skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't a single feature in C that isn't present in more safer languages like Modula-2 or Turbo Pascal. They are as powerful, or even more, than C.

Just because C won the battle with those languages, it does not mean we need to live with its design issues ad eternum.
VCs and entrepreneurial ego
Startup culture isn't about ping-pong tables.

What's about ping-pong tables is Silly Valley VC culture, where founders are handed enough money to use $100 bills as fapkins because someone on Sand Hill Road thinks they're as cool and aggressive as Mark Zuckerberg.
Thank you! That's definitely a bug, looking into it :-)
"Oooops, our bad." -NSA
What would be an alternative? I don't want to be threatened by dogs on the street, and I definitely don't want to worry about my kid being mauled by a dog. I guess the rationale is that if a dog did it once, it'll be more likely to do it again. How would you counteract that?
Secret services are gonna love the spread of people uploading their vital statistics to cloud services. I find it an incredibly worrying idea.
They have - https://generalassemb.ly/education/data-science/new-york-cit...
You see some of the opposite here in America. For some reason or another, people tend to prefer an Asian-looking kung fu teacher to a Caucasian or African-American one.

The present-day East Asian cultures have become strangely obsessed with image. There was one Taiwanese pop star, I think her name was Jolin or something, she's rumored to have had 3 different plastic surgeries in the last however many years, and come out looking quite different in each one. It's supposedly kind of scandalous now in Korea, when a husband and wife marry and then the kids turn out looking nothing like the parents.
Last year's model.
That seems unlikely; otherwise you could stay off the radar by just establishing a protocol of only calling your terrorist friends, rather than having them call you (or vice versa, if that's the direction a "hop" indicates).
Ten Steps to Purchasing a Used Car Without Getting Robbed
User: "Solve the Halting problem"

The program could continue to run forever, stuck at 20.

But back on topic, good article. We're in the everything else phase right now. :(
Yeah, I personally don't really agree that name-calling and dressing people down publicly is really the most effective method of altering a team's behaviour for the greater good of a project. I guess I'm just thinking about the vast array of conflicting opinions and ideas around the world and how they might mesh together to form some kind of cohesive whole, in general.

So, like, I don't agree that the name-calling is effective. But, maybe, Linus does. Can we still work together even though we might be screaming at each other? Can we still make progress? If we can do that (without debilitating each other) I think that could be seen as a good thing.

Linus' point is that there is no universal definition of "professional" and there never will be. There's just a bunch of different humans walking around on this rock floating in space, each with their own minds and ideas about what's right and what makes the most sense (sometimes similar, often times different). With billions of us out there, it's probably impossible for us to all be on the same page at all times. But maybe we can be on the same page, for some things, some of the time and tolerate the other things where we're not on the same page in the interest of progress (however you want to define "progress"). I think that's more realistic, and I think that's all we can ever hope for. There are no "rails" when it comes to human behaviour, imho.
Hey Nathan--Glad to see you over here. I know you personally and I know Patrick personally, and Patrick is definitely one of the good guys. I've been super impressed with him, having both worked with him (we both consulted at WP Engine at the same time last year) and on getting to know him on a personal level. As I mentioned in my other post on this thread, he got burned on consulting and is headed back into info products. He's not the "Internet marketer" type you and I are both disgusted with (the group we've both publicly disowned) at all.
As long as I use Gmail and Google drive for free (and I'm using Adblock), they have to monetize the service they provide to me somehow.

I would like to have clear option of being fed advertisements and being profiled for profits and paying for service.
I got a flex a month ago and I love it! I don't use the silent alarm feature, because I'm a light sleeper and I wake up when I wake up. The food log is a feature that I thought I won't use, but I am. Wish I also had a heart monitor.
Why Erlang? - Chatasaur.us Blog
Drive /documents are one aspect of what is stored in Google, Microsoft+++. The point I was trying to make is to be careful, even if they secure Drive, don't assume that other services and data are NSA proof. The companies are all in PR mode, trying to reverse the damage done.

The stuff on drive and Azure it's easy, I can encrypt it yourself. Email location data, call logs, videos watches, pages visited etc are the real problem.
> Shortly after Dershowitz’s criticisms, Harvard Law School’s dean’s office received a phone call. When the dean refused to pick up, Angela Corey spent a half hour demanding of an office-of-communications employee that Dershowitz be fired. According to Dershowitz, Corey threatened to sue Harvard, to try to get him disbarred, and also to sue him for slander and libel. Corey also told the communications employee that she had assigned a state investigator — an employee of the State of Florida, that is — to investigate Dershowitz.

Wow.

