skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conjecture...

Perhaps you've heard of it?

I'll not enter into a hypothetical conversation at this point without evidence to support your suppositions, as it's far too easy to flip your speculations around and spin it into a position which supports my own views while failing to actually address the heart of the matter at hand.
I received this email.

I am quite surprised I haven't seen a single word of sorry/apologize/mistake in the email.
Perfect example. That indicates that at some point, your data passed through a system using Windows-1252 encoding.

http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

I expect Vimeo used a Linux system to collect your data, and I bet the thing that blasts emails out is ultimately Linux as well. So the Windows-1252 bungle probably happened in a third system in between, maybe a Windows system chosen for its ease of administration by the community managers.

Not that this is relevant to data sanitization (they're just being fuckups here) but it shows how complex this can get.
A great article. The point of not only working hard for your career but working hard to build a great family is really refreshing. Too often we see people going, "all in", on one aspect of their lives, whether that is career or personal enjoyment. The balance described might make him tired, but as he said that is a really good thing.
What I've had is multiple experiences of upgrades fucking with my data. Sometimes to the point of destroying posts and comments.

Yes, I have backups. It pisses me off having to use them.
We actually just started looking at resumes today ... small team and lots of people taking time off while the weather is good.
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Who is complaining about the specs? I seriously doubt many people, even in these parts, buy phones based on the number of cores in the cpu or gpu alone.

The big problem I see with the Moto X is the price. A mid-range phone should not be 550 off-contract. I was seriously expecting a $299-349 price for this kind of device. Maybe we will see that with the Play edition? I doubt it though.
Tourists do not have more restrictions to buy it in Amsterdam. They just banned it for foreigners in the south because that is close to France and France has a drug problem. I bet their country is completely addict free by now.
No, extra space after a period is always in poor taste.

Use a single word space between sentences. In the nineteenth century,
which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design,
many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences.
Generations of twentieth century typists were then taught to do the
same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing
as well asyour typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint
Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is
required after a period, colon, or any other mark of punctuation.
Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are *themselves* punctuation.

— Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 3rd Edition, §2.1.4

(Some people go as far as to recommend less than word space after a period or comma, since the blank area above the punctuation mark contributes to the total visual white space.)
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Either way you will be challenged on a day-to-day basis, working with cutting edge technology within a great team. All of that out of our awesome Shanghai office (yes, in China).

What we'd like you to have?

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Cool idea, this is pretty useful. However, considering most of the startups that end up on each of these sites are shut down within a few years (if not sooner), i dont know its actually the right way to prove you are legit.
A script combing linkedin for skill solicitations that regex match ALLCAPS could probably uncover all NSA job postings. For supposed mastery of encryption/deception these fucks sure seem hamfisted in looking for employees.
i'm guessing you could use a shoutcast stream with an auto dj in the cloud or possibly mixlr.

edit: since you want voting, i think mixlr.com is what you want, it's $10 per month or free. i know grooveshark has a radio station thing now too.
I used wp-cron as one of the motivating examples for a different architecture; I talked about it on HN last week -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6106248

Essentially, given the constraints of the LAMP architecture, wp-cron is the only way to do it.

You overlooked that wrapping WP in layers of caching restricts wp-cron's supply of triggering events. It's a mess.
Many years ago Safeway, a commonly seen grocery store in the US, started using a Safeway Card to gather data on its customers. Shoppers get lower prices if they use it, so I filled out my paper form. Some non-English speaking data entry clerk in Mexico somehow mistook my middle initial for an "Os" and prepended it to my last name, creating quite a tongue twister.

Safeway checkout clerks are apparently required to thank me by name, using the name that pops up on their screens when I swipe my card. For nearly twenty years now, all over the country, every harried Safeway checker has sent me on my way with, "Thank you Mr., uh, Asperger", or "Thanks, um, Mr. Ostrich", or whatever that bizarre cluster of letters randomly turned into on the way out of their mouths.

At first, I thought I should fix it, but I quickly grew to enjoy the show. I also enjoy the thought of them trying to cross-match Mr. Asperger with other consumer databases.
I'd recommend you get her going on something like Corona SDK which is an iPhone gaming framework based off of Lua.

http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/
No, they don't, there are no alcohol licenses or registers or anything.

