skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely correct, I ommited error handling to keeop the example simple but error handling is definitely more natural in a promise setting because you don't need to make your own error callback protocol.

That said, I still feel that both promises and explicit callbacks kind of suck in their own way. Callback code is usually much more verbose and has bad error handling while promises are bad at "jumpy" control flow. When I last worked in a big JS project it got bad enough that I eventually wrote my own control flow library on top of the base Dojo promises we were using so nowadays if I had to work with a big JS project again I would definitely try to use of those tools that add async control flow to the language and compile doen to regular continuations (looks nice like promises, can use loops, break and return like regular JS and raw callbacks don't need extra runtime support)
http://www.spotcrime.com/ca/oakland
http://bit.ly/18J6BFi

Yeah, looks safe enough.
If you have cygwin, you can install gnome-terminal. I use it daily and it is awesome. Way better than console2 or any other windows based emulator I've tried. You may need to install it using Cygwin Ports though.
It’s grey and boring and too self-similar to really be super readable.

It’s ok enough, I guess, but if Apple wanted to they could actually improve on it. The church of Helvetica is annoying.
What are the differences between the different versions of Helvetica?
What is github working on?
I have never understood the fascination with San Francisco for tech. I am a senior developer in Arkansas, and cannot imagine having to deal with any of that B.S. I have a mortgage of <$2000 for a 3,600sq ft house on an acre of land with an in-ground pool. My commute is 40 minutes of relaxing country-side when I go into the main office, and about 4 minutes when I work at the remote office. A tech salary of 90k in San Fran ~= 36k in Arkansas when looking at cost of living, plus you can buy a starter home (~1100sq ft) for about ~100k. Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and the list keeps going. Tech professionals should really look outside the normal huge tech city box. I personally believe that is where most will find happiness.
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"virtually unreadable"

The tendency among typography enthusiasts to label all sorts of things unreadable or illegible has descended into farce.
Except that's not going to happen because for now the only viable alternative to RC4 in TLS is AES in CBC mode, which suffers from its own problems (BEAST and Lucky 13). It's really a question of which is worse, and that's not so easily answered.
I gave a talk at JSConf US 2013 about the genesis of this spec, and how I believe it plays into the future of open, developer-driven APIs for the web platform. I hope the video is up soon, but until then, the slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/domenicdenicola/boom-promisesa-was...
Hi Domenic, Thanks for those links - I will check them all. There is another one of yours (co-speaker) that I thought was excellent: Redemption from Callback Hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1T_AONQJU)
Barack Obama Doing Voice Recordings on Melt?
What forrestthewoods, api, and zanny are saying is that too few units have been getting built for many years. What you are saying is 'wait, they are coming'.

The first is most certainly true. The second may be true, but we'll have to wait and see how it impacts pricing. For now, you can't live in a building permit.

BTW, here's a graph of permitting and completions in SF for the last 60 years: http://www.spur.org/files/u41/f1.png
I mean, seriously, what percentage of people watched '24' and 'Homeland', and thought, OMG that is so unconstitutional.

Everybody believed that is actually what the intelligence services do, and applauded.
I'd treat this criticism as a list of issues to resolve, rather than an argument for your conclusion.

One thing I'd be interested in hearing explored: if we manage to reach a critical mass of driverless cars, can we start orchestrating their timing and pathing so that traffic light usage can be minimized? Traffic is modeled as a flow, but AFAIK there isn't another flow out there where we actually have near-total control over the movement of individual particles.
Actually, the prices will be cheaper when booked later, as the value diminishes to zero as time runs out. As the airlines and hotels have learned, an empty seat/suite is zero revenue.
"Pretty shitty" for who? Not for me...

I mean, maybe if I were sitting on a blog post for now and just lost out on my precious internet points I'd be upset, but otherwise why would I be bothered?
I believe the time and resources required for us to develop such a tool and the time invested of users to run it is much more than the total inconvenience it would cause to surveillence systems.

