skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would try reading the pros, columnists at big papers, some print magazines. Also, don't bury the lead: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870372780457601...
Secret courts, secret trials, secret prisons, secret wars...maybe I need to learn why my ancestors left Germany.
Not really, no. A person with a degree from a prestigious school is likely to be smarter than a person selected at random from the population, sure. But that doesn't mean they should be deferred to in areas where they lack knowledge and experience, and never automatically.

That said, we all get to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be, and an Ivy degree is a pretty nice perk. It seems a shame to toss it away if there are other ways to deal with your depression.
@kenneth I saw that you are using Midori Traveler's Notebook. I'm just wondering how are you actually use it. I own the regular traveler's notebook myself. But it's still empty right now. I see a lot of people using it as journal, sketch notebook, etc. but I'm not one of those creative type. How are you using it? How do you decide which items go to it vs not. Thanks!
Keep us posted on the performance issues you experience-- the team hangs out on IRC (#rethinkdb on freenode) and are usually more than happy to help work through these problems. If you identify a specific query that isn't performant, please open an issue on Github as well (http://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/).

Also, RethinkDB 1.8 (shipping next week) will include native date support. You can follow the progress and discussion of the planned interface here: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/977?source=cc
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In theory your red blood cells continue to get recycle correct? I always thought a sizeable amount of your feces was from this. Yet, he pooped every 40-50 days? Wonder what that looked like.
I assume this means that cross-device sync is optional as well?
Surveillance "debate"? I must have missed something.
You just need to use vim for a while, and then it becomes second nature that "normal mode" is a powerful set of chordless commands at your ready disposal. Once you get used to vim then the problem becomes that you constantly hit escape after typing a block of text, which can wreak quite a bit of havoc in certain contexts ;)
Is this German law? I wish that were the case in the US, as I've found a number of wallets over the years and would have made at least a few hundred USD by now.
Add in the adblocking Hosts file (and maybe Ghostery) on top of Adblock to really get rid of them.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Should have studied harder in undergrad. All the current "Fellows" are from top tier schools :(
Great. I've been meaning to jump on IRC with some questions, but haven't had the time to do so yet. I'll definitely be waiting for 1.8.
It's on the roadmap -- See https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/223 to track progress.

There is no precise ETA for now though. Feel free to comment on the github issue if you need it. We build our roadmap on the feedback we get from our users : )
News is a commercial product. Ratings represent the value of the program to advertisers as a measure of viewership, and the news exists as a way to generate those ratings. No ratings, no advertisers, no news. As with so many other forms of media, you are not the consumer, you're the product (or more specifically, the likelihood of your attention in those all important spaces between the segments.)

Unless you want the state to control everything, how do news organizations make the money they need to put on the broadcasts, if not with ratings? They have to sell something to somebody right? Should the US have a licensing system like they have in Britain?

There are newscasts on PBS but almost nobody watches them (I do, but then I used to work at a small PBS station) and tote bags can only get you so far.
Are you serious? How would you iterate over a set of rules and a big data volume, without using recursion?
calling all data scientists - why not consider becoming a computational biologist?

The pay is shit, you're at the whim of the funding moods of the day, and contrary to your last statement most of the results don't really ever go on to affect anyone.
this is the same conference that spawned dongle-gate?
I think the example would be more along the lines of the stadium wanting a fee from tailgaters cooking hot dogs in the parking lot.
SC2 wasn't really designed for the single player campaign. Neither was brood war, Warcraft 1, 2, or 3. This genre of games has always been about the multiplayer aspect. The campaigns are nice add ons but not the core of the games.
How are these different than AMD Fusion boards already out there in the market, with x86-64 and virtualization?
I wonder if Congress uses any sort of version control. The text of these bills are written by - staffers and sometimes lobbyists, so I'm not sure how it would work.
> They build entire webpages, along with side-stories and article comments that support their product.

A lot of those websites are created by affiliates, and not by the product owner. The affiliate commission for digital products is pretty high (75%-85% is quite common), and affiliates often create various review sites for the products they're promoting, or use existing sites they own and add reviews written by "users" of the product.
I'm the thread starter from RZ. The reason I mention uTorrent is because the source code was also in the BitTorrent repository for the company including all other source materials and more (Websites/Database user/passwords and more).

thanks.
The feds are staying away from DEFCON this year because they were explicitly asked to: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-...
What is Elon going to do? If you're talking about the Hyperloop, you're deluding yourself if you think that's going to be wide spread in 5 years. It'll take at least 10 for a functional scale prototype and then decades of NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) battles to get them built around the country. Even after that, it'll be like an airport. You can't have a hyperloop with 37 stops...it'll only be so fast and easy if it has a minimum amount of stops. At which point, Uber can help close the loop from hyperloop stop to your home or office.
They bought it. See http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-buys-%C2%B5torrent/
You can very likely wire that up, if you've got a bee in your bonnet to do so.

