skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they weren't "terrorists" before, they most likely are now. Think about it, that's the real problem.

You speak as if the rest of the world isn't noticing wtf is happening there, including the families of the detainees. As if these people being kept there wouldn't motivate a lot more people to become terrorists, than freeing them would.

This isn't even burning the village to save the village. This is nuking a whole hemisphere to turn off an alarm clock.
So I know re-writing a technical system from scratch is always consider a big no-no. A couple of observations to counter that argument:

1. Re-writing code is the Innovator's Solution to the Innovator's Dilemma.[0]

2. Mozilla wouldn't exist today if the Netscape team didn't decide to rewrite their browser engine.[1]

3. Isn't Basecamp New a rewrite?[2]

[0]http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Solution-Sustaining-Suc...
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History
[2]http://basecamp.com/new

Thoughts?
Cannot emphasis this more.
Also dangerous professions tend to kill people a lot.

When I mention the age that several famous romans died when they were not warriors, people act surprised (Cato the Elder for example died at 85, I forgot the names, but I even made once a list of senators that died past 90).

Here in Brazil life expectancy is 73 years old, and for example the sole reason it is not much higher, is traffic accidents (it was calculated that if pedestrian crossings were strictly enforced for example, this would bump up our average life expectancy by 3 years!)
I wish we could get Bible-like fanaticism over the Constitution. That would really, seriously, be the very best thing I could imagine happening to this country.
Prometheus' liver and Snowden in Caracas: No good deed goes unpunished.
This is sweet.

However, Google, Facebook, Apple and others could do a whole lot more to pique interest of the general population in areas of space exploration and spatial phenomenon.

Newscasts devote so little time to areas of space exploration, it is appalling. You can bet you won't miss a single instance of the latest jury trial action of some manslaughter of the month, though.
You're missing the point of drugs - some people experience intense joy from taking drugs.
This is an interesting article (well, in large part collection of quotes/resources) on the interaction of deterministic synchronization and floating-point: http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/flo...

There seem to be conflicting opinions from game developers about whether you can coax determinism out of IEEE 754 floating point, if you're careful about it. From what I've read, the IEEE 754-2008 revision is supposed to take the goal of reproducible results more seriously as well, but I'm not sure how widely implemented or reliable its efforts in that department are.
If you accidentally press 4 during a call, you'll get that
Open Data StackExchange
Here you can see all the things you need to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWkQL2QP_4#at=122. Enjoy!
That got worse when I turned the sound on.
I don't understand how you get to "dramatically increasing unemployment" at the end there.

Taking your apple-seller analogy, if you map that onto the labor market, then the apples are job-seekers, and when an apple is purchased, that's somebody getting a job. Unemployment is left-over apples that you don't sell.

I understand that with a bunch more money floating around, the price of your apples will increase. That's basic inflation. But what you're saying is that not only will the price increase, but it will increase so much that you will end up with a lot of leftover apples you can't sell.

But why? The price isn't set by magic, it's set by you. You'll make the most money if you can sell more or less all of your apples, so you'll set a price that results in people buying them all. That price will likely be higher than it would be in the world without a basic income, but you're still going to sell all of your apples. If you don't, you'll lower your price until you do.

I don't see why labor would be any different. Yes, prices (wages) probably get pushed up there. But where's the pressure to push prices up to the extent that a large number of people can't find jobs? Just like the apple-seller, people make more money when they set a price where they actually find work. If a lot of people are out of work at $X/hour, then those people will generally accept wages at $(X-1)/hour, or less, until they all manage to find jobs. The minimum wage puts a floor on this, but I don't see how the basic income does.

I can see an increase in voluntary joblessness, where people's labor can only produce a small amount of value, and they don't see the point in working for that small amount of value when they can stay at home and watch TV and survive on their basic income. But I don't see how there would be an increase in involuntary joblessness a.k.a. unemployment if you created a basic income and simultaneously did away with minimum wage.
Taking innocent taxi drivers, subjecting them to the "gift of democracy" that is extraordinary rendition and torture while being detained without trial or charge is already an effective recruiting tool for terrorists.

Allowing the detainees to kill themselves turns them into martyrs, and becomes even more effective at turning people to violence.

