skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good, logical reason to be empathetic in all situations would be to help yourself. If you needlessly act negative toward another person, you will be more inclined to be negative about similar situations in the future. You are essentially training yourself to be negative which, I can assure you, bleeds into the rest of your life.

It's important to recognize that even if you don't see value in being empathetic toward a particularly difficult individual, under different circumstances you are someone else's difficult individual. The paraphrased idiom "treat others as you want to be treated" has existed for thousands of years, for a lot of good reasons.
This is disgusting.

These people are risking their lives in the name of America, and America can't even pay them what was promised.

American citizens should be ashamed their government treats these brave, selfless people in this way.

Same goes for withholding or dwindling medical coverage for vets.
it's called feature creep.
Just received this email:

Hello,

Earlier today, we announced that Google Latitude is no longer part of the Google Maps app, and we're retiring Latitude on August 9, 2013.

This means that after August 9, your Latitude friends list will be deleted and you'll lose the ability to share your location with them. There will also be some changes to Location Reporting and Location History, including changes to third-party applications that use Google Latitude. Please see our FAQs for more information.

We understand some of you still want to see your friends and family on a map, which is why we've added location sharing to Google+ for Android (coming soon to iOS).

Thank you for using Google Latitude.

Sincerely,

The Google Latitude Team

The submitted post is the "earlier today" announcement.
I think the OO.o/MS Office explanation is perfectly reasonable and applicable in this case. Even I suggested that was what the difference was when PRISM was first leaked, and I've not exactly been on Greenwald's side throughout all of this.
It's because the public Freebase data that this visualization is based on is far from complete. For these programming languages and other things, it is as if most of the Wikipedia articles existed on the subject, but they contained nothing but the summary information. Have to start somewhere though, Freebase is a great start for structured information associations.

You can view the CFML entry here: http://www.freebase.com/m/03tsq7 and see that the 'Influenced by' and 'Influenced' associations are empty.
First, I am sure your comment about language selection was personal. Facebook in large part stands on PHP; does that mean PHP is better than perl?

Second, I am not sure about their future. It looks like its a temporary spark after all the omg-goverment-tracks-my-searches paranoia.

The fact is, if the large organisations such as Google or Microsoft could not admit on the record to participation in PRISM, what makes you think Duck will? Further, if PRISM is real and if large organisations such as Google or Microsoft could not say "no", what makes you think Duck will have an option for a different fate? Lastly, if there is no trucking by gov of your searches, then there is not much different in using Google versus Duck for someone who has been using Google for years and just temporarily switched to Duck.
I watched simple text-based internet protocols eat the efficient, ASN.1 OSI protocols for breakfast. From the OSI side of the fence.

You can talk about efficiency until you're blue in the face, but human-readability is very useful.

I used to be able to pretty much parse a hexdump of an X.400 P1 PDU by eye (certainly if I could reformat in a text editor), but even today I found it useful to eyeball a recalcitrant programs's HTTP request/response cycle by simply catching it under strace and grepping for "HTTP".

It's a massive reduction of friction to have human-readable protocols. I used to make the argument that it didn't matter and I was wrong.
If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?
Project management is a real part of software development.

I make no statements about whether the developer should do the project management -- only when a good process happens, results are good.

The developers who can manage a process that they're a part of is a skill that we should all aspire to, though, because people aren't hiring us for just our technical prowess, but rather, our ability to interface those skills to finding and completing business goals.

I do agree that avoiding the scope changes while doing an iteration is essential, and can be often lessened or deferred until the next .. sprint.
NSA created Stuxnet with Israel Aid
Yeah. For some things seeing truly is believing.

I guess if you've never had that moment where it all clicked for you, just by looking at traffic, the significance of human-readable protocols is easy to underestimate.

But hey, Google says that with binary-compressed headers of sorts, they can fit all their tracking cookies in one TCP-packet and that means you wont feel inconvenienced by the tracking payload they are throwing at you everywhere you go on the internet.

You know what? I want that huge bag of tracking cookies to hurt. If you violate my privacy, that should come at a cost.

Google: You can take your SPDY and keep nice, old HTTP alone.
I'm going to test this right away for Docker. We are completely overwhelmed with github issues, and the bottleneck is not contributors: it's our ability to communicate where we need the most help.
Exactly.

And, you know, there's also something very oddly circular about the parent's claims of being comforted by a "deep and abiding faith" in the masses of ordinary people.

For one, on other posts, he has been really adamant about declaring that the masses don't care about NSA-surveillance. So, why does he have such a deep abiding faith? I mean, at what point does he think the masses will be moved to action? In a sense, he's saying that because they haven't yet been moved to action, the offenses don't rise to a level of real concern. But, that's completely circular. It could just as well be taken as evidence that there is no reason to have such faith.

