skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintaining a blog is real work, even the "archive of stuff you've said," variety. You have to pick a platform, learn the ins and outs, figure out hosting, domain name, all of that. There's way too much stuff to do and track for that to be a viable solution to this problem.

We need a solution for sharing that isn't centralized and that anyone can use. Unfortunately I don't see the next-gen open source sharing app getting big anytime soon, seeing as how even now the mainstream public will ignore anything open-source (read: hard) in favor of a mediated, closed platform.

Complaining and moralizing isn't going to change this. If it was, we'd be actually listening to Stallman instead of going, "oh yeah, he was right about that," every couple of months.
I do certification of high risk industrial installations for a living, and this story reminded me of one I heard about the Japanese Fukushima disaster.

One of the guys who does certification over there did some digging and found out that they had 3 sets of operating procedures for the plant: the independently reviewed and certified ones which would provide a high level of safe operation; the ones they didn't show anyone which was how they supposedly operated the plant day to day (cutting corners); and then the way they actually operated the plant, which was even less safe.

When I read stories about the FISA, they sound shocking, but they also sound a lot like Fukushima's 'second level' operating procedures. Bad, and an obvious sideshow, but not even close to what's really going on behind closed doors at the NSA.
S2 with modified firmware here. Unless expecting a call, I leave it off most of the time, with the battery out. Since giving up commuting to an office, I don't really need it for music playback either. The power even in these three generation old devices is absolutely amazing... especially when you consider their GPUs. Unfortunately, it's totally underutilized by today's software.

It is perhaps interesting to note that the ubiquity of both USB charging devices (standardization) and after-market Chinese clone batteries (free market competition) has sort of encouraged this obsolescence resistance by allowing devices to last longer.
>dropping the minimum wage for teenagers

I can agree to this, except, lets do it this way: lets leave the minimum wage where it is for teens, and raise it for everyone else. That'd also solve the problem of adults working jobs that are meant for teens.
If a person has no job and no basic income why would they commit less crimes than someone with no job and a basic income?

Why wouldn't someone with no job but a basic income, if they wanted more money get a job?
Do yourself a favour and take a cold shower or perhaps seek help.

Because the sheer volume of crazy, conspiracy theories in your post is not normal.
I posted this link because I saw the post on the HN front page to unQlite and I thought I saw an embedded JSON database recently that's more interesting, so I posted a link to it. Whoever decides what goes on the front page of HN likes open source stuff with no commercial agenda with buzzwords around recent and interesting tech, so they bumped it to front page.
I agree, the sandwich shop up the road did yell at me when I worked there for lower than minimum wage under the table at more than one shop.

What jgreco suggests is good, as long as it's just for teens and doesn't go lower than it currently is (i.e., lets raise it for adults, since they often have to feed children)
Getting in a Google self driving car is one thing, where you still have the ability to take over control or apply brakes yourself. But how many passengers would be willing to get on a fully self piloting aircraft? I think not too many, at least at first.
If T-Mobile continues improving its network and people realize that they don't need to get a new phone every 2 years, things could start to look very different.
Thanks for the feedback. I did not make up the word onboarding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding
If only karma was cash. I'd be a hundredairre.
It depends on the use case.

Sometimes you need performance or there are other constraints, in which case your choice of language is very limited.

Automated memory management works, but not all the time.
And how about other resources? How you make sure your mutex gets released? Add a comment "please don't forget to release this one"?
How about file handle, temporary file, serial port, DMA, GPU, network port and other limited resources?

BTW, I think most of the brightest minds you mention use C or C++ on daily basis. :)
This puts into words the way I feel so often when I try out a new app. I found your app, so something has directed me here. Once I've determined whether I like it or not, then MAYBE I'll tell my friends to get on it.

Another metaphor that comes to mind would be a knife salesmen in a store telling you to invite your friends to buy the knives while they're demonstrating them...
Yeah, I guess correlating it to age maybe isn't the right metric. I guess in one sense, as you age you're potentially more-likely to have a larger family, requiring a larger living space to accomodate the additional bodies. Larger living spaces in a city will cost more, and a yard (or some form of property) provides a way to be at home without being on top of one another. But you're right - age isn't necessarily the right association for housing desires for everybody, and the lifestyles and family-lives of people are certainly varied.
Specific to NPR: it's subject to manipulation by both Congressional funding (little to the organization itself, but about 10% of member stations' operating budgets), and by sponsorship arrangements from major sponsors.

http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances

Charles Seife's "Edge" 2013 essay "Capture"
http://www.edge.org/response-detail/23674

NPR's cousin PBS here, but I'd argue the same rationale holds:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/05/12118/pbs-killed-wiscons...
Not bad, I would of followed php-fig standards for the file layout though. This would also help with camus's point about making it easily pluggable.
Food security is a working poor problem. Totally different scenario. The 95% of unemployed youth mentioned here are going to be in jail in the next year or so. Fraud rates are way higher than 1%, but its still money well spent.