Don't forget that this behaviour just shifts the curve of moderateness towards extremism a little bit, but that makes extremism easier. People are more likely to donate money to organisations that promote violence; people turn a blind eye when they find out someone is planning something; people share information even if they're not going to use it themself, "Anti-West" sentiment is more acceptable, and so on. This means that the small number of actual terrorists find it easier to work.
I needed to track some IP addresses once. Visual Basic came in very useful.
I've always been curious about I2P. I2P is more decentralized than TOR, as TOR has the weakness of needing exit nodes, and today it is very hard to set one up yourself (and not be arrested/shutdown). However, I don't know enough about network/protocol security to even be able to tell if I2P is legitimately secure, and I haven't seen any scientific analysis of it. Anyone else aware of such an analysis?
> Our old dashboards were at a local maximum, making it hard to iterate. Introducing elements of a variable Direct Debit interface would have added complexity, with no benefit until the whole new interface was ready.

> For a fundamental change in UI that lack of iteration wasn't acceptable. Starting from scratch with an early beta let us to collect feedback on the new interface immediately. Our speed of iteration was also increased as we didn't have to worry about breaking an existing interface.

I would have said "I've created an unmaintainable mess.", but from now on, I'll be using your nice euphemisms. "Local maximum" ... yeah, sounds proactive and empowering. I'll have to work on delivering it with a straight face, though.
Well, his answers were quite laconic compared to the other guys, but on the other hand I just sent those guys a short email and they didn't know how it will be published and what other persons were interviewed, I just asked them politely to answer some questions, so I guess he didn't treat it too seriously.

By the way, Richard Stallman in response to this email posted me a short lecture on how in English you only use "You" capitalized to refer to deities (I spelled it this way in the email because this is the custom in Poland when referring to the recipient in letters) but ignored the questions and further attempts to get those out of him.
Pleonasm. That's a new word for me. Thanks.
> everybody is just saying the same thing expressed in different wording - safety.

There's this recurring theme in what you and OP are saying, that you think buying a house, getting married, having kids, building a career is somehow 'safe' or 'boring' or that those that do it are 'risk-averse' (or worse, are 'robots', or 'sheep' or 'followers', like you have the answer and everyone else is blind).

How is it safe or not risky to commit the next 20 years of my life to caring for my child? Or to commit to providing for my wife through a secure well paid job? And I love my life, it's fascinating. Rarely a boring moment.

Or I can travel. Woo. Take lots of photos. Brag about how out-there I am. Inspirational things huh?

I agree that one shouldn't live life going through the motions. But take care that you don't see the 2.4 kids and assume too much about the person. What's the use of all your long-sighted experience if you're too quick to judge people?

I say again, each of us is a fascinating individual. You and your ilk seem to dismiss some life choices as less worthy - even going so far as declare them incorrect.

Is a mortgage and a dog and a kid 'limited'? I don't see why it has to be. Am I limited because I can't get up and move to Canada on a whim? I am free in myself. More than that I am building something greater than myself; my family. I've chosen stability and responsibility over the ephemeral pleasures of whimsy.

That is truly inspirational, isn't it?
I have some clients who are paying MessageLabs something like two orders of magnitude more than Google charges per seat. They would, undertstandably, scream blue murder if their entire corporate email went down for 24hrs.

I have other clients who wouldn't dream of paying $5 per user per month, because they get free email forwarding with their domain name or cheapo web hosting.

I have _many many_ clients, who if I gave then sufficient notice and said "we're upgrading some infrastructure, we need to take the mail server down for up to 24 hrs, does after close of business the Friday after next suit you, or would you prefer we did it Sat night/Sun morning?", would be _perfectly_ happy. (with the possible exception along the lines of "oh, we're at a trade show that week, can you move it forward or wait till a week later?")

I wonder how big the crossover is between companies who really absolutely _have_ to have 24/7/365 email uptime at better tha 3 nines, but who haven't already got something more robust in place than a handful of personal gmail accounts?

I can't help but think they're "doin it wrong"…
I've spent two jobs rewriting software. The two main reasons for it: 1) the original was a prototype; 2) the requirements have changed so much that the original architecture doesn't make sense. If it's either of these situations, then a rewrite can make sense.

Contrast that with developers wanting to rewrite because of vague frustrations or poorly-defined technical debt. Without a strict definition of the problem, a rewrite is doomed to repeat the same shortcoming as the original.