The other thing is that all of this is done in secret. So, how on earth will the masses even know that we've reached the point at which it's time to exercise their power? We caught a break with the Snowden leak. But, there's certainly no guarantee of such in the future, not to mention that even now we have no idea what else is going on beyond what Snowden revealed.

In total, it seems an extremely disingenuous argument to respond to the NSA scandal with a nonchalant, "oh, none of what is feared will likely come to pass. We'll just magically discover other secrets and at just the right time, the masses will spring into action and save the day. So, let's all ignore it for now."

"Killer robot-wielding billionaires on the other hand..."

Sorry. Had to throw that last bit in there.
I'm probably not the typical carousel user (or the target user of this article), but I'm using the bootstrap carousel on my site (learning2spell.com) in what I think is a successful manner.

It's not on the landing page, but as part of a test. I have one question presented at a time, and the user is moved on to the next question once a question is answered. The carousel lets them easily see how many questions are in the test, how many they have answered and have left to answer, as well as moving back and forth in the test.

I think like most things it not inherently bad in itself - its how you use it that matters.
> One important advantage instacart has over the in-store experience is the filtering and sorting of goods.

That's assuming you get what you ordered in the first place, and ripeness of an avocado is barely touching on these problems.

My boyfriend has been experimenting with ordering cat food from various sources in SF. Necessary backstory: regular Fancy Feast comes in two categories of textures: Classic which is a pâté style, and everything else (Flaked, Grilled, Sliced...) which is anything but. Our cat exclusively eats non-pâté food. So we order a 24 can box of flaked/grilled/sliced beef+poultry or seafood, and what shows up at the door? Instacart, Postmates, and Google Shopping Express all got it wrong (I bet AmazonFresh will too when it starts up here) - in fact, I can't think of a single time a person got the cat food order _right_ even though when we go shopping on our own knowing "not classic" we never have a problem reading the boxes clearly labeled as such... To their credit they all resolved the problem, but.. both of us and our roommate order from all three services all the time and something always gets screwed up like that.

If you can live with that, then awesome. We mostly do for convenience's sake, until we get key limes as a substitute for persian limes meant for margaritas.
Yes, If you are rich then you are blessed by god.
Sad truth is that if you get hit and hurt or killed while riding a bike, chances of guilty part being punished are almost non-existent. In some places people will actively try to run you from the road, almost everywhere you gona get doored time to time. Thats just the reality of biking in a city in North America.

Still chances of death or a really bad accident are relatively low, and biking is way more fun then public transit. I have not been doored or hit in a few years so I continue with it, but I am also very defensive while riding basically assuming that every car will try to run me from the road so I try as much as I can to give myself space to react. Remember police do not give a shit at all, so your life is in your hands and those of random fucks trying to shave 5 seconds from getting to wherever they are going.
"Today in the US, if you call 911 about an emergency medical condition, they will often send a fire engine along with an ambulance [...]"

This is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).

1. Imagine a scenario where an ambulance arrives as a first responder, and the EMTs [1] find that they cannot gain access to the emergency scene, because the home or other structure is locked or otherwise blocked. In this case, a firetruck would need to be dispatched, because it deploys with the correct equipment (e.g., Halligan bar [2], Denver tool [3], etc.) and personnel trained to handle such a situation. Also, ambulances are typically deployed with only two personnel, and that may not be enough in situations where items need to be moved or cleared to gain clear access to the emergency scene.

2. Most firefighters are cross-trained as EMTs. If they are local to the emergency scene, then they may be the first responders, while an ambulance is en-route.

3. Incoming 911 calls can often be confusing, with callers under extreme stress, experiencing situations that they have never faced in their lives. Imagine a situation where a caller is so distraught, overwhelmed, or focused on a life-saving effort, that they cannot articulate that they need firefighting support, in addition to an ambulance.

The bottom line: in an emergency situation, it is better to have more help on-hand than too little.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_technician

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halligan_bar

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_tool
> but would strongly argue against any use of the 'robustness principle'.

It's useful for humans talking to each other. Apart from that I agree with you.
If you suffer a serious accident, it imposes an external cost on society. You may get presented with a bill afterwards, but even at the point of having the accident it's highly disruptive. Consider a car accident where you're berely inured and shaken up, v. one where you are ejected through the windscreen into the road. Which one is going to disrupt traffic for longer?

keeps the drive in front of the wheel during an accident

So you think passengers should not wear them?
While I agree that it sucks to lose text based protocols, we already have an underlying protocol that is completely binary in nature and requires tools to look at it (TCP). Same can be said for IP. We've survived a long time with those technologies and we have some awesome tools for working with them. While it's not as easy as ascii based protocols, it's more space efficient, which I'm fine with.
https://twitter.com/duckduckgo/status/349948709418696706
Do we need a new tag? [OPENSECRET]?

