skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not ADHD.

Please note, I'm not saying anyone has ADHD. I'm not qualified to make that assessment.

However, I'm going to make a guess and assume you aren't qualified to make that assessment either.

Getting checked for ADHD and OCD has made a big impact on my life. I didn't think I had ADHD either. I was getting checked for OCD for something unrelated to ADHD, and this came up.

What I considered a normal life, being distracted normally, etc - well, I learned it wasn't normal.
" Not a single country would be allowed to act this way."

Going point.
There is a fundamental difference between expecting privacy on the Internet, and the government actively collecting all data on all people and compiling a massive database linking all of this data together.

No one should expect privacy. There are sketchy ISPs, sketchy mail providers, hosting providers, etc.

But a few hackers collecting email from a few individuals is not the same as a massive database that links everything in entire world in one nice package. A few random hackers in Russia do not have the political machinery or military machinery of the US government. They generally don't care that you're pro-gay rights (or whatever). They aren't going to try to punish you for your political views. They probably just want money or to defraud you in someway.

The US government, however, wants to control you.
Hope that your browser supports whatever method Netflix is using
If your reasoning were true, then MLK would not have urged people breaking laws that would later be nullified (e.g., by Brown v. Board of Education) to accept the associated punishment. But unless I am grossly misinformed, he did so urge them.

I think this is just more evidence that it's not really the democratic process per se. It's the fact that the government is maintaining law and order. It's the fact that breaking of laws, even unjust and unconstitutional ones, contributes to a weakening of social order (and, in the extreme, anarchy).
Step 2 is setting up a (legitimate) PAC and harness the collective donation power of the internet population.
we provide user data to governments only in accordance
with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every
request, and frequently pushes back when requests are
overly broad or don’t follow the correct process. Press
reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended
access to our users’ data are false, period.
-- Larry Page

So, clearly we have a request that is within the law as far the courts are concerned. Did Google push back on this too? Did they succeed? Did the order just not apply to them somehow?
I get the impression that the scandal is focused on Snowden (and his whereabouts) rather than on mass collection of data. But this is just my opinion.
It would be a very straight forward assumption that a DDG mobile app would laser focused on quick search. I'm curious: how did the stories feature come to be?
Thanks for the response. I wasn't aware of the performance for xfs_repair. But aren't the customers who are using RHEL(paying for a subscription) also the same customers who would more likely offload data to a commercial SAN/NAS and rely on their underlying filesystem? Obviously, not in all cases but I would think big data needs would be handled this way.
Startup reality check: When the IPO comes, innovation goes
I assumed they were using Yahoo's search api, which in turn is powered by Bing search according to the Yahoo-Microsoft deal.
While I think the OP does add some useful nuance to an often oversimplified topic, I would say that I am happy for him that he has had it so easy. Happy because he has apparently never known anyone whose is very smart and very hardworking, but whose success and happiness in some novel area has been actively sabotaged by parents who use love as a weapon with never an iota of remorse.

To have such a person dear to your heart is to peer into Mordor. And, yes, encouraging such a person to chuck their parents' love into Mount Doom may be the best course.
You should be talking to the franchisees. Also, not the ones that they point you too. Look at the disclosure documents how mnay have failed?
But they didn't make Google Earth. They bought it from a small company that was partially funded by the CIA.
It is the most photographed landmark in the country

I am sorry but that is BS. I could not find any statistics about "photographed landmarks" but a quick check of any measure of tourism and this seems extremely unlikely. For starters San Francisco's tourism does not come close to NYC.
Android still hasn't matched iOS in the responsiveness front

Guessing you don't use Android or at least haven't in awhile? I've been Android user now since the release of 4.0 and it seems much more responsive now than my wife's iPhone 5 in almost every category from web browsing to gaming. I was very aware of the lag pre-4.0 and that was the main reason I never switched (was an iPhone user before that). Now it's as smooth as can be.
You can use hn webapp http://hn.premii.com. There is an option to filter show and ask hn stories.
Yep, it's about 1200 lines of ClojureScript and 2000 lines of SASS, packaged up for distribution via PhoneGap. We will probably cut an android version soon.
trashes old automation scripts

Finally it came out of beta... Probably one of the best features for a sane development workflow.
Leonhard Euler's vast explosion of discovery took a Weirstrass et. al and decades later to argue and eventually canonically prove his then, and still wonderful results. He also of course in addition, published more with rigorous proofs than anyone else, eventually with only one remarkable, then zero eye. Today's computer assisted experimental mathematics enjoys a similar explosion, too many questions everywhere, conjectures daily, wiling hours "What's happening? What is all this?!(See: Wikipedia -Close Encounters of a Third Kind (film))

All these piles of interesting rocks need theorems to build something useful like a house, that's what merits publishing and sharing. Easier said then done. But why print dross when you know something extraordinary in there is struggling to come out and become known? So there's no hurry, we've got all the time in the world.
Incidentally, that puts another nail in the coffin for Adobe Flash, which is still widely used for DRM'd video streaming.
Are you under the impression that you can review the entire federal government, decide which programs to get rid of, and shut down every one of those programs, during your first year on office?

