skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're arguing for sophistry in service of authority, in bad faith I might add. You know what my motivations are just like you do for "lay journalists," but at least I engaged the argument in detail and with respect to your terms.

And that's a pretty funny implication: "I only called other people names." I guess I should apologize if my first paragraph broke your brain, it was the last part I wrote and I almost didn't include it.
No, the underpinning is the slide [1] which explicitly states "collection directly from the servers"

[1]: http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/016565/new-prism...
I agree. It needs a little more contrast.
I think of finance people as financial engineers. They just deal in the stuff, like I play with data structures, and my friends diodes and resistors and such. I think of how easy it is for me to manage my own software, my friend, his electro-static speakers, and to the finance engineer, his giant piles of money. It's just natural.

The sour grapes response for me is to consider that selling drugs earns more than the finance guys.
No. It's more complex than that, and depends on who you're talking to.
The piece did not say "third party". I'm assuming these clients are the official Twitter mobile apps.
Thanks for the input! I was not aware that private sub-reddits could be made.
Do you have children? The problems OP complains about with San Fran, won't be made any better if he brings his SF salary here. That's the problem. It's pricing locals out of affordable housing. Rentals here in Sellwood/Westmoreland start at $2000/mo. When we got to Portland two years ago, rentals here started at $1100/mo.

Portland is THE most expensive place we've lived in in Oregon. A family of four pays between 150-200/mo for electric/natural gas and water. We've lived in Salem and Eugene for comparisons sake. Our electric bill in Eugene, with central AC (that ran from pretty much March - September) would max out at $75/mo.
Sorry I should have been specific about meaning places to live and commute to SF. You could do that from the Nut or Freemont I suppose, but that's a far commute, and a whole separate discussion about why I wouldn't suggest that to anyone from out of the area
He will be missed by a big community, that always enjoyed hearing his voice and witty banter on the podcast and in the videos on giantbomb
I think it actually did end well. The guy was acquitted last I heard. I don't think their changes held up in Court.
I can't speak too much to this as its still technically NDA. But the whole font engine is rather changed. This almost looks like a leak of some NDA type material but dynamic type is actually quite cool. Additionally the "thinness" is largely not that big of a deal with the retina displays. Past that I'm not saying anything more.

It is really nice to have some... designed text that you can hook into and use that the user can control. It scales really well readability wise, I'll just say screenshots don't quite do text in ios7 justice, and it is really easy to make it more readable if it isn't to your eyes.

But I'm sure they'll always be neue helvetica haters in general so meh, whatever, use/hate what you want to.
A Thicker Hope
Yes, but the job market sucks there, especially if you don't want to work in Defense. :) If you want to live where life is remotely walkable (a la San Francisco), the prices jump considerably. A decent house in a decent neighborhood comfortably around downtown will run 300k. Making half what you do in SF and paying 300k isn't so grand.

I love Tucson. I grew up there. It's just a bad place to be a software developer.
Also cjdns[0] is a good one to add!

[0] http://cjdns.info/
Just discovered (under Systemic bias) that the Dutch wikipedia is the second biggest. That's pretty awesome of us Dutchies! (I also read ones that the Dutch are 4th or something on torrent uploads. Brilliant.)
"an experiment in creating a friendly and intelligent community around sharing quality content"

Ugh. I'm tired of people trying the same old crap to curate content. They're all roughly the same and none are that good. Upvotes suck and we need to move past them.

If someone wants to take the next step in internet content curation then they need to adapt a netflix style algorithm. Anything short of that I just don't care about.
As someone who went to a small northeastern private school as well... I find it strange that it isn't abundantly clear to you that even our educations were a privilege that the vast majority of the country can't afford.
That being said, if someone can make an extra 40k/year by commuting 4 hours a day, it may very well be worth it to them. The difference in earning potential between commuting to the local city and not can be dramatic.
Indeed, but that would mean to write the majority in Go and glue it together with Python instead of just outsourcing small performance critical pieces as described by OP.
Out of curiosity: I've often heard that Australia is a great place to live. Did you move back to the US because you were missing "home", or was there anything in Australia you felt unhappy about for raising a family?
I'm not a lawyer; I just play one on message boards. Also, while I think my invocation of "review boards" is closer to the truth than the notion that the FISC is a real court, you should know that the sentiment is disputed and though I don't believe it's hyperbolic, some people do.

Courts of law established by the federal government must comply with Article III of the US Constitution (state courts, which is where the overwhelming majority of all controversies in the US are heard, don't need to be structured along the lines of Article III, because the US Constitution defines the federal government and not the state governments).

An Article III court is staffed with a federal judge appointed by the President (as specified in Article II) with a lifetime tenure. Article III courts "extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution".

