skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you use Youtube to watch videos? Google to search?

Also, what do you do for email, roll your own? Got any tutorials if so (I sorta want to start dropping Google myself - search and Youtube will be tough though)? Anything I found was a bit too complicated or I just didn't want to spend that much time on it.
Wow. BART employees make more than an average Software Developer and yet they want to go on a strike. What a shame.
New Rumor of Snowden Flight Raises Tensions
Interesting, thanks for the link. When I implemented a share in an app recently, this wasn't an option. I wish there was more version information on the page. The only reference to a timestamp now is that this page was updated a week ago.
Your own Embassy sounds about the worst place in world possible to discuss your own secrets.
(pure speculation) I wonder if he might have signed the email, "...hope to see you all soon" to indicate to others that he was not suicidal.
Actually, the high salaried employees you see are people like the General Manager who refuse to personally come to the bargaining table at all, and probably approve raises for themselves.

The average salary of striking workers is about $61k, and management has accepted that their current offer only results in a substantive increase of $1 over four years, after BART workers accepted a freeze four years ago to inject $100M into the system.

More info:

http://www.keepbartrunning.com/an_open_letter_to_the_community_from_the_bart_workers
Reply to Eli's child post, for some reason there is no reply link under his comment:

I am confused by responses such as yours that only consider Snowden and not the public release of information about the NSA. I don't argue that Snowden should not get a year in jail after a fair trial. I personally think he has done the world a service and should get a walk, but a minimal jail sentence would be fair.

The NSA leaks are a big deal, and I believe an opportunity for our country to get its act together. Anyway, thanks for your comment.

So, I assume that you don't agree that our government would coerce foreign politicians. I wish that I could agree with you, but I can't.
How Barrett Brown shone light on the murky world of security contractors
Sure it does. The Soviets went as far as to embed some sort of passive microphones in cinder blocks used to build the US Embassy in Moscow. The US planted copier repairmen/spies to install cameras in xerox machines at the Russian embassy.
Shiz, I'll take their job.
Did you look at anything beyond the first page?
'Stipulated' means that both parties have already agreed about this (in a matter which is before a court), which I doubt to be the case. Here, that claim is argued, not stipulated.

Bear in mind that the Bitcoin Foundation already organized a conference in San Jose, CA, and solicits donations from a website accessible in CA. As I understand it, that is quite sufficient for the state of CA to assert some jurisdiction over its activities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_contacts#Activities_as_...
Though by no means essential for a career in computing, a computer science degree is incredibly useful. At the very least, at the end of your course the skills you have now will have been given a stamp of authenticity by the accreditation, but in the best case the high-level tour of computing provided by a good degree course will have introduced you to concepts that will make you a better developer, and possibly sparked a deeper interest in some part of the field you're currently unfamiliar with, that will help guide you in picking the next stage of your career.

Choose wisely though: all degrees are not equal, and depending on the expense involved (I don't know what tertiary education costs are like in Oz) they may not be a net win.
Let he who is without blame cast the first pebble
It has made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate by waging wars of extermination against them

I agree with a lot of your post, but it wasn't anything the US government did that made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate. They have all been illegitimate since the very first time a gang of stronger men beat and killed a weaker one just because they could.
I thought a walled garden was suppose to fix these sorts of problems, isn't that what Apple fans say about Android?
As far as I know, disnix is just for Nix. Packer creates machine images for multiple platforms. It would make sense, if you were building a machine image for Nix, perhaps, that you would use this. But for an Ubuntu machine, you can't really. Unless I'm mistaken.
I am on page 60 where train operators and station agents are making $122 000.

The difference between "workers" and manager salaries is about 4x, pretty low compared to the private sector.

I find the salaries to be outrageously high, even factoring in that we are talking about the Bay Area & San Francisco. Considering that the average age of BART's cars is 30 years [1], the money seems better spend on updating the equipment.

[1] http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/bart-moved-update-rapidl...
Try looking at one of the later pages in the document -- average salary is around 30k! I believe your numbers for sure, just wanted to offer a clean example of "no, not everyone gets paid 80k base + 120k overtime."

http://imgur.com/2vfQ1qi, from http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...
How does the lack of personal gain justify anything?
Thanks for that - Can you give me any recommendations of a qualification I could take online which would be worth having for the piece of paper?
This is beyond the pale. Of all the shit the miscreants who exist in the League of Legends community have said, this is by far the least offensive.
The top of the list is the executive staff, not the workers.
Easy Gmail Encryption right from the Browser
Unfortunately most Google software is practically inseparable from Google's infrastructure. Open sourcing stuff is hard, mostly thankless work.
How the NSA taps fiber at the bottom of the oceans
"With this solution only the sender has to have the extension installed to send an encrypted email."
Hmm... but to read the mail, even the receiver needs to have the extension. I don't see much point in advertising "only sender needs the extension" bit.
Posing to make this comment deeper
Or, they are all in on it.
How Mike Worley Became a Successful Entrepreneur
XOM initiated a very aggressive share buyback program ~15 years ago, their own treasury is one of their largest shareholders.