Because if so, please, run, I'd like to see it happen.

By pitiful, I meant that this shutdown seems minuscule among the variety of other privacy violations—but that hardly justifies the Guardian using this specific reveal as an attack piece.
Actually, they were using shock-absorbing lanyards, so, assuming they were using then correctly, a fall would result in a deployed shock pack and a dangling climber. Rescue from that position is another matter, and they don't say anything about that.

That being said, I think the author mentions carrying their camera and tripod by hand on the way down, which is a huge no-no. A drop could in serious damage or death as you mentioned.
Hailing Frequencies Open: NodeFly Introduces Uhura
This almost sent me furiously scrambling for my high school Latin text book. Almost...
Let's be clear, Rap Genius is a consumer and social focused web startup and by definition exists in a highly competitive space. It is technically simple and can be replicated fairly quickly by a competitor. The product itself must exude energy, excitement and confidence to differentiate itself.

Why would anyone invest in something like that if the founders don't project those values?

If you have a product that's the result of real technological innovation or time consuming R&D and has real growth potential, you'll find investors regardless of your confidence and energy levels.
Look at the reddit thread above.
I never thought I would say this, but I think I would prefer Adobe Flash and other browser plugins instead of making DRM a built-in feature of the web.
I'm rather hoping they'll offload it to Red Hat Storage :-)

But my point about "tens of terabytes" was more about local hard drives, not about big data stores.
I think Tom does a great job of showing how far Ember has come in the past few months.
Good. The focus should be on the revelations.
I think this is more true for the startup funding industry, which is sort of its own little world. The core of business development doesn't necessarily depend on that kind of thing.
I'm pretty sure you can't disclaim liability in the US just with a sign either. All of those 'park at your own risk' signs mean nothing when a runaway shopping cart puts a big dent in your door. A shopping center is responsible for their carts, but not for your car being broken into - things like that. Those signs are just there to make people think they can't sue.

When I was in college I played a lot of intramural softball. Of course you had to sign a release that if you get hurt in the regular course of the game the school wasn't liable. Fair enough. My problem was that they allowed these insane metal softball bats, triple-walled ones that can turn Gary Coleman into Jose Cabrera. As the pitcher I didn't like balls flying at my head (insert gay joke here) at those insane speeds.

I complained and was promptly told 'you signed a waiver'. I made it clear that I didn't sign a waiver for negligence and they were being negligent by allowing unsafe bats, moreso now that I've brought the issue to their attention. They changed their tune pretty quickly after that.
Not true. Doctors come to mind.
"...the petition requires us to weigh the nation's security
interests against the Fourth Amendment privacy interests of United States persons."

The text Fourth Amendment doesn't narrow itself to "United States Persons". It says:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
There's a certain elegance (that some ML-Style languages have) that Go forgoes in favor of simplicity. That's often not a bad tradeoff. Simplicity is a nobel goal, and is one of the big reasons for using Go.

Go isn't going to break a lot of new ground (Hoare was talking about CSP back in the 70s), but that's fine. It's nice to have ML style languages as playgrounds for PL research, and languages like Go to help large teams be productive (the enforced style and simplicity of Go makes it relatively easy to find people who can contribute quickly to a project). Different languages have different goals, and that's great.
This self-aggrandizement thing, that's ego, right?

If we invalidated organisations and achievement because people have big egos, then well, what exactly is left?

I mean, Apple invalidated because of Job's ego? All of the Americas Olympic achievements because of the egos of its athletes? Or even the whole of rap music. What about Tesla cars? Invalid too.

You are quite correct, the self-aggrandizement accusation is a smear, and amazingly selective in its use. I mean, isn't the whole of the US government a result of the sitting president's ego? Isn't a presidential run an act of self-aggrandizement?
Confirmation by SMS is not a relatively new feature.
I've heard the same stat before ( I think I read it some place else) but it made no sense, either.
definitely. While zsh has great default tab-completion, it still kind of sucks when there are multiple results for a completion but zsh doesn't inform you unless you hit TAB multiple times.

