skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Researchers Show How a Car’s Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely (2011)
"Congressional sessions open with the recital of the Pledge, as do many government meetings at local levels, and meetings held by many private organizations. It is also commonly recited in school at the beginning of every school day, although the Supreme Court has ruled on several occasions that students cannot be compelled to recite the Pledge, or punished for not doing so."

"According to the United States Flag Code, the Pledge of Allegiance reads:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

The "under God" part was added to distinguish us from 'godless communists'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_allegience
Ask HN: First Paying Customer is in. H1B dilemma
AskHN: You are on Your H1B. Your side project got first paying customer. What to Do Next?

1) Should I Incorporate before accepting the payment

2) Should I change my H1B Status to some other visa. if so which one?

3) Any other options
No, it was the right one. I was thinking about the grand-grand-fathers suggestion in relation to encryption.
I think that's the near-equivalent but I don't think that even Microsoft is trying to dogfood that anymore.
It's a grade school ritual that usually takes place once a week or so at the start of the day. Some teachers found this to be silly and were eager to make sure kinds knew it was voluntary or would come up with a better way to spend the three minutes. But some teachers would take it very seriously...
Of course that is the whole point. But that doesn't tell us what the royalty rates should be.
Besides merely being an offhanded dismissal of Microsoft employees, it operates under the presumption 1) salary is a factor that can be disregarded by people and 2) high salary is negatively correlated with exposure to smart people.

In the case of the former, the author is clearly myopic. One needs money to live, and the majority of technology companies reside in cities in which the cost of living is substantially higher than the mean. I'm not sure that it's fiscally tenable to exit school with tens of thousands in debt while being subjected to a massively inflated cost of living, and go right into taking a below-average salary at a startup. If anything, one should take a job at an established company, pay off their debt, then take on risk.

In the case of the latter, the author is simply being needlessly dismissive and arrogant. Large companies host hundreds of great engineers and do incredibly meaningful work. Frankly, Microsoft is one of the strongest innovators in the market at the moment. Even if one isn't constructing the most alluring product, one can at least take pride in the fact that they are working on a product with a scope many orders of magnitude larger than most startups. Working on Windows might not be the captivating notion, but it is still meaningful to tens of millions of users.
The point is, they're not kicking off their careers, because these days it is almost impossible to construct professional career in music unless you sign a 360 deal with a major label.
You can zoom in/out as much as you'd like, as you already know, so there is no need to force your personal taste on everyone else.
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The whole problem is finding out exactly where the property line is. There is a whole army of professionals that do that, full time -- surveyors. And there are databases of lots and zones that local governments maintain (some even behind pay walls). So finding out where exactly "private" stops and "public" begins is not that simple.

The issue might not be that big in areas where nobody cares about land that much, but in NY, LA, or other big city, where the cost of land is so high, every inch counts.

So you paint the curb red and install a fake fire hydrant. Is the curb yours or not? I don't know. Can you "impersonate" a fire hydrant to stop others from parking in front of your house? Not sure. It seems like it would be illegal. Kind of like putting a fake "highway entrance" green sign on the side of your house. It is your property but if it start directing traffic into your neighbor's pool you might just get fined or sued. At least a law will quickly be created to deal with the issue.
I think this definition of hacker is lacking and based on the wrong context.

Someone that 'hacks' at something is generally someone that is just trying to reach an end (e.g., copypasta).

However, when you look at a 'hacker' in a computer context, it's typically someone who can figure out how to push the boundaries or exploit a weakness in a given system.
We'd brought up a wafer fab in the Hsinchu Scientific Park in Taiwan before - so we weren't strangers to the concerns about industrial espionage. Several of us have done a lot of work with the government and we'd manufactured some very sensitive products (as does the current business).

My apology is really around the fact that at the time we were trusting that such programs would not exist here (this was before explained Echelon to us), and that the US didn't work that way. I was naive and I was wrong.
"But what is happiness? It's a moment before you need more happiness." [1]

DHH's point seems to be falling on deaf ears for a large portion of the audience out of resentment for his financial status rather than embraced for exemplifying the law of diminishing returns at the emotional level.

This post is about the realization that an imbalanced life can rob from you the satisfaction of living. A singular focus can propel a person or team, but each incremental improvement comes at a higher cost than the last. Becoming the best is more exhaustive emotionally than it is financially; there is a certain solitude at the top. Rapid growth is chaotic—harder to manage, especially emotionally. I've noticed a trend of deeply emotional, saddening stories of this ambition overload and solitude DHH talks about, right here on HN.

Within our community it's easy to compare ourselves to our peers. Someone we know had their made-it-big moment, but they obviously just got lucky, or we're better than them. It's easy to seek validation through "success" or some external ideal, fueled by ambition and blinded by our own self-interest.

