skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nope, I still don't see it.

Your problem is understandable!
An ordinary citizen can't be expected to
"see it"!

Seeing it takes special qualifications,
years and years of experience,
especially at the highest levels
of government,
many deep, secret arguments
and considerations, etc. Only
such very, very special people
can be expected to "see it".
In particular, those very, very
special people can read the
same words in the Fourth Amendment
you and I can read but, unlike
you and I, know that they, such
very, very special people, are
understanding the true meaning of
those words, true meaning, I'm sorry to
say, no insult intended, is just
beyond ordinary people such as
you and I.

But now aren't you glad that our
country, your privacy, and the Fourth
Amendment are being so well cared
for by such very, very special people,
people who can understand things,
e.g., the true meaning of the
Fourth Amendment, you and I can
never "see"?

Uh, oops, where did it put that extra
airline barf bag???
Who could forget the calm, thorough, logical debate about liberty vs. security that took place in the media and congress, when these programs were passed?
I agree. Python is a common newbie mistake.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll take this into account for future development plans.
Use the responsive view tools in Firefox and Chrome.
Bitcoin ETF: Winklevoss Plan Raises Big Questions
What version of Ubuntu? Last time I tried was 12.04, and even with a proprietary binary graphics driver properly installed, it was very slow and un-usable.

If this is something they've fixed in more recent version, color me excited to try Ubuntu again.

But I've definitely seen others w/ this same issue: http://askubuntu.com/questions/297146/live-window-resizing-i...
In the Federal court system of the US, the Supreme Court is the top court.

That is NOT the case in all court systems, though. In the New York State courts, for instance, the Supreme Courts are the trial courts. They are below the Supreme Court, Appellate Dicision, which is below the Court of Appeals.

Thus, your argument that a court must be the top court because it has Supreme in its name is faulty.
Just picked up a refurbed T410 with integrated graphics and installed 12.04 LTS. So far so good, but I'd like to drop an SSD in here, so maybe the distro will change again. But I figured that LTS would be a good place to start. 13.04 did seem a tad buggy.

I'd like to try FreeBSD, but am impatient at the moment, and not sure how good wifi control and hardware support is. Would love to know if anyone's running it on their notebooks.

Going to try Gnome 3 now.
I found these comments helpful. They breakdown the exchange between the tower and the approaching planes. The first is from an air traffic controller.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hrewx/asiana_air...

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hrewx/asiana_air...
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The biggest tip: The Python interactive shell is your friend. Use it to play with things you're not sure of. IPython[1] is a more advanced Python shell you may like. Lots of people also swear by pdb, the Python debugger. Personally, I get less use out of it than others, but YMMV.

But overall, this is a problem involving documentation, design and naming, and your own mindset.

Ideally you would never really be put in the position of not knowing, because it would be clearly documented. Of course, we all know how well that tends to work.

Second, well-designed systems with good naming practices will make it fairly obvious most of the time what sort of arguments are expected, and what you can expect to get back. (This is related to the next point.)

Finally, coming from a "static" language, your brain just isn't trained to perform its own type inference and deal with duck typing. This is mostly a matter of practice, you get better at it. But if you aren't already familiar with various kinds of typing, be sure to do some reading. A better understanding of the differences will help make sense of what you're seeing.

[1] http://ipython.org/
Ask HN: Does it still make sense to learn Flash?
My little brother is interested in getting into digital animation, and once upon a time Adobe Flash would have been the obvious route. These days, though, it seems like things are tipping towards straight HTML 5.

Does it still make sense for him to learn Flash? And if not, what tools should I be steering him towards instead?
I've been watching this series for a general introduction into the math behind quantum computing, and would recommend it:
"Quantum computing for the determined" by Michael Nielsen

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4
Great app! I really like drawing feature on iPad and sending feedback. Will definitely use it for my next prototype.
It's not just shopping habits. Its also any file name you search for, etc.
However, some arguments here on HN
have started to convince me that
the SCOTUS role as 'supreme' or
'final' is not really correct and that
Jefferson saw this. Instead,
after the SCOTUS come the voters
who can tell Congress, e.g.,

"I don't care what the SCOTUS says.
I'm a citizen and a voter, and I
say that what the NSA has been
doing spying on US citizens
violates the Fourth Amendment,
and I want you to pass a law
throttling the NSA and
getting them honoring
the Fourth Amendment."

And if such a law is not enough,
then the citizens can
amend the Constitution.

