skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... they're only admitting to 10 incidents ...

Emphasis added.

> This is a far cry from pervasive Big Brother in the sky.

It's a good start, though, isn't it?
Or maybe because I was once a neophyte that was shamed into RTFM, which had a very positive effect on my life, I'm advocating other people RTFM also? Which would hopefully help them as much as it did me? This is generally how things work for online communities, be it an IRC channel, a mailing list, or web forums. Why shouldn't it be that way on HN, especially as RTFM is as much part of hacker culture as anything.

Meanwhile, you're resorting to making baseless assumptions about a total stranger on the Internet, and bringing your own credentials into this rather than focusing on the argument at hand. Who's digging the giant hole? Who's more interested in feeling good about himself?

I really couldn't care less what your personal story is, or what you've imagined up about mine. Let's stick to why someone should or should not RTFM, okay?
More precisely, it's the British spelling of "jail" (and pronounced the same way).
Of course it will, because filtering porn was never really the intention in the first place.
Do they need a warrant to sit in a car and watch a building?
> "web forums" and "esoteric material"

Well there you go. Very unspecified. You can kiss "the free internet" goodbye.

This site might even be under threat. It does have the word hacker in its title. Then there are hacking forums related to breaking into systems. Even though we use them for learning about securing systems, I see the government disagreeing.
Funny how this project with the BSD license is so anti-BSD (yeah, BSD users are 'busybox-envious', amongst other things). Fails to notice the presence of a large number of BSD-licensed userland tools, in the BSDs, while denigrating as many similar projects as possible (linking to inaccurate, flame-bait anti-Perl articles as a bonus).
Probably best not to try this on any systems you care about if the command is completely unknown. killall on Solaris might have some unintended consequences.
These are great. Very well done. Two issues/suggestions. The checked radio button in Flat: the outer circle should either be thinner or the button should just be a circle with a hole in the middle. The checkbox in Polaris: don't have the check extend outside the box as it doesn't look consistent with the rest of the style.

Those are my suggestions. Do with them what you may.
We've always used purple, save for the months of red in the v3 dev work that we then changed just a couple days ago. The purple was pulled directly from http://static.djbooth.net/pics-tracks/asaprocky-peso.jpg :).
Do you guys even run anything on your iPhones, or do you just masturbate onto the Gorilla Glass(TM) screen? Seriously, my iPhone 4 at times is the slowest phone I have ever owned, to say nothing of the times the home button simply stops working (which always seems to correlate pretty well with the rest of the phone slowing down and becoming unresponsive.)
One unmentioned upside to being a doctor is you make a good salary anywhere in the country. A GP can make $180K in a town where an engineer would be lucky to make $40K, if any engineering jobs existed at all. PAs are mostly in the same boat but top out around $90K. Nurses are usually in demand in most places but the pay can be lousy. Every other well paying job is very location dependent.
Apple disallows Bitcoin.

Android has secret "Master Keys."

Google and Facebook monitor my entire online life.

And I'm supposed to use my phone as my wallet, too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljK1MoLJ_Dg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org
It would be like

"Before we allow you in our restaurant or show you a menu, you must give us a positive review on yelp."
> If it wasn't obvious already, I'm an Apple shareholder,

Did you buy at $700, at $400, or at $30?
It's a neat idea, and it exploits human psychology in clever ways. I like how the reward for tweeting increases as the number of views remaining goes down.

Interesting, my reaction was the total opposite of yours - I immediately started to hate the idea - for the same reasons as you stated.

It reminds me in very negative ways of these crappy sharehostera where you are nagged and limited just to extort your money.

Sorry OP...
It's not really free, though. It's just paid by someone else.
Four years of extra school is a pretty big barrier.
that's also what i would pick personnaly for the main reason. i hope apple's going to release a lower price iphone this fall so that we'll be able to validate the assumption.

their strategy of "older models will play the role of lower price phones" really don't cut it.For one thing, i want to buy something that will get the same support time than a new thing.
Apple probably wants to just copy Swype and call it something else. If history is any indication, they'll also claim to be the first to offer Swype-like capability in a mobile device.
Car Hacking: Darpa Funded Researchers Take Control of 2 Cars
What does this do exactly? I couldn't figure it out from the comic.
Five Eyes is run by a self interested profit motivated pool of persons who trade insider info such as exploits to use against others.[1] Their treasonous reach is spreading and thankfully people are becoming aware.

People who dare collate information on the persons behind companies like Endgame and Booz Allen have federal resources put upon them. The site[1] linked, started in part by Barrett Brown is part of this battle.[2]

SOS.

