skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Canuck I can whole-heartedly: yes. I pay for supplemental health care (~300/mth for a family of 3) on top of universal, but we've been considering ditching it.
Well, they could roll it back, or they could get better at keeping secrets.
>The problem with cultural/ethnic explanations, in general, is that they are so strongly rooted in our psychology

And that they come first. To look for an individual explanation involves studying an individual or an incident in detail. Resorting to a handy stereotype is far easier. I've never run an airline or been a pilot, but I may have met a Korean or two, and have an easily accessible array of stereotypes about Asians.
I've had my Nokia 928 for about 6 weeks now. Like poster 300bps above, my previous 3 phones were all iPhones (we're like .. phone twins or something)

Overall, I like both the device and the OS. So far any nits I have are minor -- Only one volume setting for all the apps, touch screen is overly sensitive, polymer case is too slippery.

So far, the WP app store has had the applications I care most about. And since you can write apps in C#, it's more approachable to write for.
So it's better to support KDE, which seems to have a far lower drama-quotient and is much more willing to adopt GNOME technology than vice-versa.
It is not about convenience, it is about participating in society. I am dependent on Facebook to keep my friends. No quotation marks. They are my real friends and they moved there for a lot of important communication. Should I instead be an outcast? No, THAT would be depressing.

Please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzldtKV1PY , which nahname linked.
And indeed, they do have more good hockey players, per capita.
The End of App Store Milestones
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Oh, but it does step up the level of discussion, because there are more important matters involved than mere performance gains. Also, the author of yesterday's article pinned a good deal of his "thesis" on some hand waving about how pocket-sized computers won't increase in performance and memory. He stated that ARM is incapable of keeping up with Moore's Law and will have to be replaced by x86. His statements about the likelihood of vendors being capable of shipping hardware that continues to improve is based on nothing but his opinion. It is not in any way supported by some cursory emails with hardware engineers. The MHz limit has nothing to do with Moore's Law, it merely pushes us Ina multi ore direction... So lets say we have 80 cores... Well, one javascript run time could potentially use an entire core! Also, his one engineer quote admits to having an 'incredibly biased opinion'. Really guys, this kind of stuff is what convinces you?

The reason a veteran like Dan take issue with the hardware and performance side of things is that is what originally held back dynamic interpreted languages in the first place. There were a zillion arguments about how Smalltalk and Lisp were just too damn slow and would never be capable of the performance present in languages closer to the metal. Thought the 90s and the 00s these opinions were clearly rendered moot.

Also, lets think about where are problems are actually bound. With games, 3D rendering and graphics are a big pain point and developers spend a lot of resources to cordon off and optimize this code. And then they frequently use a language like Lua to do everything else. This is basically the approach of APIs like WebGL.
Create a Culture That Drives Success, Not One That Makes You Feel Good
No need to feel bad, I used to get a lot of snarking for being a Stallman fan.

It is a basic principle of security to assume that any power an adversary has, will be used against one's interests. People misunderstand this; I have seen it called a fallacy. But it's not a claim that it's always true, rather that it's what one must assume in order to have the best practicable assurance of security /privacy.

I also used to get arguments like "MS/GOogle/$_BIG_TECH_CO wouldn't use their power against customers, it would be bad for business" or "...it would be illegal" or similar. The correct answer is that prudence dictates assuming the worst. Well, maybe I was too cynical, but it's hard to keep up with how bad things really are.
Identified by both the (US) National Transportation Safety board and Korean Air themselves, both of whom have considerably more credibility than Gladwell or Korean bloggers who get their accident stats wrong when trying to put him right (two passengers died on Flight 902, not "nearly half")

Here's a article about how bad the situation was in the late 1990s, published nearly a decade before Gladwell got in on the act.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/575544.stm

It's generally believed that South Korean airlines have addressed a lot of those problems through changes to the organisational culture and better training, but after a crash which initially looks like a significant error by the flight crew, it's not wholly unreasonable to ask if the pattern is re-emerging.
That's lucky. What IM do you use? Skype? ;)
I've been freelancing for 5 years (since I was 18) and I'm positive I couldn't have done it living in the US. I don't have to worry about health care and I know that if I were unable to get work for a while (not happened so far) I could apply to receive housing and job seekers benefits among other things.
Social media is something, but it's not the only thing
Solitary confinement is believed by many critics to be a form of psychological torture which can cause long-lasting damage to the brain.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/solitary-confineme...

The fact that this kid's harmless comments have triggered a rabbit hole whereby he is on the receiving end of physical and psychological abuse while under the "care" of the state is disgusting and appalling.

