skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask liberal, and one will say that world is much worse with taxes and govt intervention in the economy.

Other people may be tempted to talk about NSA as issue of civil liberties and govt supervision rather than economy though. Why not to fund EFF and civil liberties group instead?
Which is why there's so many of them out there. (For example my own: http://kybernetikos.github.io/Javathcript/ )
New Python Bootcamp in Utah
Looks like an editor replaced the TechDirt link with the MoJo story, fwiw.

Overall HN is pretty disappointing on civil-liberties topics, though. Lots of linkbait posts and kneejerk-outrage comments posted without doing any research, which is unfortunate because it's actually an important issue.
Gro-Tsen is just defining x<n> recursively. "by induction" there doesn't mean "proof by induction".
Under the aesthetics of logic, I find Lisp's syntax pretty as well.
Gravity Development Board: Arduino-like development board for Space
NSA Calls Emergency Private Briefing To Lobby Against Defunding Amendment
Labelling the x-axis would also be kind of useful. And what does the note in the legend mean? "first day @ 12p.m. curve flatlines after $600 - deal ends"?
Definitely, endless scrolling will probably be added in an upcoming release.
Galago UltraPro:

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1

- 14" screen 1920x1080

- Haswell i7 2.0Ghz 4 cores

- 8 gb RAM with option to upgrade to 16

- 256 GB SSD

- Weight: 3.8 lb

- Ubuntu

Price with these specs: $1253
Yes. eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878664
Bit9 for Mac: First Next-Gen Endpoint and Server Security Solution for Mac
Solving a non existent problem at its finest.
Yeah, a $700-800 phone and a $800-1000 limited edition founders pack (phone plus some recognition) would have made more sense and been revenue neutral.

I looked at it, was interested but not sure. Now the $600 is sold out, I feel lees likely to buy one, even though that is partly irrational (I should just evaluate whether it is worth $830 to me, not be upset I missed out on the cheaper one).
Absolutely. In fact, many welfare schemes are designed to encourage young people to stay in education rather than dropping out early to work.

In any case: since poor, unemployed young men commit crime, and we're never going to see 100% employment, lifting them out of poverty will reduce the impact of crime on everyone else. Intolerable for Ayn Rand; pragmatic for the rest of us.
This is the reason that Moral Majority types really should stop complaining that poor folks always seem to have TVs and video game systems. $500 per family to keep kids from getting too bored+jittery is a good deal.
This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album.

If you want to take this one step further, I'd love to see a Chrome plugin version of this: detect the primary colors of a given page and suggest a similarly-colored album.
Nobody has declared Iran a no fly zone.

Edit: to clarify, 'no fly zone' has a specific meaning that doesn't apply here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fly_zone
Looks kind of annoying to use. I've usually searched out exactly what I want on a price comparison site and want the airline site to shut up and give it to me...
Ignoring the images, the physical descriptions in this seem badly wrong. For instance, can any WiFi modulation scheme be described as, "The crests of waves is [sic] translated to a 1 by a computer, and the troughs equal a 0."?
The Mother Jones article is far better than the TechDirt one, and specifically includes helpful commentary. While Mother Jones decries the subpoenas as "unprecedented" the reality seems to be that courts have not acted uniformly in this area:

"But he notes that while anonymous speech made by Americans is protected under the Constitution, 'courts have been inconsistent in applying that protection against civil subpoenas aimed at identifying anonymous internet users.' In the case Dendrite International, Inc. v. Doe No. 3, for example, an appellate court held that a company was not allowed to unmask users who had criticized the company on a Yahoo message board."

What the article makes out to be an "unprecedented overreach" is actually a fairly subtle balancing of several different concerns. The first, and overriding, concern is that a litigant has the right to any evidence that might prove his case. Balanced against that is the concern that discovery could "chill" protected anonymous speech. Implicated in that second point is two issues: 1) most of the subjects of the subpoena do not seem to be Americans who can raise the 1st Amendment issue in the first place; and 2) 1st amendment concerns are weakened by the fact that any "chilling effect" would be the result of actions by a non-state actor (Chevron) who isn't bound by the 1st amendment.

