skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe you it's opt-in by default. You have to explicitly consent to the creation of an account as far as I understand it. So, to me, they could scrap content but not go as far as create automatically an account without your consent. Or I misunderstood something and would be glad someone explains it to me.
What does "in origin circle" in the challenges mean? I drew a triangle inside a circle and it didn't seem to recognise it.
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I read the whole thing, the title put me off but I stood firm.

Page 3 is where the stuff about leakers is; in the context of http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?_r=...

To me it seems 4 years ago while working for the CIA, he was an idealist. He saw it from the protecting national security angle.

To me, not entirely surprising?
Eclipse 4.3 Kepler released
Yes. Not only possible but likely.
Complaint filed against Irish subsidiaries of Apple, Facebook
Yes, it's a common frustration in the US that when you see a 911, Ferrari, Dodge Viper or whatever it's usually being driven slightly below the speed limit by some (presumably rich) old man.

And P.S. Occam's Razor is just a guide line. Many things happen every day that violate it. The US government has murdered people before and tried to cover it up, so it's not beyond the realm of believably or possibility.
This seems a lot like cookie-stuffing.

AdBlock and AdBlockPlus are free to run their company any way they want (within reason). However, this is a serious breach of trust. They should inform me of any change or re-direct they perform - before they do it.
NoSCript http://noscript.net/ is way better
What is "feminist doctrine"? Feminism is women not taking shit anymore, and men supporting them in that. That's as good a plan as any you could mention, it applies to a whole range of people including many who never heard the word "feminism", so excuse me for thinking those "central figures" mostly affect feminism in the way they gave ammo to its opponents.

If you disagree, show me how this applies here. Show me how the fact that the blogger "is a feminist" matters at all. She provides full source material, she doesn't diss men in general -- so what, exactly, is it? Guilty by association, the association not being that she actually mingles with the kind of bigots you mentioned, but that she gets associated with them?

I would feel guilty for contributing to this red herring if I didn't also think it's good to talk about just how much we resemble birds on an oily beach thinking we're wearing tuxedos.
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there were changes to the core data structures in order to support reducers, namely the addition of polymorphic reduction by the collection. See: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/5b281880571573c591...

It was a pretty transparent change.
Hardly. Turnbull, frankly, has been shafted by Abbott and fairly forced into promoting Abbott's ridiculous broadband policy.

In their launch, Turnbull looked quite sheepish the entire time. Turnbull should be the opposition leader, not the Communications Minister, but that's for another debate.
This must be why Amazon Associates changed their Terms of Service starting July 1. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...

> “7. Except as agreed between you and us in a separate written agreement referencing this Participation Requirement, you will not use any Content or Special Link, or otherwise link to the Amazon Site, on or in connection with:

> a. any client-side software application (e.g., a browser plug-in, helper object, toolbar, extension, or component or any other application executable or installable by an end user) on any device, including computers, mobile phones, tablets, or other handheld devices;

> [...]
The only broken-ness I can remember seeing for a long time in Firefox is in those demos and other little projects that pop up here where the developer forgot that browsers other than Chrome exist (or, are using Chrome only features).
Definitely true about dining but private bathrooms? I only went to college 12 years ago, has it really changed that much since then?
I like it, and I will use it. However, I'm finding all the slidedown / slideup animations distracting. I read fast, and just want to hit next until I can start typing. Other than that, I'll let you know when I play with it otnight.
Yes, adding support for guitar tab is definitely on my TODO list.

I agree, editing purely with the keyboard can be much faster. Holding down Ctrl with the UP and DOWN keys sounds like a good suggestion, too.
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This gets trotted out a lot, but encryption is only as secure as the protection of the passphrase. Being realistic, any country Snowden visits has tremendous leverage on him because of how easy it would be to simply arrest him and hand him over to the US.

https://xkcd.com/538/
While I agree with you that the excess spending of higher education institutions has been a primary driver of cost growth, I would contend that decreasing state spending has had a greater impact on these rising prices than federally backed student loans. The market demand for a college educated workforce has exacerbated this price pressure to cause the 5-10% year/year increases.

For example, the University of Washington has sustained a state funding decrease of nearly 50% since 2009. In 1990 the funding per student was $17,000 with 82% paid by the state and the remainder by the student, in 2013 the state pays 29% and the student 71%.

The demand for a college educated workforce has also increased since 1990, with the majority of middle class occupations requiring a four year degree. This demand is inelastic, and while it is true that federal student loans make up nearly 90% loans, if supplanted by private loan bodies at higher interest rates it is unlikely that the market demand would decrease.
This is one of the problems with total surveillance, everyone has said or done something stupid at some point. If not during the immediate past, then during their teens.

