skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the sentence you quoted back in context:

> Too often we read something, share it and talk about it,
> but fail to retain its meaning. Maybe you retweeted
> something about taking care of employees, but then you
> failed to show interest and compassion for an employee
> that came into work visibly upset. Maybe you just shared
> an article about the importance of open communication,
> but then disregarded comments from someone who tried to
> bring up a problem with you. Regardless of what it is,
> you’re wasting your time with all your reading if you
> don’t use it to drive action.

At no point does the author try to make a distiction between the quality of works published online from those published in books. His argument is equally valid with Vonnegut and Steinbeck as it is with HN stories.
Hi, yes. There is adult neurogenesis, occurring in certain brain regions. However, this is not true for most of the central nervous system in humans. Neurons (differentiated dells) do not divide. The few new neurons that are born in adults come from special cells. I believe there is some work showing that the ventricles have these neurogenesis zones.
>When I try this, most other people have no idea what I'm doing and/or are stupidly greedy and go "OMG A GAP" and rush into it. I'll also typically have people behind me honking / flashing their headlights at me, as they're equally clueless. I've had one dude and his wife, in a Harley Davidson edition F150 actually roll down their window and scream at me for "not knowing how to drive".

I understand your plight. I've had this happen to me on a number of occasions, it sucks :(
But if the managers of the mining pools were to do anything too overt, those who contribute computing power to them could (and probably would) quickly pull their support. At least in theory.
That's misleading. Hong Kong isn't a city; it's an area composed of multiple cities. Kowloon metro has a density of 43,000 pp/km^2, six times San Francisco's average, over twenty times the average in Potrero Hill.
There needs to be more good faith from both sides; until then it will be quite a mess. As a stable functioning democracy, the Israeli people really should decide to stop the settlements even though that won't bring about peace: it does them no real good while merely agitating an already volatile situation. The Palestinians (including Gaza and Hezbollah) should also develop their government into something not dysfunctional, and should recognize Israel's right to exist. Then we could move on to the next step, but they must start with baby steps.

America can't just exit from this or other worldwide situation. Isolationism will only make things worse. Ya, we do make mistakes and we could do better, but just disappearing won't bring about any meaningful peace. We can argue all day if its worse for civilians to be killed by drones or the Taliban, but they are still dead.
Reminds me of the etherkiller: http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
Yeah, let's all tell google that we're visiting some subversive website. Then when the NSA scoops up the most recent dump of activity, they can correlate all the Verizon and AT&T IP addresses, and the Google cookies, and compile their... "list" of subversive Hacker News readers, right?

Something they wouldn't be able to capture via normal streams, since the HTTPS connection to commondreams.org masks the referrer info so that it can't be sniffed from any plaintext HTTP GETS.

Hey, I wonder why the site's down?
This is copy/paste the same exact response from the top thread on reddit[1]

Been seeing this a lot around here lately...Could be the same user, but I've seen it happening enough that I bet it's not.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gxehl/chomsky_sp...
Fair enough. I was annoyed because I have found those particular authors hard to connect with, and now some random dude wants me to trust him that they're good for no stated reason.

But yes, the principle of charity should always apply and yours is the correctly charitable one.
Bottlenecks caused by an accident or merging lanes on a motorway are one thing, but I've seen traffic jams where the bottleneck was a disabled car that was well clear of the road, or the police have pulled someone over. In those instances there's no good reason to have a jam.
Sounds like you've been reading
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
by Tor Nørretranders

(Well worth it, if you haven't)
I think what grates most people about Wolfram is his inability to acknowledge the massive contributions that other people have made to his empire. As is noted in a comment down below, Mathematica is dependent on the efforts of dozens of extremely smart people, but Wolfram pretends as though he is the alpha and the omega.
That would only demotivate terrorists against us. They still have plenty of other targets. I don't see how isolationism for the states will actually make the world better. We tried it before, it didn't work.
Trust me, backing up your assertions is important.
Is there a map showing the non-botched raids? Without that for comparison, it is hard to make anything useful out of this.

Also, note that unless you change the settings, it is showing 28 years worth of data. If you don't notice this, you'll get the impression that botched raids are happening all the time.
We believe that this is absolutely scalable as we've watched successful growth into national and international markets. On the technology front, we have created an incredible on demand geolocational dispatch and communications service. Our unique iOS app for our worldwide iTechs empowers them to be connected to this service at all times allowing them to successfully run their businesses. We're really doing some pretty exciting things beyond fixing phones and we can't wait for everyone to see what's next with our technologies.
> It makes those actions necessary, and his actions absolutely wrong.

