skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the parent's point is that "why doesn't everybody use all keyboard shortcuts all the time" is a HN refrain that is tired and smug, and yet still the top-voted comment here.
I would add: make the website responsive
>It's a booze-fueled learning, partying and networking event unlike any other

Is there any way to get use out of it that doesn't include 'booze-fueled and partying'. I have no problem with booze, but I definitely dislike partying. Yes, I'm a wet blanket, but if the partying atmosphere is where the use comes from, I would seriously be uninterested.

I know that actually does limit the networking part too.
If the range of current monthly incomes in society is from $M to $N, and you add $X to all incomes, you'd expect price levels for goods to rise by varying ratios depending on the good but generally somewhere between (N+X)/N and (M+X)/M, meaning that goods would generally become more affordable for those on the lower end of the scale and less affordable for those on the higher end of the scale.

EDIT: Fixed parens
BrowserID requires nothing from Mozilla. They of course offer a public server so that you don't have to run your own server if you don't want to, but it's entirely, 100% optional.
How's the government going to decide where to put people? The poor people get to live in the richest neighborhoods in NYC? Or do they get pushed out to the cheaper areas of Harlem? In the first scenario, the costs are insanely high. In the second, you're forcing the poor into a bad neighborhood.

Food: who decides who gets what? Vegan options OK? Food allergies? Only organic?

Whenever personal decisions are left to the government, things get bad.
All the current rumors on the phone point to boring superficial changes like color and customized wallpapers (for real). They're not spending $500mil advertising a phone for hardware geeks.
At the time FF was still behind IE and IE hadn't really adopted extensions yet, I think. It's a bit fuzzy how we got there, this wasn't like a formal business plan and analysis, this was some college guys in the dorms chewing on an idea for a few weeks.
Money doesn't disappear.
I'm not talking about individual LINQ queries, which themselves can be perfectly fine: Microsoft is pretty smart, so if you're doing basic LINQ for objects grouping and sorting and selecting, they're going to use decent algorithms given the structures used. There is nothing surprising that the submitted usage shows very similar performance, as in the end both cases are doing essentially the same thing.

The problem is that it makes it so conveniently easy to do brute-force tactics that....oh the horrible things I've seen...code gets littered with LINQ doing naive queries repeatedly over massive sets of data. Of course you need good coders and good code audits, but LINQ, I think, gives a unsupported sense of comfort that one is making good code (where if people had to code these as loops, it would become very evident very early on that maybe they should rethink their approach).
Watsi is looking for a front-end developer to travel with us to Nepal
Great idea, but I think Google already uses this data.

Google Toolbar and now Chrome report this data back to Google, and most search pros believe "serp bounce back" and "time on site" are key signals Google uses.

PageRank and DwellRank are not either-or choices.

Here's my theory: Google uses PageRank to decide what pages to "try out" for a query (i.e. display a page in the SERP for a sampling of queries). If the page gets clicks AND has good "DwellRank" then it gets progressively better and better rankings. If a new page enters that beats it, it falls.

This approach is very Googly -- they love to test. They love to decide if product features are good or not by giving them a sampling of traffic. It would be insane of them not to extend this approach to search.

So the upshot is, use "PageRank" to decide which pages deserve an audition, and use "DwellRank" to decide the winners.

Since 40% of the clicks go to #1, 10% to #2, 8% to #3 etc,Google can audition pages using DwellRank without affecting the experience of the majority of their users.
Software Testing Certifications: Helpful or Hurtful?
Proxy replays? How so?

As for cert validation / forged certs, they're only problematic because we want to authenticate a server we have never talked to before. With clients certs, the same doesn't apply: the server just needs to ensure the client is the same as the one who registered the account, so there's no need for the whole CA enchilada.
I always wished we could use SSL the way we use phisycal keys. They are a very good example encapsulization and easy user interface. When you use the key for your house, you look for a certian color or shape of the key. Most users don't know or care how the lock works. Why can't SSL be this way. Instead of having the end user chose a password have the browser automaticaly generate a public/private pair. For the user interface make a key with a random or user generated design. When the user goes to the website again present the user with a list of their keys and have them chose the correct one.
SCEP via .mobileconfig on iPhone, it's a breeze; I use client side certificates in a lot of places and the UX is transparent so long as the device doesn't contain multiple certificates.
This looks great! Good job!
Snowden might be on this Aeroflot flight to Cuba
When you compare today's route of flight AFL150 to the previous ones, you'll notice that US airspace is avoided while that's normally not the case.
Jaguar PROJECT 7 to make dynamic debut at Goodwood [video]
What's arrogant about it?
(off-topic)

Love the contact page [1] of this website. What are some other effective filters?

