skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny how these trends change. Once upon a time, a one column layout would have been boring, and we all ran to frames to give us columns. I guess I'm just old-timer enough now to start seeing the changes.
But the data is being collected anyway.
Do you think they strictly mean it that way? Sure, they ould literally mean "How and when do you intend to flip this thing and pay me off?", but you don't necessarily have to answer in those terms.

Personally, I'd take it as a general question about planning, expectations and commitment. Is there are a point where you certainly want to cash-out? Do you intend to make this your life's work? Have you thought about how this business would function at double, 10x or 100x the current size?
I think one weird part NSA seems to rely on is... what constitutes a search? Intelligence testimony seems to have implied they thought they could hoover up all this information, and as long as only machines look at it, and when humans do, they have a 51% belief it's a foreign person <wink, wink> and do 'minimization' when it's not <wink, wink>, it's constitutional.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/director-national-inte...

information is considered to be “collected” only after it has been
“received for use by an employee of a DoD intelligence component”

Of course, they also think they can lie to Congress, after being warned in advance about the question, being given a chance to correct it after the testimony, and say they didn't think about this particular activity, and gave the 'least untruthful answer'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/james-clapper-se...

So I would say we need to have an open debate about exactly what they're doing, and have the Supreme Court, whose job it is, define what those terms mean and what they can do, instead of letting them make it up as they go along, and then lie about it.
The third way à la Gandhi, civil disobedience; stand in the way between MPs and their local bar. If enough people refuse to work then there is only one solution left, change.
I wanted to try out ClojureScript a while ago, but found the tooling around it very complex since I also didn't have any experience with Clojure and Leiningen.
Is there a straightforward starter guide around?
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2, 4, 7, 9 and 12 have nothing to do with UI. They are just marketing methods...
Ironically, the same people complain about the Microsoft-style interview questions that require lateral thinking.

"How many gas stations are there in _your city_?"

"How would you determine how much rain falls in Washington State in a day?"
Seems alot like advertising instead of real nice UI.
Recommending instead of showing equal choices is pretty bogus - how do they know me?
Sadly this is true. The constitution that the USA was founded on not only affected the people of North America, but the virtues documented there were held as paragons of a just society for the entire industrialized western hemisphere.

Sadly, we are seeing these values eroding and dying. And the few that stand up for them, being imprisoned or silenced.

I despair.
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As a happy Ruby/Rails dev I can't figure why Python has double the marketshare. I guess it's the Google backing and the history of Linux admin usage?
Oh. Sorry about that. I should have looked at the diff more carefully.
Written by a member of the Internet Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School.

If you are interested in these topics, follow it and its members. They are all over this stuff.
It used to be a PITA, it's still not perfect but much better. take a look at lein-cljsbuild (https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild) to create you project, there you can just create an html and add the resulting js in the html, so you can test in the browser. No need for web servers or anything.
Could be due to password sharing. Maybe ad revenues are preferred. I'm thinking about Netflix where there is rampant password sharing.
This is OT but Ghostery blocked 20 different tracking scripts on that page. I've never seen such a huge list from one site!
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wild guess - electrons on the path mess with the signal in some way, with an effect proportional to their total number along the path (if these are meant to be very short pulses, maybe it smears them out in time, for example, or perhaps it changes their polarization). so if you know the distance you can get the average density along that path. then you assume that the universe is uniform (but evolving) and do the math (whether you call that exact or not...)

oh, and presumably electron density is useful because it gives you (approx) proton density (assuming net charge of universe is zero!) which gives you ionized hydrogen density, which sounds like it would be a useful thing to know (you can see un-ionized hydrogen via absorption spectra, so if you add them together you get total hydrogen density, which is related to total normal matter density...)

it's not clear to me how you do this without knowing how far away the sources are (see my earlier post).
Most people in true totalitarian states manage to normalize the situation and go about their lives. They just accept that you vote for Saddam Hussein, present your documents upon "papierein, bitte", report your neighbors to the KGB, and hand over half your income to the IRS. Those who don't tend to just disappear - quietly, with politically correct mumbling about "good riddance".

Few are willing to fight for their right to live at risk. Their neighbors see to it (if indirectly) the consequences are swift and severe, quiet and veiled.
In this case, I think, the author rolled his own RSA implementation. In general, I do not know why the developer of end software should even touch the public exponent. It can be reused, and is not a secret; the library should handle it. In fact, the library should have a function along the lines of (publicKey, secretKey)=RSA.keyGen(), and provide the simple documentation that you want to keep the secret key secret. If they have crypto option which they want to expose (such as key-length), then they can take an optional parameter that either takes a hard-coded constant (IE RSA.512), or (as you suggest) validates the sanity of the input.
checking out the documentation now. is there a google group or some place I can post questions to if I need help?
I hope you get the point here. There are about a couple million too many Socrates-types around, and this planet has way more than enough hemlock (along with various other death-remedies) to spare.