Although, it takes balls to threaten to sue Harvard at the drop of a hat (http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/01/is-the-riaa-afr).[1]

[1] The whole affair can be best described with a redditism: "In Cambridge, file sharers sue you." (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/11/5/nesson-harvard-l...).
275,000 Dominoes
That turned dark and specific very quickly, thanks?
I've already lost all faith in Google.

I recommend Spider Oak as a replacement for Google Drive.

Also, don't forget Bittorrent Sync.
Awesome.

I'm wondering if the NSA is willing to self-fund? I'm sure, given their omnipotence and excellent ears, they could, perhaps, make a few ticks in the stock market. ;)

Before I get labelled tin-foily, let us recall Iran-Contra and longstanding allegations regarding the CIA's drug trafficking... there is precedence.
Obama: NYC's Kelly 'Very Well Qualified' To Lead DHS
Engineering Thoughts Around Oozie, a Hadoop Job Scheduler
Edit Wars Reveal The Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia
That's very true. But look at the political atmosphere now.

I feel that there's opposition theater rather than true opposition. Some of the things in opposition don't even make sense. People bicker over trite best left to late night "reality" TV, and how many actually believe the things they spout? Nixon, though he's one of my least favorite politicians, and Clinton actually believed in something; what do today's career politicians truly believe now?

With the rise for 24/7 news and the internet, live performance to an ever vigilant target demographic is taking precedence over substantive action.

I don't blame the politicians. I blame the people.
Ha!

Well as jerf mentioned below, HN doesn't correctly provide a link reference to its RSS feed. Now that's fine in our case, as a surprisingly large number of websites fail this test, and simply have a visible link with "rss" or "atom" in either the link's text or URL.

Now we pick these up, but in this case the front page of HN has an invalid link with "rss" in the text, namely this very thread itself. So normally the HN front page URL works fine, but right now it doesn't. This gives us a great chance to refine our discovery code a bit, so thank you!
documentation is related to development....
I want this for my next barbecue.

Great way to light charcoal. Low (No) energy and all natural. This is even better than a chimney starter.
This appears to be a problem again this afternoon (1:44PM MST)
I completely disagree. Passport information is collected upon purchasing a SIM-card diminishing all hopes of privacy. Furthermore, there is roaming between states/provinces in Russia, so a SIM bought in one state is extremely expensive to use in another. I know for a fact that this isn't the case in the US and Canada. But, yes, generally prices are lower in Russia.
Somehow the title moves the focus away from problem. The real issue is not about obscene profits. Apple might be making obscene profits from iPhone.

The real problem is how Universities and Government have managed to create a monopoly and milk the future generation of their country.
Not to mention "collection" seems to be used to describe the act of an analyst using the data, not storing it for future use[1]. I interpreted this quote as, "We are not currently using geolocation data, just storing it for future use".

--

[1] Based off Clapper's explanation, "To me, collection of a U.S. person's data would mean taking the books off the shelf, opening it up and reading it"[2]

[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-dir-james-clapper-lie-c... (couldn't find a better source).
Nice. Still useful today .. some of them. Does anyone else also think the water filter in a pail is kindof reversed ? I think we should start with the coarse and end with the fine, unless we are drawing off from the top ..
Scraping Yahoo fantasy football stats with Scrapy
never mind the damage Mao inflicted on the country. China
became more materialistic, less ideological, less
idealistic.

"Never mind" the damage Mao inflicted? 65 million people died during his reign. Post-Mao China is more realistic, more productive, much wealthier, and much less insane (aka "ideological/idealistic"). It is less likely to foment violent revolution nearby and more interested in profitable stability. It is an improvement on every front that matters.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/m...

Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'

Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China,
qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history,
an expert who had unprecedented access to official
Communist Party archives said yesterday.

Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival,
Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found
that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap
Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy
of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing
"one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known".

Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural history
from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine,
compared the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and
killing of Chinese peasants to the Second World War in its
magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved
or beaten to death in China over these four years; the
worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55
million.

Mr Dikötter is the only author to have delved into the
Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago.
He argued that this devastating period of history – which
has until now remained hidden – has international
resonance. "It ranks alongside the gulags and the Holocaust
as one of the three greatest events of the 20th century....
It was like [the Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot's
genocide multiplied 20 times over," he said.

But he said something nice about MLK once. Really, methinks that some "baggage" - aka knowledge of history - is quite necessary here.
Oregon’s ‘Pay It Forward’ Program: Imagine College with No Tuition
oh heck, why not just use it to sear steaks directly.
I'm 28!
My step-grandfather was a Danish watchmaker who moved to California. My dad was a prototype machinist at Lockheed. I program. I've always thought of that as a progression. [51-55 age bucket]
> An easy way to determine if the US supports a group is to look at the language used to describe that group

You mean like "ally" or "enemy?"
Yep, no matter how much PR bullshit they spew out, no one resonable is going to trust them with sensitive data.
That looks really nice. The demo and some of the ideas seem to good to be true. I'm not sure my doctor spends her time scanning a social network for status updates to decide who to drop in on.
tl;dr: C is simple. Bad code is bad. Shitty compilers are shitty.

