skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Are we going to accuse people who uphold fact-checking, our respective constitutions and general political debate as "politically correct"?

I haven't seen an argument why we shouldn't extend human rights to Muslims. And yes, what most people who talk about muslims committing more crimes on average (which is true, if you restrict it to the relative proportions and avoid any proper statistical analysis) are talking about is a violation of constitutional rights:

It's impossible to punish millions of people for the crimes of the few.
PuTTY Tray
2) Depends on how the bundle is configured. I2P supports "outproxies" to the normal web. There are like 3 of them... Sadly the option is enabled by default.

3) I2P is using an onion routing like network. You only see the neighbouring hop/IP
You're presuming people know what they're doing. If someone clicks a bunch of boxes and things break, they might not know what boxes they checked/unchecked, they might not know how to get back to that window again (which menu item was it again?
).

If you think users aren't that stupid, you're wrong, they are that stupid. If you think people should not use the Internet if they don't understand that much, then you're suggesting kicking a large chunk of the population off the Internet. If you work in IT, kicking a lot of people off the Internet is a surefire way to reduce your industry's size.
The URL rewriting is absolute bullshit. What is the deal with that?
Hobbyist in Japan releasing Android enabled robotic doll chassis
I've tried speaking with some therapists with no luck. I wish someone could recommend someone to me. I don't care if they are in Hong Kong, I would leave tomorrow. Everyone always tells me I need therapy, but no one knows of a decent therapist. The ones I have spoken with have no clue, it makes me cringe to imagine dealing with that again. Plus, they only want to talk to you for an hour. So you are stuck with 1 hour per day to make changes, it's a nightmare.
In real life, do you find something by mimicking it? Then why would web searching be any different?
Chrome extension to display desktop notification
Sounds like an awful lot of work for no good reason I can think of.

You'll need a compiler, anyway, once you start trying to use any number of libraries requiring compiled C extensions.

"No compilers on production!" might be true elsewhere but I can't see any reason it applies for ruby deployments.
But go back to HN for a moment, there's not really a good way to insert new threaded comments in realtime, you pretty much need a refresh. So the no-js method is about perfect.
Check out https://github.com/opal/opal
Looks fun, but seems a bit gimmicky to me. Why would you use something that is extra physical effort to use and makes you worse at gaming? I presume people will only really play games against other people using these, which means that the community will be very small.

On the other hand, I could imagine these or something like these making the gym more fun as a fitness thing rather than a gaming thing.
Yes, but they were living in Germany, and we do have a small population of salafists, among which potential terrorists can hide. A lot of these salafists are indeed German nationals, some by birth and ethnicity.

I'm also stressing that I don't find the surveillance "surprising", while I don't condone it in any way.
You forget that if 8 companies out of 547 make it, eventhough those are supposed to be bright mind, means intelligence and skills are probably not the only factors.

You may reach the conclusion that intuition and luck are also a big part of the game. So there's nothing else to do but see for yourself and try.
Yes, but your approach requires a lot of bandwidth on the 3rd party.

But a 3rd party doing nothing except helping with synchronization uses barely any bandwidth and someone could easily host it for free on some server that is not otherwise fully used, simply as a service to the public.
I'm half Dutch/German and i fully agree with the view of the author and the article.

However, i believe one important piece of information is missing from most articles i read about this topic;
Obviously it is much harder to create/restore something than it is to break something. In my opinion Bush made a big mess and Obama is doing a great job turning the whole thing around and leading the Americans in the right direction.
There is only so much one person can do, and besides that, change should always happen slowly to prevent instability.

We forget that the reason all of this was possible in the first place are obviously the American people itself; For example why on earth did they vote for George Bush the second time...
From my point of view, the Americans have some kind of unrational fear of terrorists and choose to give up all privacy because they believed it would give them more security. Instead, it gave them another terrorist: the NSA.

Hopefully they will learn from their mistakes and continue in the right direction. I believe Obama started of good and hope he will continue to do so.
"I would never pick C because there is too much minutiae and not enough meat"

There's really not much minutiae at all when it comes to C. C++, sure, I'd agree, but not C.

You do have to be be pretty comfortable with how processors and memory work if you're going to be answering questions in C, but that aside the language's syntax, keyword usage and standard library are all quite small.
Hey, thanks for the tip- I'm in the same boat as the OP, bookmarked the link you posted & appreciate your advice.
Sure not.

