skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the premise that writing multi-threaded programs is too difficult for a commodity programmer.
What always infuriated me when looking at Apple menus on OSX, when I was a user of it, was the icon for Option/Alt. http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/...

I can't remember if it appeared on old mac keyboards, but it definitely doesn't on modern ones and to me it just looks like a completely abstract symbol. I could never remember if it was control or option.
Why? I installed most of my apps from Play Store, if some apps have country restriction, it's because they have a good reason to do so (range of service or support)
The name calling is also unwelcome on HN, per local norms of civility and the site guidelines:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Ceiling cat likes your music taste.
If you think of technology progress as a global simulated annealing problem, it is ok to step back a bit to get out of the local maxima. Web Dev may have taken us back 20-30 years in certain areas but once caught up, it can take us much further than the previous methods could have ever expected us to. The previous methods in this case being, compiled software that require specific devices/OSes and require a very high level of competency in all aspects of development.
Is it possible to get out of a contract with them over this without paying the ridiculous ETF? It states you can if they change you contract at all, and this constitutes a change to me, but does it with them?
Haskell typically uses internal iterators, but because it's lazy many composition strategies are more straightforward. Rust is strict, however, so the same techniques don't apply.
The way keyboard shortcuts are represented on Mac is one of the things which is actually really user-unfriendly in OSX. I'm supposed to just know that an arrow means shift, a weird line means option/alt, the command key symbol, theres also a caret which means... something? And, to make it worse, most of the keys don't actually have their symbols printed on them, at least with the retina MBP.
My rule of thumb for OSS software is that if a type of software is integral to developers' jobs, then there are some very good tools available. Operating systems, web servers, text editors, database systems, ... are all good examples of this. If the type of software is not integral to developers' jobs, then there are fewer good alternatives. There are some pretty good ones (OpenOffice, GIMP), but they're often not as polished and lack power features.
Plex is absolutely great.
That was pretty entertaining story. I feel like almost every interview with a startup that I've done has aspects of this story. It's like "We can't tell you what we're doing but we're gonna be rich."
Think this is cool, please consider a Twitter sign up at the least, (not sure about others) I prefer not to reactivate my FB.
Whether or not a woman did the design isn't the point. This particular design wasn't even the point. I was questioning what seems to be a trend.
Maybe you're an auditory learner?

I know I've been down the same road before, learning how to speed read and all that without actually getting any satisfying comprehension. Though, I would rarely get any satisfying comprehension at normal or slower reading speeds either, cause my mind would just doze off to sleep after about a page or two. Something about the internal conversion of written symbols to language has always been a bit of a bottleneck for me (and I'm not dyslexic), but it took me a while to put my finger on what it was that made reading such a chore for me, since I have always loved learning and absorbing information in other ways (I.e. talks/lectures). It didn't really click for me what the problem was until I started giving audiobooks a chance. It may seem weird, but prior to that, I had always felt like resorting to audio would be a bit like cheating, and would somehow make my experience of the material less 'genuine' than someone who could pick it up directly from the original source. Not to mention that speed reading seemed a lot faster/efficient than having somebody read to you.

Luckily, I got over that and realized that I could actually retain a miraculous about of information even when listening at 3x normal speeds, making my whole experience of the material a lot more vivid. Now I 'read' like a book or two a week using text-to-speech on my phone, and it's pretty awesome.

In retrospect, it's kinda funny cause I've always had auditory inclinations, like the fact that I had been a musician for almost 10 years when I realized that I'm not much of a visual learner.
I like the idea of courts being able to raise legal issues in a way that is binding on more than just the case at hand, but as a non-lawyer, I also want a centralized repository of law that I can be reasonably confident I understand. There are a number of other process changes I would propose to help the public be more informed (e.g. publishing laws as colored unified diffs rather than prosaic descriptions of word-by-word changes), but I doubt anybody who can change them is listening ;-).
Powell was the Secretary of State so I don't see how the Department itself could "send" him. He served at the pleasure of the President, who asked him to do it.
It's a figure of speech... asking "is it soup yet?" basically means "is it done yet?" I haven't met many people who use that particular expression, but I had an old boss who was from the Pittsburgh, PA, area who used that all the time. Apparently it was inspired by a 1970's era commercial for Lipton soup.[1]

[1]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Is+it+soup+ye...
Well, I agree with your first point, but I think you're overstating both the carrot and the stick of the alternative. The corporate users have company VPNs; the solo road warriors / lean startups can (already do) rent a cheap VPS for tunnel egress. And whatever your personal view, Bitcoin still sounds like snake oil to most people.
It looks like a line that's taking an alternate route.

The ISO symbol shows that a little more clearly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISOIEC-9995-7-025--ISO-700...
Yes, I meant "paid license" :-)
Thanks a lot, updated!