When I was editing latex files regularly, I had an environment something like

$ make output.pdf
$ xpdf -remote projectname output.pdf & while inotifywait -e modify **/* ; do make output.pdf; xpdf -remote projectname -reload; done

Then any time I changed a figure or a tex file or an embedded screenshot or whatever (any transitive dependency of output.pdf), make would rebuild it and display the result. xpdf nicely does not change the scroll position (even a little bit), so this gave me a rather nice nearly-real-time WYSIWYG view.

My $EDITOR at the time was vim and it never entered my head to try to contrive automatic saving every time I paused typing or something like that, but that seems like a fun idea.
On December 7, 2006, µTorrent was purchased by BitTorrent, Inc

On September 18, 2007, BitTorrent 6.0 was released, which is a re-branded version of µTorrent. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent
I have an ongoing theory that diet matters extremely little aside from various extreme scenarios. Things like this help me to confirm my confirmation bias.
Yes, but the rule is a part of general federal court procedure rules.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_53
No the app doesn't talk to Authy servers. It's completely independent. You could just keep using it.
Looks interesting. It's great you have put a lot of effort into making the app easy to use, but here are some suggestions if you really want to be a nautical chart app "done right":

(1) Don't just use the published RNCs; they are only released at 100 pixels per cm, which is too low to look good (especially on the awesome resolution of the iPad screen). If you send a FOIA to NOAA, they will give you the RNCs at 300 pixels per cm (nine times the resolution), which is what they actually use when printing them.

It will also give you a unique advantage over the 20 other similar apps.

(2) Show the user what charts overlap their location, in order of scale, and let the user control which chart they want to see at a particular time. The existing apps all try to guess which scale chart to show and they switch between them as the user zooms. (Your web app does the same thing.) It's never quite right.

(3) Use the (geo-aligned) ENC vector chart to provide clues to the UI, even if you don't actually render the ENC. The user should be able to tap on a feature (e.g. a buoy) and get information about it and set it as a waypoint.

The user should be able to plot a course to a waypoint that keeps in mind the draft of the vessel vs. the depth of the water. The user should get an alarm if their course will take them over a shoal or into a mark.

(4) Make clear on your Web site what distinguishes your app from the 20 other apps that also display RNCs aligned with the iPad's GPS fix. E.g., MX Mariner is $7 and perfectly servicable if no-frills -- what do you have that they don't? How about my Raymarine chartplotter that came with my boat -- why is this better?

Right now the marketing ("modern," "done right") resembles the puffery that seemingly every app spouts (you're missing "beautiful" and "exquisitely-crafted" but otherwise you check most of the boxes). If you want actual mariners to buy your app over others, it wouldn't hurt to make it a bit more expert-friendly and show what makes it special. More screenshots would help!

I worry that no matter how hard you work on making it easy to get started, you are just yet another app displaying lowres RNCs as a dumb raster that can't take advantage of semantic information contained in the chart. That's not "modern" or "done right" and it's not something a professional mariner would be caught dead using. Which may be ok -- you're not aiming your product at professional mariners. But better to be clear about what your app does and doesn't do than have it be an unwelcome surprise.
I would also point out that it's included in the list of requirements before we declare RethinkDB production-ready (see https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1174).
Breaking RSA is just a matter of managing to factor prime numbers faster than anyone else, isn't it? Unless if there is some sort of oversight inside the RSA algorithm that allows the encryption to be broken easier.

Do you have more information on the smooth barrier? I did a quick google but didn't see much relevant.
Depends how you define "simpler." There would be a LOT of incredibly specific definitions, since there would be no room for interpretation by a judge.

Consider a law that says "you can't drive a vehicle without a license." Is a bicycle a vehicle? What if it has a motor and weighs a lot? A velomobile? What about a hovercar?

There might be 2,000 laws referencing "vehicle [definition #4,849, version 5]".

(Actually, I guess a sensible definition might be based on momentum: we'll call a tricycle a vehicle if you manage to get it going fast enough; the point is that you can hurt someone with it.)
They're usually just done because that's what the people and organizations that fund the departments want

Is that not exactly the same for the 'hard sciences'?
I don't see how the <- clues you in any better than the error handling that things might exit early. It seems from your response that the goto-ness of the go solution is not what you're really objecting to, because your proposal is equally goto-y. As far as I can tell, it's really the if-else verbosity that you don't like, which is fine (and I agree, exceptions are better), but it has nothing to do with the "whole point of structured programming." And, unless I'm mistaken, structured programming also lacked exceptions in its initial formulation.
utorrent was acquired by bittorrent inc
We should more than give him his due. We should throw him a frickin ticker-tape parade.
Oh my god, how deep are there fake links?
Do you have UberX in your city? They slashed prices on UberX in SF in June and it made it cheaper than a cab.
I contacted BitTorrent and told them EXACTLY what I did , what information I had access to and what user/passes needed updating, including SSH keys and more. Whilst I gave a small generalization of what was at hand on the thread, there was a considerable amount of data available to me.

