skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... this would be a godsend... I've signed up... it would be a big help for my animation business I'm trying to start-up....
Yet again, a bill named after a person turns out to be poorly drafted pandering.
Just talking to people might not be enough. The people are used to putting up with pain and/or BS process, and they might not see an opportunity starting them in the face.
I also remember using floppy disks in around 2004, so it's not just you.
Hmm, well one thing I've noticed is that people in Tokyo walk/bicycle a lot more than most people in any American city I've lived in. Not intentionally, really, but simply as a side-effect of the non-car-oriented transportation system and urban design that results in highly walkable environments. Anecdotally, co-workers who had temporary assignments to other locations where they drove everywhere complained of gaining 5-10kg over the year or so they were there.

I regularly see things in Japan like dressed-up women in high-heels, elderly people, and other non-particularly-athletic-looking types, sprinting up long staircases to make the train. In the U.S. I would be quite surprised to see anyone sprinting in public...

Portions also often seem to be smaller. While of course it's easy enough to order large portions in Japan ("oomori kudasai!"), there's far less of the feeling of hard-to-avoid excessively large portions I often seem to get in the U.S. In Japan, "small" always seems to be on the menu, and is often the default; in the U.S., not so much...

I think it's important that such things are not unusual and "intentional" actions that you have to remember to do (and can easily shirk), but rather are a side-effect of the environment, and so happen all the time, even when you're tired, even when you're busy, even when you're out with friends to play, etc.
I was thinking the same thing. I am one of those in the middle that believe Aaron broke the law but was being over prosecuted. Perhaps if facing a much lesser punishment, Aaron would have stood by his cause instead of checking out.
use of the word 'infrastructure' is telling. i've been doing a lot of thinking lately on that topic. really recommend the book Infrastructure: value of social resources by frischmann.
For that matter, how can they identify any individual as a US citizen when the commercial systems they're monitoring (phone, email, etc) often don't know? What about foreign workers on visas, or US expats abroad, or simple business travelers.
A bit late to say this, but: fair enough. Though I do not think it fair to say his monastery "told him" how to grieve; active learning is not being ordered, and in general is quite the opposite.
I didn't insinuate that you were lying. I was insinuating that you are under-estimating your daily caloric intake.
There's also a Fujitsu Lifebook UH90 with the same resolution in a slightly more appropriate 14" screen size: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/05/fujitsu-intros-lifebook-u...

.. but so far only announced availability in Japan.
You can actually embed fragment identifiers inside PDFs, but I don't know if any web browsers can understand them. Your other points are of course known to everybody - I even know these things myself, and yet I maintain that "PDF is excellent for presenting information on the web". Especially PDFs designed for delivery on the web, rather than 20 MB files designed for printing. HTML solves problems, like reflow, that are unsolved by PDF, but PDF is still the best choice if precise control over typography and layout are needed, as they are for some documents. The article you link to was right on target in 2003, when it appeared, but is obsolete now. Browsers no longer crash when asked to render a PDF; no external readers are needed, if you use the right browser. In Chrome I can navigate into and out of PDF documents completely seemlessly; if used carefully they can be an integral part of the web.
Well then maybe now is the time for that discussion?
What can a luddite do in a future surveillance state? They can't use masks, anonymity is lost. The best a luddite can do is stay in the suburbs and hopefully have old money.
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I'd like the font size to be larger on mobile. But I agree with you about javascript. Those dynamic social buttons are horrible, multiple requests and 200kb+ additional data in some cases. All for a couple buttons that no one will use.
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Well, amongst other icons, you'd want some indication of which one to click.

And even if it's reinforcing what you assume; isn't that a good thing? It means you recognized the icon. That's the point, isn't it?
You know, if your algorithm worked on the first few test cases you threw at it but after that you kept on finding holes in it, you wouldn't say it had solved the problem, would you?

12 years ago, I lost 55 pounds in six months. All I had to do was carefully monitor everything I ate and burn 1000+ calories exercising six days a week.

Thing is, that was a solution that worked very well for me when I was self-employed 30-year-old single man. It has not worked at all for me as a 42-year-old married man with a child. I don't have the time for 90 minutes of exercise every day. There is always loads of food around I shouldn't be eating. I have vastly more stress in my life than I had then. And my body very definitely reacts differently to food than it used to.

What I'm trying to say is, I found a great hack for losing weight quickly back in the day. I did not find a solution to keep my weight down in the long term.
A lot of people operate on wishful thinking.
Since everyone seems to have uncovered the trick a new question stands: what happens to your following once the owner decide to go back and unblock everyone?