Slow down. Find a mentor who's been there. Learn to enjoy the process. Look to deliver happiness to those around you, and receive it graciously when they give it back. Don't seek happiness for yourself; create it for someone else.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJrNHdzm0k
Honest question: Can someone draw the lines for me from looking at call meta data to human rights?

Is privacy even a right in the same sense as other human rights? Human rights are generally about what you CAN do, not about what others (ie.the government) CAN'T do.
You couldn't have further missed the point.
> about why so many Americans are in prison in the first place, IMO.

You are right and the prison situation in the USA is not ok. But that said, just as this situation could be called f--ked up, also keep in mind that many parts of US society are also REALLY F--KED UP. There's a lot of injustice and racism throughout the criminal "justice" system, but there's also a sick amount of senseless, senseless violence.

Source: Friends and family who are prosecutors and public defenders. A relative of mine was once in the position of having to defend a group of teenagers who lynched and murdered a stranger on the street with golf clubs.

Maybe without agreeing, you can at least understand the motivation for [definitely short sighted] tough-on-crime programs.
You must be on a bad connection. I use Hangouts over WiFi daily and rarely have problems with degraded video or audio quality. Hangouts has plenty of other bugs but quality isn't one of them.
> What's OCaml a solution for?

The problem of getting a job at Jane Street.
What it’s Like to Work Everyday Without an Office
On Linux, yes. Not on the BSDs.
You described exactly how I have felt my entire life.
That would be Hart Island, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island,_New_York

It's the potter's field for the City of New York, where unclaimed remains and the remains of those who can't afford a burial are buried by Riker's inmates.
Our IT team, though small, is very good at what they do and extremely focused on security. We install machines on customer floors that run 24.7.365, which themselves are remotely monitored and serviced. Security is important to us from a manufacturing standpoint as well as from an operational standpoint.
I think by "build something" that involves looking up precise stuff as one goes along.

I learned Go without looking at any tutorials. I just started coding and googled for things like "array declaration in Golang" as I needed it. My first Go program was a dynamic image resizer that used seam carving to intelligently scale images. I had never used Go before, nor implemented that particular algorithm before.

So by "build something", that is to say I didn't go through a book first, or a tutorial first, or a video first.
Mentioned multiple time is the increase in hunger and consumption which often negates the burned calories.

I've never lost weight via cardio. I lost 30 lbs over 6 months without any exercise at all (too busy with school and would just forget to eat until the end of day.) 3 years later, I'm back up at the same weight. I worked out 5 days a week for 3 months (~1000 calories per day) and didn't lose any weight.

Completely anecdotal, but I think it's a good data point. I'm going to give the no cardio work out a shot.
I don't understand why that is a crazy number. Pandora exists 100% to distribute music...50% of revenues to musicians seems reasonable to me...maybe even low. Apple for example runs their stores at a slight profit while paying 70% of revenues to creators.
VC-istan is the hypothesis that the VCs and the companies they support function more like a postmodern corporate entity than a fleet of competing investors and companies.

The name itself doesn't imply anything negative. "-stan" just means country. I could just as easily have called it "VC-land" but that sounds light.

Of course, my view of the existing VC-istan is negative-- and the culture of co-funding and note-sharing is both unethical and illegal-- but there could be a good VC-istan.
For me, it's a mixture of books/e-books, screencasts, self-directed projects and free web resources. Paid versus free doesn't really matter much to me - whether it's a $20 book or free series of blog posts, the time investment tends to dominate the money investment. I'm more worried about wasting time on poor resources than saving a couple bucks, and books have treated me very well in that regard.
I don't think Snowden is going to make it out of Moscow as a free man, but if he does, the US will orchestrate political change in Ecuador and eventually get him that way. America is Ecuador's biggest and most important trading partner, and relations are usually friendlier-- the current President is an exception to the rule. The US also tolerates a little bit of Yankee-bashing from Latin America as political posturing, but this is different-- harboring Snowden is a serious issue for the Obama Administration.
I don't think they were embarrassed by the fact that he's a 29 year old blah blah, but that the citizens of the US, the government's constituents, found out the government was doing something the citizens weren't comfortable with.
Yes, because lot of people don't make the job to go out of the building and talk to their users.
They make a neutral interface, for everybody. This is why sometime their API seems not consitent with the real need that they solve for your application/business.
The most relevant point for here I included in the title before it was changed by someone...

