skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would make an interesting story if true.

Remember Obama said that he would not scramble jets to get Snowden and that he would not engage in high level talks with foreign leaders about Snowden. Of course, from the more recent statements by Obama and Putin, he was lying about that -- I want the money back that I contributed to Obama's campaign. False advertising?
Advertising is annoying and rude. Flashing away trying to steal my attention from the activity I am trying to pursue.

"don't do that, come and do this instead"

"skip this ad in 5 seconds" - no thanks

The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so
completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in the firm
who was not perfectly well aware that publicity--advertising--is
the dirtiest ramp that capitalism has yet produced. In the red
lead firm there had still lingered certain notions of commercial
honour and usefulness. But such things would have been laughed at
in the New Albion. Most of the employees were the hard-boiled,
Americanized, go-getting type to whom nothing in the world is
sacred, except money. They had their cynical code worked out. The
public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a
swill-bucket. And yet beneath their cynicism there was the final
naivete, the blind worship of the money-god. Gordon studied them
unobtrusively. As before, he did his work passably well and his
fellow-employees looked down on him. Nothing had changed in his
inner mind. He still despised and repudiated the money-code.
Somehow, sooner or later, he was going to escape from it; even now,
after his first fiasco, he still plotted to escape. He was IN the
money world, but not OF it. As for the types about him, the little
bowler-hatted worms who never turned, and the go-getters, the
American business-college gutter-crawlers, they rather amused him
than not. He liked studying their slavish keep-your-job mentality.
He was the chiel amang them takin' notes.
> During the March 12, hearing Wyden asked Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

An easy to understand question.

> "No, sir," Clapper replied.

An easy to understand answer.

> In the letter to Feinstein, Clapper explained the late addition to his original statement by saying that he realized Wyden was referring to collection of metadata — not content collection. Clapper said he thought Wyden was referring to Section 702 of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the NSA to collect information on certain people outside of the United States — not the domestic data collection allowed under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

WTF?

If the meeting is secret he should answer truthfully. If it's public he should decline to answer. What he shouldn't do is give a simple answer to a simple question and then justify the lie with a bunch of nonsense about context.

> "That said, I realized later that Senator Wyden was asking about section 215 metadata"

No. It is very clear that the senator was asking about "any data at all".
hn-july-2013@blink.info is hiring for java* now and c,c++ ppl soon.

Established tech team with history of entrepreneurship and successful projects, seeking engineer/maintainer to respond to bugs and keep a new project up to date as we move on to working on a related project.

Also looking for an SF based "can do everything" biz guy.

Cool things about us:
We are a business focused, completely bootstrapped company.

We are building a next generation browser, that supports any language client side.

We are open source friendly, and like to contribute back as much as possible.
Bolivian Leader's Plane Rerouted on Snowden Fear
You should also mention the 1-item case where the (optional in other cases) trailing comma is required to form a tuple: (1,)
AMA : Lawrence Lessig - co-founder of Creative Commons
I want to believe otherwise, but is this just a case of being one in the crowd, despite the fact the crowd may be remarkably small?

Google clearly wants to move users to G+, and we've been hearing for years now how "RSS is dead," but perhaps they're onto something? How could they make such a glaring move if it was going to cost them so much reputation?

I, for one, can't do the email option for alerts as well. I've basically stopped using any/all alerts at this point and Google is starting to look like the enemy.
Interesting, the original AP tweet has now been deleted. A new tweet [1] and article [2] have now been posted.

[1] https://twitter.com/AP/status/352193921415254016

[2] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bolivian-leaders-plane-rerout...
I received an email from Ubisoft and assumed I was being phished. They are not doing a good job of fixing the problem here.

They should have a cert on the splash redirect page. I wasn't sure if ubi.com was actually Ubisoft. Even worse, the email I got had some terrible font - practically unreadable. Those two factors combined did not make me feel that giving them my password is a good idea.
I'd rather favor total transparency. All political funding straight from very modest federal grants. Push ideas, not adverts and million dollar buses.
May I say how much I appreciate you linking to the actual document expounding the legal argument, instead of some blog post attempting to summarize it.
Google Glass will be the killer app for live streaming, but Youtube will probably benefit more from it than Justin/Twitch for obvious reasons (or it should unless the youtube team completely drops the ball, I have been very unimpressed by the pace of innovation at youtube).
"Bolivian minister says Evo Morales' plane was rerouted to Austria on suspicion that Snowden was on board."

Here's the story on NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/02/world/americas/ap...
Due diligence typically refers to the process after an offer is made and accepted to ensure things are what they are supposed to be.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/duediligence.asp

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/due%20diligence

I will note that this differs from what wikipedia says is due diligence.

