skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But doesn't Cali law invalidate such terms? So it is a matter of law in that the law permits such terms. Its like the right to strike - in many countries that right can't be contracted away.
well said, they don't provide any encryption - and I have not found any public cloud services that could solve the browser encryption issue. If you are willing to experiment with public services, my first bet would be tresorit (however, they have limitations in compatibility until august, when upgrades are coming). I also tried wuala and boxcryptor, but they just did not work for me.
I used Xtext for a while in a bigger project. It really is a great tool. Probably a little bit hard to learn in the beginning, but extremely helpful.
Sure, but it would be great if it went a little further: "... and/or provides a documentation panel for that argument". Having a one-liner to explain what ls's `--dired` does without having to drop down to a new line and look it up would be great, displaying the first sentence of the relevant section of the man page could be enough?
Why have young children’s clothing styles changed so dramatically?

As opposed to all other demographic segments?
This depends on how you argue ... some lawyers think this is covered under the freedom of expression.
As far as I know there is also some international law covering the protection of sources. Yet, I'm not sure and have no clue about law :)
"Journalist" has always been a bit of an artificial distinction. Members of the press don't get special rights for being so. The most they may have gotten in the past was special access.

This clearly shows two things. We've all been journalists all along and we never really quite had the rights we thought we had.
Plenty of engineers there but most work in petroleum. I do get what you are saying.
Again purely speculation but I always believed that crime is highest in areas with the greatest disparity in wealth and freedom. It's as though there is a social pressure to equalise the distribution of resources. You can see this in cities that have both the very poor and the very wealthy. The houses of the wealthy look like fortresses, cameras on high walls, perhaps a guard at the gate etc.
Foreign countries? Its common practice in China, Russia and other similar countries that anti-regime reporting is done outside the border. PRQ (the ISP of the pirate bay back in 2006) was hosting several similar news papers, as Sweden was seen as a haven for activities demanding common carrier principle. Now days, I guess Iceland has taken the primary role for such.
> This site is running only on the world's best browser

Not worth my time
predictability, libraries, developers, numbers of specialist, support, books, the language(not perfect, but stable and fast), frameworks.
Even if they don't know who this third party is? What if the source is your spouse?
New Matrix library for Go
its a lie, zhongguancun could never be the next silicon valley if it is in beijing

ask anyone who have come to beijing, let them talk about the problem to you
This a well of useful and thought-provoking ideas.

I would like to point out a general theme though. A lot of these ideas seem most relevant to technical savvy people and I think why a lot of them (especially UI stuff) have not been implemented is because interfaces must cater to everybody.

Perhaps what we need more of is a dev mode switch (s/w or h/w) like the Chromebook has which enables a lot of these ideas so that the ordinary user is not overwhelmed.

Some of the ideas in the list are aimed at a general audience though. So perhaps each entry in the list needs to make a note of who the target audience is.
I think that to some extent both meanings can co-exists, they're not even entirely incompatible actually. Sure "stealing credit card numbers or disabling public utilities" is not really in the spirit of hacking in the good sense, but breaking into systems or other illegal stuffs can also be hacktivism (think of a Robin Wood analogy to, for instance "stealing" research papers back), and is part of what a hacker in the sense of the linked post may do.
>technological innovation will help us forever end the five historic plagues of human existence: ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war

We could end ignorance, poverty, hunger, and war pretty easily, but we won't. I might have to read this one, because I don't see any evidence that such optimism for humanity is warranted.
CFOs are paid to and should be evaluated on creating/optimizing returns for the owners of the company (the shareholders).

If the return from a project for the company (and the therefore the shareholders) is greater than that of a dividend/buyback, do the project. If the dividend/buyback is the idea with the best return, do that.

This evaluation works whether on a projected/discounted look-forward basis or a backward looking basis. In both cases, you have to model assumptions about the path not taken.

Note that most established companies have a portfolio of ideas. Few operating companies return most of their net profits to shareholders. (some companies setup as financial instruments do/must, and whether a REIT is an operating company or not is a question, but Microsoft certainly is an operating company and returning 100% of net profits, even if that were the best idea they had on first-order evaluation, would be a terrible idea.)
I am project manager. The issue is that usually, when you go down the "project management" path, you end up having more people managing than actually working (because no smart person wants to report to someone who is not evidently better than him/herself.) Also, the more people managing, the more management reporting artifacts the developers have to produce or at least reiterate, and the more incentive is given to the smart team members to disregard any authority and play the system. I agree with the project manager as an entropy crusher, but creativity requires entropy. The ideal PM should manage entropy, not crush it (e.g. during definition entropy has to increase, as you approach delivery it has to decrease.)
Bookmarklet for choosing background patterns
> the scary console login after you've messed up your GUI settings

That's where I stopped reading...

