skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Terrorism has claimed significantly more lives than bedbugs

On the scale of deaths overall-- no, it hasn't. That's the point.
The thing I really like about beer culture is that it isn't price focused. There are a few niches of beer where the price starts to go up, but most beers are in the same ballpark price-wise.

Every culture has rules about how you wave your banner and show people how into that culture you are. With wine culture, it seems a lot of that is through price and rarity. With beer, that sometimes comes into play, but it's equally likely to be with IBU, darkness, or local expertise.

I'm not a fan of the hops-gamesmanship that goes on, but I do like that beer culture celebrates variety and small breweries as much as it does "famous", exclusive beers. For every Rochefort, there are ten Abitas, Lagunitases, etc. that are just as well loved.
Describing wines with bizarre descriptors like "asphalt" ? Fair critique

I confess to having not RTFM'd, but when I made my first (and to date, only) batch of Barolo and tasted it way too early, my comment to a friend was "I don't think it should taste like asphalt." His reply was a link to the review of an expensive Barolo that contained the phrase "has notes of tar."
Yes, http://qualaroo.com who I believe was formerly Kissinsights?
(original HN title was something like: if Snowden's leaks were so damaging, why aren't his NSA supervisors being fired?)

I think we know that they haven't been because if they truly believe (as they are publicly claiming) that the leaks caused "irreversible and significant damage", then they would publicly fire anyone with any potential role in allowing such a leak to happen (read: failing to prevent it from happening). The responsibility in the chain of command goes all the way up, so in an organization like NSA the security failure cannot be blamed only on Snowden.
I don't get the can't sleep/eat thing. But I do the intensity because without it, the company won't take off and there won't ever be a product to sell.

Slavery to my own business is the price I pay for freedom, right?
No it's more nuanced than the 51% number.

The actual law passed by Congress says "exclusively for social welfare". IRS interpretation changed that to "primarily social welfare" a few decades ago which is actually wrong since IRS cannot make laws, only implement them as written. There was a huge ruckus in congress over this matter. Can't find the video now but here's an article:

http://www.psmag.com/politics/the-irss-tea-party-tax-row-how...
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I'd say that Instagram has filters to almost the exact same level as it has filters for photos. ("Time of day" may be a little beyond its ken, but that's the case for photos too.)
sorry for what you are going through. happy to try to be of help if I can. http://hall.com/tim
I have a similar guilt when we're hiring and I wind up with several great candidates. sometimes I have 2 or 3 people and I wish I could hire them all. I feel like it's a waste if I can't at least create something out of the situation. Especially considering it's hard to find good people and I have friends who are often looking for staff. A few times I've contacted the candidates and asked if they would allow me to put them in touch with another company. I think I've managed to hook up a few people with jobs.
> would not lie about it.

Why wouldn't he lie about it? It's a free chance to screw with the US, and if/when the truth comes out at most he can say he was misinformed, and give a bit of a chuckle.

I'm not saying he is lying, but there's no good reason to assume he isn't.
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Bedbug deaths presumably don't follow a power-law distribution.
The real scandal here happened in 1959. When Congress passed created 501(c)(4)s, the law said that (emphasis is mine): "Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare".

In other words, 501(c)(4)s were intended to be allowed to spend NO MONEY on politics. However, a 1959 IRS regulation decided that "exclusively" (0%) really meant "primarily"(up to 49%), and in doing so they completely changed the spirit of law, which was not only illegal, but made the new law a nightmare difficult to enforce. Every single 501(c)(4) that has spent money on politics since 1959 has been in violation of the law passed by Congress — which means that the real law is almost guaranteed not to be enforced.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/06/17/the-real-ir...
No benchmarks, just a few small algorithm implementations (kmeans, random forest, ff neural net). Clojure was faster, although the difference was pretty trivial.

I have been frustrated with Clojure lately because of startup time (I do a lot of CLI tools), and would love to use Luajit, but my coworkers hate when I write in languages other than Ruby or Clojure. For my own pet projects it is great.
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If you're interested Intel had a POV to add.
http://communities.intel.com/community/datastack/blog/2013/0...

FD: I work at Intel in the Data Center Group
I see your questionably attribute Jefferson quote and raise you a whole Constitutional Convention, which wrote in the US Constitution, Article IV Section 4, "[The federal goverment] shall protect each of them [State in the Union] against Invasion".
>> In another experiment, critics tasted one red wine and one white wine. They described the red in language typical of reds and the white in language typical of whites. The problem? Both were identical white wines; the “red” had been tinted with food coloring.