[1] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems

[2] http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett...
I remember reading somewhere that in Columbia a kilogram of cocaine costs a dollar. If you can manage to get that dollar across the U.S border you basically just printed money. Meanwhile if you want to buy that cocaine in the U.S you'll pay a lot of money for it.

Moral of the story: Illegalization doesn't make things impossible, it pushes their cost up high enough to make them economically infeasible.
Additionally, this bit is certainly incorrect:

Often I hear people say, “if only they had what we have” (clean water, access to health products and free markets, better education, safer living conditions). Yes, these are all important. But no “charitable” (I hate that word) intervention can solve any of these issues. It can only kick the can down the road.

Perhaps the other examples are a bit hazy, but charity can and often does provide access to clean water (by sponsored filtration programs, well digging etc). I don't understand what he means by this "can only kick the can down the road".
If you'd taken the contract home and _not_ read it, you would probably be more in the clear. Since you read it and knew about the 90 day rule and continued to pay, it could be argued that you had an agreement. This is why we sign contracts instead of other forms of agreements; there is less ambiguity.

Good luck to you, sir.
When I take cash out of the bank I'm usually handed a form that says that I have received the money that I have to sign in order to receive the money.

I say very politely that I can't say that I have received the money until I actually have.

Usually the teller has this smile that means "here's another one of them". Sometimes they don't smile at all, and I had to really argue once or twice, but in the end they all accept my reasoning.
I don't feel `.is_a?(Class)` is ever idiomatic ruby. You should always be coding to an interface, not an implementation. This prevents things like mocks and duck typing, making testing more difficult and adding complexity when you want to add AnotherEnemy that doesn't share the same inheritance tree.

I try to avoid using `.is_a?(Class)` in all of my ruby code when possible. `.respond_to?` is much more responsible way of probing whether an object has the interface you are looking for.
A Vimeo Plus account for $10/month, gives you up to 100 original downloads/day and great stream quality. There are also Pro accounts where you can sell your video content.
You know what? There is no easter bunny!
Docker's really making a hard PR push huh? They're everywhere lately.
Turning PHP on and off in unexpected places
Why do they have Facebook Like buttons for each of their employees? Is this a corporate website, or Hot or Not?
Indeed. There are many situations in which it's mathematically correct to bluff in hold 'em and omaha. Or at least semi-bluff.

I remember playing at the toughest game in my area about ten years ago. Two of the best players (both professionals) were heads up. It was kind of a dull hand after the flop - bet, call; bet, call; check, bet, fold.

As the cards were being collected the winner said "Let's try something different next time. How about the guy with the hand bets and the guy who's on the draw calls."
FindIt Launches Universal Search App For iPhone With A Visual Twist
I don't know how things work in your country, but in mine in the abscence of a written agreement the oral agreement becomes binding. Since you told the clerk that you would take the document home to sign and then never contested it afterwards even while paying for the service, a judge could find that you implicitly agreed to all of its terms through oral agreement.
How is lush an old language? Looks like a language that was released last decade, but just never caught on.
Apple partly helped make Samsung popular with their ridiculous patent lawsuit. It was a lot of free press for Samsung.
Open Source ImpressPages CMS 3.4 Released
One idea I saw out there that I like a lot is to have a modest fixed copyright term on created works by default, but allow the copyright holder to pay to extend the term when it's about to expire. A payment that grows exponentially with each term such that it becomes quickly infeasible to continue copyright protection on unprofitable works while making it impossible to sustain forever on even those most profitable.

My twist: reinvest those renewal fees in the arts. Then new artists have financial support and education and publishers sitting on copyrights still make a sizable contribution to the creation of new works.
It means that charity can only provide a temporary fix. The countries receiving aid need to sort these issues out themselves or they'll return as problems when the aid is gone.
> The addition of the Let statement to ES6 makes this discussion moot

I don't think it does. The JS broken behaviour described in the article is that if you happen to forget the "var" keyword when assigning a variable then you will create a global variable. "let" is great, but it doesn't fix that problem.
> Going back to plain JavaScript might not be quite as concise, but the fact that the code always does exactly what you want it to, no surprises (as long as you know the language), let me program in peace again.

I'm sympathetic to your point, but this seems entirely wrong in context, because JS exhibits all the flaws you decry and more.

JS is often an ambiguous language, and often behaves poorly in edge cases. Even in the specific example (variable scope) the JS rules are arcane, poorly documented, confuse the hell out of even experienced JS programmers, and are hard to debug. Unless your argument boils down to "I know JS much better than Coffeescript, so its edge cases are less surprising to me", where in the world is the "win" from switching to Javascript from Coffeescript?