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

Unfortunately most of the information that is needed for true "due diligence" is not going to be possible until signing a contract or perhaps a letter of intent (which means very little of course).
Chess rocks the city | why so quick to assume the worst?
"these types of acquisitions are as simple as"

Can also be that the target is the one that approached Yahoo either directly or through an intermediary.
> we'd have to know what work factor you were testing with

Parentheses are not made to be ignored.

But I don't think it matters, which is why it was a parenthetical. The point is the relative differences between different sized strings, not the absolute timings.
Which is made by the same developers as ReSharper, a popular add-on for Visual Studio.

Using RubyMine now as a Rails dev, after years of Visual Studio use as a ASP.NET dev, and having the familiar ReSharper-like tools and interface in RubyMine is awesome.

RubyMine is an incredibly powerful IDE (like most of the JetBrains IDEs), with lots of Ruby specific goodness.
[TED Talk] Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
GitHub, thank you for this.

Also, you used to have ZIP and Tarball downloads in the past, can you please bring back the Tarball downloads?
I worked for two different Kelly Services offices in Florida (Largo/St. Pete and Pensacola (iirc)) in the 1990's and it was nothing like the article. I actually had a good experience. I worked similar jobs to the ones mentioned in the article (warehouse, plastics manufacturing, construction, moving furniture, etc.) I always transported my self to the job sites and never found no work when I got there. The pay was above minimum and I would specifically ask for 3rd shift work (because it paid a 50% premium).

There were some jobs that were always "temp" - like one time government construction contracts. But, usually the way the process worked at that time was that employers were basically using Kelly to "screen" workers. They'd bring you in as a temp. and after six months if you were still there they'd transition you to permanent position. If they didn't asked you to come back as a temp, Kelly would just send you somewhere else. Sometimes, you'd not get asked back due to an inability to do the job (I once wasn't because I was asked to hand paint the buttons for tv remotes and just didn't have the dexterity for that) but usually it was because of a chronic problem. As you can imagine with people working temp jobs many had "issues". Plenty of people missed work because they were arrested for DUI's or drug related crime the night before. Some had their probation violated. Several showed up drunk or high. One guy had a medical issue (epilepsy) and had a seizure on the factory floor while operating heavy machinery. Using temps let the companies easily handle those types of problems with out interrupting their business. Part of it was not having to involve HR in the "firing" process by just letting the shift supervisor and Kelly handle it. But, it was also that they could just easily get a different temp. There was no need to put an add in the paper and have a person interviewed and entered into the payroll system etc.

I guess it's possible that things have gotten much worse since I worked for Kelly. Or, that things may be different in poor US inner cities (which I make it a point to stay away from). But, it's probably just some sensationalism in the writing of the article and some exaggerated hearsay from the temps. Notice that there's no pictures or any other evidence like that of the articles' most egregious statements.
What happens when you have more than 100k likes? Our business will soon grow out of this limit...
You don't have to be a composer to be a critic. In other words, the talent and courage required to expose corruption may be different from the talent and courage required to fix it. Why should one person be expected to do everything?
Recently, Own3d.tv shut down. Twitch immediately picked up the slack, and many top-tier gamers started streaming there. Often, you can find top gamers getting 10k-20k viewers as they play games like League of Legends and Warcraft.
But I am not talking about the level of social systems. Of course the market itself is not approaching equilibrium. But the liquidity enhancement market is. There will always be money to be made there but not the bonanza that's existed up to about two years ago.
On an unrelated topic, how can the AP claim copyright to this?

It's not unrelated, and after enjoying the read, this was definitely the worst thing to come out of it. Anyone posting something like this and attaching such 'boilerplate' either should have known better, wasn't paying attention and should rectify it, or has intentions that flat-out contradict the spirit of the content they're regurgitating, which would otherwise be presumably done in the public interest.
I may be dense but I think this letter conveys a deeper meaning that I can't comprehend. Can someone describe the intent and meaning it carries?
I'm waiting for this too.
If I understand your argument correctly, you're saying that the results might be explained by the vast majority of productivity gains happening among the 1%, so that the median worker's productivity hasn't really increased as much as the overall average productivity. I don't think that's correct, for two reasons:

1) The 1% necessarily account for a small percentage of workers, and thus are unlikely to account for the huge increases in overall productivity we're seeing. A doctor is not 10x as productive as he was 30 years ago.

2) The theory is inconsistent with what we know about specific segments of the economy. E.g. in the U.S., manufacturing output per worker has skyrocketed in the last 30 years: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-ouput-p.... Manufacturing worker productivity has doubled in less than 20 years, but wages have totally stagnated.

