skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh heavens no! This might wind up covering Wikileaks! They are clearly not journalists, since all they do is publish material people give them after performing some review of that material. As we all know, real journalists do some other thing.
You can also use your "project" (effectively: a module with a "settings" module) as an "app" (effectively: a module with a "models" module and a "templatetags" module if you need custom ones) by putting its package name in INSTALLED_APPS and sticking a models.py in it.

Then, if you find a piece which would cleanly separate out into a standalone app, you just have to rip it out, add the extracted app to INSTALLED_APPS and update your imports.
The same bizzaro world in which you cannot run sudo bash on the majority of Android devices.
Well it wasn't a PRISM program or anything, simply a company monitoring internal internet usage. This I understand and makes sense, although I don't think it warranted a call to police...

My company does the same thing, turns out one of the managers had been downloading porn onto their computer for months and the first time we installed it we noticed. When we checked out his computer he had over 200 Gb of the stuff... so yeah, he was fired, clearly he wasn't doing his job to the best of his performance.
Using Java in Low Latency Environments
Content worth paying is what we really need? Then why we don't have it currently? As far as I know, nothing stop that kind of content to appear...

However blocking ad stop good free content to appear (maybe not much, but it still affected, unlike the type of content you want).
The First Amendment makes no definition so people feel the need to exclude people they don't like. Yet clearly the intent for a "free press" was that they could be anyone; otherwise the term free is meaningless.
I should add: The majority of what I experienced was similar to what you did.
Here's the HN thread when the story was first posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140545. Its fun/important to go back and do a little autopsy about the way things played out.
How much is Samsung Paying?
Check out these two articles:

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/04/25/samsung-galaxy-s4-vs-nokia-lumia-920-camera-comparison/

Here the S4 pictures are purposely zoomed closer

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/07/26/nokia-lumia-1020-vs-samsung-galaxy-s4-camera-comparison/

Here all i can see is someone trying very hard to make 1020 look bad.

Pictures cropped, no access to the full-sized photos for comparison.

The interesting part is this. In both articles, the author refused to draw a conclusion. A staged picture is worth a thousand words right?
Bitfury 400 GH/s Bitcoin Mining Rig Hits US Shores
This is one of my favourite sections in both the book and the audiobook.

I would highly recommend checking out the audiobook even if you've read the dead tree version. It is a different, but equally enjoyable, experience.
On the contrary, Goldman generally stands by their employees provided they believe the employee stood by them. See for example, Fabrice Tourre, who's personal legal expenses were entirely covered by Goldman.
Not so far as we are aware. Not many sites have gone down the whitelisting route, for the kind of reasons discussed in the post above.
That said, lots of our customers are discovering just how badly they are affected. Some sites have more than 64% of their visitors blocking their ads, and are facing extinction.
I'm really smart, do no work, and earn lots of money. Please help me.

How can anyone not take you for a braggart?
Flying Car Makes First Public Flight
So does Asus Zenbook Prime and many models from Lenovo. I have Zenbook and it's almost perfect. Minor touchpad issues, ambien light sensor does not work and screen is always at max bright after reboot, that's about it. The problem of course is that this is fairly expensive machine and people won't tolerate those quirks when enough money is involved.
The rate is actually highest on gaming-related sites. I guess that audience is usually sufficiently technical, and is also habitually bombarded with aggressive advertising.
I was always under the impression that our water in Seattle is cheaper than in most places?

Probably the greatest monetary cost you could cause the owner to incur is if they thought the toilet was faulty in some way due to the continuous flushing and had to call in a plumber.

Also I can't believe I'm seriously having a discussion about toilets on HN. Heh.
Cue the massive avalanche of 'I told you so' from all of the smart people on HN who were arguing that there was no way this was NSA related yesterday.
Wow, this is amazing -- great job
Friday is Webday Issue #5 (link collection for web developers and designers)
Neat trick! Not sure I'd trust it, and might be confusing for anyone reading who didn't know this.
I would say Canonical rather than Shuttleworth himself personally, but that is a minor nitpick. I have used and like Unity.

One issue I really hope gets sorted before 14.04 is the LibreOffice menu bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/7...

That is definitely under the 'fit and finish' heading! Imagine a future version of Ubuntu with Unity with that bug landing on the desktops of a few thousand users doing office work...
Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
In my case it was some article on the net somewhere that mentioned it, I don't recall what it was, but it changed my surfing habits having discovered HN.

How did you come to HN?
Literally any Django application in the wild. Mezzanine, grappelli, south, etc.
Did he break the law, specifically the espionage act?

I could see theft of property, possibly, but the furthest I could see it going is breaking an employment agreement, which is a contract between two private parties and doesn't bring criminal charges for violations.
Just go ahead and do it - getting 3-4 odd replies on here telling you what to do isn't a convincing argument for/against doing it.

