skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nonprofit organization "is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals rather than distributing them as profit or dividends". If they're using the money earned from charging exorbitant rent to expand the University, extend scholarships, fund research, or keep the buildings cleaner, they're acting within the charter. "Nonprofit" doesn't mean they can't make money, it just means they don't give the excess money back to investors.
Defender of the favicon
For whatever reason, you feel the need to defend the value of your degree. You forget that people have various reasons (some personal) for seeking knowledge. It's not always about gaining marketable skills or about learning all there is to know about a subject.

Many of the points you make in your critique (lack of depth, etc) are obvious to anyone that decides to read the book. As an example, the book Learn Modern 3D Graphics Programming [1] has been posted and praised on HN in the past, but it should be obvious to anyone that there's a lot more to Computer Graphics than that book alone.

I think your comments would be more valuable if you had something more positive to add, perhaps in addition to criticism. If this book glosses over some topics, perhaps you could suggest some learning resources for those topics.

1. http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
A market consists of identical goods. If what NYU provides isn't identical to the surrounding housing, it's unfair to compare its pricing to that of the surrounding housing. It's like saying that oranges are "above market" compared to apples.
Probably one of the more succinct and constructive comments here so far.

Could not agree more. In short, follow your passion and the rest will fall into place.

Here is a previous HN post that helps to illustrate the point...
https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/8f381aa6bd5e
The inspiring dissatisfaction of gazing at an empty wall
Binney didn't design the system that's currently being used, and that's his whole point. He designed a cheap way to do what the current program does but that would protect people's privacy (in part by not storing all the data that it filters). His point is that the NSA spent billions on a dragnet system that violates privacy and isn't even able to catch terrorists as well as the privacy-respecting system he designed internally for dirt cheap.
Time will tell us more about Snowden but I believe his intentions to be primarily towards exposing the surveillance state for American citizens. Its existence as described by his documents is contrary to our guiding principles. I kind of doubt he was too focused on exposing this to the rest of the world but feels that it's a necessary part of what he's doing for his country.
I've been trying very hard to use Ember on a couple small projects, and I found it very hard not to get frustrated by how difficult it is to execute some trivial tasks.

Funny, I felt the same way about AngularJS. I had been working for a few months with Ember. I was building a new internal tool and wanted to learn Angular but I found a lot of the concepts poorly explained in the documentation.
Similar but more specific question would be - How do you get a "Postdoc" job without a PhD?
Carver Mead: Finish the physics revolution
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I want to add an addendum that I shouldn't have necessarily included the author when I said "what's wrong with this country." He may be a thoughtful guy after I considered the ending to the article. I also think anyone who really loves technology should have a seat at the table. It just seemed tone-deaf in many ways to the reality that most people in this world face, let alone most Americans his age.
I live in Hong Kong too (about 20 minutes walk from the Mira where Snowden was allegedly staying), and his stated reasons of coming here due to the country's commitment to free speech and political dissent are baffling and misguided. When compared to China, Hong Kong seems free but the reality is very different.

Start with the South China Morning Post, the main English language newspaper here which has been covering this story extensively. The current editor, Wang Xiangwei, joined in 2011, is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress, and has been criticized for self-censorship multiple times since taking over.

Then you have the political system here, where people can vote in local elections but not in the main election that actually decides the Chief Executive (President). The current CE, CY Leung, was dogged by accusations that he was a Communist Party member throughout the election period. These accusations were not without merit given his political history (appointed to a prominent committee at a young age, a position traditionally occupied by party members), and these issues have not died down since he's taken office.

It makes no sense for Snowden to have come to HK for its political freedom. Neither is this city a hotbed for political dissent. The Occupy movement here was largely ineffective (there were often more homeless people than protestors at the camp), and power here is concentrated in the elite (HK has one of the highest Gini coefficients in the world).

He came here because here he can leverage China vs the US. Any talk of political freedom or appreciating the culture is pure fluff.
In one of his interviews[1] he mentions that after he left and TrailBlazer was abandoned the NSA took what he built in ThinThread but removed the privacy shields he had in place that would encrypt US communications.

