skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. IMO, this is the most factually correct and honest basis for the prevailing sentiment that I think there is. It bothers me, though, that the cause has to be renewed and sustained with misinformation. Where was this outrage when the PATRIOT act was renewed in 2011? There certainly was some, but from what I recall it was orders of magnitude less than it is now. This is why it seems to me like the outrage is based on the recent factual misconceptions. Even worse, conspiracy theories are being thrown around that go far beyond even what Greenwald originally claimed PRISM was, and those theories aren't being scrutinized and further fuel the fire.

If we are going to have a debate on what the scope of electronic surveillance should be, it should be an honest one. I just feel like we're replacing the ridiculous unfounded "TERRORISTS GON DESTROY 'MURICA" sentiment with an equally ridiculous unfounded "GUBMINT OUT TA GITCHYA" sentiment. I don't like having to choose between those two options.
Right. And freedom, or even the idea of individual existance, is not nebulous at all? Or maybe that's also related to acting stupid and squinting, i.e. nothing ultimately holds up to scrutiny, but sometimes you just gotta agree on what is likely meant in the current context, and move on?

I think the assumption here is simply the average human being, who is happy when in company with other happy human beings, not the alienated, necrophile collector of things and symbols who "lately" have become so numerous they actually think just wearing shirts and shoes while running countries or companies makes them a fully fledged fucking person, haha.

If you honestly cannot think of anything that profits you without hurting others, then wtf are your interests? How can others have freedom, whatever it is, when your interest, whatever it is, is profiting off them, instead of doing work that profits off, say, chaos and energy by making it useful at least to you, if not others as well? How can you yourself even have any meaningful development as a person that way?

If you plant a fruit tree in your garden, and only you get to eat the fruit, and it makes you happy, then we're all better off for you being happier, and those who create ideas and tools that last longer and reach farther than just their belly are considered cooler still. But the purely parasitic BS has to go, and since it tends to make people lazy and ignorant, there is fuck all they will be able to do about it once the kindling actually catches. Is that okay for you, can we move on now?

Why do some people understand that murder is not okay, but don't apply to the same into, say, deceiving others into self-harm from which they profit? I think it's privilege. It's mighty easy to have endless discussions about what a gun actually is when you don't have one pointed at you.
Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
Just curious because it seems that it is written using rails.
I agree about the kindle version being useless, not just because of the device, but because the formatting of their books on these devices is awful.

We used mostly wikitravel on an ipad, made notes, and used our notes while moving about cities.
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Why would you need an asm.js port of lua? Just use LuaJIT it's already faster then asm.js. And Lua itself is already faster then Javascript.
Very true. I used to be very happy when StackOverflow appeared on the list of query results. Then I just started adding StackOverflow to my searches to make sure it was added. :-)
Fisa court warrant authorising NSA surveillance procedures – full document
Did you mean use the default bootstrap? I'm confused what you meant.
As an alternative perspective... (absolutely nothing against the original post)

Consider picking just one country, and living there, instead of travelling around the world. Learn the language, get a job (teaching English?), get a boyfriend/girlfriend, travel locally.

I know a lot of people who have done both (travel around the world, or live abroad). Travelling around the world can be utterly exhausting -- absolutely exhilirating, but the endless work involved in finding accomodation, food, etc. can wear people down faster than they think. Also, the lack of any constant companions, that all your human relationships last only a day or a couple of weeks at best.

Setting down some kind of "roots" in a place can be very rewarding as well, and can be more deeply educational as well -- what you see about a country in the first few weeks, versus what you see about it after a year or two, can be strikingly different. But, it all depends on your goals and personality of course!
To me what's evil is the stonewalling of an investigation into the death.
Perhaps Adecco/PR firm reached out to the author, to solve the matter. Or that is what we can hope at least.

The site appears to be password protected now so something definitely happened. Or the site just got overloaded and the author decided to pull the plug.
Thanks for easily explaining this for everyone.
The local gas station/convenience store I go to regularly has a PC on the front counter that always has a spreadsheet up. I believe that's how they do their cash flow.
Claims like this may be more convincing when they are supported by evidence.
Maybe it's not surprising, but it's bad. It puts the non-elected agency officials in a position of power over the people who are supposed to be their bosses and make sure they aren't going out of line. It basically nullifies a lot of checks and balances if the agency officials want to blackmail or threaten to blackmail elected officials.
Because its a $10 battery and people don't often take advantage of the deal, US Cellular is able to easily eat the degradation cost. But on a $40k battery pack, where swapping happens potentially far more often, that cost is too significant to ignore. Hence they're charging a reasonable amount for it.
Maybe he really "Left this experience smiling"?
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The phrase "HTML5 operating systems" made my brain explode.