BASH isn't that mysterious.

man bash
would it be something like this: https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/ ?
Interesting but rather long.
tl;dr version:

90% of people are like locusts/zombies, always preying on the best deals.

9% are Jeffersonian middle class - “small, local and independent” entrepreneurs. Whenever they offer anything less than the best deal, locust swarm will retreat, for example to Groupon and Starbucks. As such, small non-scalable businesses are most often loss-making and generally not sustainable.

The 1% of people are like vampires, it's implied that they manipulate the 90% against the 9%.
My information on why red/pink was associated with males is that red dye is more expensive.
Thus the wearing of red is a status symbol.

(Source: talk on Vikings at Jorvik Viking museum/village)
Exactly like that, I'll add it to the existing list.
Have you tried gaming? Particularly for military types, but in general for that age and demo, that's what I'd try.
I love the comments
Well, number 9 already exists in some form on OS X. You can't drag because it drags the window, but if you click on the file name in the title you get a dialog with some file options (rename, move, duplicate, ...).
Clever! If an email is sent as html, it is obvious that microformats could be imbedded, just as they can be on web pages. Hadn't thought about that before.
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Remove cached files or directories from Github repo
Seperate things. It monkey-patches Enumerable. It uses class variables. But not in the same context. Thanks for finding that.

Yes, the code looks like it is directly taken from Java/C#.
If you don't know it already, you might like a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay called Renascence.
Adults are far less intense than children, IMO.

I expect children to be intense about nearly everything. Small boo-boos and set-backs are devastating, and small wins create enormous excitement in 2 and 4 year olds. That, to me, is intensity.

It's perfectly normal for the majority of things in life to be intense in kids (and have more understanding for others' kids now), but it's entirely abnormal (and frankly inappropriate) in adults. Adults can have selective intensity and I look for that as a strongly positive quality in people I want to be around. Non-selective intensity is simply fatiguing, IMO.

Interuption: "Dude!!! Are you guys out of toilet paper in the upstairs bath?! Because if you are, I just wanted to remind you that there's a lot of it downstairs." (Silently: "No shit, I bought it and put it there; next, care to interupt my reading in five minutes to update me on the stock status of dish washing detergent?")
Amazing beta success
My fashion startup just had a phenomenal beta success but unfortunately the tech co-founder I brought on board is going through some major personal crisis and can no longer continue. My users keep asking when we'll officially launch - so I need a dev person ASAP. Is anyone interested in joining a fledgling fashion startup with a serious fan base? (Experience in scrapers and search required, freedom to choose programming language) Thanks!
By the way: Top browsers in Germany http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-201206-201306
Just to play devil's advocate:

> accepting ... reality is always more fascinating, weird and grand than our brains can even begin to imagine ... We're along for a ride and that ride is awesome.

Sounds like defeatism and resignation. Why resign yourself to the "ride" and pretend that there's something nice about the long, arduous journey when you know very well that there's not much to see at the destination, or if you believe that everyone is riding in the wrong direction?

> If they figured out a way to give a damn, you can, too.

Sounds like conformism. What if all those people gave lots of damns about things that actually aren't worth a damn? Perhaps we should not waste our precious CPU cycles on caring about worthless things.

How do you convince a mind that thinks on the scale of trillions of years to care about a few thousand years of human idiosyncrasy at all? I don't think it will be that easy. Daily hugs might actually work better, because a hug doesn't even attempt to engage the intellect and therefore doesn't need to respond to counterarguments.
No. What this holds is that (as has long been the case) there is no special journalists' privilege they can assert to avoid testifying.

They still have a 5th-amendment right not to answer questions where the answers might incriminate the journalist themselves (rather than their source). However, usually this is not at issue, because the reporter republishing the material isn't a crime, so their testimony wouldn't implicate them in a crime.