The rest of the platform is ThinThread (which was a lot cheaper than the failed TrailBlazer project).

Also interesting that a lot of the NSA platform is open source. OpenCloud for server management and Hadoop for distributed computing.

[1] I can't recall which one, in his keynote at HOPE he does make another reference to the crypto privacy shield being removed
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Nut-free is also a good candidate, though obviously at some point budget and common sense will constrain.
Great article, loved this "It became apparent to me that if I have to operate as the CEO of the company, I have to stop writing programs because there were other people who could do that. I should become more sales-oriented, someone who will meet customers more frequently and manage the team rather than write code."
If that is what they meant, then sure, that is what my other points in my post addressed.
Cryptocat: encrypted chat in the browser
Maybe if companies like google and yahoo stops forking over billions for acqui-hire, the madness will slow.
This comment was probably more relevant 10 years ago.
It's an ad hominem which falls short of hypocrisy or contradiction because the soldiers and contractors sent to Iraq were not conscripted. Surely there are more substantive arguments to be made.
Ways to be unremarkably average
Try challenging your interviewer to a dance-off. If you win, they're legally required to give you the job.
You're so right, I've read this a few times and still have no idea what it means:

> New Abnormal producers like Peter were thriving, easily finding supersized tentpoles with the “preawareness” that was so craved by the New Abnormal
Well, I downvoted. This is psuedo-philosophical nonsense that seems to be saying something profound, but isn't really. Nor does it add to a discussion on interesting algorithms. We could just as easily say that nature is a poor approximation of math, like shadows on a cave wall are poor approximations of the real object.
libertarian views are unpopular partially as a result of intensive subversion.
There is nothing special about firewalling off IPv6. NAT is not a security feature. The problem is that most consumer "routers" that people use nowadays are really: a router, a switch, a wireless access point, a firewall, and who knows what else. Here are some sample rules for firewalling off IPv4 (typed from memory, so use with caution):

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP

iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP

Here are the IPv6 rules:

ip6tables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A INPUT -s 2001:xx:xx:xx::/64 -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A INPUT -p ipv6-icmp -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A INPUT -j DROP

ip6tables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -s 2001:xx:xx:xx::/64 -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -p ipv6-icmp -j ACCEPT
ip6tables -A FORWARD -j DROP

Does that look like it would be hard to do? Your router should come with these rules already. If it does not, ditch it and buy one that is supported by OpenWRT, where IPv6 support is not a second class citizen.

Edit: Naturally, IPv4 rules would have to be more complicated since you'll want to have your NAT setup in there. In this way, configuring IPv6 is actually easier :). Also, a real router would have rules set up for throttling certain types of traffic (e.g.: you don't want more than, say, 1000 ICMP messages per second). However, all those steps are identical for IPv6.
Why does it need write access to my GitHub account?
Can I get away with uninstalling the main Facebook app but keeping Messenger to save battery, or will I have to opt for an IM client that doesn't work with Facebook chat groups?
I'm not American either dude.

Your proposed system requires a world government with real powers of enforcement. It is not in the interests of the USA, China, Russia, India, Pakistan or France to do this. Absent wholehearted cooperation by them this cannot happen. If you got all of them on board you might be able to get the rest of the world on board.

In the world we live in, and will continue living in until there is a world government there are bad people everywhere and some of them work for other governments, who can and will protect them. This doesn't even touch on the fact that your/my/any human values are not universal, and universal law is about universal enforcement. Whoever wins the last war gets to tell everyone what to do. That's what world government is.
So you can create new issues :-)

If you don't like it having that, you can review the source and check it - we don't send it anywhere, the token stays in your browsers local storage!
The Road To Take…Or Not To?
It's legally ambiguous right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enfo...
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Some clever engineering hacks that unfortunately don't solve the fundamental problems with new flickr.

- The lazy loading/infinite scroll is still too slow. If I'm scanning through 100s or 1000s of photos, it takes way too long to find what I'm looking for. How about some alternate views? e.g., smaller thumbnails, normal pagination, non-"justified". Also, rather than wait for the browser to tell you what dimensions each and every image should be, why not just pull them at the same y dimensions and let the browser do the resizing?

