skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you don't like it. But I assure you there are hidden gems on my site that you won't find in the gist (even though it's an absolutely fantastic list - great work dypsilon).
It's a great point, but I think as long as most programming languages are chiefly written in English (I think?), the web will still be "English".

Which I guess is a question I am curious about - how widespread is foreign-language programming language use? Like, instead of "while" it's "正在", etc.?
This annoys me. Articles like this co-opt a term (technical interviews) and redefine it against a subset of things that qualify as being that term (brainteaser/quiz heavy technical interviews).

There is simply no way to reliably hire skilled people without at least attempting to assess their skills. For technical people this means technical interviews. And an interview process that includes a trial project... is still a technical interview.

This is distracting from the real issue. Most companies are really bad at scaling their interview policies/processes. Quiz/Brainteaser interviews are born from an effort to standardize evaluations across multiple interviewers and multiple candidates. So rather than focusing on developing an interview process that's focused on finding people that are a good fit, you're focusing on developing an interview process that's first easy for anyone on your side of the table to execute. Structure and process are good when they benefit the prior case, and stifling when they benefit the latter. In the end you wind up with a very expensive and completely repeatable noise generator that's of no benefit to anyone.
Animation with SMIL and SVG is even more feature packed.
Snapchat launches SnapKidz
Is there a cheap, reliable open-source alternative? I'm sure that, in light of current events, many people would be interested.
It's discouraging to observe that Assange's word are met by the tech community here with the same snark and derogation that Stallman's were a decade or so ago.

But today, the threads about Stallman on HN tend to converge towards a sentiment of "oh crap, he wasn't actually completely insane". I predict that the same will happen with the words of Assange (and others).

I am personally saddened that our community reacts this way. We're the only ones with any grounds whatsoever (no matter how small they are) to fight against this, and lazy hand waving is the best that we can do.
I've heard Clojurist the most, but I'm not sure if that's the official demonym.
I can't tell if you're a bad troll, if you're trying to be deliberately obtuse for whatever reason, or are just plain misinformed. But I'll humour you anyway.

Keith Alexander, the NSA chief head himself, came to the last Defcon (IN BLACK JEANS AND A HIP T-SHIRT, NO LESS) trying to recruit hackers [1]. Shaping the opinions of hackers as to whether they support/work for the surveillance state.

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-fi...
Heh, that's not fair, our country's population is more spread out, and our largest city is not our capital.
I agree, in this case MVP is very good strategy. But I was more interested in technical side. Making it more readable is always a good target to have.
The radiation you receive during a flight also has no benefit, and could be mitigated to some extent at some expense by the airlines. Either way: I think we're getting up in arms about single digit bananas.

We should be up in arms about the strip search itself.
defn nested in defn seems totally wrong from a LISP (or Clojure) viewpoint. Isn't there a let or letfn? (Please note that I have no idea of Python)
I looked a tech spec, could not find a flight duration. Have you any idea of flight aloft duration?
Thanks. I will inspect for this !
upvoted you cos you're awesome.

Perhaps you believe you live in a free society, I don't. I understand the ramifications of the Fourteenth Amendment, and how the bill of rights was filtered through the 14th to see what still applied to "subjects of congress" (hint: only the 2nd amendment comes out unscathed due to DC v Heller). I've read (and used) the Canadian Ownership and Control Determination Act [1], and understand how it allows someone to actually own people (actual slavery). I've filed UCC-1 Liens against people and had sheriffs seize debtor's property or put people in jail for not paying (debt slavery). These are not signs of a free society. these are signs of fascism and tyranny.

I hope you'll forgive my worldview for being different than yours, but perhaps we can find some common ground: We both want to live in a free society.
We both want a populace to show courage.
we think it's quite sad that people died in previous wars to give us the right to protest.
We both think the government has already won (the people are the government), and there's nothing we can do about that.
We both think is necessary that people should continue to fight to keep things that way, with courage.

I bet we agree on many more things, actually.

[1] http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-20/
We have cars that can drive us to the central protest location, and Brasilia is only the fourth largest city in Brasil.
Why are you on an old Firefox?
So Iceland isn't willing to help Snowden ?
+100

I can't believe nobody else mentioned this.
Assange and Stallman are world apart, but yes, I have no problem dismissing both.
Do you think three-letter agencies are now actively trying to shape public opinion of themselves and their doings by astroturfing popular tech blogs?

I strongly suspect that they do. I think there have even been some published articles about various govt. agencies developing (or looking to develop) technology for this kind of manipulation. I don't have a citation handy, but if I can scare up one of the articles I think I'm remembering, I'll post it.