It seems people don't even find it an issue.
Nope, the system mentioned here [1] is a triple-star system. Read the first line [2].

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5938999
[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_667
I believe underpinning this is a need for new tools to give citizens the ability to ensure good governance. We can watch the watchmen, and we should.
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Add it to the "about" field, not the "email" field. The "email" field is for administration use only. It is not publicly visible.
I would hope so. It's none of their business if I buy a new device. This is plain respecting my privacy.

BUT: If I can be sure that only my devices can decrypt data sent to them and you know that my account will only announce keys to devices I actually own, then you don't need a notification when I add a new device because however many devices I have, only I will be able to read your messages.

Of course because we can't trust apple to not silently add more keys to an account, all of this is moot anyways.
Not for the reason most people think. He was a key Gillard backer, and was vocal against Kevin Rudd. Gillard is gone and Rudd is now back in power tonight. Conroy's position was untenable. Good riddance.
I think you may be arguing against a strawman.

The article, as I read it, said Gray was arguing against the ideal of progress in the human individual. The hope that the individual will use reason and knowledge to improve themselves, the world around them, and act moral / just / rationally. The endgame being no need for power structures but instead responsible and free individuals.

But, he's only addressing the individual. Humanity, the aggregate, does build organisations and power structures. We will forever trade our away our freedoms because the free individual will never be Good.
> We need to grow up. This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: as we once did.

Reminds me of the very first chapter of The E Myth book (good little book if you haven't read it).
"Your honor, my client—a man who never even graduated from high school—had no idea what he was doing when he leaked NSA secrets. As you can see from his trips to Hong Kong and Russia, he clearly doesn't think things through before doing acting."

Just wait.
Absolutely - this is one of the reasons that we made Kale open sourced so that people can see what we consider an anomaly, and adapt for their own use cases if needed. If your anomaly detection contains secret sauce, it'll be very hard for people to have confidence in it.
Ages 24 and 28 can be farther apart than the math would suggest.
DOMA is unconstitutional
Mouse, Mouse Motion and Mouse Wheel event and how to handle them in Java?
Seeing that Square recently launched a p2p payment system, I disagree with you that Square plans to stay within their narrow slice of the market. I think it would look much more like PayPal (a "Pay with Square" button) than Stripe, but who knows.

I'm sure Stripe, Braintree, Venmo, PayPal and the others are paying very close attention to Square.
> it's police with guns and the threat of justice that keeps the bad apples from ruining the harvest.

Did you really not get what I said about the banking bailout, or did you ignore it with a straight face? Those cops you mention are also spraying pepper spray at people just for speaking the fuck up... !

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

So did you miss it, do you have Stockholm Syndrome, or are you blinded by privilege? Is there another option I missed?
How do ad blockers affect revenue? Don't they still fetch the ads but just limit the presentation of the ads? So it would be indistinguishable from someone who just does not click on the ads?
I'm completely talking out of my ass, but I think Jupiter would also block out the sun. But even with that, Earth would still be a VERY hot place, right? All that pressure from Jupiter must create some heat (along with the increased volcanic activity), I'm guessing. Also, am I wrong to think that Jupiter has got to look bigger than that?

Macabre as it is, it's really fun to think about this stuff.
Link to the opinion: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf
Yup its true and the norm. I made about $6K over the summer months and my college tuition was $350 a semester. Shared an apartment for $200/month. The thought of taking out a loan never entered my mind.
The phrase "random walk" immediately makes me think of evolution. :)
Lets try an experiment with Amazon referrers.

(a) Take a "randomly" sourced blog post for a book review:

http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/14/the-unwinding-is-george-pa...

(b) Check links to amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga...

(c) Click through and check URL:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga...

Looks OK. Anything I'm missing?
Thank you for challenging this idiotic conservative bullshit! College was largely subsidized for decades before the 80s, and only when the legs got kicked out from under the tax base did the tuition costs go up.

Damn you, Ronald Reagan, and your ilk. Policies as demented as he was...
Wow. Congratulations!
Firefox addons for privacy and security with usable settings:

- AdBlock Edge. Filter subscriptions: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Disable Malware, Fanboy's Annoyance List, Prebake

- NoScript. Use "allow scripts globally" or otherwise most websites won't work. It will still protect against know attacks.

- Cookie Monster. Then set global/default preference to saving cookies for session only.

- FireGloves. Uncheck "disable plugin and mimeType lists" in Cloak Settings.

