skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 39. I hate PRISM and related programs. I think my generation has very little control over national (or local) politics due to the demographics in the US. Namely, Boomers are conservative, and too numerous to outvote.
As a developer who has helped create some of the largest websites and projects and who is finally getting an opportunity to work on my own projects in his 30s. I would gladly push this kid off a cliff :)
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I appreciate your comment listing the groups. I will look in to LEAP.

Why is it a deal breaker to share common ground with a group that some people stereotype as undesirable? I mean, prohibition of drugs is one of the main drivers of the huge prison population.

On the West Coast of the US you may be able to get away with open support of NORML at a tech company, but on the East Coast it is pretty much a no go at a serious organization.

If I want to make a donation and have my company match it, I can't make it to NORML without having people judge me while I am not aware of it. That is a complete deal breaker.

I hope their is an organization out there working on this that is doing in the name of enhanced civil liberties. Currently, it is easy for someone to say "You are supporting a bunch of hippies?" I want it easy for me to say "I can't believe you aren't supporting basic civil liberties"!
> That's like forcing police officers to only use 18th century muskets so they don't shoot too much

I think you could actually sell me on that.
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and aware that they can't do anything about it anyway.
If anyone has any API debugging questions, feel free to let me know.
Implicit Conversion is indeed powerfull. But so is the goto statement. My experience with implicit conversion is: "Lets read this code, Ah i think it does X. Let's run it, wait what is happening, ow my why is this implicits here?"

You could argue that you should use them with care, but i'd argue not to include them in the language. You'll go c++ all the way.

Implicits are very powerfull for creating DSL's in Scala. And indeed scala is a good language for doing DSL's. But for me understanding what was happening by reading code was difficult. And i think code should be easy to understand.
You're either a bad troll or you would make a bad co-conspirator. Just commit a security bug to your own product and save the 100k, duh.
There is, usually, no such thing as _permanently_ unusable. 99% of the time a bricked device can be recovered by reflashing a working FW through JTAG or equivalent. This needs a piece of equipment to do so, but so does online or USB flashing...
I meant that DNS spoofing vulnerabilities that are currently impractical against unencrypted DNS might not always be impractical against unencrypted DNS.

In the recent discussions about NSA surveillance, a technological anchor we could repeatedly point to was the fact that Google baked the identities of their keys directly into the binaries for Google Chrome. Firefox has adopted the same approach. I don't think it's hyperventilation to suggest that NSA has at least one trusted CA key in its possession, but despite that, NSA probably can't invisibly MITM Google Mail sessions because Chrome's trust anchor for Google Mail isn't a CA certificate.

In a DNSSEC world where DANE was used for key pinning, we'd be back to trusting a PKI root. Moreover, the PKI root we'd most often be trusting is one controlled by the US Government. How, exactly, is that a step forward?
I'm just questioning that they have enough exploit writers to keep up. I think (holy shit) that you and I mostly agree about this stuff.
Seattle bus drivers (like bus drivers in many places I imagine) do not have enforcement teeth. When I lived there there was an infamous case where several teenagers viciously beat a bus driver. Plexiglass dividers were installed soon afterward to protect drivers from their own passengers.

The homeless aren't scared of a bus driver. Nor are passengers - on some routes in the evenings people would jump on via the back doors and refuse to pay fare. The bus driver would refuse to move the bus until they came forward and paid the fare. The bus driver always lost.

The reason why these problems aren't endemic in NYC is because NYC has actual enforcement via the NYPD. The police is widespread and available enough that no one tries to fuck around with the system too hard. In Seattle the SPD never show up to these things unless violence erupts.

The NYPD also has, for better or worse, a traditionally less soft stance on vagrancy and fare jumping.
DConf 2013: Effective SIMD for modern architectures by Manu Evals
Would you guys please stop astroturfing?
A huge injection of public money into an unproven educational tool - with the profits flowing to a corporation well able to afford the cost should it have any faith in the efficacy of the approach.
Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matter
Pardon the Interruption - Long running request management with Java and Mongo
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What are some of the best online job boards for finding Software Development candidates? Price and other terms should be a factor.
Just like Qatar and its western allies are trying to use Syria… makes no difference to ordinary citizens in Syria…
Syntax: If there are 3 ways to do the same thing, you remove 1 to have a more consistent syntax. See the point in the article of the author.

Features: Compared to Java, scala has a lot more features. It has functional programming for example, but its not done right, due to it's java bases. For example, try currying, you need extra syntax to curry functions.

Implicits: They might have a place, but see my comment above this one.
Details escape me, but IIRC there's a 50/50 chance of finding any given ~300 digit (bits?) sequence in π computed to the same number of digits as there are particles in the universe.