The fact that we hate Chevron shouldn't blind us to the facts of the case. Chevron is fighting a $19 billion judgment against them. They have a colorable claim that they are the victims of an extortion scheme. It is the judge's job to figure out how to get them the evidence they need to prove their claim while not trampling on any Americans' rights in the process. They have a right to get that evidence to the extent that it is possible.
You cannot apply license _retroactively_. Once you release code version under a certain License, the License is associated with that version of the code.
The chart starts at 12pm on the first day, because thats when the author started grabbing information..

If you look on the curve, you can see that at $3.2 million, the curve kind of flat lines, or at least levels out a bit. This is when they ran out of the 5,000 phones they were offering at $600.
That's like saying if you disagree with slavery, you're free not to own slaves.

Copyright places a restriction on what I can do with information I legally have in my possession. It is a restriction on my freedom of expression. You might argue that the restriction is worth it in order to encourage artists, but don't pretend it doesn't exist.
Soma was the recreational drug in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", a sci-fi dystopia book that presented a different view of the future than Orwell's 1984.

In it, the government uses entertainment and technology to keep people within their assigned classes as opposed to military force and surveillance.
Interesting idea, and great visualization. I do think that the timeline controls could be smoother (more refined).

Winters are more exciting imo - but there is no way to copy a URI for a specific time :(.
This flight path map would be a nice infographic next to the traditional Leaving From/Going To web form, but it's not user friendly enough to be the only UI available. Most adults can't even locate their destination cities on a map.
In a previous workplace, there were multiple redundant management tiers on the technical side, and lots of managers were well-known for never really doing anything apart from attending meetings and finding creative ways to get out of doing performance evaluations. Which usually involved buttering up one of their employees and fobbing the work off on them. Some of them had only a couple of reports. I know of at least one who had none.

Then came the "solution." A program whereby managers had to spend 90 minutes a week on the floor talking to their employees. Work was actually supposed to stop while this happened. This got inserted into everybody's objectives.

I found this particularly galling because I'd locked horns with a couple of the worst offenders in some of the few meetings I'd managed to dodge, and because, managing a team of 15 devs, I already made 1-on-1 time available to them weekly and easily spent 90 mins a day with them doing actual work. (You just can't manage technical folk without some involvement and understanding of their daily challenges. There's a respect issue otherwise, on both sides.)

The program came and went. Nobody failed the objective, though after the first week the usual suspects just hid in their office or spent their 90 minutes playing with their phones. And when the next budget crunch came, management layers only increased (because they were all high performers going by their performance review) while people who did actual work got laid off.

Of all the stuff I saw in that corp, that one annoyed me the most (and it wasn't even the most serious - 7-figure vanity projects were a real problem).
There was a $600 perk available for the first 24 hours. It went up to $830 for the same phone after that.
Who elected the Supreme Leader of Iran? (Actual answer: the previous Supreme Leader of Iran.)
Conversely, my 'Other' folder is filled with trash from three years ago. Seems to be working as intended for my uses.
Boy, that's a thin article.

Bootstrap good. If you need $1M+, you need VC. Duh.

The advice is okay hardly 'hacker news'.
Hey, thanks for the reply!

> This was fixed in 0.7.1

We're still using Circus under production loads, and we're still seeing it go unresponsive and chew through a ton of CPU. Unfortunately we haven't been able to reliably reproduce it, so until we can, it's not something we can fix.

> To my knowledge this was never released.