I do imagine such concerns played into the donor's decision.
Let me preface my comment with a statement that this is very interesting work and it's appreciated. Nevertheless, my worry with the advice given here is that it provides comfort to those unwilling to evaluate other options: platforms or frameworks that may provide the necessary performance characteristics without as many rounds of optimization. Avoidance of premature optimization and avoidance of selection of a well-fitting platform and architecture are not the same thing, though they are often confused for one another.

If you are familiar with Django, and better yet familiar with Django REST, and do not have the time to invest in considering other options (learning about, experimenting with, and taking the necessary time to properly digest), this article gives useful data and demonstrates how to reach performance levels that may be acceptable for your use-case, with some concessions (notably, caching).

However, if you are willing to evaluate other options, there are many platforms that achieve the synthetic target established by the "third bar"--that is, 25ms of server-side processing while doing so with client-side concurrency and without resorting to caching or other potentially complicating/limiting concessions.

If you are a Django developer, by all means leverage advice such as this. If you are not, consider looking to alternatives that meet your performance target out of the box. Perhaps you will find something new that you'll eventually be glad you looked at.
I lived in South Korea and I met some folks working at Berlitz there who apparently won the contract to do English language upgrades for Korean Air. It was soon after 9/11 and they said that after the first class they all looked at each other in silence. Finally one of them said, "Now that is why people thought they were hijacked." They said that 6 months later the difference was absolutely amazing, they were all great students with very few exceptions and all working under the threat of losing their jobs.

I worked with highly educated Koreans when I was there and what the OP says is true about using English words and phrases for highly-technical things I found little to no relationship between that use and a high level of English language competency. If you look at the quoted transcript you see that the item that is "off-script" is in Korean: "Captain: Glide scope 안 돼나? [Isn't glide scope working?]" while all the routine OK checks are in English, following training. For this reason I find elements of his arguments not much more convincing than Gladwell's. (That and the tendency of Korean airliners to drift into Soviet airspace he dismisses seems to support Gladwell's thesis more than his.)

I generally think the "culturalism" thing is a dangerous excuse to engage in a kind of casual racism, but I also think that dismissing culture as an element of any task where humans have to communicate and cooperate is also incorrect.
exercising choice is exercising freedom. pleading for rights from entities that have seized them without your consent is truly depressing because it is hopeless.
I use FB to organize stuff in my local circle of friends, I use it to keep in contact with people who I met who went back to their home country, I use it for people I meet once a year when going to a festival so we can meet up again, I use it for people I might want to contact again (ordered into acquaintances so they don't show up on my newsfeed) and I think I have 3-6 people I've never met before, those are the ones that should have pages but use accounts ;)

Doing all that w/o facebook would be a giant PITA.
> they can still be implicated as a subject of interest simply by being named in a third-party email exchange.

Facebook and Glass both have this property. Technologies which harness the privacy-unaware to compromise the privacy-aware really shit me.

Fortunately I have nothing to hide. Naturally ;)
They probably filter out most of the data. They're building a huge new datacenter; why would they do that if they have the capacity to store all that data already?
Claims to have coined the term "culturalism" decades after it has been in wide use...

Says "Culturalism is the unwarranted impulse to explain people's behavior with a "cultural difference", whether real or imagined," while running a blog called "Ask a Korean."

Pretends culture has nothing to do with how accidents happen.

all credibility lost.
I posted this because I had just been handed a resume with this pitfall. Asked him about mystery skills X & Y and he told he had done some training, but never used them on a project. Lesson is: don't lie.
ASKHN:Why don't device makers make phone/tablet with users allowed to choose OS?
Would that be so difficult? Think a Nokia 1020 with Android loaded on it. Or a Nokia N8 (Old gen) with Windows OS. Life would have been so much better.
I think we should all just create random sized files of random numbers, encrypt them with reasonably strong encryption, and email them to each other. Asymmetric warfare can work in the digital world too.
So I'm guess you haven't done any programming with the reactive extensions yet?
I'm getting tired of extremetech blogspam and sensationalism. This source video was posted yesterday by me and didn't really make it anywhere. It seems I should get a voting ring and embellish my titles a bit more.

If anyone wants to read up on the DRC the two latest press releases are here:
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/07/11.aspx
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/06/27.aspx.
You're reading far too much into what I said, which was pointing out, at least based on the excerpts you quoted, that you hadn't made the case they were "not bound or beholden the US Constitution or law" back then.

Which you aren't as of yet denying, since you're only replying to asides on details you didn't address that are either relevant today (enabling legislation that's been passed since then) or relevant for all this period (power of the purse, and of course what the Congress did last year is hardly relevant to what they'll do this year after all these revelations, or in 2015 after the next round of elections, etc.).
Glad this was clarified. I'm in the UK and pay taxes once per year (and National Insurance every few months). Thought I'd been missing something for a moment :)
> Or that asians and whites have wildly different reactions to milk.