In cases where the witness the government wants to compel could plausibly be themselves accused of a crime, the government can avoid being stymied by 5th-amendment assertions by just granting the witness immunity from prosecution. Then the possibility to assert a 5th-amendment right disappears, because if the person cannot be legally incriminated in the case (due to immunity from prosecution) they no longer have a basis for asserting a right against self-incrimination.
Wow, really an eye opener. Was too long but I read it anyway and enjoyed every bit of it. Though I have to say things are changing in the man's world. Men are trying to imbibe feminine qualities as time progresses. Just look at the way men have been "domesticated" by the corporate culture if you don't know what I mean.
It's a pretty obvious business strategy to offer low prices with the goal of putting competitors out of business, in order to monopolise and ultimately drive up prices.
(as long you have the deepest pockets)

As such, I try to patronise businesses which I think provide value to the local community: businesses that I personally like and want to stick around. Even if their prices are slightly higher, I find that paying the cost of sustainability benefits me greatly more than saving a few pence. (I do feel grateful to have sufficient economic power to exercise this choice)
At some companies, project managers have "responsibility" for projects but no authority or engineer time to direct. They get the projects that are too important to cancel, but not important enough that anyone with real authority in the business wants to spend time pushing for them.
Not quite. The fine would be conceivably bigger than 100%.
This goes beyond being 'not ruby-like', as it shows bad craftsmanship (e.g. mixed identifier case, bad indentation, unrunnable code). You don't need help by others for that.
Fresh Peach Berry Cobbler
Related good read:

http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
DropBox can't just easily Google an answer like you would with a Wordpress blog. Their bottleneck wouldn't be web based, so how they load their javascript or if they use image spriting is basically irrelevant.

Scaling a website with exponential growth is very difficult. Fix one problem, two more pop up. It never ends. Oops just spent 50k on SSD's to find out it was a load balancer issue.
Saying Microsoft is dead is a bit like saying working at a desk is dead. Habits change, but neither the desk nor Microsoft is going away any-time soon.
watches as 100 developers jolt out of their basements to register a startup
Generator (yield keyword) support in CoffeeScript for Node.js
Hilarious. This is a joke right? Like, 180/183 people ironically upvoted this right?
What are the typical use cases for Digi and similar devices?
>breaking into systems or other illegal stuffs can also be hacktivism

I'd refer to anyone who breaks into systms as a "cracker," regardless of their motivations.
Please stop misusing the word “Luck”
Number 8 already exists with fish shell. It indexes the man pages as you have suggested.
Doesn't zsh do something like this? At the very least, it seems to be extensible enough that you could provide completion+manpage documentation if you wanted to.
Sorry. I guess you missed my point in the previous post though. I was trying to say that French or German figures would be equally irrelevant because most people don't live in the USA or EU.

I don't think most people in Asia work for large corporations. These figures seem to back that up:
http://www.apec.org/Groups/SOM-Steering-Committee-on-Economi...
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One who is capable to understand how a system works and why, and then improve it, and he does it on a regular basis.
It's not in quickref. Of course it changes, and it should be default. There are languages other than English.
I learned tools like this (and Karnaugh maps) when designing hardware logic, but they work just as well for software. I'm amazed that many CS programs don't teach these techniques.
My doctor wears T-shirt and a coat, does that count? I don't think it's important what they wear as long as it's clean and the person looks confident and capable.
something like http://finalterm.org ?
In a similar vein: would you trust a programmer in a suit?
99% of world's population live happily without supplements.

And, of course, natural vitamins are necessity. Children die from malnutrition without them.
Ah, I had thought you were referring to unexpressed inner intensity rather than just outward loudness.

Of course, even that preference for outward "quietness" over "loudness" is quite cultural. I'm betting you're from a Northern European or Anglo culture?
I'm not sure I agree it should be default; it's not expected behavior. Either way, there are too many flags to add them all to the quickref, I figured I would just show the most common.
You can't drag the title, but you can drag the icon.
My SO is from Singapore, and they tend to give jobs to degree holders without any hitch (pay grade is a different question).
You can use a table like this to see that US life expectancy doesn't get much better if you calculate it at age 10 or 20 instead of at birth and US ranking is not much different (actually the US drops a few places): http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/your-life-expectancy-by-a...
For 'first world' countries with low infant mortality rate life expectancy at birth and at age 10 is nearly the same.
I still understand "hacker" to mean someone who re-tasks something from one use to another. I dont see it as computer specific.

Computer hackers are a subset of that. They access or attack systems via routes that were not designed for them to use and exploit in that way. Coding hackers use existing code and modify it for another purpose. I don't see a coder who starts with a blank page and libraries or APIs as a hacker as such. They are creators, using tool provided for intended purpose.