For what its worth, I've used Coffeescript more than you, and I find it does have the problems you state, as do pretty much all languages; it's one of degree. Coffeescript is worse than, eg, lua, but better than, eg, Javascript. And of the feasible languages to write code that will run in the browser, Coffeescript is the best choice (if the decision is purely based on "will my code do what I want/are edge cases going to bite me unpleasantly"). But that's just my personal experience. :)
Aren't reddit and HN web forums?
80% of all electronic futures orders and the are .net? Call me skeptical (being that I'ved worked in the industry and still do for a very large player), but can't believe you can get a windows stack down to remotely the level of low low latency you can get a Linux stack. I find that statement as woefully wrong on so many different levels it makes me almost want to cry
Around Saturn: A Tour Assembled from 200,000+ Cassini Photos
So is getting a PhD. Seems like being a dentist is a better alternative in monetary terms than being an English major student + PhD, sociologist with a PhD or even an engineer with a PhD.
Option #4, the old owners of Skymall financially benefit from the deal regardless of the up and down of the stock price. What if current holders of xhibit stock are the ones getting scammed here?
Twitter On Verge Of Becoming Television
Some people are afraid that the revolution that took place in north Africa could happen in their country too.
It's time to get ready for resistance and underground uncensored information transmission. The 1% starts to fear they may lose control of their domination.

Anyway Cameron has it all wrong, terrorists don't look at porn.
Absolutely. The list of categories sounds like the list of categories popular filtering software provides. I was behind a transparent proxy that applied these rules at a former employer, and yes, HN and Reddit were both blocked.

Of course, they only blocked news.ycombinator.com and not news.ycombinator.net, which just goes to show you how useless these filters are for protecting children and how useful they are for "accidentally" blocking political oponents for a couple days.
So is the EU OK with the UK blocking all web forums by default? Any statements, court challenges, etc. yet?
This talk is a mindblowing series of lessons on the history of our field and on what great technical management really is. It fills in some crucial historical details, like the relationship between ARPA and Xerox PARC. But the most interesting thing is the values that it conveys—basically, the technical values (and people) that gave us both the internet and personal computing. Considering the staggering importance of what was produced and how this stuff is not at all common practice, any window into it deserves attention.
> Printed in "Classics in Software Engineering" by Yourdon Press, 1979

It's interesting how terminology has changed. In the 1970s you might have been able to say that Dijkstra was part of a field called "software engineering", in that he was writing about methodology for developing software. But in the 1980s it became a fairly different field, focused more on how to develop effective processes for large-scale development (modeling, testing, code review, team structure, tooling, etc.). By 1988 Dijkstra was vehemently against that version of software engineering.

Here's his article on that subject: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036...

A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name "Software Engineering". As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".
Amending contracts before signing is a perfectly fine practice and should be done more often. I routinely do this to some reasonable extend.

I once singed up for a gym membership that had terrible stipulation to the point it was offending. I plastered the entire contract with "no" and "not" additions. It still went through.
There isn't much barrier to entry besides the extra school. It's just that nobody really wants to be a dentist.
Why We’re Falling for New Design Techniques
> Charities have to report how much money they spend on things like overhead, and sites like Charity Navigator can be used to quickly and easily locate this information.

Reporting many expenses as either "Programs" vs. "Overhead" is subjective; guess which way most charities lean?

I know this because I've been building a product for one of the most knowledgeable charitable tax lawyers in this space over the last five years, and have gone over many charity tax returns in that time (called T3010 forms in Canada).
The US is switching over to 'not' paying for healthcare, at the point of sale at least. The next thing to be changed like that would probably be education.
15 models of electronic products to bring you back to the previous century
Hacker Barnaby Jack dies in San Francisco aged 35
That page, while refuting the specific claims of a few old chain letters, actually seems to support the parent's assertion that the executives of some charitable organisations get paid fairly well (several over $500k). Then again, I'm not sure what people expect--it is presumably difficult to retain the sort of people required to manage very large organisations without paying them something in the ballpark of what they could get at a for-profit.
Is that the "fund me and I'll stop reporting on your crimes" option? In that case, you're missing a few 0s at the end of your amount.
You could say that about almost anything though. A Soylent diet is significantly better for you than what many people currently eat. Should we deny people healthcare because they eat too much fast food as well? The chance of soylent incurring any meaningful healthcare cost is basically nil.
Open Java Is Coming to Microsoft Azure
Samsung has not dethroned Apple in mobile profits
In the cloud, code doesn't need developers?
I have know one or two people that dismissed CoffeeScript after fiddling with it for a while; but they were people who didn't have previous experience with JavaScript, and i suspect that might be part of the reason.

The people i've known who most embraced CS were people who have had their deal of JS experience, who knew many of JS quirks and its workarounds, like doing "var self = this", or how to use closure visibility to avoid the need for global variables, or even how to up a prototype chain to implement some basic inheritance. Personally, i know that whenever i have to code in JS for whatever reason and need to do some of those things, i miss CS :)
What's with the broken english on their website? Just a heads up.