Edit: Here you go, they they definitely have the technology, but - as you might expect - they claim it isn't used on Americans. But in light of everything else we've learned the past few weeks, would anybody be surprised to find out that they are, indeed, using this on Americans?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
Disclaimer: I never liked Assange, and I think his he is most concerned about self-promotions.
That said my cynical view is that the only reason for this statement is that Edward Snowden stole his show (and I have huge respect for Snowden) so Assange felt the need to remind about himself.
I don't understand. The few snarky comments that are in this thread have all been downvoted. My impression is generally (from this and other threads) that the HN audience is quite positive towards Assange and his mission.

Regarding Stallman I personally held him in higher regard 10 years ago, but I have no feeling for the general opinion about him, I might be an outlier.
Amen. Discovered this two years ago. FF without Direct2D (i.e. XP) sucks greatly for SMIL SVG animations. It is such a shame as many complex things were trivial with the SMIL/SVG API's, but FF and Chrome have a long list of bugs and missing API implementations which they apparently don't care to correct.
Okay, so let's not become the next Occupy movement with this, can we figure out what it is we're protesting for in the first place? And "FREEDOM" or "PRIVACY!" aren't things you can protest for and expect to get. Maybe something like, "We want to require the government to announce ALL FISA court rulings" or "We want to require the government to declassify details about the PRISM program" or something along those lines.

We no longer live in an age where rhetoric tears down walls and opens doors. Somewhere along the line, people in power recognized they can just ignore pretty words and they'll usually go away.
Different radiation sources aren't casually comparable as "banana multiples" or by counting (or linearly multiplying) sieverts.

In particular, the radiation from the decay of potassium in bananas is different particles, wavelengths, and energy than that of X-Rays, so using "banana equivalents" to talk about X-Rays is obfuscatory oversimplification.
That works for the sprite example, but it doesn't generalize to all SVGs.

The problem is SVG filters let you do some pretty cool compositing stuff, but you can't necessarily generalize those effects in a static image. For instance, you could blur elements on the page using an SVG blur filter overlayed over your html elements, but if you're just blitting from a static buffer (like with a PNG), it's going to be wrong, so now you're not just paying attention to if the SVG changes, you also have to pay attention to if anything underneath it or around it changed. It's not an impossible problem, but I think you could still call a browser decent if it doesn't bother with that sort of specialized optimization.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundIma...
Well, it's really very logical. After all, we non-US folk are the ones being spied on as well. Or mostly, even.

It's only fair that we have a say in the politics of the US, as their politicians seem to find it fair to meddle in ours.
No online crypto is ever going to be truely secure. Even client-side code, perfectly written is vulnerable because if the server is compromised (or the admin turns evil) modified, secret-stealing code may be sent to the browser.
So do you at least get paid for it? serious question.
Older Android browsers lacked SVG support too. Bug report said it was to save a few MB off binary. Come on man.

Webkit acceleration is getting much better, and for those ancient IE browsers, check out RaphaelJs which translates them into MS approved VML.
I'm always happy to accept an argument that casts doubt on XKCD comics, so let's stipulate you're right about the banana comparison. But the comparison to the flight itself isn't similarly specious. The point of both comparisons is that the amount of radiation we're talking about is very, very low.

(Fun thread on the RadSafe list about banana dose equivalents: http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2011-March/031410.html)
This information is incredibly hard to get from most multirotor makers, because it's always really bad and they don't like to be compared to each other.

From the battery size & numbers for this general class of quad I'd guess 15-20 minutes (confidence +/- 5 minutes), although that depends whether you put a camera on or not, and if so what.

Our DJI S800 airframes will go to 30 minutes with a full load of batteries, but they are much larger and more efficient.
Good questions.

1. So, once someone was "in" (as in, they got to interview stage), we didn't consider any of these factors. Everything after getting into the interview process was purely about interview performance. As it happened, people we made offers to tended to have less typos than people we didn't.

2. Keep in mind that these action words were words that showed up a lot on resumes of people we made offers to and not a lot on resumes of people we didn't make offers to. We didn't look for those words, and again, as with the previous point, once someone was in the interview process, how they worded things on their resume wasn't a factor. This is something I observed when counting word frequencies after the fact.

3. It's not about company size. I looked at where people who were applying to TrialPay were coming from, and of those companies, I chose the ones that are known for having a high hiring bar independent of company size. In addition to some of the big guys, Y Combinator companies were also on the list.
> Who knew in 2008 that during the Obama administration it may get to the point of people wishing for the good ol' days of George W. Bush?