Asians and whites don't have wildly different reactions to milk. Adult mammals are generally lactose intolerant. There is a mutation that, in humans, is found far more often in people with ancestry in Northern Europe (which isn't coextensive with "whites") than any other origin, but which is neither universally absent in all other people or universally present in people of that origin that results in lactose tolerance.

Most supposed "racial" differences (EDIT: that is, most that refer to anything that is actually a measurable difference between real human populations at all) are of this type -- things that are statistically more or less common in a population of a particular origin that is not coextensive with any of the usual "race" categories with which the supposed hard-and-fast difference is popularly associated.
First, Cmd+space i enter, a enter saves 6 key strokes.

Second, why would you open a new terminal window, then immediately open a new terminal window?

Third, I accounted for this in my post.

Finally, what kind of response is this? Are you posting a how-to? Are you making a counter point? Are you just being snarky?
Its a shame you didn't attempt to explain further, we could have both learned something. As it stands now, in certain respects, I disagree.
What do two women have to do with anything? Your comment confused me...
Atlas The Robot Flexes His Muscles
The NSA is skating on very thin constitutional ice, but honestly they haven't really done anything that even qualifies as evil. The KGB did this kind of spying, but they did for the express purpose of sending dissenters to gulag. I haven't seen so much as a credible accusation that the NSA are doing anything other than their duly authorized mission.
To discern the subtle censorship HN is doing, just divide upvotes/minutes on the HN homepage. HN may have decided that "Snowden news" is not hacker news. Definitely, articles are getting flagged.
Stream Adventure - An educational node.js trip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
The point is that Microsoft opened up their services for the NSA, i.e. they was not just doing some contracting work on encryption in general, they were misleading their customers on privacy, something they should go to court for.
This is the strategy I also employ -- generally by the 1/15 date I send a check for what I sent the year before. I don't even bother sending estimated state income tax, that works out to like a $25 penalty by the time they get back to me.
Making life easier for you is not (and has never been) any device maker's goal (despite the ubiquitous propaganda); _making money_ is. I see no practical way for MS (or Google, or Apple, or anyone else) to make money __by providing an alternative to their cash cow__. That's not to mention that support cost would jump to more than double the size of supporting a single OS.

Edit: oh wait, I do see a realistic (i.e. evil) way of "providing an alternative":
1. make a deliberately crippled version of Alternative OS
2. provide alongside Our OS
3. wait for the negative backlash about the crippled version
4. gloat about the superiority of Our OS
5. Profit!!!
Why now? The crackdown is almost past and interesting times are about to begin.

I guess he could not wait a month.
Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Sheremetyevo airport
"Three dimensions should be enough for anybody" :)
Original story at http://news.err.ee/politics/0233b688-b116-44c3-98ca-89a4057a... has been updated with some background - domestic controversy and such
The whole James-Bond-womanizer spy thing :)
Technical Effort Antipatterns
If he knows the information, but has failed to talk about it, then he has failed as a reporter. As a legal expert and reporter, it is his job to elevate the discussion. If he is not ignorant, then he was lazy, and now he has spread ignorance to his reader base.
Unannounced Motorola Moto X likely spotted in the hands of Google's Eric Schmidt
jotpath.com

I have an idea for it but not sure when that will happen. Been considering posting it on Go Daddy auctions or something.

Edit: If you're interested in it, make me an offer. Email is in profile.
Japan I think might be tough for that. As an example of culture shock for me, I remember being introduced to X where they would name the most immediately recognizable company which X had worked for. That was the default. As opposed to say, who they worked for now, or their talents or achievements.

More knowledgeable HNers can probably chime in here, but my impression is that in Japan particularly, respectability and credentialism are played very hard.
In 2000, there was a voting scandal regarding the presidential election in the USA. It involved allegations of votes being paid for, to secure a victory for Bush in Florida, among other states.

An open ballot could have prevented this.
If you look at the last two "major" leaks (manning, snowden), they didn't involve any hacking at all. Employees simply abused their privileges to copy information.
Mammals can 'choose' sex of offspring
This is fascinating! Let me understand one thing: The sheep dip station is network connected to the sealed computer? Doesn't that still pose a risk and violate the principle? It seems you'd be better off checking at the dip station and then reimporting on the sealed computer.