Not "welcome to this hacker space." "Welcome to your new barracks."

I thought teaching Python to my friends was cool, and y'know "giving back" to my community; little did I know that makes me a "hacker" and thus an enemy of the State.

I'm sorry I use vim. Does that make me an enemy of the State as well? Now I' Neo, out to spy on my friends and pillage their digital whore-stores.
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this would be a cool school science lab experiment
In 2007, there were 43 people named "Sans".

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_lcnaam=s...
>how to they know me?

They know you're human. More than that, odds are you are an average human.
And you seem to be assuming that the NSA's abusiveness can be determined by the rank-and-file, when it looks to me to be completely due to orders from the top (up to and including the President).

So a good guy joins the NSA and tries to effect change. What happens? They tell him "no". If he refuses to carry out his job, they replace him and get somebody else. If he shuts up and works within the system and eventually reaches a position of real power, then refuses to abuse... the people with power over the NSA as a whole replace him and get somebody else.
Add to the TIOBE data, and it doesn't look pretty for Microsoft.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

I suspect it's because of the failure of Microsoft in the mobile space.
I'm 23, so that observation is spot on :-)
Python also has a large amount of Scientific packages and draws a number of people from that field. Not sure how much that helps the marketshare though. I don't think it's strictly a Rails/Django thing.
Also as the knowledge base of questions for a tag grows, room for new questions become fewer. Duplicates will be asked but I wonder how many times a person has a problem, does a search, finds an answer and never has to ask their own question on the topic.
I think they are trying to protect people. It's just that they have been tasked with a pointless job. I don't think they're deliberately evil, they're just a massive overreaction to an irrelevant threat.

Basically, what do you think the immune system in somebody with a bee allergy is actually doing when that person gets stung by a bee? It's only trying to help, of course. But that doesn't change the fact that 1) a bee sting can be ignored and 2) the massive allergic reaction threatens the person's life.
This is a fair point, but marketing and a good UI have many things in common. The UI is how you interact with a product, and the marketing is how you communicate with your ideal viewer.

Those numbers are marketing methods, that use the UI as a medium for communication.

Without the UI, this marketing method would be useless and have no value.

edit: I think that the blending of the marketing mind with the designer/developer mind is actually yielding awesome results. The author of the site has really come into a groove when combining successful marketing methods with bleeding edge UI techniques. This is a valuable idea and I'm excited to see if the author can keep producing this level of content.
Great work! This is why I come here :)

I built a pulse oximeter as my final year project at university and have been rather obsessed with medical electronics since.

I've always wondered if it's possible to build your own ultrasound sensor. Rather complicated devices though.
Python seems to be used in a lot of contexts, not limited to web development. While Ruby is a lovely language it appears to be used primarily with Rails in a web context.
Just because other countries do bad things, it doesn't mean that you should put up with your representatives doing the same bad things (and blatantly lying to you about them).
"The governments know from what direction the greatest danger threatens them"
They did offer him asylum, with the condition to shut the fuck up and not continually interfere in international politics.

He rejected it for his own reasons.
Because there's no better story than burning skyscrapper.
He may have lost credibility with you but then again you don't speak for everyone.

The majority of the public support the programs and his approval rating has dropped but not significantly:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obam...
That sounds a lot like your laptop's chassis might be hot instead of grounded. Possibly an issue with the wiring in your house?
No. Stackoverflow goes though these "land grab" phases with languages and frameworks. Because C# was one of the early languages it is very difficult to keep up inertia of new questions.

My personal experience has been that I rarely need to ask new C# or MVC related questions these days. I really have a hard time coming up with something has hasn't been discussed already. I think Stackoverflow eventually hits a saturation point and people begin to consume more than contribute.
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50hz is pretty easy to knock our with a simple RC low pass filter. That should make a difference but it will probably attenuate the signal so you will need an instrumentation amp.

2 hours later... Ahh commercial grade design and massive BOM.