Somebody please send me back to 1996, when the world made sense.
Maybe. But someone who would have been disqualified from the presidency might prove useful to those who hold the information. It would explain the 180 on Gitmo, ferinstance.
On the contrary, I think removing extraneous crap from your life is one of the highest value activities that you can possibly engage in.
StackOverflow is being killed by its overzealous moderation, as was Wikipedia a year or so ago before they backed off a bit. Let's sample a random question from the `php` tag: [1]. The question is not particularly well-asked, but I think it's fairly obvious that the answer is a union of the three tables. And yet, because he phrased his question as a requirement (it's the last sentence) and not an absolute question, it's been closed – even though I understand the question and possess the ability to give an answer (and maybe even edit the original question to improve its readability), I've been rendered unable to do so.

I think the big problem I have with quickly-closed questions is that they get just as thoroughly indexed on Google as answered questions. This becomes a particular problem with niche topics; last summer, I was tasked with some Salesforce development and the number of unanswered, closed APEX questions I found was astonishing.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17237166/sql-query-query-...
FWIW, GM conducts full submersion tests on their batteries. I would hope Tesla does the same.

These things are in the floor of a car. I would imagine cars deal with much worse environmental conditions than a dedicated battery swapping station.
Just did 10 countries in 10 months, most of them in Asia.

Vietnam and China visas I wish I had known about before. For some passports, China is something you should get even before leaving your home country.

Otherwise, I definitely agree that travelling over land is much more interesting.
Why does it seem so?
I knew it was that video before clicking. Upvote for Monty Python ;)
Yes, I understood allmost all of it :)
So how much did writing this comment cost you?

We're not all as busy as we make ourselves out to be. People love to give others the impression they are swamped in order to say "no," not the other way around. "No, I can't go to dinner with you tonight, I'm sorry, I'm just so backlogged with work..."
I didn't derides anyone. What I want to say is that when employers can't afford reasonable salary for developers, they cannot find any good ones, even they found ones, it's only matter of time they will leave. The problem here is more than salary, it is about attitude, employers trend to treat employees as cost rather than valuable asset. When people are treated like disposable tools, nobody would stay.
It's one of the many reasons General Alexander is regarded among conspiracy theorists as 'supreme leader' of the USG -- he has the ability to blackmail everybody with 100% effectiveness.

He stands at a very interesting intersection between civilian leadership (head of the NSA) and military leadership (head of US CyberCommand).
> Without any frame of reference, those values are meaningless.

The page explains how to run them natively as well.

> performance is 3 orders of magnitude worse than native high performing code.

Performance depends on the browser, which did you test on (there are some notes about that on the page)? Also, you can't just compare FLOPS in one test to a theoretical maximal FLOPS on your CPU (or another test), since it depends on the code being run.

This is going to be tracked in realtime here, including a comparison to native,

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...

(but so far it hasn't shown results for that test yet, just an empty slot, hopefully later today though).
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It's not. I'm sure someone will hop in with the specifics. I think it's written in arc.
There is no requirement to return the swapped battery. If you want to keep the new one you can. It works exactly the way you describe.
Better Place, which offered batter swapping for electric cars, announced bankruptcy about a month ago. I wonder if there's any connection? Assuaging fears that battery swapping will no longer be available? Tesla can now use technology that had been patented by Better Place?
well that was just my intuition. may be because its easy to make such a thing with rails (may be i am getting biased here.)
The post has little to do with creativity. It is all about high-achieving and thus renowned people who achieved what they have by concentrating on their work.

The same 'ignore everybody' approach works well for any activity, including not very creative kinds like bodybuilding, when you know what to do, and all you need is a lack of distraction.

This approach also has obvious problems: you can end up with a useless result because it falls out of context, or shadowed by a vastly better approach you chose to not pay attention to.

And, of course, you can be brilliantly creative with little or no lasting output, like someone showering others with mots and impromptus on a party. Researcher rarely interview such people, though.
It already exists. Mentioned on HN a few months ago.
https://www.authorea.com/
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Prof. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning at Coursera: Course Notes
So Kevin Rose is not a sixty-millionare. I am disappoint.
Or they found something and use it against him to keep him in check and get what they want.

This system is all about control and preserve power.
Correct. Considering PG created it, it makes sense.
I have to vote for "And verily it goes that".
Based on the incredible amount of ass-kissing during the congressional testimony a few days ago, I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.
Also a related whitepaper on the Cortical Learning Algorithm https://www.groksolutions.com/technology.html#cla-whitepaper
Something hot should not be thought of as inert, because something hot by definition is something with incredible internal velocity. But then there are multiple definitions of inert..