Another question: I figured out John_Robert_Woodyard's PhD advisor at Stanford was William Webster Hansen,
http://phdtree.org/scholar/woodyard-john-robert/

but then I couldn't find out info about William W Hansen's PhD advisor, any help?
I think of that symbol as a fork in the road, an "option". Control, on the other hand, is just ^, same as in Unix.

(I'm not saying it's a good symbol, but that's how I remember what it means.)
Since you're not answering I'm going to take a guess: you're suggesting that since the actual reality of this whole situation is murky, I should tone down my speculation. And the more I think about it, the more I think you are right (if that's what you're saying).
I agree Antiterra,

I've worked with a few associates at Perkins Coie. They represented the nonprofit I work for at no cost in an arbitration case against a dodgy web development shop that sued our nonprofit for nearly a fourth of our annual budget over a breach of contract after we fired them for being incapable of keeping our site up under even modest traffic levels. (Load testing and not letting junior developers with no experience with caching, MVC best practices etc, do all the work: how does that work)

The Lawyers were nice, polite, well mannered, treating us and the opposition with respect, etc. They were a pleasure to work with. I didn't see a single crony in the bunch.

Lawyers are lawyers. They do what they have to do to protect the interests of their clients. That is their job. Perkins Coie is very good at their job. That doesn't some how make them bad people.
And after we do that we still need to establish some kind of bilateral framework with the E.U. about what types of privacy non-USPERs will have.... somehow I don't see a 28th Amendment that explicitly gives the whole rest of the world the same strong privacy rights as Americans as being politically feasible, so there would still be that disparity.
Zebra looks interesting.
Yes but you get points for being introspective, which is essential to being moral.
Will the 'Restore the Fourth' Rallies Rock the Media (and You)?
Zebra - A UI component library based on HTML5 canvas
FWIW:

Original Stream Fusion Paper: http://code.haskell.org/~dons/papers/icfp088-coutts.pdf

StackOverflow Description: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/578063/what-is-haskells-s...
You kids today, you don't know how good you have it. Back in my day we didn't have Internet memes, we had television. Three whole channels of it!
Looking on the bright side, this offers a wonderful new opportunity to root your phone without rooting your phone.

And at what point do we stop calling these sorts of problems "vulnerabilities" and start calling them surrepitious "back doors"?
I don't think anyone was criticizing it so much as saying it presented an obstacle for him.
> the people signing up for them are more often "bad guys" than tech professionals looking for privacy

Thank you. All we hear about is how the government is trying to silence us and there's some vast payment processor conspiracy trying to stop us from using credit cards, as if they would want to stop us from giving them money. No, HN, the majority of VPN traffic is not innocent nerds accessing Facebook on a public wifi.

I say this as someone who does rely on a VPN quite a lot. There's sticking up for righteous ideals and then there's ignoring the fact that a ton of your traffic is nefarious. We can't sit around doing nothing as bad guys use our tech for criminal activities and then get outraged when someone brings it up.
It's a tough question. If craigslist truly does have a monopoly, then it indeed might be fair for competitors to have some use of content already posted on craigslist. Also, in the case of Krrb it's the user posting the content, who owns the copyright to such content, using their own computer to copy it to Krrb. Krrb is simply providing a tool for them to do so more easily. That certainly seems like it should be acceptable.
Personally, I've found Workflowy [https://workflowy.com] to be indispensable not just for keeping track of ideas, but for then turning those ideas into something real.

Loads in any browser, has a (barebones) mobile app, and it's great for collaboration. I just hope their business model is enough to keep them afloat :/
I hear a challenge.
Why not just keep all your encrypted files stored on a server that is not in the UK jurisdiction? Just SSH in to access your files.
I'm okay with so long as we leave DRM at the door--or make it the boss to beat.
I've heard it called "train tracks" since it looks like a set of railway points.
That is the impression I get. He comes to our annual events but I've been out of the country living the expat life and keeping expenses down . . . so you've likely spoken to him more recently than me. He talks with my CEO now and then and helps give her advice on growing our nonprofit and helping our consumers. Which we appreciate a lot.

I don't really follow his comments in the news and so on but everything I've gleaned first hand and second hand about the guy leaves me thinking that he's still a class act, and all around traditional geek.

As far as kribbr or whatever it is called goes . . . if there is a long history of litigious behavior from an organization and you go ahead with a business model that may spark a C&D don't act like your personal hero has stabbed you int he back. Whether the C&D was grounded or not how is it occurring a surprise. CL has every legal right to try to protect their business model to the extent allowed by the law. If you genuinely feel that they've over stepped it then fight it. Or come up with a business model that disrupts the space with out needing to leech off of what is already there.
This is the obvious answer for people with the technical skill to maintain a VPN server but what about everybody else?
I love Smalltalk, but it has some problems with it that are solved by the web browser.

