skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also just 2 more days for the Flynn crowd funding campaign to go. I hope it'll succeed.

So if you think about supporting, now's the time!
Please fix the misleading title.
I'm pretty sure that most professional developers have their own set of snippets and a base framework.

Bootstrap and others like it just get in the way if you already have something built.
- A paradoxical claim of "bad is good" in the title. Off to a good start.

- The content is some neverheard's blog post with no substance to back up the claim. Getting there.

- Analogies, personal stories, vaguely "motivational" Powerpoint lingo, rambling, self-contradictions... Bingo!

Yes, I'm sure this will be quite successful on the HN front page.
You mean US-based tech companies will be blocked from bidding because they have ties with the PRC?
Since Obamacare, my HDHP went from $80/mo to $91/mo to $118/mo to discontinued at the end of 2013. Since I can't get an HDHP as an alternative, it looks like I'd be paying $200-300 for slightly better coverage as an absolute minimum. Girlfriend's $150-200/mo HDHP is also ending in 2013.

If I don't have company health insurance by then, it'll be hard to decide between no insurance and paying $300/mo. The main thing I would miss is getting a negotiated rate on medical expenses, even if I have to pay out of pocket; I'd maybe be able to negotiate with specific doctors for that, though, or find doctors who refuse to take insurance and quote a cash price. I'd already be tempted to go to Thailand for anything in the $1-5k range which was non-emergent.
If you don't like lisp-interaction-mode, you can also use ielm (M-x ielm) as an elisp repl
With or without Android, 1020 will fill a niche with professionals who need to take pictures and videos, but are not professional photographers. If you need to carry camera with you always, compact pocket camera is not as good in always part as Lumia will be and quality difference is small. Compact cameras are out. It will be just camera phones and SLR's.
As the field narrows to just the devoted players, it will get harder.

Also, as the article suggests, poker strategies are advancing quickly. I started in 2004, and by 2012 I was still ahead of the curve, but the game had clearly gone light-years forward in terms of general strategy--in particular I'm speaking to HUSNGs, my game of choice.
Lol.

One of the oldest and largest UK newspapers was forced to close by the government, and it's editor has been arrested. Along with the editor a number of journalists were arrested.

Yes, the UK does lock up journalists.

During the 2011 protests after a protest in Tottenham following the death of Mark Duggan, a local who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011 termed the '2011 riots' by the UK government, so many were locked up the courts local jails were too full.
Original title: Australia Bars Huawei From Broadband Project
The idea that being a "dumb" programmer helps with debugging reminds me of a tactic I see people use on StackOverflow. Some programmer will post a problem they're having, and lots of ultimately unhelpful solutions will be suggested until someone else asks "what are you trying to accomplish?" and then it's suddenly made clear that the programmer's problem was being approached in the wrong way.

I've seen this happen so many times on SO, with good results, that it's become the way I want to think about other problems in life.
I feel that way too, but I think most of my reaction is that it feels hard to fully test these kinds of elements and often really odd things happen on the edge cases with them...

but that might be an outdated sentiment. (it's just a feeling after all :D)
I am sorry that my comment was misunderstood.

The question was to come up with something that people could relate to. Mostly, I am hearing "nothing to hide". That is why I listed things where at least one is something you may have done.

You do them because they are nothing like a bloodstained knife or an IED. That is the point. They are all "bad", but on a whole different level. So you do these activities because you can get away with it and also you do not see no harm even though they are officially not OK.

Now imagine a surveillance state where even these lesser evils are known to the powers that be. Either you believe that the state won't act on that information or you really do have something to hide. If it is the latter then you should be at least aware of the fact that your privacy is being eroded and Summer of Surveillance is a prime example of that.

That was my line of thinking.
India's Last Maharaja
Well, hype plus the fact that neither the HTC One nor the Xperia Z are available to Verizon customers.
Government subsidies allow a persons surviving wage to be lower. And with low skilled workers, their wage tends to be pushed down to a wage they can just about survive on, or your workers die. Thus government subsidies are indirectly founding companies, by allowing them to lower wages beyond what would normally be possible.
The title is spot on.

Guess what would be the proper response on installing a MS or Google controlled e-mail system at some other government bureaucracy or a major company that competes with US mainstays, e.g. Airbus - after it's now known that the US software vendors had been forced to introduce backdoors/mass wiretaps, and that they also spied on friendly NATO nations?

In the coming months we should expect a major increase in fragmentation of core information infrastructure services, pushed and funded by concerns of national sovereignity; as well as a "not-SAAS" becoming a mandatory requirement for a bunch of B2B purchasers.
Why Go Is An Excellent Modern Programming Language
Possibly yes, i would need to look in to it more.
however i have not looked in to the camera aspect of the device so i can not agree with the "it has the best camera" part of the statement.
First steps with HHVM and Vagrant
Sort of reminds me of people saying colored text without underlines aren't links
Bronte Capital: Bronte is hiring - a follow up...
He was greatly mistaken in his 90% estimate, but the players with the best winrates when I quit (2011) were still winning ~60% of games.