The issue here is that family lives of these kids are train wrecks. No stability, no father, probably a mother who was a pregnant 14-15 year old. The 5% kids who have a job probably had a strong grandparent or religious presence.

To help these kids, you need to intervene around ages 1-3 with daycare/headstart. Give them some hope and structure, and get them away from or improve the skills of their clueless parents (who are often kids themselves).
West loop? Near 26 N Halsted at all?
It's asking me to sign in with twitter. Is that the joke? Because the same thing happens when I visit Facebook (only, to sign in with Facebook).
NTSB: 10 killed in Alaska plane crash
This is it, people. The last gasp of privacy.
Alternatively, it may be that Apple has done its homework, nailed its target audience, and you're just not an Apple consumer.

I would argue that these ads are doing two different things. That being part of the tribe - loving Apple and thinking it's just better - is not incidental to Apple, it's central to their brand strategy. They can just keep expanding the circle of people who drink the kool-aid. Google isn't cultivating a tribe, probably couldn't.
Except the military and Job Corps provide room and board. I suppose if a student was really good he could get room & board from a college and scrape by during the summers, but it's not the same deal.
Your comments about green space definitely resonates. I live right next to an amazing park and am there almost daily. I'd have moved years ago if it wasn't accessible.
Yes, it can happen with BSD and MIT. But at least you can start a fork from there, if you really have to. Forking LGPL stays LGPL, with the limitations & all.
I'd switch to a full DB server for a production Web App. If you're using an ORM it should be pretty trivial (the one time I've done it, Perl's DBIx::Class made it as easy as changing the connection info hash). I'm not sure how many people hand code their SQL at hackathons but I am not one of them ;).
There is no more "middle class". Trust me, I grew up there, and it is gone, gone gone.

It has nothing to do with the fact that they can't/couldn't buy into stocks while the getting was good - and crowdfunding is nothing more or less than a new type of lotto ticket for them.

The sophisticated investors have been putting one over on the new, unsophisticated money for a long time. It has always been that way, and always will be. Still not responsible for the demise of the middle class.

$18,000 a year health insurance for a family of four, homes that cost 10x your annual wage, companies that toss 40+ year olds with 20 years loyalty into the profit volcano, student loans of $150K+ that can't be discharged with bankruptcy and suck you down till the day you die, nursing homes that burn $4K/month for 20 years or until you run out of assets...THAT's what killed the middle class.
> Oddly enough, music is one industry I always remember running into a lot of black people in - Macs and ProTools used in music production.

That's not odd at all. Blacks are hugely overrepresented in the music industry (as well as the pro sports industry).

You gotta love how American society is always collectively wringing its hands about how there aren't enough black people in STEM, but nobody mentions how underrepresented Asians are in the entertainment and pro sports industries.
Design is about choices. In this case you can point out:

1. top-left square logo, dark gray, slab serif, fixed on scroll
3. bold, large sans-serif title in "off-black"
4. large serif body text with extended line-height
5. 100% width image on top

Despite the visual simplicity, there are a lot of variables in effect. It's definitely "inspired" by Medium.

(medium has a few different post layouts, but they share the same spirit: https://medium.com/lift-and-drag/5f803f1482e3 vs https://medium.com/lift-and-drag/51691e99279f)
I think Amazon wanted to get big first and capture the market then slowly raise prices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/business/as-competition-wa...

You thought they were different and just wanted to give you cheap stuff because they're nice and they like you?
You have it backwards. Most industrialized countries are below the replacement rate even with current monetary incentives (e.g. tax breaks) to have children. Kids are an enormous financial burden to parents, and financially they benefit the wider society, not the parents. Assuming you don't want social security (or its equivalents) collapsing, you want to incentivize having children at least to the replacement rate.
My Life In The Middle Of No Where
We have surveillance elsewhere because there's a relatively high possibility of criminal activity.

Where are you talking about?
The other poster was trying to say "mobile net-profits" don't really mean anything. He used amazon because they are perfectly happy with little to none net profits.
I use salt in almost every meal, but not too much, It would be stupid not to put salt in the water when cooking pasta for example.

Everything in too high quantities is bad anyway.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/03/24/study-ea...
It's not affecting your weight, but your overall health.

Also salty food makes you thirsty, so as toble commented, you will drink more diet coke that will makes you more hungry.