Stores don't need licenses to sell alcohol either.

We have the dubious record of being the biggest per capita consumers of Whiskey

http://elobservador.com.uy/noticia/256478/uruguay-primero-en...
Show HN: Fileti.me - Snapchat for file sharing, a weekend project of mine.
Where did you hear the 550 off-contract price? I thought that hadn't been announced.
It is at http://floodyberry.com/carmack/ now, although I desperately need to update it.
Not a very good analogy.

[...] a very particular piece of grammar, expressing a nuance
that standard English leaves to context. Black English is a seemingly still
water that runs deep.

http://www.theroot.com/views/why-dea-needs-ebonics-translato...
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Everything's great, but their text editor still can't accept markdown by default.
I remember signing up as a mentor a long time ago but never received any confirmation. Teaching is one of my favorite things to do in life, yet sites like these never seem to respond to mentor applications.
What politicians say publically versus what they actually agree to are two totally different things. It's simply vogue to complain about American led international conflicts right now. It's just a big show to drum up votes. One has to look no further than the recent press surrounding the nsa, echelon and other programs to see just how complicit other western countries are with American imperialism. Heck, even if they didn't want the US involved in the middle east, no one else is going to stand up to China or Russia if the US was to leave. So, everyone maintains status quo.
Under the proposed system, "The 4th Saturday in September" would also be known as "September 28". I suppose you mean to suggest simply celebrating your birthday on a nearby weekend.
Only the more expensive hotels in the United States have porters. The Courtyard Marriott in Gettysburg, PA doesn't send a uniformed porter to get your bags. As far as porters in hotels in Sweden, most of the luxury hotels do (at least in Stockholm.) Trying to turn this into an "American superiority complex" thing is completely silly. Visit any major city in the world and nearly any full-service hotel in the world and there will be porters -- and it isn't just for the American tourists. I happen to like the Swedes and Sweden, however I hardly consider their culture any more superior than any other. All cultures have value and generalizations of any culture are pretty ridiculous.
Making the use of marijuana legal means that there is no longer the crime of 'using marijuana'. You can't get a more direct causal link than that.
Great..
How even more script kiddies can practice...
I think you would be interested in this https://github.com/play/play
(1) Size of company doesn't justify abusing and lie.
(2) Hiring external agent doesn't clean client's purpose.
(3) No big Korean company hires unknown firm.

So they knew who they're, what they do and how they do before hiring them. Do you think this is one time mistake, not the daily work of the firm?

When I heard this news, I didn't surprise because this is what Samsung does daily basis in Korea. But it was surprise that there's a person who can imagine this happen by mistake.
Shipping caching by default would be a better start. The Wordpress team have said that the hosting implications of writing to disk make it a non-starter; but for some reason that didn't stop them from shipping auto-update or one-click plugin/theme installation in mainline.
I believe there are plans to open-source it. It's extension code is fully visible, anyway :)
My last name has a space in it. The three years that I have filed paper taxes, IRS has split up my last name into two words and put one of them as my middle name. This despite the fact that I clearly label the middle name box as "n/a". I was told by the IRS representative that I should change my name.
You've got an answer for everything. Maybe Soylent is your answer.
No one's bankrupt(relatively speaking). The USD is still the world currency and western economies are still as a whole better off than China or Russia. The guys running the show know exactly what they are doing and what they are doing is keeping those other two countries out of the middle east.
My take on this has always been the pointerness is semantically part of the type, but syntactically it belongs with the variable.

Therefore I annoy both parties by putting a space on either side to protest the fact that everyone is wrong.
I admire the progress your country has made thus far, but it seems so silly to limit the quantity you can buy. Especially considering you can overdose on alcohol and kill yourself, where you can't with marijuana.
Is this report any more verified?
Oh, sorry. I didn't notice the comment was deleted. Quite welcome!
Honestly, I work in information security and for a long time I was the sole information security analyst (the person who watches the logs and correlation events from the security intelligence monitor) for a 14k employee company. Even if I cared what people were searching for, to monitor Google searches on employee computers would have taken a fair bit of resources that there's not a great business need for unless you actually are interested in what your employees search for. I'm talking having the capabilities to man-in-the-middle an SSL certificate as it passes your proxy server. It's not impossible, it's not even difficult, but it does have a CPU impact on the server that's great enough that you'd think twice about enabling that feature unless you had a specific purpose to build your servers to enable that feature. That alone makes me curious.

