skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like asking questions about what a person has done (especially as personal / home projects), also to a lesser degree what tech blogs they frequent (if they only mention aggregators, thats half a demerit).

What are the weaknesses of these questions?
Do you have any evidence, other than this PR letter, that he's pushing the government to do the right thing? Was he doing this before Edward Snowden leaked?
At Wednesday's hearing, Litt was asked by Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House judiciary committee, if the administration thought if a surveillance program "of this magnitude … could be indefinitely kept secret from the American people?"

"Well," Litt replied, "we tried.
Lol Gnome and Canonical a project that never listens to the community and tries to make their software less customizable and a project which for it size is contributing a very small amount back to the kernel.

I'll take Linus yelling at me because my code sucks over them just politely ignoring my contribution and not telling me what i did wrong any day.
My contacts are perfect on Gmail, no pollution at all. I use Contacts extensibly (birthdays, addresses, notes and all). They are all synchronized with my OS X Contacts as well, photos included. How are yours getting polluted?
I've seen this same thing along I-71 in Ohio.
Your screen is only payment if they can put something they want there.
That was my whole point...all these NLP, coloring personalities and all other bullshit HR and management people are into is only due to their lack of ability to read and sense people. If they don't come up with all this bullshit, they'd be completely lost (just to fall back on looks).
Whether or not the court order is renewed will be secret, won't it? Isn't the whole point to make all the agency regulations secret? I mean, the original court order wasn't public, why would the renewal be?
Gmail gets creepier and creepier. I'm not there yet, but I'm close to looking for alternatives.
>I'm not a fan of languages designed "for children".

This, I think if I was helping I child get into programming I would get them started with QB64 [1], [2]. Then once they mastered that move on to HTML/CSS/JS and C or Go.

Personally I started with GWBASIC (at age 7 or 8), then moved to QBASIC, then learned VB, and then C/C++. Then in college I learned Java and via work learned C#. Nowdays I program full time in Go. (I of course have learned many other languages and platforms along the way , but those were always what I wrote in when left to my own devices).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64
2: http://www.qb64.net/
Crisis & Hiring
Udacity Project on 'Pause'
> My apologies

You know the way to our hearts. Personally, I think defaulting to Commonwealth is sufficient for Canadians. On a side note, does it pluralize "octopus" differently by region? I've always been a big fan of "octopodes" as the plural, which is not really accepted anyways.
When I get around to writing a language = won't be a word (or maybe it will be just for initial assignment). Assignment (or at least mutation) will be := and equality comparison will be ==.
It doesn't help with renaming per se but Belvedere can help keep things organized.

http://lifehacker.com/341950/belvedere-automates-your-self+c...
Pretty much. This is the biggest tech non-story I've seen in months.. anyone who follows kernel development knows that Linus drops the occasional precision "F" strike. This is neither surprising nor newsworthy. The only reason it's getting as much play as it is, would be because another completely unrelated developer (and a female one at that, a rare person) decided to take issue with it this time.

More surprising is the number of people (including the developer in question) who can't seem to grasp that because someone is swearing in a conversation with you doesn't mean they are swearing at you.

Go re-read Linus' message if this is unclear. He never once demeans the intelligence, ability, or anything else about the person, only calling out their mistake as egregiously bad.

The gist of the message is this:

You screwed up. Here's why you screwed up. You know better than that. Don't do it again.

Saying someone did something stupid and saying they themselves are stupid are two hugely different things. One of these thing is merely being acerbic, the other is actual verbal abuse.
HTML5 video needs DRM
I'd say the public deserves this for being so passive, but maybe everyone is just scared that they will be targeted for speaking out.
I love the romance of this. Even though the earth is only going to be a few pixels, the frame will contain a snapshot of the entire human race.
Let's make it simple.) There is classic homework code in two different dialects of Lisp:

(define (cross xs ys)
(cond ((or (null? xs) (null? ys)) '())
((atom? xs) (cons (list xs (car ys)) (cross xs (cdr ys))))
(else (append (cross (car xs) ys) (cross (cdr xs) ys)))))

