skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is the point of this article? Linux will be fine with or without Shutteworth.
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Ask HN: API for mailing checks?
We have lots of payment APIs out there, like Stripe and Balanced among many others. But are there any APIs for generating and mailing checks?
It's easy enough to disable the built in wp-cron and write your own cron that hits the wp-cron file on your own intervals. This is what I've always done on my WP sites. It's a hack, sure, but I too think the wp-cron thing is rediculous.
Not completely. He was quick to link alternate explanations that made equally little sense but didn't make it the result of NSA data mining - such as a picture of fireworks posted on facebook causing it all, despite the fact they showed up asking about pressure cookers. He was fighting a wave of people who were 100% certain it was the NSA, but still...

'Common Sense and Reason' belongs only to those who read the story and waited to hear more before posting. But I'm biased. :-D
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I'm not "incredibly" smart. Top 5% sure, but there are people on here who have accomplished way more than me by my age and are way way smarter than me when it comes to programming.

One of the smartest people I've met online is a kid who is 18 now and built an entire OS, compiler etc all in Javascript just because he could. He routinely builds new languages and compilers for himself just to get better.

I really envy that kind of passion. I know in 10 years he'll probably have invented the next Ruby on Rails etc. But at the same time, I don't necessarily want to be the best programmer. I think I'm more inclined to be the best "product person" which at the end of the day still means programming, just with more of a business aspect.
Why would H1-B holders not get any tax allowances? From what I know, the IRS doesn't view citizens and non-citizens any differently from a tax rate perspective.
http://www.eteknix.com/nsa-has-code-running-in-the-linux-ker...
Will this scale past 150 employees? (I know, that's a high class problem, but it will come if they are successful.)
YAML 1.2 is a super set of JSON. Check out the spec itself: http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2759572
Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical are important to ‘desktop Linux’ mainly because they are attempting to kill it.
Note that they do not even advertise Ubuntu as a GNU or Linux distribution.

It seems the current strategy of Canonical is to change enough of the system so that developing cross-distribution will become more and more of a hassle, and trust software developers to just target Ubuntu due to its market share in Linux-land.

Unity was a step in the direction. It’s not critical to other programs, but Unity itself appears to be very hard to port to other distributions (and to be honest it was the first thing that actually made Ubuntu distinct from other Debian derived distributions).

Mir takes it a step further, now wm and toolkit developers will have to target either just Wayland, and lose out on the vast Ubuntu userbase, or target just Mir.

Canonical does its best to bring closed-source commercial desktop applications to the operating system through the Ubuntu app store. With good reason: they know the developers of these commercial applications will only target Ubuntu, since unlike open source programs where the distribution’s packagers do the work of bringing your application to their OS for you, that can’t be done very well with just binary packages compiled against x version of y library. Thus forcing users who want to use one of these applications to switch to Ubuntu.

EDIT: and let’s not forget that Canonical ships what is basically spyware with Ubuntu. Local searches on your desktop should not be used to help Amazon advertise. Shuttleworth’s reaction to the complaints were extremely cynical as well.
These sorts of actions are why I firmly believe that anonymous full disclosure is the best way to go for disclosing vulnerabilities.
"The scientists said it had probably used a technique called "chip slicing" which involves analysing a chip under a microscope and taking it to pieces and inferring the algorithm from the arrangement of the microscopic transistors on the chip itself – a process that costs around £50,000."

£50,000?! Good Lord, that's a lot of money! All one needs is a microscope and a razor.
Unobtainable from _available_ citizens in the Boston area.
The recent House vote to remove funding for the metadata collection program was much narrower in scope, and failed to pass.

The good news is that it failed to pass by a slim margin. This will probably fail to pass as well. My hope is that it will fail by a slim margin as well, and my dream is that opponents of overreach (both in the house and activists) will take this as an opportunity that they narrowly missed on the last vote and seize it.

At any rate, I hope anybody complaining about these programs on here has already contacted their representatives by phone and is continuing to do so as these bills are introduced and debated. Please.
It is dependent on a specific indentation format which is one thing I dislike about it. But if you configure your vim or whatever editor you use to properly indent YAML files you should have few issues with fragility.

Even with indentation problems, the time saved in not typing curly brackets, extra quotation marks, and commas, and the time saved in not having to visually parse these when reading YAML more than makes up for the occasional data structure bug caused by bad indentation.
You're envious because you imagine that you could exceed them by a factor of three if you could focus like they do, but there's no real reason to believe that. Your peers with focus weren't like you, they didn't have a procrastination "problem" to conquer.