The US standing military is for defending the US empire and has nothing to do with NATO. NATO's task was never to be a global police. That's a task some US politicians selected for the US. We've seen how that works.
I believe people like Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat who became instrumental in Google's success came from DEC. I'm sure they brought lot of talented folks from DEC that paved what Google's search dominance.
Have an up-vote! I came to the comments to place this link. The level of detail is incredible and scary. Combine this with the actual content of the mails, social media, search queries and you have basically injected yourself into the mind of people.
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Initially I was very impressed with Medium: it looked good and had a high rate of good content - enough that I happily assumed that new content Medium was probably going to be good.

Now I'm very depressed with Medium. It's filling with trite, immature rants that keep polluting my otherwise quality feed of opinions. I no longer click the links and definitely won't be chancing upon the rare quality material.

The same thing happened to Quora, sadly.
Do they come with a "Skip Intro..." button?

In all seriousness, they are beautiful but raise the concern that we are back to the days of Flash-style loaders before users get to see content.
There was a good thread on p2p-hackers a little while back. I apologize for not digging up the link but I'm on my way to bed. I think the thread was something like "state of the art NAT traversal"
Lots of the Web does not do graceful degradation to fully functional sites without JS. That ship has sailed, that battle has been lost. JavaScript is a required, not optional, part of a lot of the Web.
I found this online training for git, it actually works offline too:

http://gitimmersion.com/

I haven't taken the time to do it all yet but I'll get to it one day.
I'm really looking forward to the next generation of consumer gaming VR once all the kinks have been worked out.

With any luck, the problems and shortcomings of the Oculus Rift and the Omni will be solved within a couple years, and we'll be able to buy a fully usable VR rig for something like $1500 (glasses, treadmill, handheld controller). And we'll have games designed specifically for it.
In that case, given that the United States government forcibly removed them from where they were beforehand, it would make sense that the United States hosts them if they can't go home. After all, many of them have been there long enough to potentially qualify for US citizenship.
I meet people every other week that were not born into connections, in fact they may not have any connections today. And yet, they're fundable: they have a product, they have some level of validation, they may not even be looking for money outright (the money finds them as often as not).

Some of these teams blow me away with their technical expertise, plenty of these guys & girls have had a life full of headwind and yet they push on. The one common factor: they don't complain about their misfortunes (perceived or real) they just keep pushing forward. I'm seriously impressed with that, being born into anything has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

Finally, yes, being born into connections can help. But I've seen lots of people that were born into connections/wealth end up losing it all in a very short time.

VCs for software make good sense in many situations, companies that are still on the losing side of the equation that want to sew up the market before a competitor comes along (not all software is throwaway apps), international expansion, horizontal expansion across several niches. All of these cost money, and sometimes bootstrapping just isn't enough (especially with older founders).
Vole is another social network, based on BitTorrent.

http://vole.cc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5948423
2nd or 3rd employee? I'd expect it of all candidates where it is relevant (i.e. not the cleaning crew). And I'd expect it before the phone interview.

How can they hold a meaningful conversation with you if they don't know what the product does and how it behaves? This is relevant stuff they should be quizzed on vs. how many Pascal Triangles you can fit in a 747 or some such nonsense.

This is your FizzBuzz. Maybe your pre-FizzBuzz. If they're too "busy" to take a look at your product, you're too "busy" to talk to them. Best of luck...
Not for cookies it ain't.
I'm a fan of Diceware. Strong entropy guarantees and memorable passwords.
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Nice site, but please capitalize the first word of each bullet point. It looks unprofessional.

http://oi44.tinypic.com/amqgqw.jpg
I've been depressed in some form or fashion since I was in high school. I'm not sure if it's because my life has been a massive failure, or because I actually am chemically lacking. I've seen horror stories of people who have taken anti-depressive drugs, and half of my family is on them. I think some cognitive therapy would be useful, but I really hope I don't need medicine. I don't even take advil if I can help it. I would honestly be terrified of telling any doctor something like that. I live in TX, and have very little trust for most of the doctors I have seen in my life. They all have agendas.
When I said "customizable" I didn't mean in terms of settings, but it terms of what you can do with Extensions/Add-ons.

Name another browser where the Firebug-like functionality is an extension and not something built-in.
Just for fun, here's a chart showing who submits Medium to HN

(http://imgur.com/pDIyeRM)

EDIT: I should have said, this is only the last 100 posts!

EDIT: increasing the number gives a bad request error. :-/

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
Good point. I'll do it now.
when coffee was an illegal drug, you had many people abusing it similar to what we think of as a stereotypical heroin addict today

Highly questionable. Coffee was made illegal in the Ottoman empire because people in coffee shops were suspected of sedition, not because they were having caffeine ODs and dying. Comparing it to heroin is just silly, and I say that as a supporter of legalization.
I agree--the global Javascript disable is pointless in this day and age.