It's happened a couple times, the second one was likely just on master, but the first was happening from a pip install.
https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus/issues/457
https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus/issues/380

> If you are happily using Supervisord, that's fine

We're not, we're still using Circus while we find or build something else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)
It was really a bad move to have created the $800 level without adding anything to the $600 package. Even adding only a small thing would certainly have improved the funding. Another factor is that in lot of minds $600 is the price point for high ends smartphones, pricing above is really really risked.
I think you're thinking of the Comanche helo. There's absolutely zero chance IMHO that Congress actually went out of their way to de-fund a fancy SOF toy.
Ah, I've noticed that with Google. Very annoying when the price is wrong. Although it bothers me even more when I'm on a site like southwest and it makes me restart because a price has expired while I'm buying it.
> It's not like we invaded both their neighboring countries and set up permanent military bases

Yeah, both their neighbouring countries who they were mortal enemies with. They should have been pleased about that, if anything.

Their influence in Iraq has skyrocketed, one of the many reasons the Iraq war was such an idiotic idea.
NES+games were about half that. That's what middle class kids played, even in the early SNES/PS1 era.
> But lead by itself can't be the major factor behind the crime drop. Countries such as Brazil have banned leaded gas even before the United States, and crime rates are still rising dramatically.

This is not logically sound. Brazil could have other factors which increase crime more than getting rid of lead reduces it. The fact that Brazil's crime has increased does not, in any way, tell us that the lead ban couldn't possibly be a major factor in the US's drop in crime.
If countries are sovereign, this implies that they are free not to trade or bank with a given country, or send travel their way.
I had a similar experience. When I was reassigned to a new team in a building a few miles down the road, my computer was supposed to move with me for some reason. It took about a month and a half for that to actually happen.

I also recall some union workers trying to move a full rack of equipment. This was a full height rack with some DEC Alphaservers and storage arrays. Rather than pull the systems, they tried to move the rack as a whole. The whole kit and kaboodle came crashing down.
Go was designed to write systems-y back-end services. Functional languages are a terrible mismatch for this. 'No side effects' is great for certain types of coding, and terrible for systems integration where side effects are the whole point of what you're doing.

Could you please explain what you mean when you say they don't understand functional languages as well as you? The lack of eval() and code-as-data in Go? Something else?
Looks brilliant for mockups and simple layouts! I'd love to see the output for a more complicated layout.

I'm definitely excited for this one.
For me, no templates + no exceptions = DOA.
NYC works for most sites. I wish there was an SF equivalent. I usually don't care SFO/OAK/SJC and have to do what you do, although I just keep it in my head.
Let's not forget that other governments have helped to turn Somalia into what it is today.
Oblig link on "after-the-fact-recognition": http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lea...
Smith-Waterman algorithm
As long as you don't drink water from public infrastructure, use public Wi-Fi, get power from public lines, drive on public roads, get healthcare at public hospitals, ever call the public 911 line no matter how scary that burglar is, etc. etc. then sure dude, go nuts.
Personally, I don't think Ubuntu actually wants the $32M.

Remember, Mark specifically says that most manufacturers won't take you seriously unless you order 100,000 units. At $600 per phone, that's only 53k units (the volumes look worse at $830 per phone). They can't actually manufacture the phone as described for $32M.

So, this is, IMHO, a publicity stunt intended to get carriers interested in Ubuntu phone, and it probably was quite successful.
Learn On Your iPad: 10 Essential Apps For Mobile Learning
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't know about it before. I'm competitive as well and I would probably go for the high score. It makes sense that pg took it down though.
OH: "Any tips for getting started with Go?" Answer: "Yes, try Python."
To some degree. Which do you think most people would prefer?

Crime

Welfare

Gainful Employment
NB: as of "Attitude Adjustment," OpenWRT upstream now supports CoDel as well, so end users need not use cerowrt.
>I thought it was a pretty poor language, obviously written by people who'd either never heard of functional languages or never "got" the point of them.

Or "got it" and didn't find it any that good, for the types of problems they work on.
chart starts @3:30 p.m. first day
Telephony, the Internet and Technological Growth
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One counterpoint to this is daphne coller's claim that pass rate is about 70 percent for people who paid $50 for a special track that includes verification of identity and means to prevent cheating.
I think you're spot on.