Term's grouping of output is pretty amazing, I think, and blows away almost any shell + terminal combo.
1: Just because you love a certain type of food or a franchise doesn't mean many share your opinion. Food is very objectional.

2: MANY restaurants fail within their first year. You have a better chance with a franchise, but there is still opportunity to fail.

3: Franchises are very - you do what we say, when we say it, how we say to do it. It's a numbers game; follow what they say, expect X profit keeping in mind points 1 and 2.

4: And most important, you will work your ass off as a restaurant owner. This isn't a 9-5 job, its a 6 to midnight job.

On the other hand, I personally would love to open a restaurant; it's one of my dreams to do. I have tons ideas of possible themes, names, dishes, design, quality of service, quality of linens and plates, etc... I don't like franchises and while my area has a ton of franchises and locally owned, I feel I can do better on my own making my own choices. I love walking into a restaurant and noticing worn painted walls; wrinkled table clothes, chipped dishes, how customers are treated, prices, etc... I love to take these notes in the back of my head and say that works, that doen't, this dish costs to much, this wine is to expensive, etc...

Good luck though; owning a restaurant is an excellent way to gain connections. Maybe from some of the connections you gain, it brings you back full circle to being a "hacker"
It should be My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $1300.

Compare that to what they would have got had it been on the rotation on Radio 1.

Note as the article says in the rest of the world unlike the usa terrestrial radio does pay for the songs it plays.
Given that "No one ever talks about Stripe or Coinbase" is obviously not a good basis for an argument, I assume he means "People don't seem to connect these various businesses and observe that 'financial services' as a whole is having a moment?"
Actually, this does qualify as blogspam in the world of HN. The most likely reason is that the domain (lwn) is well known.

The truth is, the definition of blogspam is dependent on the moods and biases of the moderators.
The software collections feature sounds really interesting. There's workarounds, but it still isn't fun to deal with getting modern versions of fast-moving projects (Python, Ruby, etc.) on an OS designed to last for over a decade.
Nitpick: peru is the Portuguese for turkey. In Spanish it is "pavo".
I believe you're right. Almost every article with NSA in the headline that I've seen also has Snowden, or Ecuador, or Russia.

So basically, your point about the focus being drawn away from the NSA itself seems correct to me.
...and the NSA has tapped into every strand of fiber in the world making this sales pitch meaningless. They already have access. They only request access to allow what they already know to be admissible in the courts.
So you'd rather have the Go runtime allocate the full structs (with all fields zeroed but still consuming the same memory) exactly everywhere they aren't even needed?

I don't know --- sounds like we would replace our current easy-to-grok, quick-to-fix "nil-pointer error" panics with obscure hard-to-debug non-panic-ing bugs because our code failed to check our now-in-every-struct custom "isInitialized bool" field?

Wouldn't you agree that the "special value nil", for pointers to complex struct types, is just as useful and essential as zero is for simple literal (non-struct) types, to represent that somewhat tricky but absolutely necessary concept of "non-existence"?
Thank you for treating .NET as a language and ignoring languages like F#
I don't think the comment was meant to be statistically accurate.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I may not have been clear about the position I was taking--that is, that submitting to punishment is not a necessary requirement for justifying civil disobedience, but is instead a feature found common among some civil disobedients. The core problem with the Slate article, in my opinion, is that it flaunts punishment as a requirement, thereby playing into the oversimplification of the now current treatment of Snowden as not a civil disobedient because he hasn't submitted to punishment.

Because my comments grew so long, I regrettably needed to sleep without digging into even further theories of and on punishment, which are central in treating not the justification of civil disobedience, but the just response to civil disobedience. Justification centers on the mode of action and motivations for action, not the results of action and punishment of action.

Furthermore, Slate's article offers examples of civil disobedients who submit to punishment in such a way that leaves readers continuing to expect that civil disobedience == breaking law + submission to punishment. This problem has plenty of historical counterexamples to distinguish disobedients from one another, and confuses submission to punishment as a requirement, instead of a feature. This is why I wrote, because Slate "fails to take on the challenge of disabusing people of their expectations that one must submit to egregiously harsh punishment to be validly considered a civil disobedient."

A primary example is that of revolutionaries, who often feature in discussion of civil disobedience. The American colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party and other defiant actions were civil disobedients. Those who participated in the Arab Spring were, as well. Yet none of them submitted to punishment for their crimes, instead turning to work with other political participants to initiate a rebellion against what they perceived as a government that had departed from the principles of justice.

