skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People remember who did something first, and who did something best. If you're neither of those people, then try making your ideas faster or better
I can recommend, with great bias, the department Simon works at as a great place to visit full of interesting individuals passionate about their research area (History and Philosopy of Science at Cambridge University, UK). There's a wonderful wealth of interest areas ranging from sociology of scientists across time to male menstruation.

We're in a world built upon layers and layers of science, technology and all of the societal context that shaped those. It's both humbling and fascinating to explore the personal narratives of the heroes and villains in our technological folklore and discover the more oddball stories like this one about the longitude problem.

The museum: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/
Public lectures at the University of Cambridge, which will run much more frequently come October: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/
If terrorism killed millions it would be easier to accept the loss of liberty associated with the current war on terrorism.

But loosing ALL Internet and phone privacy, basic human rights such as the right not to be tortured and to some degree loosing the checks and balances of a normal democracy in the fight against a ghost is hard to swallow.
Last night on CNN they tried to say Snowden stole passwords from his manager. They had on the ex-head of the NSA and he was like (paraphrasing), "We don't have any direct confirmation but we must entertain the idea that Showden had outside help. Why else would he go to China?!?" They also implied several times that Snowden isn't smart enough to do something like this on his own.
Great. I hope he got refugee status. That will make his life hopefully a little less prison-centric.

Now, what was that conversation we were having again, something something national security and overreaching?
Asylum application procedures normally allow for such exceptions.
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OT:

"A general reminder whenever budget issues are discussed: the U.S. government is — this isn’t original — best thought of as a giant insurance company with an army. When you talk about federal spending, you’re overwhelmingly talking about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense. And the bulk of the insurance — all of Social Security and Medicare, about 2/3 of Medicaid — is for the elderly and disabled."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/an-insurance-com...
> In post-apocalyptical fantasies where government armed guys cease to exist, who would usually thrive? Organized armed guys.

As scientifically established by hollywood movies. Brilliant.
I suspect Latin America is still his long term endplay. I note the Russian asylum is a temporary 1 year deal.
Watch the Crab Nebula expanding, over 13 years.
When you put it like that, things really have changed!
The reason for gigapipes
I migrated to a custom layout long ago, basically distributing /[{~ etc. on the äöü keys. It's surprising how easy it is to switch between the text keyboard (with umlauts) and the coding one, the transitional phase took me maybe 2 weeks in order to become fluent in both (and the process wasn't very painful).

The good thing about this approach is that if you're asked by a German colleague to type something on his keyboard, you don't have to search for where the "?" is because you never moved it for programming.

More specifically, here's my translation table:

[]{}/\~
öÖäÄüÜß

/ makes Shift-7 redundant, but it's just much more convenient on ü.
> I mean I wonder what kind of info he has given (if any) to these countries.

I assume those countries already had their hands on that information (and more). If it was easy for Snowden to get his hands on it, it would have been just as easy for them.

This information falling in foreign hands isn't much of a problem I would guess. The real fear is more information leaking to the biggest enemy: the public. I would not be surprised if part of the dealing of granting him asylum was that he stop leaking to the public.
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You're right. Although it is 'released' in a way, it has quite a few downloads on Rubygems even though I've never put it out there (HN posts etc).
What I don't understand about the idea was why would anyone visit a page full of ads? Did the owner sign deals with the major browser vendors at the time?

I really, why would anyone want to visit a page with nothing more than 1,000,000 pixels of ads?
Motion estimation/prediction is used video coding because it minimises the compressed size. However, it is incredibly expensive to perform the motion search. A typical video encoder spends well over half its CPU time in this stage. After motion estimation, the residual image is encoded in the usual way, so speed-wise the motion search is a complete loss.
Wow... this seems like yesterday for me. Scary how fast things are moving!
Here’s why economists hate software patents
I think all us Australians are coming out right now to congratulate him, haha. /Brisbane
So it all boils down to "the enemy of my enemy" rationale then?
Then there is the question of reliability of the information collected through spying: if you know everything you say online is being read, and you are planning to commit a terrorist act, you will use your knowledge to spread false information.