There's quite a barrier to a student with an existing undergraduate degree wanting to expand into a masters in a different field, particularly technical fields like engineering or computer science.

mooc's like Georgia Tech's offer a middle-of-the-road option between a tradition masters w/ placement testing (or a whole second bachelor for some) and professionally 'doing without' any accredited education and relying solely on chops and applied experience. I think there is a clear hole in the educational market for these 'transitional' services, and online courses seem to fill it well.

The real questions (VikingCoder stated above) are:
to what degree does that $6600 certificate raise your earning potential?

AND

how effective, in contrast to traditional degrees or self-directed studies, are these online courses at educating people to professionally acceptable standards?
Business Messaging platform Hall raises 5.5 million in funding
You pretty much can't write your own container without significant pain. That said, with the built in objects you have a map, list, set (map of bools, which is actually very nice since maps return default types - false - for missing entries), and concurrent blocking or non-blocking queue (chan). Stacks get a bit cludgy, but can be done without too much pain. Apart from those, I've really never had to roll my own collection class. Someday I may, but it is surely not something you need to do very often.
And Hezbollah, and Syria. Possibly Iraq as well, but I'll admit that's only rumors I've heard.
The first Go program was a LISP S-expression parser:
http://blog.golang.org/first-go-program

Stephen Wolfram writes about the birth of Mathematica:
"Macsyma was written in LISP, and lots of people said LISP was the only possibility. But a young physics graduate student named Rob Pike convinced me that C was the “language of the future”, and the right choice."
http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/06/there-was-a-time-before-m...
Small planes still run leaded fuels so the (rich) owners can save money not changing their engines. This is 50% of our current exposure, needlessly!

http://www.treehugger.com/aviation/leaded-gas-banned-around-...
Or D if you want C++level of expressiveness. The garbage collector is replaceable.

http://dlang.org/

The difference between ML and C++ is a tradeoff between efficiency and safety in my eyes. D comes from the C/C++ level of efficiency and improves safety. ML comes from a safe point and tries to be efficient.
"How costly? The U.S. Department of Labor currently estimates that the average cost of a bad hiring decision can equal 30% of the individual’s first-year potential earnings. That means a single bad hire with an annual income of $50,000 can equal a potential $15,000 loss for the employer."

I think this dramatically understates the cost. What's the cost when 3 people quit because you hired a PM that threw them under the bus in front of a client? What's the cost when 2 women quit because they were sexually harassed? What's the cost when an employee defrauds a client?

The cost of a hiring mistake is not a fraction of a years compensation, it's many multiples of a years compensation. This is one reason many places let slightly sub-par people stay.
heritability either biologically or by culture of crime?

Anyone with a genetic/cultural predisposition to addiction died as a crack addict in 1980-something, therefore no kids with the same predisposition alive in 2013? Don't have to be dead, just a reproductive failure. No kids, kids taken away, life in prison, etc.

Another interpretation is most crime is done by young urban males. A recent-ish development is the Daddy-figure has basically disappeared from the lives of those people, criminal or non-criminal alike. Therefore no following in Dad's footsteps if you have no idea who or what a Dad is. Which is too bad when Dad's not a dirtbag, but if he is, its probably a net positive.

Lack of employement opportunities, especially among the most disadvantaged, means the most disadvantaged kids are no longer latchkey kids?
"Developer Laptop" What are you developing?
DC is actually fairly safe nowadays (except perhaps for Northeast or Anacostia, but no one is going to end up there by accident).
Personally when I'm looking for flights I'm not looking for travelling tips. I don't need photos nor do I need any editorial. And a map is an unnecessarily complex interface for what I do want to do.

I use Hipmunk for finding flights and I think it's a very functional product. Far superior as a product to what I would find on an airlines website.
It was a mistake to leave that bug unfixed for so long. I'm glad they came around to fixing it. Hopefully this is a sign of a team and project maturing.
Israel is not in breach of international law with its nuke program exactly because it is a non-signatory to the NPT.