It will be nice if some plaintiff
with standing to sue brings
a case before the SCOTUS and
wins. E.g., maybe a class action
on behalf of all 120 million or
so Verizon customers who had their
telephone metadata grabbed by the NSA.
Apparently Google is bringing a case.
A "Catastrophic Surge" in Mortgage Rates
I'll have to check these out, but I'm assuming these tools just help you view various anchor/media query points, it's not exactly what I need.

I need 100% fluid reflowing of every single pixel of width, not just where the media queries are. My designs always come out much better when I optimize this way.
Ask HN: Fast, In-Memory, Distributed data analysis and machine learning?
We're looking to implement a new data pipeline architecture at work. The primary goal is speed (data size is small enough to fit entirely in memory, sharded across multiple machines if needed). The primary bottleneck is feature extraction, transformation and iteration, which is both CPU and read/write intensive. Model building is not too slow, so no need to distribute training/testing as of yet.

I've heard good things about Spark/Shark and Storm. Does anyone have any experiences or recommendations? Maybe we don't even need a super sophisticated system and a Riak/Redis K-V store cluster would do?

Thanks in advance
Publishers probably weren't complaining when Amazon would buy their book at wholesale and take a loss with massive retail discounting.

What publishers want is for Amazon to sell at low margin so they get volume and the publishers get each at a decent wholesale price.

As a seller on Amazon I have noticed that often people will pay more than the cheapest available, either they don't bother looking elsewhere or Amazon as a brand has grown to the point where people just find it easiest to use them all the time. If this effect holds for books then they no longer have the be the cheapest to drive decent volume.
I think this is why Rust's type inference only applies within a function.
These were pretty simple except for that last one.
What I'm saying is that your analogy is off. The fact that the FISC only hears from one side is distinguishable from other courts because it's all kept secret. If a district court judge issues a bad warrant, that fact eventually comes out when marshals show up at the defendant's property to execute it or the evidence gained through it is presented in court. Then the defendant can challenge it in a public proceeding or, in sufficiently outrageous cases, the public can demand changes to the law or impeachment of the issuing judge.

There is none of that with the FISC. If the court makes a bad ruling, nobody is ever officially supposed to know, the government just starts hoovering up the data of American citizens under cover of darkness and anybody who brings this to the attention of the voting public will be accused of treason and then have their passport revoked and be stranded in a Russian airport.
Switch the question mark with a colon, and it becomes valid English :)
Well, if not quite yet, then
with, say, another president
like Nixon ....

Sorry 'bout that, but my conclusion
was that, yes, he was a "crook".
I would put the unfortunate scoping design above mutable defaults on the list of things that confused me.

Also, I really don't like the decision to make Python 2 disobey the system locale and use ascii as the default encoding. Lots of Python programs out there have broken i18n for no good reason because of that (nobody starts teaching python by telling you to use .decode('utf-8')/.encode('utf-8') when you pipe data, and by the time you realize what's wrong, you often already have code out there.)
^
says the guy who works for ICx Nomadics, a Homeland Security contractor.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/sn...
Partly it's security theater.
I read years ago about a car grill coated with something that also "ate smog", but I guess cars don't have grills anymore or the project failed for some other reason.
Congress created the NSA. Congress can eliminate the NSA.
This highlights how "good" programmers are simply those who are most able to think like a computer. The article's language further reinforces this (perhaps intentionally), e.g. the reference to "compiling" functions.

I find this contraint interesting - I don't know if computational thinking is a strength or a weakness. Increasingly, it seems that computational models occur naturally and therefore the ability to think in such a manner would have inter-disciplinary value.

If we deem it a weakness, then programming becomes a UX problem rather than language one. The lack of change both within and across programming paradigms would suggest that many don't believe this to be a fundamental issue.
Shipping nginx access logs to LogStash
This is a good point. There are two definitions of "production ready":

1) Works for my application.

2) Won't get my head chopped off.

The second is what most developers working inside a hierarchy really want. I am always torn in trying to keep up with new things, because reliability is generally not the focus of new products.
It's worth noting that this article by David Simon was written on June 7th, purely in reaction to the leaked information about Verizon metadata being collected. As more information about PRISM became available, Simon acknowledge that the leaks did point to something more serious than he had acknowledged in his original post [1].

With that context in mind, I still think it's worth reading Simon's original post that you linked to. He's a very articulate writer who has clearly shown he's no puppet of the establishment through his work on shows like The Wire.

[1]http://davidsimon.com/nsa-and-fisa-commentary-calling-it/
If I recall correctly, that only works on periodic signals, and not all the Google keyword trends are periodic.
Better smarphones may be possible using system inspired by bird migration
In the Federal court system of the US, the Supreme Court is the top court.