- MentaL (RZ Thread Starter).
Yes, the job seeker thread should be coming tomorrow (I think it normally comes on the 1st of the month). There are "who is hiring/looking for work" boards for both freelancers and full-time position.

I'm also looking forward to it, since I get to make my first looking for work post!
Should companies double the pay of employees? Well if the employees aren't complaining and people are willing to take the pay then what's really the incentive?
What is Tarantool?
Which things we know about the NSA lead to that?
Well, a militant-defensive-underground would call themselves "Grey Hat" or something. Black Hat implies exploiting flaws for personal gain, doesn't it?

I imagine a bunch of these Black Hat people fancy their big payout using their skills for evil.
I agree about the pay. It really sucks.

But the other things depend what you work on and where. If it's cancer or food security, the funding is there and not going away. And you can choose how direct the outcomes are by choosing the position.

I'm not saying everyone should do it, but if you're good enough to breeze into highly paid positions at top tech companies, you're good enough to get a really interesting position in computational biology.
(cynical meta-comment)

Curiously, anyone who's been involved in the Perl community for any length of time will see "PERL" there and dismiss the poster out-of-hand. The decade-or-two old catchphrase goes something like:

"Perl" is the name of the language.
"perl" is the implementation/interpreter.
There's no such thing as "PERL".
A model is nothing, blueprint and trade secrets would be a better way to look at it.
He has the ability to sell cities a whole electric cab platform, with hailing and payment system built right into the car itself.
If you were able to break into Valve because they failed to secure some login, and as a result got access to their Source Engine. Would $500 be enough to silence you?
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No PhD required, but you're expected to pay 14k in tuition. In contrast, Insight pays you.

If you want to pay money for experience, why not get an actual degree from an accredited institution?

A more realistic alternative to Insight is to do a (paid) internship at a tech company. This is the path I took.
@sillysaurus I'm not sure if you're a book-reader. I am reading your comment and I am seeing the exact person this book is talking about. If you like to read about non-fiction writing, I suggest "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser.

Here's the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...

Just like coding, the "shortest" path to becoming a good writer is practice - practice everyday.
>The people working at Fort Meade are not evil. They truly believe they're doing a great service to the nation.

I don't want to Godwin the discussion here, but it's not at all rare for people to act in an evil (or whatever you want to call it -- bad, harmful) way while not recognizing their own actions as evil.

That people don't think their actions are evil doesn't prove that their actions aren't evil.

Add to that, evil acts are almost always done in service of an ideal. For example the USA has economically and socially gutted many nations by force in service of the democratic/free-market ideal. Yet it's rare to find an American who sees it this way. US-USSR proxy wars in the Middle East and Latin America from the 60s-90s weren't destructive, we were just trying to help those countries out. We wanted to modernize them, to improve their lives, not to destroy them. They were just too uncivilized, too barbaric to get it. Why would they hate us for that?

Hence 'ideology'. Easy to serve, hard to view objectively when you've spent a lifetime on the inside.

>We have had the luxury of coming of age in a time where there is no credible threat to our very national and physical existence.

The Berlin wall didn't fall until 1989. The Soviet Union didn't dissolve until 1991. The period of 1991-2001 was spent fighting proxy wars in former USSR terrories or allies [1]. Iraq. The Yugoslav Wars in Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo. Haiti. All of this was an extension of the cold war. The Red threat didn't officially end until 09/11/01, Communism continued to be a spectre held over the head of the American public. It's just the discourse shifted from "the USSR has bombs that can kill us right now" to "Communism is bad therefore we're preventing it from spreading". The constancy of threat and surety of the potential for complete annihilation was always there.

And of course, from 2001 on everyone spent all day, every day thinking of the most horrible ways they could be attacked by terrorists. With great encouragement by media and government apparatuses.

>But let's not demonize the individuals. After all, they're only doing what the people demanded after we were attacked.

Again avoiding Godwinning, but to a certain extent you must demonize the individuals. Else there is no incentive for people to be vigilant of runaway ideology, like the US is operating under currently. Else there is no incentive for individuals to formulate a moral compass external to the state, because why bother when "they told me to do it" is a legitimate excuse? The state idology becomes your morality. After all, you're just tryin' to put food on your family.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili...
It's interesting that someone who professes loving to program in Perl refers to it as "PERL". People who refer to it in all-caps instantly give themselves away as outsiders to the language. It's like someone claiming to be a senior JAVA programmer, it's not an acronym.