Try that with me, 1, 50 or 1000 times (preferably the latter) but you will not be able to fool me. White (regardless the color) is so different from red it's like in another dimension.
Great post! I agree with all the points made in the post and I'd like to emphasize the point about "Don’t be scared to fire." Team chemistry is so important in an early stage company that you have to be comfortable with making subtractions. The word "chemistry" in "team chemistry" is perfect because building a small team is exactly like chemistry where adding or removing one substance can be the difference between two substantially different compounds. And in startups, that's the difference between a successful and a, well, not so successful startup.

Long story short, don't let a bad apple linger; even if it's a rockstar apple. It will set the tone of your startup you may not recover.
I noticed that too. It looks like MS is taking advantage of their global reach to get the benefits of accelerators to places that the mainstream "startup" community isn't going. It's their chance to be firstest with the mostest, when they're coming into this venture accelerator thingy late in the game.
One wonders about the ramifications of this.

Imagine how our history would be different if we had evolved on a planet with two other planets that could reasonably be expected to support people living on them. Or our experience as we visited those neighboring planets and interacted with stuff that possibly evolved there in ways that are different to the way we evolved. And with the possibility that we were the species that hadn't evolved quite as quickly such that one of the neighboring planets colonized us before we reached their level of technology.

Now imagine we notice that a star "near" us has similar conditions to those on the three planets in our system on which we have established our civilization.

Do we explore them or do they explore us? :-)
This is almost certainly impossible. Systems at large Web companies have tons of dependencies on internal systems, libraries and build tools. It would probably be easier to rewrite Reader from scratch rather than open-source it.
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I use Ubuntu. In a past life I was strictly a windows user. The thought has crossed my mind to switch to a mac because of GUI nav speed and peer pressure. It's not that trendy to haul around a 17" Dell XPS with a big power cable to a coffee shop or ruby meetup. Luckily I realize that those good with macs could be equally fast on Ubuntu with practice and being trendy is overrated. It's all about getting things done and I like having a big monitor + power.
You setup a strawman: "Small attacks are easy, and we don't (can't) defend against them, therefor no one wants to do small attacks."

Conclusion: Don't defend against large attacks.

But your strawman ignores that people do actually want to carry out large attacks, but they are harder to do, and get caught easier, so they happen less. That doesn't mean we should not defend against them.

(And obviously "most" people don't want to kill innocents. There are those that do however.)

> There's nothing that says Russia or China or North Korea couldn't do it. They probably won't, but it's enough of a threat to be worth guarding against.

Of course they "could". But why? It wouldn't gain them anything, so they won't bother. Like I said: For attacks by a country watch that country, not the border. i.e. look for the motivations.

(I suppose Iran might bother, if they could. But they'd probably do it by proxy, i.e. terrorist.)
What about just modifying GMVault to do this?
It took me a while to parse your sentence, and to figure out who the "they" was referring to. In turns out that in English and in many Middle Eastern languages, "Afghani" is the singular form of the demonym of Afghanistan. This mirrors the singular demonym of many other Middle Eastern countries (e.g., "an Israeli, "Yemeni", "Iraqi"). So "the Afghani" refers to a single person from Afghanistan. It took me a second reading to figure out that you meant the people of Afghanistan, in plural.

The commonly accepted plural form in English is "Afghans" [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonym...
I always wonder what the completion statistics are for these kinds of surveys. I can't imagine that I'm the only one that always is clicking out of them when they pop up.
How is it a smear job?

At mos, it's the press being distracted from the content of the allegations. But it's a fairly uncontroversial observation that Snowden would be someone that a variety of foreign intelligence services would at least be interested in talking to.
> If you look at the source, you can see why it is slow.

Good hunch, but not quite correct. To see why it is slow, you need to look at the Network Tab in your browser's debugger window. Their server is choking on requests.
Last I read up on such ideas, the better design was to use a sail in front of the ship to catch the push from each explosion, then you only need the one radiation shield. I think it also allows for making a larger surface to catch the explosive push, and it depends on materials absorbing loads through tension rather than through compression.
Which will only seem more attractive for another 10 years.
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I use tumblr for fun. Wordpress is very good, too.
"Before Pepsodent, almost no Americans brushed their teeth."