I think a glass of iced tea (even with a little bit of cane sugar to remove bitterness) is better than a diet coke. I can't prove why, every people in good shape I know don't drink diet soda. Just try and see is my best advice !
1kb/s isn't much compared to what we're used to, but I can see it being sufficient for some communications.
SQLite: an embeddable SQL database
Like desireco42, this instantly reminded me of BBSes and the days of FidoNET. While running point-to-point wireless would certainly be fun, there are infrastructure limitations (namely, roof access) that may make this project hard to achieve.

I'd much rather see a revival of a network of BBSes using POTS lines. FidoNET went to hell decades ago but the protocols and software are still worthy. It would be fun to use Fido tools (mailers, tossers, editors) to create a fun, off-the-Internet electronic forum.

This probably sounds crazy to most of the younger crowd, I'm sure. I just wish that those who grew up without modems could experience the joy of hearing your phone line ring and watching your BBS answer and receive some mail from someone on the other side of the world. The messages were routed from peer to peer by folks who were willing to pick up the tab to make long distance (and international!) phone calls.
Some more relevant news just breaking now ... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/asiana-flight-214-p...
> So sick of non-economists advocating economic policy which they don't understand.

tell us about your credentials as an economist
apigee dot com has a ton of white papers on this subject. well crafted too.
There are multiple tools that allow someone to post to multiple services at once, WordPress, Facebook, Tumblr, and the like.

There's nothing wrong with posting meaningful things on Facebook, G+, or whatever. Just keep track of the things that mean something to you.
The irony that a site which uses the word "ethics" in its title would host such unethical content.

The bit about Bush should have been omitted.

But, that may just be my irrationality.
I like this a lot, and it's particularly relevant to me since I occasionally find myself running an older version of vim. Therefore I always like seeing plugins written in pure vimscript.
NetXMS (www.netxms.org) may or may not fit your needs but is an open-source gem that deserves more attention
I installed it with Pathogen and haven't had any issues.
Megaflop wise, phones like the Galaxy S3 or the Galaxy Nexus when I checked last, were only at around Pentium 3 or so levels. Not that Megaflops is the only indicator of performance.

Edit: For anyone that wants to try out their devices and compare, Linpack for Android[1] is what I used. Finding out the MFlops of older PCs, I just looked up on the web.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenecomp...
Thanks for that! We're just now trying to establish lives for ourselves in one of the worst economic climates since the great depression. That's hard enough without having the responsibility of fixing politics and government foisted upon us as well...
There are strong cryptographers who are working on much, much better systems than PGP.

Could you give us some examples of these? How far away from prime time usage do you estimate they are? Are any of them usable right now?
It was good while it lasted...
I feel phones don't correlate well with affordability. People tend to invest more into commodities that have a sense of usability, social status and a statement of fashion. I remember reading somewhere that India has more mobile phones than toilets. Even taking your own example, Apple's Iphone has about 3% market share in India [1]. 3% of the total handset market not just the smart phone market. It relates to about 26.79 million subscribers, and at a cost of $600 each (which is way more than an average middle class Indian could afford), that is pretty unbelievable.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/iphone-takes-3-percent-handset-market-s...
Airport landing system off when plane crashed in San Francisco
Could be WAFreenet (http://www.wafreenet.org/).
I regret that I have but one vote to increase your comment!
This looks excellent. Definitely worth some more investigation, thanks!
And then, there's the case where "rational analysis" says one thing, and gut intuition says another, and gut intuition is right. See Paul Otellini's decision to pass on the iPhone chip contract.
s/like/don't like
David Eun's post right after evacuating the aircraft shows the roof still intact. https://path.com/p/1lwrZb
Why would it have that environment? Usually mismanagement, but also the culture that becomes ingrained from the company's inception. The problem is when the culture is so slanted towards certain behaviors that they go a little too far and become problematic.
Wish there was a license attached to it. I didn't see one in a file or attached as a header to any of the code. Without knowing what the license is, this project is not overly useful to anyone but the creator.
I've got to wonder: How many people created dear.my.child@gmial accounts after watching this? Will Google eventually shut them down without (or with little) warning due to account inactivity?
I was just asking the other day on #python if there was a nosql embedded DB like sqlite. I will definitely be checking this out. Might make things like my one-off test web scraping much easier.
As a semi-unrelated note, as someone who has to watch a lot of near east homemade "terrorist" videos, this video gives a great western corollary to the incessant "Allahu Akbar" that is chanted throughout those videos. The "Oh my god" is almost literally a translation and is used in similar manner and contexts, though not all.
Winning elections is about getting out the vote, which is mostly a matter of money. PR firms and canvassers do not come cheap. When the IRS takes a third of your money, you lose a lot of votes.
Not quite. Other side of 90/94.
I think the word he's looking for is "confidence"

But I do agree Twitter is world changing. Anything that a substantial subset of the population actively engages with can't help but change the world.
AP is a whole different best for any class, much less history! I took AP US and non-AP World history in high school. The depth and breadth of material covered was just ridiculously, obscenely different between the two. I'm not sure what graduating high school even means these days if you don't have a bunch of AP credits, but it certainly doesn't make you an informed citizen with basic competencies.
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I would if I could, but another distinction between real cryptographers and amateur ones is a desire not to publicize things until the design is trustworthy. I think you'll have to take my word for this (but I'll try to think of one I can share).
The FDR / CVR will record much data, including controls and communications. They won't record:

Other aircraft or objects in the vicinity.