The real world is not logic-driven. You admit you wouldn't be fired because of your personality. Well, guess what: that's what keeps a lot of people employed. All you're getting for your high expectations of yourself is unnecessary pain.

Nobody complains about their coworkers being procrastinators. They complain about their coworkers not getting shit done. You're getting shit done, so they have nothing to complain about. Even better, they actually like you!

Your only real problem is that you aren't happy. There's no reason to assume being productive will make you happy, apart from freedom from the guilt. This should be liberating, because there are lots more solutions to the guilt problem than procrastination, and they're a lot less like snake oil.
> it will become extremely difficult to mine any Bitcoin without any sort of gear

It already is and has been for a long time

> Feathercoin [1] appears to try and stop this, although I am not sure how effective it is.

IMHO, Feathercoin should not be taken seriously.
They're probably sitting on a stockpile of material, and would have to write it off as a loss. Either that, or they're committed to contracts with suppliers.

Note the following from the article:

we took science ... to the companies and, without
having to spend time and money involved in a policy
solution, the companies themselves chose to solve it on
their own.

This means that, since the behavior is voluntary, they get to do it on their own timeline. In order to force anything to go faster would require some cattle-prod of a law or regulation, with punitive measures that hurt the bottom line through fines and injunctions.

Which points to another possibility: They know how long it would actually take to get those kinds of laws enacted and enforced, and they'll only go as fast as that.

And don't forget, two years is enough time to forget about this. So in two years, maybe they'll simply do nothing at all.
This is an interesting application. We too are working on some such social initiatives. Is there any way we could get in contact?
> I tried something similar but then fell right back in my normal routine.

Yeah, happens to me all the time. :(

> 1-2 self help books every week

Give "Feeling Good" a try then, I don't read as much books as you do, but I think "FG" is a cut above the other books I've read. With the exception of "When panic attacks(also by D. Burns). While it was only somewhat useful for procrastination, I found this book extremely useful for other problems. The main thing about this book is cognitive techniques, if you apply them(AND read the book) then you gain 10x more value than by just reading the book.

And if you do find the book useful, you may find CBT therapist(which was already suggested in this discussion). A friend of mine did so recently, and she is much better now(though she was clinically depressed).
There are already 802.11ac chipsets available which go up to 1.3Gbps, it's just that nobody seems to have bothered to put them into a USB device.
Machines Are Eating Software Development
> They can hire the talent able to figure out decoding these trivial radio signals.

I don't expect even older radio access systems to be that simple to abuse. For example this application note from Atmel[0] describes such a system. It uses an AES-based MAC and a rolling window counter to prevent message spoofing and replay. I wouldn't bet this implementation is actually secure, but it's not so trivial to attack.

Please note I'm not saying that criminals haven't abused vulnerabilities in these systems, just that it's not a simple matter of 'decoding these trivial radio signals'.

[0] http://www.atmel.com/images/atmel-2600-avr411-secure-rolling...
The general public will realize that these complaints are unfounded, because the most famous ones all turn our to be false, and starts trusting the government over the privact advocates. And maybe the general public is right... HN has gone from skeptic to full nutter over the NSA recently, accusing the NSA of doing excessively expensive and complicated secret projects for no benefit, not even their own benefit, and of ignoring cheap, easier, well-dcoumented, more obvious techniques to achieve the same results.
They've probably plugged a few in, increasing the difficulty in the time that they're shipping them. That way they get most of the benefit of plugging them in, and also get the benefit of selling them.
if I ever saw this in a project, I would remove those comments in a heartbeat. The behavior here is specific to the json parser. JavaScript is not the entirety of programming.

It does break the json parser in the Go standard library, in a totally nonobvious way: http://play.golang.org/p/BsDd47vWna

I would be surprised if it doesn't break many parsers, especially json parsers in static languages. If you want that sort of behavior, don't use json.
At the Scratch level I'd rather just write code. NoFlo's design will allow you to open and edit any component in a live graph.
I hate to be this guy, but knowing this [1] and this [2] and this [3], I think that news release from Suffolk Police is not sufficient enough. I mean there are bigger scandals full of lies coming from official officials, how can I be assured local Suffolk Police tells the truth?

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/11122823408/senato...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obama-syria-cong...