- when I click a photo in the photo gallery to load the full view (which is also painfully slow), then hit the back button, my place in the gallery is always lost. This is beyond annoying.

These two pitfalls alone make flickr unusable. Too bad since the 1TB of free storage is pretty awesome. I'll take speed over
I have never served in the military. But I am old enough that my brother fought in Vietnam (sort of not drafted, it is complicated) and my father was drafted for WW II. I also have relatives serving in the armed forces. (Including, at the moment, 2 nephews.)

I have observed what I've seen commented on elsewhere. There is a certain type of person who managed to skip the draft for themselves, and then proceeded to become overly supportive of the military and military aggression. Possibly as a reaction to the guilt of having not served when given the chance. There is a certain cowboy element to their approach. Prominent examples include Dick Cheney and George Bush.

By contrast people who actually served often, like John McCain or Al Gore, are strongly supportive of the military. But they tend to treat military service and action as the serious matters that they are.

The phrase that sums this up best is "chickenhawk".
i can't seek in the video. what the hell? i accidentally clicked outside of the popup box and now i have to watch from the beginning...
It was scary back then for sure. MLK and his supporters suffered beatings, faced extrajudicial lynchings, etc. I'm not disputing any of that. Yet, we don't have to speculate whether MLK could count on a fair shake from the justice system, because history tells us. MLK was arrested 30 times[1], yet he spent relatively little time incarcerated. The longest sentence he ever received was 4 months (compare that to Aaron Swartz' 6 months plea offer), but he served less than that. His famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail was written when he was in jail for only 11 days[2]. As screwed up as things were then, the justice system was not so draconian that it prevented him from leading an effective campaign of civil disobedience.

I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that Edward Snowden, if arrested in the US, would be denied bail. He would be facing decades in prison. It's quite likely he'd be held in solitary confinement and he could even be subjected to "Special Administrative Measures" (a recent invention) that would severely restrict his freedom to communicate with the outside world[3]. There would be no Letter from a Federal Detention Center from Edward Snowden. These draconian sentences and measures make it completely impossible to conduct a meaningful campaign of civil disobedience, as they can be wielded to completely neutralize a movement's leaders and serve as a warning to anyone else who is thinking of doing the same thing.

What's truly ahistoric is comparing Snowden to MLK to suggest he needs to come back to the US and face the consequences. Snowden may not be facing beatings and lynch mobs, but he would be facing a justice system that would treat him far more harshly than it ever treated MLK. We've thankfully lost many of the great evils of the past, but there are new evils. Civil disobedience is even more difficult today, and what's especially insidious is that instead of it being discouraged by lynch mobs and corrupt southern sheriffs, it's discouraged by the justice system itself.

(We should be thinking about the consequences Snowden would face because the essential civil disobedience of the future may very well be about information, but if you'd rather look at "conventional" protesters more akin to MLK, consider Al Sharpton being jailed for 90 days in 2001 for trespassing during a protest against a naval base in San Juan[4], or the case of the anti-nuke protesters that was on HN a few days ago[5]. Not quite as draconian as the situation Snowden could be facing, but the sentences are still unfair, longer than what MLK faced, and make carrying out effective civil disobedience extremely difficult.)

[1] http://www.thekingcenter.org/faqs

[2] http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html

[3] They're mostly used for "dangerous" prisoners, like suspected or convicted terrorists, but they're also used for those accused or convicted of espionage charges: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-ag-564.html

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/nyregion/sharpton-and-3-fr...

[5] https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-7
Awesome parallax, just scroll baby
as so goes the global economy.
I wonder if they have any plans to move away from helium as a buoyancy gas.. I can't help but feel we need to save every atom of that stuff for MRI machines
I would expect good caterers should provide dining options that avoid common allergies - and certainly they'll accept dietary requirements if they're anything close to competent.
I never used the Facebook app on Android personally, so I do not know. Was not even aware they were two separate apps. Perhaps someone else can chime in.
Well, that's what I call good education. Start from the scratch. Understand how it's made. Then your intuition will have something to grab on when you do more complex stuff. It doesn't feel like voodoo any more.
There is nothing new under the sun.