(defun cross (xs ys)
(cond ((or (null xs) (null ys)) nil)
((atom xs) (cons (list xs (car ys)) (cross xs (cdr ys))))
(t (append (cross (car xs) ys) (cross (cdr xs) ys)))))

Could you, please, provide the equivalent code in Clojure?
Blacklist of words for the "Share a Coke" Campaign (German)
Your answers lie in his quotes. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
Those are real. The pilot times how long it takes you to travel between two lines painted on the road. If it takes too little time, he radios to one of his buddies in a patrol car. You then get a "reward" for being a fast driver.
Not sure why this was left out of TFA: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/329
Paris it's normal to earn 35K for a junior.

OVH is in the north of france, the renting of an apartement in this area is cheaper and salary also.
So, GMail filters other people spam and put their own paid spam directly on inbox. Brilliant!
The difference being, people can and do go to Tristan da Cunha. I know someone who's been there. They have telephones, internet access, satellite TV and a radio station.
Why do you disagree with it? Children have started on and understood them easily enough before.
OVH CEO's thoughts about github
The price of my privacy
I feel like the resistance in 1941. Except now, I or my family will be targeted for reasons I do not even know or understand. I guess that's not so different than the Jews of Germany 70 years ago. Although the methods of coercion will be much more subtle. Unless I happen to be at the same restaurant as a bad guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?_r=0

I think I would like a real time map of all the bad guys. Is that unreasonable in return for my privacy?
I'll tell you why. It's because this line of corporate work isn't about work or passion. It's about filling your day with tasks so you can justify your paycheck. I'm not saying this as a negative thing. It's just how the corporate world works.

Nobody is enthusiastic. I haven't talked to anyone at my work who is truly stoked about what they're doing, as in they'll go home and keep working on what they're doing.

There are no hackers here. It's just corporate culture.

These people are so deep into the corporate culture that they forget how to interact with people without an underlying guide or goal.
Is there any service like FastMail, with a FastMail-like quality web interface, that offers ActiveSync support?

I don't mind paying a little extra to cover the licensing. But I don't want to be stuck with IMAP again -- the biggest draw for service for me is the "Contacts + Calendar + Tasks + Mail" instant syncing of something like ActiveSync.

Rackspace E-mail comes closest from what I've tried. But being stuck on Outlook Web Access isn't awesome.
I do not understand this argument (Side Note: I am fully supportive of the idea of being nice, encouraging, and forgiving towards people in Open Source development).

Unless The Linux Foundation (which is what pays Linus himself) states a code of conduct, and says that it will dismiss Linus unless he follows it, I don't see why he has to be respectful of, say, Intel's code of conduct. Also, what about an unpaid volunteer? Why should they respect corporate codes of conduct when they are not being paid a single cent?

Two Intel engineers working on Intel's internal kernel fork may well have to do that. But the precise reason it is an Open Source project is that it is unaffected by corporate policies of any sort. This applies to "codes of conduct" just as much as it applies to "keep your [computer] code 100% private".

It is still 'just' an OSS project.
You don't have to remark about cold in most of the world.

35 centigrade degrees is very hot.
The South African Air Force was flying surveillance UAVs in Angola and Mozambique in the 1970s and 1980s, also achieving the first flights of UAVs in controlled civilian aerospace in 1994 when military UAVs were used to monitor the country's first fully democratic election.

It also had remote-controlled target drones, loitering anti-radiation drones & TV-guided boosted flying bombs in the same era, all of which meet this article's very loose definition. As others have pointed out the US and Israel have also operated surveillance UAVs for decades.

The use of UAVs did not begin in Afghanistan in 2011.
I find it somewhat disappointing that so many people still rely so heavily on email that they can even become a "power user" of gmail. I check my email a few times a day, and even my work email has gone to once per day. It's an incredible time sink otherwise.
I had difficulty parsing that title.