I was more concerned with watching logins to the PCI environment and checking firewall and anti-virus logs. I didn't have time to care what the users were searching for. I'd like to know what company this is only because apparently they're so overflowing with cash that they can hire staff to monitor Google searches and report them to the FBI.

I really need to put "has no moral compass" on my resume...
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- UX design

- Bootstrap, LessCSS

- jQuery, BackboneJS, AngularJS, Coffeescript
100 times a week? Maybe 1 is an actual hit? Blimey.

Presumably this little team don't run around all of the US. So, a state level team doing 100 per week? 50 states, right? So, that's a potential 5,000 searches, per week. 52 weeks in a year. So, 260,000 innocent homes searched by an armed team per year, purely from "suspect" searches on the internet.

People wise, average number of people in a US household? Say 4? So, that's 1.4M people affected, per year.

Ok, the maths doesn't include the 1 out of 100, however, we can be sure a good number of them still turn out to be nothing. Sadly, I bet the 1 is the Arab or dark skinned middle eastern looking family.

No mention of any sort of search warrant either.

Yeah, you terrorists hate US "freedoms" alright.

Well....... nothing to hide, nothing to worry about, right? I dont care if the authorities want my internet history to creep through, why would I be bothered, all I do is shopping........

Just to check, at what point are we allowed to use phrases like "police state", "fascist", "oppression" and what not? Whats the number? Or is this for ever fine as long as the government has the fig leaf of the American vote?
Yes that's exactly why it came about. I still find it very interesting (and humorous) solution though. I've seen the same inner platform effect in legacy systems at large corporations.
I'm working on an unrelated piece this evening, so briefly: I don't know if my 2006 article fueled conspiracies. I assume that Glenn's pieces on the NSA for the Guardian moved the needle far more in that direction, but nevertheless they're good pieces that should have been written (even if I quibble with his presentation).

I cast around for a followup a year or so after the original article ran but didn't have enough to warrant a second story. In terms of remote activation of microphone, that also could be done with malware without any company's participation, which is what today's WSJ piece suggests. Re: the WashPost piece, I saw it too. I speculated via Twitter at the time that it could be referring to last cell tower pinged.
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"Russia's action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States." - John McCain

The US needed no help to embarrass itself. It chose the course it has taken with Guantanamo and Manning and Binney and Drake, chose to lie repeatedly to Americans about what it's been up to, chose to subvert the FISA's original purpose. It's up to Congress to end the embarrasment.
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I think of it as an architecture smell.

Especially since LAMP is not the universal web app target any more. We can and should architect from the OS up.
While Ruby and Perl cannot be parsed, Python can be parsed correctly.
Crazy good battery may yet be in there ... depending on your definition of "crazy".
If anyone has any feedback, please let me hear it. This was a fun small thing to do.
Basically every single comment on /r/android about this phone is about how the specs are not high enough to justify the price. It's kind of disappointing and amazing.
Portal 2 came out just two years ago

Dota 2 this year
It has the feeling of literally giving away my credit card to someone. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Plus, I don't know anyone anywhere anymore that's confused by a few credit card fields.

Plus, tabbing from the number goes to the name field and not the expiration.

Then you'll still have the problem of probably having to enter a valid billing address on separate fields.

I don't know if this really improves anything other than the aesthetic is very pretty.
Yes, but someone needs to convince them that they are making the stupid choice. My guess is that no one in Google or Motorola is that person.
Codenames can also be useful when social engineering. "Oh, it's ok, I know all about FOXYROT, what part did you work on?"
And now you should know the price was not the issue.
Betcha it's something inherent to the ability to process the phrase "Google." Probably a usability thing, and a subtle one at that.
Signed up. I'll give it a go when the invite arrives.
This is what happens when marketing teams are given free reign without restrictions. Ugh.
Quotes on innovation's origin: Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson
> The problem is that people foolishly assume that the plaintext packets they send online are private by default
The NSA are trying to decrypt encrypted messages too though, tapping VPNs etc. It's not like they're just surveilling plaintext comms.