But please prove me wrong, Id love to run such a tool quite easily, even if it doesnt work, just for shits and giggles and just perhaps for that extra cent of cost and resources wasted of powerful organizations. (still kind of our taxpayer cents but...)

Would you run a simple browser extension that would GET pages while you are away, pages that your browser has seen in your history, and an advanced mode, pages on pastebin and a selection of forums/sources? Meh, could be done with a simple bash script and curl I guess for the advanced users. Would be nice if it could also crawl most news sources.

Stepping the idea up a bit, random but seemingly valid User-Agents, exchange of tracking cookies with other users of the extension, and click on all the ads! Would you use such a tool?
9 ways a billion dollar new mobile company might be created
Humor is fine. It's just that we're merciless critics. Or, how I usually phrase it: you're not as funny as you think you are.
With Google Voice, calls are routed through Google before they get to you IIRC.

With this in mind, would it be possible to route voice calls to a server in a jurisdiction where recording without consent is legal, have that server then connect to your phone and record both sides of the conversation.

i.e.: US phone line -> Recording Server Abroad -> US phone line

Also, does broadcasting count as recording? What if all calls are broadcast live (possibly encrypted) and then there is a server that is listening to all broadcasts on that frequency and records them?
I'm not sure I understand this:

| the mobile money capital of the world

The term "mobile" is tossed around so much that I'm not sure what they are trying to imply here.
You might want to see the discussions in the following thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007255

To avoid redundancy.
I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...
Apparently I am the only one who wouldn't be okay totally okay with tens of thousands of cheaters.

Anyway you could reduce that number drastically by offering basic income in the form of goods: a bed to sleep in, clothing to wear and food to eat. Nobody is going to cheat themself to the ability to sleep in two beds, and you can only eat so much food.

This might be more expensive, but I feel like a program with tens of thousands of cheaters would be a non-starter (and will die as soon as fox gets the story).
I have no faith in the FISA court, but I have a different diagnosis than you do about why the process isn't trustworthy, and my prescription for solving the problem doesn't have anything to do with strengthening the FISC.
I think the stomach cancer comes from the sodium actually, the Japanese have a similar problem. But you have to look at these causes of death on an even basis too. Cancer is a higher cause of death in Korea than heart disease, that's fairly impressive!
no it's not only you, but don't count me in.
You are conservative, sir. Now downvote, hate and burn me for saying this. Many Linux people hate GUIs, it's a reflex to hate GUI applications, I don't want to generalize, but you probably know quite a lot of experts in their field who simply hate GUI stuff and every single one has his "own" interpretation of why GUI is wrong.

The thing is, GUIs aren't wrong, it's just that the GUI applications have no uniform interoperability like their CLI counterparts. Whose fault is that? Certainly NOT the authors! The fault is much deeper in the OS.
"Useless liberal arts degree"? The recipient of said degree seems to have done OK, perhaps in part due to his broad education.
I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...

I need to go spend some time in the angry dome..
What Would You Do: My Planner is Mean
IOS long shadow icons redesign
Re: the Edit:

It's nothing more than simple supply and demand at work. Real estate suffers from being one of those markets where its very hard to create more of it (you can build taller buildings or build new cities, that's about it).

The reason real estate is so stinking expensive in huge parts of California is because so many stinking people want to live in those areas.
That's the problem. On an individual basis it makes sense, but nobody likes the ultimate result when everyone makes that choice.
I've never seen any evidence of this being true. Only opinions on it.

A quick google turned up an article on TC about contrary evidence however. http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-...

Real Name policies are obviously valuable in an advertising deck... I'm skeptical on whether the benefits translate to users.
The sentence immediately preceding what you quoted is necessary for understanding:

> Suppose byte Zr of the RC4 keystream has a dominant bias towards value 0x00.
I see it as a matter of respect, not about enforcement or suing people. To be a big fan of Apple, then to distribute the info they ask nicely to not be shared... just doesn't make sense to me. I guess other people are just like "eh, whatever, I don't care about companies, man", and that's their right of course.