Makes much more sense for them to use those shares in acquisitions in the form of a stock swap.
Day-old discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974829
While I agree that you absolutely need to see a psychologist or psychiatrist as soon as you can, it does strike me as unusual that you have these attacks so rarely and they involve losing consciousness or memory, followed by bad headaches. That doesn't sound like typical rage issues. For that reason, you should definitely also see a neurologist; these attacks may actually be some kind of partial seizures.
Wearables could seem like a logical next step for Apple's long term roadmap, especially when considering early efforts like the Pebble and Google Glass by other companies. Maybe we'll look back and regard those in the same way we regard the Motorola Razr today.

I remember my graduate advisor, author to the most cited tangible interaction paper out there, musing on what Apple would be doing 10 years from now. His speculations were on the side of augmented jewelry– wearable, without being as large as a watch or glasses– and smart textiles. The industry examples are scarce, but the research in this field is extremely active (http://www.tei-conf.org/), with some very interesting prototypes being demo'd and work being published every year.

I'm looking forward to chatting about this with you all again in 10 years :)
I am currently in the same situation. (I posted here on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272575)

The author was lucky enough to find a lawyer that will defend him pro bono, but in my case (and I assume many other cases that we don't hear about), the cost of defending is more expensive than settling. The problem is that it is really cheap for patent trolls to file a lawsuit, since they basically copy and paste the claim, which is most likely to be too poorly written to stand a chance in court. I wish the court had a strict approval process.
Where can I get just the data? I'd like to look at it in R.
Something seems to be wrong. I see base salaries over 200k but in the tableau link the max base is 190k.
A handy reminder of why flight search is Hard with a capital H:

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

(ITA being the company purchased by Google)
Of course they don't, but survival rates for wearing a seatbelt are much higher than survival rates for not wearing a seatbelt.

Personally, I want a 5-point harness if I ever end up driving in a risky fashion.
"actual state of affairs" !== "how the law is actually interpreted".

"actual state of affairs" === "the true, objective metaethical status of law".

> You're rather fond yourself of dismissing the opinions of the judiciary. Surely your opinions on the law are of even less account.

I'm of the philosophical opinion that nobody's legal opinion really matters when it comes to metaethical truths. If we were comparing legal opinions, my opinions would probably be worthless. But I thought we were talking about philosophical opinions? If my philosophical opinions are wrong, they'll be wrong because of flaws in the structure of the theory, not simply because the judiciary or anybody else thinks otherwise. The distinction between legal validity and moral truth is one of the most important concepts in the philosophy of law.

> I believe Kant did think that some kind of requirement to obey the law followed from the categorical imperative

Yes, he did. I said so in my comment above. I suggest that you read other people's comments more carefully before trying to repeat what they already said.

> since Kant does not agree with you on this specific issue ... what exactly is your point here? That Kant might have agreed with you if it wasn't for the fact that he didn't?

If you'd read my comment above, you might have noticed that I specified exactly where I disagree with Kant. But it looks like you're just scanning for loose sentences to quibble about.

> since there are lots of moral philosophers besides Kant

Of course there are. Some of them agree with Kant, others don't. There are also a number of philosophers, such as R. P. Wolff and A. J. Simmons, who argue that there is no duty to obey the law just because it's the law. I'm inclined to agree with them.
Screencast - CRUD Angular demo with CORS and REST
Do you believe this car wreck was suspicious?

You're right that the term "conspiracy theory" is dismissive. Is it wrong to be dismissive of the theory that Hastings was killed using his car?
What a Great VP Sales Actually Does. Where The Magic Is. And When to Hire One.
Great question, why do we put up with any propaganda?
Does 20% time even exist in today's Google?
That leave sout some pertinent information. Unlike many other employees in the private and public sector, BART employees make no pension contributions. I think a salary increase identical to a (new) mandatory pension contribution is a substantive increase, just a deferred one. There are also performance-related bonuses on offer.

Average salary does not tell use a whole lot, and omits salient facts like additional earnings from overtime.
1. Austria is not on the way from Spain to Bolivia by any plausible charter routing.