One day we will consider spying just like torture, an immoral source of unreliable information.
what's the catch here ? why would any one pay 100$ for 10x10 area on that homepage ? was it already having a massive traffic or something ?
> I pay for monthly consults with a former SV tech executive & INTJ engineer

Intrigued. If you don't mind me asking, what does he teach you? That seems like a business idea - successful Myers-Briggs teach others of their same type how to handle their strength and weaknesses - which sounds like what this executive is already doing.
Enforcement of laws does not require threat of violence except against those who threaten violence in response to enforcement. Wage garnishment, liens, and asset forfeiture are effective means of collecting sums owed without anybody pointing a gun. Even if you are arrested for tax evasion, violence will not be used unless you appear to pose a threat.

All I hear when someone talks about how laws are enforced with guns is "I am civilized only so long as someone has the capacity to be more violent than I.". To me, this is madness.
You are correct- it was an amendment, not a bill. Live by the snark, die by the snark :)
Great to see more visual regression testing tools on the block. https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS has been around a while now and does pretty much the same thing (as far as I can tell).

Good reporting on failed regression is almost as important as detecting them which is why I developed this on top of PhantomCSS https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomFlow
If you leave via commercial airliner the TSA will check to see if the name on your identification (be it a passport, driver's license, or other) matches that on your boarding pass. They don't, however, check to see if you're allowed to leave the country like most other countries do. They've never scanned my passport into a computer like every other country (besides Canada) does.
It's like saying Fort Knox has never been broken into, so let's stop wasting money protecting it

I disagree. It's not a black and white "protect Fort Knox" or "Don't protect Fort Knox". It's more like saying Fort Knox has never been broken into, so let's evaluate whether we need 240,000 employees to protect it (number of employees in Department of Homeland Security). Let's evaluate whether we need to pat down everyone at an airport to see if they have plans to rob Fort Knox. Let's evaluate whether we need to eavesdrop on everyone on the Internet and record information about their phone calls to see if they're planning on robbing Fort Knox. Let's evaluate whether we need to invade two countries because people from one of those countries actually were able to steal a tiny fraction of a fraction of the gold in Fort Knox.

Our response to terrorism is unique and we treat no other problem like it, going even further than the "war on drugs".
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Those kind of competitions are really just work with non-guaranteed pay.
Because of the novelty of some unknown person selling pixels for a dollar each and making a million dollars. I think this was covered on the Today show and other media outlets IIRC.
لعبة الاحجار الكريمة
لعبة الاحجار الكريمة .تأكد من أن ثلاثة أو أكثر الحجارة متطابقة حتى تتبع بعضها البعض. لذلك كان لديك لتحويل اثنين من الحجارة (السحب). وأسرع تقومون به، والمزيد من الوقت كنت قد تركت، والمزيد من النقاط التي ستحصل عليها.
What's a dot-com coach?
Wow. Nothing like a little character assassination. "We don't have any evidence, but unnamed sources tell us that he might be Hitler."
I agree, having a single return point makes debugging that much easier.

Back at Microsoft, the following pattern was used quite extensively in the OS group:

int someFunc() {

DWORD error = ERROR_SUCCESS;

error = foo();
if (error != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
goto Clean0;
}

error = bar();
if (error != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
goto Clean0;
}

....

Clean0:
return error;
}
$500 to be a whore. No.
The grunts do the work and have access to everything.
> Outside Silicon Valley, software industry wages don't reflect a deficit like that.

I don't know that wages are really that high in Silicon Valley either. People get paid well there because it's crazy expensive to live there. By the time you have paid the premium for living in the area, you may not be walking away with much more than you would living and working anywhere else in the U.S.
To be clear, these articles were not removed by Reddit. Nor is the linked /r/conspiracy thread accusing them.

