skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps some Indians who have been through some of these institutions would be able comment on this... my impression as an outsider from a few months in India (including Bangalore, Chennai, etc.) was that its education systems, particularly at the lower echelons of non-university courses, still heavily target rote learning. I saw many advertisements for courses teaching specific software; little evidence of broader education. Similarly, the HR market seemed to have a certain post-colonial obsession shared with bureaucrats everywhere - re: checking boxes and processing people as products ("you need <x> to be considered for <y>") rather than engaging candidates more openly on the basis of real merits. This two-pronged attack on the individual is what awaits the Indian graduate as welcome to a life of nine-to-five, but is to some extent common to the impression I have felt in other parts of the developing world. Perhaps my own experiences have been luckier, but where an interview has been gained in Australia, the UK or US I have always felt that employers were more interested in demonstrated personal capacity than a candidate's nominal value in terms of third party paper accrual. On the plus side, those scoring jobs in this sector in India do seem to be afforded relative respect and income versus much of the population, so it's not all bad.
We might be slightly talking at cross purposes. I agree that something hot contains a lot of available energy. I'm making the point that it may not produce any available energy (i.e. inert in the sense of nuclear fusion).
It is also a primary means of identification. What does your photo have to do with your driving ability?
So this is an interesting case for animation, but turn off the javascript and try real-world (manual) scrolling -- both pngs and svg perform about the same for me in Chrome (osx).

I'm not sure there's much of a takeaway here unless you're trying to animate the page scrolling of a full page of sprites (i.e., the example proves itself, but not much else).
I guess I wonder why they need it? Why are they entitled to it? As others have noted, we have pictures on our driver's licenses so that our person can be connected with our certification to drive in the event we are detained by police. There are state IDs with pictures that connect our person with our official identity if detained by police.

This just sounds like some preemptive evidence gathering or perhaps at its most innocuous a free source of "data" to refine their recognition systems. I don't recall that anywhere in the enumerated list of powers of the government.
Presumably the photo helps pin the ID card to the person it is intended for.
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Hopefully you've already submitted this, because I'm about to. Looks great.
I'm not sure we are really disagreeing here.

Or, I'm trying to say that when the Supreme
Court says that something's unconstitutional,
that's the 100% true, authentic, genuine,
dyed in the wool, can take it to the bank
position that all courts and the other two
branches will honor.

If Senator Wyden says
that something's unconstitutional and that is
why he's voting the way he is, say, on the
Senate Intel Committee, fine, but the courts
and the Executive branch won't honor that
yet. Or, for something hypothetical, the
Senate could pass a resolution that the
Patriot Act was unconstitutional, and then
people would be surprised but otherwise
nothing would have changed. If the Senate
and House want to kill the Patriot Act,
because it's unconstitutional or just because
they don't like the title, then they just
write such a bill and pass it by 2/3rds in
both houses or pass it by 51% in both
houses and try to get the president to
sign. Also, Congress could repeal the
Patriot Act, saying it was unconstitutional,
on Monday and enact it again
on Tuesday without mentioning constitutionality
and give any reasons they want or no
reasons.

Or, I can say something's unconstitutional
and so can you and so can anyone, but
when the Supreme Court says so, it really
sticks. To me, this is a difference in kind.

Again I doubt that we disagree.
This quora answer seems particularly relevant here: http://qr.ae/pxLHv.

tl;dr: The vast majority of "engineering" graduates in India are not worth the paper their degree is printed on.
I don't think HK cares that much about US relations. They can defer to China to help get their way if they need it for trade related matters. I don't think they will want to be seen as caving to US pressure here.
People change their lives every day. I think that when you over think it and look for large scale changes instantly, that is when you run into the challenges you are describing.

I don't know what type of change you are looking for, do you want a new career? a change of health habits?

I like to think I've 'changed' many times. But if I look back and ask if I'm a changed person? No, I'm not. I'm the present extension of the person I was in the past. Different in what I've changed, but still in many ways the same.

If you want to make large scale changes, start with a few small things that you can keep up for an extended period of time. Keep doing them, then add more.

I think maybe staying away from the books that promise massive changes may be a good idea.

Also, though you will want to measure your progress, be very concious of how you do that.

Constantly asking if you're happy can lead to not being happy, because you're always looking for this happiness.