Iran is a signatory and it has obligations under that treaty that it is not fulfilling.

And being vigilant on Iran is not just protecting US interests. It's protecting anyone who believes in freedom and liberal values. If Iran had nuclear weapons then it would be the second most awful world power to have them. It would be much worse in practice than NK having them though, because it actively sponsors terrorism around the world.
As a co-founder of ITA Software (travel search) and founder of the company that makes http://inky.com (email), I often see unexpected parallels between travel search and email. In both spaces we get periodic design documents and slide ware that look really cool and get everyone all excited. But in both spaces these designs rarely get implemented, much less reach production.

The reason is that the domain details are so extensive and difficult that almost nobody can get past them. I like to describe both these problem domains as "fractal," because when you're 100,000 feet up it looks pretty simple, but the closer you get the more details there are. If I had a dollar for every hacker who told me how easy it would be to make a travel search web site or an email client, I'd be rich.

In both spaces, a very small number of players create the core technologies, and a much larger set of players layer on top of these cores. In travel, for example, you have the GDS companies (Sabre, Amadeus, etc.), ITA, and Expedia. Everybody else -- literally, everybody else -- layers on top of one these systems. Kayak? ITA customer. Hipmunk? ITA customer. Etc. This means the vast majority of players don't actually have to deal with the fractal domain complexity. And almost nobody has any clue there's any difference between say, an ITA and a Hipmunk, even though one has a million lines of code and runs thousands of machines and the other has a fairly standard website. (#)

Similarly, in email, a handful of players create real mail stacks. These are the usual suspects (Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM) and a handful of others (Inky, Sparrow, Thunderbird) Everybody else -- literally everybody else -- layers on top of GMail or Outlook. Mailbox.app? Layer on top of GMail. Xobni? Layer on top of Outlook. Postbox? Fork of Thunderbird.

In the mail space, there are at least some decent open source libraries to use. In the travel search space there is literally nothing to start from but a blank sheet of paper. Carl de Marcken did most of the early work figuring it out for ITA, and it nearly killed him.

I actually seek out domains like this; either because they're defensible, or because I'm insane. I'm not sure which yet.

(#) If you're thinking it's necessary or even better to own the million lines of code and run thousands of machines, think again: Kayak created substantially more value for its shareholders than ITA did, with a lot less effort.
Yeah, it's due to the graphics card. I didn't find that exact one with a higher resolution. Personally, however, for web dev, it's the perfect sign since it's right in the middle (closer to phone/tablets). I had a 1920x1200 before (Dell) but now I love this and not worrying too much about testing on devices.
> You know what killed Occupy? Occupy! No goal, no purpose, just "we hate the bankers and we hate the gub'mint!".

It seems to me most political movements, whether Rush Limbaugh or Occupy Wall St or even Anonymous, are like this.

They find things that aren't working. Great. Like you say, "Get in line."

But a plan? It's either a variation of what we've already got, or a very idealistic "solution" that doesn't account for all the necessary parts of a society.

It's why people like me are so cynical. It's not apathy. It's the opposite. It's heartbreak and as a result, withdrawal in frustration, confusion and self-loathing.
Are we talking about smart people, or rich people? Because they aren't the same category.
Well, keep in mind the recovery is less the total calories burned and more the act of putting your entire body weight on the soles of your feet for eight hours on cement floors in crappy shoes.

Also, four to five hours of walking is not "pretty light exercise". It's a decent workout. Average speed for walking is around 3mph not 2, and if pressed by electronic monitoring and management, a bit faster than that. Probably one of the best forms of exercise out there, but rarely done for most people don't have the time. Low intensity workouts over long periods of time have a different recovery than high intensity workouts over a short time. The direct calorie comparisons don't really do it justice...
Wouldn't it be more fun to write it in LISP itself?