At first I read it as '"Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways" Say Drones Looking For Speeders'

i.e. there are already drones enforcing the speed limit, and they are reporting (or being confused by) fake signs (maybe installed by pranksters for that purpose.)
After the GP responded. So yeah, I don't see the point of pointing out worthless out-of-context crap. It happens far too often here. It's rubbish that should be called out so it hopefully stops.
I personally find people demanding Linus change to fit them to be the rudest thing I have ever seen.

Let's look at the history quickly: Linus sits down to write an OS as a hobby. It's a huge success and he shares it for free with everyone who wants to use it. Some big corporations like Intel see how good the thing that Linus has made is, and they employ people to help him out.

They then turn around and say Linux is now a big corporate project, and Linus needs to watch his manners? Fuck them, they wouldn't have Linux without him. It's beyond rude for these people to demand Linus fit their corporate culture. I'd say they are welcome to communicate privately with Linus - with a lot of respect owed to him - and convince him to the merits of behaving differently. But to go to the press and make a public statement on how Linus needs to change himself? It's simply disgusting.

Linus is free to act however he wants, and anybody dealing with him is free to walk away. They won't though - Linus has shown incredible ability in managing contributors and also great 'taste' in keeping the kernel working smoothly. This article, however, is plain rude.
I heard mtgox is not paying out lately
May be existing apps already do, but...

If I could create my own, I would include a feature to keep track of everything that has to do with filing my taxes so that you know what to expect at the year end.

I would also like to see a feature that can keep track of your investments and have like a pie chart of your asset allocation which I find to be very important.
And while that might have a bearing on certain facets of the topic as a whole

As in, the actual point, which is that your e-mails are liable to be searched by the NSA.
way to go :)
I like the idea, simple and effective.
That does seem like quite an overreaction to a mild suggestion from Linus.
telnet: connect to address 108.4.184.93: Operation timed out

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
This has been true for years, though.
Show HN: Nerdy Content All-In-One Place (Just for Fun)
Maybe there is NO ddos
To be honest, you could serve up either and you'd be fine.

The key cases I think are cheque (vs. check), colour (vs. color), and neighbour (vs. neighbor) and "fuck" is none of those.

Or you could sign up for an open source account at http://crowdin.net/ and just let us do it ourselves.
In all seriousness, I registered false datum with Assurance Wireless, sponsored by Virgin, and am now using a free cellphone (or "Obama phone" as some voices in the media call it). Per month I receive 250 free minutes and 250 free texts. The only precursor was to "prove" that I am currently enrolled in any of a number of welfare programs (such as the "SNAP" food stamp benefits program). I understand what I am doing is illegal, but earlier this year I realized I did not feel comfortable anymore paying so much for something that seemed to be benefiting others far more than me.
They sold to Opera, so clearly it wasn't sustainable by itself.
Dumb argument. With SSL the bank has control of its own key, and can keep it secret or publish it, and you have control of your own key. You both conform to the open SSL standard, you both control your own software, and you can both fix bugs in the software you use. (No, you can't fix bugs in the bank's software, and they can't fix bugs in your software. That's perfectly sensible).

With DRM someone is keeping your video and worse, the code running on your computer, secret from you. If it has bugs, you can't fix them. So no, I'm afraid all DRM really is bad.
The point wasn't if the company was American, but if the NSA will have the reach to read your emails and with American servers, I believe it does.
Another strange response, seeing as how I never even specified anything about my bullying experiences, other than their effects.
It's sad. The reality is that people don't care. There's no way the government could have built their Panopticon without people doing it for them.

But that reminds me of one of my favourite series: http://www.amazon.com/Traveler-Fourth-Realm-Trilogy-Book/dp/...
> So I think they picked up a little bit of the brogrammer culture and kind of said: “Yeah it’s OK to yell at each other because we’ll obviously just meet over beer and pound each other on the back and it will be all fine.”

> Sometimes, that just doesn’t work for people who aren’t men.

