skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. With the recent influx of Go rewrites, I wonder if anyone would consider writing a browser in Go just as an experiment.
In my experience, telling people to do something hard (open source, keep privacy, etc.) in the face of a barely perceived danger (government is coming to get you) is kind of a hard message to get heard.

Aside from that, I didn't mean to seriously suggest that he's out there passing judgement on us so much as I was attempting to acknowledge how hypocritical we are for having disregarded his message because of his eccentricities. I think your statement, that he should actively try to be more popular for us to care, is further proof of how wrong we are to be that way.

In an ideal world, your response would have made a perfect satire of how Americans are likely to react in the face of the responsible elder telling us to eat our proverbial vegetables. That is isn't saddens me.
Sometimes the journey is the product.

Walk around a good gallery. There are a pretty good number of pieces entitled "Study #3", or something of that sort. An artist is playing around with a tool, or a technique, trying to figure out something new.

Piano music is probably where this concept gets the most attention. Many études, such as those by Chopin, are among the most significant musical works of the era.
In case you're interested, here are two of the best video's I've seen describing how a watch works ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiCPu0SjEW4 ) and how a differential works ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc&t=1m50s )

Don't let their old school-ness throw you off. They are both extremely well done and demonstrate in clear and simple language from first principles to finished object.
if you'd capable to think you must have seen there is something wrong with your religion by now. have you ever read your holly book, did you notice hundreds of mistakes in it?
marriage with a 9 years old is ok but posting a picture of yourself while eating some food needs outcast. what you believe in your sick mind is your own business. don't try to spread this illness here and get the fuck out of my sight.

as a side note, i born as a muslim and read the kuran several times. don't try to teach me islam here. if a person doesn't believe to allah, it's his own problem. who are you to decide that. are you allah?
The sheepskin is utterly irrelevant for selling consulting engagements. If you develop a particular skillset which happens to be commercially useful in graduate school, such as machine learning or whatnot, that can potentially be helpful. It is neither necessary nor sufficient to study a subject in graduate school to make that subject commercially useful.

With regards to selling software, the only time in eight years that I've had anything about my college education matter was when an insurance company asked me whether I was formally trained in systems engineering, since they believed it decreased their risk for writing professional liability policies. My answer was bachelor's in CS at a good university, but they told me they also would have accepted "Have done this for five years" (which I have).
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Looking forward to taking a look at the tools you've been working on. Self-promotion as a result of sharing some really great experience and examples is totally acceptable =)

I haven't reached the 50+ employee level of thinking for this problem yet, nevermind 500+. It's interesting to hear about the diverse paths and channels of information you're providing in order to service a curated experience to that big of a crowd. Thanks again!
Totally the first thing I thought of as well. Great idear.
I've been explaining the declining TSA situation in terms of the broken windows theory. Once an organization hits a tipping point where it is universally despised and its primary purpose annoys people, good people will leave and only undesirables will apply. This creates a feedback loop.

It will take fundamental changes to reverse this.
Basic Economics (Poem)
> he seemed to be saying that clients don't get to go to his site and then reject his use of analytics by (for instance) refusing to load the scripts. I find that attitude quite objectionable.

Yeah, it's perfectly fair and reasonable to have that attitude.

Practically speaking, something like the Collusion extension/add-on or Disconnect extension/add-on allow you to forcefully constrain a wide range of "tracking" activities preferred/requested by the server.
Maybe I am just having trouble seeing the point of "see I was right all along"? Why would we be upset at the newcomers to the ranks of the enlightened? I would prefer to just nod, point to the preexisting evidence, instead of driving people away with unproductive "I told you so" hostility.
Wire Transfers Now Supported
The constitution grants US citizens "due process." That does not necessarily mean a trial. If that's what it meant, that's what it would say. The urge to treat the requirement as a bright line requirement for a trial, regardless of context, goes against the plain text of the constitution. "Due" is inherently a context-sensitive word.

The question is: what process is "due" (literally, warranted or owed) to someone who wages war against the US from lawless regions of Yemen, evading capture for years? Its not an indefensible position to say "wild west" rules apply in that situation.
The fact that you think a lisp machine is an "extremely large aspect of modern software engineering" certainly makes me feel that you are expressing an attachment to a particular approach.
One thing I love about Amazon, is many of these old classics are free on the kindle. I have read so many books and that many more to go and all are free. Yeah, if I wanted to I might be able to snag one at the library, but this is just too easy.

Dickens, Doyle, and Wells, are the most obvious, but just searching for free netted me people I never heard of.

