skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a new thing. The prisons in the US are used as a model for countries wishing to gain the status "third world".
Do you mean something else, because even ignoring the stark differences between Manning and Snowden, and the military and civilian courts, Manning's trial, last I heard, had started.
Being "good" at loosing takes training. It's one of the things you learn if you play sports (especially team sports) long enough.
I think it is fair for people who make an enduring product to be compensated for that over their lifetime. I don't think your 20 year old burgers are still in demand, so no royalties are needed. If I wrote software to power a website (or an app) that is still in use 20 years later and people are still willing to pay to access it? Sounds reasonable to me.
This study was conducted over the course of 15 years with 571 wine experts:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-0238.2008....

They found that individual judges were generally not very consistent in their rankings but that if you use small groups of judges then you can get better reproducibility.

The exact numbers are in the paper, but about 67% of the experts had statistically significant reliability for red wines and about 50% had statistically significant reliability for whites.

Also interesting is John Cleese's film about wine in which he conducted a blind taste test that found that most tasters couldn't discriminate between white and red wine. I couldn't find it online, but the whole thing is worth watching if you're interested in wine.
I cannot recomment WebStorm enough. Has great support for Type/JavaScript and IntelliSense works automatically from sources for the runtime/libraries you are using.

Have tough time getting used to definition files at the moment. Microsoft only offers a v0.8.8 file of Node.js. Loads floating on GitHub that contain errors. Not good. I suspect it is one of those thing where until a lot of people use TypeScript and there are defs for different versions of libraries (by authors), it will be a bit of a wild west.
Relevant discussion on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1gyylv/my_song_got_pl...

The artists don't seem to understand that Pandora simply doesn't have the scope or reach of their other revenue sources.
Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections
> At least with something like cancer you can tell for sure whether you will live or not or for how long you will suffer

Not even close to true and immensely insulting to claim.
That... doesn't answer my question at all.
I remember Pascal being fairly popular, and it does both. (Except if you count comments, but i assume that was not what you meant.)

EDIT: Also Fortran.
Well, I think he's being charged for revealing information about how the US Government violates the Constitution, specifically the 4th Amendment.

Let's be clear: in the United States of America, the Constitution is the Law. The first 10 Amendments constitute the Bill of Rights, and
the first paragraph of http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.htm... clearly shows why they were included in the Constitution:

"During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens.
hmm, buffer overflow exploit via the EULA to patch the game since you shipped without the ability to patch, there's a game dev hack if I've ever heard of one.
We're not talking about traffic tickets. Being convicted of espionage or treason can easily carry a life sentence or even the death penalty.
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Like I said, people have actually been tricked into thinking Spotify is a good thing for the industry.
Wow! As someone who has lived in the southeast my whole life, I resent that. We have Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge National Labs, and plenty of intelligent people here. Some great innovations have come out of all parts of the south: from Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Ashville, etc... I can't believe you would make such a sweeping generalization.
Yeah, I did. I put my phone into DFU mode with the instructions here http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode and then restored back to 6.1.3. Good luck!
You are making the leap to assume there will be punishment (probably a fair assumption, but an assumption nonetheless). He isn't yet being forced to fall on his sword. The US hasn't sentenced him to death or life in prison. The US is simply trying to bring him back to face his charges.
Yes. Microsoft offers a Node.js v0.8.8 definition file in their examples. There are some others floating on Github for other versions.

I use WebStorm to give me autocomplete for the version of Node I am running. The defs are there just to make the compiler shut up.
Great! More ad hominem. Keep it coming.

Look, I'm not saying that you have to agree with anything the guy is saying, but simply dismissing him as "doesn't know what he's talking about" is insufficient.
Amnesty International has always been critical of human rights abuses in the USA. Guantanamo, prison conditions, death penalty, treatment of refugees and immigrants, etc.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports?country=334
If you're going for a Windows laptop, take a look at the newly released Samsung Book 9 Plus: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/20/samsung-ativ-book-9-plus-...

Arguably the best looking Windows option today, with a resolution of 3,200 x 1,800. Rumor has it that pricing on the Plus model will start at over $1600+
Maybe when it supports unicode
""Hunt down" implies something Seal Team Six-style."

Is it unreasonable to expect such a thing? Suppose Snowden beats the odds and makes it to Ecuador. Would you be surprised to hear that he was found dead in his apartment in a year or two? Would you be shocked to learn that the US government was involved?