[1] http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html
Presumably this email was meant to help change behavior within Microsoft. To give people a guide for how to do their job better. If I were a Microsoft employee I wouldn't know what to make of that quote. It doesn't speak to anything you would deal with directly in the day to day.
Gistbox - The Beautiful Way to Organize Code Snippets
I'd be far more worried about this sending a false prosperity signal that could exacerbate our already insane and unsustainable population levels. What's really depressing is that not a single comment here or on the article even mentions this.

Why the hell should I pay even more and subsidize those who have more than two kids?
I honestly don't think any bureaucracy would be trimmed whatsoever; it'd be replaced. All of those government jobs wouldn't be cut, they'd be moved to the new program. No matter how simple you try to make it, something like this would end up ridiculously complicated. You'd need a bureau in charge of deciding how much a person in each zip code gets, how much taxes to raise, which taxes to raise, monitor improvement, monitor areas for local government abuse (billing the federal government for fake people to get the extra cash, as an off-the-cuff example), etc.
> but its pretty self-evident that the effect on actual prices is dependent on price elasticity of demand in the markets for particular products

Of course, but there's still the "minimum profitability" that a business seeks to have. Suppose three firms compete to sell widget X, and consumers are willing to pay up to $10 for it, but the companies sell it at $5 due to competition (it costs $4 to make and distribute). Then the price is determined by supply cost + reasonable profit, determined by competition. If the government removes part of that profit, they'll raise prices accordingly, and sell for $6 instead, since that's still within the demand price elasticity -- otherwise the firms would decide there wasn't enough profit and get out of the business entirely.

> No more than taxing labor income... is really taxing corporate stockholders

The difference is that taxing labor income can be intentionally progressive, which is widely believed to be a good thing.

> But taxing high salaries is "regressive"

That just doesn't make any sense -- words can't be redefined like that. The very definition of progressive taxation is taxing high salaries (EDIT: incomes) of individuals at a higher rate than lower ones.

I understand your overall argument -- it's certainly debatable to what extent you believe corporate taxes to affect prices, vs to what extent you believe personal income tax to affect market salaries. But that doesn't affect the point I was making, which is that corporate taxes are ultimately passed onto people, and that this is not done in a progressive way. But by taxing people directly instead, this can be done progressively.
Theres'a a shitty shortage of losers out there.
Are you in your twenties? Are you begging for VC like a dog in the alley with a major case of the shits? (you are arent you) damn.

I sorry, that be a free bj you dont want to give. Even 5 bucks might make you feel better. But ick. Damn for free?

Anywhoo. Picture filters! they are so COOL! like worth a billion dollars (to a sucker). Just imagine when you tell your folks your applying FILTERS to pictures and making them look worse, they will be so proud. So so proud.

And then there was that day whenn you went on that book tour and you got to meet Grumpy Cat face to puss. So awesome. So Awesome.

And its kinda like, if we just had enough malinvestment, and enough cat videos, and enough plane crashes due to pilot error, we could feel good about ourselves,

selling online coupons, and illegal taxi rides and a friend network based on selling our personal information and location.

Heck America is a yard sale! Crash your planes here! Crash your planes here!

We can deal with it. We have no worries. We can sell that shit for scrap.
These also seem like good reasons not to use proprietary/closed source solutions.

At least with cryptocat everyone know knows about the security issues now and take precautions as if their entire encrypted communications have been compromised. With proprietary solutions you have to rely on an honor system where you hope the vendor tells you there is an issue.
Why bother learning Clojure?
A lot of people have explained why they use Clojure. I'm giving a presentation on Clojure in a couple of weeks and I'm curious about why people who don't yet know Clojure are drawn to it.

So the question if you are thinking about learning Clojure: why?
As someone who takes a lot of photos with my phone, this interests me a lot. Though as someone who has previously used Windows Phone, I'm very skeptical about going back to it.

This is the first device that makes me wonder about Nokia's WP-exclusive decision. They didn't go with Android to avoid becoming "yet another" Android manufacturer, and I agree with that sentiment (look at how few are turning a profit). However, there are no Android devices that really excel at stuff like photography- I think that Nokia could have carved out an interesting niche in solidly built, feature-focused devices.

But oh well.
> After the cert has been verified, you're free to pull the card out.

Last time I checked DoD systems are configured to automatically log you out of your session upon removal of your CAC.
It might be easier to store references to what you have read and if you 'mark all as read' you can remove the individual references below [date].
I have heard this several times. What is the original source ?
"Is there any way...?"

Generally, if you mean phoning home over the internet, yes! If you mean over cellular networks, no.

To get things started, there should first be some "buzz" around kernelspace packet filters. Because that is what you need to start using.

Computers running packet filter software are sometimes called "firewalls". But that terminology does not promote much understanding among users who are not also career network administrators.