Republicans.
>But this revelation goes the other way. I really can't predict how China will take this.

Super pissed and not at all inclined to play ball with the US. They probably knew/suspected anyway, but this just plays into their hand so they won't let such minor details interfere.

I sure hope China refuses to hand him over. The US intelligence has overplay its hand & they could do with a trashing or two.
Adding #container {-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);} puts the whole div as a texture onto the GPU as a composited layer. This improves scrolling massively, but interestingly SVG still has a little bit more jank than the PNG version.
See http://jankfree.org
Drew is an excellent teacher. Highly recommended.
It is actually harder to extradite Assange from Sweden than from the UK, in that such an extradition would require the approval of both the UK and Sweden.
Well there we are. Maybe submit that to HN? I'd love to see discussion on it, and how we can resist these doings.

edit: I see it here now -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925001 -- thanks
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I find it a little strange that they outsourced penetration testing like this. (Although maybe they already understood the system's vulnerabilities and wanted to see how hard it was for someone else to do it.)
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So Hy has different forms used than either Common Lisp, Scheme, or Clojure?

That just makes me frustrated. I know Lisp is the urlang from which all dynamic languages come from, I know that it's mutable into your personal tastes, but can we please standardize on a previously used set of forms? I respect and encourage people's desires to make a toylang, but if you want to promote it into "language for other people", things like portability become more important. I'm a common lisp guy, so obviously those are the best. ;-) But more importantly, I can run Common Lisp from before I was born. And I love that longjevity of my code and other people's code.

http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/
To be fair, Silicon Valley's zoning codes are far too restrictive and don't serve broader public interest. For example, my city (Saratoga), prohibits multi-family dwellings in most places -- meaning affordable housing can't be built -- and sets minimum lot sizes in many zones (a way to raise prices). Palo Alto is also quite bad in this respect (particularly in the transit friendly downtown neighbourhood).

Reducing NIMBY-esque/real-estate developer driven zoning strictures doesn't imply repealing public safety/health codes.

It will actually be against my personal interest if these restrictions go away -- I happen to a own townhouse in one of few places in Saratoga where multi-family homes are allowed and big reason I did this, was to be able to convert it to a rental property (highly desirable in Saratoga -- an area known for its safety and schools -- as they're virtually non-existent) once we decide we want a bigger place. However, I'll be glade to trade a few hundred in rent income for a more dynamic and less grid-locked Silicon Valley.
Mythbusters is not science, and gasoline is quite easy to ignite. The catalytic converter could have done it, so could an electrical short (possibly caused by the crash).
I'm curious: does some kind of statute of limitations apply to Assange's case?
I wasn't aware that it was partisan. These days, IMO, it's a term of convenience. There are so many apologies that must be made for this guy that combining the two words will save a tremendous amount of time.
Self-interview after leaving the NetBSD board
Google Translations gets most of it's source data from the regulatory documents of the European Union which are required to be translated into the language of every member.

Perhaps if we were to get a similar source for Japanase -> English translations the accuracy would improve drastically.
It bears mentioning that Samuel Loring Morison was essentially leaking to himself, in that he was, per Wikipedia and my contemporary memory, at the same time working for the organization he was leaking to (Janes).

The 2 year sentence would argue his leaks were "anodyne" ... it all depends on how little you believe the Soviets knew or assumed about how good our spysats were.

Which war were you referring to? Certainly not fighting the Communist Sandinistas, that was about as secret as Obama's drone strikes in Pakistan are today, and you don't need any more justification than distracting them from other mischief, anything else is gravy.

As for transparency, where outside of the Cold War was Reagan significantly less transparent than Obama or Bush for that matter? While the hits are noisy, just try a search for obama in private for starters.
off topic, but IE 10 is really good browser, I just recently discovered how good Devtools are (I dare everyone to go and check). And compared to Chrome the RAM and CPU are less drained.
Just because a lot of the cosmic radiation during the flight is also 'X-Rays' also doesn't mean the exposure is equatable by a simple multiplier in tissue effects.

The specific energy, delivery, and timing could all be worse or better. Given non-linear effects like hormesis, the scanners (or flight) might even be good, at some levels, then turn bad.

