skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured, but I feel as if sidestepping the politics here defeats the point. That said, I'd love to be proven wrong. I think when it comes to this particular topic my background brands me bias and hence unable to contribute objectively.
And the damage control starts.

Also, why are we reading tech crunch for actual news? as someone puts eloquently on the top comment:

"""
random_eddie2 1 minute ago
"It turns out either Catalano or her husband were conducting these searches from a work computer."

That is speculation, unsupported by the PD's press release. The former employee was not identified in the press release, and we know of at least THREE people whose home the investigators went to: Catalano, her husband, and her twenty-year-old son.

If you're not going to do enough journalism (you know, picking up the phone and making calls to obtain verifiable facts) to establish something as basic as this, you should probably just not say anything at all.
"""
Thanks I will update the article now.
> cathereres(not sure the word in english)

'Catheters' is the word in English.
Could this have been solved by using "外人第一" as a suffix or instead of the romaji/katakana name?

I once tried to apply for a Japanese credit card online about 10 years ago (certainly things have changed with some banks sine then). IIRC the form would not accept romaji and my kana name was too long for the kanji input field.

This was painfully frustrating at the time but helped frame my approach to forms and DB specification when I got into web development (e.g. always using UTF8 in MySQL, full name as a single field in some applications, etc.).
Your skepticism turns out to be warranted. Apparently the operation was conducted after local police "received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee."

http://gothamist.com/2013/08/01/li_woman_says_she_was_invest...
Thanks for that. When it wasn't available in kindle on amazon, and TAoCP having not made the jump from paper (pdfs don't count. They are a terrible format for books), I assumed that it was likewise unavailable.
> You're right that getting things started is non-trivial, but as other commenters have pointed out there are a fair number of organizations already driving for change who would appreciate "a few minutes or hours every once in a while".

That's exactly the type of thing I meant when I said "Sure, you can send a letter or call an elected official". On a smaller scale, you can also vote; worth mentioning because a shockingly high number of people don't. However, all of those actions only add momentum to efforts started by others.
> > In the sixties, people were able to build interactive systems with virtually no delay.

> That did virtually nothing. It is easy to be fast when you do nothing.

This is kind of the point. Current interactive systems tend to do lots of useless things, most of which are not perceptible (except for the delays they cause)

> Wow, so CS is all about what hardware you buy and what languages you program in?

No. Computer Science is about assessing the qualities of current programming tools, and inventing better ones. Without forgetting humans warts and limitations of course.

On the other hand, programming (solving problems with computers), is about choosing hardware and languages (among other things). You wouldn't your project to cost 5 times more than it could just because you've chosen the wrong tools.
I didn't ignore them, that's why I eventually gave up. I really enjoyed the book material and the exercises I could understand. But when I ran into an exercise that made me feel like I need to take a non-programming course to comprehend, it was really demotivating.
It likes my month of 99
> If I wasn’t tired, there’s no way I could be doing a great job at all of those things

His point might have been that when you are tired your ability to do a great job is severely lessened compared to when you are not, this includes your ability to realistically evaluate how good of a job you are doing. Being tired means that you have impaired working memory, attention (especially vigilance), descision making abilities and general cognitive function.

I can't think of a more important predictor to the ability to get work done for long periods of time than knowing how to manage your life and time enough to not be tired all the time. They don't give a shit about how many hours you work, they care about how much necessary work you get done.

There's a trade-off to make here obviously, sometimes it's worth it. Some tasks can still be done if you are operating at 50% of your abilities, but if running a startup and parenting were that easy our world would be quite different.

I won't speculate on the specific situation you talk about because I don't know the details and you do. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

That said, your post rubbed me the wrong way because it's too much like the common geek macho bullshit that's too common in this community. You can't bully your brain into working better just with a self-help pep talk full of bland aphorisms and completely ignorant of modern knowledge about health and productivity. And you might want to avoid the comparisons to athletics - elite athletes talk about and track their rest obsessively. They don't show up to a tryout injured and defensively complain when it's pointed out.
Cool.

Curiously, the simple homepage has an excessively cluttered source code.

http://www.initialized.co/
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The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

So it wasn't Google, but it was because of searching for pressure cookers; it wasn't posting images of firecrackers on facebook, but it was a tip-off based on (private) surveillance.
The language for iPhone is Objective C. This is a pretty popular tutorial package for it: http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-apprentice

I'm only a fledgeling programmer myself, so my comment should be taken with a grain of salt, but I suspect ObjC might be a bit much to start with for a 12 year old. I tried and failed to take up programming a few times before I finally tried python and it stuck. Then again, that's just me.
Or one of the thousands of start-ups or charities in this country that are all working on interesting problems.
This appears to be a repeat of 6 year old research - https://twitter.com/abortz posted the following https://abortz.net/papers/dns-rebinding.pdf
Peter Norvig's review of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Declan,

I have a question for you, and maybe a suggestion for an article.