If you are concerned with what your device is communicating over the public internet, then you can monitor these communications first to confirm your suspicions. And then, if necessary, you can exercise some control over it.

How? Run packet filter software in your OS's kernel. Numerous open source, free OS's allow you to do this. And what does it cost? Nothing! With commercial, proprietary OS's that are sold for money (which are often just modified versions of open source free OS's) it may not be so easy. In fact, they may make it impossible to do. Go figure.

With a packet filter, you can view and, if desired, block packets entering and leaving your machine, according to your rules. Assuming you can get this set up easily (and indeed you can), why would anyone not want to do this? You can even use an old computer repurposed just to do packet filtering. Have your new devices use it as a gateway.

For the avoidance of doubt, popular "firewall" software like ZoneAlarm or whatever are not what I'm talking about. Those are userspace software.

"Can we trust hardware?"

In general, I'd say the more bundled it is, the less trustworthy it is. If you cannot even open the enclosure let alone run your own OS (hello Apple), that's not going to help users who want to "trust, but verify". Building your own computer (think something like RaspberryPi) gives you freedom and more peace of mind.
It's a perfectly cromulent encapsulation of their newly synergized core competencies.
Oh Yeah!!!! :)
Ah yes, in describing LOOP:

"one often has to consult the manual to recall lesser-used aspects of the strange syntax"

Guess where my copy of CLTL2 falls open at?

[Unfortunately, it's a long time since I did much CL development]
I really like the concept (and have for at least a decade and a half). The linked article misses one thing which is that minimum wage legislation can probably be removed too.

What I don't know is actually what the level of the basic income could realistically be at what levels of income tax (I assume that there would be a single flat tax rate for all income additional to the Basic Income).

It would be great to get good statistics of earned/savings income distributions for a few countries and current income tax, capital gains tax and National Insurance takes and build a tool to see what incomes and rates a feasible. I picture being able to adjust basic income and see the effect on the tax rate and vice versa. Ideally you could make the income distribution adjustable so that you could try different scenarios such as the effect of more people doing no work.

I'm not sure how children should be handled in these models either as there are real costs and you don't want child poverty but you don't want to make breeding too profitable which may occur if they attracted the full rate Basic Income.
So, two years later Windows Phone has finally caught up with Symbian!

Is it because WP couldn't handle the camera - or were Microsoft actively crippling Nokia's technical advantages over the other OEMs?
It sounds like his platform is perhaps a private enterprise platform? In other words, it doesn't sound like Facebook or Youtube where information can easily spread, which is probably a prerequisite for having control over your data.

The company I work for deals with background checks and screening information on behalf of our clients' clients. I could definitely see us safely removing all of that personal information from our system and not being able to recover it. But at the same time, we're a much much much smaller organization compared to Facebook.
Even with this kind of device, it is still very doubtful if Nokia is going to get any kind of success with Windows Phone. Their market share drop has been nothing short of catastrophic everywhere but in the US, where they never had significant market share. Even their feature phones have stopped selling as well as they used to. It will be interesting to see if they can get back on track with current strategy or with any strategy at all.
Living in an expensive area is a consumption choice.

If I live in a mansion in that Grover, NC, would you say that my expenses were high so I deserve more basic income?

High prices are the market telling you to consider looking someplace else to live.

This is how the good ideas of progressive intellectuals get destroyed: other progressives want to weigh them down with all sorts of other social engineering baggage. (Conservative intellectuals have good ideas that get destroyed by other conservatives, too.)
They, of course, would still work, but the great unwashed masses would sit on their backsides and take the money.

The counter argument would be the existence of industries that people will already not work in.

For example Italy has a 38.5% youth unemployment rate. It also can't get enough workers for the garment industry. So why don't the youth of Italy want these jobs? Maybe the work is seen as menial (so a cultural condition) or maybe the wages are too low (they think they deserve more) or maybe Italy has made hiring citizens too difficult (so they shift to the black economy), but either way their reluctance is sustained by a welfare state that allows them to not work.

The same can be said in this country with the absurdly low unemployment rate in North Dakota while the disability rate has shot through the roof. Unless you think people have suddenly and inexplicably become disabled this is clear evidence that people are willing to go on the Government dole rather than get a job in North Dakota.

I'm not even saying these people are evil or irrational. (It actually seems entirely rational to me) In a similar situation I'd probably do the same thing.

The question is: how many people currently working would stop working if they didn't need to? (particularly in the areas vital for the basic functioning of society) That question is so impossibly difficult to answer that I don't think any system we come up with won't have potentially disastrous consequences.
"block and hit = followed by shift+6 ie %" -> my % is on number key 5.

otherwise a nice intro vim article
Discount Cards The Results Are Amazing
Despicable. I'm still appalled at how hysterical the reaction is to this incredibly minor threat. Talking to a chatbot, it doesn't get more victimless a crime. This is just plain entrapment for a harmless thoughtcrime.