I also found this to be confusing....
Looks good. Hopefully someone will write something to automagically search for unintentionally exposed sensitive files and notify the repo owner - when the "human" version of Code Search came out, a lot of private keys and other such things were discovered.
Exactly!!!! They are superior in that they are sustainable, and it's so horrible that people want to convert them into us. Let's build them a Walmart while we're at it.
Learned a lot through this thread. Thanks.
First, I want to be clear that I attribute noble motives to the designer of the language, and second that I recognize the hard work and effort that goes into a project like this.

My unanswered questions:

() What are the pedagogical principles upon which Isla is founded?

() How is the language tied to models of developmental psychology and to what models?

() For what age is the language appropriate?

() What does it do better than other similarly targeted languages, e.g. LOGO or Alice?

Isla looks as if it could be a game changer. I want to know more.
I switched to crunchbang when I got a new laptop and it's a pleasure to work on and has been useful for getting more experience in terminal. Building your own menus has also helped me keep everything very streamline, I only add what is actually necessary, rather than having tons of programs I used once or twice waste space.

For vps/server I prefer centos/debian.

edit: also wanted to add that crunchbang has run much faster for me than lubuntu which I previously was using. Generally ~200-250mb ram, boots extremely quick as well. It will run great on an old junk pc, or a new workstation.
Levitation could be the next big science fiction technology to hit it big
I was thinking the same thing while reading the article.

JS has inherited from both Scheme and Self.
I think the secret to Space X is there an engineering company in a bureaucracy heavy industry. It reminds me of a technical problem a friend was dealing with he had a basic design for a toy that he was trying to get manufactured and spent a few weeks emailing back and forth why the design was impossible, until he went over and discovered the issue was a base he said should be about 1 inch thick needed to be 1/4 an inch thicker and they just looked at the constraints and said impossible.

It's great for rockets to have more effecency, be lighter, and carry more cargo, but it's hard to balance the design around what is overall cheaper and more efficient rather than just chasing better specs.
Friday is Webday Issue #3 (Link collection for web designer and developers)
Actually, they were doing fine but they weren't able to grow.
Apple has been pretty clever about exploiting a lot of scary things in human nature! ...and yeah, we all "loved" to see those things at their best. That's something over which I have a hard time to get over, even now.
They have plenty of paid content you can buy, also gadgets, Arduino stuff, tool sets along with books and magazines in their shop (shop.heise.de). They don't seem to be very good at promoting these things though, probably because they put such an emphasis on their content (it's generally not littered with "buy this" ads).
Please someone code it.
This is just a weekend project for fun. It is mainly for my own use but I thought I would post it here to see if anyone had good sources of content that I could add into my daily reads. Thanks!
Links Collection for the Week - 19th July
I think this is better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiter_Rule
N.B. I have no dog in this race, so what I say below is meant to be neutral to the issue.

I don't think there is any contradiction in what she says.

Gender, age, upbringing, education – all those things will influence someone's perspective on an issue.

But the issue itself is not about gender. Plenty of men don't want communicate via a lot of "Shut the fuck up, this is shit", and obviously women can swear and put people down, so it is not a gender issue. It is a style of communication issue, and the argument is:

Linus: I hate fake politeness and game-playing, so I'm just gonna let rip, especially on people who waste my time (implictly, to discourage that strongly).

Sarah: You can be assertive without being rude, and politeness is important in a professional context.

Her viewpoint might be different, and her gender might influence that, but that doesn't make it a gender issue.
As a concerned citizen I believe white house petitions are the most counterproductive tool to channel citizen rage.
"Hey John, thanks for contributing" - This is only true if you are actually grateful to John. Otherwise, John is wasting your time (if his patch is complete rubbish).

"There's a lot of good there but this algorithm really needs to run faster and use less memory" - Another lie (unless there actually is a lot of good there). What if there's not a lot of good? Should we just prefix our statement with this banal clause?

"Check out how Sarah did it here when working with Y. Additionally, here's some resources." So now someone who's time is worth a lot (top tier linux maintainer) is responsible to LMGTFY for everyone who contributes?
Where I work we're slowly switching to Stash lately, a self-hosted GitHub-like (sans Issues) software by Atlassian. I took a look and it seems to cost $10 one-time for teams up to 10 people. Suspiciously low price—I guess they expect customers to add Jira integration for ticket management and make more money off that.