FISC court judges are appointed from the federal bench (they're judges appointed by a President for a lifetime term on a federal court). But they have a limited tenure on FISC --- seven years. And unlike Article III appointments, FISC judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. And, most importantly, FISC judges do not have power that extends to all cases in law and equity under the Constitution. In fact, the only thing they're empowered to do is authorizing FISA certifications.

Things that the FISC does not appear to be able to do: hear criminal cases, sentence defendants, overturn laws, or establish precedents binding on any other court.

There are other federal courts that aren't Article III courts --- bankruptcy is one of them. Bankruptcy court judges have 14 year terms. Even though they function as part of the district court system, the Judiciary is clear that they aren't Article III judges. It's worth noting that Bankruptcy's bizarro status in the court system has also created stare decisis problems with the rest of the court system. There's little reason to believe that FISA courts, which are even further removed from Article III than Bankruptcy, would be more judicially potent.

One dispute about the Constitutional status of FISC judges arises from case law in the 1990s, wherein a defendant claimed that the FISC was a violation of separation of powers. The appellate decision ruled that FISC judges weren't violating Article III by serving on the FISC, but I dispute that the language in the decision dictates that those judges are in fact Article III judges; I think it says merely that a federal judge doesn't violate Article III by sitting on a body that is effectively an agent of Congress. If they are Article III courts, the FISC is unconstitutional (in a technical way, not a substantive way).

I'm a layperson summarizing independent research here, so I'd very much appreciate an expert's opinion on this analysis.
The script is actually Ubuntu specific, not Debian (it uses Upstart).
Because he/she hasn't read the article.
> "Clearly, higher density construction in NYC has dramatically reduce prices there."

They have.[1]

Or more accurately, they have prevented the exact sort of rent explosion that SF is experiencing now. Manhattan is expensive to live in - but rent prices are growing at predictable and relatively low rates. There are even desirable, wealthy neighborhoods where rents are slowly decreasing.

The fact is also that artificially restricting oneself to Manhattan makes for a easier comparison to SF, but is not representative of the housing situation overall. Commuting from Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx into Manhattan is trivially easy, and rent (even if we strictly limit ourselves to the low-crime, desirable sections of these boroughs) is lower than SF.

Take Brooklyn[2] for example. Plenty of good, safe neighborhoods with solid subway access where prices are flat.

[1] http://www.mns.com/manhattan_rental_market_report

[2] http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report
It is probably more useful to link to the github page https://github.com/valderman/haste-compiler
Even if you can be bothered to semi-manually audit the changes a script applies to the VM and can afford the time and space overheads of such a "guess-and-check" approach, a malicious server could send you a different script the second time you requested it, or the script could in turn pull down other payloads differently the second time it executed. If you try to extract a diff of the changes applied to the VM and then reapply it to your host machine to ensure the behavior is the same, why not simply have an installer system which behaves in a more restricted way to begin with? The root of the problem is that shell scripts fetched from remote servers are far too flexible to be 'safe'.
> for reasons other than entertainment.

well, i'd be surprised if there are people here for any other reasons :)

the flightaware data correlates very well with what is on video. Personally i spent a bunch of time on Coyote Pt. so i can mentally correlate the video with how it looks for other planes/landings at SFO. As we aren't ordained NTSB officers, we're free to make wrong calls :)
Related - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
They may average 6K w/s, but history has shown higher peaks, and those peaks often include tweets from those with large 30e6+ followers -- large events naturally have celebrities chiming in. Having more CPU [cores], RAM, and IO is not going to solve for the need to shard your Redis, which is bound by a single core. For the fanout, that is anywhere from 90 to 90e3 cores at 2e6 Redis IOPs -- 1-6e3 Lady Gagas per second. Before pipelining, which you'd probably consider complex or fragile. All you've done is moved some networking parts around. Your code and topology hasn't really changed.
Modern building codes prevented that from happening again in '89. If you think earthquakes are a legitimate reason to limit density, Tokyo and Osaka would like to talk to you.
Some of the things they listed are dubious...

Writing to a file, there’s File.Write([]byte) and File.WriteString(string) – a bit of a departure for Python developers who are used to the Python zen of having one way to do something

Simply because it's not currently feasible to write a function that can have multiple type signatures (via overloading, generics, etc.).

Going between []byte and string. regexp uses []byte (they’re mutable). It makes sense, but it’s annoying all the same having to cast & re-cast some variables.

There are actually two different versions of each regexp function: one for strings, one for []byte. Maybe they're using a different version?

No tuples, have to write your own structs or use slices (arrays)

Actually, you can declare a fixed-length array as a type. So if you need to return a triple of ints, you can declare the return type to be [3]int and have the type system check that you're actually returning an array of ints of length 3.

Similarly, a lot of the other bullet points are natural results of having a static type system.