And anyways, don't we all think it's a good thing that they don't heavy-handedly enforce the NDA?
Hi.  I'm Nathan, the 38th Signal.
A week ago I started to migrate my Google Docs data to a git repository. Right now I use plain text files and Latex. Damn, I totally forgot how cool it is to access your data when you don't have an Internet connection.
MV housing has gotten insane since Google started their hiring binge in 2011. My rent's gone up nearly 50% since then. And Google's demographics are changing: average age is now about 31 (up from 28 or so when I started in 2009), so many of them will likely be having kids in the near future and driving up house prices even further.

Fremont is decent as long as you don't mind boring. Unfortunately, the commute over the bridge can really suck during rush hour (this applies to all the East Bay communities). Sometimes I'll take 237 around to Mountain View to avoid it, but both 880 and 101 have severe traffic issues.

A bunch of my friends actually bought houses in the Cambrian Park and Willow Glen parts of San Jose. These are still reasonably affordable, safe, and they're about a 20-minute commute down 85 from Mountain View. 85 is a parking lot between the Googleplex and about El Camino or Fremont Ave during rush hour, but opens up fast once you get past 280. If you're getting on at El Camino (eg. a downtown Mountain View office) and then commuting to San Jose it's not all that bad.

I've heard Santa Clara isn't bad either - it's 10 minutes from Mountain View without traffic (much worse in rush hour traffic, since it's on 101), but it's largely Korean/Vietnamese/Japanese immigrants and so prices have stayed relatively low so far.

All of these communities are really boring, with basically no downtown or civic events. One of the large factors that drives prices up are young professionals that want a high quality-of-life in addition to working at a fancy tech job.
There was a time when HN was populated by founders/tech geeks, and didn't have the problems that you're describing. That suggests to me that the presence of founders/tech geeks is not the proximate cause.
First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future
My windows needs to be cleaned, my hair cut and my bicycle oiled, cleaned and anti-rust sprayed.

You don't need HS to do either of those things, though I would insists on a clean background check if you are to go into my home.

Oh and my non-existent dog could use hypotetical walk to.
Something like this is perfect update the horde of egregiously out-of-date STEM examples littered across academics' websites that all look just like this sans fancy JS.
You're right that it's a problem of Information Architecture, but recommendation engines aren't the only next step possible.
District court rejects "state secrets" defense in EFF's NSA lawsuit
I don't see that layout as necessary. Can't you make it 1 layout, with the comments threaded under the link..
That this case must be tried in a secret court which is not obligated to promulgate its decisisons ought to indicate what result and information we will see.
To be honest, I wiped windows and installed Linux in the end. Since I was trying to make windows behave like Linux, it made more sense just to run Linux.
Isn't that what GEDs are for in the US?
If you're OK with San Jose, there are a number of houses under $500K available. Which is within reach of a decent hi-tech salary even without cash-out event. Of course, in SF it's different and given SF special appeal and the fact that SF govt is insane I can imagine both rents and ownership prices would be worse.

I think the only responsible thing a family can do is not to live there if they can't afford it. There are plenty of jobs for people not living in SF, really.

>>> Imagine what all that money in SV could be doing if it weren't all sucked up by real estate.

I'm not sure I understand how this works. When you buy a house, it's because somebody else sold it to you. The money aren't buried in the backyard - they went to somebody. Who is free to invest it in whatever they want.