So yes, while copyright does present issues that can be very troubling, there is such a wealth of stuff available unburdened by it. The difficulty is finding it.
PRISM allows them to retrieve individual users' messages via a FISA court order. It doesn't allow analysts to instantly obtain private data for any user they want. :)
so you simply filtered the entire description. fair enough.
Like shutting it down completely.
...except that the last mile has the same 10mbps or 50mbps or whatever capacity even if you're on the crippled-speed budget plan. The only cost to increase the quota is for the ISP to upgrade its major inter-site links, not the edge connections.

The last mile limits bitrate, not quota.
How Not to Bundle Your Proprietary Library / Get Abbyy OCR for Free
Light Field Communication: Short Range Data Transmission to Smartphone Cameras
I came here to suggest the same book. I didn't do all the problems but it was definitely the best commit hour companion I've had.
Hey, one of the co-founders here.

No particular reason - all four of us are web developers, and we quite simply, we each badly wanted a platform for web development screencasts to exist.

We differentiate ourself from YT in a few big ways. The first is our focus on developers. A YT Partner can post videos exclusively on development, but it's obviously impossible to include code markdown or have meaningful software-related tags. We also feature the ability to offer both free and paid videos; it takes a lot of time to make quality screencasts, and many of the developers we've spoken to have found YT insufficient for monetizing their content.
There's a paper: http://rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright_t...

Abstract: "The optimal term of copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. Based on a novel approach we derive an explicit formula which characterises the optimal term as a function of a few key and, most importantly, empirically-estimable parameters. Using existing data on recordings and books we obtain a point estimate of around 15 years for optimal copyright term with a 99% confidence interval extending up to 38 years. This is substantially shorter than any current copyright term and implies that existing terms are too long."

Additional information: http://rufuspollock.org/2009/09/22/talk-at-atrip-conference-...
I won't comment then because the tiny tiny print was so painfully horrible to read I only made a few slides in. He seemed to be making a point though. Just the presentation was horrible.
Getting users for the first time, ever.
This is my first startup, ever. As a computer scientist, I've always been up to date with programming knowledge, but I never kept up with anything about running an online business, SEO, marketing, and all that jazz. I still don't know 90% of it. Basically, I'm on my own for the time being and I always run into problems that take me a while to figure out. For today, I'd like to be pointed to a site , article, blog post or what have you that will give me a general checklist of the basic things I need to do to. Everything I come across is always geared towards one very small part of building a customer base, and all I really need to know is where to start.

1) Make my website more visible ; give it more of an online presence.
2) Get the people that are already interested in the segment I'm working on to find my website more easily.
3) Make sure that there is little friction in the sign-up process

Or, if someone would care to draw up something for me, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
I've always wondered -
Consider the following gear arrangement: http://snag.gy/Tvsgi.jpg

The tiniest push on the gear on the left causes the gear on the right to fly at thousands of RPM. Of course, there would be a ton of friction in the system to overcome. However, what if the left gear was a pinion connected to a rack that was pushed by an extremely powerful, yet slow-moving source, such as a glacier or tectonic plate? With enough gears in this arrangement, an unstoppable force moving just 1mm/year could spin tons of turbines.

Would this work?
First I'm not sure if the words the author is putting in Brett's mouth are supposed to be ironic (i.e. the author argues against that line of reasoning) or not. I'm going to take them at face value.

The post conveys the false idea that mathematical purity/simplicity and use simplicity are at opposite ends of an imaginary spectrum. If anything, the optimal is somewhere at their intersection.

That is, the ideal tool should be mathematically simple and sound, while still being intuitive.

We should also admit that we do not know of a good, reliable method to write good programs; and this fact is completely independent of the programming language used. Languages have different properties. Some are beginner-friendly, others scale well to large system, some both; but in all cases, what's valuable is the thinking that leads to the program. In another commenter's words: formalizing murky idea.
I don't want to debate semantics or linguistics, but I believe the comment you're responding to is insinuating that "indie" refers to complete independence (no external masters) whereas "independent" means private, but serving many masters.

It's a meaningless distinction, IMHO.
Love this! It's very intuitive and fun to draw gears of different sizes and hook them together.

I'd love to be able to make more complex gears. I immediately tried to make a compound gear set with three gears and two different bands.

That got me thinking about "Incredible-Machine" puzzle features and how fun it would be to actually try to build working things like clocks, bikes and machines with this.
I like the "bikeshedding" idea.
Online labor markets: Why they can't scale and the crowdsourcing solution.
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This is happening to me too. I can't signup.
Yea, the use case is for software that isn't optimized for ARM / MIPS that uses SSE. Which is a real buttload of software.
Chromes warning does include govt iirc
"Asked how many terrorism cases were cracked using U.S. phone records, John “Chris” Inglis, NSA’s deputy director, answered that a dozen domestic terrorism investigations had made use of the records. But Inglis could cite only one in which the records were instrumental: a group of men from San Diego who sent $8,500 to Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia. One of the defendants in that case was discovered when a known terrorist phone number in Somalia was compared against the database, Inglis said."[1]

[1]http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-secret-nsa-survei...
Yeah, I enjoyed the discussion.
Has Go got a good UI library?
Glad to see Zynga is laser-focused on stopping their revenue decline...
>A Haskell programmer unfamiliar with APL looks at an APL program and...