Why should we trust the US government to follow the laws of Ecuador, Venezuela, or Cuba? Snowden runs a real risk of being covertly kidnapped without regard to the laws of whatever country he happens to be in. He runs a real risk of being killed by a drone strike. The US government has done all of the above in the recent past, to both citizens and foreigners, in various regions and countries.
You must be lost; this isn't reddit. Do you have anything to actually contribute to the conversation, or did you just want to make sure everyone knows you heard a Pink Floyd song once?
With that budget you can get there with duplex b&w laser printing onto standard copier paper. I guess you'd have to buy a binder, but still cheaper than lulu I would think.
The White House rather unambiguously threw Snowden under the bus:

"Mr. Snowden's claim that he is focused on supporting transparency, freedom of the press and protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the protectors he has potentially chosen - China, Russia, Ecuador, as we've seen [...] His failures to criticize these regimes suggests that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the United States, not to advance Internet freedom and free speech."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/24/us-usa-security-ob...
Pandora has 150m users. If every one of them paid $10/month, that'd be 1.5bn/months income. Pandora has 80K artists represented (all data from Wikipedia, I'm lazy :) so if they spent 1% of those 10 dollars/month - or $15M - on paying the artists, each one would get 187K/month. So if everybody paid $10/month, this should be more than enough to get all access you want to all music - I can't believe any artist would not agree to give access to all their music for 100K/month.

Of course, not nearly everybody pays $10/month - actually, AFAIK, paid subscription to Pandora costs $3/month and not everybody pays even that. Judging from Pandora's income, only minuscule part of the users does. But I think discounting $10/month as inadequate is wrong, it's actually quite a lot of money if collected on Pandora's scale. The problem is getting that many people to actually pay $10 :)
Probably given the song in question hit number 64 on the billboard hot 100 and number 3 on the modern rock chart.
Right. Cause you're totally just staring at the screen that is playing the music, not at all doing something else while the music plays.
Barring a massive crisis, catastrophe, or war, it is indeed likely that the US will continue to be a growth stock for many decades to come.

It's a much safer bet than many other things.
But who decides whether you are whistleblower or a spy? And that case could easily be made on Snowden if he shared certain information to select people and not the public (not saying he did, mind you, just demonstrating how easy it would be to cross that line).

And do not mistake prosecution with guilt.

On one hand, I'm glad he shared what he did, but I also fear what could happen should we blindly believe everything we are told, whether the person telling us is a member of the government, or a member of the government in a foreign country.
Is it unreasonable to expect such a thing?

Yes, because outside of the movies, the USA doesn't seem very good at that sort of thing. How would they seal team six someone out of Moscow, Ecuador or Hong Kong?
Writing compilers and data processing with a fairly compact mathematically inspired notation. So I'd recommend it for problems where you are doing lots of abstract modelling, algorithmic work and/or need a rich static typing system.

It's strict (as opposed to lazy) functional language which generally generates fast and predictable performance executables.
Nice work!

One nitpick: local function declarations, like

local function g(x) return g(x) end

are actually the same as writing

local g;
g = function (x) return g(x) end

. Without that first local g; statement, local functions wouldn't be able to call themselves recursively.
>> a goal that is actionable, useful, and very difficult to achieve.

> What exactly is that?

This question implies that you did not read my original comment carefully, or perhaps at all, as answering that question was it's subject. I suggest you read it again, and perhaps this time more slowly and with an open mind.

> your post was mainly about other people

This also implies that you did not read my original comment well or at all.

As for the "disgusting hogwash" comment, it is a barb but one that was not too hard to ignore, as your criticism was not substantive. But thanks for the clarification.

> very bad personal direction.

...and yet, you seem to have judged my view as bad without comprehending it. How can you do that if you don't know what it is? Perhaps you are goading me? Well, I'll write this one comment, in the hopes that you really will re-read what I wrote and understand it.
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The word is "steganography". Stenography is to do with taking notes.
Oh thanks. I need to read that spec again more closely.
With vagrant, I can create a vagrantfile. This says: "create a VM using this basic distribution, this networking configuration, these forwarded ports, and this hardware exposed". It defines the basic machine.

I can then use "vagrant up". This creates a new VM using Virtualbox, VMware, or whatever I have installed (I think there's even EC2 providers now!). It configures that VMs hardware as above.

Then, vagrant can use one of many tools in the configuration space -- Chef, Puppet, Salt -- to configure the software in the VM.

I guess the distinction lies there: vagrant configures hardware. Salt et all configure the software.
Staying in the good graces of government was certainly not easy for Egil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egill_Skallagr%C3%ADmsson), though his artistry also saved his head.

