skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, excepting a few circles (like, Hackers) most US citizens I've met support US government positions, even the most stupid ones, maybe out of ignorance... But they do.

I remember even once, I was eating in a restaurant in front of my home (literally, it was across the street), and 3 US citizens were talking in english in a nearby table... Their conversation was one of the most horrible things I heard in a while, they were advocating get rid of immigrants, because all immigrants were filthy evil people and deserve to die, and that brazillians were scum, and whatnot (and they were saying that in Brazil).

I almost hit one of them in the head, but then I realized they were 3, and I was one, so I decided to just finish my food and leave as quickly as possible.

Other encounters with typical US citizens were not much better, reading comments on mainstream newspaper do not make me believe better either.

And I cannot count how much times I got into arguments about our US supported dictatorship during the cold war, with US people that believe that I should have thanked the US government for "saving" us.

And then, saving from what? And the reply is whatever fake threat of the time (communists, terrorists, muslims, whatever). This get me so much on my nerves that I even started to join random communication channels with US people (like, game chats, site chats, social networks) and provoke them into political arguments, just to check, and yes, many DO believe the US came here to "save" us, it is like if US citizens have some sorta of weird hero complex where they believe that the foreign policy of the US is save everyone. This is something that I never understood properly, how the hell a population can believe such bullshit.

Beside other bizarre views (for example frequently I see comments defending that US should just turn North Korea and Iran into glass... Usually when reading reuters.com)
I think that by going to a street protest you show you care enough to spend significant amount of time, so you probably also care enough to go vote against that politician in next elections.

Clicking online poll is just too convenient to mean anything.
Since he would be rather old when going back in time, wouldn't he rather pass his knowledge to his younger self and then iterate the process to obtain the ultimate laws of the universe.
This. I'm mainly giving advice in a "side-project, passive revenue" mindset because I assume doing anything else on top of someone else's api is nothing short of suicidal. Keep it low-key and manage your expectations and you'll be fine.
As a surfer, let me volunteer that it's a bit like a highway onramp: you want to match speed exactly when the front arrives. Tiny adjustments in speed, pitch, yaw, roll, and center of gravity make the difference between making it, falling off the back, and getting eaten.

Mistiming your drop leads to bad outcomes that are directly proportional to the kinetic energy of the wave and are inversely proportional to the depth of the water. This is huge kinetic energy with a distance to the wall of, probably, microns. I want to see how this thing works, but oh, Nelly, what a wipe-out!
I like Go, but I feel that it only addresses one of the urgent problems in computer programming, concurrency. Another very important problem IMO is correctness and I find Go lacking in that area; the onus is squarely on the shoulder of the programmer. Languages like ML, Haskell, or Rust offer facilities to make correct code easier to write (or incorrect code harder to write, depends on your view point).
Ok ok, first of all "The Web" and "our source code search engine" are completely different things and ya'll fell for some rather obvious trolling/crappy marketing talk.

Second of all, not liking bootstrap is like not liking martini shakers 'cos you don't have any martinis to shake.

Just because you don't have a use for a tool doesn't make the tool useless and clearly lots of people have martinis to shake.

This trolling and bickering is very non-hacker/non-productive and ya'll need to settle.
There is a similar movie. The Call. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1911644/
Its NCIC... not NCIS... Gibbs would be slapping you on the back of the head right now.

And yes 911 operators do have access to NCIC and FBI CJIS. They often are running people involved in incidents when cars are en route. Knowing who they are dealing with often dictates the number of cars that respond, the officers tactics when responding, etc. Both of those databases have nationwide info that states share on warrants, convictions, drivers licenses, etc
This is how the majority of dynamic languages do argument passing (Java/C# etc)
EvanAnderson is agreeing with you. Perhaps you misread his comment?
Leaked photo reveals ‘iPhone 5C’ packaging
The OP explains this pretty well. Clay is designed to do generics very concisely and easily.
I'm not sure if anyone else picked up on this, but one of the things Snowden said, now makes perfect sense. He said,

“Any analyst at any time can target anyone… I, sitting
at my desk, had the authority to wiretap anyone, from
you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the
president if I had a personal email.”