Listening to Democracy Now this morning, one of the defense witnesses in the Manning trial explained that many, many of classified documented Manning is accused of leaking are also publicly available via government websites or in the media. For instance, personal details of detainees at gitmo.

I'm struggling to understand how information which is in the public domain can be classified.
Gun rights activist arrested after loading gun on video in D.C. park
People without seatbelts often end up in emergency rooms at public expense. People with bad investments won't often end up on welfare from their decisions.
Wouldn't it be better to share this directly with the service provider instead of exposing users' data like this? Also kinder?
Never thought that it was. This is just another reason why HTTP 2.0 adoption is going to be an uphill battle.
Same here. I used DDG a couple of years ago, for about 2 months. I also ended up going back to Google for at least 30% of my queries. As a result of the reduction in productivity, I decided to switch back to Google. Besides the anonymity there are a couple of features I like, but content wise there is no match to Google at the moment. One thing I like is the bang feature (!stackoverflow hello world), but realize that Chromium offers something more convenient built-in, which I also rarely use in practice.

Still waiting for something that brings the best of both worlds.
I hear both the Cryengine and Unreal Engine 4 game engines are going to support Linux. Hopefully this will accelerate the momentum for Linux support.
Also see http://huboard.com/.
I won't play the game, because DOTA and its many clones probably have the most unfriendly players in all of gaming, but it's great news for Linux.
I think things are fundamentally different now than in the early 30's. Not pie in the sky 'well people are more sophisticated now' different.

There are a ton of tools that people can use to gather information on a potential investment and the people involved.
I am the CEO/Co-Founder of Mosaic. We are a company that helps serious photographers backup their photographers. I am happy to share what we have learned in the past 2 years. www.mosaicarchive.com

As a background, we now have thousands of users and customers. We also finished raising a series A in February. (Not that raising money proves anything) http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/02/mo...

We are now growing at about 5%-7% a week. We recently peaked in the top 100 grossing US iPad Photo/Video Apps in iOS - although most of our revenue comes outside of iOS. (As they take a 30% cut.)

We target serious photographers (pro's and prosumers) who use Adobe Lightroom. For pure backup customers our sweet spot are those who have outgrown BackBlaze and Crashplan. (Both great services but geared at consumers.)

On the backup side, we help photographers manage their backups by using Adobe Lightroom metadata. Customers can choose to backup everything in Lightroom automatically. However, many photographers use metadata like stars or flags to designate their best photos. We allow users to automatically backup these "best" photos. This provides the automation of the best backup tools with more precision for larger customers.

We use Amazon Glacier behind the scenes to store the original photos. (Yes, WMF the restoration costs even out for us over all of our users.) (Sidebar - we actually ran our data center for months before switching to Glacier...very glad to have made the switch.)

However... we are not an online backup company. Online backup is a feature is our service... but not the entirety of it.

Once we have have photographers photos, we also want to help photographers better use, manage, share, and enjoy those photos. At one point I would have said we are a backup company, now I call us a workflow company.

We also offer a web and iOS App to privately view and share your Lightroom photos. (We take JPG snapshots of the RAW files so they load quickly and have the Lightroom edits. This part of the service runs in Amazon S3 not Glacier) This gives you access to your photos in the same way you are used to experiencing them in Lightroom. (Lightroom users try this for free - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mosaic-archive/id627973694?l...)

The next step which we are working on now is adding two-way sync where you can manage your photos in the App and it populates back to your desktop files and Lightroom. We are also working on more collaborative features so photographers can share this culling and editing process with their clients or family members.

The bigger problem we are solving is that photographers have loads of large files... backing them up is painful yes... but managing them all is more painful. Sifting through 000s of images to find your best stuff frankly stinks. This problem is only getting bigger as we shoot more and more.

For those interested in this idea, please consider joining us. We are hiring a couple more software developers this year. http://www.mosaicarchive.com/about-mosaic-photo-storage/care...

Thanks for the discussion and happy to answer all questions.

Best, Gerard
www.mosaicarchive.com
Former player here, 7y. Yes, you need at least to be able to spend your sunday night, and one or two nights during the week. It is the minimum in the majority of alliances and even if you play alone you will need the half of this time to earn money.

When you start to roam there is "no way" to stop to play when you want. Because several rules of gameplay and because you will be in enemy territory, you will have to stay with your mates until the Fleet Commander decides to go back in your HQ. So you need to stay 4h and be flexible with that (5h, sometimes 6h).