Why do nations and states get special status in the geopolitical game? (Because it's a way to ensure that each maintains its own power, and not let those dumb plebs fuck up their designs.)

> But you've already made up your mind...

You're assuming that I believe all the claims he's made, when I've said nothing of the sort in this entire thread. Indeed, it rather seems that you are the one who has made up their mind that the clarifications made must be genuine, just as you have accused me of assuming that all of Snowden's allegations are geniune... Doesn't feel good, huh?
Well, the Europeans would just send diplomats around until they could conveniently forget about the problems, as usual.
One wonders where he found the time to conceal the aliens at Area 51.
I really appreciate your edits here and digging enough to put this story into proper context. It seemed like one of those stories meant to gin up outrage and get the conspiracy theories going and it pretty much ended up just like that.

There are people from all walks of life from all sorts of industries who end up at the NSA. It doesn't mean they're all setting up systems and bringing back intel for spying. This is just a coincidence.

So I'm glad you brought this up but still think everyone is still going to play right into this article's trap. After all, conspiracy theories are much more satisfying to our egos than mundane reality.
We'll sell you the source code. That's not enough?
As an early adopter of Bitcoin, I'm happy to see this, because it's a sign that Bitcoin is on the path to more mainstream US market adoption. As more US citizens get comfortable with and start using Bitcoin, US law-enforcement organizations gradually will learn to use it, gradually will learn to monitor its use by others, and, yes, gradually will learn to seize it whenever it's used for criminal activity.[1] This is not a bad thing.

--

[1] Bitcoins can be seized -- just like cash, gold, a file stored in a hard drive, or any other physical or digital asset in a person's possession.
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Stop and consider if you really need to be programming in C++; if not, don't do it. If you do, then focus on problem domain (embedded, gaming, OS, low-level stuff, ...) you need C++ for rather than C++ coding in isolation.
Alright guys, can we put an end to this NSA and Snowden stuff? Why are we pretending this is some forum to discuss politics and ethics? This is a forum for software and entrepreneurs. Can HN go back to it's roots?

Now, I am sure someone will immediately downvote and point out that this stuff is 'interesting' and related to hackers because this is data theft. If you are concerned, do something about NSA/Snowden. And then show HN what you have done. You will have my highest regards. But just reading and commenting on 100's of articles rehashing the same thing is a pointless waste of time. This is all getting very tiring. We have reddit for just this.
I've been following Daniel Gilbert's research on happiness for a few years. His big finding — the idea that people often can't predict what will make them happy — has changed the way I think about growing older.

When I was younger I used to feel like I had become mature enough to make life predictions that would stand the test of time. Now I realize that my attitude, outlook and preferences may change dramatically every year.

My goal for every birthday is simply to be able to look back at the past year and poke fun at myself.
more likely they use soemthing like metareddit.com and a bot[1] to downvote

1: http://www.sadiqk.com/reddit-upvotedownvote-bot/ As an example
If the NSA wants to know who most HNers are, it would be much easier to check our profiles.
I chuckled at this...and decided saying so was worth any down votes. This place could use some humor.
As I used to tell friends in school, the best benefit was that I could kill people who annoyed me and get away with it...

Somewhat more seriously, pretty much the only perk was getting to use the Diplomats & Crew line at airport immigration. Most countries, including mine, make their diplomats pay their parking fines etc, and while I was theoretically exempted from security checks, it was virtually always faster to put your bags through the X-ray and walk through the metal detector than it was to pull rank and wait forever as the proto-TSA at the time ran around like headless chickens, looking for the manager's manager's manager needed to authorize the exception. The police treat diplomats with either thinly disguised contempt (if they ran into them a lot and knew they couldn't do much of anything) or, more commonly, puzzlement; and once again, it was usually way easier to pop the trunk and let them have a look than it is to invoke immunity and deal with the resulting confusion.

And as far as complimentary upgrades to first class and "ambassador's lounges" (wot?) do, I'm not sure what the other reply has been smoking, but it's probably not the Vienna Convention. Airlines don't give any free benefits to diplomats, they earn their status through butt-in-seat miles like the rest of us.
Don't be silly. They were buried years ago.
Re-read what I wrote, and think about what it means.

I think it means you have a false belief about the limits of the system.

If there were any additional barrier preventing Apple from provisioning iMessage entpoints, iPhone users would not be able to activate iMessage with only their Apple ID.

Wrong. Apple doesn't have your password. Only a hash. Verifying against the hash allows apple to add another device to the backend but does not unlock the keys to the message history. Only the password does that.