I think what you're saying, though, is that if you contain something extremely hot and dense, you cannot get any useful energy out... Because the energy needed to contain it prevents you from getting anything out. Right?

Because I'm coming from a perspective that says: if you can contain something like a small bit of solar core: and if you can let some of that heat leak to the outside environment: you can derive terrific power from the thermal dynamics at work.

The sun exists in the pressure-free vacuum and thus extends to a far less dense outer layer where the heat gradient (the argument against power potential per volume) is low. However if you could contain the sun into a smaller volume, it would have the same massive heat flux but over a much lower surface area and thus with far more power potential per volume.

I assume we're not so much disagreeing: over focusing on different issues. Is it correct that you're saying that the act of containment itself prevents the ability to harness the flux?
What if you rebuilt the AMI every time you deployed?
Living in NYC, I actively aim to run low on fuel in New Jersey so I can save $.50 a gallon.
hmm. ya just got the source code here :
https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Don't be:)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3476016

also it says "This is a repost of a post first published in December 2011." at the end of the post.
Yeah, but there is nothing illegal about an in-person cash trade, so what are you going to bust them for? (Well, I suppose the cops can always find something to bust someone on...)
If you are using a PHP < 5.5, use this library:
https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat
Note that imperial gallons are substantially larger than the regular kind. A 10 imperial gallon tank holds 12 US gallons, and so 700 miles from a 10 imperial gallon tank is actually about 58MPG. Still very high, of course.
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The petition has a very small number of signers. Perhaps we can help out there.

https://www.change.org/petitions/governor-mark-dayton-of-min...
Does anyone know a good tool to go from an SVG to all the app icon sizes? I found a couple of non vector tools in that space but nothing for when you can start with the SVG.
Why techies should be rooting for US immigration reform
I did this in Brazil. Actually, I kind of did both while in Brazil. Within the country, I lived in several cities and parts of each city. Now I'm doing it in another country, this time in Europe, though I'm staying in the same city this time. Even doing the moving around every few months within a country can be quite tiring.

As for your MB(A), if you have one, be careful because when the summer hits, it can heat up really quickly and everything will slow to a snail's pace. I was using a 2010 MBA all through 2011 and 2012 and it was seriously tough-going. In terms of banks, I recommend Capital One 360, no foreign withdrawal fees, no monthly fee. While using Citibank in Brazil, I must have given them thousands in fees over the years.

If you trade being in the most popular places of whatever city you're in with a nearby neighborhood or district, (at least in terms of Brazil) you can spend just US$6K for the year...but for that price, you'd have to be okay with living more or less on the poor side. The great thing about living in a tropical, developing nation is there's plenty to do for cheap or free.
You're right, this is great
There's also a library for PHP >= 5.3.7 that provides the same API if PHP 5.5 isn't an option yet.

https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat

Written by Anthony Ferrara, the same guy behind the `password_*` API in PHP 5.5
There are no incentives to switch open source projects to BitBucket, but there are incentives to switch to BitBucket small team/personal private projects.

Edit: Also open source projects will not start to pay github, but private projects might grow and will start paying for BitBucket
This comment reads like a Dr. Bronner's soap label.
Isn't every potential US president scanned from tip to toe?
> "As an exercise, prove that" for the most difficult step

No, no, that just gets you questions when someone attempts it. The most difficult step is prefixed by "Obviously", "Clearly", or words to that effect, for example "Expanding either side and resolving, we get" or "Using Gauss's reflexion identity".
This is something that most don't talk about. Travelling is work. I'm not saying it is anything like 40 hours a week at bigcorp USA, but it is certainly work.

The constant movement, decisions about where to sleep, what to do, and where you're headed to next can be very stressful.

The three weeks we spent in Ecuador learning spanish are some of our fondest memories of our trip. We were ready to get moving after three weeks, but in hindsight I think it would have been good if we stayed longer.
My dream trip is Houston to Singapore overland via a transatlantic crossing, the Trans-Siberian Railway and trains/buses across Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.

Theoretically I could return via Central Asia and the Caucasus but I haven't figured that part out yet.
You say that Singapore's air is "fine" on a day to day basis. If that's the case there's nothing wrong with Singapore placing the blame on Indonesia.
It does seem to lift a lot from the good.is post.
How the internet’s most powerful company became a clone mill
So if spying on people in power is good, who spies on the people in charge of the NSA?
My truck (Tundra) takes 26.4 gallons according to the website (I always fill up before then).
I was pretty critical when I saw this on reddit 4 years ago. I'm not really a fan of git and didn't understand what the point of this site was that we couldn't get from sourceforge. The same has been said many times about Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest. I still don't really understand most of them, but I guess that's why I'm not a millionaire.
Microsoft will never release a useful Office for the iPad
Whenever I read these blogs, and the comments that follow, I'm amazed at how much money people spend doing this!