It ought to be studied, with the actual devices in real-world scenarios, and to the same level of scrutiny of medical radiation devices -- which have themselves killed people when misunderstood or misprogrammed. Instead, the TSA's use seems rushed through a different less-accountable process, with a bunch of hand-waving "this is kinda like that" reassurances.
in Python one function definition inside another is totally normal, and (to my knowledge) the statement doesn't generate a global binding, so that the inner-defined function is not accessible from outside the outer one. In other words, python's def appears to be syntactic sugar for variable assignment within whatever scope you're already in, except of course that there is no nonsugared form. Which would make it analogous to let, I believe.
English is a (dominant) language of the web. Perhaps not quantitatively already, but qualitatively it still is.

Time to draw some attention to contracted languages (i.e. Esperanto). It would be a much more unbiased and time-saving choice for the world community.
>Do you think three-letter agencies are now actively trying to shape public opinion of themselves and their doings by astroturfing popular tech blogs?

check out my post history. it's happening to me as we speak. I posted a solution: sue them. I got buried. :)
a cruise missile is a UAV that crashes deliberately, and carries an explosive payload.

A UAV that's big enough to carry a grenade or something equivalent, plus the grenade itself, probably won't be much cheaper than a handgun, and it's a single-use weapon. It does have the tactical advantage of being difficult to detect or trace, and of allowing the attacker to be a long distance away when making the attack.
A Chrome/Blink issue has already been raised for this:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=253091
Is there any evidence that patent issues are what has kept this idea on the sidelines until now?
It says at the bottom of the "Features" (http://www.dji-innovations.com/feature/phantom-features/) page 10-15 minutes of flight time.
Is Safari/native WebKit hooking straight up to Core Animation on OS X and iOS? I know when the Windows version was still around its WebKit was using Direct2D, even before IE did. I wonder what that would look like in the comparison.
What exactly is the connection between Assange and Stallman? Why does Stallman turning out to be "right" have anything to do with Assange's future?

In any case, I don't think anyone thought Stallman was "wrong", just that he presented his points in a hysterical way that detracted from him being taken seriously. He still does.

We're the only ones with any grounds whatsoever [...] to fight against this

What does this mean? Hacker News isn't unique in any relevant way.
Interesting to think about, but the publicly searchable web seems like the only meaningful number to me.

Ok, there may be a whole bunch of social media in some language each accessible to small groups of facebook users. Does that help the average speaker of that language find a manual, recipe, learn a programming language, etc?
Why do you expect that the dominant language on the web will be the same as the language the keywords of most programming are in?
The tongue of Angels.

God says...
abyss truths omnipotency goods crucifixion step surveyed
doubtfulness hesitation sun-rising ever- disordered water
besides tree bin scantling comfort wallow sigheth inebriation
Enough Way knewest recurring gainsayer exacting mark I'm_the_boss
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That sounds almost embarrassingly low end.

I have heard plenty of big data, but according to you ETL still seems to be the biggest problem (closely followed by unsafe assumptions)
Revealed: US Spy Operation That Targets Social Medial [2011]
I think it's fairly clear: http://www.restorethefourth.net/press/

1. Enact reform this Congress to Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court;

2. Create a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of
this domestic spying. This committee should create specific recommendations for legal
and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance;

3. Hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this
unconstitutional surveillance.
One thing that sucks about him dying in a fire is that it may frustrate efforts at toxicology/autopsy.
Here it is on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298125

I agree with clicks that it's something worth being aware of.
As long as we live in a world where scarcity exists, we will compete for resources, or compete to provide them.

When it comes to ideas however, scarcity is artificial.

When it comes to the physical scarcity, we are awaiting the heat death of the universe (= competition doesn't lead anyone anywhere, except into a giant joke that's on them), whilst sitting next to a ball of gas which blasts more energy than we could even imagine into space ( = competing over the scraps falling from that table while polluting our planet is also a game only idiots can play with sincerity).

Spying on each other is a natural consequence of needing to have an edge on the competition.

What need to have an edge? What competition, what danger is man facing, but man? Peaceful progress may be slower than constant war, but so what? What good is progress that just amounts to the "need" for even more bullshit? This expedition isn't going anywhere.
It was discussed here at least once before, but I submitted it again, as it may be more topical now than it was then, in some ways.
How could this be disappointing? Nobody cares about what's legal, that is the point. We care about what is just.
While I have lots of training as a rescuer (which motivated my previous comment), I actually have zero working experience.

Life-saving training is interesting and cheap (I believe it's subsidized by non-profits)! I recommend it! The Red Cross is one good organization. And note that they offer training specifically for pool owners (though I'm guessing you don't own the pool, merely rent in the same building or something).