skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a couple of sites that generate 2 million page views a day. Using their prices, I'll be spending more on font subscriptions than the two dedicated servers I'm running. It's a pass here. I'd gladly pay maybe $50/yr to get permission to use their fonts, and a nice interface to preview, browse and generate the fonts I'd like to include. However, if they think I'm going to spend $700+ per month to include three or four webfonts on my site, they're out of their mind. There are countless similar webfonts available for free, and the difference in quality is not nearly worth the price to me, or my users. I think they need a new approach and pricing structure.
I missed that part too. Source?
Lame duck president and a VP that, realistically, doesn't stand a change to win? Less of a risk than you'd think.
Looks like he didn't like the lack of control he had over his job. He seems like the kind of person who would much rather work on their own projects than someone else's.
I've always loved the one-liner of this in Perl: http://learn.perl.org/faq/perlfaq5.html#How-do-I-select-a-ra...
There are already a lot of projects for Android that do just that. Plenty of Bluetooth ODB2 dongles for sale for doing it as well.

For instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0O5RZeXTDc
I have a feeling this was a particularly cathartic post to write.

That being said, I have no idea who Ben is or what the (I'm sure personal) context is behind this post. Ben, if you're there: I'd love to hear some more details behind your choice (what were you asked to shut your mouth about?) and what your next steps are (entrepreneurship? freelancing?).

Either way, best of luck. Not enough people do what makes them happy.
Favorite snarky tweets in my feed...

"Bitcoin ETF" is an anagram of "Fiction Bet" which seems pretty apt..
https://twitter.com/LorcanRK/status/351840221773578241

Bitcoin ETF ticker ideas: $DCHE $LOSS $ZERO $SCAM (via @jamesvonsimson - his idea: $SCKR)
https://twitter.com/finansakrobat/status/351837836724551682

Well, at least the Winkelvii Bitcoin trust is consistent with their practice of being parasitic on new innovation…
https://twitter.com/EpicureanDeal/status/351834917593817088

The Winkelvoss Bitcoin ETF is the first of many wonderful deals brought to you by the JOBS Act (Just Open Bucket Shops).
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/351830441646489601

Imagine the call "if you got burned on the Facebook IPO, why don't you take the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust for a spin?"
https://twitter.com/BarbarianCap/status/351825104147189760
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Srsly? Cheating in China is so entrenched that there was a riot recently when it wasn't allowed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1013239...
> Following that, liquidity.

There needs to be an effective method of shorting in order for the ETF to be effective. I think it will take much more than a year.
If only justice could be bought.
Yes, this whole line of argument that Snowden has put forward is beside the point. Whether you call it "exile" or not, it is perfectly reasonable for the US to revoke his passport. It is certainly not "extralegal." It's not even unusual. It is what happens when you're charged with a felony by a US court.
Why did it take someone 2 years to spot this????? Doesn't anybody care to watch what's going in/out of their appliances any more?

Furthermore, if this report is true: why aren't there more tools out there so that there are more eyes watching this stuff? Or is everyone just too busy being "social" ??
I first saw that sampling technique in The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike. It's used in their Markov Chain example.
As a person who had retinal detachment and ended up being blind in one eye, this is what I'm hoping for within about ten years. A way to get to my depth perception back would be great.
I don't think this is an "either-or" situation.

He is fleeing "justice", he believes that the US is using extralegal, political, methods to pursue him in order to "bring" him to justice, and he finds it plausible that "justice" will involve a gross violation of his human rights.

I am not seeing the problem here that you seem to think there is. What are you expecting him to say, "The only reason I am running is so that I am not subjected to a fair trail and humane punishment."?
Sure they will behave, I can't imagine it produced a lot of motivation to learn and excitement about attending school.
> When you are on Google search and you click on a link it's tracked that you went to that link.

Google also tracks the links I click when I am on CNN, ABC News, Fox News, MSN, LinkedIn, and the majority of sites I visit (with the important exceptions of Wikipedia and BBC News - thanks guys!). Advertisers track me when I am not even on their properties! That is what is objectionable, and what is defeated by disabling JavaScript.

> Expecting Mozilla or any company to figure out how to block a javascript put request sent to Facebook, but not other put requests which are there by design of the site will only result in Facebook finding a workaround.

Perhaps, but Mozilla should do it anyways.

Remember the ruckus over IE 10 enabling Do Not Track by default? Advertisers and ad brokers were “very concerned”[1] by even the whiff of a browser maker acting in the interest of users over advertisers. Do Not Track is only tolerable if it is off by default, wholly unenforceable, and just as buried as the “Enable JavaScript” option.