[3] http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/02/national-inte...
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Trials & Tribulations of Not Perfectly Fitting a Gartner 'Magic' Quadrant
Ah yes, excellent way to control what gets reported.

Government creates a protected class for journalists. In the future journalists will refrain from reporting bad news about the government that provides them with said protections. Can we not see the idea that the government will pressure journalists to name their sources anyway with the threat of removing these "protections" before they step into court to answer questions?

Reading the quotes from these politicians is almost reading about bigotry or class warfare. This talk of "real reporters" and "special privileges" only intended for certain people based on government rules.

Want the support of the news media? Be the candidate that supports these "protections" for this special class of people. Don't dare be the candidate that wants to remove these "protections" for the good of the people who aren't special enough to be considered part of the protected class.

It's bad enough we have corporations mucking around in the news media, now we have to deal with government officials setting their hooks as well.
Yes but look at how many great people accomplished things before they were 30.

I'm nowhere near that! Look at Ryan Holiday, he was the director of marketing at American Apparel at fucking 20.
Obviously it gets more obscure. Just think of all the things you don't know about.
Chinese Man Tries to Board Plane with Pet Turtle Disguised as Hamburger
If you have a hosting where you can't set a cron (most of the shared hosting I've used has crons though) you can use a free service like https://www.setcronjob.com (not affiliated).
Their 'illegal Chinese copies' page has a Youtube video that demonstrates the failure mode at speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOXBFvKAQM

I wouldn't want to get anywhere near this - even a small obstacle in the road and you'll see that same failure mode, every time. Good luck jumping off, their trained rider who's expecting it barely manages.
OpenGeo CEO: Why We Took on Outside Investment
There is a follow up protest to Restore the 4th, 1984 Day, planned for this upcoming Sunday, August 4. If there is one being held near you, please consider attending. Keep checking if there isn't one nearby, as they have been adding a few more locations in the past day.

http://1984day.com/
I was sad when they lost the water bottle.
You could try to team up with someone who doesn't mind dealing with clients so that you can focus on what you like.

I don't know if you're anything like me, but for me it's all about finding motivation. I'm not good at sitting down when I don't feel like working and slogging through 10 hours to further someone else's goals and I don't wish to be good at that. When I've been in those situations I end up spending my time in a way similar to what you describe. But give me ownership of an interesting project and the freedom to work on it according to my own schedule, and I'll happily put in highly productive 50+ hour weeks with no trouble at all. These qualities make me a somewhat crappy employee but a great consultant (and I'd like to think good potential as a founder).
This would be a big step in the right direction. However, heavy-hitting legislation like this that prioritizes civil rights at the expense of government power rarely passes the Senate. We could try and push it through with a SOPA-like activism blitz (which I think we should, honestly), but it would take some serious effort to overcome legislative protectionism.
I think the point was that while skepticism is good, assuming the worst of someone is bad. It's not good to default to belief, but defaulting to abusive disbelief is also a problem. I think it is good to point out what we don't know and ask questions, but not to accuse someone of being a malicious liar. Give them the benefit of the doubt that they at least mean well, even if they are probably mistaken.
Probably the most known group using it in the US is Jane Street.

https://ocaml.janestreet.com/
It is my understanding that contacting via non-form letter is the best way to reach your representative. This comes from a chat with a friend who worked as an assistant in a congressional office; she said form letters were discarded, phone calls were usually from a few select cranks who called every day about the same esoteric issue, and custom letters were read and their contents summarized for the congressperson.
Can anyone compare/contrast this with http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ ?

I've used the latter before
In Portugal I would say it doesn't exist...

But I have knowledge of its usage on some projects by big corporations.

It seems that janestreet [1] takes great pride in using OCaml. They have some interesting open source projects in github [2] and bitbucket [3].

And facebook has pfff [4], an "Ocaml API to write static analysis on source code" (such as PHP code, not only OCaml code).

(I'm not a facebook or janestreet employee)

[1]: http://janestreet.com/

[2]: https://github.com/janestreet

[3]: https://bitbucket.org/janestreet

[4]: https://github.com/facebook/pfff
Ask HN: Any suggestions for a good registrar to register .io domain?
> Any advice on how you taught yourself to focus on tasks, build willpower,

Generally, all your accomplishments are probably being rewarded by societal "strokes" : "Well done, what a great SAT score!", "Wow, you work at Facebook?!", etc;

You're not procrastinating; you're simply not that interested in what you've been sold : work hard, get good grades, make good money, and you'll be happy, they said.