Firstly, Smalltalk is a computing environment built around the concept of Personal Computing. You can open up and redefine the functionality of anything running on the system. This obviously makes it very prone to abuse. It was a system that was not built on the principles of running any random source code coming from a foreign party. The focus of the system was to elevate the concept of computing for the individual.

The web browser, on the other hand, has been built from the ground up on the principle that it would be running foreign and inherently untrustworthy code.

The web browser is approaching what Smalltalk was aiming for, however, with a focus on running code in a secure, sand-boxed environment. I don't feel like this is an inherently conscious trajectory but the fact that JavaScript has significant influences from Smalltalk-80 has probably helped to guide this path.

The advancements in networking and multimedia present in HTML5 are allowing for this sandboxed and restricted environment to more fully express it's influences from the Smalltalk systems.

Secondly, the open nature of the web browser and it's standards have encouraged adoption whereas the closed and proprietary nature of Smalltalk systems played a large role in it's "failure".

Designing by committee and standardization has it's pros and cons, but ultimately it promotes adoption and helps a system to survive in the overall ecosystem of computing systems.

I don't blame the web for the death of such amazing computing platforms as Smalltalk and Lisp machines, I blame market mechanics.

Microsoft succeeded with it's approach to Personal Computing because it focused on what the customers demanded for their short-term business goals, rather than some enlightened ethos of enabling humanity through better tooling. These corporate customers actually benefited from the opposite. Lack of control over a computing environment was seen as beneficial to the overall goals of the organization and is the antithesis of the goals of Smalltalk.
We only had two channels... "off" and a channel full of snowy looking stuff that made a noise like kkkzzzzzzsshshshszzssshshshzzssshhshszzzsshshshzzsshshshszzzsshhhh...
So was the student trying to make a point, or get to the point of a question? Because trying to make a point against a recruiter for a little sound byte on soundcloud is bullshit and contributes nothing, while phrasing your question in a way that maximizes the sense of confrontation or personal assault is an excellent way to ensure you don't get your question answered.
Yeah, the edit time limit is often pretty annoying... [Comment before going to bed and didn't notice that typo that completely changes the meaning until the next morning? Too bad! >< ]

I guess there are reasons for it, but it'd be cool if HN, say, increased the edit time limit by 1 minute per 1 point of karma over 500 or something ...
I think the Apple logo was added to it when ADB was introduced with the Apple IIgs and Mac SE/II. It was eliminated in the new keyboards released in Aug 2007.
I've blacked out my media site, in lieu of a physical protest:

http://thelotteryparty.com/
I don't agree with michaelochurch here at all, but I don't think I agree with your cake analogy either: early employees of startups often work very hard. Of course founders do an exceptional amount of work and take an exceptional amount of risk, and, having not been in the founder position, I won't take the position that they don't deserve the equity they receive, but they aren't baking the whole cake.
Sounds to me like this girl is doing her best to dig for a confrontation. She alternates between questions and barely-veiled insults targeted at the recruiters.
There's an important thing I didn't mention in the post: Like any admissions process, ours isn't perfect, and we know we make mistakes. We have to make decisions on a relatively small amount of information, and even if we do a good jobs 90% of the time, we're still going to get it wrong dozens of times a batch.

Since I don't know who you are, I can't speak to the specifics of why we said no. In any case, I'm glad to hear you've had success learning iOS and are considering applying again :)
So you're living in the terminal of an international airport. The most powerful government in the world is trying to shut you up by throwing you in prison probably for the rest of your life. Every other spy in the world wants to recover what's encrypted on your laptops, so you sleep with them as your pillow.

You have a legal advisor from Wikileaks, and the Russians will probably keep you from being killed where you are, but not much else in the way of tangible support. International press are phoning your media relations consultant, Julian Assange, around the clock begging to know if there are any updates which they might possibly write about.

And folks on the Internet and the press at home call you a selfish narcissist if you open your mouth once a week.
I'm going to disagree and say that Jobs' unveiling of the iPhone will be up there with The Demo in terms of watershed moments in computer, and indeed human history. It wasn't the iPhone per se, but what the iPhone represented and the clear inflection point it has proven to be for realizing much of the vision originally hatched by those at PARC.
I'm a facilitator at Hacker School, which makes me responsible for a large number of admissions decisions.

While we do make money through referrals, our ability to place someone at a company we work with is not something we consider while doing admissions. (This may be hard to believe, but trust me.) We have a significant number of international students, as well as students who we don't believe will get a job through us for one reason or the other, each batch. We admit based on whether we think someone will make a good Hacker Schooler.