I've seen the most success happen on teams which can figure out how to rewrite the app one module at a time, while keeping the existing parts functional. This reduces the risk, and allows you to compare the new effort against old code more directly.
One idea would be to bring them on to American soil and treat them under the same conditions as those held in US jails and in accordance with US law, instead of doing it in Cuba of all places.
If you have any control over that web page you need to get those over-sized PNGs resized and re-encoded to jpgs. They are 2MB each, they could be about 100KB and do just as good a job at being scaled-down thumbnails. You are burning bandwidth - 8MB just to load the page.
Good point. My head started hurting while thinking about it. What is random anyway? Arrrrgh!
I knew none of my employers. Try Craigslist, Monster, Dice, LinkedIn.
> SS was intended to be a safety net, not a golden parachute, so elderly people didn't die freezing and starving in the streets. By and large, it has accomplished -- and continues to accomplish -- this mission.

Now if we can just broaden the population pyramid widely enough (and lucratively enough) to support the great height of the future retirees, we can kick that can so far down the road even we 40-somethings won't have to worry about the scheme's stability.
Interview with Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Global Spying
"Yes we could've"
Silly nitpick: this exact design appears to be finished, but some of the Gen IV designs are gas-cooled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
Ever since the PRISM revelations, I feel uneasy whenever I see "Google" in the headlines. Even if it's just a harmless doodle, I'm reminded of their partnership with NSA.
Android officially adds BT4 support
A Proposal To Reform FISA Court Decisionmaking
UK Needs An Acquisition Culture To Have a Sustainable Startup Culture
No, they force-fed them at night, which is when they could eat. It's still fucked up, but at least it's not a sin.
Since I know the skill gap on HN is pretty wide, I just wanted to chime in to say that if this is some kind of counter-intelligence measure, it's not really going to work considering that the US government is collecting information at layer 1 (i.e. directly gathering information from the wire).

A true "alternative internet" would, at this point, require its own infrastructure due to the routers and switches of the Internet using the TCP/IP stack. (assuming that an alternative internet would be a variation on the IP protocol).

The entire issue with the government surveillance of today is that they're (allegedly) storing all data, even the encrypted data, and holding it to either brute-force crack, waiting until whichever cipher/protocol gets broken, or waiting until computing power is abundant enough to crack the encryption-du-jour in a reasonable amount of time.

This is why ideas like Raspberry Pis on balloons have been proposed as true "alternative" internets. Not to get all tin-foily, but I would assume that any undertaking that ambitious would have government agents working from the inside.

If you're transmitting any data that could be illegal, your safest bet is to use some kind of encryption that would take longer than the statute of limitations for whichever crime you're committing to break (you'd probably also have to factor Moore's law into your calculation and pray that quantum computing doesn't become viable in the next x years).
I read the title and immediately thought to myself "What about a startup that just becomes a successful business, does that need an acquisition to breed more startups?"
I feel like on the NSA issue, the mass public just doesn't care. It's too abstract. Until something like actual recordings or transcripts of everyday americans are leaked, "Joe the plumber" will still be thinking "I don't care if they know I have clogged toilet at 2pm".
Justin Bieber: Send Me a Pirated Copy of UFC Event
The argument in favor of S/MIME is that it's already there and just works.
Obligatory Douglas Adams quote, from Thanks For All The Fish:

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
You're missing the reward for those who get higher grades.

If students with higher grades got better food, chair and transport (that's what happens in basic income), you would probably see some students trying their best.
What does this mean? We just got finished talking about a system that was profoundly less secure because it tried too hard to be easy to use.
> Corporations didn't legalize and regulate cannabis in Colorado and Washington.

You're right: cannabis is still illegal in Colorado and Washington.
I don't understand why you call it $20K/year. Isn't it $20K/project?

$20K/year is lower than what most programmer interns/entry make these days.
I worked away as a (very) low earning freelancer for several years after the dot com bust so I'm only knowledgable in hindsight, but.. She complained about my fee – constantly is the #1 indicator that a client will ultimately be a huge pain in the ass you shouldn't have taken on, in my experience.

For a client to "negotiate" early on or from contract to contract is wise and can form the basis of a healthy client/vendor relationship, but complaints are indicative of someone who's happy to see and treat you like a cog in their machine.
Also, I've found that there is very little similarity between what a client thinks is a large change and what actually is.

That is, when a large client I work with called me with one-off requests, I usually just fulfilled them. It made me look helpful and not standoffish, helped our relationship, and the changes rarely took more than a few minutes to implement even though the client thought the changes were a huge deal.

