skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ update-alternatives --display vi
vi - auto mode
link currently points to /usr/bin/vim.gtk
...

Or you could brute force it:

$ ll $(which vi)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 16 17:14 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi*
$ ll /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 17 06:07 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.gtk*
$ ll /usr/bin/vim.gtk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2391176 Apr 2 03:18 /usr/bin/vim.gtk*

vim.gtk is likely coded to behave differently depending on how it was invoked, as vim or vi for example.
I think this should be higher. I also found my representative and said thank you for supporting the bill. And thank you for posting the links.
From what do you discern that? Given that everything they showed about the the product was variations of it receiving and decoding a video stream, it would be quite a switch for it to also have a full platform running a web browser in synchronicity. It seems much more likely that it is a direct video send, making it enormously simpler to design.
Everybody who has ever spoken at PyCon for one (and volunteers as well): http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays

It looks like the OP is an established consultant/teacher, so he probably only goes to conferences that invite him to speak (and my guess is, from what I have heard about you tptacek, that you are in the same boat), so he may be unfamiliar with the practice. But for us peons, with little to no name recognition, conference papers and talks can be a big resume booster, so it's not out of the question to pay-to-speak (you still have to go through the proposal process though). In my old industry, this was standard practice, and because almost everyone had their conference registration and travel paid for by their employer, it wasn't a huge deal.
The votes from members of the Permanent House Select Committee on Intelligence were 2 yes, 21 no.

By party, that was among Democrats 2 yes, 8 no, and among Republicans 0 yes, 13 no.
> and on 9/11 as well as in Boston, the government did absolutely nothing in the immediate sense to cause the resulting hysteria

I don't recall hysteria in Boston. There was more hysteria over the Moonites than bombings. But I don't think anyone has the bar so low to say that it's all good as long as gov't doesn't create the hysteria. The gov't should be able to dampen hysteria rather than swing it higher.
It's shocking how regularly my decision to not trust them with an app installed on my phone gets vindicated. To be fair, this says as much about the state of app permissions on smartphones as it does about how sleazy Facebook is.
"Everyone else does it" has never been a reason, only an excuse.
For varying definitions of safe.

This is interesting and someone linked it last time DDT came up: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_02_a_ddt.htm
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Off topic, but I do love his web site.
And if you read here: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_02_a_ddt.htm

You can find out just how hard it is to have a well managed program.

They say it takes a dictator and a fascist to do successfully.
if it fits in Redis, the problem requires, at maximum, a single node's memory and a single core

How many companies like Twilio are using an RDBMS for which this isn't the case? I mean, if people had enough money to buy an oracle cluster, they'd still probably buy something else?
I'm curious what you find it is about Scala that lets you solve hard problems that you don't find in Clojure. Is it static typing and/or OO support? I'm also curious what you don't like about having syntax literals for vectors/maps/sets?
How is dynamically changing function definitions not a side effect or state change?
Just because human lives aren't necessarily at stake it doesn't mean that poor (in my opinion) software system designs should be tolerated.

And when we talk about "relational databases", we basically never mean MySQL. I'm not even sure why you'd bother to bring it up, given its poor reputation, its lack of proper functionality in some cases, and the many other (and far better) alternatives.

As for scalability, some other commenter here posted a link to a twitter comment describing the scale in this case: https://twitter.com/dN0t/status/360119871318659074

It clearly states "tens of thousands" of transactions per second. That is well within the capabilities of the lower-end database systems on modern, low-end server hardware. Twilio will require a huge amount of growth just to reach the point where higher end database systems and hardware become appropriate, never mind "a scale that is going to continue to reach further than many traditional models will scale".

Running into significant billing issues due to a likely unnecessary use (in my opinion) of a NoSQL database while still at a relatively small scale is not something that a team should be commended for, and nobody should be "thankful" that the incident did happen.
It'll likely end up working the same way it does on LinkedIn and Twitter. On LinkedIn I get strangers wanting to connect all the time so they can increase the surface perception of the the size of their network. And on Twitter it's similar: people who follow an implausibly large number of people in the hopes those people will follow back end up following me temporarily, hoping I'll follow back.