This needs to be qualified. Simple compared to what? C is simple when compared to C++, Java, and many other languages. Obviously, C is simple because it lacks syntactic sugar, classes, polymorphism, templating (generics), memory management, etc. So, uh, yeah. It's simple.

The fact that bad code can be written in a language doesn't really make the language non-simple. I could write bad code in any language (often times I do!) - so I'm not sure how any judgment about a language can be made with these kinds of examples. As far as the GCC/VC examples are concerned, they are a non-issue. Shitty compiler keywords are shitty[1]. We know. This is one of the many pains of writing cross-platform code in compiled languages. These examples are contrived and I highly doubt most come from production code.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3437404/min-and-max-in-c/...
Though not all of the bar/cafe networks are passworded, likely.
I was able to get to a site on cloudflare through Tor yesterday.
We based it on EJS because we had a lot of views with EJS. But we needed a lot of performance (Our goal was to be faster than the underscore templating language). We also needed debuggability. So, it's built in a way that works very well with all the tools we use. Finally, the feature we benefit from the most is broken printable blocks. It's very easy to capture the output from a function in a block, and just move it around as we please. It makes wrapping helpers a hell of a lot easier.
Haha, I'm not sure about that one. It's like everywhere: apple fanboys, anti-apple Android enthusiasts, then people who don't really care.
Analysts look "two or three hops" from terror suspects when evaluating terror activity

I bet they investigate Kevin Bacon a LOT.
Woah, woah, so by smaller government, you mean dictatorship? How is that less threatening?

Committees are what happens when you have a legislature.
Because "ideals" means "belief systems" rather than "list of terrible things that they did that temphn thinks should be mentioned whenever their name comes up in conversation"?
Sorry I'm so grumpy, but I'm getting various suggestions from various places, and my experiences are, to say the least, unhappy ones. This is a typical example. All looks well, then you follow a link to start using it, and you get a 404, or an access denied, or some other message that just brings you to a dead stop.

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll return to it later and see if it's been fixed.
Good idea. Sparse bundle gets around the fact that Google don't use block level delta sync with drive yet.

I use trucrypt + dropbox combination because DropBox has delta sync, but your way makes Drive also a good option.
Clever Hacks Give Google Glass Many Unintended Powers
It's based on EJS. So it's indeed really similar to underscore. In fact, we benchmarked against underscore's template function and EJS and, at least in our templates, achieved better performance (Not very scientific: we got averages out of 200000 renders). It offers breakable printable blocks, and very nice debuggability.
This is even worse than it seems. A "hop" can go both ways. So if a terror suspect calls Comcast's main 800 number (or any other high volume number) they can track everyone who ever called that number. And obviously they have to deal with the fact that many people have multiple numbers and treat them as a single node. Three hops from a few thousand suspected terrorists each with multiple phone numbers might include a large fraction of the US population.

Not sure how this could possibly be helpful in an investigation if everyone is a suspect. At some point you have to narrow it down.

Edit: Apparently there are 875,000 names in the "Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment" (TIDE) [1]

So if each of those suspects can be connected to 20 people (hop 1 - 20 people) and each those people can be connected to an additional 20 people (hop 2 - 400 people) and connected again to 21 more (hop 3 - 8,000 people) you could reach the entire world's population.

875,000 x 8,000 = 7 billion

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/03/us-usa-security-da...
I fixed this by pulling out the headphone plug slightly from the jack...
There are plenty of kneejerk reactions to what has been put out in the news lately, but actions like this equally bypass a necessary public debate. Without sufficient knowledge of what is actually transpiring, the American public isn't in the position to say "this is right", or "this is wrong" about what the NSA _actually_ does versus what people conjecture it does.

If you're saying, "I know what the NSA does because Snowden, some slides, and people on the internet told me so", then you're still in the group of heavily misinformed. I would definitely like to see information brought to light from the government's side in a constructive way, and help frame a national debate over these programs. Discussing the legality of foreign and domestic surveillance and constructing a (public) legal rationale will, hopefully, provide a solid foundation for future generations.

Regardless of what is or isn't going on, it's pretty obvious to the common citizen that the rationale for current actions are derived from equivocating legalese.
Can you make this into a wall poster?
That's very similar to what I've been doing so far, but it's broken again, so I'm looking for something less fragile and more "official" so I can stop having to fix it every few months, or every few weeks. I'll probably fix it this time while I'm searching for something more robust.

