skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i've never spied on anyone, tortured anyone, or killed anyone

You voted for a government that spied, tortured and killed people for you. Note that it doesn’t matter whether you voted for the current president or not, neither does it matter whether you’re even registered as a voter. What does matter is that you are allowed to vote (as a US citizen, I presume) and hence bear full responsibility for the actions of your government[0]. Which routinely spies on and at least tortures Europeans.

> Particularly since other "Europeans" would apparently get a free pass in regards to anything their own governments happen to have done?

I do feel solidarity towards other members of the EU, being the naive pan-European that I feel like being, and do not mind accepting some flaws in return for them accepting mine. The difference is that there is some common government/council and even a common and generally accepted court of law which can resolve differences, whereas there is no such thing for ‘divergencies’ with neither the USG, nor the people of the US.

[0] The argument goes roughly like this: If we assume you to only bear responsibility if you are part of this government, someone can elect a fascist leader and avoid any responsibility. If we assume you to only be responsible if you voted for the current government, we violate the secrecy of the vote. If we assume you to only be responsible if you voted at all (something that is often publicly known), then we offer you yet another get-out-of-jail-free card, furthermore, you could have voted against the current incumbent and hence possibly change the outcome of the election. Hence established that everyone allowed to vote is responsible for the actions of the government, we can then conclude that you bear full responsibility for said actions (at the very least towards third-country citizens, I don’t care how you manage that internally) by the simple fact that people don’t get discounts if they commit crimes with their friends.
I will adjust my script to incorporate PT and repost asap!
Yup, but it's super abstracted — I run the London Meteor meetup but still have no idea how Fibers work :)

I've now written a couple of production apps with Meteor but it always feels like I'm writing frontend JS with a magical backend (and a couple of server methods) ala Parse, rather than building apps with Node.
> "You are free to post the same content elsewhere"

I'd agree, but this is precisely what Craigslist is disputing in their C&D. Reread the letter.
First off, it seems you've made X arbitrary large, when for the OP it seems to have been a carefully defined set of beliefs that are attached to their identity. In other words it does not follow they'll believe literally "anything".

Besides I don't see what would prohibit the OP from changing his identity or evolving it. Unless we've somehow established identity is unchangeable, of which I'm not convinced.
drchrono is hiring iOS engineers
Horse meat was not the issue; the issue was mislabeled cow meat. What did cow meat sales do after the cow meat contamination news in the UK?

I don't buy the classic "change the organization from within" line. If that were the proper thing to encourage then we should all be running out looking for the most despicable corporations to work for and the most horrendous governments to pay taxes to.
My parents generation's favorite pastime is to chide today's youth for their lack of boundaries, for failing to grasp the concept of privacy and placing unwarranted trust in this unnatural, newfangled "social media" thing. It's rather ironic that the first major tech company to sell user data to outside entities is not Facebook, like my parents insisted it would be. It's the company they've trusted all their lives. The company that every New York Times columnist and public radio host and privacy advocate and concerned parent and anyone who's ever complained about "kids these days" trusted unconditionally to deliver their voices to their loved ones in the most intimate, personal, and pivotal moments of life. That's the one that betrayed me.

(Advertisers come to Facebook asking that their ads be shown to certain interest categories, and Facebook uses your data internally to comply with that request. Facebook doesn't share your data with any outside entities (employers, background check agencies, etc.) unless you ask it to, or if the government shows up with a court order. The "violation of privacy" committed by companies doing internal ad targeting is hundreds of orders of magnitude less severe than selling personal information to outside entities.)
It's rarely actually impressive to observe somebody attack lesser proponents of the ideas they disagree with. Sure, none of the actual decision makers will come within ten miles of an open forum, but this comes off mostly as just bullying.
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This is a valid point, and it underscores the importance of being technologists in a (relatively) strong tech job market... we have the luxury of turning down jobs that we feel are part of detrimental systems. And we should take advantage of this luxury whenever we can. Others aren't so lucky.
All US mail gets a delivery bar code imprinted on it when it is sorted. There are quality checks that verify that the delivery bar code is accurate. Electronic postage is also created using 2D barcodes. My guess is that the folks who build such systems have them just eat bar codes for lunch (which is to say interpret all bar codes) and include that interpretation in the meta data.