For what it's worth; you'll probably get more traction/responses on a web2py community than on here.
The justice system is, of course, still in the business of catching and punishing murderers, thieves and such. But, with the decline in crime since the early '90s, this side of their activity is becoming increasingly supplemented by a different game altogether: enforcing a growing set of complex laws against practically everything [1]. There is a lot of prosecutorial discretion in choosing which of these laws to enforce and the degree to which to enforce them. With prosecutors often competing against each other in the number and severity of convictions secured, it's hardly surprising that they've arrived at the age-old algorithm used by street muggers: pick the most likely victim, and go all in. A guy like Aleynikov was thus ideally suited as a prosecution target: unlikely to excite much sympathy from a jury with his heavy accent and un-American looks; clueless about lawyers and confessions; cooperative enough to sign statements that were re-formulated by investigators to look bad in court; high-tech enough to mark novel and impressive prosecutorial checkboxes. They consequently made sure to squeeze him for all he had.

So, while I think the often repeated advice about never talking to the police sometimes goes too far (it's probably good to have a friendly relation with the neighborhood cop, and by all means please help in apprehending murderers and burglars if you safely can), it's pretty much dead-on as soon as you step into enforcement la-la land:

- Don't consent to any searches.

- Don't say anything without a lawyer.

- Put great effort into finding a competent lawyer.

- Don't say anything your lawyer hasn't approved.

Beyond refusing help to efforts to prosecute you, such steps will clearly mark you as a non-victim. (Same advice as applies when you have to pass through a mugging-prone area.) This will cause a lot less effort towards pushing through with your case. After all, there are other suckers born every minute.

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now
How do you know that he did not intend to do anything wrong? I certainly don't his intentions.
20 CEOs in one company
Since the order of an object's keys is not guaranteed, it seems like even if a parser respected the last-defined rule, you could still potentially end up with the wrong field last.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where discrimination against someone who doesn't hold the right passport is legitimate. Replacing the word 'citizen' in your statement with 'white', 'straight' or 'men' would automatically destroy any argument there.
The home owner voluntarily agreed to a search. Not sure what the privacy violation was... unless you think internet searches on your employer's network falls within your domain of privacy?
Looking back?!? You're only 21. Go find a sport league in your area, take up skiing or rock climbing.
It's true though. It feels like it should be so easy and simple but it's really a deep rooted problem
Oh, and blocking rates on mobile/tablet is very low, probably consisting of ISP-level adblocking. That will shortly change though - the adblock community is hard at work creating mobile versions.
You're projecting. The OP does not merely desire to work harder at his job, but at better using his gifts to help change the world and better himself in non-professional ways. I agree he's too young to be fretting about this like a mid-life crisis...but nothing wrong with desiring to move faster while young. It takes some foresight to realize that it's easier to change bad habits (and learn new good ones) at a young age rather than pushing it off for later.
Agreed. But doesn't it take discipline to follow a coding convention in general? I'd argue learning tabs-indent/spaces-align is easier than following most other semantic conventions (e.g. what constitutes a good name, how to organize code).
I read this on my phone last night and was convinced it would have already been submitted to HN by the time I got to work. Sad to say I was wrong, but I'm glad someone mentioned it.

Here we have another win for tptacek in the "common sense and reason" column.
The JSON RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt?number=4627) says

The names within an object SHOULD be unique.

SHOULD is defined (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119) as

3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

Salient point is that you would need to ensure that you are only using JSON parsers that tolerate duplicate names (and use the last value)
> the agreement had not been invoked since the end of the Cold War

And now it can't be invoked in the future either, which is great.

It doesn't matter to me if it was unused anyway. A large part of what makes me nervous about these sorts of agreements is their potential for future abuse. Same reason the UK pornwall is unnerving. Not for what it did yesterday or does today, but for what it might do tomorrow.
I think for me I partly get a thrill and a dopamine reward out of not doing what I'm supposed to. For the same reason I used to spend hours a day in bed or online, failing college classes,
but then quickly pounding out a few hours of good work for a lofty paycheck
This cueing could get real meta, real fast. :)

Point taken though.
The fact that this has been going on for years, and that you feel the procrastination is holding you back from your full potential does sound like it could be ADHD, as others have mentioned. Also, ADHD tends to run in families. So if your dad is the same way...

Most people associate ADHD with kids who struggle in school. But highly intelligent people can have it too. It still holds them back from reaching their potential, it's just that their potential is much greater.

Here are some things to ask yourself:

* Do you also procrastinate non-work things such as buying gifts, paying bills, calling people back?

* What is your home like: Do you have a lot of half-finished projects, "piles", or chores that never get finished?