And says "what's the big deal?". That's exactly the question, what is the big deal. APL isn't scary, I'm not shouting "I can't make sense of this", I am asking "how is this better than haskell in the same way haskell is better than java?".
In that case he should definitely flee. OP obviously has no ability to control what is posted here by any other person.
I've had the TSA full-body massage twice now and in both cases the agent was very respectful, communicated in advance what they were going to do, and went about the procedure exactly by the book. I can't really begrudge them for doing their job, but I can find the job itself objectionable.

The sad thing is that in many airports you have the choice between putting yourself in a useless, but possibly carcinogenic x-ray device, or being groped. It's really infuriating that elevators are subject to stricter inspections than these backscatter machines are. Would anyone know if it was throwing out 1000x the usual dose of radiation? Probably not.
Because it has someone's personal data in it, and the Guardian respects privacy - unlike the NSA, who use it in presentations. That's the only reason they've redacted anything, if you look at where the slides sit in context.
Beam splitters are, in general, not prisms. A prism, as traditionally referred-to (and in the NSA PRISM graphic) separates light of different wavelengths. In a signal tap, you want to split the intensity, not the wavelength. In simplest form, telecom signals are at a single wavelength; passing it through a 'Dark side of the moon' prism will only deflect the beam, not split it.

When one refers to a beamsplitter, it's usually a partially silvered mirror.

http://www.thorlabs.us/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=914

If it's fancy, it might use an evanescent wave to do the coupling, as in some cube beamsplitters.

Beamsplitters for optical fiber are more generally referred to as 'couplers' and involve bringing two fiber cores close enough for a long enough distance that the probability of coupling light from one to the other is the desired amount.

http://www.thorlabs.us/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=374

It is possible to split beams with a birefringent prism, but it is much less common.

http://www.thorlabs.us/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=745
http://www.thorlabs.us/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=917

Disclaimer for the following: I only work with optical fiber couplers occasionally, and not for telecom. Someone who works on telecom fibers daily will be more informed.

In summary, if someone wanted me to tap an optical fiber, I'd call up ThorLabs, get a matching coupler shipped overnight, cut the relevant fiber, slap APC ends on the fiber ends, and jack in. Splitting the beam in free space (outside of a fiber) with a prism is far more errorprone, unstable, and no more efficient. A fiber coupler has no moving parts, can't break, and won't take down a telecom's trunk line if someone breathes on it funny.

If they're actually using a prism, it's because of some sort of impedance/reflection minimization scheme; I can't conjure one that would work better than using simpler techniques though.
Make a bigger Haystack
Couple of comments:

1) We started out long ago making a hiking website, which led to hiking iPhone apps, which led us to make all sorts of mapping apps, everything from Burning Man to hiking to driving. We basically now specialize in anything that takes an offline map.

2) The pricing model is based on some other successful apps - for examples, Wing-X in the aviation space and Motion-X GPS Drive. The .99 is not to make money, it's basically just to make sure you are a boater and are interested, and it helps keep costs under control for serving the data and using the APIs we pay for. We plan to eventually increase the 11.99 subscription fee, but people who subscribe early on will get to keep the same cost.

3) We did this now because Skipper is the forerunner of the next version of Gaia GPS, version 8. We have been working for many moons to overhaul our core code, and it will lead to 3 app releases. Skipper, Gaia 8, and one more for a partner I can't name.
It has been generated by the Go package: http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.talks/pkg/present
I switched languages 6 months ago. I now make more than I did as a Perl developer for 7+ years.
There are tons of lists that are regularly updated that list all published mailinator.com domains. While it's true you can set up a new one on a subdomain of your own, as soon as you publish it to mailinator and it enters the rotation of the domains that come up, it's easily added to the lists and blocked. There's even a commercial live list with plugins for most email systems that blocks on any of the hundreds of mailinator-listed domains as well as over a thousand other disposable email domains.