"Building willpower" is the most common counterproductive approach to this problem : it's just more of the same, more of beating your natural self to death with artificial goals and corresponding achievements that don't please you. It works for a while; you put on The Bourne soundtrack or The Dark Knight rises soundtrack, get to the gym (or to your startup's office) and pump out the most awesome set ever. But many things you achieve with sheer willpower often have the opposite effect, and your soul develops further resistance to the activity imposed on it.

It's confusing because there are people who are very similar to you, your peers, your friends, who are actually happy doing the conventional thing : working hard, burning the midnight oil, working at Goldman Sachs or Google (or even in the same office at you), actually completing things...You wonder, "What gives?".

If you're with me this far, I'll continue with the solution to this quandary in the reply; if not, I'd rather get off the soapbox earlier and get back to my work.
"usable" "gentoo"

I think I detect a hint of sarcasm
Some of us are stuck due to management decisons (Drupal, for me, currently) - we've had a huge push to switch to Rails, but no go, our network hasen't given official ATO. (Military/DOD)
You are correct - confirmed in this video: Lessons of JSON

'A recent (and short) IEEE Computing Conversations interview with Douglas Crockford about the development of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) offers some profound, and sometimes counter-intuitive, insights into standards development on the Web.'

http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/04/30/lessons-of-json/

{ Thank you Douglas for your vision :) }
It it legally impossible to consent under duress. (for example, this is why rape is still illegal, even if she says "yes" after the perpetrator pistol-whips her.) No contract would be upheld if the court found out that one of the parties was weilding a gun during the negotiation.

The police have no right to "ask" you for permission to search your home, as there is an implied threat of deadly force. (Cf everybody who gets shot for flinching while in view of a cop.)

Sadly, the old white rich person judges pretend that this doesn't happen, and allow this unconstitutional activity to continue.
It is definitely very minimalist. Personally I have issues parsing it visually though, because the indentation of only one space makes it hard to differentiate inner data structures particularly on a large screen with small fonts. Additionally the lack of a division character other than space between the key and the value makes reading each key value pair much harder because the key and value tend to run together visually.
Who Made That Super Soaker?
Thank you very much. There is so much more to tell, the FTC SWAT raids, the cocaine addled pornographers, the Israelis and Oprah's lawsuit against 500 affiliates.

I was smart, ethical and scared enough to see the hammer coming down on the industry and stayed out of all that mess, but I had a front row seat to the whole thing.
One method for dealing with this is what Pure Data does. You have a message component that can set a specific property of the next component.

[innerHTML "hello"] -> [div]
It's more environmentally friendly if you use your current supply and not buy any more than if you just throw it away where it'll end up in the water supply in any case.
I only have 52 today, but I recently went through a closed a bunch. I call it "Tab Hoarding".

*edit: I also have probably close to 1000 open on Chrome on my iPhone (they're hard to go through)
says "PC World" ...
He's got a course on public speaking available on TekPub.
You mean apple and not jobs right?
That's not how a Ponzi scheme works, which is what Bitcoin is rapidly turning in to.

If you don't double down, someone else will, and your hardware will be worthless. Therefore you need to keep spending to keep mining.
Pastafarian Wins Religious Liberty Battle To Wear A Pasta Strainer On ID Card
I refuse to believe you earnestly do not understand why people have ditched Flash for most animation on the web today.
I do something else that is a lot more readable:

{
"#": "this is a comment for the next line",
"url": "http://foo.bar"
}

Simple.
Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but I think the author's emphasizing that the term itself sounds like damning evidence to anyone who doesn't know better, since subversion means "a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly from within." He's pointing out that agent used such terms without understanding them (or exploited the public's ignorance to make their case). That's why he put it in quotes.

Lewis goes on to explain, later in the article, that subversion repositories are commonly used and aren't evil. He could have explicitly spelled out that the term subversion relates to version control, but I think he explained it adequately enough given the intended audience.
Is this a script that does something, or just a demo for what most frontend developers already do on a daily basis?
There were about 380K users in the various systems... so conflict chances were pretty high... I can't imagine what it would be like to have a name like "John Smith" or "Adam Jones" ... even more common...
>we should be able to condition ourselves into workin more.

Very disciplined people might be able to. You can't discipline yourself into being more disciplined. Accept that first.
Not true re: Github.
https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
sometimes it gets crazy. I try to keep it at 4-5 though.