Great work at keeping it simple :)
yes and if they gathered at the same location and time as the 4th of July festivities, like many protests, it has a large chance of not even being reported by the media...
No, it was being collected, until the Bundesverfassungsgericht put a stop to that, and now the EU is pouting, which is still in progress.
The other part of the problem with security updates on Android, IMO, is that they aren't typically back-ported - so if your phone can't do Android 4, you're stuck with the security flaws in 2.3 (including this new flaw) forever.
Meanwhile a distracting footer covers >25% of the page, and clicking the intuitive "down arrow"-looking thing does nothing, nor is there an obvious close button. You close it with that über-readable burnt-orange-on-charcoal link "Ok, enough already. Hide the footer." Either they assume the user scans for "Ok," when wanting to close something, or that they skim sentences from the inside-out. If you do close it and click it again, which usually means "reopen", you instead get scrolled down to the bottom of the page.

Do you trust any advice they have about user interfaces?
"Inviting a business guy onto your team"... that's exactly what we're doing :) -- @CBM at Makeshift
It seems the US bullying of other countries over Snowden is several times worse than it was for Wikileaks.
Good advice (heavier on presentation and marketing than true UI), but that footer bar is godawful and terribly intrusive IMHO.
I agree, especially on the shelf-life issue. Just-in-time manufacturing is hard all the way around, and even harder when it comes to food. Meat is much easier to preserve than produce in such a way that's acceptable to fast food consumers (especially when you're already eating THAT much salt!), meaning large chains like McDonald's wind up bringing more operations challenges in house as they add produce. This translates to a reduction of cost/revenue predictability, which at least initially might need to be mitigated by increased margins.

Having never worked at the kind of scale at which McDonalds operates it's hard to say whether or not these challenges are insurmountable. However my hunch is that if the demand was there, McDonalds would figure it out. They have a remarkable amount of resources that could be poured into these problems. Again, I'm as "red-blooded American" as they come when it comes to eating meat, but as a bleeding heart environmentalist I sure wish the market would change.
Like Airbnb takes advantage of a previously untapped supply of places to sleep, like Uber takes advantage of a previously untapped supply of driver's time, Mechanical Turk takes advantage of a previously untapped supply of people's minds. But is it as profitable?

Why isn't there something that makes it super simple for me to take surveys on my phone while I wait somewhere? I'd rather answer some marketing questions for a quarter than play Dots as I wait to meet a friend.
Are there jewish stars that appear when AB testing is introduced? No issue with this, it just seems a little odd. It reminds me of Hannuka at my parents house! :)
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The trigger for a boy retreating to his bedroom might be comparatively slight - poor grades or a broken heart, for example - but the withdrawal itself can become a source of trauma. And powerful social forces can conspire to keep him there.

My observation is that mental illness often has a hurricane-like property wherein the storm is bearable but the social fallout (looting, arson, opportunistic crime) afterward is far more destructive. The disease itself is unpleasant but bearable. People are not.

In a high-stress society like corporate life in the U.S. or Japan, everyone will have deviances from perfect mental function. One would wish for them to have negative autocorrelation (self-correction). Instead, those deviations are often pushed further by external forces. Sometimes it's intentional (ambitious rivals want to thin out competition) but normally it's just an artifact of the stupid stigmas around these diseases. ("He's depressed, not a team player.")

People really don't understand these problems. They think a "panic attack" is that time they hit a heart rate of 120 because they drank too much caffeine before a deadline. No, that's not panic (that's mild anxiety). Panic attacks throw about 50 different symptoms (you have to have a few before you see them all) of which any one of them would feel like an acute, life-threatening crisis to a sane person. Almost everyone who has a true panic attack will end up in the ER, the first time. You have to cycle through all of the bizarre symptoms a few times before you realize that the attacks aren't dangerous. Once you've learned this, they're just annoying ("shit, there goes the next 10 minutes") but the first few attacks are devastating because they feel real.

I also think that the corporate world creates laziness and depression, not in the blase Dilbert sense, but because people who are conditioned to associate work with subordination turn either into disengaged clock-punchers (steal from the system, because it will steal from you) or useless, delegating executives. We think our society values work, but given the increasing association between work and subordination, isn't that indicative of the opposite?

Society effectively programs people to lose motivation and shut down, then stigmatizes people who do so-- whether because of conditioning or an unrelated biological problem-- even if it's only for a week or two. I think the "test" of the dues-paying grunt work is whether a person can keep going in spite of recurring negative signals (subordination, artificially delayed advancement, repetitive busy-work without the leeway to automate it or render it unnecessary) but the truth is that that's a stupid fucking test.
Law enforcement has been conducting fishing expeditions since at least the Clinton years -- going after Swiss and Caribbean banking records to find tax evaders is pretty clearly the definition of a fishing expedition. License plate scanners. Checkpoints. All of these are legal by a narrow reading of the law, but fundamentally against the spirit of the Constitution.
Could you be more specific?