Too widen it: an art hacker, for example, would take old bits of metal and make a sculpture. An artist starts with a blank page and raw materials. People who fix cars with anything around them in Africa or Cuba too are hackers. Im not sure of the details, but when Apollo whatever number went wrong and they had to help the astronauts get home, that was hacking. People who fit V8 engines to small FWD cars; hackers.

I also think its about targeted expertise, rather than over all expertise. Hackers learn the small part they need to re-task, but don't have over all knowledge. As well as that, I think its about cutting through the surrounding crap. Getting the job done regardless of convention, rules, regulation, and procedure. So, hacking is about how you get the job done.

That is how I see it, but of course in all that is room for debate and many fine lines to argue over.

Ultimately to me, its a universal mentality. Macgyver was an ultimate hacker!!!!
Thanks - I'll add this to the existing section.
Eric Fromm's essay "Fear of Feadom" (or "Escape from Freedom" in the US) describes this phenomenon in great detail. Well worth a read.
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I've thought of some of these independently. (It's good to see somebody else did too.) We could probably make more progress if we all kept a list like this publicly. Or even privately, with snippets shared where appropriate. I know if I went through some old journals I could scrounge up a decent list myself.

One I had:

Bash scripting in the style of hypercard.

Hypercard was described to me as a system that had a set of functions and let the user make programs out of them. Bash syntax is simple enough that making an interface that gives you the power of shell without degenerating from the original should be possible. The output should be a regular text based bash script, allowing others to edit without the program and the user to see what's going on underneath.

EDIT: A second idea to go with the first:

A utility that allows you to create a GUI window from the command line. This could be used in conjunction with the Bash script editor to make graphical programs that the user can easily incorporate into their (presumably window based) workflow.
Most importantly being entrepreneur does not make you a hacker.
A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP development
That's very cool. There's a bit of 'see it use it' (21) too where you can click the filename. Thanks!
Lawyers, bankers, and politicians wear suits. They're certainly trustworthy people.
Why not, sometimes even programmers want to dress in style.
This made me chuckle, +1
I wonder if there is a legal loophole wherein by becoming legal counsel for a source, you are no longer required to divulge anything they tell you due to attorney-client privilege. It would require the right to practice law, but it works on paper (obviously I am not a lawyer).
Build it and they will come...
Right now, even café is not matched by \w{4}. If this is what you call expected…
Sounds to me like the converse of the left arguing about the evil of companies who have the gall to try to minimize labor costs, especially as new laws drive the cost of labor up. How dare consumers look for deals! Let's give them a label with nasty connotations.

If making Groupon/DealChicken/etc. offers is as self-destructive for businesses as the author says, it will be self-correcting.
In some hospitals, not wearing a coat is a status symbol indicating seniority. In these places, you SHOULD trust the doctor in the T-shirt (or the button down, or the dress) more than you trust those with the coat
Very nice ... though the RFC I'm currently working on is a draft version and it would be cool to be able to type something like:

~/bin/rfc draft-ietf-scim-api-01

As an aside, I had to replace sh with bash to get the installer to work.
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I find 54 particularly interesting, a site with detailed overviews of different stacks, along with instructions, or links to instructions on how to get started would be very valuable.
"It's entirely plausible they still profit from your couponed purchases"

A lot of this depends on the social conditioning that "coupons are a below market price". This is, of course, not universally true. Last time I checked groupon the local market was dominated by ridiculously overpriced services marked down "on sale" to almost reasonable prices, although still too high.

There is a major regional clothing retailer where I live where about 1/4 of the store is "on sale" at any given time, up to 50% off, in a random rotation. The other 3/4 of the store is marked up well over 100% over "reasonable market prices". This is how to make money in a locust economy, market yourself as a locust feeding frenzy location, and financially manage yourself to handle a larger inventory and smaller cashflow than a "normal" store. So one week per month, sell socks at a normal market price, yet advertised as a "half off sale" at $10. The other three weeks per month mark them up to about twice market price $20 and eat the zero sales volume. The zero volume is OK; you probably needed the break to reorder and ship and restock anyway. Its sustainable and it works.
Excellent points, although what do you mean by #3?

My impression was that the hotel industry is subjected to regulation, as opposed to it wielding power.

In addition to regulation, many states and localities impose significant taxes on hotel stays. For example, the theoretically low-tax Texas has a 6% state hotel tax [1], but localities also levy taxes on top of that, bringing the total to often 15%.

[1] http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/hotel/