Is the amount of rep a person gives out visible on their profile? That would be useful in gauging how genuine their motiviation is.
Mono 3.2
Usually in the morning, occasionally at lunch if I didn't remember it until then.
Also context is important: the hard work of the poor guy in Mozambique can make an infinitesimal part of his alter ego in US.
Show HN: live video rap battles, running on node.js/opentok
I read the title as "Amish's Amendment". Wondering what the Amish did to illicit such attention from the NSA.
That seems like a fairly complete syllabus, quite like what I spent 4 years learning in school (2 undergrad, 2 post-grad), minus the internships and actual work (and the mobile and web apps that we didn't have back in the day...). I wonder if these courses really took place and how they turned out.

Some minor topics missing are things like compression, multi-threading and locking, etc, but I suppose those are oversights, or there's just not enough time.

I think one glaring omission is the UI/UX. It's the last topic under "graphics," and I really wonder if they'll reach those last topics. I think usability, windowing, design, typography (as seen today on HN), and new interfaces (touch screen, Kinect, etc.) could be a topics for an entire lesson of its own. If only because I expect people who take such a course to be more practically oriented (as in teach myself to program so I can develop my app idea).

Also, given such an audience, I think an extra lesson covering real-world examples would be very helpful. The lesson on web apps and mobile probably covers a lot of the end-user cases, but I'm thinking about industrial applications, modern airplanes, big installations such as banking or stock exchanges, a mainframe that's still running somewhere, drawing-board to release of a Pixar movie, a data center or just a colocation facility (field trip!). And it might make sense to put this lesson as an intro, where even if the students don't understand the details at first, the rest of the course can be mapped to real-world examples.

But I do wonder about the OP's final intent of compressing years of learning into weeks of lessons. I'm not sure people can retain and make good use of so much information without putting it into practice. I would love such a course for some other topic (civil engineering, political science, etc.) but it would be more about expanding my general knowledge, much like I read wikipedia for fun, than about being able to do something with it.
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> they are in America not some country in civil war

New Orleans currently has the highest murder rate in the US. It is the most dangerous place to be in the country, and it is more dangerous than many countries in civil war.

If his partner is trained in self defense and marksmanship, armed with a concealed carry, and willing, then it may be safe for her to wander about on her own. It is unlikely though they came with defensive arms since they just flew in from Bali.
A fan. Seems totally logical and wondering why I didn't think of this myself. Also, why is this not more common knowledge?
In short, I relaxed and stopped being scared of it.

FWIW I also took more breaks, got a better chair and posture, stretched regularly, and especially importantly: became a lot more aware of signs of incoming pain and would take breaks before it started hurting not after. (But lately I'm fine and rarely need any breaks. After some success I stopped being scared.)

I think it's completely reasonable that your thoughts have a lot of effect on your body. I don't see anything unscientific about that. Both consciously and unconsciously your brain can move your legs, for example. And a lot of other important stuff.

As a comparison, consider running or some other sport. There's often minor aches and pains involved even if you never get anything people would call an "injury". If you had a bad attitude to them and interpreted them as a dangerous injury, I think they could bother you a huge amount. But if you aren't scared of them at all because you have a good understanding of which ones are danger signs and which are nothing to worry about, then the same pains can be no problem.

I think novices often make mistakes in both directions. Being overly worried about minor pains is common -- many people quickly give up on running. And trying to ignore major pains is also common and gets people injured. I think both types of mistakes happen (a lot) with RSI and typing too.

If you get get your psychology so you don't mind non-dangerous minor pains, but do things about any real problems, then that's good. If you stray to either direction of getting this correct you can cause problems.

Sometimes both issues happen. First you get some real pain. You take some breaks and it soon heals and you're OK but now you're scared and start interpreting non-dangerous minor sensations as scary pain. And if you keep going down that path it can escalate. And also if you try to push through while scared of every minor sensation, and type anyway, you're in no condition to understand whether there's anything dangerous going on that needs a break, some stretching, or more. So it's psychologically unpleasant plus you might hurt yourself again.

I think it's really valuable to build up more awareness and understanding of your hands/wrists, and have the right way of thinking about the topic.

EDIT: i think he deleted while i was writing my post. but basically he just asked for information about the things i talk about.
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/07/11/2012-android-develop...
> It could turn out that she had some guidance

Indeed. Not mentioning anyone doesn't mean she's working alone.

It's possible that she uses some help. It's also possible that she works on her own. It's also possible that she's a fictional character (admittedly there isn't enough data proving otherwise).

The idea itself is interesting regardless of the above. First thing that occurred to me is why don't I go for it myself. I'm still pondering that.
Apple posts Developer System Status page
Bad idea: Berlin considers turning Tempelhof Airport into a model Smart City
I've never seen a major conference center that didn't have a place to drink coffee and read for 2 hours without being killed. There are even large, open pre-registration areas in the center for folks to chill for exactly this sort of reason.