Obviously this can vary. In the cases where the changes were more involved, I simply told him so and told him that I would need to create a quote for the work. This never caused any problems.
US people don't realize how much US is hated... They are force fed so much propaganda on how US are heroes that go around the world saving people from evil, that they don't understand for example why lots of Brazillians cheered 9/11 (yes, Brazillians CHEERED 9/11, some even threw parties, the US people I knew that were here in Brazil acted very confused, not understanding at all why people would be happy that 10 thousand "good people" died)
You can do all that stuff, but it's the fact that you have to understand these concepts to use PGP that makes it difficult, not the way they're documented.
Maximum bandwidth all depends on the technology used. If we're talking 802.11n using MIMO (Multiple Tx and Rx antennas/spatial streams) then we could theoretically expect 600mbps. However, even if we're using top quality kit, today's speeds are more like 150mbps to 300mbps.

See... http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/zoneflex-outdoor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n-2009

However, the problem with a mesh, particularly WiFi, comes from the size of the broadcast domain, or the service area footprint and, more specifically, the frequency channels.

If you operate a mesh where single access points mesh with their direct neighbours, then that 300mbps is shared over all the AP's and the bandwidth reduces dramatically, especially if it's a dense deployment where noise from one transmitter can be easily picked up by multiple receivers.

One way around this is to copy what cell carriers do and... create some cells. A cell is a part of a larger network but it operates on a different channel to it's neighbours, so that 300mb is just for that AP, it's subscribers, and a select, but small, number of neighbour AP's.

The problem with this is you then need two radios (two AP's), connected via Ethernet cable, to operate on two channels. I.e. One radio looks left on channel 1, the other radio looks right on channel 11. This way you get frequency re-use and can get much closer to that full channel capacity, but at the cost of doubling the infrastructure cost.
>Like when you hear how India was on track to become a major industrialized nation until the British decided to turn it into the world's biggest piece of farmland.

That's quite a bomb you just threw there. Source?
They note in the article they would have several such clients which would generally be true for a freelancer (rather than a full-time "contractor.")
Ultimate Ace notepad:

https://gist.github.com/jdkanani/4670615
I think it is wise to clarify that by smart tv you mean an HTPC or media center, not the actual Smart TV system as used by the likes of Samsung and LG as this is not a Smart TV app.
Microsoft effectively killed VB with .NET and replaced it with an alternate syntax for C#. Being familiar with VB6 was more of a hindrance than a help to writing any code in VB.NET, and every VB program had to be ported.
yes, but then you don't really _need_ such terminal.

I would love to have FinalTerm's features in some sane terminal (no gtk, no super slow libraries etc)
That exactly the sort of assumption you can't afford to make if you've honestly got company-destroying problems if your email goes down for 6 or even 24hrs.

It's easy in hindsight, but I've seen that happen before, and I have no doubt that if you'd considered the risk and (perhaps ironically) googled for information, you too would have known about this.

On the other side of the coin (and perhaps the reason Google haven't cared enough to fix the problem), SMTP is nicely designed so as to not result in this sort of thing losing any mail - "well behaved" email systems will just queue and retry mail for 5 days if needed.
https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Category:Mesh_Local

It's a small list, and it doesn't say anything about their activity. The project posted here is unrelated to Project Meshnet (which is an outgrowth of r/darknet et al).
That makes me feel like waving my countries flag proudly. Mainly because it isn't the US flag.
WTF? I think Facebook HQ have it in for me...
Show HN: Not Sure What To Make?
Look at this! This 19 year old Kenyan girl raised the funds to go to Hacker School in NYC, and then couldn't get a tourist visa because they're afraid that she's going to outstay her welcome. Agh! It makes my blood boil. Anyway, instead of being disheartened, she's setting up a Hacker School in Nairobi. What a badass! Here's where you give her money
>There are, but each plant (just like in every industry) will have it's own issues, targets and geography specific problems to deal with. Manufacturing isn't a setup once and repeat around the world process - as much as the people working on it would like it to be.*

Sure, but you wrote that (the UK one) "has some very interesting manufacturing/engineering problems". What you describe is perfectly normal engineering problems, that kind that any kind of factory has.

Nothing out of the ordinary, or anything that points to any special UK engineering in the UK CocaCola factories (which was what you provided it as an example of).

>My citation is a friends Dad who was a lead engineer on CocaCola's line. Your citation the Bolivia etc not having interesting problems would be?

Having visited two of them and seen the production process. Pretty much standard stuff all around. Back in the day (it's now closed) we had one even in my hometown in Europe (in a place of around 120K people).