Look at how Alcoholics Anonymous manages their people. The 12 steps has been used to help many different types of addicts and people to change their lives. I think it doesn't have to be only used to prevent negative behaviours, I'm sure it is just as valuable to instilling positive behaviours.

Best of luck, and I hope this helps.
Yah, after convincing my daughter it was the way to keep her photos from filling her iPhone she gets a message from the app today saying this. She's in a panic of course about it.

And as one last slap in the face, it's 8 separate downloads!
someone in AZ got killed by a bullet fired in the air. They made it illegal and named the law after her.

So no. It can very much still be fatal
Fun vs Satisfaction
The user's choice, yes. If Google didn't do those things that required access to the data then the user would switch to a service that did. It would be like Scroogled but on steroids.
faustrecht is a pretty straight forward protocol
>They really, really weren't. Domestic surveillance was one of the smallest, least talked about topics in Obama's election

That was because he was conspicuously vague on almost everything. Big on "hope" and "change", not so much on specifics.
Ah, thanks for the history. That provides context. I am afraid my contributions would be to provide rewrites and so forth to attempt to adhere to a subset of Common Lisp.
Some (most?) states require fingerprints. They have nothing to do with driving ability and all to do with providing a way for investigators to match prints from a crime/investigation scene with state/fed records.

Another non-driving related item is motor-voter. They take your information and FWD it to the election officials to get more people involved in elections.
This article[1] talks about that issue. But the tl/dr; is "thousands" of documents, with "dozens" considered newsworthy.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866357
If a function doesn't modify a passed data frame, R doesn't actually copy it. It's formally pass-by-value, but the implementation uses a copy-on-write approach, so no copy is made when the function only reads the parameter's values. That at least covers the common case of passing a bunch of data to a function that builds a statistical model.

Of course that doesn't help in the case where you do want the called function to modify the data, but in-place rather than by making a copy.
there are lots of people running iOS 7 on their own iPhones, and those are black, so lots of people are using it on a black phone.

I don't know if you can invert the color theme.
The human mind is quite a puzzle itself.
Presumably this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker

(There's a lot of John Walkers on Wikipedia.)
Bummer. Was it really costing Dropbox a lot to keep the service? From the aquihire blog post in December, I got the impression there never was an intention to keep things running.
He gave a high-profile Q&A with Reddit this year:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13rs46/i_am_benjaman_k...

One thing not mentioned in wikipedia is that he made a White House petition to replace his Social Security Number, which failed with somewhere over 7,500 signatures (but not enough). Kafkaesque.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/grant-benjaman-kyl...
Not all languages with closures work this way. In Objective-C blocks, the default is to capture locals by value, so this sort of error is less likely. In C++11 lambdas, you have to specify the capture type as well.

Capturing variables by value has both safety and performance benefits in a multithreaded world, and it's unfortunate that Go chose not to do that.
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> Since companies can hire a programmer from India or Russia for 1/3 the cost of a US worker, that's what happens.

This is illegal, so no, it's not what happens.
It's not just Indian degrees. Chinese degrees are similarly worthless. Do not confuse Chinese degrees with Chinese engineers; these are pretty much orthogonal.

Honestly it's quite sad; living here in China makes you realize how awful an educational system can be. It's not the worst system… at least I don't have a way of verifying that its the worst system, but the lack of institutional oversight into ensuring the quality of education (ie the system, except perhaps at the highest levels, is a money sucking, rubber stamping, paper printing factory) means that you have millions of individuals tasked with building bridges when they can't be sure if they can build a table.
SOPA and ROPA.
Distribution of browser installs, browser users, or site visits by browsers? The numbers for those three look quite different from each other....
I honestly normally load up a bunch of full albums of progressive rock from the days of yesteryear and listen to two or three throughout the workday. It doesn't make sense to listen to just one song on those albums, and so I normally don't. I acknowledge that my music consumption habits are not normal, though. :3
I finished Violent Python a couple days ago and was amused by the possibilities presented in the book, but it in general teaches execution instead of theory.

Looking to dig deeper into protocols described in the book, I just started reading Foundations of Python Network Programming and it seems to be providing that a more theoretical understanding of networking protocols that are so central to many modern hacks:

http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Python-Network-Programming...
>what I remember of the purpose was to prevent the state using the police as a means of harassment, as the British did before our independence.