Make no mistake: advertisers believe that they have a right to know what links you click and sites you visit across the whole web, and even a right to enlist your browser to aid in informing them. And Mozilla is complicit!

(And why not? Recall who pays Mozilla’s bills.)

> These days Javascript is as much a part of websites as the HTML itself.

Yes, which means that those few who disable JavaScript pay a significant price for that decision. Nobody disables JavaScript because they hate the language. They do it to escape user-hostile JavaScript programs.

[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120531006914/en/Digi...
>I accuse you of being a pedo!
>Please report yourself to the authorities. I would like you to reflect the next 5 years on the logical flaw of the argument.

I realize you're being hyperbolic, but there's a big difference between some random person slinging around accusations on the internet, and a police force in a sovereign nation deciding that a criminal complaint lodged by one of its citizens warrants the arrest and questioning of a suspect in the case.
"Ben Schwartz (born September 15, 1981)[2] is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is perhaps best known for portraying a fictional version of himself..."

Oh wait, no? Well, his twitter links to some Magic the Gathering site. Oh, he's a "Product Quality Associate" at Google (thanks LinkedIn!)

Wait, why do I care?
Isn't Veewee being somewhat superseeded by mitchellh's http://packer.io? Admittedly, packer.io has only recently been released.
In all fairness accused is not convicted. If convicted, any and all rapists should be jailed. But there's a number of conspiracy theories around his charges and there's enough concern that his trail would be railroaded for all the wrong reasons. What happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway?
Google seems to be up to some pretty weird stuff lately, was it that? gaaawn' tell us!
The most likely scenario I see at this point is that the piece itself was mostly driven by WikiLeaks and Snowden gave approval to put his name to it. Perhaps he helped with some of the main points but it doesn't sound like him and it certainly didn't look like his writing. The 'political speechwriter' theory sounds the most reasonable to me at this point.

I'm not sure that going from "I love my country and want the people to know what the government is doing" to "FUCK THE US AND FUCK YOU OBAMA" (paraphrased!) is really the wisest course though. But what do I know?
I sure wouldn't mind seeing every single one of them have to face a fair hearing before an impartial judge.
If your life is not awesome, make it so. You are the only one who can do it; no one else can do it for you.

Congrats! Your next move will be the right one.
Or, perhaps it's only reasonable to be skeptical.
That's the date when Google announced that they were intending to buy Motorola, but such an announcement is irrelevant. Until the deal closes, the companies are legally obligated to continue behaving as if nothing has changed. For example in this case there were anti-trust issues in at least China and the US.

According to Wikipedia pages the dates were:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_X: On May 19, 2011, Motorola released the Droid X2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility#Acquisition_b...: The deal received subsequent approval from Chinese authorities and was completed on May 22, 2012.

That's over a year, if barely.
"The tree that doesn't bend, breaks."

"Bend too far, and you're already broken."

It's more an issue of redefining the rules than breaking them. Court oversight becomes a secret rubber stamp that's never denied. Search becomes querying the database we already have. Non-citizenship becomes 51% confidence. Spying on enemy nations during wartime becomes Hey, Everybody's Doing It, Why Can't We? ...etc
People blog because they have something to say and want other people to hear them. They want the limelight and attention.

I would argue this is not universally true; the vast majority of the people who blog don't do it to build a personal brand (which is what you lose from writing on Medium.)
A thought occurs to me: Don't the twins own something like $10M of BTC? Perhaps they personally will provide liquidity for this ETF.
If you're miserable at a job, quitting is never a bad option. If you're smart, hardworking, and willing to relocate you'll have no problems.
Aaron Swartz's brother. What constitutes a silly comment if one did not know that, vs. if one did? Genuinely curious.
I don't know of course, but that should be the default assumption. Parent stated it as fact without basis. It's unlikely that China can break encryption that the NSA has approved suitable for Top Secret data. If they can do that, they already have all of this information.

They could have made multiple stealthy visits and installed keyloggers, but that's also unlikely to work with him.