Thanks.
Bob Dole might have a bone to pick with you.
i am pushing 30 but I look barely 22.
Needless to say, everyone i meet assumes that i am younger to them.
And plenty of discussion on how we can't trust their results any more

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.
Bjork Brings Biophilia to Android With a Little Help From Apportable (YC W11)
That UCSB review is extremely amusing as is the other one linked.

Thank you for those.

http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/bmonreal/Null_Physics_Review.html

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~fiski/ouu_review.html
Hmm...when I click on an RSS feed link in Safari, my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) opens and asks me if I want to add this feed. (Worked for the comments feed, didn't see a link for the blog, and the "subscribe" button didn't work).

Yes, polling has issues, but the author doesn't explain how changing the file format from RSS to some JSON-based format makes those problems go away.

Maybe I am just dense, but neither does the author show real problems, nor does he offer solutions. Well, the latter being somewhat unsurprising considering the former.
I wonder how many "hops" the average American is away from Kevin Bacon. My guess is that 3 is on the low end of it.

Just a guess: Me<->Senator<->Movie Exec<->Kevin Bacon

With 4 or more hops it surely becomes pretty trivial. "Phonecall hops" are a much lower bar than "worked with" hops.
Then you would most likely try emphasizing your managerial side with a more business type degree. They would need to slap at least some "data driven leadership" label on it. The name (and mode of delivery) makes it sound like a fairly poor choice for rubbing shoulders with other c-level types - something that is certainly a main decision point for executive masters.
I don't think so. I think the purpouse is to offer less: We don't even have built-in helpers or file loading mechanisms or caching. The philosophy is that we just do templating, we do it really well, and the rest is code from your stack. This philosophy has worked with our projects.
Many times when I'm surfing the web, I'm in my recliner under a blanket, with only one hand peeking out to control the trackpad. I don't want or need to use the keyboard. It works perfectly fine until some stupid website stops the back button from functioning. Login is accomplished using LastPass, hell I can even sign up for new services 80% of the time w/o the keyboard using the form fill function.
Committing an illegal and regularly enforced crime of driving with an obstructed license plate seems like a poor plan to try and defend your right to an abstract sense of privacy.
> One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. History is written by the victors.

So the Kurds in Northern Iraq that got gassed by Saddam were terrorists? The VC won in Vietnam. Were we the terrorists there? Chiang Kai-shek?
Characterisimg illegal espionage for political advantage as "trivial reasons" is a remarkable piece of false equivocation.
Stealth Accessibility: Improving LinkedIn's accessibility for all users
"/linus/:name/:from"
Best call.
See also: "You'll never be Chinese" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366203
Synopsis: The NSA analyzes EVERYONE'S data.
I want to like SpiderOak, but transfers are painfully slow, and their OS X interface is horrible.
Thanks for the response!

I didn't mean for the comment to seem skeptical of what either has done. With regards to Ramit, I know he's fantastic at sales -- I've actually bought one of his products and found it worth the cost. I assume his other products are of similar quality, because it takes a lot of proof to get some of those sales he's making.

I was just bringing up that it seems like a huge jump to someone working a 9-5 corporate job, and I'm just mentally penciling in "hustle" in how he got from A to B, because I haven't followed his story the whole way, the same as the OP hadn't been following Patrick. I like learning from the story of progression more than a "do this that and the other, but not that."
chart:
http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chxl=0:|00-10|11-15|16-20|...
I'd love it if some of the teenagers here could send me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'm looking to put together some sort of group so we can meet some other young people like ourselves.
Migrating to iOS 7
Yeah but imagine you could do all three things as this guys can :)
It's like playing the Kevin Bacon game except with an 864,999 additional Kevin Bacons in the mix.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318728/Number-names...
Nurses in the SF Bay Area make that much out of a 2 yr college that costs less than $3k. Hell, a LOT of people make that in the SF Bay Area without pursuing $60k educations. Not everyone should or want to be a nurse, but when you put things like that into perspective, it makes one wonder if the costs justifies the pursuit.
Nice marketing.
Which other services? Happy to share anything we use.

1. Errbit (open source and hosted free on heroku)
2. Uptime (open source and hosted free on heroku)
3. Dashing (open source and hosted free on heroku)
I've been asking for this for years, but if anybody can come up with a method (website?) for me to figure out how black people are seen in different countries and regions, that would help me a lot. Seems like the only way to tell is to fly somewhere, then find out that your experience there is not going to be like your friend's was.

Racist heatmaps?
Site looks great and service too.

One tiny nit on the logo, you should use hexagons instead of pentagons. Lots of hexagons fit together nicely. Pentagons, not so much.
Try the tc command which allows you to control the traffic and set things like latencies, simulate physical congestion etc.