As for enabling it by domain, check out the "noscript" extension. I've been running it for a couple years and it (a) lets you see from which domains a page is loading Javascript files and (b) lets you enable/disable Javascript from particular domains. I've never enabled facebook.com, for instance, since I don't have an account there and I don't like the idea that every page out there with a "like" button is tracking me.
The US government has always realized that monopolies can come to be "naturally" (that is, through normal market forces) in an industry. The US government over goes after a monopolist when they attempt to enter or influence a different market by exploiting their monopoly.

The US government didn't go against Standard Oil because they owned 90% of the refineries in the US, they went after Standard Oil because Standard Oil was using their 90% oil refinery market share to control the rail shipping industry.

The US government didn't go against Microsoft because they owned 90% of the PC operating system market, they went after Microsoft because Microsoft was using their 90% operating system market to control the web browser market (along with some other sub-computer markets).

Why isn't the US government going against Monsanto (for instance?) Because they aren't trying to gain control of another industry outside agriculture (or better lobbyists, take your pick).
And here I was thinking that the 10k I managed to save up in 3 years at my current job was a lot.
But then again, most of my friends are either in school or unemployed, so from a different perspective, it actually is quite a lot.
Really nice looking, I actually like Marco Barría's one (not as a spinner though).

Whenever you see a spinner or loading icon, you failed in UX design. Most of these feel slow and just plain wrong, they are pretty though, and the CSS is pretty awesome.

Use content progression instead of these damn spinners or loaders. Game dev's learned this a long time ago.

- my worthless 2c rant
That depends how large the subset is. If it's 2% or lower, then yes. Hell, I might even go as high as 10% depending on what the particular bit of behaviour is.
Also, you've been through the process of writing things that later turned out to be hard to maintain/scale poorly/bad_attribute_x later on even when you thought it was good to start with. The more I work, the less surprised I am that my solution isn't the best one or that there was a situation/edge case I hadn't thought of.
Exactly, I just had to rant about that. Again though, cool CSS examples, but used for a very wrong task.
I have worked and studied the same time as you have, and have nowhere near that amount of money. And I'm fine with it.

I've had co-workers very focused on money, with their aim in life being to get rich. Rich to allow them to get even richer, and then filthy rich, and then, ...then the magic happens and life will be a bliss. They just have to get more money first.

Compared to the rest of our world you have a lot of money. Don't let the pursuit for more money stop you from living your life fully. You are young and there is so much you can spend your time on.

With your money you have the opportunity to travel and see, hear, smell, feel, and taste this world directly with your own senses! A luxury to expand your intellect not given to many of this world. Take your time in places and don't just visit the biggest cities, stay in hostels here and there to get away from the sterile, always-the-same, hotel experience. Yes, some experiences will probably be awful but at least you will have a story to tell!

That said, talk to someone first to help you get started. There are good therapists available. Counseling made a big difference for some friends of mine when they were able to break a bad, self-reinforcing pattern of thinking, and get a new more healthy perspective.
I would place some part of blame on the journalists for not asking specific enough questions. All the discussion around "direct access" was a typical example where more precise questions would say more than hundred pages of discussion.

For example, do Google allow NSA to run computer code on google's servers? More specific, do NSA supply database queries when demanding data? Do NSA ever provide Google with tracking code like JS or links to NSA webbugs (1px imgs) that Google later put in targeted ads? Do Google ever provide physical (or remote) access to servers, hard drives (like backups) or network devices to NSA?

Either of those would to me be equivalent with "direct access", while I can perfectly see how Google would not define it as such.
I think you've misunderstood my comment. The angle bracket part was me quoting the parent comment. I'm telling him that it's bullshit to try and draw some sort of conclusion between LSD and schizophrenia simply because schizophrenia medication dampers the effects of LSD because all sorts of medications damper the effects of LSD. I probably should have used quotes, my bad. I'm just so used to using the angle bracket to signify a quotation.
Years ago, in the early days of Ajax, I made a spinner for a web app, and contributed it to some guy's collection. I'm not even a designer and it's badly made and a bit wobbly, but I've seen it since so many times, in so many websites and collections, it's funny. This collection has some variation of it, too, I think. hehe. But it has ones that are a LOT nicer. (this is my spinner BTW http://www.ajaxload.info/cache/FF/FF/FF/00/00/00/20-0.gif . I can always tell by the way it's misaligned and wobbling)
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I remember teaching a friend how to research a topic by sitting her down in front of the computer, and showing her how to search all 5 major engines instead of just one, thereby getting a number of perspectives on the topic.