As far as the theorists go, Rawls certainly was of the opinion that willingness to accept punishment is a sign of fidelity to the legal system in which civil disobedience is engaged. However, that is not the same as saying it is a requirement or a distinguishing factor that makes some civil disobedients better than others. Submitting to punishment can be injurious and undesirable when it weakens or derails further attempts to effect change. It may also be detrimental when a disobedient has yet to complete disobedient acts that will call full public attention to the cause.
also, this is much more useful that you'd think:

http://dferg.us/lipsum-text-workflow-for-alfred-2/
First Smartwatch With Two-Way Voice And Gesture Control Using Bluetooth
How do we know that there isn't another super secretive program, right now, that is still collecting everything?

How can we trust the Government, ever in the future, to tell the truth?

I don't see how this can actually be solved, since most people aren't concerned about encrypting their communications. I can't use encryption to message other people unless they use encryption too.

This is the future. We will be constantly watched.

Please tell me I'm wrong.
OP (ish) here. You've definitely made me reevaluate my statement. And for that, I thank you.
You know, of all the google reader clones, I haven't seen any implement my favorite feature, which is the 'gu' keyboard shortcut to start typing a feed name and 'enter' to go to that feed. Anyone know of readers that have this feature? Bonus points if it's a fuzzy search instead of an exact search.
Ask HN: "Dependent calendaring"?
I have a need for something I’d describe as “dependent calendaring.” There are certain things that I’d like to calendar but have dependent on each other, so that if I move one date forward it moves the range of subsequent dates forward.

This need might be answered by pointing me to project management software. If that’s the solution, so be it. (I’m reluctant because it seems more complicated than needed for this purpose.) However, I would need the output to be directed to Google Calendar (or be exportable to ICS format).

The two use cases for my own life I’m thinking of would be entertainment-related -- reading and viewing schedules.

For example, I have a number of books I’d like to get through before years’ end, so I’d like to assign myself pages of certain books to certain days. If I fall behind, though, I don’t want to have to manually move everything – I want to move something forward and have everything be bumped.

In an ideal world, free and web-based. But willing to spend a little, depending.

Thanks for your thoughts.
> I tend to lock myself in a filter bubble of news relevant to my interests

Maybe you should use DuckDuckGo [1].

[1] http://dontbubble.us/
Techtarget is worse than a spammer. They are a virus... you sign up for some whitepaper, and they add your to a gaggle of different lists.

Almost as bad as Computerworld.
Netflix will be taking advantage of EMEs for HTML5 DRM in IE11.

Microsoft has not confirmed IE11 will be supported in any OS other than Windows 8.1.

Older versions of IE, including IE10 on Windows 7, will still require Silverlight, meaning it still will not die.

If this is to be a nail in Silverlight's coffin, it's a very tiny one.

Edit: Per freehunter's comment below, Microsoft has confirmed eventual IE11 support for Windows 7.
Ask HN: Stanford CS Student, from Australia, wants to get coffee with *you*
I'd love to grab a coffee with a few HNers this summer.

My interests:

Education - especially in the context of mentorship, programming and business, fitness, nutrition, supplements, nootropics, travel.

My latest project:

http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1h51wt/i_want_to_provide_python_mentors_for_people/

So.

I'd love to chat with you, and grab a coffee.

Or if you are a member of couchsurfing.org or aren't and would like me to buy you dinner, I'd love to crash somewhere in the bay area! I've just been going to coffee shops and working during the day and chatting with my host later in the evening. That would be fantastic - and 2 nights would be perfect.

I'm posting this from a couchsurfing host's house, and last night I stayed with someone who reached out to me from hacker news which was awesome.

Email: cjbarber@stanford.edu
And so in a small part the MSIE team is back to "creating" new "standards" for the web because they were the first on board so the get more input to the final product. I hate to say it (in part because I'm not 100% sold on web DRM, tho netflix on Linux will be nice...) but by being sticks in the mud over the issue Google and Mozilla are now going to be following IE's lead for probably the first time in a while
Great point. I should also note, that when I said innovators and thinkers, that definitely included any politically related character. I'd like to think that Marie Antoinette is mostly popular because of her involvement with the French Revolution, and all of the characters relevant to that.
One minor confound is that the difficulty of each new fact isn't identical. While going from 10 to 11 requires learning 11 new facts, 9 of them follow an easy pattern (11 x n = nn), and the 10th you get for free with decimal notation. That leaves only 11 x 11 = 121 to be memorized individually.

Oddly I don't think I ever memorized the 12 x [0-9] case myself. It's quick enough to recover it from smaller numbers (12 x 7 = 70 + 14) that I just did that in school, and memorized only 11 x 12 and 12 x 12.
3D-printed foot helps disabled duck walk again