But groups with no political inclinations were also examined. “Open source software” organizations seeking nonprofit status “are usually for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software,” a lookout list warns. “If you see a case, elevate it to your manager.”
Creepy Facebook is creepy
I use a web IM client, it can easily consume hundreds upon hundreds of megabytes if left open for a few days, and that is just to send small snippets of text back and forth!

About:Memory in Firefox right now, with nothing other than this reply box open, shows JS using 67.29MB and well over 100MB of memory used for other purposes.

(Likely this is left over from tabs I have closed)
Build something using the technology
Use free material available on the net - youtube, blogs, journal articles.
Correct, though the Bellamy salute was phased out because of the Nazis.
> They hold very little power and have to endure much responsibility (mentoring politicians, representing the country abroad, upholding the values and behavior expected of them) and suffer much inconvenience (media intrusion).

The royal family is fabulously wealthy and enjoys much celebrity. I wouldn't call that very little power. They might not be able to tell parliament what to do anymore, but it's more power than you or I will ever know. The responsibility and inconvenience, while not zero, seem like a small price to pay for privileges granted by royal blood.

They're like A-list Hollywood actors, except there's almost zero ability to get into the family on the basis of merit. Marriage perhaps.
Fictive Kin invented Gimmebar[1] among other products.

1.) https://gimmebar.com/
Xinhua: Washington owes world explanations over troubling spying accusations
Homebrew 8-bit computer packs in 16 cores, multitasks like a champ
I'm glad this comment sits at the top of this thread. I do hope that more and more learning resources come to us in this form, which is a very good thing to give you an idea of wether you would like to jump into a language (or maybe even a framework/platform?). OP did a very good job.

That said, Lua is quite the special case, as it does not require much time to get up and running with it. This is one of the reasons why it is the scripting language of Redis by the way (Antirez even wrote Total time require to master it enough? 5 minutes.[1] regarding building scripts for Redis).

[1]:http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.ht...
I don't really agree with this. Someone could definitely be an engineer in one area of coding but have absolutely no clue when it comes to doing something else, but they could find code on StackOverflow and put a working solution together. Does that drop them back down to hacker? I don't think so...
Or, better random without ssh.
Haha +1 to this... Familiar path, this is how I learned Clojure.
Sure, but there are lots more companies that have contributed patches and funded dedicated upstream development for the Linux kernel, in part because they knew that their competitors couldn't just take it and release a proprietary product built on top of it without revealing their changes.

As a developer who works with a boss who has a somewhat equivocal position on open source software, I'm glad for the GPL requirements on the software that we modify and ship. He likes to use open source software, and in theory likes to pay lip-service to contributing change upstream, but when push comes to shove he's always worried that we'll let competitors get a jump on us. With GPL licensed software, I can always make the argument that we have to release the source code anyhow, so we might as well push the changes upstream and avoid the pain of maintaining a fork. With other software, well, it's always somewhere far down on the priority stack to actually release the code, and so we wind up maintaining patch stacks for years and shipping with major security vulnerabilities because we're afraid to update as it will take a lot of work to port our changes forward.
Because AbiWords codebase is so painful, adding it is more trouble than it's worth.

I tried to port it to elementary with a new UI. Dear god.
I want to emphasize this. Always use appropriate safety equipment when exploring old buildings. Steel-toed boots are also a very good idea, in addition to a respirator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_exploration#Safety_and_le...
>risk-seeking, ambitious, 19-year old

The article isn't explicitly directed at "risk-seekers," but merely at ambitious people. It's incorrect to conflate the two. Ambition can just easily manifest itself as a desire to seek a large salary, climb the corporate hierarchy, and seek a nice lifestyle. As a member of the cohort at which this piece was directed, I don't know why everyone assumes that we want to expose ourselves to risk, or why everyone asserts that we ought to.

Why does everyone exhort the necessity of risking everything in an attempt to change the world? What is so bad about simply pursuing a nice life?
As a (hardened, old) unix dev, it seems to me you've spent little time with the language. C# is one of the most successfully evolved languages of recent times, no feature was added that didn't have a clear & concise story in the context of all other features.

No Anders & co didn't just add whatever they felt fashionable, they've designed a language over the course of a decade with (to my knowledge) zero warts, bringing to the table more than 20 years of prior design experience (Turbo Pascal, Delphi).

If it weren't for the stigma of being a Microsoft design, C# would be a hugely more popular language.
I'd never heard of it until I came across it mentioned/shown[2] in the [unofficial] C-64 Prince of Persia conversion[1] linked from some HN thread the other day.

I've done the Storage Oscilloscope + pin twiddling for profiling embedded stuff though, and for a few short minutes, was convinced I'd invented something brilliant. :)

[1] http://popc64.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/part-one-why-hell-would...