Every string is in π, but you're not going to find Hamlet in there any time soon.
Chances are, PRISM is not the beginning of a steady march toward a fascist police state.

But it is certainly a precondition. Just like "free speech zones" after the Iraq war and during the run up to the 2004 presidential election.

Let's not kid ourselves: we won't awaken in a fascist state. It will be like the frog boiled alive, the ratchet will be turned ever so slowly, but the march is definitely in the direction of fascism. How long will it take? Will it ever happen? We can't say now, but the last 12 years have had an alarming number of movements in the wrong direction.
Scary stuff. Discussed it with my father (not) in law this evening, and as a technically minded user of Orange's services, he was pretty appalled by it.

Also mentioned his online orange account has a password set by them, that they email to him, and that he cannot change. That is, they email him a password in plaintext and he has no way of changing it such that they don't know it (or that it doesn't get sent in an email). The only way to change it is to ring them up and have them generate/email him another password.
Hotels seem to be the last remaining bastion of the true service industry. You can ask most of them very nearly anything and they will get it done, possibly for a price.
Here is a little love for Octopress. Easy to mess around with the themes and easy to deploy with github or rsync.
If we just hooked up some wires between the NSA and the Russian equivalent and then quietly snipped their connections to the rest of us they could happily play together forever. We could get on with our lives and businesses.
Yes, thanks for correcting me. Implicits parameters are not so bad, but still i'd rather love code to be explicit.
If I am to hypothesize, I'd say they are tired of Mozilla's way of doing stuff. But I have to ask to put some hard data behind this, because I hear it a lot, and I don't see much evidence for it.
Slides: http://dconf.org/talks/evans_2.pdf
I just got around to installing both of those plugins. I hacked up their provided init script to work with Debian standards. You can see the issue on github: https://github.com/MeetMe/newrelic-plugin-agent/issues/7

As for the varnish plugin I had to edit the gemfile to have

gem "newrelic_plugin", :git => "git://github.com/newrelic-platform/newrelic_plugin.git", :tag => 'release/0.2.11'

It would be fantastic if it eventually got as simple as their PHP plugin or regular monitoring is to install.
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The reason That Hideous Strength is a better blueprint for what's happening than Brave New World or 1984 is that its focus is on the intersection of communication, government and human behavior, rather than on a dystopian future enabled by new technology. Instead of trying to paint a picture of the future it deftly holds a mirror up in front of us, one that reflects just as well in any era.
Nice Work! That sounds similar to Meld. http://meldmerge.org/
Abstract: Efficient and portable implementation of SIMD algorithms in D using core.simd and std.simd.

Benefits: Exposure to the language syntax and API's present in D, and also some best practises for writing portable SIMD code.

Speaker Bio: Manu Evans is a senior technology programmer in the video games industry with 10 years commercial experience. He has worked at Remedy Games in Finland, and Krome Studios in Australia, on titles including Alan Wake, Star Wars, Spyro the Dragon, and many, many more. Manu is an expert in hardware abstraction, low level systems and performance optimisation on a wide variety of computer hardware.
I'm amazed that Quartz is still in business. Whilst on a desktop it's just horrible to use, on my Android it flat out doesn't work. The comment thing covers the whole screen and I can't see any content. How difficult is it to make a website that works on modern browsers? I wanted to read this, it looks interesting.
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The cost of the bus is not keeping me off the bus; the speed and comfort are keeping me off.

While not collecting fares would decrease the stop times, it isn't going to get anywhere near what I would need to ride the bus more often.

To go about 7.5 miles on one bus in San Francisco (basically from the bay to the ocean) takes 56 minutes on a bus. There are marathon runners who can literally run the route and arrive nearly 20 minutes before the bus!

The light rail is considerably better at 42 minutes for roughly the same route (the more your trip is underground, the more it makes sense to take). In fact, the only time I take public transit is when heading downtown in the subway since it is actually fast.

The same trip takes 28 minutes in a car (less if you know where the timed lights are).

Now, if we had Personal Rapid Transit* instead of buses, then at least the comfort level and speed might be high enough for me to switch over.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
For most people, discussing money can be a root cause of drama, so it's easier to keep their mouths shut. It's also a tradition that exists in some cultures more than others. After all, a lot of us were taught not to discuss money, politics, and religion in polite company.

A lot of people's self worth is in part tied to their material possessions and income. People don't want to risk being seen as poor or less-than their coworkers, friends, etc, so they keep their mouths shut regarding income and attempt to show off (or fake) wealth through shiny new toys and bigger houses. On the other hand, well paid people want to keep their mouths shut because it can not only alienate them from their friends and family (who may well be making less and so be jealous), but it can also pressure them to be a low interest, no-criteria lender of first resort for people that know they have money.