This is about community moderators of those particular subreddits. At worst, they are being accused of selectively removing articles that were perceived to be editorialized.
Issue 3434 - android - Add APIs for low-latency audio
300bps pointed out that means justify ends. If there were more terrorists caught than people dying in car accidents, that would justify NSA activity in his eyes. (If it wouldn't, he would not defend his stats-based argument.)

I point out that with right statistics one can justify anything. E.g. giving up one man's life for 5 lives is measurable and sounds solid. Why don't we do that? Because we all have this gut feeling that some things are plain wrong.
Another day I'm proud to be Russian.
OAuth2: The standard that isn't
Initially it was a term for an upper living floor in a rather big medieval russian house. Like a penthouse. After some time it became a synonym for a such house with "terem".
I would agree with all your stats, but inevitably, a car crash or even to drive a car is by choice. To be a victim of a terrorist, is not by choice.
A Sustainable Business (Woothemes)
Do you deem it unreasonable?
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Would you say that SHAs are essentially backups too?

Author means backup as in, something to use for disaster-recovery, not a mistaken 'git reset --hard HEAD~100 && git push -f'.
And then? Does government ever say "oh, nevermind"? After a couple of notices your bank account will be frozen, or your passport "revoked" etc.
I wonder how stable this thing is for someone 2m tall like me?
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You realize you're promoting it on HN now right?
How To Find The Email Address Of Any Position Within Any Company
Facebook was still an Ivy-league only site, right?
or he was just cornered in there, while trying to reach a more "benign" destination
And then you put it in HN front page. It is probably a lot more than the visibility in StackOverflow... =)
Or, they have a better (probably non-Ring) factoring method. I can't conceptualize what that might be, though.
The segway was also supposed to change the world - and then it was too expensive.

I'm disappointed to see that this too is far far too expensive. It needs to be under $250 to even have a chance, but they are asking for $1,795!!
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 19
Interesting idea.
A limitation of the temporal addressing is that variables live on entry to a basic block have to be put in the same position on the belt on each path which could enter the block. This is okay for loops, but it's going to require lots of shuffling about in conditional code. Still could be worth it, of course.
Lets have slavery as an example. You feel uncomfortable abolishing government completely. That's fine. How'd it work with slavery? Imagine we decide that slavery is not good. Should we just let every slave run away (at the expense of cotton plantation owners who'd immediately incur losses)? Or should we release every 10th slave this month, then every 9th next month etc.? Is it then moral to shoot down a slave who'll be freed two months from now, if he runs away today?
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This is, in my mind, evidence that companies like this are out of touch. They want to treat Stack Overflow like a search engine and marketing tool to be optimized, and, in their ignorance, don't see it as something different than what it actually is: a community of people passionate about their craft and helping others with it.

Eventually people are going to learn that the way you leverage a community like that toward doing something is to become a respected member of the community yourself. It seems that today is not that say for Samsung. Honestly, they would have been smarter to just have their engineering team dedicate time to answering questions on SO every week, then have a piece done in tech media about why. That is still a bit gimmicky, I guess, but much cooler than this method.

I know that I, at least, would be really entertained to have an exchange with a Samsung engineer about a problem I was having on SO.
Try J. Or Kona (open source K). All ascii characters.
I try to refrain from being a spelling nazi here, but "So, I shot back this brisque email" made me laugh. It's like a portmanteau of "brusque" and "brisk."
http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7192/update-on-gpu-optimizatio...

Maybe they know that the HTC One is a better phone?
Why this statistics doesn't include victims of US government terrorism? E.g. Vietnam, Iraq etc
This is a great find. Looks much easier to get started with than a Raspberry Pi.
Go seems to prefer that the decision that an error condition is treated as a panic is generally left to user code that is written with more awareness of what is exceptional in the context of the role of that code than standard library code has.

That makes little sense in the context of ioWriters and, frankly, most contexts.

How often do you write code where you deliberately want to be oblivious of IO errors?
Speaking for the US here, but I believe the same is true in most places.

If I fail to pay my taxes and I sit at home completely non-violently, at some point, a man with a gun will come to my house and move me.

If I ignore liens, my home will be foreclosed, and eventually the sheriff will forcibly remove me from the property.