I was expecting more points like:

* you can't monkey-patch functions into external libraries like you can with Python modules
* no generics, so you can't write a generic "map" function, for example
* no preemptive multitasking, so one goroutine can wedge the entire program
* passing around arrays and structs is by value, leading to unexpected allocation and memory usage
* pointers
Show HN: Searchdaimon, our enterprise search engine is now open source
So we (if only we could just blame the Americans, but we are all responsible, unfortunately) respect their religious rights but completely ignore their rights to liberty or even a fair trail.

You have to admit, it's hilarious. Even the Soviets could not have made up this stuff.
I find this comparison to be flawed in that the base system used is not very frugal.

Tiny Core gives you a GUI desktop in an under 12 MB iso.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/

That said, I'm sticking with FreeBSD & dwm.
The same thing is happening in Norway.

A law was just passed that allows private law firms to monitor IP addresses participating in file sharing networks (BitTorrent etc.). After gathering IP addresses a law firm can retrieve the name and address of any "suspects" from their respective ISPs, and then proceed with filing lawsuits.

The law firms usually act on behalf of the larger organizations such as MPAA, RIAA, BREIN and others.

Most people don't care though. Even the majority of younger people, who often pirate popular TV shows and movies, seem indifferent.
Haven't tried any of them, but I remembered there are some, so after quick googling:

https://github.com/sbinet/go-python

https://github.com/qiniu/py

https://github.com/qur/gopy
Summery Books Too Far Out For Johnny Depp
I've read through about half of the on-line content and I'm impressed, I would gladly pay for a completed version, particularly if it was available to read on a kindle.

So, please consider finding a way to make this project worth your while as I really want to see this completed.
Do you think it also can legitimately be explained as Congress lacking the technical understanding necessary to pass adequate legislation in this regard? Or does that fall under the domain of 'too short-sighted'? Perhaps the lack of necessary long-view is a result of fundamental ignorance of technical issues?

Do we know where the pressure/lobbying for passing rule-making authority was sourced?

I'm not on the 'power grab by the surveillance state' wagon, but I am keenly interested in where the sources lie and what arguments convinced Congress to pass off rule-making authority.
Wow, you taught me something. I've heard of the "Fourier transform" many times and it never clicked what it was for.

Thanks!
They are making a tradeoff between cost of reading your timeline and cost of a write at tweet-time to optimize the former.
Wikipedia has some data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectanc...

As you can see, if you survived childhood, you had decent chance to get to 60 even in Roman empire. And if you were among rich Romans with access to good food, good sanitation, medical care (however primitive was it back then), etc. your chances to get to an age that is considered advanced even now were not that bad.
Taxation can alleviate that. Provide tax relief to owner-occupants with children. Tax the shit out of non-occupant owners.
Yes. My first computers TRS-80 through to Amiga had massive advancements in capability, and while the memory increased with each step it was the gain in power that drove upgrades. Since then the pressure to upgrade has been primarily memory. CPU has not really been an issue because the memory pressure forces an upgrade by virtue of new memory module architecture necessitating a new motherboard.

The machines I am currently using perform poorly because they do not have enough memory. I'm in the saving-for-a-new-machine phase, suffering poor performance on computers with more than adequate CPU power.

It must be said though, the Window Manager probably plays a very small part of that load. While browsers take a major single chunk. Much of the drain comes from the accumulation of everything. So many apps have a philosopy that "an extra 20(0) meg doesn't matter when you have gigabytes" that eventually they combine to actually eat up your gigabytes.
If you play around 1) older machines, or 2) desktops in VMs, it's handy to know what uses less memory. I used to use XFCE in these circumstances but have switched to LXDE based on comparisons like these. Good balance between memory usage and utility/familiarity.
Stuff like this, that explores the document nature of HTML, should be standard on the web, instead of the current crazy trend of reinventing desktop applications in the browser.
They are only doing 6k writes a second for crying out loud.

And 600k reads per second (as of when this article was written), which seems like an important thing to leave out.
Part 2 people, the Guardian should get a Golden Globe for this highly organized (and entertaining) delivery of the news.
It's a given that the hardcore gamers will either stick with the consoles or go PC.

However it's good to note that GTA, Call of Duty, and Madden are all on the tablets and phones now. The publishers can't ignore the large casual gaming market.
Another earthquake should worry San Francisco no more than another fire should worry Chicago.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=tucson,+az&hl=en&ll=32.176194...

Looks like they include a lot of land for whatever reason that's not really "city" - and don't include some that is.

I don't know what the job climate is like there, or life in general, but it seems like a fairly nice place: college town, desert climate, but they also have a ski resort (!) just out of town, because to the north east they have a 3000 meter mountain that juts up out of the plain.
>>>>And the US government would try anything to get him.