Yes, sorry. I tend to only look at the long term where my personal version of a better society would be one where at least all the production of all the base needs (if not more) is automated and we have deprecated money.

Commercial development will need some sort of protection if it is to be profitable, of course. But there we can for instance directly say that these sorts of protective measures are not applied at all to non-commercial applications.

My thought of train is normally more rooted in the open source way of development, which I think will become more dominant in the next few decades. The resulting openness would enable more cooperation, even between similar projects. Something which is pretty much explicitly excluded in the competitive model.

IP might be needed for competitive development, but I think cooperative development bears much higher potential for innovation.

Sorry if this is a bit garbled intellectually, I'm in the process of picking up my stuff and heading home for the weekend.
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More marketing than UI
TFA won't load here, here's what lemonde has to say about it (in french, obviously): http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/05/matignon-as...
Hey there! We're definitely not a product agency nor are we crowdsourcing project ideas - CBM @ Makeshift ;)
It's not saying use some kind of development trick to ID your user. I believe the purpose of this tip is to make a stronger emotional connection with the users.

By using a recommendation as opposed to just a list of choices, that lends itself to a more "personalized experience" -- even if that list is exactly the same
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Be still, my beating heart. I honestly cannot wait for a consumer version of the Rift. It's the most exciting game innovation since the Wii imo.
I am a little surprised how comfortably PHP has remained as one of the top ranked tag. It's not consistent with the trend here on HN.
NSA findings are used more for politic matters.
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I wish that were true. The data is collected anyway by the ISPs, but not necessarily stored 6 month (sometimes longer, sometimes shorter) and not on that foundation. There were some legal proceedings because of that.
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I don't know about harsh, and I hope you don't meant to come across like this, but the idea that I should have children, and that if I don't want to that there's a problem; that there's something wrong with me; is deeply threatening. It's an ideology with real world consequences too - When I was 20 doctors refused to give me an IUD using very similar reasoning, despite hormonal contraceptives turning me into a totally crazy bitch.

I know other women with very similar stories too. Being the potential fixee for someone's idea that people need fixing, especially when society puts you in a position where you're vulnerable, is not fun.

This sounds almost like I'm having a go at you, which isn't how I want it to come across. I'm reasonably sure that it was well meant advice. But when you start prescribing life choices to people, rather than just talking about things that might happen, it can result in a vastly more aggressive tone than you might have meant there to be.
Previous Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505168
SRSLY.

Previous poster said all of that -- all of language, all of that "thinking outloud" -- ultimately to stick you with the oh-you-shouldn't-be-surprised "I don't have any theory of rights or justice, I'm just pointing out the violence that government tries to hide."

Of what Noam Chomsky has said time and time and time, and time, and time, and time, and time time time time motherfucking time again: "See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence."

It's like you GUYS ACTUALLY do not read, and if you do, we ALL know EXACTLY what it is you've read.

We are not prepared. We "hackers" today will be the anthropologists of this dystopia; nothing more.

It's like you're all hiding the belief that philosophy has not progressed since the time of Plato, and you don't want to admit it. Now I have to watch you all become your own little Socrates, from pg all the way down to the bottom of the barrel -- "hey, get a degree in philosophy sneee! it'll make you more well-rounded! sneee! haha! we're life hacking with the remnants of the failed capitalism cut us some slack -- play ball! sneee!"

Call it rambling, because you CHAPS just overanalyzed a whack-a-mole game (i.e., Snowden) all over my Web. Would MOST of you PLEASE go read a modern legal philosopher?
Agreed on the footer. All I did was look for a way to close it. In general, I hate any part of a page that scrolls with me unless it is a tiny tiny header or tiny tiny sidebar.

Also, it may just be my machine, but it seems like a lot of these characters need some antialiasing.
Don't be so hard - I think their page looks really nice and the suggestions make sense. I'll be using them when we update our landing page.
ps. data is almost clean just a few bits to sort out. so please ignore any duped data etc.
Add cursor: pointer or similar to the boxes where you select size, etc.
I do not think your closing statement requires the leading "if", sadly, and can be put in the present or past tense.

The American people do not understand this. They have been abandoning their freedoms and liberty voluntarily at a breathtaking pace for at least the last 12 years, and show no sign of stopping.
Help me understand how someone who doesn't work for the company vests? What triggers the vesting?