Then again, I suppose in that case you could have malware that detects what system it's on and decides not to activate on the dip station :)
"because these women, although professional lawyers and activists on one side of a very important global case, are nevertheless females, and as such assets to be collected and coveted by the bad-boy James Bond Mr Spy-man" .. or some such.

Asinine, but not an unusual way of thinking among some.
Ballmer: Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers in Datacenters, Only Second to Google
It is perhaps a polite way of saying they do not wish to be a part of it?

And no, I don't think human rights activists goal should be to cause the most trouble.
is there any scientific evidence for "cleanses" at all?
Because the word "cleanse" sets off my BS detector like crazy.
Anyone wonder who might have paid this high an amount to bail this kid out? half a million is not a chump change for many millionaires or multi millionaires...but could be for someone who is a multi billionaire...
And which multi billionaire would have 'soft' side to a facebook comment by a young kid..19 yr kid...maybe someone who probably would have said brash things himself when at that age...(not implying that he would have in same context) ...so could that be Zuckerberg? 1/2 million is a chump change for him and has obviously affiliation to see people not stop commenting on FB. Just wondering
Well, it's not exactly a joke, it's a comment ridiculing the other person by responding with obvious dripping sarcasm. People who really take "eat their still-beating hearts" seriously from a teenager playing a video game have serious difficulty parsing reality.

However, I am skeptical that there is anyone that actually took it seriously and didn't understand that this was a sarcastic comment. Those advocating this teen's continued imprisonment while making claims he is a potential mass murderer or terrorist are not sincere, they are interested in promoting the exercise of state power for its own sake.
>Storage is already pretty cheap, but it's a pain in the ass to manage

Management is part of the cost of storage. If storage is cheap except for the cost of managing it, which is expensive, then storage is expensive.
What? Open source in a cloud service stack means that if the NSA thugs show up and order you to insert intercepts into your software on pain of being "disappeared", it's far EASIER to change the source and recompile than it is with proprietary software.

rimantas is referring to using open source in a cloud service, not authoring and distributing it.
But chromium and chrome do not lead to duplication of efforts:
Chrome is basicly Chromium + addons - and chrome devs contribute to chromium - they supplement eachother.
The stuff that Boston Dynamics is doing with DARPA funding feels like a current-generation parallel to how DARPA funded the early efforts at building the Internet.

I suspect we will look back on these guys as some of the early pioneers of the yet-to-come ubiquitous robotics era.
Imagine if the picture showed Snowden with two bodyguards, Secret Service types with sunglasses, or hackers with green-hair and piercing, or a stereotypical Russian and a Chinese next to him, what image in the popular psyche is more favorable to win him sympathy and show him in a positive light?

Perhaps it was unintentional and Im reading too much into it, but still its better than being shown alone. He has somebody at his side, and usually women seem more careing and concerned. This isnt a piss- or penis-length fight as is usually the case when it comes to debates on power in society.

Or do I just fail at psyops?
Python quirks
And here I was thinking they had found an Australian Planet...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=true%20blue
Which is fair -- do we really need 4+ front page stories about this same event?
Sort of, according to the holographic principle. Since there is a limit on information density in space, you should be able to reduce a 3-dimentional volume to a 2-dimentional digital data structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
My (admittedly limited, but not null) experience with Japanese business culture suggests that things may be a bit different there. From my understanding, it takes a very long time for trust between businesses (in my case), or between businesses and employees to be forged. The people you talked to may not have had enough pull yet to make anything happen outside of their own teams.
Matryoshka Hardware
In the Gore vs. Bush election, there were potentially a lot of votes sold.
Completely agree, the sort of person that puts process ahead of people in such a mechanical way creeps me out.
The message isn't "avoid all crypto all the time", but "don't kludge together some crypto project and push it into production".

I think we can all agree on that, however because all the big companies who hire experts and provide cryptography services, like Microsoft, Blackberry, Apple and Google, seem willing to give back doors to intelligence services in many countries and undermine the point of using cryptography, there are not many open choices left. I wouldn't really trust a project like the one linked, and see why people have reservations about it. Which projects would you recommend, as I'm genuinely interested? I use GPG for my own limited use, but would love to see a project for end to end encryption for email for example which also handles plain emails. The trick is in getting other people to use it, and that's all in the interface I think, not the cryptography.

I do think (as a sometime user of cryptography for mundane uses) it's worth having other options, and that will mean quite a few partially broken offerings as it's apparently a very subtle and complex topic and very easy to get wrong - I don't see any way round that if use becomes widespread - even the users will undermine it by mistake by not protecting keys etc. However without widespread adoption and easier interfaces for open cryptography, we won't have any choices but very secure encryption which is pre-signed with an NSA_KEY or otherwise backdoored for the NSA's convenience.