You know, for years I've half-jokingly told people that brushing is a conspiracy on behalf of Big Toothpaste, but now I'm wondering if there wasn't some truth there after all.
jQuery is a power tool not a crutch.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942117
The better question is: what's stopping a concerted effort now - in 2013 - from helping dtrace4linux (or the OEL port) reach completion?
I shoot a whole lot of pictures of my wife's violin students-- a lot of the world that makes for beautiful and moving still images... leaves a bit to be desired aesthetically when translated into audio and video. :D

That said, I really enjoy the silent, 5-10 animated gif format and I'm sure that as a format the short moving picture will come a long way from where it.
If you dare to go the way of hacker, then Jekyll could be one of the best options. Since i've switched from Wordpress I don't like anything else. I just need a text editor and a script to do all the job. Static files rules.
- "shows off versions of yourself that you want to remember"
Is that so bad?
I... don't know if that blog response is going to achieve the goal it was intended to. At the very least, the CEO might spend some more time considering how being the boss affects what is or is not a funny 'joke'.
I wonder more what the self-selection for people who are willing to fill them out does to the results. Is it really accurate if you get, say, a 1% completion rate? Do those 1% represent the actual users?
Show HN: HashPix - search images tagged with same hashtags.
When government has the ability to regulate certain industries, that ability will be utilized by participants of those industries for their own benefit, unless there is a process in place which prevents that. I suspect such a process to be impossible, but that's a separate argument. What's clear is that the process currently does not exist. Thus the distinction between government action that is truly "for the people" and government action was "serves special interests" is mostly nonexistent. There can certainly be overlap, but at the end of the day all government action will be sold as being for the people simply because of the supposedly representative nature of our government (essentially, the government's argument is "you occasionally get to vote, and you haven't overthrown us yet, therefore all of our actions are justified and are in your best interest, and by the way, if you try to overthrow or even disobey us we will kill you and use this same argument to justify that").

I don't think of "special interests" as something conspiratorial or even surprising, but rather obvious and inevitable. Just like any effective craftsman will use every tool at his or her disposal (at least, every tool that will not be widely perceived as unethical/immoral/illegitimate), so will an effective businessperson, and government (being the only organization that can initiate violence without being widely perceived as unethical/immoral/illegitimate) is just another of those tools.
Thankfully pretty much all mobile apps with sounds have a way to disable them. The sounds don't make the apps seem any nappier to me, because the apps are indeed nappier. The sounds are just annoying.

I think websites don't do this more because reliable sounds support is spotty and there are painful memories from the past.
First, my post gives no judgement on Prism or other program positive or negative.

Yes, it does. You said, "...the surveillance programs are not evil either." Also, you said "...the primary goal of these programs is to save lives." - which does indicate a judgement since "saving lives" is empirically a good thing...even though you really don't know the true purpose, only what you've been told.

Second, I point out the "primary" goal is to save lives, but I make no mention of additional goals or side effects

You don't know that. You have been told that, but you don't know it.

...what is "often so conveniently implied" since I never implied any such thing.

Yes, you did. You said (apparently speaking to the entire forum) that, "Regardless of the cynicism you bring to the topic, the primary goal of these programs is to save lives." - as if that nugget of "knowledge" about the alleged purpose of those programs should override any cynicism...implying that the general cynicism here is not already grounded in knowledge.

Actions speak louder than words. That's why nobody believes these pigs. It's not like they all woke up one day and said, "I should be cynical about this government thing."
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It doesn't work for me in firefox on linux. But, works fine on chromium (although it requires more vertical real-estate than my 13" laptop screen has).
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IE11 to support WebGL
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You should give it a try and report back!

I don't even know much about wines but it seems hard to imagine I'd confuse a white wine for a red one. But then again I saw an experiment with people tasting jello without any food coloring. People couldn't tell strawberry from lime from grape or anything else. Perhaps not a totally accurate comparison but I do think we see a certain color and our brain starts preparing our other senses for the experience.
I've been saying this for a while now (well, a couple weeks anyway). The defeat of the cryptography behind SSL communication is an inevitability given sufficient time, so it would absolutely behoove intelligence agencies to store everything, including encrypted data. As Snowden said, one of the dangers of these programs is the possibility of going back in time to paint a normal life in the context of a wrongdoer. In a few decades, when powerful computers and algorithms have all but obliterated current encryption technologies, all of your current "safe" data might as well have been sent plaintext.

Or the NSA could just demand private keys via FISA letter.
I remember reading that this is what Evan Martin was going to work on after Chrome...

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2012/05/new-project.html

(Congrats, Evan!)
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Yes, always disappointed when a plastic cork is revealed, a lousy glass usually follows, followed by pouring the rest down the drain.