Has nobody heard of www.couchsurfing.com?

Why travel all the way around the world to pay money and sit in a hotel room/private apartment?

I've done travelling and couldn't recommend it enough. It's a fantastic experience but by far the biggest benefit, and most memorable moments, were from the people I met (even though I'm not really a 'people' person). Couchsurfing allows you to stay for free with a local host.. think AirBnB but FREE and where you can actually speak and interact with them. Most of the hosts in the more remote countries are fellow American's doing Peace Corp. It's interesting to hear their different perspective on their host country, and they enjoy the contact with another 'westerner' too. Lots of other hosts will happily invite you sailing, climbing, hiking, BBQing with them or their mates too.

If you're happy to sleep on the floor occasionally (rarely in my experience) then I highly recommend any travellers (particularly solo) give it a go.

If you're really adventurous, or want some even more amazing, serendipitous encounters with incredible people, stick out your thumb ;-)
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As far as I can tell the agency responsible for the campaign is Mortierbrigade [1]. I haven't been able to confirm it for sure but the original source [2] I found it for seems to be quite knowledge about the Belgian advertising scene.

Adecco's/Mortierbrigade attempts to defend themselves on Facebook have been rather halfhearted so far.[3]

[1]: http://mortierbrigade.com
[2]: http://creativecriminals.com/online/adecco-way-to-work/
[3]: https://www.facebook.com/AdeccoWayToWork/posts/5588127241617...
So then what's the point of the right-hand sidebar? Is it just there to annoyingly push the scroll bar into a weird position?
£16,500: Newry community rallies in support of Kevin Bell Repatriation Run
Correlation not causation: I think it's about opportunity cost of time.

If you're a successful person, creative or not, you probably know how to manage your time well and don't allocate it towards random studies.
We are both rational people, I see. (I was usually driving from Baltimore to NYC or destinations further north.)
Potency is a pretty misleading comparison. There are drugs that are prescribed in μg (mcg) doses, and drugs that are prescribed in mg - mistaking μg for mg has caused deaths.

The LD50 of caffeine for an average male is about 14 g. That's the same (in terms of mass) as the alcohol in a beer. Does that make caffeine more or less "powerful"? It takes something like a hundred cups of coffee to reach caffeine's LD50; for alcohol, it's slightly over one bottle of strong spirits. Despite caffeine's higher potency, it's a lot easier to kill yourself by drinking too much whisky than too much coffee.
Ok, that is the craziest (in a good way) thing I've seen in some time. I'd have thought PoP had been ported to the C64 at the time - Karateka was ported just about everything. So in 2011, starting with the Apple source, disassembly dumps, graphics from a free version, looking at the PC port and god knows what else, someone ported it to the C64. Amazing.

EDIT: Oh, and apparently the Apple ][ source hadn't been found again yet, making the thing even more bonkers. Mechner's comments here:

http://popc64.blogspot.com/2011/10/prince-of-persia-for-comm...
This is a great addition to PHP. Before, most new devs would either skip hashing passwords altogether or use `md5()` or `sha1()`. So you'd end up with databases with passwords in plaintext or easily cracked. Bcrypt frameworks for PHP were too confusing for beginners. If you were lucky you were using a framework that took care of hashing and salting passwords and if you were extremely lucky you had bcrypt available on your PHP install and that framework used it.

But that didn't always happen. There do exist experienced PHP devs who would do password storage the right way but PHP up until now neither made it easy nor encourage these practices as they relate to passwords. Now I hope word gets out about this and people stop using md5() thinking their passwords are safe. Not that md5 is necessarily bad, but most people don't realize there are better tools for maintaining secure passwords.

Also, this reminds me a little bit of `has_secure_password` method in Rails minus some of the automation that comes with it.
The fires in Indonesia are definitely the main problem right now. However, there's some talk that Singapore companies are involved in the burning and some talk that there's burning of palm fields to the south. I honestly have no clue. Nevertheless, I stand by my opinion that even though it's fine on an day to day basis, there's still some pretty low hanging fruit they should be on top of, especially given how much growth the country's still going through.
As a fellow belgian, I agree with the commenter below. Some people use it for other things too.

Also, I just visited South America for 3 months and decided beforehand that I would quit my job (which I didn't hate but it didn't provoke any passionate response either) and afterwards start working on something I'm truly passionate about. So no leaching off the state budget and couldn't be happier.
There's also PHPass from OpenWall:

http://www.openwall.com/phpass/