That said, it sounds like he and his wife were treated horribly.
Isn't the master key vulnerability related to the SIM card attack, and not to the app signature vulnerability? Maybe I'm reading the article wrong, but this article seems to be confusing two non-related vulnerabilities.
Ahh, they moved it to another spot. For weeks I thought they removed the feature altogether.
Heh the whole "Here's a tasty sandwich" bit reminds me of The Little Schemer and not in a good way.
Bypassing no-go theorems
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The way I'm looking at it is that there was a chance that this amendment was going to be the most that was ever done about it. The door is not closed on modifying what the Intelligence Agencies surveille, and there can now be an even better bill passed outside of a defense appropriations bill, on its own terms.
What is "actual value" and how does it relate to subjective use-value? If people value the placebo effect, why is that bad? And if they value the effect, what is wrong with valuing the source of it? (The distinction between placebo and placebo effect stinks of Cartesian duality). Do you see meditation or talk therapy as placebos? Are we obligated to deny people self improvement that isn't a result of ingesting a chemical?

Alcoholics Anonymous has the same effectiveness as cold turkey and a few other sobriety methods (about 10% success). Are you suggesting that alcoholics should never attempt the AA program?
Some solutions work for individual cases and are worth being explored on a personal basis.
For the founder and the seed investors and the VCs, certainly it was a great success. From my perspective, that's a type of success is exceedingly rare, akin to winning the lottery.

That mindset doesn't fit with my own personal goal of building a business that returns consistent profits, preferably as soon as possible after launch.
It's a bit more complicated than that.

If you look further down, you'll see that there's a breakdown by people who feel the intrusion is justified or not. Further, when you look at responses for how people view the surveillance as an intrusion into their own privacy vs. that of others, you find people are either less likely to view it as an intrusion into their privacy or more likely to view it as a justified intrusion.
Do you know that fans sold in many Asian countries have mandatory automatic shutoff timers? This is due to a deep-rooted and very resilient urban legend that a running fan causes hypothermia in people who sleep in the same room with it and that people die because of that.
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I'm pretty sure they're putting an Intel chip in this one.
Maybe its a Spectacle for hegelDialectic/divideConquer #pov
Security removed her from the building. You don't go back in a building you have been forcibly removed from unless you want to be arrested.
Not to mention the sheer lack of informed discussion when passing the PATRIOT Act in the first place.
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In 1993, you were almost certainly going to have to pay money to write software on or for Mac OS. In 2013, you most certainly do not have to pay money on or for Mac OS X.

Xcode is free-as-in-beer. You can install this if you want to avoid Apple's tooling: https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

Ruby, Python, Perl and other interpreters come standard with OS X. As does a terminal. Things are better, not worse.
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I just can't look past the poor resolution of the iPad mini - and on that basis alone, I would not recommend it to anyone, except people with very poor eyesight.
I agree that DPI isn't everything. I think of it as like "stock" to a soup. Without stock (or with awful stock), you have no soup. The rest of the ingredients are important, but stock is king.
iPad mini has foul tasting "stock" ;)
Brightness is important, but not fundamental, viewing angles are less important when you're looking straight on or from a slight angle (ie. 99% of the time). I didn't notice a huge difference on contrast ratio (eg. differentiating dark colours readily).
I would not recommend the current iPad mini to anyone with reasonable eyesight.
I'll admit it, I'm skeptical. I'm also a bit jealous that I can't seem to find 10 spare minutes a day for learning.

Some quick internet sleuthing led me to https://angel.co/grapefeed which appears to show that she's the co-founder of a social-sharing website that just happens to be written in Rails.

If that's the case, then she likely has access to the other co-founder/Rails developer. Not to take anything away from her work, but it doesn't seem quite the same to me as the "One day I woke up and decided to learn web development on my own" tone that I took away from the blog post.
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It's worth noting that each consumer electronic manufacturer has its own name for CEC, rather than using the generic term. This, despite good compatibility between manufacturers' implementations.