Heck you can just write a script to refresh the mailinator.com homepage to start pulling out domains to block: @veryrealemail.com, @chammy.info, @mailinator2.com, @spamthisplease.com, @sogetthis.com, @mailinator.net, @binkmail.com, @sendspamhere.com, @spamherelots.com, etc.
You could also read it as a statement of fact, and I don't see anyone volunteering evidence to refute it.
Google made some splash not too long ago by stating they really do not even care about Grade Point Averages in their prospective employees. I can say that in the 18 years I've been supporting myself, through a wide range of jobs, I have never had a reference called on my behalf. I think that the education itself is all that matters. Don't worry about degrees or titles or any of the paperwork. The best way to show you can do the work is just to do the work, with no sales pitches for your abilities warranted.
I think internally this is a huge [1] experiment for Intel. They're saying "is doing the work to support the low-volume 'little guy' going to do anything for our high-volume sales?"

I have a feeling were it up to the people leading the project, the init code would be made available. However Intel as a company is only going to take so much risk in support of this experiment. I have a feeling that init code and firmware for softloaded peripherals will be "business as usual" for quite a while.

That said, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If this is successful and if customers are very vocal about not wanting "half-assed" open systems, it might eventually get there.

1: Actually, in terms of resources I'm sure it's tiny. In terms of culture on the other hand...
Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance
I never played HC, is the regular auction house separate from non-HC though?
"Modern Perl by chromatic"

I have a copy on my desk and this cannot be emphasized enough that one inward facing book on what boils down to style and good taste, has already had more impact on the language than the last two decades of outward facing comparisons.

Insert forest and trees analogies in that we've got way too many presentations over the decades about how one individual tree needs trimming or fertilizing or bonsai treatment as compared to how our neighbors orchard does the same, but not enough real forestry management presentations.
That is $BIGCORP's loss, why would I care?
Declassify on January 08, 2032. I wonder what kind of reaction the people of 2032 ( we who are still living that time ) would have had if they found out. Would they care? Worse reaction? Probably be used to gov. spying? It's a scary world.
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution spells out the Enumerated Powers of Congress:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers

Therein lies the Copyright Clause:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause

Which states:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

The key phrase here is "securing for limited Times". Limited.

For all intents and purposes, we have made copyright unlimited. If you disagree, ask yourself... when Mickey Mouse is up for the public domain again in 6 years do you really believe it won't be extended again? As the article states, the original copyright term was 14 years in the Copyright Act of 1790 unless the copyright holder was still alive after 14 years in which case they could renew for another 14 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790

As it stands now, it's until the life of the author + 70 years. Although it's hard to say that with a straight face since anytime Mickey Mouse has been up for public domain it has gotten extended and will likely continue to be extended.

Biggest irony? Many of Disney's biggest works are based on public domain works. Some of them would not have been in the public domain had copyright been as long as Disney has made it to protect their own characters from going into the public domain.
Maybe you're forgetting about the sorts of things that went on, are probably still going on, in various brutal military dictatorships around the world. Wrenches are just the start of what they do to people before they disappear them.

It isn't impossible to beat information out of millions of people. It's been done before and it'll be done again.

You say it'd invoke suspicion, but it wouldn't. If you're at the wrench phase of interrogation, you're already in a world where legal powers don't matter.
House Party: Working and Living at the Office
No real connection, sorry!

Savannah, who does most of our support and marketing, just needed to come up with good tracks to use for example screenshots, and we didn't want every screenshot to reference Berkeley. That data is an imported GPX file.
In the case of arguing for general relevance, yes.

It's like saying: Hey, all I do is bang in nails! The hammer is only tool anyone ever needs!
There are many possibilities; here is an extensive list of online political systems and related technology:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Related%20...

The main page links to mock-ups for a political system that aims to eliminate corruption within policy-making while espousing dissemination of information and knowledge:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Home

Comments and critiques of the idea are most welcome.
Who ordered *that*?
US must tell defendants when spying is used to build case against them
Docker Hack Day Highlights
It doesn't have to be, but at the same time it is not a issue of "hurting the sentiments" at all.

As I mentioned in my other comment:
From religious POV, a fasting Muslim actually gets extra reward when other people eat in front of him. There are numerous incidents from authenticated Islamic history that show when a fasting Muslim was offered food, he/she would refuse saying "I am fasting and they(Muslims and non Muslims alike, even Prophet himself) would continue eating.

Such problems generally stem from ignorance and [it pains me to say] "I am the saviour of Islam" complex of [some]Muslims as a direct result of ignorance.
"Your App Is Too Expensive" [infographic]
Everyone always cries, "your app is too expensive!"
Here is an infographic that Twin Engine Labs created to try and put apps into perspective other things people buy.
I share your pet peeve and I can only assume that the "meh, no big surprise here" response stems from two things: wanting to sound just as knowledgeable as the person who brings up the topic (despite not having any new information); and at the same time justifying their complacency about the issue.