I once read that paedophiles have on average a lower IQ, I wonder if that is because they only catch the dumber ones. I know a chatbot wouldn't fool me. (And don't misquote me on this, I'm not admitting I'm a paedophile, you know what I mean.)
You crazy for this one, science.
HL3, L4D3, Source 2 + More Found on Valve's JIRA
Maybe this would've had a chance with Android, but with WP8? It's a niche offering within a niche OS market. It's like offering Battlefield 4 for Linux only.
EVE Online: Premeditated Murder
The entire 5 hour documentary I think this is from about the 777 is awesome and definitely worth the watch.

It was on PBS, called "21st Century Jet"
I find that in the mornings I am in maths-mode, and in the evenings art-mode. If I want to do something creative (guitar, writing, painting) I stay up late. If I want to do something technical (programming, calculations, planning) I'll wake up early.

Main problem is that it is easy to stay up a little later, but hard to wake up a little earlier...
What would be the killer use-case to use HipChat over Google Hangout?
I feel like I'm missing something.
uploading your browser history.. Fuck
The UX on iPhone isn't so bad if you are using .mobileconfig's and there aren't conflicting certificates. I'm actually starting to open source some of my work in this space.

OSX will still prompt for the certificate even if there is only one matching, but again it isn't too bad.

Though in iOS 7 / Mavericks I'll probably switch to using Keberos, which will be seamlessly integrated into the Objective-C's networking APIs.
I absolutely love my Nokia 928 and think WP8 mobile is amazing. Don't really understand what you are talking about here..
> You are confusing popularity with effectiveness.

No, I am saying this ineffectiveness is motivated by lack of genuine interest. They're just opportunists, no better than any other.

His son is even more blatant about this, showing up at the last minute with tough questions when something is in the headlines, but not showing any signs of prior interest or following through. It gets him quoted in the news a lot, and a lot of support from people who aren't paying attention.

They are very willing to fall totally in line with the entrenched interests you mention. That they happen to be allowed token protest votes on stuff that won't be in serious danger is incidental.

That and... I guess being pro-life is a big libertarian position?
And why on Earth would you want to bring your entertainment console closer to a brand that says "stuff I use at work because my boss says I have to" to everyone who sees it? That's not marketing, it's the antithesis of marketing. Anti-marketing.

> Mark Penn... will lead with Tami the newly centralized advertising and media functions

Oh. Well that explains that, then.
Blippex sounds like a dubstep musician.

Despite dubstep being apparently totally uncool, I'm cool with that.

Wait for the bass drop.
The whitepaper on an older version of the technology is here.

http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf

The Xenon flash eliminates the blur in standard flash. Comparison pictures against the S4 and iPhone 5.

http://i.imgur.com/fUe8rLC.png

The optical image stabilization is cool, with ball bearings replacing the coils on the Lumia 920. Sample video comparison against the S4(Edit: S3, my bad).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuLlAa4zDbU&t=0m55s

More details here.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/11/nokia-lumia-1020-t...
They didn't break in, they asked for the keys and were given them
A similar way that I look at it is that Louis's content and work increases his identity (brand, in some circles), where putting work on content farms like medium.com only reduces identity. Sure, it's "exposure," but, y'know, we all know about "it'll be good for your portfolio."

Full disclosure: I watched "Tapeheads" just yesterday.
Aliases in ~/.ssh/config are my preference, but if clicking with the mouse is your thing, why not throw Terminal.app in the Dock and click/hold the icon? Choose New Remote Connection... and you can save all your services and hosts right there. No additional processes running or clutter in the menubar.
You taking it out of context doesn't mean it's a dumb question in context, and I don't see where my standards enter into it either: What in God's name would require them to physically be there in order to stay "up to date on the latest and greatest in cyberattacks"?

To me that's a question about the physical world more than what people ought to be or do. It's a honest question, too. So if you or anyone can: tell me, I'm all ears. In absence of that, I'll just have to assume I refuted a silly statement with a perfectly valid question.
Kipochi Launches Africa's First Bitcoin Wallet in Kenya
I'm still carrying around a nexus one as well. Did you have to deal with the broken power button issue? Every day I feel like an idiot having to plug it in, unplug it and plug it in again in just the right way to get it to short circuit on again...
Enrolment is a hefty process. Apply for smart card. Personalise physical card (typically photo and name), provision (link card to user), give card to user, mail PIN to user (out of band), and then activate card.

You missed the part where you drive several hours to the closest military base and wait in line several hours(think DMV and TSA all rolled into one).
Getting away with cheap software