Parts of the aircraft which have separated. Look to the telemetry data / communications in the case of the Columbia shuttle disaster as ground control tried to work out what was happening with the off-range readings for tire pressure sensors -- as the wing of the shuttle was being carved out from the inside by 6000°F reentry plasma.

Fine-grained movement of the aircraft, its components, the interior, fire and/or smoke, debris, etc, at 16-1000 frames per second 1080p resolution.

Runway incursions, airspace incursions, and other near-miss phenomena.

Small aircraft without FDR/CVR equipment.

The equipment cost is minimal. Equipping the plane itself with video capabilities would be an additional feature, but simply having ground, runway, approach, and departure path video would be useful. As others have noted, not only for the (very rare) emergencies, but for the far more common "incidents".

On the negative side: inclement weather, including rain, snow, and fog (the latter being common at SFO) would limit utility somewhat.

http://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/news/runway_incurs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_safety
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/06/runway_incursi...

From that last (and presumably applying to Canada, not the US):

A Star analysis of Transport Canada data counted 5,677 incursions by aircraft, vehicles and pedestrians since 1999, averaging almost 400 a year.
The word `Hacker' is on the list.
They also have daily trading limits as well as a grace period while they wait for the transaction to complete.
Apple's Designed in California is a BRAND ad. Google's Dear Sophie is a PRODUCT ad.

They have different goals, different approaches and different audiences. Apple has had product ads recently as well you know, maybe compare like with like ?
I'm guessing it's more along the lines of collaboration with major tech vendors to plant backdoors within commercial hardware and software, probably under the guise of "just once in a while, to catch the really bad guys".
informed the audience earlier in the news cycle and led to less speculation

Interesting. Does reducing audience (public) speculation actually matter? What if the person that captured the video immediately sent it to the NTSB and FAA so as not to impede the investigation, but sold it to the media?

CNN had the video endlessly looping for hours today, so my assumption would be it has serious economic value.
>Maybe it is a dumbed-down reference to some sort of government malware.

That's what I took it as. With government-level resources you can pretty easily throw a team at all the common web browsers and find exploitable 0-days and then MITM the next connection the target makes to any website to exploit it, and then find a local privilege escalation vulnerability if necessary. Once you have root (or equivalent) on any given machine you pretty much own it.

That sort of thing isn't necessarily in reach of your typical J. Random Hacker against a patched machine (may not have access to 0-day, can't easily MITM target's internet connection, etc.) but it's really not a stretch to imagine that the NSA can do it if they have no regard for the law.
This kind of proves my point. While a stabbing attack is a crime, and a violent one, I would scarcely call it terrorism.

There are 208 deaths on that list for 2002 from 33 separate suicide bombings. Do you think that is fabricated? Do you think those numbers are bolstered? If that number of people were proportionally killed in the U.S. each year (~8,000) would my point still stand?

but we can't really compare any of that to terrorism statistics.

I agree. That was my point with the 1 or 20,000 deaths comment. But assuming we can compare the numbers, like the author claimed, it still isn't valid. If we can't compare the numbers, the point isn't valid in the first place.
People should hold money in an asset allocation (mix of equities, bonds etc.) that is appropriate for their risk profile - not necessarily in 100% index-tracking funds. You're suggesting that investors beat the market by taking on more risk. As an aside, a great deal of real value has been created by publicly listed companies over the last 15 years.
Ditto. Doubly ironic since my use of a ring sling means my hands are, in fact, free.
Many geeks have access to high places. They don't have to own them or own them outright. Also, many average people could be trivially sold on contributing to interconnecting for shared benefits: fast, cheap internet, vast amounts of locally cached media, LAN games, and access to redundant connectivity. The way things are going with mobile ad-hoc networking, though, a lot of these human-speed agreements will become less of a requirement. Maybe a friend allowing you in to a trust network and the provision of connectivity or other resources will likely suffice for automated acceptance. (Yeah, spam, freeload, etc. But these are ~solveable by proxy-penalizing whoever lets such nodes in.) Some such communities might also want to run shared surveillance of their geographic perimiters (or local wildlife!).