Put simply, if you work for both the CIA and the NSA in foreign countries as a technical employee, you know how to not get keylogged.
Most of the MOOC sites seem to have a CS101 course which is generally programming fundamentals. Udacity have a great one, which is basically building a search engine in Python. It doesn't hurt that one of its lecturers is a Googler.
I am in same train of thought as article. Perhaps boring or redundant thoughts from my blog thing (http://pavlovsfrogs.blogspot.com/2013/05/mission-statement-c...), on why blogger, not X:

Why not something like medium.com? Well, it does look pretty nice (though, not as nice as mine), and it would save having to pick a domain name and such. Interesting note, same founder as blogger. While their beta/editor and area specific comments features are pretty cool (it seems easy to communicate to author), I am not too big on the social element, I do not prefer the lack of control (an example of this being how your writing will be linked to by or link to random other articles or not being able to link my soundcloud on my landing page), I don't think there is rss/email support, and it is also that it is rather new, and while I am not too proud to follow trends and I doubt it will die anytime soon (it is not like blogger is the most secure option), it will probably change and new features will roll out. What if there is ever ads that you can't control, or they add publicly available revision history, or you can't turn off public comments? So, while pretty cool, overall I still like blogger and my control over the html/css. We will see where it goes.

Side note: Why no svtle (or really any decent) theme/template for blogger?
They're telling us the places to avoid ;) (The areas with high concentrations of Hipsters).
They have banned other politically incorrect subreddits before (jailbait).

You understand that /r/jailbait wasn't banned for being 'politically incorrect', right?
> What are you expecting him to say, "The only reason I am running is so that I am not subjected to a fair trail and humane punishment."?

He could just say "I broke the law for the public good, there's no way to get this issue the attention it deserves otherwise. I intend to remain free even if I have to be in exile, as that is how I can do the most good for the people!" etc etc. Not really that hard, you know. :P
Why would any self respecting blogger interested in owning their own content, brand, identity or control over those ever use any sort of platform like Medium? For one, we know their short lived. For another, just freaking why? I guess if I wrote and needed people to read it to eat or get my ego stroked.
A few interesting things to note:

1. The trust sponsor is wholly-owned by Winklevoss Capital Management LLC.

2. The sponsor is licensing intellectual property from Winklevoss IP LLC.

3. The fee has not yet been determined. Fees are often waived for a period of time with new issues but according to the prospectus, "Presently, the Sponsor does not intend to waive any of its fee."

4. The fee is paid via a transfer of bitcoin from the trust to the sponsor.

5. "There are no regulations, rulings or other authority that address the US federal income tax treatment of Bitcoins. Under one reasonable approach, a Bitcoin should be treated as a capital asset (and not as "currency"). In the absence of any future guidance by the IRS, a change in law, an administrative determination or a judicial ruling to the contrary, the Trust intends to treat a Bitcoin as a capital asset for US federal income tax purposes, including for tax reporting purposes."
Yes - good client side JS to do this has only been around for a year or so. Before that it was ESRI, or map tile complexity...
If it's real. ...chan boards are the home of (sometimes very elaborate) trolls. Additionally: 22:52 "I'm gonna download q3a", 23:09 description of the game. Yet it took >20min to get a screenshot later.

I don't buy the "not moving" part either. If they were using NN, then there's no reason they'd include / train connections to scores - only to current environment. NN with any kind of randomisation added between games (to get out of local maxs) would not stand still either.

TL;DR - screenshot is not a proof, ...chan boards are not reliable news services.
I don't see how you could "join" medium, but you can join twitter and use medium...
My initial thoughts were to comment, This is really freaking cool, great idea whoever. But when I realized I couldn't put my own keywords in the url and zoom the map out and move it around I was somewhat less impressed, it's still a neat idea though.

But, I think it would be 'really freaking cool' to do this while accessing the entire database of places and reviews with any keywords you want. I know that would require more development and server resources. It would probably be rather challenging to do this efficiently on the fly rather than using preprocessed data from a limited geographic range, I'm sure there is a yelp engineer or two that would like to take on the challenge though.
Google is becoming like a newspaper. A connecting point between people, ideas and information.

How:

1) Google has steadily moved away from optimally presenting search results which they possess.

2) In being this connecting point, ads increasingly have taken over the space where organic results are published, much like ad space is sold first in a newspaper and articles are squeezed in around it.

Everything changes, or does it? Content is king, except finding content is a new king.

3) Google generally has the content we seek - in the form of search results. The results are squeezed around ads. This creates a cognitive cost to separate ads from results, instead of just finding what we need, which was the original promise of Google. This implies, at some point we're giving into reading the ads like they were the results?

Users have only ever been interested in search results from a search engine, not ads. In a way, good search results was a promise shared by AltaVista and Google. Being able to easily access them is what is changing.

Last year I was irritated enough to build my own search interface, focused on presenting results how I wanted to see them.

4) The cognitive cost had added up to be too much to scan Google constantly to find the one weather, or movie link I have looked at for the last 10 years, and becoming increasingly harder and harder to find.

