have to commute to work anyway), you can go and do/watch/listen to something for free every night of the week.

Point taken about CD's in the library. But somehow even though I had the opportunity to take them out of the library before, I never made use of it. I guess I never knew I'd like classical music. But as the live performance was so cheap, I tried it and found I really liked it.

And now I live on the outskirts of London. I pay about the same in rent (bigger place) but hardly ever go into London. Mainly because I used to live about 12minutes from Waterloo and now it's more like an hour and a half (which means all trips have to be planned for weekends; as I can't really be bothered to head out after a full day's work)

Would I rather still live in London? Possibly not. But I'm definitely happy I lived there for a couple of years.

>>You'd be surprised what a couple extra thousand dollars per month adds up to in the long run

Well, like I said, there really is no change in my rent (but I now have a two bed flat and not a one bed), and I now own a car (additional expense). I've also stopped eating out, as restaurants are nowhere near as cheap as they were in London (expensive restaurants were a lot more expensive, but I've never found places that do £2.50 mains like in Tooting, for example) -- on the flip side I always enjoyed cooking, so this isn't a big deal for me. I am also living closer to work (as I work outside London now), so I guess my quality of life is better & the commute is less stressful (and the pollution is lower).

I'm just not as ready as you are to dismiss all the benefits of living in a city. But hey, we're all different. Just saying that I had a point of view very similar to yours until I was forced (SO's job change) to live in London for awhile. Now I understand the delights of living in London (but I can understand why others may not -- just wish people would give it a try :)
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I have several side projects that run on 2.3. I don't have the time to upgrade them or the resources to purchase commercial support for Rails 2.3.

Your comment makes me wonder if you are aware of some undisclosed bugs that will be disclosed in the next few months, or if it's more of just a "4.0 is dropping, 2.3 support is going bye-bye" kind of thing. If the former, I'd appreciate some clarification on that point. I have no problem backporting patches myself (and in fact extensively patch libraries when needed!), but I'm wondering if there's an active-yet-undisclosed threat, or if it's just "people aren't going to do my work for me".

Can you elaborate?
What's with the widespread fixation against attributing any positive security attributes to Network Address Translation? It's like the old warning about NAT not being enough to protect a private network got cargo culted into a universal anti-NAT maxim.

What would you call it when a router at the edge of a private network presents a single IP to the world no matter how many devices are behind it, for privacy reasons?
Yes. Absolutely. I can opt not to use Google services; I cannot opt out of government surveillance.
"I am, in fact, willing to work nights and weekends to get an assignment done on time, if that is a relatively rare event, the deadline is actually meaningful, and if when it happens it is recognized as a failure of planning that will be post-mortemed so as not to become a regular event."

I'm willing to work beyond the hours if they're uncomfortable asking (or don't ask). It should be a very bad thing to ask people to work late or over weekends, and should be recognised as a sign of a big failure. If they're comfortable asking, then that person doesn't value my time.
Buddha said life is "dukkha", a word that his listeners would have recognized as sounding like a wheel with the axle slightly out of true: "Duka-duka-duka"...

He indeed meant that life is suffering. English speakers today translate the word as "suffering", "pain", "disappointment", or perhaps "striving" (a sentiment you will find echoed in Ecclesiastes).

Buddha also spoke about the cause of suffering, and suggested that if you can escape from the cause, you can escape from the suffering.

I personally disagree with this advice: Why would I want to escape from love, hate, pain, joy, and everything else? But I don't disagree with the basic teaching. Everyone has a cross to bear.
It's pretty easy. Just provide your info and if you can point to a project you've done in the past on your github it's relatively quick.
I've had to do salesforce integrations in the past, and they were not very fun. I could definitely see this being useful for integrations with rather complicated apis.
Where to do you ship? Just the states? Canada?
Better to ask "Are you willing to work at a place where you are required to work late nights and weekends because our business is mismanaged and delusional?"
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Oz (the language presented in this article) is a language worth learning also for the unique way it formulates concurrency. Concurrent processes are coordinated through variables being realized - i.e. a process that requires a variable to be bound will block at the point it is required and when another process causes the variable to become bound, it will proceed. Its constraint programming facilities can be expressed very nicely using these constructs.
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"That doesn't sound bad for China"

In case anybody doesn't know - HK is nothing like (mainland) China in terms of costs of living, quality of infrastructure or the standard of living. It's the Asian version of NYC or London. Really expensive, really high class, really good infrastructure etc. Basically nothing you associate with the word 'China' other than lots of Chinese people.
Would the follow up question be "would you be willing to sell your soul to this company?".
Horrible question. I had jobs where they worked for this and it stunk.
This is a bad question. A better question would be if the candidate works and furthers his/her knowledge in their spare time to help make a product as good as it can be. You want the people that would still be learning/growing regardless of their job. This is admirable quality to look for (self-growth) - not chasing empty time frames and deadlines.