If as you say they are never looked at (and I can certainly believe that is true) then the URL you encoded would never be accessed. If however you got a web log entry on your web server that your URL was fetched from a machine run by Booz Hamilton, well there ya go, a bit of information extracted by putting a puzzle in front of them. :-)
The part where they try to hide behind "we are just doing our jobs" and "it's the politicians who generate the requirements" reminded me of SS members or concentration camp guards who later also claimed we just did our job.
I'm not trying to be, I'm simply trying to gain an understanding of whether your statements may come from a place of bias. I am sorry if it came off offensive.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Government agents literally drive all over America with loaded guns. It's only a matter before they start killing us all.
"Lies My Teacher Told Me" is a good book if you don't have much time or if you don't have a decent background in US history. I think Zinn's "A People's History of the US" is a much better book for the HN reader who is interested in the subject and willing to sit down with a longer book.
I can't show, because it was at a job I no longer work for, but I've done it a fair bit (and it's extensively done in the standard library as well). I could ask you to trust me, but it is the internet.

Honestly, it's not that hard to do - mostly a bit of wrapper code to announce to Python what methods you're exposing, and doing coercion from Python types to C types. The hardest part for me was identifying when to increment and decrement reference counters to variables being passed in to me.
That's the first official Android release! Too early to complain, but Qt is opensource, you can improve it, even if you don't know programming. Just file a bug or drop a note in the forums and help developers debug.
I recently got dinged for leaving my credit card "in the drawer".

The "credit utilization" component of my rating according to creditkarma.com went from A to C because my utilization was 0% (I pay for everything with my Simple debit card or direct debit). 0% is in the C bucket, while 1-20% is in the A bucket.

I started using it like that. I use it for some of my purchases every month, and have them debit the full balance at the end of each month. My rating in that category went back to A the very next month.
It appears so, I was just wondering the same thing. I just got home & was refreshing to see what it was all about & saw your post confirming it wasn't just me.
If a feature request doesn't align with the product's vision, it's perfectly fine saying no. If the vision itself is flawed, then the product is not likely to succeed.
I willingly live in a country that conducts surveillance. I could leave, but I don't. I guess I'm complicit too.
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I hate to invoke Godwin's Law because it never helps any discussion, so instead I'll refer to the discussion of Death Star politics and the impact on contractors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
Here's the inside of the bug that Ecuador found at their London embassy
Even atheists must do the part with God?
Somehow, I doubt very much they would pull a ton of users from Gmail with that claim.
This is brilliant. Instead of that less than half-assed interview Charlie Rose did with Obama, we should have had those students go at it.
Interest is just a function of a loan agreement - it is an entirely separate issue from the available supply of the currency in question.

Even if you borrow monopoly money from a specific monopoly set, there can still be interest required on the loan. It may be impossible for you to fulfil your loan obligations if your supply of whatever currencies the lender will accept (which does not necessarily only have to be the original loan currency) is limited, but that's a separate issue.
> It's simply unfeasible.

The NSA loves when people think this thought.
Except that we don't really know what the organization does. We only have insinuations by Snowden and detractors against the US.

We do have evidence that they conduct massive surveillance could be unconstitutional.

We do not have evidence that they are abusing this, and more importantly we don't know whether they have been able to save lives.

It could be that the people who work there know about positive life-saving results from the work they do and that's why they continue to do it.

(Edit: downvotes are fine, but it would be nice to also see a single link to evidence that the intelligence itself is being misused as opposed to protecting people)
There are environmentalists and there are arsonists. His organization was the latter.

And guess what: the government has to "sift through your mail" to deliver it. All they're doing with him is remembering what they saw. Because he belonged to an organization that burned shit down.
I'll be sure to specify a specific protocol over TCP over IPv4/IPv6 over any suitable layer 2 interface if I'm ever specifying such a system for implementation.

On HN, I would hope that anyone confused by the terms knows they can look them up on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
Do you think America cares what some little treaty says? We effectively own the UN and can freely flout any agreements we've made through it. I doubt anyone would be even slightly surprised if America - either is military, a government agency, or by some other means - decided to raid foreign vessels looking for a suspect. All in a day's work when you're the world's self appointed arbiter of justice.
I thought the NSA hires only the best and the brightest. Why would they have such a difficult time finding new jobs?

Hell, I would even consider having "NSA xxxx - summer of 2013" on your resume to be an indicator that you are a person with backbone and a sense of morality. Bonus points right there.
Yeah, 99% of the users out there couldn't care less.
I know precisely what Numpy and scipy are. Their choice to not release the GIL during their operations is not necessairly a limitation of Python.