Looking at the framework, it looks neat and more concise than bootstrap, I might use it for my next pet project.
Aren't flickr, tumblr, twitter, youtube, and facebook also web forums?
Was this post not linked to Wired just a few minutes ago?
Oracle Aligns Java To Internet Of Things
Horrific. About 80% of what I read would be classed as "esoteric" and the rest probably blocked for some other reason I didn't foresee being included in that list.
The reason I commented is that an artist living off royalties is (usually) reaping results of actual work done, while putting cash into a fund + sitting and waiting, or being a trust-fund kid equals zero effort, so it's not fair to put these in the same basket. I agree investment/trading can amount to real value at the end of the chain, but these are worlds apart.
There are some good points in this article that most anyone thinking about entering a medical profession should consider. But there's quite a bit of anecdote and cherry picking of facts as well.

Here are a few counterpoints worth considering.

* The example used by the article for salaries is for primary care doctors, one of the lowest paid (and by any account underpaid) specialties. According to the Medscape physician compensation report [1], the highest paid specialties brought in between $350K and $400K 2012. I don't think there's many PAs or nurses making that.

* Yes, medical school and residency are hard. My wife regularly put in 90+ hours during a couple years of her education as a physician. But I'm certain there are plenty of developers on HN that put in 90+ hours during certain phases of their careers. Working very hard for a couple years won't ruin your life. By the time they're practicing - 52% of physicians see patients for 40 or less hours per week.

* The article says that, "nurses start making money when they’re 22, not 29", glossing over the fact that physician residents and interns do in fact get paid. Not a ton of money, but usually around $50K/yr. So really, doctors start making about the same amount as nurses by the time they're 25, and substantially more just a few years later. And yes, medical school loans are expensive, but nursing school is far from free.

* The success rate for physicians who start their own practice is very high. I've been shocked at the amount of unsecured credit that banks are willing to extend to my wife to start a practice. It's like we've stepped into a time-warp back to 2006.

* If you're interested in living someplace rural, you can, without any negative financial repercussions. In fact, you'll probably make quite a bit more money practicing medicine in a rural area than an urban one. There aren't many careers where that's true.

* If they had to do it all over again, 51% of physicians would start again in medicine (again, the Medscape compensation survey). I don't how how that compares to other careers, but it sounds fairly reasonable to me

Being a doctor certainly isn't easy, but there are some definite benefits. One of the biggest is that it's one of the few careers left where you're pretty much guaranteed to be well-compensated so long as you do well in school.

There are certainly pitfalls, and I wouldn't advocate it to anyone who's doing it solely for financial reasons. But, if you have a passion for medicine, there are still plenty of rewards to be had by being a physician.

[1] http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2013...
Here in Taiwan businesses have to give a so called "fapiao", which is an invoice and a receipt in the same time. If another company wants to buy something from your company, you have to give them fapiao (since it's a 'invoice') and pay your taxes based on that to the government immediately (since it's a 'receipt' as well), even if you haven't received a dime yet.

And since in its receipt capacity there's no other thing to issue to the company once they pay, they could pretty much just not pay and say "why would I have gotten a fapiao[receipt] if I haven't paid, dude?"

It's just amazing how many truly stupid things keep being done with finance, and I'm puzzled about how could they be fixed.
Apple becoming a follower, not a leader
We've all heard about young founders. This man is starting a company in his 60s
> I try to avoid using `.is_a?(Class)` in all of my ruby code when possible. `.respond_to?` is much more responsible way of probing whether an object has the interface you are looking for.

#is_a?(class) is a much more specific check of semantics than #respond_to?(method_name). is_a? is the more cautious approach (least likely to produce false positives at the expense of being most likely to produce false negatives) whereas respond_to? is the less cautious approach (least likely to produce false negatives while most likely to produce false positives.)
GitHub CEO backs MIT open source license
Totally, but nobody believes these will be blocked by default.

That's how censorship works. It's arbitrary and at the whims of those in power.
I don't know, but I blame the NSA.
It's a classic tragedy of the commons. Every little special case in the law helps the organization that lobbied for it, and hurts everyone else.
There's no legislation to challenge. This is all being done "voluntarily" by the most used ISPs.
Viacom v. YouTube/Google - Viacom Would Like a Trial and a Different Judge ~pj
You definitely should never question anything, _especially_ if you're going to be negative about it!

Now pass the sunshine juice and follow me back to the drum circle.
The authors response in the comments to an overzealous attempt at political correctness was wonderful.
It's free for the students; that's one of the points of the article, that financial debt can be an obstacle to personal liberties.