It is true that wage comparisons are a little misleading because they don't take into account benefits. But the fact of the matter is that your average worker doesn't get benefits like stock options or 401(k) matching. Less than half of Americans even half a 401(k) plan, much less matching employer contributions: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100578392. The vast majority of workers simply do not own enough stock or equity to more than marginally offset how wages have failed to keep pace with productivity gains.

You're right that the bulk of the gains from improved productivity have made their way into equity prices and dividends, but that's nothing more than another way of saying what I said: capital owners are capturing an increasing percentage of the value generated by labor, as a result of the decreased negotiating power of labor. Sure, anyone can buy stock, but as a practical matter a small fraction of the population owns the vast majority of stocks and business equity: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html. The top 10% owns 88% of all non-housing investment assets. The top 1% owns half.

Note that this point is independent of the "fairness" of that asset distribution in the first place. A small percentage of the population has always owned most of the wealth. That's not necessarily the troubling part. The troubling part is that the fraction of the value generated by labor that is captured by the laborers rather than the owners of capital is shrinking. That's consistent with a deteriorating negotiating position, not a stable one.
browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab = false should fix that.
While I may not be on Facebook anymore...this is actually real intuitive. Kudos.

I hope they implement more products similar to this...like twitter followers.
Doesn't CloudFront have the same outgoing bandwidth charge? $0.12/GB? CloudFront does have caching and lessen load on EC2 boxes.
PG's Prescription For VCs: Move Fast, Take Less Equity [video]
Hey I'm Bill Wong, the guy that wrote that blog post. The glass on this design was mounted with suction cups (no tape) and placed about where the tree line is in the driver's field of vision. I didn't feel it was obstructive for normal driving, but it did sometimes get in the way when looking or turning left.

I'm still working on this project, and I hope to solve this issue in a future design. Any suggestions on how to securely mount the glass without obstructive supports?
I'm curious how one would reverse engineer and acquire the source code? Not looking to do anything illegal, just wondering what goes into making such duplicate apps.
8 Awesome Tech & Startup Newsletters You Should be Reading
YouTube is starting to join the fray and has shown good performance so far. No idea how well they pay streamers compared to Twitch though, and I also haven't seen them sponsor a single team or tournament yet whereas Twitch sponsors pretty much everyone + dog.
You're quite welcome, best of luck. Also, I didn't mean to suggest that you should move away from PHP, only that you should add other technologies to your toolbox. PHP experience is and will continue to be valuable, no matter what the 20-something brogrammers say.
Hello World - CoFoundersLab Goes Global
I know. When I need to do some Windows scripting, I'd do it in JScript rather than VBScript. Like when a user wants to merge two Excel files, nothing beats to whip out a simple JScript to do it. Running it is simple. They just double click on the JScript file and done. Business users love it.
Really interesting about the internals of python!

One of the first things the professor of my python class told us is that python dictionaries don't guarantee any order. So that's just always been in mind. It almost seems like a PHP-ism to assume that a dictionary would provide that. Understand thy data-types!

# edit: And yeah-- I don't know why the stackoverflow link was the place to go. I don't like "RTFM" culture, but it was right there: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictio...

and also here in the book I learned python from: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython012...
Allowed and encouraged! It's good to both have standard tools that not everybody needs to reimplement differently (and often poorly) and to understand how those tools work. Everyone should take the time to get at least highly acquainted with the libraries they depend on. I suppose this was a good way for your parent to learn that lesson, but it's also a good example of why benchmarks aren't everything for frameworks; their design and community matter a lot.
The US itself claims the moral high ground, but does not submit itself to the judgment of the nations opposing it.
Given the price tag, this is obviously tailored to businesses, to be showcased on a front counter. Running on a battery would be counter productive in the sense of imagine running a call center with cordless phones.
They raised $10.5m... probably at a $30-$40m pre-money valuation for their later stage, $8m round.

Not a great outcome, especially if the investors had liquidation preferences.
That's true, but 1) it's a hope we should be somewhat careful about relying on (government abuses happen), 2) there is a massive power difference (I am far less likely to wake up to a SWAT team because Facebook found something they don't like), and 3) data harvested from every organization may be qualitatively different than data harvested from a single organization (like "follow that car" vs. "follow every car", see http://www.schneier.com/essay-109.html).
Apple files for iWatch trademark
In my experience, it's neither. It's a series of conversations about a potential shared future. The most analogous process is dating.
[Edit - I re-read the FAQ, I will remove complaints in lieu of a serious question, and alter the tone; unprofessional of me, and I apologize to the longer-term member base]

Since this was disliked, would the person responsible kindly explain their reasons? I'm 100% certain my critique is true in business terms, and any start-up should be 100% considering the retail market they're attempting to sell to.