* Are you always running late because you are busy doing other things, or underestimate what you need to do to get out the door and get to your destination?

* Do people tell you that you frequently interrupt others when they are talking?

* Would you describe yourself as a risk taker and more prone to high adrenaline activities? How the friends you keep?

* Are you only able to focus with the help of caffeine, guarana (eg, Vitamin Water Energy), or other energy drinks?

* Do you use nicotine to relax or be more focused? (If so, please stop and see a doctor.)

* Do you use alcohol, not to get drunk or for the drink itself, but as a way to unwind or slow down at the end of the day?

This is a good book: http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Revised-Recognizing..., which reminds me of another question:

* Do you buy/start a lot of books, but rarely seem to finish them?

Read enough of the book to see if this resonates with you. If it does, the next step would be to talk to (a) your doctor if you have one, or (b) find a psychiatrist in your area who specializes in ADHD. The book can help you find resources.

Edit: Just to be clear, this list is NOT meant to be diagnostic. Although I happen to have an MD, I am NOT a practicing physician no one should assume they have ADHD based on any list like this. I would only say that if many of these things hold overwhelmingly true for the OP, then it might be worth learning more about ADHD and finding a professional to begin a conversation.

Yes, ADHD and meds sparks a lot of cynicism in some people. However, one reason I recommended that book is that the authors present a balanced approach to meds. One of the authors has ADHD, but doesn't find that meds make much of a difference for him (they reportedly are ineffective for 25% of adults with ADHD). But they have helped many of his patients and his own son.
Not exactly what you want, and limited to UK use, but I carry one of these around with me most of the time: https://www.themu.co.uk/

It's even smaller than I thought it would be, and so much more portable than a normal UK plug.
There can't be many people that have at least searched for the anarchists cookbook at some time. The notion that the authorities now think it's ok to turn up at my doorstep for that is incredible. The language used is pretty chilling as well, apparently just searching for "bomb" is now an "incident". I'm also aware that I now have a little voice questioning whether or not I should post this comment...
I suggest selecting "Pause on debated frames" to get all the conversation and interesting frames. Took me about 20 minutes to go through at 10 fps.
FWIW looks like you were right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146898
I can say at least anecdotaly it's true. One of my coworkers at Lucent in 2001 was a brilliant Jamaican EE, doing his masters at the same time (had his own MOSIS chip to show off :-), and was arguably better at the job than I was, or at least equal given our various specialties.

As mentioned elsewhere, his salary was posted on the bulletin board. It was $48K at the same time I was being paid $80K. $32,000 fits my definition of "tens of thousands of dollars".
This is not true at all.

First of all, it is illegal for a company to pay a H1B employee less than the "standard wage" for the position in question.

But leaving legal issues aside, a large proportion of H1B employees have actually completed their education at some of the top schools in the US and around the world. I have seen many of them quickly rise to the top of their teams and compensated more than many in the "local talent pools".

Disclaimer: I am another early H1B employee at a startup here, and my company has certainly not saved any money by hiring me instead of a citizen. I like to think that the value I brought in has more than compensated for the extra costs.
Not really defined, but since an object is defined as an unordered collection of key/value pairs, a conforming parser could probably shuffle the pairs before parsing them.
This would completely break any event driven (streaming) parser.
Challenge the Guinness Book of Records by finding a way to make it easier to be measured for a feat and post the results
Looking forward to the open source desktop versions of this kind of tech.
Actually it is even worse. It also damages brands much more. From what is known for the hack it requires some very direct access to the car.

So we transform "Researchers are able to unlock Ford car given they have few hours to bruteforce and a laptop an a secluded place" to "Research that is so dangerous, the court outlawed it"
So any estimate on how long Randall was busy with this and what it earned him in then end?
I'll re-issue my prediction: an STP hydrogen tunnel with elecromagnetic levitation (my favorite being Inductrack, known for its passive failsafe) and propulsion, and wheels for low speeds, makes a lot more economic sense than an evacuated tunnel. Much less drag, much higher speed of sound.