What he meant was you only needed someone's email address (or IP address) as search parameters, to return all the connected data!
Stuff made in industries more mature than software. Bridges were probably all crap for the first fifty years of building them too.
Magento and HipHop/HPHP/HHVM, at least.
because in most areas of the united states your the same person that is taking a call from a woman whos husband just beat her
I suspect that design by gut is not necessarily a reliable approach to this.
Another example of how metadata alone can be used to paint a fairly complete picture of one's life.
I'm pretty sure the dude himself is an Indian.
I think the website owner is supposed to put the page the payment form is on on a HTTPS site.
Good! How about scanning in some of the still missing issues? ;)
Precisely. My side projects aren't projects I can hire a designer for, and my design knowledge is limited to a) knowing what's shit and b) knowing my "design" is included in a).
Couldn't find any examples on the claylabs.com page but there is some in the github repo: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/tree/master/examples
>it is like if US citizens have some sorta of weird hero complex where they believe that the foreign policy of the US is save everyone

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
In my opinion (for lack of producing a thorough argument), one has to control the physical layer.

Along with your advice, I would keep this in mind. Whether it's mesh, or neutrinos, or a "black box" technical and legal jurisdiction that sufficiently isolates inbound and outbound messages (which can in turn be encrypted for travel over more compromised segments). Sneakernet (perhaps in conjunction with a resurgence in NNTP or the like). Or something else.

You have to continue to ensure that there is a route -- a physical route -- around the "damage".

And I'm not speaking foremost nor particularly to piracy, something that gets too often pushed to the for as a... "false flag" issue. I'm speaking to freedom of communication, as a human right and a basis (although not the only) for a complete and healthy society.
Maybe I'm living under a rock (I don't, I live in SF), but I don't know anyone who uses Whatsapp in my two and a half years here.

iMessage, texts, facebook message, Wechat, but never a single Whatsapp user.
Is this a joke about many examples? The example you link to at the current moment looks like this in two different browsers:

http://i40.tinypic.com/5vorps.png
Ask HN: Best Haskell projects and gists to learn from
Can someone recommend a list of well documented, well-written projects and gists that are written in idiomatic Haskell?

Projects/gists from beginner to advanced level are appreciated, just mention whether or not the code you are recommending is beginner, intermediate or advanced level code.

Beyond that, who's Github profile contains some of the best Haskell code out there to study from?
How do you watch a YouTube or Vimeo video at 2x speed? Is there a browser extension or something? I've often wanted to do that.
People always say being an ATC is the most stressful job that you can have. But this sounds worse, even if the system worked properly.

Does anyone know starting salaries for air traffic controllers?
"Hi, my name is Mojo and I do not have a country."
Responding to your edit about "a SF startup could've built out an amazing system at a fraction of the price"-- I hear that kind of attitude a lot, I'm not so sure it holds to scrutiny.

Tackling the problem of a system that must be 100% reliable, synchronous, with complete uptime from day 1 is very very difficult, and not many startup environments will prepare you for it. A lot of systems that are scaling decently now (twitter was used as an example early on) had extreme early growing pains.

In fact, I think it is impossible to build such a system without significant upfront cost, because a lot of the cost should go into the testing phase. It's almost as though you'd want to create a testing call center that receives realistic calls and needs to route them correctly, and have it running for months while the software is iterated on. A lot of effort should go into making the testing center as realistic as possible, and a lot of time should go into teasing out the inevitable bugs.
"Just don't read content you aren't interested in" is paradoxical, because the determination of interest requires reading.

When I last used Quora, you could follow different topics and people. Presumably, if you aren't interested in Perl coding, you don't follow that topic, and you don't get exposed to Perl content.

In what way is India-centric content 'forced' on Quora users in a way that (e.g.) Perl-centric content is not?

Is Quora attracting English-speaking Indians as users in disproportionate numbers compared to users not from India?
> facilities to make correct code easier to write

I have read a bit about this for Haskell. What in Rust facilitates the same, that is absent from Go (or C, C++) ?
911 isn't being done well anywhere IMHO.

If you look at the way 911 works, there's no location information unless you use the cellular radio (and this assumes your carrier is using the cell tower to anchor your location). If you use IP to call, let's say via an application like RingCentral, how does the 911 service know whether you're in San Francisco or New York? It doesn't.