My ROI was ~14% at 100s when I played professionally, totaling 1000s of games. I agree that at 1ks+ the best players were making ~5% ROI, but there were much better winrates up thru the 500s, which I don't consider "micros."

Also, ROI is generally less at micros, because rake is a bigger issue.
Surely its the way you think about it. Do products/service dictate wages, or is salaries of workers that dictate the cost of a product/service.
Erudify eLearning white paper: "Introducing Adaptive Learning for Enterprise"
You're right I provided none, this stuff is covered in pretty much every drivers manual in every state in the United States, you are right I shouldn't have assumed you were a licensed driver.

But that makes it pretty easy to disprove me, all you have to do is provide one statistic to the contrary. And no, just because something is rare doesn't mean it doesn't count, it still increases the risk of an accident. So If you'd like to provide a counterexample, you might have an actual argument.

That's not the argument I made, that's a complete strawman. My point was that other drivers on the road are not necessarily going to notice someone breaking traffic laws. A criminal breaking the law and paying attention to any nearby police will.
Near realtime, streaming, and perpetual analytics
If you're an activist, you need numbers. Eyeballs. You don't care about surveillance - you care about censorships. So you use everything.

For private coordination, that's another matter.
Insurance premiums are insignificant for lifelong unhealthy people who heavily use healthcare. A $500/mo/person premium (which is about the maximum you could get per individual in the new system) is $240k total for 40 years. There's no compounding since the price of healthcare goes up faster than regulated premiums, and because expenses per-year exceed the premiums. $6k covers not a lot of care in a year, and the whole lifetime number is blown away by one serious event.
He should have made the server run on port 69.
Lowest bidder? No one loses their job for someone dying?

Sounds like a perfect storm.

I'd love to see an itemization for $88 Million and how many vacation homes were bought.
Sorting the national coverage of Detroit's bankruptcy
Hyperloop lets you travel on a resonant acoustic wave?
They can't and don't do it with just a DNS, it'll have to be DNS + HTTP URL. Otherwise porn hosted on one large shared hosting would block everything. (e.g. imagine if the Amazon EC2 DNS got blocked).

The current UK ISP filter (the one that already filtered Wikipedia), used DNS & HTTP. IP addresses that needed filtering were redirected to their HTTP server by sending back their IP address, and then a HTTP proxy was used to filter specific URLs. This allowed them to block certain URLs. It was initally detected because lots of wikipedians noticed a lot of edits (basically lots of the UK) coming from a small amount of IP addresses (the IP addresses of the proxies)
Why are people attributing k's magical powers to mmap? That's something which should be marginally faster when it's faster, if every other product that uses one or the other can be used as an example.
Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy
Nope, no chance anyone will abuse that.
The title is not a description of the story, but rather a speculative editorialization designed to be provoking in order to generate karma for the submitter
“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”

How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to "apologize" for lying in Congress, how much more do these "politicians" really need to start thinking for themselves?

Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?
It isn't either/or. Do both. Give money and moan.
I will point out that Wikipedia was filtered by the UK ISP anti-child-porn filter.
Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch, Mer, Tizen, Firefox OS, or even Cyanogenmod, if nokia opens up specs or give tools to port other OSs to it probably a lot will. But is not just drivers to port the OS there what is needed, probably the camera program have enough intelligence to need to be ported too to worth it.
Another neat expansion: !$ is the last argument of the last command you entered. Useful when you mistype the command name.
Young Forever
Don't worry! The UK Government never misuses terrorism laws or brings in heavy handed anti-terrorism laws! Just ask all the people in Northern Ireland!
... ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country ... JFK would be proud.
The medicines you take can alter your children's epigenetics (2009)
This is how I think the Congressional committee hearing will go down Wednesday. Or perhaps some variation of this.

1. Greenwald testifies and talks about all the awful things the NSA has been up to.

2. NSA offials will deny any and all claims made by Greenwald.

3. Greenwald will release documents that directly refute the NSA's testimonial.
They don't always take lowest bidder.... sometimes it really just boils down to who the contractor knows, or what favors they've done for people (even if they are incompetant)
while the British government might not be tyrannical today

ahem Read up about Northern Ireland. Internment without trial, lots of miscarriages of justice, 'shoot to kill' policy, lots of racism, etc. etc.
I started playing in 2003 and posted on twoplustwo since 2004. I can certainly confirm that the concept of range was being discussed in that period and I'm actually fairly confident that the Theory of Poker (Sklansky) itself discusses range. The article just seems blatantly wrong in that sense.
Well first he has certainly not taken safety into mind when doing this project.