I did not mean to be overly critical, however any Start-Up should surely brain-storm these basic questions immediately?

I am still 50-50 on this not being run by a professional PR team, however, I lack the motivation to really investigate their background at this point[1].

Am I too cynical to imagine that HN is popular enough to be targeted by K-street professionals? I'd have imagined that HN was a far more lucrative target than other social media, however, I apologize if this is not the case (and I have no knowledge of how the HN founders police this, so again, I do not wish to step on toes).

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/FB:US
Agreed, perlbug is another great example. And it would take the heat off the user and make developers more productive. Click "send config" and blam everything needed to reproduce the exact environment in the message without any typos etc.
Crying doesn't necessarily mean sadness. Some (all?) people might cry for any emotion if the emotion is intense enough.
The only good open source SQL RDBMS I'm aware of is Postgres.

The moment Postgres has the feature range of SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), supports the same HA features without hassle, and is generally even half as easy to manage, I'll switch. Meanwhile, life's too short for me to want to become a "real" DBA.
I've been on the other side of that equation. Building all that stuff by hand leads to incredible waste. Bike shedding, reinventing the wheel and substandard results.

Do I like Active Record? No, not really. Do I want to fight with the entire development team to force what works best for me onto everyone else? No, not really. If we are productive with AR, I'll accept it.
Any chance you feel like sharing the d3 code? Would love to see how this was done.
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Proton_launches_(1970%E... I only found ~10 Proton launched per year, with ~1 failure per year.
Bolivia leader's jet diverted 'amid Snowden suspicions'
New York City Finally Approved for .NYC Domain Names
There's a Chinese restaurant near me, and whenever I walk past it's always empty, with the owner/manager standing there with a long, sad face. I feel guilty about always looking in and never entering, but part of my brain tells me there must be some reason that nobody else is in there.
Venice, Florance, Singapore, Hong Kong? Rome was originally a city state.
I've had an in-app purchase (newsstand magazine issue) rejected because the supplied screenshot didn't match. At times they can be a tad overzealous and the opposite is also true. End of the day, the App review team is made up of humans.
I think the biggest problem in europe are the big differences in language and culture.
The US has a population of 315 million people all speaking english and having roughly the same culture. In europe, the biggest language group is german with 95 million people.

A US startup hasn't a big problem to expand to Canada/Australia/UK which adds another 120 million people.

I'm working in a swiss startup and after expanding to Germany/Austria, we have to go to America because other countries (except probably france) just aren't worth the hassle (translations/PR/cultural changes like number formats). The problem now is that the jump over the Atlantic is not nearly as easy as adjusting your your google/facebook ads to show up in New York.
Wow, you mean you've had the patience and lack of ADD to wait a certain period of time without clicking the arrow? You're zen, my friend :)
By the way the Euro isn't that strong against USD anymore; €300 is $390.
I wonder if it displays any special flights out of Moscow.
I agree, but for anyone who wants the summary:

The Bitcoin Foundation is not in the business of selling bitcoin to consumers and does not otherwise operate a bitcoin exchange. Even if it did sell bitcoin to consumers, however, the Foundation believes it would not be regulated as a seller or issuer of payment instruments because a bitcoin is not a payment instrument under California law.
But a non-web business, even a fairly small one, can also move out of NYC or open additional branches outside NYC as it expands. For example, I know a sushi restaurant that has two branches in NYC and one in NJ. For that matter, Saks has several stores outside of NYC: Boston, Philadelphia, etc. Tying your brand to a .nyc domain could be quite limiting and make your locations outside NYC harder to search for.
Ansible-shell an interactive shell to ansible
I'm going to guess that Twitch.tv's integration into the Xbox One played a significant role in this:
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/twitch-streaming-integrate...
We hear you and we are working on it.

Just a note, we use bugzilla for everything, so if there is ever a specific feature you want, you can make a bug for that feature. For example, "integrate source maps with the debugger" was the title of a bug that I worked on.
a quick random search:

http://www.momondo.pl/multicity/?Search=true&TripType=return... vs http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/LON-to-DXB#!dates=Oct17,Oct31...

$507 vs $528, and both have Pegasus where Momondo shows the cheapest Pegasus at $507 and Hipmunk at $553

and a self-quote from an email conversation I had in december about flight search engines: "Just to picture an example,
random query 30dec-05jan Warsaw-Istanbul. Hipmunk cheapest: 407usd (turkish). Momondo cheapest: 299usd (aerosvit). that's over 1/3 more."
DDD on .Net - Project example of Microsoft Spain