We also try to respond to anyone who asks for clarification about a decision. I'd love to hear from you, and I'd be happy to look into your last application; especially so if you think we made a mistake! Ping me at zach@hackerschool.com.
Me too. That thing was huge. The Thing (Great Seal Bug) was one of the most famous and was invented by Leon Theramin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)

Theramin also invented the Buran system which works like laser microphones.
Just curious. Could someone ballpark the minimum cost to support yourself to go to hacker school? this is something I've been thinking about doing.
Does Skype-bombing a witness count as Contempt of Court?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/skype/zimmerman-trial-skype-bombing-756390
To clarify, we don't have any "tuition assistance," since we don't charge anyone tuition. Hacker School is entirely free for everyone.

(We do have a limited number grants for living expenses, which other companies pay for, that are currently only available for women.)
I am the founder of an engineering intensive startup and I've always detested "write code on a board" interviews for their apparent uselessness(1) and awkwardness. There are better and more pleasant ways to ascertain engineering suitability (including coding ability in realistic coding conditions)

(1) now backed by google's data http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
I couldn't agree more. I subscribed as soon as the guys from Workflowy offered a paid version. It's a tool I have open every day.
Swedish campground is a tent symbol, the first description fits better "interesting feature or attraction". Usually it's something ancient, like a viking burial mound or an old fortress. Real name "fornminne".
This is classic journalism. People are wired to consume stories about other people. Collections of facts and abstract concepts appeal to hackers, engineers and analytical types, who are in the minority as most people can't stomach that kind of information.

Journalists always add a face to a story, and Snowden is that face. I'd say it's actually kind of encouraging because it means the message has been tailored for the mainstream and/or mainstream readers are interested.
Media is controlling him, not like mathematical control of direct or inverse relations but more of a sublte control.
And quite likely never been seen or heard from again like Manning.

Only a fool would fight secret courts and secret interpretations of laws by "dropping himself off at a courthouse".
No, it's a valid complaint: Rust shouldn't require MinGW. The biggest problem here is that Rust doesn't include its own linker, and the moment it cannot use link.exe.
College students are completely welcome, and we've had a number attend (everyone from first year undergrads to fifth year PhDs). We typically have the most during our summer batch, where it's been ~10% undergrads and ~10% grad students the past couple of summers.

We've also had a number of students who have taken a semester long leave from their BS/MS/PhD program.

We try to make our summer batch work for students, but with such variation in university schedules, it inevitably conflicts with some schools. I'm sorry to hear yours is one of them :(
> blanket revoked

Not blanket revoked. You can still purchase VPN services other than IPREDator.[0]

I'm surprised people here are taking TorrentFreak as an actual journalistic entity and not a website devoted to enticing a knee-jerk and vehement subset of tech users into clicking their articles.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988527
No, you're being a dick. Fuck you.

There, see how helpful and constructive that was? Or rather wasn't?

That's why such comments are in no way whatsoever welcome on HN.
Correct. The article says that the plastic pistol was brought within yards of the Prime Minister by a correspondent from a show on Israel's News 10. It says that the Israel Security Agency (sometimes known in English as "Shin Bet") characterized this act as irresponsible. It says that the weapon was tested by firing at a cardboard target.
It depends a lot on your circumstances (e.g., if you have student loans, dependents, etc), but if you're just supporting your self and are willing to live cheaply, you can do it on $5 to 6k (this number is based on an informal poll of our students I did a few batches ago; it's also what I personally live off of during a batch).
Because headline saying "threat that was known 50 years ago exists today and despite nothing new happened we still decided to write an article about it as if it was something new" wouldn't attract as many readers.
None of the above - Ubuntu Mono
I have some trouble seeing how Engelbart's demo wasn't just integrating many existing technologies. For example, live television had existed for decades, so teleconferencing would seem like a small leap. While Engelbart's team did independently[1] invent the mouse, Apple made the first consumer mouse, and by also inventing drag gestures, they didn't have to go with the frankly shitty UI suggested by Engelbart.

1. Telefunken was selling a mouse several weeks before this demo -- http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Auf-den-Spuren-der-de...

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They did not get 'venture returns.'
This, then, is generally fine. CCs often shut off merchants with high chargebacks etc.

Though, it is not without warning. 2 days, if that can be trusted from the original article, is not sufficient warning.
It's on my TODO list of things to try out.

I have had some minor issues with Tastypie, but my current project is too far along at the moment to switch to another framework.
Why should we believe that "the Snowden story" is actually detracting from the NSA story?

That makes about as much sense as saying Deep Throat and the book "All the President's Men" detracted from the Watergate story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President's_Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)#Contro...
Where did you get the laser rifle? I beat the game, went to every square on the map, conquered every suburb. Never saw a laser rifle.