I think the basic mistake here is different. Primary residence is rarely an investment (unless you plan to severely downsize sometime in predictable future) - it is an expense. Too many people wrongly regard it as an investment and make poor choices.
> we'll be looking at ways of improving our nation's image through design

On a page with barely any contrast between the text and background.
What is a Stack?
The new Bukito prints on the fly … literally
Show HN: Hacker News clone for Russian startup community
This is how it should be - sadly both ends (doing good and making money) are not always aligned with each other. From my personal observation I would say that they are less and less aligned the bigger the company is.
The reason you have just re-invented reddit is because you like designing interfaces...
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops (2000)
The US government asked the court to dismiss the case based on the state secrets privilege. The court's response:

"Having thoroughly considered the parties’ papers, Defendants’ public and classified declarations, the relevant legal authority and the parties’ arguments, the Court GRANTS the Jewel Plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary adjudication by rejecting the state secrets defense as
having been displaced by the statutory procedure prescribed in 50 U.S.C. § 1806(f) of FISA. In both related cases, the Court GRANTS Defendants’ motions to dismiss Plaintiffs’ statutory claims on the basis of sovereign immunity. The Court further finds that the parties have not addressed the viability of the only potentially remaining claims, the Jewel Plaintiffs’ constitutional claims under the Fourth and First Amendments and the claim for violation of separation of powers and the Shubert Plaintiffs’ fourth cause of action for violation of the Fourth Amendment. Accordingly, the Court RESERVES ruling on Defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the remaining, non-statutory claims. "
I've been using Go for my company's backend api which communicates with Youtube movies, amazon movies, Netflix, etc and it seems very well suited to the work.
That is an asinine argument. You're more likely to run into terrible neighbors in an apartment setting, with the higher turnover in living spaces. Your argument is done in by basic research into the neighborhood.

That's like saying that you shouldn't buy a home simply because it might burn down one day, whereas living in an apartment is fine, because if it does burn down, it's not your building.
New Snowden Interview: “NSA lied about existence of Boundless Informant tool”
I'm sure Ms. Meckfessel is a lovely person, but this is clearly a PR driven piece pumped out of Google for recruitment purposes.

Throughout this entire NSA scandal people lament there's nothing we can do, but these tech companies are vulnerable to talent shortages. A simple action for a conscientious hacker is to simply not work for PRISM collaborators. Apply your talents to companies willing to make privacy assurances.
This looks interesting, even if it doesn't look like HN at all. What would interest me is some background, how is this connected to know incubators/investors? A link to an informative English article would have been nice.
But, please enlighten me..It doesn't matter where the cloud or datastore endpoint "offramp" is, are they not sucking the info at the "Onramp" of the freeway or on the beginning side of the transaction?
How is what your parent described unique to America?
I think there might be an interesting point underneath this. If everyone who feels like the author actually stayed then SF might not have the high rents/excitement/cultural contact that you get with large amounts of young, single, employed, relatively unstable individuals. Part of the reason SF is probably so desirable in the first place is that the type of people who live there are the types that actually think the cultural experience is worth the money.
To be fair, "is" has several distinct meanings in English, which lead to the invention of E-Prime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_prime#Different_functions_of_...
The chick in charge of the Internal Tools team? That shit is widely regarded within Google as a dead-end ghetto, devoid of opportunities for promotion and looked down on by the other focus areas.

- 5+ year Ex-Googler

EDIT: I'm done with this fucking site. You won't have weareconvo to kick around anymore.
I think that's probably true, but I'm not sure the language of 'dependency' or 'independent' is the right way to talk about it.

And I think most shows on NPR also cater to an audience with a specific ideology, and are less likely to present analyses that challenge that ideology. That ideology in the case of NPR, is just a status quo liberal ideology so mainstream that it appears invisible.

I do agree that FAIR could be less biased in their analytical perspective though, sometimes.
Maybe, but I've never experienced it myself, which is why I still do it.

It's worth pointing out that the work isn't really free. I still include the changes in future quotes and mark them as no charge to remind him what I did. This gives me leverage in negotiating fees on larger changes.
"viable long-term businesses" might mean ones that don't change hands at values based on increasingly speculative multiples. Can't a tech scene without a casino-like investment atmosphere succeed?
>>It's a city built on young entrepreneurs coming there and doing new stuff, but if nobody who hasn't already made it can afford to live there what happens then?