There is some understanding about how the protocol works here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5493514

There are other sources around the net that you can refer to to understand more about how such a protocol can be built, but I don't have a lot of faith in you as a conversation partner now that you've demonstrated that you can't be bothered to inform yourself before responding incorrectly with condescending certainty.
Well I appreciated your post!

I see your comment without showdead so I think you're good.
I don't remember 500 errors being part of "old facebook".
The Economist is rather British, and is not known for toeing the party line of any country.
Realizing that someone might have sympathies towards people they worked with in the past, and might look forward to future employment with them, and that this might affect their decisionmaking when they're asked to do something ethically borderline, is a far cry from "Area 51".
Bad haircuts and/or personal grooming choices/skills.

AJ looked better with short and tattered. He's got thin strands, so anything of length is going to do battle with his face shape.

David Tisch needs to keep it short in the back and around the side and NEVER part in the middle. Maybe a flop off to the side with his curls and desire for length. He should probably just go short and add character with facial hair and/or glasses.

tossmeup: Style advice to the technorati...

Also, top-line, aggregated metrics mean nothing in a well-trod area like repair services. House calls (geek squad) and revenue per customer would be far more interesting. Media types are blithering idiots.

350 techs in 11 countries? What's the rate of cracks per 10,000 iPhones in use? What's the distribution of those in larger markets and what is the relative density of techs per 100 cracked units? What's average turnaround time? Are techs employees or contractors? etc. etc. Do they really think they can beat, via marketing, the people in every major town who do this for a good bit cheaper?
Considering the entire point of bitcoin is circumventing seizure, that sounds like a bad thing to me.
That could happen with any country.

Since we are arguing this way - Maybe the next US president has good will towards Snowden and he will come back home as a patriot.
Co-operation between multiple government agencies you mean? The FBI and NSA getting along? Ha! :P
If R is a programming language that knows how to do statistics, then Mathematica would be a programming language that knows how to do math. It has built in support for just about every kind of math I've ever needed. It is very good at doing symbolic algebra, which I use quite frequently. It can do symbolic calculus (taking derivatives and integration), which I've also used extensively. Supposedly it can compute every one of those symbolic integrals in the big, fat integral table books they have at the library. The programming language can be used various ways, but it is most naturally used with a functional approach. The "Map" function is frequently used, and I naturally end up using anonymous functions quite a bit. I also like the graphics package, and find it quite intuitive to build up complex plots. I prefer it to matplotlib or R's graphics. (That said, some of that is just my years of experience.) There's a lot in there.
No, it's only entrapment if you wouldn't have commit the crime with someone else. Buying drugs from an undercover cop, which is basically what the OP describes, is not entrapment.
Yes...just as "NATION MAKES PREPARATIONS TO TRANSITION FROM STATE OF PEACE" is less clickworthy than "WAR" :)

(yes, I know I just invoked Godwin's law by comparing the NSA controversy with WW2, but it was tongue-in-cheek)

His reasons for leaving Facebook and joining NSA may be completely orthogonal to each other...but in terms of likeliness, I think it's safe to argue that Kelly was wanted for his experience in security implementations in modern day networks, rather than him having a mid-life crisis and deciding to quit tech management work to try his hand at code cracking.

That said, this doesn't mean he joined out of nefarious motives. His work at the FBI could mean that he honestly believes he is doing God's work in helping government and private tech companies become partners for the good of all. His use at the NSA may be as someone who smooths out any hurdles that are encountered during perfectly legal processes between the two institutions...it doesn't have to be that he's Chief-Backdoor-Installer at the NSA.

On the other hand, just because you have great intentions doesn't mean the result is ideal...many government officials who become lobbyists may sincerely believe in their cause, but their access and power leads to unintended consequences.

In other words, the job transition could be entirely good natured, but it still could result in some people's worst fears being realized. So more transparency in this example would be nice...though I wonder how much Kelly can say without encroaching upon what the government thinks of as being top-secret-classified.
That's why I gave figures for both overall average and focused central areas (not sure how you found that misleading)... :)

Density figures can be tricky, no matter what the area used, because what's useful for one purpose isn't useful for another. While average density over a large area doesn't accurately reflect living condition in smaller sub-areas, it is useful for other purposes ("is the city full yet?" :). Generally it's useful to have both large-area averages and focused figures for popular subareas, maps to indicate density distribution, etc.