It is one reason of the main reasons I quit EVE. Not because you need to spend all these hours, but because sometimes you can roam for hours and don't be able to find a fleet to fight and sometimes you need to run away because you are on the road of the main army blob of a main alliance. So you spend hours without any fun..
I think (or at least surmised) that the circular nature of the argument is part of the point. Previous economic happenings increased the wealth/income gap, but these new services have arrived which allow the wealthy to increase their standard of living while creating income for the lower classes, thus decreasing the gap to an extent.
This is in response to my post here http://blog.kirigin.com/10x

I love hearing about how people have tried this out. My conclusion is that judging output is already hard, and it is now even harder because it needs to take into account the whole picture. It isn't just that person's effect on the codebase, but whether they are acting appropriately if they are a leader. In his example, I don't think a CTO should ever be part time.

Having hard conversations about performance might suck, but how else are we going to get better without negative feedback? Quietly giving top performers more stock doesn't solve the personal decision of whether working full time is a good idea, and it certainly doesn't help worse performers get better.

I like privately pushing people to be better while publicly thanking those having a big impact.
Based on the email at the bottom of the page, looks like this is from the http://rallydev.com folks? I hope they have plans for an internal/private version, because while I'm not sure I'd use this for my open source projects, I'd love to try it for our internal repos.
Oh interesting. No support for that now, but it should be possible to add. Perhaps shelling out and just reading stdout? Binary interfaces would be harder.
I'd just like to point out, that this Arkhipov guy was one cool character. If there is a flash point full of hot heads... like American cowboys depth charging Russian subs, and Russian madmen intent on teaching America a lesson... the world wants guys like that to be there to "break up the fight".

This was a military man WAY ahead of his time. There were not a lot like him in the 60's.

A bit off-topic, but just as an indication of this guy's background, we were taught about his role on K-19 as well as B-59. Sangfroid like this is what you hope to have in a crisis.
Came here to say exactly this. chef-solo _is_ good, particularly combined with things like Vagrant and Berkshelf
Nice. Looks similar in design to the now defunct wallsome (Which used basecamp as the backend). Were you inspired by that?
I don't think that analogy is at all close. Try this: Target, which wants to enter this market, conspiring with the companies that supply them and Walmart to raise the latter's wholesale prices, and various relevant governments suing all of the former for their conspiracy to harm consumers (in this case, from glancing at the beginning of the decision it was the Feds and some state governments). The suppliers all plead guilty and settle, but for some reason Target thinks they can win in the courtroom.

(The "some reason" would appear to be a hope they can get the Supreme Court to change the law.)
FWIW, issue labels can help this a lot. You can have a one-click link to a list of tagged issues, which helps to narrow the field a lot.
You can look at Safeway/Trader Joe/Whole Foods prices and compare it to Instacart's to figure that out. That being said, do you ask Safeway/Trader Joe's/Whole Foods what their markup is? The only reason you care is because it's not completely hidden from you.
So why does the bot counter jump deom 160k to 4 million and goes back to 160k? Do 4 million bots watch bloom berg tv?
Every American Must Watch This: Oliver Stone Explains Urgency on The NSA State
I used to do that, albeit RAID 0. :) best $1200 I ever spent on 160GB hah. http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-apple-macbook-pro-raid-0-arr...
Delaying e-book availability to promote hardback sales encourages e-book piracy
I don't see what the difference is. Bars and other small businesses are risky investments too.
DDG was kind of the first to appear on HN, so I think it developed a fan base here, and it has also been implemented as one of the search engines in some Linux distros. It's also an American company, and has recently received funding from a popular VC firm. All these things are piling up for its "popularity" and momentum in the tech sphere.

But it appears Startpage has almost 3x the traffic of DDG right now (4 mil vs 1.5 mil daily searches):

https://startpage.com/eng/press/pr-four-million.html
I've moved to using it as my default search provider. I'm using it well over half the time and if the results aren't great I add !g to the end to get google's results.
Google's Latitude Attitude Shutdown
Saw virtuousity in there. Nice.
This happened to my mom after her first promotion in the US Air Force. They forgot to increase her pay with the promotion. So they set it to the correct one. Unfortunately, when they fixed it, they locked in that pay grade for 12 years. It wasn't until many years down the road when her CO randomly took a look and saw the discrepancy in the pay - had he not, she would have been stiffed 100s of thousands of dollars.
How Reliability Architect keeps Netflix online, and his advice to startups
Am I the only one who thinks its ironic that the title references 7-bits? This shows that you're already binary encoded enough that your terminal has to parse it out. Why not just have a dumber terminal?

Plus, it's SSL based. SSL means you're already used to not looking at things through telnet. Are you really saying we shouldn't use SSL because "it's not just 7-bit plaintext"? That's the point, after all...
I have this new system for "agile". You write everything down and then cross it out when it's done, continue until everything is done.