In any case, I don't think it's clear that government needs to be involved at all. While patronage might have been the realm of elites in the middle ages, in the modern era any group with enough members can easily become a patron with small cost to each for the sake of supporting any artist deemed worthy (obv. crowdfunding, etc.).

It might take government to tunnel under the English channel, but it doesn't take government for a bunch of neighbors to get together and pave their lane. And supporting artists is much more the later than the former.
Right, because as we all know the USA has never covertly assassinated someone, nor kidnapped someone from a foreign country, nor deployed drones... I guess if we ignore all the times the US government has done this sort of thing, you might be right.
Whistleblowing is a desirable behavior only in certain situations, and the distinction between whistleblowing and espionage is one that is made on a case-by-case basis and open to reasonable debate in many cases. Snowden seems to be really treading quite heavily in this grey area with his disclosures of US cyberattacks on Chinese targets.

Unless you're making the case that classified information shouldn't exist at all, in which case espionage can't exist, and the White House would be Tweeting military strategy before it was executed.
What this means in practice:

> local g=function() print(type(g)) end g()
nil
> local function g() print(type(g)) end g()
function
http://www.feedsapi.org is what I use and I am pretty happy with it, I mostly use the full text RSS to Email feature and combine it also with Feedly and Snackr for pure full text rss news reading.
It's sad that the front page is simply an opinion piece masquarading as news, and a poorly formed opinion at that. Even if you don't like what he did, there's no evidence that he's a traitor (someone who's intent was to help a foreign power) or a spy (someone who, on behalf of another foreign power, conducted surveillance).
But who decides whether you are whistleblower or a spy?

Those who look at the issue and arrive at a conclusion.

If you let someone else make that decision for you: if you're unable to make it yourself, how would you confirm they made the right decision on your behalf? And if you are able, why not cut out the middleman?
Hi, OP here.

The actual goal isn't to "beat" any other language - it's just a theme for the event.

Although proprietary, Objective C (and iOS) is a widely used platform. It also has a relatively small ecosystem. There aren't a lot of great libraries, and wheels frequently get re-invented. Our hope is to change that.
Snowden speaks out
Given real state prices in NYC, if find it hard to believe it's still "too expensive to build everything" now, if it was so in the 60's. Perhaps there is more to the story? Does anyone know why this place doesn't get developed?
If what they are delivering is in fact a high quality education then I'm sure as long as they go through all of the necessary channels that Canada requires then they will be able to continue operating. Instead of complaining they should have done the proper research beforehand.
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Or it's just a hook for catching peoples' interest in participating in the group thing the hosts were organizing. (Yes, it'd be silly to devote your time to an effort like this to try to "help" Objective-C. But I don't expect anyone is really doing that.)

Edit: What the OP said.
Nice guide.
If you like stuff like this, you should check out this photographer's flickr. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019607

He takes photos of abandoned buildings. If you're in SF he's got some good ones of 140 Montgomery, the art deco building that is now being refurbished into new digs for Yelp and other companies. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/sets/7215761380385022...

He's also done Neverland Ranch, and the Jackling House Mansion (home to Steve Jobs and one point) http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/sets/7215759415352040....
It's true--I absolutely had a safety net from my parents. I really didn't want to ask them for it, but it undoubtedly affected my decision making.
Industry seems to be doing pretty good. But why should I even care about "the industry"? I can get why should I care about the artists, but "the industry" is just the means to the goal of getting music, if there would be some other means that gets the same result - who cares if "the industry" disappears?
Because copyright doesn't quite fit in your free enterprise world. Copyright isn't like traditional property. It needs government to define it, set limits on it and enforce it.
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What do you want to do that you cannot do because of the lack of Unicode support?
The distinction between whistleblowing and espionage is pretty clear. Espionage is done covertly for the benefit of a foreign power. Whistleblowing is done overtly and for the benefit of the public. You would have to be using a pretty stretched definition of "espionage" (like the one the US government uses) to think it has anything to do with whistleblowing.
So he's complaining about still getting paid for a song he released 20 years ago? Damn. Wish I had problems like that...
That doesn't make any sense. You're attempting to compare two completely different things.
It's a call to action, to get Objective-C coders more involved in open source. Obviously it's not to the detriment of other open source code.
I didn't know that. It did take a bloody long time, though.
One could make the argument that a Pandora listener should be worth more, as they are choosing to listen to the personalized Pandora station rather than more forcibly listening to whatever the radio DJ puts on.

Is that not the whole point of Pandora? If it was the same as radio then what would be your incentive to use it?
If someone knows your IP, can't they spoof the packets and get you banned from your own server? Or did they solve this issue somehow already?
> Normal introversion is "I just want to be left alone for a few hours", or at most, "I just want to be left alone this weekend".