2. Portugal and France don't control airspace needed to fly from Spain to Bolivia. Neither do they control airspace needed or very desirable to fly between Austria and Bolivia.

3. Therefore what we are hearing now is not likely to be the real story.
France would ask air force one to divert?
Having owned an Amiga 1000, I always thought the Apple IIgs was overprice when released in 1986. An Amiga with monitor ran $1300, where as a IIgs + harddrive + monitor would be over $1500. Apple was basically milking the last bit from the II series.
It's not difficult to refrain. Before you post ask yourself if it adds anything meaningful to the conversation. Quoting television to make a joke doesn't really add anything substantial unless it's related to the topic and says something beyond the actual joke.

Regarding "beans, beans", maybe also ask yourself if you are 13 or not :)
A while ago I bought this App: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/29/itether-app-offers-inter...

Best $15 I ever spent on an App, because Apple pulled the App shortly thereafter, and I have unlimited data.

It uses the same sort of technology ... having a web browser open on your phone within an App that provides a tunnel. You have to have the App open on your phone and on your Mac/PC.

However, there's one downside: You need to have the App foregrounded on your phone, regardless of method, due to the fact that I believe WebSockets are inactive when backgrounded on iOS.

The App still works on iOS 7.
Very cool. Charging for tethering when you are already charging for data is ridiculous.

Of course many cell providers are now bundling tethering for free...
Things start looking weird when you get to the later pages (I'm looking at page 130, sorted by TCOE). For instance: Bodin, Gwendolyn (Train Operator, R-Line Rail Operations): Base pay: $2,901, Medical/Dental/Vision: $20,183

There's a bunch of people who I assume retired, with low base pay but a high "Other" (which includes vacation day payouts).

Of course near the top there's a ton of overtime, lots of police, which is "normal" (no idea if it's actually legitimate), but lots of other jobs too, including some that I'd expect to be salary, like "Moore, Timothy (Principal Marketing Rep, Communications): Base $100,595, Overtime $40,165"
At this rate, something's has to give.

If people (riders) realize what the salaries are and compare that to the service they get in return, they should ask for BaRT employees to become more efficient, given their salaries, else BaRT emps will price themselves out and automation will become more and more viable option, despite the political obstacle.

So, yeah, I agree, they should use this money toward upgrades and or service expansion, maybe invest in an additional track smoother[1]. And, as someone said below, they need to realize that they are a service organization and act like one.

[1]http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BAY-AREA-Softening-the...
Ok - for car cleaning you get $55K/year (plus full benefits). Is that a lot or too little? I don't know.. nurses I know don't earn much more in Bay Area but I might be hanging out with wrong people...
The top of the list is mostly police, not executives. Go a little further down and it's police and maintenance.
Since when is striking a constitutional right?
At a minimum, all of the signers pf the Declaration were guilty of sedition, and most likely treason as well.

Sedition was a common law offense, and treason was defined as an affront to the monarch. Either would have sent most of the signers to the gallows.
Digitally sign your Tweets
this is very interesting - the ability to together with low-cost flights
So basically,

The author doesn't like AGPL.

It's hard to upgrade from v6 to v7, and v7 (which is new) has bugs. Who upgrades their ERP to a new version without waiting for at least version x.1 ?

Python with a DIY ORM was a poor choice for an ERP (mem hog and floating point accounting). I guess OpenERP should have used the decimal module for Python.

And it sounds like OpenERP really fucked up the Party Model[1]. I'm surprised how many companies fuck up the Party Model. Salesforce fucks it up (you have to pay extra for a module to sell to an individual vs a company), and SugarCRM did too. Only MS Dynamics CRM seems to have it right (I'm probably missing some).

Oddly enough, the author shits on OpenERP's bad password management, but extols the virtues of Tryton, whose SSL cert is untrusted (https://demo.tryton.org)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/716549/what-are-the-princ...
I'm getting an infinite google translate recursion situation here. Pretty amusing, actually.
Julian, now a year out, restless with cabin fever, wanders around the silent Ecuador Embassy at night in his `Sparky-the-Dog(tm)' pajamas, takes a chunk out of a smart phone, covers it with flat-black `Gaffer(tm)' fingernail polish, disgruntled with Ecuador President waffled then caved under US on Snowden asylum, glue-sticks his fake `bug' under an antique desk.
Union mechanics update the equipment, and BART has been offering pay increases, which they also admit are not increases, preferentially to safety improvements.

For instance, the lighting situation in the tunnels is unacceptable and has likely been involved in at least one worker death.