The problem in this case is that allowing this type of surveillance allows the state to use the prosecutor's office as a means of harassment. It allows the state to choose who to prosecute first and then go through the intended defendant's recorded life history in order to find the offense. And since no one is a saint (and no one knows all of the laws), the result is that whether anyone goes to prison or not becomes solely a matter of prosecutorial discretion, since everyone is guilty of something and now they can prove it.
Yes, but so does Linux. Actually, given the tremendous industry support for Linux and the increasing obscurity of NetBSD, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Linux ran on more architectures now...
I would've really like to know more about the case uses of this technology. I think FR is way too inaccurate to pick up people from a crowd based on the driver's license photo database. I think they probably use it for some sort of offline comparison of two pictures.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Are you looking at just the Safari process or also the Safari Web Content process and the parts of the work Safari offloads to WindowServer and whatnot?
How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (2011)
The responsibility of politicians is towards the people, not towards the constitution.

Do you mean to the current people? and/or the future generations? and/or the past ones?
Source? Most tech companies I've worked at here in the Bay Area have either a few contracted engineers in developing countries for a reduced rate, or contact with foreign firms that have very low rates. It's a global market, man.
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While this article particularly pertains to India, I think it can be seen in a more broader sense. If you go into a degree program because of social pressure or you think it is a path to a decent job, yet you have no real interest or passion for what you are doing, you are likely to fail.

Even decent CS/CE programs here in the states have paths through them that allow you to graduate, but at the end of the day, if you are going through the motions, what do you learn?

Good engineers (and engineering students) use provided opportunities to learn and if they are hamstrung by their environment will seeks out additional learning opportunities.

Anyone who goes through the motions, has little excitement or interest, and lacks intellectual curiosity is probably someone you don't want to hire.
It's not just Indian and Chinese degrees. We hired a guy who had a BA in Computer Science (or something like Engineering Science) from Dartmouth (ivy league!) who turned out to be incapable of doing real work. He had trouble implementing linked lists and hash tables.
I write about that endlessly on my blog. (Link in profile if you care.) I usually manage to post daily, sometimes twice daily. I can't possibly reduce that ongoing process to an off the cuff comment on HN.

Best of luck.
Porn is actually quite a good one. It's something that doesn't look out of place if hidden away, and gives some plausibility to owning the stuff. More so than having home videos and no family, for example.
"A senior administration official also not authorized to speak publicly told USA TODAY that the United States is asking Hong Kong to act quickly on the request or risk complicating relations between the two for failing to hand Snowden over as required by international law. "

So it's OK for senior administration officials to leak information without authorization, about trying to prosecute someone for leaking information without authorization...
There are plenty of things that the state could use to make a person's life miserable if it was malicious. To me, that some capability could be used that way is insufficient reason to restrict the state from the capability.
"In the last few years, it’s become more common for angel investors to ask for a board seat"

Is that really the case? It contradicts what I've heard.
Related, on a recent riot in china which was caused when authorities tried to crack down on cheating. The rationale of rioters was that since everyone cheats, the crackdown put kids at an unfair advantage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5924081
I got tired of fighting with Chrome and Safari over reading RSS files
I'm amazed there's any expectation of ideological commonality with Cuba, a repressive state with near-totalitarian control over information, where connecting to the internet is functionally illegal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba
Vladimir Sedach described dependency injection and test driven development as "idiotic things". Great to see outspoken opinions!
I'm really hoping that Tesla licenses the technology to other electric car manufacturers and makes certain their other vehicles (Model X, Roadster) can use it. It would be really silly to have "Tesla Model-S only" service stations.
The current running poll on Senator Sanders' site is relevant to the NSA leaks: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/
Just let them struggle.
To understand terrorism and threat assessment, look to Aum
SB 1168 would amend FISA (1978) to require that the Attorney General provide specific, individual details when requesting a ruling from the FISC, and report back semi-annually on how effective the authorized actions were.

Naturally, it is doomed.

[pdf] http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Restore%20Our%20Privacy%20Act.pdf

edit:

Here is the entire text of the Patriot Act.