Around 2005/2006 I believe you published this article suggesting that cell phones could be remotely monitored. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

I think that article took on a life of its own, perhaps (?) beyond what you had intended, and since then has been the source of many articles saying the Feds could remotely turn on any cell phone at any time.

I once spent an afternoon reading various articles and they all used your article as their sole source.

I also think that folks suggested it wasn't any cell phone, but a particular few phones that could be reprogrammed, or that never really turned off, perhaps on a specific few carriers. (And there was some speculation that it wasn't even the phone, but a bugged phone battery.)

I haven't read anything further since 2006 about the Fed's ability to turn on cell phone mics when the phone is off, so I was wondering if you could do a follow up.

1. Have you heard anything further on this?
2. Did your article (inadvertently) create
unfounded rumors/conspiracy?
3. Do you think that Android phones, mostly open
sourced with a few proprietary drivers, or
iPhones could be susceptible to this?
4. If so, how might you answer the question of how
are all those employees at all those companies,
Apple, Google, Verizon, ... being kept unaware,
or being kept silent?

For the most part, I had dismissed (no offense) the claims because no one else seemed to cite any other article (that didn't lead back to yours).

But recently, Dana Priest at the WaPo made a claim that:

By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this “The Find,” and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-gr...)

Which made me rethink my dismissal.

Still, I haven't seen anything other than your piece and Dana Priest's piece suggesting anyone has this capability.

I'd love to read a follow up.
Weebly always looks like that.

I was using Heap Analytics on a Weebly site and didn't understand any of the variable names at first. They're definitely using naming conventions in the source that make it easier for them to manage (as opposed to optimizing for users).
> "If it comes easy, then you're not doing it right."

I don't like that advice at all. Sure, not everything's easy, but the hard way is almost certainly not the right way. When I was learning to program (still am, as should all of us who are programmers), pointers came easy, arrays came easy, hash maps came easy. Almost every concept makes sense. I'm not some intellectual godsend either, so I know there are probably a countless amount of others who feel the same way.

I think that the most likely option is that the "teacher," or at least method of teaching, is bad.
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Thanks. Good links.
NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs
I'm shocked, just shocked, that this turned out not to be the FBI dragnetting Google searches.
Make the money now while you can dude. School may also be cheaper in a few years.
Well, soy is a staple part of the traditional Okinawa diet, so it can't be that bad.
Thanks. When it wasn't available in kindle on amazon, and TAoCP having not made the jump from paper (pdfs don't count. They are a terrible format for books), I assumed that it was likewise unavailable.
Um, no? Having more experience with programming would make things easier to understand.
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What examples of really popular games are there that were written in HTML 5?
I wonder if they will invest in some companies who apply for YC but do not end up getting in.
Exactly. Everybody needs to take a leak, sometimes.
Ah, I like the guy who lists his databases knowledge to include Excel & XKeyScore. Either XKeyScore is so slick that it is indistinguishable from Excel or this particular person doesn't know what a database is. Either way, that cannot be good.
I think his point was that it should've been a "Google Edition" phone to begin with, and I agree. Every Motorola phone should be a "Nexus" phone (from low-end to high-end).

But this phone still feels 90 percent Motorola, rather than 90 percent Google. Hopefully by next year they'll learn from all the criticism they're getting right now, and make a true Google phone.

The Nexus 7 seems like a much better product/value than Moto X, and that felt very much like a "Google device".
I think you definitely have a point -- but there's a case to be made for including some hard material in the text, and including some easy exercises.

Indeed: Hard exercises have an important purpose. They are about problem solving. But so do easy exercises. They force you to make sure you understand the basics of what you're doing, and suss out bad habits before they become ingrained.
> It's inefficient to do 10+ cans per person

It's actually much more efficient. Sorting is expensive. Collecting cans is trivial.

I would love to have 10 cans and help the environment. Something like this:

Glass, plastic, paper, metal, bio/food, electronics, rubber, textiles, everything else.

Right now most of that stuff gets mixed and gets piled up polluting ground water.
This is a good start.

By removing the profit motive from cannabis production it helps to reduce cartel receipts, helps to reduce smuggling, and separates cannabis from other, truly harmful, drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamines, and heroin.

That so many US states have already made provisions to either decriminalize medical use, and or recreational use, by individuals, serves to illustrate that cannabis is nowhere near as dangerous as governments have attempted to portray cannabis as being.

There is absolutely no reason for the DEA to classify cannabis as a Schedule One drug when legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco are responsible for an exponentially greater amount of negative social impacts when compared with cannabis.

Case in point?

Amsterdam.

Just look at the statistics regarding "hard" drug use in the Netherlands, as well as incarceration rates, and homicide rates.