BART workers have important jobs, evidenced by the pain we're experiencing as a region without them. That's what strikes are about.

Would you appreciate your salary negotiation going something like this:

"Hey, four years ago when the company and our customers were struggling, I accepted a pay freeze to cover essential costs to keep us afloat."

"Thanks for that. We'd like you to start covering some of the costs of your benefits, though we're actually doing a good bit better. We're going to give you a raise that amounts to half of inflation in the most optimistic of light, and that will cover the new costs we're asking you to cover. We're going to do this so that we can go to the press and say that we offered you a raise, you're a bunch of ungrateful fucks, and look at how you've fucked all of the poor riders. Also, on top of that, all of the things you've asked us to purchase for the system that would increase worker safety are rejected or deferred - we don't think that should be a part of your negotiation, even if you're saying that you might be willing to accept the pay we're offering if we budged a bit more on these costs. Do you accept?"

http://www.keepbartrunning.com/an_open_letter_to_the_communi...
In the Taipei Hackerspace we had a number Facebook Like Counter designs a few months ago, and in the Maker Faire Taipei there were a bunch of others too, so this is definitely not the "first". Looks nice, though, and finished up.

Arduino+Wireless Routers+7-segment displays: https://plus.google.com/b/100085911445404984901/100085911445...

PyMCU + computer + LCD display: https://plus.google.com/b/100085911445404984901/100085911445...
Plunker here http://plnkr.co/edit/KmbWXuRV27HhqWbUvUrl
was thinking the same
How is key reuse is avoided? It's even harder for users to maintain (separate random) key for every message. All the classical OTP key issues are here. Aka different message, same key, or same message different key (multirecipient). Using passwords is also guaranteed to produce weak keys. For AES128 you'll need at least 20 char completely random key and for AES256 you can double that.
High costs and negative value of pair programming
Moz's $18 Million Venture Financing (2012)
I would generally agree with you, but there are several popular services that I learned of from non-technical people. Things like tumbler, pinterest, snapchat come to mind. Lots of artsy social stuff out there that I have never used, but are used by non-technical people.
Unfortunately, the bundle id is just stored in a plist file, and it's actually quite easy to re-sign an app bundle with a different profile after modifying it.
This is an interesting read along with the article [1] where the Google Reader developer suggests that the retirement of Reader will prevent new ideas at Google for fear of the same treatment regardless of the adoption.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5981630
I suppose it depends on which you consider more important: the government itself, or the ideals it ostensibly represents. One can easily come to the conclusion that the damage to the government is acceptable, if the damage is necessary to correct damage the government has done to the people.

I have no doubt that Snowden is interested in what actions are taken to prevent future abuses. Reading his statements after his identity was revealed, it's clear he left not because he doesn't care, but because he saw leaving the US as the best way to preserve his ability to contribute to his cause and remain safe.
Police make a lot of money. Their overtime is very substantial even if their base salary is already up there.
I've been in more than a few verbal altercations with station agents at almost every downtown SF BART station, where, when going from the platform to the street via the elevator due to having a stroller - am confronted with a disgusting and unbearable stench of urine and other fluids in the elevators.

I hit the emergency call button and demand they clean the elevators. I get a god damned attitude from the station agents as though its not their problem.

Then who the fark's problem is it. The cost of BART and the service on gets - particularly the hygienic risk - is unacceptable.

CLEAN THE DAMN ELEVATORS!
If you aren't taking notes, you aren't learning.
At the same time, I'm pretty sure an RSS Reader founded today inside Google would go the way of Wave.

If Reader was ultimately unmonetizable, I'll cry when its gone, but I don't think anyone should feel entitled to a free service.

I'm not a Google employee, but I think Reader is poor measure for how "open" Google is right now. I mean, christ, with Project Loon, I don't think they are any worse, however they have a limited amount of engineers and maintaining an RSS application in 2013 doesn't seem like a huge priority.
Yahoo has been (nearly) continuously profitable since early this century. It often surprises people given the general negative feelings toward them.
All data deleted is a dick move. Google should at least be able to preserve takeout data for eternity.
Irresponsible Code
No. It is not advertised as a benefit anymore: https://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-20-time-is-de...
It would be like adding Flickr (something like 30M) to Facebook (1B) -- the difference just wouldn't be noticeable.
very polemic.
More to the point, is the engine being thrown 100 feet somehow more consistent with an assassination plot than with a general high-speed collision? I can't see how it could be.
Inspired by a recent talk at Euruko 2013 by Steve Klabnik I put up this "manifesto" to promote irresponsible code and find a proper balance between responsible and irresponsible code.