Anyway we use Perl pretty much exclusively at Booking.com, and I'm pretty sure we're at least a couple of orders of magnitude bigger than the likes of Crowdtilt. There's a bunch of other interesting companies using Perl as well, a lot of them just don't make as much of a fuss about it as the companies using say Ruby.

Last I knew e.g. Morgan Stanley used it for most everything, including new developments, and it alone probably employs more programmers using it than the combined hobbyist contributor base of some newer emerging languages.

It's pretty hard to claim that Perl is "dead" and square that with the ongoing activity on the CPAN (https://metacpan.org/recent). This is not the kind of activity a dead language gets.

I think what a lot of people mix up is that just because something isn't as big as it was before doesn't mean it's dead.

C isn't as big relatively as it was in the 80s, Perl isn't relatively as ubiquitous for scripting and web development as it was in the 90s, but neither of those languages are dead.

If you look at the total amount of contributions / software written for any of the languages that aren't currently in the spotlight you'll most likely find that we're at the high water mark of the number of the amount of software written in them, and the number of people that have been employed to write software in them, just because the industry as a whole is getting bigger every day.

Maybe they're not bigger relatively compared to some other languages. But that has little bearing on how good they are when it comes to using them in your toolchain. If anything they're better than they've ever been before.
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> I tried Vim plug-ins that emulate fuzzy search, but they didn't work very well.

What issues did you have with CtrlP? https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim/
It will run thin if the gem is installed. Otherwise it falls back to Webrick.
Rack itself favours thin, puma, and webrick (in that order).
https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/6829a8a0f416ea49a18f1e3e53...
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I'm an Australian. Obama is the most disappointing politician I've ever seen. He talks of Hope, then he takes it away. He talks of Freedom, but doesn't allow it. That's very sad.
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Fake product reviews are popular as well. They'll do a top 5 write-up where their product, or the one offering the highest paid commissions is first, followed by 4 real products in that niche that are well respected. For example, let's say teeth whitening. I don't know who tops the charts here, but let's say Crest Whitestrips is a big name. They'll list them as second, and say they're great. Then they bring in their loaded product for number one. "Don't get me wrong, Crest Whitestrips is one of the best products available, but I was completely surprised by XYZ. I have to say, after three weeks with the product, I think it offered similar results at half the price, and I found they better formed to my teeth, allowing for more comfort." Insert sales or referral link here.
I wonder how hackable that hand scanner is. Is it any more secure than the hotel rooms that were cracked a year or 2 back?
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Should I start putting every substantial R/Python script I write, even if they are based on some tutorials, on the Github/Personal-Website? Is that how I "show"? I missed the Github bus for all my previous projects.
Totally agreed about #1 and exceptions. In that defintion of DumpBinary, each bit of error handling takes three extra lines. Speaking of "cognitive load". Whereas here's what it'd probably look like in Python, with exception handling (assuming binary.write() raised IOError on error, which they should).

class Gopher:
def dump_binary(self, writer):
"""Write this Gopher to given writer, raise IOError on error."""
binary.write(writer, binary.LittleEndian, len(self.name))
writer.write(self.name)
binary.write(writer, binary.LittleEndian, self.age)
binary.write(writer, binary.LittleEndian, self.fur_color)

I can see the argument for Go-style explicit error handling, but having this as the first best-practice example just doesn't sit right or sell it very well.

Edit: Okay, I guess I should have read the next slide before commenting. Still, the "one-off utility type" is longer and more complex than the original error handling (so I wouldn't do it unless you're using it elsewhere as well).
I'll settle for a pardon.
If even 10% of the end users fully utilized their circuits they would be far over their capacity to get those packets to their core, even if the core could handle moving them to other networks. As such, increasing the amount of transit the ISP purchases may do nothing for allowing it to be effectively utilized at the end user location.
So this won't work with a 2011 MacBook Pro. Which I don't consider that old.

Sure would be nice if they mentioned that anywhere at all.
Do you know of any examples of actual legal documents written in Lisp, or some other formal language?
On S57, couple reasons:

1) Our attempt to render S57 on the device isn't good enough for prime-time yet, but that's something we'll eventually do. We decided we needed many more months to get the styling right.

2) We are thinking about merging S57 with OSM data to make a seamless land/see map.

3) The raster charts are only 2 gigs for the US, and the vectors are only about half that. So, the space savings isn't a big win, whereas pretty charts is a big win.

AIS parser is really interesting! We might have to make use of that, thanks.
In modern parlance the word debate is used place of "dialog" or "conversation", even if there is little actual debating going on.
It's actually listed as a maybe there.