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/netherlands_v_us#sthash.ta7j...
He specifically pointed out Booze Allen which is known for their NSA spying. It's not like you can walk into the organization and say, "Hey, I'd like a job. You guys don't spy on Americans, right?".
I guess we should be happy they didn't call it "OK Google Voice Search" ?
How is that quote unsupported by the press release? The press release states:

"The former employee's searches took place on this employee's workplace computer."
1) have some yogourt for breakfast
2) each a bunch of trailmix etc ...
3) same

same.

?

EAT FOOD!!!
"minimum of first name and last name"

Bzzzzt! Sorry…

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person
People Are The Biggest Distribution Channel
In Oakland you get one free "bulk load" trash pickup a year kindly provided by Waste Management.
In general employees are vastly outgunned when it comes to negotiating salary and benefits. There are good tips here to help level the playing field somewhat.
Good luck. Apple purposefully disables the ability to control where the keyboard is entering text. AFAIK there's no workaround (I’d love to know if there is!)
I'm mostly wondering right now whether there is a bubble in the startup space. I don't think I understand the market very well right now, and I'm not sure whether most startups are profitable or just being funded.

Does anyone have insight into whether there's a significant bubble in parts of the industry? Of course, this is hard to evaluate without some concrete data, and I'm not sure if any such data exists.
You're making a valid point, thank you very much for the feedback.

I added "Keep track of your driving and export your trips when you need to file expense reports, do your taxes or other deductions", instead of the secondary "sign up" message.
Guilty as charged haha... but I don't skulk at industry events. YET :ob
From the Medium blog post:

> But my son’s reading habits combined with my search for a pressure cooker and my husband’s search for a backpack set off an alarm of sorts at the joint terrorism task force headquarters.

From the Suffolk County PD:

> The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

Still not sure who was searching for what, but it looks like the author's search for "pressure cookers" was a red herring... the actual triggering search was for "pressure cooker bombs." I'm guessing it was probably the author or her husband (whoever "the subject" was) just searching for information after the Boston Marathon bombings. The author should've mentioned that she or her husband searched for "pressure cooker bombs," but I'm willing to assume she either didn't know or forgot that such a search took place.
I'll add my support for this, in general, since there are so many dissenters:

Norvig doesn't do anything to address ones that think the book is poorly written or gives bad advice (for modern times) or confusing in style, for instance, just claims the 1-stars aren't looking for the same information as the 5-stars.

This amounts to "the book is perfect. your review tells us who you are." which is an extremely-limited-use stance when it comes to critiquing, and simply insulting to anyone who wants what it's offering but doesn't like the presentation.
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They've removed the "that's what she said" joke. Hilarious.
Shows the homepage with votes only counting from accounts with an age of over a year.
Well, I'm from Uruguay, so I'll be glad to answer any questions on the subject :)

The bill was proposed by the governing left wing Broad Front coalition, and voted by all their congressmen.

While the vote appears close, there was more consensus than is shown.

My party (Partido Independiente, the smallest of the four represented) decided not to vote the whole bill, but only some parts, because they're for legalization, but against some of the particulars of the bill.

The most troubling aspects of the bill are:

- The state will license and regulate private cannabis farms and then sell the marijuana at pharmacies.

- There will be a monthly limit of 40 grams per person and

- all consumers will have to register.

My representative, Dr. Daniel Radío (a medical doctor), had presented an alternative bill, and so had Dr. Lacalle Pou (a lawyer) from the major opposition party Partido Nacional.

The other big opposing party, Partido Colorado, is strongly against legalization, which makes sense since it mostly represents right-wing / military types and the elderly.

For a quick summary of the political positions:

Broad Front - Left wing - more akin to Democrats in U.S. (but way more left wing). They include all the spectrum from the former left wing guerrillas, communists, european-style socialists, etc.

Partido Nacional / "Blancos" - Right wing - more akin to Republicans, but pretty centrist overall. Hit very hard by corruption when they formed government.

Partido Colorado - Right wing - akin to Republicans, include most extreme right wing types. Their government led to the military dictatorship.

Partido Independiente - tries to be moderate left wing.

There are an estimate 180.000 consumers of marijuana in my country, about 5% of the population.

Edit: one of the main criticisms was about self cultivated marijuana, which was finally contemplated in the bill.

President Mujica (a very colorful character) said this:

"We are not going to say that weed is good. What happens is, consumers don't give a damn about our advice, but we won't leave them stranded because of that. And they like the adventure of buying from the drug dealer around here and there, because it is illegal. And while it's clandestine, you can smell marijuana around in many places"

"Nosotros nos vamos a decir que la maruja es buena. Lo que pasa es que los que consumen no dan bola a los consejos y no por ello hay que dejarlos en banda. Y están atrás de la aventura de comprarle al narcotraficante por aquí y por allá porque es clandestino. Y aunque es clandestino el olor se siente por muchas partes"
Well, neither one of those politicians campaigned on promises of dismantling the NeoCon policies initiated by the Bush/Cheney gang, so who's playing partisan politics here?
It is possible to test yourself for such biases:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Private Equity Fund Eyes The Business Of Pot