- HTTPS Everywhere

- LastPass
DOMA struck down
taking inflation into account

Both Why Does College Cost So Much? and the link account for inflation; in fact, the last sentence in the first paragraph of the link says, "And, yes, those are inflation-adjusted dollars."
I bend no words. One of the experiences of colonialists was the Beaver Wars in which the Iroquois invaded and captured the territory of the Huron. The Iroquois would not constitute an army in the traditional sense because they were not uniformed and regimented - they were a force of irregulars, much like Al Qaeda is today. Suppose the Iroquois wanted to invade and recapture New York, that would be an invasion by a force other than an army that New York would need to repel.

And, do you spray insect REPELlent on yourself before you get bug bites or after? Protective measures also constitute repelling.

Also, I originally didn't want to argue the legality of the surveillance. I devised a hand-wavy scenario to illustrate my threat-assessment point.

Because, saying that kittens are as or more dangerous than terrorists IS blockheaded. If I'm wrong, I invite you to go down to your local SPCA and adopt a new pet terrorist.
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It's certainly possible to learn enough to become a competent freelancer, finding sustainable work in that time may be another problem. Here[0] is a link to a guy's progression who learned Python/Django in a month, it includes extremely helpful resources to help. I would also learn the basics of throwing up a Wordpress site just to have a quick way to demonstrate your abilities.

Is this a 6 months off to focus solely on learning development skills or 6 months to learn while working?

0. http://eddychan.com/post/15775730174/how-i-learnt-enough-pyt...
Shouldn't 0% mutation rate and 1 elite clone mean that all cars in the next generation will look the same?
Those "[choose "minority" group] Studies" programs were en vogue far more in the 80's and 90's, the subject of this piece, than they are now. They're also ridiculously cheap to provide, along with being the first to go when budget cuts get serious.

And if you think that the vast majority of people would be willing to pay a little bit more for STEM kids to go to school... I don't even. Very few people out there care what you study in school, and considering some sort of social ROI for undergrad majors is about the last thing on most peoples' minds. Even if there is concrete proof that its better for the whole of us in the first place.
Someone's going to kill me for saying this: The biggest opportunity you could hit in the shortest amount of time is probably with PHP/Wordpress.

Learn how to write smart, clean PHP (if there is such a thing), and learn writing Wordpress plugins and themes inside out. And build a portfolio to woo clients. A lot of developers think they're above this type of work, or that it's soul-sucking and pointless. It is. But if you're willing to buck up, and you want to be a free man/woman, and hit a (fairly average) target rate of $35 - $50 an hour, it's the fastest path.

Keep in mind, there's little respect for PHP and Wordpress development on HN, but there's a ton of demand for it among the growing number of novice bloggers who need help with their site. I get asked all the time, and I usually refer the work to a WP dev I trust (the quality varies quite a bit).
Last time I checked it was not fully open source. Is it yet?
Golden Rule: Do things, tell people.

Seriously, coding skills matter less in the real world than you think, those will get better with time anyway. Eventually you'll get to a point where you can work in places where coding skills do matter, like dev studios, startups, big companies etc, but for non-tech small to medium businesses, they only care what you've done, not what the quality of your code is. You can make a damn good living setting up wordpress sites, installing a theme, adding content and managing it with social media accounts if you wanted, and that requires the least amount of skills out there.

Lets take the above scenario of being a wordpress installer. First, its about selling yourself in the right light, you're not a wordpress installer that makes people websites. You're an online presence consultant that helps SME's engage with their audience and thus increase their profit.

Second, get your first client, ask everyone you know to put you in touch with small business owners, get meetings and show them the package you're offering, do it for $500 or something, hell do it for free if you have to, just get something you can use as a case study, anything, a local pet shop, whatever. Once you've got your case study, get your own presence setup, put your case study on your website, get business cards printed up etc. Prepare a powerpoint presentation and a few handouts with the benefits of an online presence, making sure your contact info is on this.

Now join your local non-tech business groups, chamber of commerce, networking events etc, and get yourself speaking engagements, make presentations to local SME's explaining that they can increase their profit and talk to their customers using an online presence, tell them about social media accounts and how successful companies use them, show them they can build a mailing list, show them stats on how well conversions work using the mailing list, and at the end, show them how you did all of this for your local pet shop.

You are now the expert in all these guy's minds on how to do this, they will call on you if they need it done, they will recommend their friends to you cuz you knew what you were talkin about. Get their email addresses and add them to a mailchimp account and send out a weekly newsletter re-iterating techniques on how to communicate with SME's customers online.

Work will flow in. Now, i've used a very low skilled example for you, i dont know if thats what you want to do, but this can be applied to just about anything you want to go for, generic stuff like iOS/Android apps or specific stuff like ordering and invoicing systems for oil and gas companies.

Do things, tell people.
> Consider a few states hand out fee rides to a significant faction of students who meet basic qualifications.