Look at the way he's dressed. (With no protection clothing or eyes or anything).

Look at how close he comes to the gasoline.

Look at how he's seated so he can't even get away quickly.

Look how there is no protective shield.

He doesn't even appear to have anyone else there in case of an emergency.

He has enough intelligence and curiosity to attempt this but not enough to protect himself. More or less what I would imagine from someone much younger, certainly not a grown man.
So, it depends. When you have a credibility issue the former doesn't mean much. People are more and more cynical and feel (rightfully) that apologies are just PR text, and feel (rightfully) that the person making it basically sent a PR agent a query "hey I'm getting some flak for ___ - could you draft an apology for me", and htat's it.

On the other hand, when someone you have a real relationship with is sorry for something, sometimes just the guilt in their eyes and the fact that you can see they know they fucked up is enough - no words necessary.

Between the two extremes, sure, you might have enough credibility for fluff and vague promises to be acceptable. But that stuff really is useless.
Tagging in Rails 4 using PostgreSQL arrays
Employees will not die if their wages are reduced to $4-8/hour.

As proof that this is not the case, consider that most nations of the world have lots of people not dying on an unsubsidized $8/hour. Mexico is a fairly wealthy nation, and the GDP/capita is equivalent to a full time job at $8.33/hour (adjusted for PPP).

Literally billions of people avoid death on far less than $8/hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
No, no, they ported Android to glibc the GNU libc implementation (from bionic, the APSLv2 licensed Android libc implementation) in order to run Chrome, which at the time depended on some glibc/posix things that weren't in bionic (Chrome on GTV also links against glib and gtk2, but that's because it does on regular linux too -- Chrome uses the glib runloop already fwiw and v8 has no runloop).

I think GNOME3 has spidermonkey with GObject bindings, and I'm sure I've seen JavaScriptCore GObject bindings too...
I have a feeling that everyone having this tool is a better situation than only few-at-the-top having it. Older people who sit at the top tend to elicit a different and often machine-like behaviour [1] on emotional or privacy matters. Their decisions are likely to be blind to what people in their privacy want - that is emotional freedom. And their micro-decisions could be worse.

Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every individual on the planet. Perhaps in competition to Google (If we don't get rid of snooping in its entirety that is.). At least we can weed out Weiners which are on one end of porn-spectrum to Camerons who say they are on the other end of porn-spectrum.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677442/
Feels better. Not sure it's worth more.
You're absolutely right, but "relocatable" was the best word I could find that's used for the concept that was relatively accurate. The other usual adjective is "portable", but I felt that was misleading since you can't just stick the binaries on a USB stick, since the target computer needs to have whack-run installed, which requires root access.

Suggestions for alternatives are extremely welcome!
That doesn't always work. About 750k → 1 million people protested in the UK against declaring war on Iraq. Didn't stop the Government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_prot...
They CANNOT use HTTP filtering as that would break on HTTPS.
Government-provided insurance is not necessarily better than properly regulated private insurance. Consider the current situation in California vs. Illinois.

Under the federal HIPAA law, individuals coming off group plans must have an option available to purchase a new plan without the possibility of denial due to pre-existing conditions. It is up to each state, however, to decide exactly how this will be implemented.

In Illinois, it is implemented as a state-provided insurance plan. In California, it is implemented through regulation of private insurance companies.

I have a very costly pre-existing condition and I can tell you which one I'd rather be on: California.

The reason is that the Illinois government is basically insolvent. Right now they are engaged in a political battle where even the state's lawmakers are threatened with not receiving a paycheck due to budgetary issues. This does not inspire my confidence that I want my health insurance provided by that organization (the state).

However, in California, I have Blue Shield, and no worries about its imminent dysfunction due to budget problems and political games. The insurance I get is expensive compared to what is optimal, but at least it is there.
I think the comment above mine is meaning to be helpful because your account is new. Also, he's right. The comments here are usually not made to be conversational. Granted, people respond to each other, but usually comments refrain from chit-chat. Even adding a simple 'Thanks' will occasionally get downvotes because it's noise. People will often add some reason why they're saying thanks.
In my case at least, this article spawned a little personal research that has me now giving Go a serious try. With all of the new-ish languages and databases popping up, it can be difficult to choose which ones to try for a new project, or seek solutions for a new problem.

There is something in the initial life of a new technology that determines if the adoption rate will result in success or failure, where failure is abandonment and an end to development. If this sort of interest keeps Go going, then maybe some repetition is a good thing.
On top of paredit, try redshank http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/redshank/ (process s-exp to refactor etc)

This is taken from John Wiegley's talk at emacs conf, here's a little summary of his emacs environment btw : https://gist.github.com/jwiegley/5277578
Containerization solves this problem, but it also solves many more. Whack is intentionally narrow in scope, which means that there's relatively little to learn as a user. Whack certainly isn't a replacement for Docker and the like.
> ...but won't all data be erased when you close the container?