[2] http://popc64.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/part-nine-optimizations...
Why Supporting Your Competitors is Good for Business
Best android app ever  It can do anything you want
But that's part of the point, isn't it? If SV companies need to adjust for cost of living in SV, the same salary could attract a better employee in an area where adjustment is not so necessary.
Prove it.

I would way rather have my product sold in Walmart. That's why Walmart suppliers are willing to accept such thin margins. Amazon's great for consumers. As a consumer, I like it that they have pretty much anything I would want to buy.

As a content creator, put me in Walmart any time, as I will be surrounded by a much smaller number of competing products. Being on the same shelf as big sellers Justin Bieber and Skrillex is a dream scenario for an emerging artist. My needs as a producer are way different from my needs as a consumer.
Complaining to DannyBee about the tech lobbying presence is missing the point. In terms of what he might be able to influence, Google actually has a significant (and growing) lobbying presence on a number of issues:

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=d000022008...

And, last I heard, software patents were a prominent issue on Google's list. The point he's making is that the EFF and Google and the few others directly pushing on this aren't enough and that "enough" people who care enough to regularly write congressmen could make a big difference.

More generally, it is worth underlining that the tech industry is not unanimous on this issue. Should the anti-software patent side start to get some traction in Congress, you could expect pro-software patent players to push back - not just patent lawyers and trolls but probably also companies benefiting from the current regime (e.g. IBM, Microsoft and Apple). In that sort of situation, I suspect the organized lobbying on both sides starts to cancel out and engaged voters start to make an even bigger difference.
Don't generalize. I had a few brushes with the administrations in middle and high school because I refused to stand for the pledge. Whenever I was forced to stand, I would look the other way in protest. Luckily the high school eventually just dropped the morning pledge altogether.
Doesn't 2012.2 and the web developer add on really improve intellisense for js libs (among many other things)?

I'm a C# dev... and it feels a lot like going back in time working with other toolchains sometimes (especially on the SQL side of things).
"Do I care how long it takes a mechanic to fix my car? No, I just care that its fixed."

Really??
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I would say this advice primarily applies when your competitors are solid companies working hard on the same space. Maybe less so if you have reason to believe they're deceptive and/or trouble
San Francisco is 1.85x what it costs to live in, say, Nashville, TN. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=salary+comparison+Nashv...
One of them is Eric Lippert. If you use C# you'll enjoy his blog, http://ericlippert.com/.
Read the papers.
I think we also shouldn't underestimate the power of feedback, to help you tweak the API along the way. It's almost impossible to get it right the first time.

Check out the feedback that makes this particular API much better than when it was just launched https://www.mashape.com/shepik/web-screenshot#!issues?page=1...

Disclaimer: I work for Mashape (an API Marketplace)
I personally think they are doing a great job evolving the language. For every version they focus on one or at most a few features and those are really well designed. And I don't think they are following the latest trend - they are adding the things they know how to do [1] and which provide the most value.

As far as I know dynamic was added to ease interop with native code - I have never seen it heavily used in regular code. LINQ and lambda expression have been introduced together with the Entity Framework and I am unable to imagine using an O/R mapper without something similar again - it just fits together so nicely.

Async was an obvious next choice - we are getting more and more cores and traditional thread-based parallel programming just does not scale because it is so error prone. And after they extended LINQ to PLINQ they had a good part of the necessary infrastructure already in place.

[1] For example they would like to add something like Java's checked exceptions but when they considered it they came to the conclusion that there are to many unsolved problems and that it might require a few more years of research to come up with a really good way to do it and so they postponed it for later reconsideration. In general there is a lot of well researched theory behind the things they do. Another example is the Entity Framework. They didn't just implement another O/R mapper but came up with a mathematical theory comparable to the relational algebra and then implemented it based on that results.
>Just because it pisses the public off, that is no excuse for anyone to leak information at will, let alone be pardoned for it

He alerted the public to the fact that an arm of the state is flagrantly, knowingly violating the Constitution of the United States. That's not crime, that's patriotism. Why isn't James Clapper being charged for lying under oath to Congress about state surveillance?
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Sell out the the first big tech company interested?

Make sure one of the co-founders is a kick-ass patent lawyer?

Don't?

Moving to another country is problematic. Other countries have their own software patent quagmires too (though, admittedly usually less developed ones). You're also probably going to want to sell to US customers at some point and then...

In the past, I'd have said don't make money, but in a world where patent trolls target end users of things like scanners, I no longer think that's enough.

More seriously, there's just too much risk and uncertainty with software patents. I think the only realistic option is to accept that risk and move on with the rest of your startup.
Yes for some cases building something will not work,but not on this. You should make things like plugins, edit configuration files to learn the full use of vim.
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