Enjoy the surprise in your TL :)
Some sort of discussion got us the 4th amendment.
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Not true. All the metrics I've ever seen for Facebook Connect usage are abysmal regardless of audience.
So the drones should not be able to take picture of anything below 500 feet above ground without a warrant, but they could fly over 500 feet without taking pics/vid. OK?
I'd argue that what you want to do is write English language as you're accustomed. Paragraphs with multiple sentence in a single line.

What you'd like Git (or whatever your diff'ing program) to do is parse the individual sentences as individual lines for version control.

To each his own though. I have trained myself to start putting LaTeX sentences on separate lines to accomodate for this, but don't think that this is the best solution.
I still think your idea has merit. Thrift stores tend to attract a very specific market, and that doesn't need to be your market. Thrift stores operate by accepting "junk" from people and then trying to fob it off on to other people.

As a counter-anecdote, there is a place in my area that buys used tools & equipment from people and then sells them back. They're one of my favorite places -- I'd much rather buy a used Milwaukee than a brand new cheapie -- and they seem to do pretty good business. Lots of stuff coming and going all the time.

You might bake in some kind of tracking & rating system if you're concerned about resale value. If a particular user sends in too many boxes of stuff you can't get $15+ for, reduce their payment accordingly.
The Fujitsu Lifebook UH90 has a 3200 x 1800 IGZO touchscreen.
If you buy wood in Bitcoin, and then carve it into figurines and sell them for Bitcoin, your profit is entirely in Bitcoin. Does this mean that you can pay the IRS in Bitcoin? If so, do they have tax brackets defined in Bitcoin?
I think I'll start sending random PGP encrypted messages from my email address, along with my normal messages. Should be simple with a little Jenkins job.

Good luck, have fun NSA. You liberty hating anti-American bastards.
If one uses Tor, the article states that the person will not be treated as a United States person unless "proven" otherwise. If that's the case, all the traffic from a Tor exit node will be considered as traffic from non U.S. persons and all data will be stored. Doesn't make sense to me because if you are using Tor right, then requests cannot be traced back to you. How does that help?
Not really sure what you are looking for by the title, but I would go where the money is. There are tons of energy companies (many are mandated to do environment analysis) that hire data scientist and/or analysts. One example is SUNCOR [1], but there are tons of supporting engineering firms that provide services to these types of companies too. Just google a few and then look for firms that provide services to them. If you're new to the industry, I'm guessing you are, since you're asking, then start trolling these sites and look at the job postings, these will tell you the types of skills / certifications they are looking for.

[1] http://www.suncor.com/en/careers/4769.aspx?qr=data
Purchases are taxed. Bitcoins can be purchased. It then follows that purchased bitcoins are taxed.

A transitive relation, no?
Improvements in runtime performance often translate directly to significant benefits in other areas, too. That's why it's one of the most important things to improve upon.

Faster program execution means better CPU utilization. More processing resources becomes available for other uses sooner, or fewer resources are needed to begin with.

Faster program execution means better memory utilization. A program that finishes faster holds memory for a shorter amount of time, freeing it up for other uses sooner.

Faster program execution means saving more energy, as a given amount of work can be completed using less processing effort.

Faster program execution means a better user experience, which means more satisfied users.

Faster program execution means the users can be more productive, as they're not waiting as long for processing to complete.

Runtime performance may even be the most important factor to improve upon, given how it impacts so many other factors.
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That's specious reasoning, there are many BTC->USD exchanges and the IRS could easily compel you to exchange your currency for USD.
I'd imagine most people do not use Bitcoin specifically to evade taxes. But much like Capone, that could ultimately be one of the bigger problems.
Totally agree. The last company I worked for would agree to add basically any feature someone requested, even if it was of no use to anyone else. Most of the time spent implementing these odd features was making sure they'd work with all the other possible combinations of odd features, just in case they were ever used in tandem. They never were. The project I worked on was in its 4th total overhaul when I left, and they still hadn't actually sold a single copy.
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I recently redid a restaurant main page (http://californiacanteen.com/) in a very similar way, targeting mostly mobile/tablet. Same principle. (the rest of the site is a work in progress and looks horribly 1996'ish).
That's fine and good, until you want to use key combinations that include the missing keys, particularly selection type stuff. For me, it comes up a lot in programming, writing, and file/photo management.
Yes and the self driving car is operated within some sort of legal framework and for the time being has a driver. The law may likely include, at least for sometime, a provision that forces a human eye on the road before we allow anyone to jump in and go.
Ultimately it comes down to operating within a set legal framework and having the appropriate licences and paperwork(warrants) in place. So while drones may be self flying there needs to be someone responsible and it must be done so with reason.
Why? If you make profits in a foreign currency such as Swiss franc, you only pay tax once you convert those to U.S. dollars.
HotBot was where it was at.
This is somewhat unrelated, but I was listening to "Leo Laporte The Tech Guy" on the local talk radio with my dad (who is a big fan, but less into tech than I) and he started describing GPG and PGP to non-tech enthusiasts.