Of course, not releasing the GIL eases interaction with Python level variables, so that might be a tradeoff they decided is worth losing threading for.

But please don't blame Python for the choices made by a library developer.
You don't "need" a game. The point of the game is fun while screwing with people trying to profile you, but poisoning their data instead.

There is a precedent with barcode games of collecting things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_barcode_games

Randomly exchanging cookies with other users (assuming they are even structured that way) is a considerably larger coding challenge than just examining cookies and giving an arbitrary score.
> The idea of storing this information as just a regular Int64 bothers me after spending so much time in type system nirvana.

Its not a regular int64, its a distinct named type (Duration) where int64 is the underyling time. I'm still getting familiar with Go -- and don't have it on the machine I'm using at the moment -- but from the docs named types are incompatible with other named types with the same underlying types in numerous contexts, but it looks like one place where named types are leaky abstractions is their interaction with operators.
It seems to me like Apache was designed more for hosting multiple websites for different users (the .htacces for example) With Nginx It's not so easy for a jailed user to change his settings unless he's given access to the config.

Just my opinion.
Ask HN: Compensation Plan for Content Partner Sales?
I started working for a startup company who is growing extremely fast and has a ton of potential in front of it. I am working in Content syndication and have made signed some large partners in the past week or so.

I knew that I would have some sort of compensation plan but I didn't know that my manager would want me to create one for myself. Not really sure how to go about this, any help would be appreciated.
I think it is factually incorrect to say that the late Saddam Hussein was democratically elected. You are correct that Putin was. (Hitler is another example of an elected dictator, although the thuggery of his National Socialist German Workers [Nazi] Party before the election meant that the election cannot really be called free and fair.)

"In 1968, Saddam participated in a bloodless but successful Ba'athist coup that resulted in Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr becoming Iraq's president and Saddam his deputy. During al-Bakr’s presidency, Saddam proved himself to be an effective and progressive politician, albeit a decidedly ruthless one."

. . . .

"In 1979, when al-Bakr attempted to unite Iraq and Syria, in a move that would have left Saddam effectively powerless, Saddam forced al-Bakr to resign, and on July 16, 1979, Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. Less than a week later, he called an assembly of the Ba'ath Party. During the meeting, a list of 68 names was read out loud, and each person on the list was promptly arrested and removed from the room. Of those 68, all were tried and found guilty of treason and 22 were sentenced to death. By early August 1979, hundreds of Saddam's political foes had been executed."

http://www.biography.com/people/saddam-hussein-9347918
I recently started forwarding my old MyFullName.me domain to my company's MyCompany.com domain and have noticed my traffic tripling during the day.

Patrick McKenzie has a very informative post on SEO. It's worth the read: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/
If you're not using a rewards card, you're essentially subsidizing those of us who do. So, thanks!
I wonder if they are doing it to track who is donating
With it being 2013 and all, I was honestly expecting it to be the size of a head of a pin.
Posted in the other thread about this[0]:

"This was a fun read and it seams like many people could
just DDoS the recruiting efforts of the NSA and CIA by
showing up to recruiting sessions and playing devil's
advocates. If you are well informed and good at internet
arguing, you are well equipped to attend these recruiting
sessions.

At the very least it would plant the seeds of cognitive
dissonance in the minds of everyone recruiting for the NSA
and CIA. e.g. "Why do so many of the citizens we are
trying to protect not agree with our decision to do a job
where we trade liberty for security?"

To be clear, my suggestion here is not meant to prevent either the CIA or NSA from doing their jobs, but to help them remember that their job is clearly spelled out in the US Uniformed Services Oath of office, which AFAIK the CIA and NSA also swear to.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983709
WOW! How have I never seen this before? 1968??? That is amazing. I'll have to come back and watch the entire video later this evening when I have the time.

I will say though that taking a look at it for just a few minutes is incredibly inspiring. It's a reminder that with enough passion and determination to push the boundaries of current technologies, anyone can become an innovator who sets in motion a wave of changes that effects the lives of everyone on this planet.
I own a lot more valuable possessions than I'd walk through a sketchy area of a city late at night carrying - but that doesn't mean I wont carry my wallet/phone with me all the time.