Public housing, allow villagers to sell their land to market directly... there is a lot of way to achieve it and many other countries have done it successfully before.

It is a technical issue which can not be solved because of corruption/inequality/unfairness under the current political system.

Political reform is needed, or a revolution may come instead sooner or later.
I agree with most of what you've written, though I don't agree with the part about "intellectual superiors." Certainly it seems like a flashy rich kid can walk into a room and have a lot of success selling a pretty silly idea built with some hard work by some smart folks just because of his connections and advantages and that really bites, but I think sometimes engineers and scientists can fall into an ego trap as well when we get bitter about the weirdness of that same situation.

My main issue is when I talk to people and they tell me they're "in tech," and they're a marketer or sales person or biz dev and they could be doing the same thing in some other vertical for all they care. (the "for all they care" is the important part too)

I would rather they just go back to Hollywood or the Media/PR world or wherever they generally come from and leave the tech industry to focus on creating cool tech in a more sensible fashion than the way it seems now.

I don't want to sound jealous either, because I've been fortunate to learn a lot from incredibly smart people, work on some challenging and fun projects, and pay my bills.
I grew up in the Midwest, where we had all the seasons and often fairly bad summers (old people die if their air conditioners fail) and winters (can't leave the driveway without 4WD). Still, in San Francisco, I am personally uncomfortable due to weather far more often than I ever was in the Midwest. This is due primarily to the lack of air conditioning in housing (I have bay windows constantly open and a fan directly on my desk and bed, and am still almost always hot, often to the point of having difficulty sleeping for long stretches in the late summer), the lack of air conditioning in my office (an older building in the financial district), and being improperly dressed outside due to the lack of predictability in the weather. I really dislike San Francisco's weather, not because it looks bad on paper (it obviously looks great), but because it causes me discomfort much more frequently than I was used to in the Midwest.
I did something independent of happy eyeballs (I consider my implementation actually superior in some ways as it aims to improve connection latency on all networks), but when I tried to get in front of some browser developers (by posting on HN), I was told by a Chrome networking dev that they tried it and decided that it wasn't worth it. He cited something about how the performance was actually worse than before. The impression that I got was that Happy Eyeballs was not actually widely adopted.
I completely agree, especially about Binney. I've been following what the NSA's doing since the Room 641A scandal broke. I recently wrote a paper on the NSA versus privacy, and as usual, what I found during the course of my research pretty much blew my mind. Binney is a hero as much as Snowden is, as are Drake and Weibe. I've used every opportunity to post this short that the NYT did on Binney, and everyone who's interested in this (and especially everyone who's not) should watch it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...
Also: hypocrite.
Indeed this is an accurate statement of the values of many people everywhere. Given sufficiently alien values extermination is the goal. Compare the diversity of legitimate governmental systems in 1900 and now. Democracy is existentially hostile to everything else.

And burning the village to the ground is probably a stupid idea, which is a sufficient reason not to do it. But if it can be done and is the most efficient way of achieving the goal there are people doing it.

Service to the state, glory to the Race!

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!
> Also, avoiding fog is simple: move to a different neighborhood.

A 20+ hour a week job for a month, even if you can afford a place in the neighborhood you want to move to.
He mentions that here, I believe: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...
Good God, if that's what you call a "nice" website, I'm speechless.
I've lived in Rockridge for about 10 years and can attest to everything you've seen: half a police force, restaurant "take over" robberies, broad daylight muggings at Rockridge BART station, many "solicitors" casing houses.

I've been bullish on Oakland for a long time. It could be a great city. It has an international airport, a major shipping port, easy BART access to SF, cheaper real estate than SF, near UC Berkeley and a number of smaller colleges. But Oakland's crime waves, understaffed police force, history of police abuse, and years of do-nothing city government is taking its toll.

You may be interested in joining the "Rockridge Neighborhood Watch Network" Yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RockridgeNeighborhoodWatchNetw...