I highly doubt it's been a trick (at least in recent times) to underpay people because it's so easy to find out what other people in the area in similar jobs are being paid.
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Hmm... Unless a bus system is initially extremely inefficient, I think the number of buses in a city is always going to have to scale linearly with the number of riders. You shouldn't be having bus routes that are almost all empty to begin with if you're making an efficiency argument about public transportation.
"We fear *1984* while living *Brave New World*".
-- run4yourlives
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went straight to my fortune cookie quote file.
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Yeah, but people who can deliver this already make that much at a day job.

It's appears to be a lot better than their blue-hat prize, which was crowd-sourced spec work and they kept rights to all of the submissions, despite not paying for any beyond the top two or three.
> You had me right up until calling Apple a hipster love fest with substandard hardware.

Alright, alright. The hardware itself is, of course, not substandard. You're paying for the brand, so it's just overpriced. Yes, build quality is wonderful on the Air, but my Samsung Series 9 has similarly wonderful build quality.

You're definitely paying for the brand. That's why everything they sell has a prominent Apple logo stamped on it. If it wasn't for that logo, people wouldn't fork over the kind of money they do. Yes, they built up their brand on good service and quality, but then, every luxury brand does that as well.

Now, somebody has to be the luxury brand and somebody has to make "cheap crap" as you say. That's fine and there's nothing wrong with that.

But please don't pretend that Apple is for the masses. It makes about as much sense as saying everybody should drive a Ferrari.

My point was that not every business needs to be run like a luxury brand to make money. Look at Samsung and many others as an example. You can make plenty of money on volume, up-selling, and cross-selling, as well as expanding internationally.
Russia government is hypocritical. They criticize US government because of Prism, but at the same time they close and censor newspapers, TV channels, and websites. They also murder and imprison journalists and everyone else who disagrees with them.

US was, and still is much more free country than Russia.

>BTW, I think modern day Russia is pretty epic to visit, and there are a lot of brilliant engineers there.

Unfortunately most of the engineers emigrated to US or other European countries after break up of Soviet Union. Right now, science in Russia is only remnants of the past glory. Russia has declined a lot since the break up of Soviet Union. During Soviet Union, life sucked but there was huge amounts of research, and Russian engineering, chess and mathematics were as good as US counterparts.

During Revolution, most Russian intelligentsia either escaped to the west or got shot. By providing free education, Soviet Union steadily re-build the class. But when Soviet Union fell apart there was a huge brain drain. All the good scientists moved to the West. In Russia, it is much more profitable to be a criminal and steal from the people instead of contributing anything something.

Before, Russia was a country run by crazy, paranoid government, and now it is a country run by criminals.
Sure--the perspective of the appendix seems open to interpretation, which is great. The very fact he chose such a strange tense, though, leads me to believe he wanted you to at least wonder about such a thing.

I only looked to see whether there was a basis for the claim that it was written from a future in which Ingsoc didn't prevail. There's definitely a basis for that claim in the text. Whether there's a basis for her other claims, I'm not sure--I'd have to read again.
I still need to rewrite all my statsd/graphite implementations.

Could you tell me what differs in your solution, and why it is better? And why you didn't choose Graphite/Carbon or statsd?
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Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah still is a free ride zone, also. :)
Any evidence or just FUD?
There were Americans on nearby warships who knew (and arguably, should have provided forceful backup; but the other warships had far inferior radars and thought that Vincennes knew something they didn't). The watchstanders on Vincennes did not know. They should have known, but there was no "bright line" that makes a given radar target look automatically civilian or automatically military on the display. Watchstanders and the CO have to make that determination based on a confluence of factors, including IFF transponder frequency, flight plan, whether the craft is ascending/descending, etc. The CO came to the conclusion early that the indications he had were of an attacking aircraft. Part of that was based on a determination that the aircraft was descending in a hostile attack pattern. It wasn't, and the AEGIS radar showed as much. But when the life-or-death decision point for your ship rests on whether you see a '-' or a '+' next to a altitude change rate it's not astonishing when a watchstander makes the wrong call.

The Vincennes watchstanders tried hailing the aircraft two times, but didn't get a response. But even that didn't really help resolve the issue; was it an hostile aircraft maintaining radio silence or a confused civilian airliner? They used a frequency a civilian airliner could have picked up, but it turns out there were several other frequencies the airliner could have been monitoring as well, and besides... how was the Iran Air 655 pilot to know Vincennes was ever referring to them?

Vincennes was having to make a hail to the effect of "unidentified aircraft south of Bandar abbas with speed 350 knots, heading 210, you are on a hostile course and this warship will take defensive measures". What civilian airliner pilot would think that applied to them (though Vincennes quoted speed-over-ground and not the airspeed the pilot would have been looking at).