This whole NSA scandal may really push forward the use of encryption of securer communication methods.
I don't think the IRS gets into sales tax; that's more of a state thing.
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This is fairly obvious. From the NSA's perspective, people that act like people who have something to hide are more likely to be hiding something. I'd be surprised if they didn't take it into account.
I think the way it works is that you make a profit in dollars equal to the fair market value of your profit in bitcoin. Just like if you were bartering for anything else.
Could also just name your hosts appropriately and use something like puppet to create and update DNS records for your hosts automatically.
I believe this is the point which the IRS should (if at any point) tax. They can't tax bitcoin yet as they haven't even officially declared it as legal tender. They have to agree what it is first and declare it as a currency before they can tax it. This will take them a long time!

Edit: I stand corrected by the comments below.
I agree it's difficult on mobile having to support two platforms with many resolutions.

We have iOS and Android apps but our service is 100% web views from launch -> registration -> usage. We did this since we are still in the prototyping process and are not concerned about optimization/conversion rates.

It's been very useful for us. UX has been terrible but we've been able to gather valuable feedback, make a couple of big changes and a lot of small tweaks.

Now, we are on the cusp on rolling out to making everything native and starting heavier marketing.
The main problem is that writing is hard, and leaving just the words will make bad writing stand out. It seems that making a site "pretty" is easier than making the writing better, which is why I think the majority of sites go for glitz rather than excellent prose.
How about steganography? We all fire off so many pictures and attachments that there has to be an avenue here.
I would actually argue that raw text is not 'responsive,' because column widths that are as wide as a large monitor are incredibly difficult to read.
I'm not sure that's correct. I'm no tax expert, but from my limited knowledge of US income tax, it applies internationally and isn't based on currency. There are some tax treaties to protect people with multiple nationalities from double taxation, but I don't think it's related to currency. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
What do people really expect though.. I don't understand how all of these people can just say i'm building an iPhone app! then try and start a company based around this basis. Come up with an original business model and maybe you can get somewhere. Instagram was an app, but the app was just the medium for the service. Think of an app as your store front, what really counts is the products you sell on a daily basis.
Eat your own dog food, as they say. I'm not a developer, but I'm writing a book for a piece of audio equipment I know and love which has an enthusiastic user base but a rather cryptic manual. After yet another day of informal product support on the forums I asked if anyone would be willing to throw down a few bucks for an e-book and the response was overwhelming.

I'm skeptical about stories of parachuting in and solving problems on a short timescale. It's possible but but you need to build your credibility first. I've been using synths and audio FX for ~15 years and only now am I beginning to feel that I have mastery of this particular craft.
I would love if all filenames were human readable but it seems like too many people have a great desire to use bad scripts that can't handle spaces.
I doubt I'll ever willingly include spaces in files names and I avoid punctuation too if I can.

If you've got a directory system that goes many levels deep though those long file/folder names won't fit on your screen and so you can't see at glance where things at.

I do sympathize with your plight though, I guess I've just accepted that if I want to find something I download again I have to rename or move it to where it ought to belong.
There's more mental overhead involved in forking/merging that simply saving to a flat file. This is why source control has a higher barrier to entry than archiving old versions to zip files.
Replace bitcoin with euros or cows, it doesn't matter. Your taxes are due in equivalent USD value.
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Since I (and the majority of global internet users) are not "US persons", they're claiming they're entitled to intercept and store all my communications anyway - so my personal reaction to this is going to be to increase the use of tor and crypto for random everyday stuff. I'll start GPG encrypting email to anybody I know will be able ro deal with it. I might even start randomly mailing GPG encrypted mail for no reason except to thwart traffic analysis (perhaps I'll automate mailing randomly chosen chunks of 1984 and Brave New World to randomly chosen public keys/emails from public keyservers - perhaps some faceless NSA analyst might one day have burned countless cpu-years decrypting my 2048bit GPG mail, only to be Rickrolled with a 70 year old cautionary tale about themself…)
It's only a matter of time until this data is used for political means (see the recent IRS story). All it will take is someone coming into power that threatens the agency or its valued partners in any way. Then out comes the embarrassing tweets or tax evasion evidence pulled from Amazon. This will only become more easy as the young people of today become the Senators and Presidential candidates of tomorrow.
Well, I don't think sales tax should apply to Bitcoins. They're clearly much closer to a USD to EUR conversion than a USD to muffins conversion. Of course, this logic might not translate into law…
70% of tax filers don't itemize and cannot take deductions. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=10014...
Is this not a symptom of the app standard set by the app store? It seems like your app store submission is going to be judged largely in light of the the other apps in the app store, and the design/interface standard there is already so high...