Which is the court system we're discussing. Why New York has an upside court naming scheme I don't know, but it's not relevant here.
Structural diff Python code
I think if you have experience with JS in general and also experience with non-JS MVC frameworks you should be fine. The JS MV* frameworks are new and it would be ridiculous to assume that someone needs to know that if they are an otherwise qualified candidate. Still, why wait for an employer to require you to use them? Start a project (even if its pointless) to teach yourself! Not only does it teach you the technology but employers like to see that you like to do that kind of work for fun and are passionate about learning new things.
That's politics and not law. The GP post was clearly contemplating a higher court not a different part of the body politic.
I'm new to LISP (only a little over a year) but I already feel the same way about R*RS as I do about ANSI SQL: You'd be crazy to target it instead of making the most of the runtime you've chosen.

Has anyone here ever deployed to multiple runtimes? Why did you do it? I'm curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_sort
But this isn't news. It's apparently been public knowledge since 2009, when the redacted Yahoo! ruling was released http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ru... . That ruling (even the redacted version which was relased) clearly lays out and upholds the concept of the "special needs"-based foreign-intelligence exception to the US' Fourth Amendment:

2 . The Foreign Intelligence Exception . The recurrent theme permeating the petitioner's arguments is the notion that there is no foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth Amendment's Warrant Clause. 6 The FISC rejected this notion, positing that our decision in In re Sealed Case confirmed the existence of a foreign intelligence exception to the warrant requirement.

This ruling isn't secret, it's just been hiding in plain sight. Even after the NYT reported the Yahoo! connection to the verdict in an article which directly linked the ruling PDF, it was still apparently impossible to get people to read the ruling and see what it says about the Fourth Amendment for themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923606
I suspect the real problem is not so much price-points as over-shot demand: phones are over-powered.

The usual next step is a smaller form-factor with unique benefits, typically convenience. While powerful enough to do cool things, people are willing to pay for more.
So, wearable computing: watches, glasses, etc.
(5) The Way that can be written is not the Way.

Well you got that part right.
#plane #fire at #SFO #SanFran

Is this really how people communicate on Twitter?
Wow.. After having read the comments here, I now know how _little_ I know about even sets of numbers.

I guess it's back to human-interest stories of the less endowed hacker and onto the Ubuntu 13.04 article...
Seems like the Technical University of Eindhoven is the place to be these days.
Just because it isn't totally new, doesn't make it a non-issue.

Blaming things on a stupid electorate just sounds like more justification of a totalitarian regime. Could it be possible that people need more information about what is going on in order to make better decisions? Let's err on the side of democracy please.
Excessive advertising is the best sign that you're going to get shafted in whatever ways they need to shaft you in order to cover the costs of signing up more people to shaft to pay the costs of signing up more people to shaft...

You see how this works? Finding a bank that doesn't operate like a ponzi scheme starts with finding one that doesn't advertise heavily.
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Spies have always been in the employ of the ruling classes, and the fact that some other POTUS broached the public trust by violating our Bill of Rights, that doesn't mean doing the same thing today should suddenly become acceptable.

Also...
Any kinetic action aimed at an ideology is futile, for as long as there are human beings who differ in their opinions, there will be strife.
I would think that SFO would have a video stream of all plane landings and takeoffs. In fact, it would be dumb if ALL airports didn't have this considering how cheap it is to install.

Does anyone know anything about this?
That's complete nonsense, Simple is simply a front-end for one of the worst banks out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bancorp

There's a reason they're no longer called Bank Simple- because the law is very clear on what you can actually called a bank. Simple is not a bank.
Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions
Note that if you have the option, it's almost certainly better to get a new Intel processor that supports rdrand (not quantum, but still true hardware random) than to trust some university's server. Interesting, though.
There's no doubt they'd have footage, but they'd be stupid to release it to the media while an investigation is being undertaken.
This actually touches on Alan Kay's statements about programming with "what" instead of "how". It has made me seriously consider logic programming for the applications I write.
TrueCrypt does something like this by hiding encrypted data within random bytes that are supposed to be free space.

In cases where the key does not need to be memorized, a simple XOR cipher provides the property that you can create a "key" for any ciphertext and desired message.
A New Anti-American Axis?
Judging from the tapes he spent more time trying to destroy his political enemies than actually governing.
I expected far more from the article. It's not like this hasn't been blogged about before.
Previous related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940952
>(1) The further you go from nature, the more problems you cause yourself.