Of course, 4 or 5 Euros in France usually does the trick for table wine (with a real cork to boot); imagine in the States the same bottle will run $25+
You're still fighting a strawman. No one is pretending anything. Let me say it one more time: SO/SE is not obligated to accommodate all useful questions in their domain. They made their choice. Let them do their thing. But stop whining. Just stop.

In the "but, questions and answers!" vein, it's the "answer" part that's important. I believe they've come out and said they only want to handle questions that have one single answer, in full knowledge there are many questions that don't fit in that mold.

Architectural decisions are a red herring: they don't want to answer heuristic-driven architecture questions. That's not in their scope.

No one's saying those questions aren't useful. They're only saying that SO is not the place for them. This is not complicated. As a programmer, avoiding feature creep is something you almost certainly already understand. It's basically the same.
Is what required?
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Privacy, Marketing and the NSA — I.M.H.O. — Medium
Mildly interesting parody article - I don't think this is appropriate for HN.
I guess, but this whole "may be" story is a red herring.
This is terrible, sad news. "The Wired Society" is a milestone in technology writing—James Martin predicted today's world with eerie prescience, all the way back in the 1970s. I read that book as a child, and I still go back to it and marvel at how right he was.

Rest in peace, Dr. Martin. You made a dent in the world.
Don't fret too much about the down votes. I once got voted down to something like -182 karma for giving supported arguments that a gay illegal immigrant journalist should be deported.

After that, pg stopped showing karma scores in the comments.
I don’t think President Obama is here tonight, but I’m sure he’s listening in.
Even with the panic that has happened regarding the revelations of mass-surveillance I don't think the public at large truly realizes how screwed up this situation is.

The common defense of sweeping surveillance is that it serves an important purpose, finding terrorists, and it has succeeded in that purpose.

Ignoring the very serious problems with framing the debate in such a way it's also fundamentally misleading. There have been many cases of "terrorist plots" within the US having been foiled over the last few years, but many if not most of these are not as serious as most would believe. A stereotypical "foiled terrorist plot" begins with a radicalized individual who somehow comes to the attention of the authorities. Then the FBI spins up an elaborate sting to essentially entrap the radicalized individual into committing to some sort of attack, often providing fake bombs in the process. And just before they go through with their planned "attack" the FBI arrests them.

Examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_El_Khalifi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Osman_Mohamud and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farooque_Ahmed and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Osmakac

Meanwhile, the FBI, NSA, TSA, et al have failed to foil many much more serious attacks, such as the Boston bombings, the Fort Hood shooting, the "underwear bomber", the failed 2010 Times Square bombing attempt, etc.
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One thing to consider is that some of the questions are open ended and ask about how your site could be improved or what users find most frustrating. Even with a handful of responses from a non-representative set of users you can get useful information to improve your site.
Reading this they talk about "baking" into a resolution independent form. That sounds very much like triangulation to me.

If not, what is it?

http://www.slideshare.net/Mark_Kilgard/nvpathrendering-frequ...

(Q. 37)
Definitely a pessimistic view of office perks. Not wrong, just a bit pessimistic.

At my last startup, whenever there was free lunch or dinner, people definitely spend more time together chitchatting about whatever comes up. As an employee, those 40 minutes are way more fun and stimulating than an hour away my desk with just 1 or 2 co-workers. In the end, it's just how you look at the situation.

On the other hand, I do agree with the points made about the unlimited PTO policy. It's a great recruiting talking point :)
I have to disagree, wine is bullshit. If you are going to use Windows apps, just use Windows!
Municipalities can ban Uber even within your framework. In that situation, the justification for the use of force derives not from the government's monopoly on the use of force, but from a property owner's right to use force to exclude anyone from their property (i.e. the public roads).
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Our misplaced obsession with simplicity
I know a couple who weren't wrapped in either of their surnames, so when they got married, they changed it to something they both liked - Merlot. It works well as a surname, methinks.
Debt, rather. Expenses and taxes are divorced: it’s the deficit!
Salary transparency can be good for the employee, but it is worse for the company. If salaries are private, the company has a lot more freedom in how they get and keep their staff. You can offer big bucks for a key position without raising salaries across the board. You can offer targeted bonuses without making people jealous.

Some say this is a corrupt conspiracy, but I think it's just how things are traditionally done, and I don't think it's much different from not making your price lists public knowledge, etc. It's just business. That said, it's in the employees' interest to arm themselves with the going rate for their job duties, and to aggressively push to get a fair rate.

It's hard to say if one approach is "better," because every company is different, and you can't easily switch models. If you decide to go to public salaries, you may be pressured to "correct" a lot of people, some downward. If you decide to go private, everyone is going to be asking why.