From the Wikipedia page linked by the parent:

Trade names for CEC are Anynet+ (Samsung), Aquos Link (Sharp), BRAVIA Link and BRAVIA Sync (Sony), HDMI-CEC (Hitachi), E-link (AOC), Kuro Link (Pioneer), CE-Link and Regza Link (Toshiba), RIHD (Remote Interactive over HDMI) (Onkyo), RuncoLink (Runco International), SimpLink (LG), T-Link (ITT), HDAVI Control, EZ-Sync, VIERA Link (Panasonic), EasyLink (Philips), and NetCommand for HDMI (Mitsubishi).
Representatives that rejected limits on NSA data collection and funding sources
Feel free to add sources/links/columns to the list. There's 217 rows.
But it could mean the difference between life and death.
What "popular vote" are you talking about. It's meaningless in this context given every congressional district is a separate race.
I think I've had to pay to talk at any association for computing machinery, association for computing in the humanities, american library association, society of american archivists, society of california archivists, and collation for networked information meeting I've given a talk at. Didn't used to have to pay to talk at digital library federation meetings; but that was when your organization had to pay a 5 figure membership to send folks. I've even had to pay to talk at the university of california computing services conference. I din't have to pay to talk at the library of congress or the national archives. Those are pretty much the only places I've given a speech (besides in high school when I was on the speech team).
You can read the read the tea leaves and see anything you want. It's unusual for so many Democrats to vote against a program being administered by a Democratic president.
Well I know my representative didn't vote the way I wanted (and I sent him an email)... looks like someone will lose their vote! Not to mention i'll convince others.
It's a good idea until the local send buffer fills up and starts silently dropping data.

There's no free lunch.
Nothing, but good luck claiming victories achieved under an illegal interpretation (see: Iran-Contra).
Ask HN: How do you tell whether there's a path out of an idea?  
"How do you tell whether there's a path out of an idea? How do you tell whether something is the germ of a giant company, or just a niche product? Often you can't.... sometimes I can see a path that's not immediately obvious; that's one of our specialties at YC."

=> Are there good alternatives to YC (a privilege not everyone can get), to get a 2nd-opinion validation of whether a startup idea is a path to a bigger one?
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This will probably come up again (along similar lines) clearly there would be enough support after some back room deals.
It's not "indicative" of any real sinister work. It's a body of human beings, this is how bodies of human beings work. That's all.
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I don't know about the other companies but site44 only uses Dropbox to sync your files. The site itself is hosted in their own servers. It's just to make it easy to edit and upload your site.
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Here's a doc describing the basic architecture: https://docs.google.com/a/rapt.fm/document/d/1EpiKZG7MTNgc4_...

Battlestar Raptica is more distributed than described in this doc, though (some prominent local rappers visited us tonight).
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is credited with starting the anti-DDT movement. It's been discredited and is full of junk science and needless corporation-bashing. Read the paper Chemicals and Pests which tears apart Carson's book. [1]

Checkout the New York Times article from 1962 titled "Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science" [2]

A choice quote:

"Ms. Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes (like the improbable story of a woman who instantly developed cancer after spraying her basement with DDT) to warn of a cancer epidemic that never came to pass. She rightly noted threats to some birds, like eagles and other raptors, but she wildly imagined a mass “biocide.” She warned that one of the most common American birds, the robin, was “on the verge of extinction” — an especially odd claim given the large numbers of robins recorded in Audubon bird counts before her book."

You may also want to check out the story of Professor Kenneth Mellanby who ate DDT for 40 years. [3]

Make sure to take a look at the scientific paper mentioned in this Times article. It concludes "DDT is practically harmless to humans who get it on their skins or breathe it into their lungs." [4]

[1] http://www1.umn.edu/ships/pesticides/library/baldwin1962.pdf

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/earth/05tier.html?...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4264030/DDT-is-safe-just-...

[4] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812248,00.h...
>In 2013, you most certainly do not have to pay money on or for Mac OS X.

You have to join the Apple Developer Program, which costs $99/year, in order to distribute software that will run on OS X with default Gatekeeper settings. The registration for that program is currently down.
If you don't trust the government to follow the law in the former case, why would you trust them to follow anti-secrecy laws in the latter?

Either the system can possibly work or it can't, you can't say the process is a sham then suggest a legislative solution.
They have an indiegogo funding page where you can select your perks [1]. I am wondering why they needed $75k in the first place, if they were funded through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wouldn't they just chip in the final chunk to push this into production?

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kite-patch
I don't know the details but its not necessarily gerrymandering. if urban areas are 100% democrat while rural areas are 60% republican, you'd see this sort of elections naturally, without any foul play. that's just a natural outcomes of having districts.
The Kopp-Etchells effect