You mean can't afford to buy there. Which is why those of us who haven't made it rent, and put 3 people in 2 BR apartments. Or get a house in a less hip spot with 4 friends. Those who made it in SF/SV did it like this, and so will the next generation. That doesn't make it a good thing that ownership is so unrealistic, or that people who aren't young don't want to do it. But the idea that the next generation of software leaders won't keep coming to SF because of price is just wrong. As long as that's where the best companies and opportunities are, ambitious young people will move there.
Where's the HTML data? Search engines aren't going to be able to crawl any of your content:

$ curl -l http://monocle.io/posts/this-is-you-on-smiles
Primeval Underwater Forest Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
I don't think you need the second part - the only requirement is that the older people be payed more.
"No built-in type for sets (have to use maps and test for existence)... In absence of sets, have to write your own intersection, union etc. methods"

In my mind, a map is a set. They are both Associative containers. It's just that the key and value can be different things in a map while in a set, the key and value are the same thing.

Edit: I speak from a strong C++ viewpoint, but maybe Go is not like that (I'm not sure why it would not be): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_containers_%28C%2B...
Obviously they did, that was my point. The middle class was (and continues to be) manipulated. Instead of one-income households being typical, two-income households are typical, and guess what happened to housing prices as that started to happen?
Seems[1] that the font default may have changed in beta3?

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2013/07/08/a-thicker-hope
Boehner and Feinstein, possibly others.

I don't quite follow the argument that those are not senior officials (the speaker of the house definitely qualifies as such, being second in line after the VP to be named President). The fact that people in a position like that are making such calls surely carries some weight with other, less senior officials and might sway a bunch of them to agree with it if only to not be seen as weak.

The thousands of voters from American backwaters collectively seem to command a rather large chunk of the legislative power in the USA.
Ditto. He died young, but what an amazing life he lived. In just a few years, he pioneered a new entertainment format, where many thousands of people who he's never met truly feel like they've lost a close friend today (myself included).

It was awesome to watch a truly charismatic, great person share his personality unfiltered to the world.
Sorry for the slow reply! I somehow totally missed this one.

I've just pushed up what are hopefully some useful instructions on getting it running, so the README should now be a little more helpful: https://github.com/afternoonrobot/photographer-io#developmen...

It's not entirely straightforward to set up, and I must confess that it has been a while since I did it from scratch. Assuming you already have Ruby installed, then you would definitely need the following: PostgreSQL 9+ (probably 9.2+), Redis, Memcached. Solr probably won't break anything if it doesn't exist, except for the search.

If you have any trouble getting it going or need a hand, give me a shout on Twitter (@robotmay) and I'll open up an IRC channel to help you through it. I might need to do that anyway actually, as I suspect there'll be a few people with issues :D
Every one of us is a novice at almost everything, so contempt for the ambition of novices is an emotion worth controlling.
Ok, I'll bite. Why is it an illusion? I'm still young enough to remember the utterly transformative effect easy access to a car had on my life.
The Harlem numbers make a good point, both renting and buying involve unrecoverable costs. But it's is a case by case question as to whether one set of costs is higher than the other.

Where I live, my rent and utilities are higher than the cost of property taxes, HMO fees, utilities AND mortgage payments for an equivalent townhome. My market's the other extreme from Harlem.

Paying less per month for the same thing seems like a good idea. Even if the market drops the value of my house to zero, buying is still the right decision.

Not sure why the market is crazy here. Maybe it's a city of transients, people just passing through, or people with no savings?

This is why rent vs. buy calculators exist, there's no obviously correct answer for every situation, it's highly contingent.
Indeed. Fun fact, there are almost 250k sub-reddits according to http://metareddit.com/reddits/
* criminal government would be the right term of course as this is not exactly done in light of it's people scrutinity.