My thoughts come back to the announced shuttering of AltaVista, in wondering whether we really ended up ahead. Google certainly has done things no one else has, getting search so good, and now finding what we want is a little more work.

5) Google is a business, and need a financial engine. As much as advertising currently seems to pay for the internet, I wonder if a day is coming where we're more willing to put our money where our mouth is.

It may take some time, for the majority of internet users to have 10+ years of online experience of doing the same searches and finding them harder to find.

What to do? I feel like brushing up my custom search interface and use it a little more.
That is a very cool feature. A great example of well applied Business Intelligence and data mining.

Hackers take note, this is how you get value out of your growing datasets.
You could try hooking up with him and asking. It's not like he's going anywhere soon by the looks of it.
"In order to know what channels to focus on or improve, I need to know the source of my traffic."

Alternatively, medium lets you focus on post quality instead of analytics hustling.

"Won’t other writers send readers to me? Maybe, but I’ve noticed that the content recommended at the bottom is usually picked by editors. So if I’m never chosen, not really."

Post quality is rewarded by editors. Only hustlers have something to fear.

"Medium demolishes and destroys Blogger and Wordpress.com in design, but the functionality can be improved."

So if we take the advice and don't use Medium what alternative do we have whose functionality can't be improved?

"People blog because they have something to say and want other people to hear them. They want the limelight and attention. "

I think people blog for different reasons. A lot of people just blog because they are interested and enthused about something and as a blogger you're not subject to some other communities focus and moderation. Some people have a dozen items a day, others might not write a dozen posts in a year. Medium seems like it favors less prolific bloggers who aim for quality content. Instead of having to each build their own brand, they build a shared brand. This is one of the jobs some periodicals historically fulfilled sans the dead tree imposed volume limits.
Quickly sorting small sets using switch fallthrough
Here they are:

http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif

http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif

http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif

http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif
That would be a fine statement, but I have no problem with the statements he has made instead.
Good to know, though I'm sure the announcement came after much research into Motorola Mobility.
My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. I thought I'd post the comment I submitted on the original blog post here as well. We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanent, so I can imagine how frustrated you must be. I’m pretty sure those story deletions are permanent, and I can’t think of any place where we can or do automatically restore user-deleted content months later.

If you happen to have any more details about specific stories that reappeared, I’d love to try and figure out exactly what happened. Admittedly, that may be difficult now that several months have passed.

As one of the other commenters mentioned, your Activity Log is a better place to get a full list of your activity and delete it item-by-item. It also shows posts that Timeline omits and includes other types of content such as likes and comments. This help page may be useful https://www.facebook.com/help/activitylog and you can find your Activity Log at https://www.facebook.com/me/allactivity?privacy_source=activ...

I couldn’t tell from your description, but one possibility is that you only saw and deleted the stories rendered on your Timeline, which is just a summary of your activity.
"turnkey tyranny" describes the future consequence for the median citizen.

Torturing those who leak information prior to trial is something that the US government has already demonstrated a willingness to do. It's simply disgraceful - a national shame.
I do, inasmuch as they are lies. :P
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What about salaries? It took me forever to scale up to over 100k as a programmer. I'm guessing it's not much different with data science.
This is a hilarious little hack. Neighborhood stereotypes seem to find themselves reinforced in Yelp reviews.
Well... that would explain a lot....
Based on my reading of the article, yes. It's important to note, however, that the article does not apply to "prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." Presumably the definitions of those terms would be determined on a case-by-case basis by the International Court of Justice.
Surprisingly, the overlap between PBR and hipster isn't as great as I thought it would be. Though it is a bit closer in the east bay.

Pity it doesn't go down the peninsula.
Not everyone who is convicted of a crime by the government is tortured and not every trial is a mocking pretense. Maybe, just maybe, Edward Snowden is speaking through the filter of his own prejudices and biases, which may not necessarily 100% reflect reality.
This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.
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I meant in the most broad sense, which at this point is someone who uses email/Facebook/etc. daily.

* Once you exclude most of the internet users who are only nominally "using the internet", I suspect most are at least vaguely aware of 4chan.*

I agree! But I think the proportion of people you'd be excluding there is the overwhelming majority.
Likely using this:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
Just to be clear - he hasn't been exiled by the US. He is in self-imposed exile to avoid prosecution.

They haven't revoked his citizenship... just his passport. That doesn't remove citizenship, just the ability to travel abroad.
> Why Does Talking About Creepers And Harassment Make People So Angry?

Because it is usually followed by demands and hate. "I am woman, you are sexist because you are a man, now gimme your money".