[As I noted in my original comment, Tokyo is notable for the unusual consistency of its population distribution, at least within the central (but still large) 23-ku area.]
Yes, my post was an intellectual exercise ignoring the fact that public opinion plays little to no role in defense politics, especially not for a president nearing the end of his second term.
This is a beautifully done explanation, especially the JS solver.
There's also the HyperLevelDB fork which outperforms the Basho one by quite a bit for random write workloads. Here's a write up about it: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/06/17/hyperleveldb/
I wish I weren't so gullible! When this thread came around the first time, it seemed quite interesting, but the comments totally convinced me it was supposed to be a joke. Now I'll have to wait until 2014!

To me the "jump right in to a huge project" approach seems like a great way to learn a language, even if it doesn't necessarily produce high quality results (or even functioning results). Nevertheless OP is entitled to their opinion.
You can argue about whether they're unjust laws or not, but they still exist and if you break them, you should face the consequences. That's what the civil rights leaders in this country did, among others.

But honestly, from my reading, I'm mostly okay with what the NSA's doing and most of what he revealed isn't all that new or surprising (others reported on PRISM long ago, local governments have kept track of phone records for decades, it only makes sense the feds would as well). This is also what many citizens want their government to be doing, hence the many complaints about the Boston bombers not being adequately tracked beforehand.

The one part that troubles me is the storing of 'inadvertently' collected communications from US citizens for five years without a warrant. That seems wrong. Other than that, I only think there should be a bit more transparency. If Snowden's leaks lead to that, that's a good thing.
Site seems completely overwhelmed. Coblitz/Codeen and coral cache (NYUD) do not have it in the cache.

Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?%7Bgoogle:acce...

Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130503003719/http://www.theface...
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
This was posted a few days ago but I can't find the link, anyway it would be useful to read if implementing regex.

Baffled that course takers agree not release their source code?
That's a tad broad wouldn't you say?
Passengers on Snowden's flight from Hong Kong to Moscow share their reactions.
FYO: Ridicule does not constitute a counter-argument. It's now useless to suppose that Fed spooks and SV corps have not had a long and cozy relationship. (Which it is not necessary to suppose for anyone who's followed the news for a few years.)
If the large pools make a deal, any transactions they don't pick up will only ever get accepted after a very long wait. Hell, since they control >50% of the network, they can simply make the new transaction fees a new rule and force lower transactions to not be accepted by anyone (i.e. ignoring those blocks, like a 51% attack.)

Policy by economic (mining) majority could be an issue in the future when the policy directly determines the profits of that majority.
I think this is wise. On a one man team, assigned a task of 'just get it done', I can think of better languages than C++ for most tasks. I think a general awareness of C++ is good, so that when joining a team you can learn their corner of C++. Whereas spending your own time learning all corners of it is bad, because a lot of that time could be wasted, unless it's an enjoyable way to spend time for that given person.
You can generally buy the digitizer + lcd on ebay for about 30 bucks. It's a lot of small screws, but really not too difficult to swap out. Took me about 45 minutes.
I have tried to use RQ a couple times as a result of this thinking. Each time I end up going back to Celery because there always seems to be something I need that RQ doesn't have. For instance, in the most recent project, I wanted to execute tasks X minutes in the future- celery's eta kwarg is perfect for that, and I'm not sure how you would do it with RQ.
Open Directory project
I guess I no longer need to pretend that Obama is pretending to be an a-hole in order to get re-elected.
This is a problem I've had submitting some academic papers as well. Usually if I was tempted to submit at all, there is a specific angle I think might be interesting to HN, which may not be the same one in the title. Maybe I'm wrong sometimes, but I think it would at least make more sense to give me 5-10 words to explain what I think is interesting about a particular submission from an HN perspective, essentially, "why are you submitting this?".

But since HN is hostile towards "custom" titles, the explanation of why you're submitting has to be contained entirely in the original title text. That results in implicitly favoring articles from sources that start without an impedance mismatch, so to speak: places where the titles are already pre-targeted specifically to appeal to our demographic, maybe even to HN specifically, and often written with that SEO purpose in mind. That results in a fairly narrow range of sources, and at least partly explains the success of HN-targeted media like TechCrunch here.

The end result, as you note, is that a policy against sensationalizing titles actually ends up rewarding sources that sensationalize their titles.
It's a great approach to learn a language, but you have to be careful what kind of "huge" you're dealing with. There's "huge" in the sense of technical ambition, and there's "huge" in the sense of "large number of implicated functional areas" and there's "huge" in the sense of "sprawling requirements that capture many different people's needs".

A C++ compiler is all three; it's challenging, like any compiler for a real language is; it's functionally dense (preprocessing, parsing, evaluating, code generation), and it's one of the most sprawling language specifications there is.

Building a native-code-generating Lisp would not be an unreasonable learn- a- new- language project.