This isn't pie in the sky fantasy, this is actually how all over the top VoIP connections work. You pick a location and that's where your 911 calls originate. It doesn't matter whether you're using your SIP client in New York, your 911 call will still go to a San Francisco 911 center because your office address is in SF. That's not good.

So IMHO the right approach is a top-down rewrite and rolling that sucker out nationwide. Normally, we'd see one vendor start to dominate over other vendors, and while there has definitely been some consolidation in the 911 market, the fact that these services are federally mandated (Read: Allocated budget automatically) there's not a huge incentive for municipalities to shop around. These systems are essentially free as far as they're concerned.

Part of the reason we're not on IP is because the federal dollars can't be legally spent on IP in many places (gotta love lobbying). In short, the correct approach, IMHO, is IP-enabled PSAPs with GPS information for location combined with reform efforts in congress. The logically addressed world of the phone network is a fantasy and our emergency services should model reality instead of our dreams.
> BTW, to me Python has a number of APL-like features that make it fun and productive

Can you please elaborate on this and give a few examples?
The short version-

A lead angel investor gets a commercial bonus for connecting other investors to an early-stage startup fund.

My reaction-

Not all exchanges of value have a direct commercial value associated to them. After we've torn all of the middle-men down with technology, we're now slowly bringing them back into the mix.
I'm not a professional programmer, but I spend all day in Emacs primarily because of org-mode. Two years ago I read about org-mode here on HN and was inspired to give Emacs a shot. Today Emacs is my main technical hobby. Extending Emacs with Elisp is a pleasure and a joy. My various init files total over 3,000 lines of code that I wrote my own little self.

That said, while I remain incredibly impressed with the integrated documentation system, especially the Info manuals for their sheer literacy and clarity, I discovered over time that it doesn't adequately teach you "the Lisp way." Explanations of the basic concepts -- like a symbol for crying out loud -- are scattered and not really complete, leading to frustration as I got deeper into extending Emacs.

For me, the light bulb went off after I worked through Seibel's Practical Common Lisp. I've also read chunks of PG's On Lisp. Together these two outstanding books resulted in an epiphany regarding Lisp and the functional approach in general.

The result is that, where before I couldn't figure out Emacs's own Elisp sources (i.e., "Why is this function written this way, and not that way? Why do I see this idiom so often, what's it doing?"), now I can. The payoff for writing my own Elisp has been incalculable. Now I'm fired up to read SICP, and Felleisen et al, hoping to learn more about functional programming.
That's reasonable, but I'm guessing most large corporations have their own VPN service that links directly into the company network, right? I would imagine the expense of having a CryptoCat account for every single employee on the road quickly becomes larger than the overhead of running your own VPN server.

I have some medium-sized corporate clients who have their own VPN servers at HQ in order to enable people to work from home, it would be trivial to use these for mobile devices as well.
It might happen. Or oranges might go extinct. There's no way to tell, and, frankly, I enjoy my orange juice.
Your comments radiate the smug elitism of someone who has never has their personal choices subjected to hostile review. I'm no fan of SkyMall (or e.g. Sharper Image) but it still rankles to see other peoples’ choices dismissed as invalid rather than simply different.
Hard to call seemingly advertent actions a failure...
Dude, you are ignorant about the level of C# documentation.
Here's the problem:

"911"

"You have to send the cops over!"

"What happened?"

"It's my parents ..."

If they don't triage properly, they'll be sending the police to deal with angry kids whose parents won't give them their pocket money. Or they'll not send the police to a violent confrontation.

Also, you have to consider the kind of people who make a lot of 911 calls. It might be a drug user getting threatened by a dealer. It could be a drunk guy, who's had an accident. It could be something really embarrassing ("I fell on it"). Doing triage can be quite difficult, when the caller doesn't really say what has happened, but they need to find out enough to justify sending help.
I wouldn't mind the article if it contained some kind of real analysis as to feasibility from a physics and engineering perspective. That type of analysis would be interesting independent of hyperloop.
Assuming the track was designed so the cars go forward no matter which direction you place them, the cars likely had a small diode-based circuit to always feed the current into the motor with the same polarity. When you fed an AC current into the track, that circuit in the cars would have acted like a rectifier, turning the AC into poor-quality, high-voltage DC.