Trust me, if they wanted to go get him, they would. Right now it's still a very public story, and doing anything in haste would shed more bad light on the admin and vilify what Snowden is doing.

Once the story dies down is when you need to start paying attention.

Just in case you were wondering. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case

"Abu Omar was abducted on February 17, 2003, in Milan by the CIA.[1] and transported to the Aviano Air Base, from which he was transferred to Egypt, where he was secluded, interrogated and allegedly tortured and abused"

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15198047/ns/world_news-terrorism/t...

"Al-Masri, a former car salesman and a father of five, said he was abducted on Dec. 31, 2003, at the Serbia-Macedonia border while on vacation. He said he was taken to a hotel in the Macedonian capital of Skopje where he was imprisoned and tortured for 23 days before being flown to Kabul, Afghanistan."
What do you think is lacking in i3's documentation?

http://i3wm.org/docs/
> "quality content with a focus on... anything that appeals to the inquisitive mind"

This is a source of a lot of uncivil behavior on HN. Startup founders/tech geeks are intellectually interested in a lot of topics but unqualified to discuss them in any detail. This results in comment threads full of knee-jerk reactions and bikeshedding.
It seems that many unfortunately take "constructive criticism" to be only delusion-inducing back patting: People get their panties in the bunch around here when people have anything but unadulterated praise for various Show HN projects.

Dare to point out that restricting your project to Facebook logins might restrict usage and boy do some get the vapours, and a dozen hysterical "I remember back when HN wasn't so mean" blog posts start getting authored.

There is always a danger in being involved in an echo-chamber. As Groucho Marx so famously said "I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member". If you seek out and insulate yourself from broader criticism, the result is very unlikely to be useful.

I plan on posting a Show HN in the coming weeks, and my greatest hope is that it will be torn to pieces. I'm enough of an adult to categorize and prioritize the criticism.
> It should also be expected to cut down on the number of users.

Of course it would. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to reduce the portion of asses in a community at the cost of also reducing the number of quality users. This applies to your last paragraph as well. In this case, for a tech- or startup-leaning community, I think Twitter and GitHub accounts target a huge portion of all appropriate users, and I think it could very well be effective despite it excluding valuable users who don't have or don't wish to use accounts from either service.

As for moderation, it can obviously be an effective tool. But I don't think it's a cure-all feature or even the most fundamentally important feature of a successful community. I have probably seen more online communities negatively impacted by moderators than by users (I would say that holds for Hacker News).

Granted, the "quality" of an online community is inherently subjective, so communities I find problems with might serve a large portion of their users very well. At the end of the day, the people who dislike a community enough to leave will leave, and that improves both the community and those people's lives. That is the fundamental "self-moderation" of online communities.
Really good book for those wanting more on Nintendo history: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America...

I just finished the audio version during workouts, while it was not _thrilling_ it was definitely interesting
Improved SVN Here to Stay, Old SVN Going Away
"...start talking about something more interesting than your work"

Aaannd herein lies the second-order problem for many: that they aren't involved in anything interesting outside of work. This is, by the way, also a problem for us that have already acqui-hired Ms. Right.
CPython's sets are implemented the same way.
1. You reinvented Reddit.

2. Eternal September will eat you too.
The original origin of the "obsession with home ownership" was the idea of escaping the need to pay fealty to the rentier class by owning your own home. I completely agree that "house as investment" and house flipping bubblemania is insane, and is partly responsible for ruining the real estate market.

Actual ownership is now impossible for ordinary middle to upper middle class people in markets like the Bay Area, and in fact renting is more rational there. But there are plenty of other markets where it's not impossible.
this sorta feels like a spam site.

FWIW, the official .nyc site from NYC GOV: http://www.mydotnyc.com/
I've been able to print toys with mine. I was thinking I could print parts/gears for robots but so far the stuff isn't dense/strong enough. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, going to try 3mm filment and see how that works.
Deadly Derailment in Quebec Underlines Oil Debate
Nothing nearly as mature, but the project is here: https://github.com/gonum and the mailing list is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gonum-dev
What exactly about it seems reasonable? He's making assumptions about my dedication based on the fact that I have a family. From that alone he really has no idea how many hours I would be willing to put in, how dedicated I'd be to the business, or how hard I'd hustle for him.

The only thing that seemed reasonable to me was wanting to work with someone that could physically be there with him at the program. If that were the sole reason for going with someone else over me I'd have understood perfectly. Instead he's basing his decision on weak anecdotal evidence. He worked with one other family guy that wasn't as dedicated to the business as he himself was and he came to the conclusion that the family part was what was holding him back from being a better partner. That doesn't strike me as sound reasoning at all.
Detroit was built around the auto industry. San Francisco is merely host to the tech industry. It will thrive with or without it.