I lived in one of the states in question, Florida, that a had program called Bright Futures (no longer exists) that provided automatic tuition assistance based on GPA. However, that program, even in the best case, would only cover tuition expense. All other expenses were up to the student to handle.

However, the vast majority of recipients of bright futures left college with debt. With the program done, the amount of debt accumulated has done up as tuition continues to get more expensive and assistance for tuition becomes harder to get.
Show HN: ASP.NET devs, no need to code user management for your site ever again
Most block the loading of the url that contains the ad content. The website owners rarely host the ads they're displaying.

In that regard, it's very easy to detect if someone is using AdBlock or not.
Just because there are some majors that you object to ("get off my lawn") and deem worthless that a handful of students choose, you're willing to throw out the whole system, including making STEM degrees just as difficult to get as the rest of them. Nice. That's just brilliant. You're an asshole and probably a bigot.
Plus a huge number of people that adblock have been doing it for years and are basing the continued usage on the assumption that adverts now are similar to the adverts in 2006 - 2009. I use a lot of different websites with advertisements and I can't think of the last time I've seen an advertisement that auto-played sound or caused lag, whereas in 2008 it was a daily occurrence. The value that advertisements provide (support websites) greatly outweighs the inconvenience that current advertisements cause, even Youtube pre-roll adverts are not that bad after getting used to them.
It's summer how can he be (wait for it... drum roll....) Snow'd-in! rim-shot
I was confused at first as well. It means a circle with its center one of the original two points you are given.

At least I thought so... shouldn't this be circle pack 7 in origin circle?

http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.2A3.4A0.6A1.14A4.5A1....

Not detected as such.
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No, one of the advantages of ad blockers is that they cut down on the amount of traffic, you don't download the ads.

In fact, several websites show you a warning message, or refuse to load, if you're running an adblocker.
This is really in poor taste. Can you imagine if the email to Bob said "hey lets meet at the pub at 6" and the email to Alice said "hey lets meet at the pub at 4".

I know this is unlikely, but sending an email that looks like each party is getting the same thing but in fact are getting different emails just is bad.

The tracking thing is not a big deal, seems like everyone does it. Just block images and you are golden.
1. No they don't

2. Even if they did this would be very unreasonable, either you view adverts and the publisher gets paid or you don't view adverts and the publisher doesn't get paid. If you're triggering the pay-out criteria without actually doing whatever is required (view, click, interact) it's just moving the financial hit to the advertiser, which is still unreasonable.
Boy, if only I had worked harder, I could have had well-off parents too!
There are several points at which the link can be changed from when it loads to after it is clicked. Did you compare every scenario?
Yeah, in my experience Aurora is occasional work-interrupting pain, whereas beta is blissful:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/

It doesn't update super frequently during the 6-week release cycle. Maybe once a week tops, I think? Hard to be sure, as I restart FF every few days anyway.
As well-executed as this marketplace is, I believe it's more of a prototype than a major new initiative.

Square-powered online payments is the endgame here. Today, on the Square marketplace. Tomorrow, on your own site, and in other marketplaces.

The competition is not other marketplaces and e-commerce software tools, but Stripe, PayPal, and even Visa/Mastercard.
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Need a way to increase the amount of feedback you get from early users?
Supreme Court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act
On the hardware I've looked at, loopback requests are handled in well under a microsecond - I guess this case is not worth optimising.

On Linux, 127.0.0.0 is a broadcast address, while on Windows, it is a sink address.
Interrogation is definitely a risk, but it isn't what the linked article is suggesting.
Proposal: when talking to a friend in skype or messaging through facebook, add the following keywords: "assassination", "president", "white house", "yomama" and "NSA can suck it".

Web has become a joke.
In FreeBSD, we have `man hier`

HIER(7) FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual HIER(7)

NAME
hier — layout of file systems
Time for the rich colleges to find better use of their endowments then. Berkley has three billion in endowments according to a 2011 report, I do not have current numbers. Some famous East coast schools have numbers that dwarf it.

According to Wikipedia the University of California system as a whole has over ten billion dollars in various endowment categories. More telling is they have over thirteen thousand administrative employees and just over ninety thousand academic employees. That compares to only two hundred thirty six thousand students. Gee, I wonder where the problem is? Two students per employee is a lot of money to make up
I can't find any reference to Amazon in the source code.

The source code is over there (GPL):
https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus/

The article seems to say this is related to the typo feature, but https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplus/file/tip/defaults/typ... has never changed since the introduction of the feature in 2012-11.
I didn't mean that Python uses "float" instead of "double"; I meant that Python has both integer and floating-point types, not just floating-point types as in JavaScript.
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