> people foolishly assume
Yes those ignorant fools deserve everything they get for not being security enthusiasts, and for assuming good faith on the part of their government, right?
Lol the inspiration must have come from the session gc, except it doesn't hurt if the gc isn't run due to a lack of page requests. On the other hand I guess something is better than nothing. I have had to use servers with real cron to execute scripts on servers without it to get around this.
Interesting. So you just forget about your rights, and accept abuse of them. You also think querying a situation is "combative"? Why use the word "lecturing"? Why not telling, or informing?

Sound all a bit "do as you are told little boy, as I have a gun" to me. I suppose its consistent with US foreign policy.

I suppose if the US gov expect to bully nation states around because the US has the most military power and can bomb folk back to the stone age if they don't comply, then treating its own citizens like that and expecting them to cower to the gun makes sense.

As I say, it consistent at least. Gotta respect that.
Benchmark author here. That is similar to my experience. No browser I've tested on any platform comes close to 10/10. Due to the difficulty of quantifying latency and jank and the lack of existing benchmarks, no browser has really optimized for them, focusing instead on raw JavaScript throughput. My hope in developing this benchmark has been to change that.
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It's kludge plain and simple. It's ugly but it works (well kind of). That's the exact definition of a kludge. Further interesting things with wp-cron is that since other plugins make use of it, if you do have a "real" cron implementation the advice is to use the real cron to trigger wp-cron (via curl hitting a localhost only accessible page). Again, it's a kludge but it keeps things running.

On the topic of new stacks from the OS on up, Docker[1] (and lxc in general) and CoreOS[2] are really cool. It's a much more elegant and long term solution to packaged, yet controlled, environments.

[1]: http://www.docker.io/

[2]: http://coreos.com/
Well if the devil is the government, doing crypto for the government is surely a lot less heinous then implementing NSA bridged backdoors into Facebook backends. At least the former is more morally and legally correct.
Another reason to support federated social networking platforms like http://pump.io/ and https://tent.io/ that are outside the control of any individual company.
Well, I liked the music (in the video).
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Thanks. Idle curiosity: do you know any introductory refs about that question and its impact? (which to schedule first)
After the testing, you will see that we upgraded to a c1.medium instance.
This is amazing. I do think there's a lack of breaking the norm in web practices (for several good reasons, but not enough), resulting in us not taking advantage of what the most amazing newest iterations of the internet can offer. This is a good change in the right direction. I'm sure there'll be kinks, but fixable kinks.

NB: I comment on amazing HN submissions (Show HNs usually) primarily so that I can find these tools again by browsing my comments from my profile when I feel the need to use them. This is primarily a comment to that end. Thank you so much for this Ken!
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.micro throttling is simply domain knowledge that not everyone has.
Go spend any time on Reddit, Engadget, Verge etc and 99% of comments will centre around specs.

It's hard not to when it is often the only thing differentiating one Android phone from another.
24lbs is nothing. Not something you can swing about for hours, but certainly no problem carrying up stairs.
But it isn't a pivot in their case. They would be able to make an extremely efficient[1] transition from 100% human to 100% self driving. Uber is not in the business of giving rides in human driven cars - their business is to get you where you are going on demand quickly.

[1] Efficient means money (the first self driving cars won't be cheap and will be limited), but also adjusting to public perception (every crash will suspect the self driving bit leading to a minor backlash) as well as all the other tradeoffs that occur. Someone in the same space with one self driving vehicle won't be particularly useful, but Uber can operate with only one self driving vehicle in the fleet.
Nananananananana Batman.

Sadly there's no Lucius Fox in the other end of the "wire".
> Exactly. This isn't a usability improvement, it's fluff.

Do you have any data that backs that up? (excluding call-to-authority and anec-data)
And no change at all on brand image. If their brand value is already -INFINITE.
That's pretty much how I felt too. It is humiliating and humbling at the same time.
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