No, containers aren't ephemeral:

$ docker run -i -t base /bin/bash
root@d675bee3cbdb:/# echo 'Hello, world!' > /foo
root@d675bee3cbdb:/# exit
$ docker restart d675bee3cbdb
d675bee3cbdb
$ docker attach d675bee3cbdb
root@d675bee3cbdb:/# cat /foo
Hello, world!
root@d675bee3cbdb:/#
Let's see if the UK are even members of the EU in two years. :/

I can just see the no-to-eu/anti-unionist referendum leaflets now: "The EU is forcing your kids to look at porn! We want to block it, but Brussles says no!"
I don't dispute that many corporations receive subsidies. I dispute that government benefits given to low skill workers are a subsidy given to their employer.

Do you have any data that suggests that labor is costing too much as a result of government programs that pay people not to work?

I cited one bit of data that showed exactly this in the post you just responded to.
> One of the oldest and largest UK newspapers was forced to close by the government

Because employees of that newspaper broke laws about interception of phone calls.
> Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every citizen on the planet.

Of course you are joking. But if you think about it:

If humanity is forced to give up privacy, the only way we could achieve this would be by giving it up symmetrically:

If everybody is naked, it's normal and not a problem anymore, provided we can then evolve our culture to completely drop the "judging".
This seems like a great opportunity for someone to develop an open source high-availability, fault-tolerant 911 dispatch system. Being able to get first responders where they're needed as fast as possible would provide a tremendous public good.
Errr, given how easy it appears to be to get a "court order" (note, that's not as high a bar as a "search warrant"), I don't have as much difficultly believing that's the case.

The case today, that is; tomorrow....

(Technical note: right now I gather the NSA et. al. are making a distinction between Hoovering up "everything", like all of Verizon Business's call records in that blanket warrant we've seen, and actually looking at them. Infamously, "collection" only referrers to the latter act. Just like how inside a decrease from an automatically increased baseline, even an increase after inflation, is called a "cut".)
Weird, they were for me. I guess I was probably starting the base image again? Where do you get the modified id from?
By "feature", I meant showing a star on the Explore page, not the starring feature itself.
> The gaming community, more than any other I've been a part of has a tendency to confuse self-worth and identity with the products they buy.

I really like this quote, it puts solid words to a feeling I've had for some time.

COD vs BF is a great example. BF players' feeling of self-worth is largely based around not being COD players, or so it seems if you browse some forums.
This is common enough on SO to have a name: the XY Problem.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy...
That's not how things work... You can't just create some system and see governments flock to you. There are years of consulting and specification requirements.

Linux is open source... Office Libre... Go convince a public office to switch to Ubuntu..

Saving money is often at the bottom of their focus.. and then you have competing interests releasing figures that show it is more costly to switch to free alternatives.

Public spending is a corrupt cycle.
Isn't the NAT issue the IP6 issue? In other words, once we solve the fact that IP4 is running out of addresses, then we will not have to deal with NAT penetration anymore.
Also the fact that a major part of population may even support such program in midst of terror attacks that happen now and then. For most people, any such tactic will be seen as improving their security, not invading their privacy.
Governments should have to give up "privacy" first, since they're supposed to be public, and everything they do should be public. Then maybe we can talk about giving up some of the privacy for citizens, too - as long as it's compatible with the Constitution (and I think this program is not even close to being compatible).
Trivia note: this is, in a nutshell, how the Lotus/IBM Notes ID works. The password is used in a KDF to generate a key, which in turn decrypts the user's private key (and certain other credentials, along with symmetric secret keys for shared encrypted doccuments). Success/failure is determined solely by the successful decryption of known bytes in the encrypted package. Other info (the user's public key, identity and certifier, all signed) are maintained in the clear and can be easily and safely exported and may be "trusted" for authentication with remote machines. There is a "password recovery" system as well (it doesn't actually recover the password, but allows a reset), requiring cooperation of two or more admins¹ (in a Shamir-type arrangement) so that previously-encrypted user data will not be lost.

¹ There is the option to use a single admin, but there are great big warning signs and scary red boxes all over that section of the doco. It's something you'd only use in a solo shop (as a Notes ISV or a Domino web dev).
I think it's time somebody hand Chomsky a bigger mic.
Another possibility is that Chambliss is either lying, or acting as a PR functionary for the NSA.
My 2 cents: Indians want change, but they are not ready to fight for it! They think 1 person (a good PM) can bring that change, which is more than just wrong and stupid.
Windows dynamically adds new root certificates without asking user