I think there are a lot of introverts who would disagree. From my reading, introversion/extroversion is a broad spectrum. Many of us prefer not to engage socially much at all, to the point where it's the inverse of what you stated. Once in a while, I like to be around people for a few hours. Or at most a weekend.
Housing is one of those things that varies regionally. In Florida, no one builds with wood anymore - the next hurricane will knock your wooden house over. Almost all the buildings here have solid concrete or concrete block exterior walls.
Why? The people at Guantanamo bay are not employees of the US military either...
It's missing "All feeds". ("What's new" has no list view)

Otherwise very good job! I like it :)
Makes sense: Snowden is somewhere on the other side of the world, Amnesty have absolutely no say in his fate, so might as well write up a nice press release about him, right? Let's hit those front-pages, people!

Meanwhile, a few yards from their lovely London HQ, a certain unsympathetic Australian is under indefinite house arrest. When his tribulations first started, Amnesty first stood silent for days, then threw him unceremoniously under the bus. Because evildoers are always somewhere else, never in your own backyard, of course.
Noob question: is a language proprietary if its only compiler is proprietary or if the main one is? There are open source compilers for Objective-C.
> Our lawyers have advised us that, to preempt any possible cease and desist order which could negatively impact our ability to teach going forward, we must discontinue operating our web development program immediately.

If the government agency involved thought the now-halted activities ought to be regulated, wouldn't they send a C&D letter anyway, at the conclusion of their investigation? I mean, if a company can avoid the regulatory consequences of past actions by shutting down operations for a few weeks or months during of an investigation, isn't that a loophole big enough to make the regulators totally irrelevant?

Let me be clear: Bitmaker Labs sounds legitimate (based solely on their linked statement). But either their lawyers are giving bad advice, or the laws themselves don't make sense. Disclaimer: IANAL.
"Where does one draw the line between encryption,encoding and compression for example?"

I am told that the FBI does not actually draw such a distinction when dealing with criminal messages. The term "null cipher" is used to refer to messages encoded in a non-randomized fashion that does not involve any secret key. I was being a bit sarcastic above, but honestly, I would not be surprised if the government tried to claim that base64 encoding counted as "encryption" in this situation.
Why would any public company make anonymous donations? Isn't it going to become public anyway via public accounting? I'm not familiar with U.S. law in this regard.
That was a great talk. The book is also great, and definitely worthwhile.
this reminded me of a guy who downloaded an audio book at piratebay, enjoyed it and then searched for it on amazon, to see what other books people bought with it. then downloaded those at shady sites too. but then, he usually donates to authors of software that he uses (e.g. Libre Office). Maybe we need an easier donation model for music. one that gives 99% of the money to the author/perfotmer
"Besides filing charges against Snowden, the US authorities have revoked his passport – which Amnesty International said interferes with his rights to freedom of movement and to seek asylum elsewhere."

This to me seems a lot more like "hunt down" than "the US has simply made written requests of countries under existing treaties"
First, that was very useful; bookmarked.

That took me 30 minutes to read. I think I might feel like I've learned the language after spending 8 hours working the examples a la "Learn Python the Hard Way". Luckily, I'm not competing with the folks here that learned it within 15 minutes ;-).
Unless you're making the case that classified information shouldn't exist at all, in which case espionage can't exist, and the White House would be Tweeting military strategy before it was executed.

Yes, and? What difference would there be? The civilians in some third world village would have time to run to the hills, and the US would still get to drop their bombs and use their drones, and weapons and arms manufacturers would still get to supply them. They make just as much money wether they blow up empty space or people, after all.

Sure, it would stem the flow of convenient terrorists which provide the pretext for the fireworks, but you could have undercover operatives do that, and since those also have to get paid by tax payers, it would be a net win -- even more money would be magically generated and trickle down to everybody, yay! We would all move from rich to mega rich, so yes, I would want to make that case, absolutely.
I agree that recursive queries overcomplicate things greatly. Store the whole thing as a semi-typed JSON document, consider adding a thin caching layer to avoid re-parsing it on every hit (perhaps with some kind of sticky load balancing if you are running multiple processes -- I don't know how the app setup he uses work).

Plus, depending on who your users, the amount of options you'll want your questions/answers to have will steadily increase, making it more suitable to a semi-typed JSON tree (I say that based on a decade's commercial experience in this field -- and at the very beginning I was doing it via Perl CGI scripts).

Plus, if you really really wanted, with PG 9.3+ you an actually do queries within the JSON.

One tip: make sure everything has a system-generated unique ID.
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