So this makes you basically safe from DDoS-attacks, since you host it yourself, and costs much less than enterprise GitHub installation (which is $50K/year for up to 20 people). Judging by screenshots it seems pretty similar to GitHub—although, of course, closer to BitBucket. Haven't tried it myself yet.
I made a few cruder services like this at my old job:

http://foaas.willfixeverything.com
http://abug.in/linux

They are both running on heroku and slow as hell. Pull requests (http://github.com/jedahan) or better free hosts are welcome, but I get like 50 visits a year so whatevers.

We used in in chat rooms when management was being dumb, mostly.
Yeah, too expensive phones are a pet peeve of mine.

See: http://ars.to/17BuE6s

QUOTE:

But what I’ve always wanted here in the US is what I had when we were living in Germany from 2010 to 2012: a cheap, prepaid, debit-style mobile offering, where the receiver doesn’t pay for incoming texts or calls. In nearly every other country in the world, this seems to be the norm.

For two years, we were happy customers of Blau.de (an E-Plus MVNO). The company offered a prepaid 1GB of data for just €10 ($12.60) and €0.09 ($0.11) per minute to any German phone number and €0.09 per text to any German mobile phone. In Germany, we spent something like €40 ($52) per month on average. That's roughly half of what we currently spend and about one-third of what most similar iPhone users pay stateside.

Last month, I reported from Belgium on what may be my favorite mobile provider anywhere in the world: Mobile Vikings (http://ars.to/12Bmo1G). With any luck, they’ll launch soon in the United States. I'd take the company's basic offering in a heartbeat: €15 ($20) per month for 2GB of mobile data, $0.32/min for voice, and 1,000 text messages. Another favorite of mine is 3 in the United Kingdom. This company offers a 30-day deal for just 15 British pounds ($23), which includes 300 domestic minutes, 3,000 text messages, and unlimited data. (Remember, incoming is free in Europe.)

More than the Verizons and AT&Ts we're used to, Roam Mobility and Ready SIM are closer relatives to these appealing European offers.
Fastmail is hosted by NYI.net in Lower Manhattan, a major FreeBSD shop. The site lists Opera as one of their customers.

The very nature of e-mail leads me to conclude that it really doesn't matter where an e-mail provider is located, because it will always be intercepted at some point. One can use another e-mail service, but if the people you talk to still use gmail, then does it really matter?

Perhaps it's time to talk about new messaging systems, with encryption by default, and a new address and routing system coupled with Tor.
The first "programming language" that I learned to use was LEGO Mindstorms, when I was around 8 years old. I think that was an absolutely AWESOME way to teach the principles of computer programs to children. (And transferring the programs to the robot was WIRELESS! Serial -> Infrared, that is)

Each "instruction" was represented on a computer as a "LEGO block". For example, there was a conditional block. You'd place it under a block that would return an output (like a "sense" command), and then you'd place two blocks below it for the True/False conditions. So basically you ended up building a tree of the logical structure of the program.

I think this style is the BEST way for children to learn programming. In fact, I think a block-like/tree-like structure is often a great way to think about program structure (even for advanced programs; Simulink is really great!).

Now, once you get comfortable with the constructs, actually dragging-and-dropping blocks often gets too slow. But for children, and for building simple programs, I think it's great.

I'm afraid that text-based languages are just unnecessarily difficult for children - only a small fraction of what you can type actually represents a valid program. The blocks allow programming without having to deal with these syntactic barriers. After all, when I program in a language like Haskell, 90% of my programming errors cause the program to fail to compile. These sorts of errors (syntax errors or type errors) can be prevented as the program is built with the block interface.

And while I'm extolling Mindstorms, another great thing about creating these programs was that you weren't just flipping bits on a computer; it was pretty satisfying to see a robot "in the real word" follow your commands.