I'm happy enough using open wifi to read the news or check train times. I kinda rely on gmail "getting SSL right" so that if my mail checks while I'm doing that I'm still OK. I wouldn't log in to my internet banking or PayPal on open wifi. I know I'm leaving myself open to "forgetting" and accidentally using and open wifi connection for a sensitive transaction/login, but for me the probability of me forgetting multiplied by the probability of any particular open wifi being malicious is "low enough" that I'm happy to accept the consequences.

Be aware the open wifi has risks. Take suitable precautions. Use them if it's useful - but modify your behaviour to minimise the risks. But if you just want to check the news or the weather or the bus schedule, someone saying "never connect to open wifi" is probably not giving or taking into account appropriate context.
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Of course it's legal.
They are publicly (mis)representing their organization, the line of questioning is more than fair. They are not somehow entitled to only receive questions that they planned for.
If we want an openweb, advocacy won't cut it over the long haul. open is currently just less efficient at distributing + monetizing content. That's what we need to change, not the minds and paychecks of developers.
Chalk me up as someone else extremely interested in what you're doing.
FWIW, F# has a similar option. You can make one case in a discriminated union be represented by null. This is a handy perf optimization as you can check that case by comparing to null (instead of a global singleton or allocated object).
New HN Look: more glare, less filling.
:/
What documentation does it lack? What are you looking for to be documented?
Nice job. I see a Jabber server is required. Can other users on that server talk to people in Candy? And vice-versa?
I've been looking some something similar to what you've described. I recently discovered PostgreSQL has a 'hstore' feature which seems to support this. You seem to be able to make a normal table and then specify one column to act like a key/value dictionary. These values can even be included in queries.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hstore.html
I did have a day in there where I was left alone with the book for about 6 hours. How much can you read in 6 relatively uninterrupted hours?

The novels I'm talking about are about 300 pages in paperback. The reading level is not Peanuts, but it's also not Shakespeare.

By comparison, I read the World War Z book over the course of about a week, in bits. I found it very boring and wooden though. Motivation makes a big difference.
As far as I know, it may usually (always?) be omitted. Oddly enough, it didn't require a Supreme Court decision, because the precedent was set with the first such oath: the Judiciary Act of 1789 was the first to specify a legal oath ending with "so help me God", and it at the same time explicitly included an opt-out clause, after which that has been accepted practice.

See Sec. 7 here: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=00...

The fact that this accommodates atheists, however, is a bit of a coincidence: such opt-out clauses were initially included because Quakers objected to swearing oaths to God.
I'd be surprised if the three-letter agencies don't screen out atheists. They screen in Mormons [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/11-surprising-things-you-didn...
It's very hard not to mistake your position as being pro-police when the owner was not capable, despite his intentions to properly constrain his dog within the vehicle.

To me it all sounds like a bully taking a kids hand and using it to punch the kid's face all while saying: "Stop hitting yourself! What are you stupid? Stop hitting yourself!"
Seems like it would only lead to increased reliance on contractors, no?
I would argue that your moon-man jurisprudence is weird.
Egyptian army suspends constitution and removes President Morsi
Yeah, this sucks. It doesn't happen often to me, but Kickstarter and US Airways' online booking site come to mind as two I've hit a few times that are broken with Ghostery. Which is two too many.

Still, I'm willing to put up with the slight inconvenience of just disabling Ghostery on those sites once identified.
> When oil companies and defense contractors recruit in engineering departments, they typically don't get much flack. Maybe computer scientists have more of a idealist mindset.

Or more options. By the time a petroleum engineer student becomes a grad student they have probably either figured out that they will most likely be working for one of those companies, or they will have left the field for a more agreeable one. If they've got a problem with BP, chances are they have a problem with Exxon as well...

On the other hand, Computer Science students have a wider variety of companies they can work for. Disagreeing with one or two in particular is unlikely to push them into another field.
> Because I'd rather have a unified code base, all higher level

What higher level language offers you the high performance computing you desire?

> That's a rather circular argument, when the topic under discussion is why Python is not well optimised for doing compute intensive work.

That's not the original post I read - it was berating Python for not being a high performance computing language. To which I reply: Of course it's not. It's the wrong tool. Expecting a mature high level glue language to also be exceptionally high performance... that language doesn't exist yet. Go is a good step along that route, but it's own hacky interoperability with C and lack of maturity creates its own problems.
Given you're on HN, you probably know a few people in the industry, ask around and try to find a 1U colo deal on unused rackspace (aka the brocolo). Get a cheap 1U atom server from supermicro, throw some disks in it and you're done.
zerocoin is only a proposal at this time.