I found the flaw in your argument! It's there, it's there! It's that premise!

What do I win?
The thing that bugs me the most about the moved toolbar buttons is that they didn't feel the need to move the scrollbars but were able to come up with a solution that works and preserves our understanding of the interface.
The implementation probably uses SAX (Symbolic Aggregate approXimation). http://code.google.com/p/jmotif/wiki/SAX
Ethics exist in the animal kingdom "without man". Some animals mate for life. Some animals protect each other from harm, even putting themselves in danger.

Ethics are an abstraction that reflect the realities of entity interaction. The reason these abstractions are useful is the same reason that numbers are useful as an abstraction that represents quantities of objects.

The tie of ethics to reality isn't as easy to see as numbers, but when you realize that ethics are practical and evolved as a survival mechanism, maybe you can begin to see the connection.
Many of the bags look like ones that would be under a seat. That's the one I would snag too--laptop and camera.
> You could work around this by doing rename + delete instead of just delete.

That's um, inconvenient. I've heard similar tales, but I'd wager there are many more corner cases that could bedevil us. For example, what about .dll's and .exe's that are currently open in other processes? My experience has been that you simply cannot do anything with those files once they have been opened.

The whole Windows file system just seems like a rat's nest of bad and worse design decisions.

> Granted that's a big if.

Stop. This is a bad design decision that has surely cost industry billions to reckon with and maybe cost a few lives along the way too. This is not the developer's fault.

> Yeah, I agree this was kind of stupid. There are internal folks at MS, some of them quite influential, who think it's stupid too. But it's already been done.

Hm, sounds like you're an insider! Right, well, I'm not satisfied with that blasé attitude. I think you ought to take more pride: Windows is kindof important, like, to humankind. It is really unethical to leave such bad designs in place, festering and impeding our progress and wasting our time. Your internal folks at MS who are clueful need to be heard.

> > Trash the standard Windows API (not just hide it)
>
> This is the same fallacy a bunch of internal people came up with in Windows 8, however the truth is large chunks of the Windows API have nothing wrong with it.

Seems to me that Windows RT could run on any kernel or VM. If that's the direction all development is going to take at MSFT, then do everyone a favor and chuck that boat anchor Win32 and plop the legacy apps into a VM ghetto running in seamless mode.

Don't be afraid, just do the needful.
The fourth amendment also doesn't have an exclusionary rule in its text

IE no part of it says if the police conduct an illegal search, they can't use that evidence against you.

Yet most people seem to get up in arms when Scalia/Thomas/whoever says that line of cases should be overruled, and that it's up to congress to pass laws to deal with police conduct
If you start making exceptions to rules then you're going to end up causing even more strife. I'm willing to pay the price to not get "what's the best programming language for X" style questions on SO (for example).

On a related note, there's a blog post on the SO blog concerning closed questions, pretty interesting stuff.
> Lists are largely for homogeneous collections, whereas tuples are heterogeneous.

What? What makes you think that?
Imagine you work at the NSA. Your boss comes through the door and says, "Hey, we just got approval to store the communications of everyone everywhere. We need the be able to cite credible suspicion before we can look at Americans' communications, though. What can you do for me?"

"Wait, we can intercept and store all the communications?"

"Yep, all of them."

"Because they might include ones that present a threat?"

"Yeah, that's it."

"OK. Well, what if we could narrow it down? What if we implemented a system to only scrutinize communications we thought were likely to be threats. That would be better, right?"

"Where are you going with this?"

"Well, we're already collecting everything, right? What if we went just a teensy bit further? What if we just added a step where we did semantic analysis of everything we collect? That way, we'd narrow down the stuff we were actually, you know, looking at to stuff we were already pretty sure was important."

"That's a GREAT idea!"

"Wait, I'm not finished. We could narrow it down even more if we maintained a graph of communications between everyone we know about. We want to affect the minimum number of people possible, right?"

"Well, we're worried about lone wolves too..."

"That's fine. We can get business records through the PATRIOT Act. We can make this a really fine-grained test. We can look for suspicious purchase patterns, medical conditions, attempts to avoid detection, you name it. What could possibly go wrong?"
Mobile apps are getting really smart
Why don't they get it over with and declare martial law? They clearly have decided they can do WTF-ever they want, by declaration.
I read through the article pretty quickly, so forgive me if I missed something, but what qualifies as a click? Do "Likes" count as a click (for example)?
drivebyacct2: your last few posts are dead. No idea what could have happened; you've been here a while and have twice the karma I do.