This article makes me seriously nostalgic.
Why not just put it in the about:config page for FF? Casual users are unlikely to accidentially access this page as there is no GUI navigation to it.

Though most casual users I know avoid GUI configuration all the same, so I don't really see the issue here.
it's interesting that you say that, since I felt the same way. I never really liked how much the content and the presentation of something where tied together. personally, I built my answer to this as http://xwl.me/, a site that just makes you markdown document beautiful and readable. However, you control what that source document says and where it's hosted.

I found it makes things simple and beautiful for me.
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This is something that Medium itself could set up for you.

If you want something simpler, just paste this into your page: https://gist.github.com/5899046
Anything that causes a connection or association of ideas that wouldn't have otherwise been formed holds the potential to facilitate a deeper understanding of ones' self or the universe.

Even in my limited experimentation with drugs, I feel as though I've experienced thought outside the realm of regularity.
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Not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me, my main issue is copy-paste from Google results, that now get mangled with their URL rewriting for SEO count.
<object/> works well for playing video without any JavaScript.
I don't know about Beijing but in Shenzhen, lots of the newer apartments are located in "no car" gardens that can span over a few blocks. There are lots of trees, swimming pools, tennis courts, etc. Quite livable places actually.
Ask HN: Why programmers should use Vim?
In a lot of articles, video tutorials and books I see that programmers use VIM instead of a better editor like Sublime Text or something.

I'm a programmer. I build apps with NodeJs, JavaScript, CSS and Python and I feel really better when I use Sublime Text because it's visual, I can use the mouse cursor for moving between tabs or copy or paste codes, then WHY should I use VIM? I mean is there any secret behind VIM that I (and maybe many other programmers) don't know?
This seems great and something like I would use but the only problem is that it doesn't work on my ipad and I use my ipad, allot.
I can absolutely attest to this revelation. The more I learn, the less I seem to know.
I'm going to take some time this week or the next to flesh out tablet functionality. If you drop me a line via email, I can let you know when it's ready.
Isn't this called "NAT punching", and generally used by games and other sw to establish peer-to-peer connections?
Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out.

Some questions I have:

My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium?

Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ?

Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you?

I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same?

If distraction free writing were the USP, I’d recommend my co-founder’s iaWriter [2]. It does not publish directly and that’s a big negative. Isn’t this good enough?

[1]: http://www.gigpeppers.com/

[2]: http://www.iawriter.com/
Fixed graph here, containing the top 20 posters by number of posts, for 1000/1315 links containing the medium.com domain. (Using R; sorry about the labels)

http://i.imgur.com/WIJ4cT9.png

...wow, 1,000 submissions for a less-than 1 year startup is crazy.

NB: If you want to get more than 100, you need to use the start=0,100,200... parameter which works up to a maximum of 900 with limit=100.
Going out on a limb here, but I'll assume this is for Ruby only? Nothing in the landing page suggests this works for other languages.

I like the implementation, but if folks didn't like the NSA spying on them, they might not like this. This is wiretapping on steroids. I'm assuming the interviewer watches every keystroke. Creepy. I'm sure authors, well spoken and in full command of the English language, would get annoyed at someone staring at them to see if they can write a novel.

Tech interviewing is broken, but all solutions historically point to trying to watch a person code. I don't think that's the solution. When folks realistically work on multiple tech stacks with multiple frameworks and multiple languages, what is to be gained by zeroing in (deeply) on only one aspect of it.

This explains the need for a tech interview "study guide" posted earlier in the day. You're working on stuff contextually needed for your current job, but you'll be tested on stuff you don't use daily/monthly/yearly? That's insane.
From my understanding a NAT is going to remap an internal port to a different external port and upon receiving a RST will delete the mapping. Is this not correct?

Also, doesnt connection reversal solve this problem? (Connection reversal: have A connect to intermediary S. have B connect to intermediary S. S sends A B's info and vice versa. A connects to B before closing connection with S.) This also does not require S to forward data, only connection information. Am I missing something there?
User has trouble with software. User says that software is "too hard to use". A usability/interaction team are tasked with making the software "easier to use" and set off to find "confusing and infrequently used" features they can kill off.

Obviously anything on the 'Advanced...' dialog makes an easy target.
Now imagine you live in the USA and double that before/after feeling.

Not saying there was a better alternative but what have we done.
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