If I am subject to asset forfeiture and my cars, trucks, bulldozers, gold bars, or prized kittens are ever found, they will be forcibly taken from me.

This is all done through the use of force by men who wield guns.
Since this is hacker news, I was curious to see which code the subject was talking about and surprisingly not the code I was thinking of. I wonder how much more of this gov code has actually been read by the people in all those countries where it's been available longer.
I'm currently a user of catch.com, I'm planning to try wri.pe but what I'd really like to see is a self-hosted alternative.
for scammy SEO. it was linked everywhere so it was good ranking. most ads are the usual cheap casino rolex click here kind of thing.
My ad still works. Although I always have trouble finding it since it was just a 10x10.
This was a very nice presentation indeed. Too bad they could not tell us how they handle the memory hierarchy. Because that part is crucial for any statically scheduled architecture.

Also the implementation of the belt itself could be quite nasty. Just look at the face of the guy who asked about it after he hears the answer. ;-)

Finally, they will not get anywhere near peak performance with general purpose code. The parallelism is just not there at the instruction level. They would do well on high performance computing or digital signal processing with enough floating point units and memory bandwidth.

Instead they seem to target big data. An interesting move. It will be interesting to see actual performance numbers (even from a simulator). I wish them luck.
Sure, 8 years is a long time in IT but still. The same year we got the Xbox360 (which is still around) and buzzwords like Web 2.0 and Ajax were all over the place. Doesnt seem too distant in my memory atleast.
And their example questions would be off-topic on Stack Overflow and likely closed immediately. Whoever is behind this seems to have no idea what SO is and how it works beyond "it's a huge site with programmers on it".
If you never intend to pay your taxes the government can garnish your wages. The individual state governments are far more vigilant about this than the federal government, however. California will dip into your Wells Fargo account almost immediately but one can not pay federal taxes for quite some time. You occasionally hear about some celebrity or fiancier getting busted for not paying their taxes for the past 20 years. Your passport is never revoked, though. Congress has tried to get a bill to do that but it has never passed. Certainly "men with guns" do not show up at your house if you miss the April 15 deadline as seems to be suggested in these ridiculous discussions. This is a country where at least half of the government officials themselves also hate taxes and dodge them as much as possible.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

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It doesn't exactly put it in a good light. It's quite stomach turning actually. Having said that, I'm a little tired of HN's never ending ability to find something to be outraged about, so despite this particular thing pushing everyone of my buttons I'm going to pass. The internet is a big place, filled with lots of people doing things, and there's probably enough material out there to always be outraged every day of your life if you really want to be.
For more longitude geeky goodness, the Royal Maritime Museum in London has lots of material and if you're nearby, you can see the amazing Harrison clock still in action.

http://www.rmg.co.uk/harrison
Huh?

try {
result = someFunc()
} catch {}
If you are concerned about violent armed people, why do you support an idea of a massive hierarchy of violent armed people aka Government?
According to the documentation it balances front-to-back and not side-to-side and the rider is responsible for maintaining that balance. I wonder how easy that is (especially with any load like a backpack).

I think I'd rather spend the $1,800 on a really good bike. But I bet this is fun to mess around on.
AP is reporting he was granted asylum for one year.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/362910831836532736
Some of us just click because we like seeing the punchline :)
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Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Mutually Human - Grand Rapids, Michigan

http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/

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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software.

A little bit about us:

- We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US

- Though everyone here is fluent in Ruby, we don't artificially limit ourselves.
In the past few months, I've worked with Objective-C, Backbone.js (inside
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you can afford a house here. I bought a nice house with a mortgage payment
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- A growing technology and startup community.

A little bit about you:

- You love writing software, and you have a few years of experience doing it.

- You learn new stuff quickly. You’ve used a lot of technologies, but you’re not
afraid to use more. It would be nice if you use and love Ruby, but not required.

- You believe software is written for humans, not computers.

- You want to come into work every day and enjoy the people you work with.

If you're interested, send me your resume/CV and a little bit about why you’re interested:

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