[pdf] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.3162.ENR:

The ACLU has a detailed discussion of perceived flaws in Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-national-security-technology-and-liberty/reform-patriot-act-section-215

FISA 1978 makes many additions to section 50, US Code that might conflict with the 4th Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act#Provisions
Google has not abandoned whiteboard coding interviews for developers. From within the last year:

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/hangout-on-air...
I think you make a good point about starting small and keeping it up for an extended period of time along with progress measurement along the way.

For me personally,I am looking to change health habits. But while I was thinking about that I felt, health is just one area for me, this theme of driving change keeps repeating in different ways for me and am sure for others and hence the question is more directed toward driving change if you will because what people are after today will change tomorrow and getting there I think requires taking care of the basics which as you outlined in your reply. Thanks for writing !
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Why in god's name were you having him implement linked lists and hash tables?

(it is no excuse that he couldn't implement them, especially given you can google tens of thousands of implementations of each in every language imaginable, but I can't for the life of me come up with a reason to create yet-another-implementation in this day and age)
A small percentage of Indians fall into the higher income group while the majority continue to languish in poverty without even the hope of a squared meal the next day. One of most easiest way to jump from a disadvantaged background to the higher income group is an engineering degree in India. Parents want their kids to become engineers, doctors and chartered accountants not because they think their kids love these professions but rather because it gives them a ticket of sorts to ensure a safe financial future. The parents aren't completely wrong as they themselves have spent an entire generation struggling through the ranks to raise their children. They dream of a better future for their kids than the ones they had. Once this realization set in, mass engineering enrollments took place. To supplement these mass enrollments, engineering universities were spawned which produced engineers like a factory. Alas the break even point has come - the market can only support so much engineering graduates. The over reliance of the market on service based jobs coupled with the thought process which links an engineering degree to a better quality life has led to the current state. Yes, things are changing - I know of two best companies in the world who have set up their research labs in India in the last 12 months but the change is too slow for the supply. Something will give in, one point or the other.
> So long as such monitoring is not used as a means to stifle legal dissent, I have no objection to it.

I believe waiting until it is used to overtly stifle legal dissent to object is foolish.
I graduated five years ago; my college (among 800) colleges in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was one of the best among the private colleges. This meant that the students in the college used to be so good at rote learning that they used to get good grades in the statewide exams. This is how things work everywhere; the only difference between the IITs and such colleges is that the former had people who were more driven to be successful.

The average person who studied at these private colleges would invariably get a job in one of the offshore development firms. What type of Engineer you were didn't matter; the requirement was that you were able to do well in the system of rote learning. Today, the pipeline is still flooded with people trying to do the same thing; the only problem is that the offshore development firms are more picky. They pick a small subset of those 800 colleges and hire people from there. Those who are unlucky enough not to have predicted what this subset would be 4 years in advance are fucked; they are forced to figure out a new system of surviving, those that can do, the others become statistics.
Nothing to see here. Govt need to create a public process with a severe penalty in order not to create a precedent.

The same type of prosecution as in Khodorkovsky or Pussy Riot cases in Russia - to clearly signal to others - don't do it again, so govt will do everything that is possible.

Sometimes I think that being a major in, say, English literature isn't that useless as it seems to be.))
20 years back, there were only few (say, 10~20) educational institutions (IITs & Government colleges) around India that offered engineering degrees. So, getting into them were really hard and only few of the bright students could make it into these engineering colleges. And these institutions produced real engineers, who are all now in higher levels at several tech/Govt companies.

Now, there are at least 500 'Engineering' colleges in my state itself (Tamilnadu). Most of them were started by politicians just to make money. Providing quality education is not their objective, but to lure the not-so-bright students join Engineering after taking a huge money from him/her (they call it as 'Donation', but it is mandatory).

So, when these students complete Engineering degree from these so called 'engineering' colleges, they are getting a degree just for the namesake. They are not accumulating the knowledge like an IIT student. Obviously, they struggle to find a good job without proper knowledge.

It is very sad that everything (education, health, even basic necessities like water) has become a business in India. Money-making is the people's only motive and they forget ethics. :(
There is a difference between contracting work offshore (which can be done for pennies) to bringing contractors here (there are specific rules; the upshot of which means that they are not as cheap as one might imagine).
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> Since pqR has not yet been tested on Windows and Mac systems, trying to install it on such a system is not currently recommended.

Can't wait to switch to it on os x. Installing on my server to play with it...