The other things that any modern engineer would never do that an 1870's railroad technician somewhere built into SOP, like mixed speed segments, frequent braked unbanked turns, single-tracking, and manual signalling / switching and grade crossings, will also be consciously avoided; the FRA regulations are built on making operating under such principles safer. Applying modern real-time at-speed routing to rail is something the PRT guys have been dreaming about for decades - the money and organizational will just hasn't been there to make it happen at a scale sufficient to make it cheap enough to justify.
oops I totally posted this to the wrong thread
I googled something like "news for hackers" or "hacker news" and I stumbled upon it...
Lots of big hints there for developers to pick up on. Haskell for a large simulation project , GPGPU advancement, 120 hz clock with physics interpolation, benefits of functions without side effects, performance benefits from elegant design rather than complicated optimization kludges.
generally... and I hate to be that guy, but Thinkpads build quality has really suffered of late; plastic is not a way to go. And, 'military-grade' or 'passed all one-hundred and whatever tests used to certify for the US Army' are well-known marketing gimmicks used out of context.
And, so? He wants to be better, but damn this whole being an imperfect human thing! Nothing wrong with wanting to be a robot, or an alien while you're young.
almost

I have a ZenBook too as my primary Ubuntu machine. It's almost good enough. I also suffer all the points you list, each of which are 100% dealbreakers and perfect examples of how almost it is yet no one goes the extra mile. A little bit of effort/sway from Canonical would go a long way.
This is my biggest fear. Having the same problems now at 40. I look at my dad and as much as I swore I'd never let myself have his same work ethic (push hard, than go at 1/4 pace for 90% of the time).

Reality is that I'm worse than I've ever seen him right now. I can go for a few days without doing a single git commit. I have a team under me that makes it look to my superiors as if shit is getting done. And when I need to I can pound out really really good code and save the day.

Yeah...I need a therapist or something
Is it odd that this sounds like normal human behavior to me?
And you would be wrong. GNOME 3, Cinnamon, Unity, etc. are all made for "regular people" to use and they work just fine when I have used them. I think you are perpetuating a popular myth that GNU/Linux desktop environments are only for so called "power users" and programmers.
He should put it on a t-shirt and call it free speech.

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/uk-shirt.html

Or turn some portion of it into a flag?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Free-speech-flag.svg

Maybe he can get Bob Dylan to write a song with the codes and perform it live to a group of hackers. The possibilities are endless when knowledge is arbitrarily outlawed due to an inconvenience for the privileged. Then again, this is the UK where the first amendment doesn't apply.
This is a nice trick, but probably only should be used in systems where the set people touching the code is a limited, rarely-changing set of people and anything using the JSON is strictly going to treat the last defined value as the value to use. Dragons lurk elsewhere!
We already played this game yesterday evening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144294
I use a non-free Windows 7 install dual booted with my free Ubuntu install. All the software I use works roughly the same on both, and the formats I create in are open specifications with widespread support.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm free. I can take my data anywhere I want and do anything I choose with it. The presence of proprietary formats and proprietary software hasn't crowded out the--by my perception--superior open source options, which seems to be the main fear of people who tell me not to use proprietary software. Show me a free-by-your-definition operating system that's compelling enough to make me want to switch from an environment where I'm already free to do whatever I want.

Mark Shuttleworth found a way to get ordinary people to use a Linux-based operating system. If you want your idea of a free desktop operating system to thrive, you need to figure out how The Ubuntu Foundation did it with their definition of free.
Hm, yeah I think I have that to.

I can't ever finish anything because then what??
I used to be really not know how to handle the fact that the Founding Fathers started a revolution, and I haven't been even trying to start one. I mean, they wouldn't put up with this shit! They rebelled over a freaking stamp tax!

Then I realized that my thinking was disconnected from reality. There is a HUGE difference between my situation, and that of the Founding Fathers.

They knew that they could win.

They were selfish people. They would not have started the Revolution if there had been no chance of actually gaining something and actually winning.

We cannot win, at least, not that way. The only way we can probably hope to win is by speaking up and slowly changing the culture. We are far closer to 1984 than the Founding Fathers were.
"remove by 2017."

Wow, how kind of them. How about we stop politely asking our Manufacturer Overlords to stop their destructive activity in 4 years and instead get legislators do their job and ban their use immediately?

A local or state politician in the Great Lakes area should have no interest in protecting a manufacturer of these products who is likely in another state or country. Their interest is entirely in favor of protecting the Lakes.

And who are these people scrubbing their faces with microscopic plastic beads? What's wrong with good old fashioned coarse salt or sugar? Why do we need more plastic? Can this plastic be inhaled accidentally? Can it leach into the raw scrubbed skin? Who asks these questions?
How did it take you weeks to install? You basically just extract a small archive.
I have worked with Goldman and UBS. UBS, to it's credit, has taken a liberal stance and explicitly addresses contributions to Open Source : if they are done on your own time, that's fine. Goldman, in contrast, had the usual, "anything and everything you do or do not belongs to us" agreement.
The Netherlands and England fought several wars in the 17th Century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Dutch_Wars
The bigger point is that the general public is starting to get worked up about this stuff - I could see lots of people retelling the "can you believe you can't google pressure cookers anymore?" story. Even though the NSA isn't related here people are starting to assume the worst. Hopefully this will start to make the general public more upset which is only way to ultimately change anything.