It seems like getting a "big" app in to the app store is a huge risk because it requires hiring the type of people that can polish an app to the point that it's app store acceptable, and those are expensive people. Going in to such an expensive process with a murky idea/business plan/value proposition seems suicidal.
Yes.

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You can have it whenever you like, but such a decision cannot be made retroactively. If we as a society decide that we want to make that tradeoff, then we can only make it going forward. Those who do not consent to such an invasion of privacy must be given fair warning. For the majority to retroactively strip privacy would be tyrannical. I should not have to explain why.
This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Using Tor hides your location, so they assume you are foreign unless proven otherwise. If I were to agree with the law that allows all of the snooping that the NSA does, I'd say this is pretty reasonable.

As a European, what I find more disturbing about all the news about PRISM and related programs, is how US centric the reports about it are and how little other western governments are objecting to all of this. We are always told how the USA is the EU's biggest ally, yet US politicians try to legitimize everything by saying it's only non-US citizens they spy on, and say it like then it's suddenly okay.

I get that some spying is a necessary evil and 100% freedom and privacy is not feasible, especially if there are nations that are less than friendly towards you. But that's a whole different thing than recording as much data as possible, especially from friendly nations.

I don't think many friendships would survive if it turned out your best friend has been hiring private investigators with the goal to records as much of your life as possible.
Citation needed, I'm not a tax expert but based on what advice I've previously been given and on http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/U.S.-...
I'm pretty sure that's not true.
Wireshark doesn't think so:

9792	42.750939000	74.125.109.232	10.1.1.21	TCP	1506	[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
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The big problem is that Obamacare is nothing like a universal system or even the Canadian system, and it does not address the colossal spending costs.

Exactly
'language' != 'text'. When you're having an intimate moment with your significant other, do you use your voice to convey your love, or do you write it down on a bit of paper?
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Sometimes all I think we can do by writing to our "tough on terrorists" lawmakers is save some money. Avoid the FISA court entirely, just give the the rubber stamp to the f#^&%($ NSA, it's not like any request is denied anyway.

Look at hosting services and the storage GB and traffic they offer now compared to a few years ago. Storage and bandwidth costs are going lower and lower so NSA can easily store everything "forever." If Google can do it, why can't NSA with a comparatively unlimited budget ? Just the US intel spending is something like $80 Billion a year and that's one area that is not going to be left unfunded or "you Senator will have blood on your hands next time Al Qaeda..."
I'd assume there's some chance that the person will screw up - even a little.

The NSA is very good at exploiting very small mistakes. In the Venona project, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona, they NSA realized that the soviets were re-using one time pads. By knowing A xor C and B xor C, they were able to get A xor B - and from that, they were able to decode the messages.

I could imagine things like looking at the tor traffic, and trying to match up things like writing patterns. And of course, there's the very good chance some people aren't using tor right.

I don't think that what the NSA is doing is legal - but think there's a good chance it's somewhat effective.
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Yeah, as a neckbearded network and systems engineer I really don't understand this thing at all - it should be a non-issue. Specifically, because the OP states the machines are mostly dedicated machines, there should be absolutely no reason why they don't have dedicated hostnames in DNS, either locally or globally.

At organizations where I have held the above titled roles, DNS was one of first things to be put into service if it had not already been used. Connecting to the IP address of a dedicated machine by a nice name is pretty much what the DNS was invented for. DNS is very much not static and if you are changing a host's IP very often, you can set it up such that the DNS responds appropriately with the proper up to date IP address.

OP's script is nice but... it's solving an already solved problem, IMO.
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I thought the primary problem with Swartz's case was an overzealous US attorney pursuing prosecution far beyond any legitimate state interest.
You're supposed to log in the BTC /USD exchange rate at the end of that day (?) and pay Uncle Sam in crisp USD
Chickens aren't a recognized currency either, but if you conduct your business in them, you will be required to fill out the tax forms pertaining to barter.
> This shouldn't be a surprise at all. Using Tor hides your location, so they assume you are foreign unless proven otherwise.

That covers Tor, but not the rest...

> As a European, what I find more disturbing about all the news about PRISM and related programs, is how US centric the reports

Agreed. I worry that the American government has done damage to the cause of globalisation that will take a very long time to heal. This is a problem for us all.