So there were tons of 'Final Destination'-esque problems that occurred here, but foremost of all was that the watchteam (CO and CIC watchstanders both) determined early based on a single misread indication that they were being attacked, and the evidence they had available to them after that could easily be construed to support that determination.
Exactly right. You are not crazy, crazy1van.

Nice to hear one person agreeing with me :-)
I don't believe that's been common practice in quite some time.
yeah, you got to checkout the number of twitter bootstrap tutorials.
I tried using DDG a while ago. For most things it worked fine, but my biggest (only real) issue with it came when searching for solutions to technical problems.

For example, say I'm programming and I run into some obscure error message generated by some 3rd party library. From what I remember, DDG (in general) tended to require more fine tuning of the search query than Google in order to find in order for me to find the information I was looking for.

Unfortunately I can't think of an example of the top of my head, as this was awhile ago.

edit:

Another example: Say I remember an obscure forum post from months ago. Which search engine is more likely to find it? DDG is great, but it still needs to improve somewhat in these areas before I switch over to it entirely.
The bus system here in Chapel Hill, NC is fare-free.
netscaler support please!
How about Player Piano? In my mind this book really speaks to the root cause of what's causing divides and imbalances in the modern world, in a way hackernewsians might relate to:

"The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers. This widespread mechanization creates conflict between the wealthy upper class—the engineers and managers who keep society running—and the lower class, whose skills and purpose in society have been replaced by machines. " -wikipedia
> you are stuck paying for both services.

No, I'm stuck using thepiratebay.org and when they get tired of losing revenue, they'll start sharing the content. Piracy is most certainly a force to be considered here and it can actually nudge the players toward a more competitive position where they're not hoarding content.
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If I can do it, so can you
You can't argue that drivers are self-sufficient because they pay taxes and turn around and argue that bus riders aren't because they're tax subsidized. Neither are paying the true cost of their transportation in direct fees.
Personally I love fixing things, it's like a a big puzzle.
or even better - glory.
You don't really have the speed problem in London where you can pay by contactless oyster or contactless credit/debit card though.
"Without OpenDNS'es work, your cute little caching DNS server at home is still subject to the same interception as queries flowing to your ISPs DNS cache."

Encrypting your DNS queries and responses doesn't help much when they log the IP addresses and ports you connect to.

Encryption by default is a good thing. I might get around to playing with DNSCurve at some point, but it's not a priority for me, because practically speaking it doesn't give me that much benefit and I already have DNSSEC support.
Your 12 channels cost $100. My 300 channels (which includes your 12) cost $100. Is that really what you want? For a product with zero marginal costs, this is entirely plausible (in fact, required).
I don't get why you'd use markdown to blog on your own site
Ask HN: I Need CRO case studies. Want to double sales overnight?
I'm starting up my own conversion rate optimization consultancy.

I want outside case studies to demonstrate my conversion rate optimization ability.

If you own a site that gets at least 100 visitors a day, and the site's primary focus is selling something (as in, it's not a blog), send me a link and info on...

* how many visitors you get a day

* what your conversion rate is as of now, and how you track it

* did you ever have a CRO work on it

And I might choose to give you a redesign that will increase profits, I'm hoping at least double.

However, I will only provide a redesign. I will not code it, so you need to have the very clear and understood notion that you will have to get it coded and you will have to test it within a couple of days. Please don't waste our time if you aren't going to implement what I give you and tell me how it went within 10 days at most.

The cost for this will be pay-what-you-want for those that I accept from this posting, as I'm primarily doing it to get case studies. Keep in mind CRO is a high value skill, and commends at least 5 figures ($xx,xxx). I'm not saying you have to pay that much, just don't be stingy as you're profit will double overnight or over a couple days. Naturally, the more your site earns now, the more you have to gain. Don't think because you're pulling $10k a day, you can't start making $20k tommorow.

To get your site considered, email me the above questions productsvenue@gmail.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tLiZxjQrVg&feature=player_em...

No, that kid isnt me!!! But note the age.

Detail here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1335765

More here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DHoLYf5pMA&feature=related

A sample of easily available code here:

https://code.google.com/p/simple-flight-controller/

Larger versions available.

For some in to RC models, these things are trivial to build. Adding cameras is old hat nowadays. Only problem I see is long range control. But that might just be my lack of knowledge
Interesting. I had a couple friends that worked there in high school. They apparently had a great training program. According to them, Zimmer was a gigantic hippie/pot head and based on the culture of the employees, I could see that. Apparently, Zimmer himself would pick up employees from the airport when they went to california for training.