The sparks would come from feeding way too much voltage in, enough to jump the gaps caused by momentary losses of contact between the track and a fast-moving car.
And how, exactly, do you propose to "limit" non-native plagues? Do you want to shut down the ports and airports?
WORLD WAR 3, GOD ONLY KNOWS
There are some similarities with how, when Orkut took off in India and Brazil, its open-community/broad-affiliation features became less useful in the US.
Just to start with, I suspect that you may be confusing light with sound.

You are not just wrong in your analysis, but almost fractally wrong. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness
And why is the spread of a disease due to the "incompetence" of the growers? If you get the cold, do you say, "I was incompetent at washing my hands?"
> For all it's potential as a connector, the Internet is full of homogeneous echo chambers.

That's the point of the internet. To be able to seek out more people who think like you and have the exact same interests so you don't have to deal so much with all the heterogenous people in the real world.
Even the photographer couldn't point out that he should fix his tie?
He's not.

EDIT: I thought you were talking about guylhem... my mistake.
When I write an article,

1. I write it in Microsoft Word
2. Copy into notepad to strip away the formatting an extra mark-up that comes with word
3. Paste into word-press and re-format the article before publishing.

I would pay for an app that will allow me do draft my article and format it, then just copy directly into wordpress and publish the article without having to reformat it in wordpress.
I changed that a couple of minutes after posting. I just messed up the link.
I tried installing GPGMail stand-alone with a previous version, and it caused Mail.app to crash on start, presumably because /usr/local/bin/gpg was not available.
Dude, I don't think I am.
Possibly, however someone in Greenwald's position is almost certain to employ private security and drive in an armored car in Rio de Janeiro. I'm certain he's avoiding situations where scenarios that you listed can play out. It's not hard to do if you have decent money in Brazil. Greenwald is also likely to have friends in Brazil with security resources that could be shared with Greenwald, given that they would be aware of the danger Greenwald has put himself in because of his journalism.

The greatest risk would be bribery of his security personnel to provide a "backdoor" for an assassination. If that were the case, it definitely wouldn't look like one of the scenarios you described. It would be obvious that it is a targeted assassination.

FWIW: I'm Brazilian, have lived in both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and have had known many people with private security and armored cars there.
> if you travel with a speed close to speed of light and you immediately stop...

Then you're absolutely screwed! ;)
Maybe it's just me, but the main thing that sticks out to me is the weird kerning on the boxes. It seems really shoddy, from what I can see.
I always giggle whenever I read it as Expert-sex-change.
Finance firms that are migrating are going to functional languages anyway--OCaml, F#, ...
I have a family member who has worked at B&N for 16 years, and is continually worried about the health of the company. Some of the big issues are:

1. Employee pay and retention. Retail always pays shit, but if you want good employees, you have to pay them.

2. Re-zoning continually. B&N spends an inordinate amount of labor re-organizing and shuffling books from one area to the other. This make work makes it hard for customers to find books, makes it hard for associates to know where a book is, and is just shuffling deck chairs.

3. Pricing. BN.com is cheaper than B&N stores. Customers don't understand this, causing huge amounts of irritation. Plus, B&N is just charging too much.

4. Delivery/inventory. Order a book from Amazon, you can have it tomorrow. Order it from B&N or bn.com, and it might take a week. All deliveries are made from central warehouses, instead of leveraging the store's own inventory.

A smart fix for this would be to have the delivery manager able to deliver books from his inventory overnight to the customer. If you're in San Jose, a San Jose B&N would fulfill your order, (assuming the book is in stock), otherwise the closest warehouse or store would. Naturally, Amazon is the exemplar when it comes to order fulfillment, but at least try and close the gap.

Cut some of the deadweight management. A district manager who only shows up in your store once or twice a quarter is of no use to the company. Fire them or make them perform.
Mutt mass mailer - Adding more organization to command-line emails.
Asked if tomatoes containing a gene from a fish would “taste fishy” in a question on a 2004 poll conducted by the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University that referred to one company’s efforts to forge a frost-resistant tomato with a gene from the winter flounder, fewer than half correctly answered “no.”

Genetic manipulation will define the next major shift in human progress. Computers transformed inanimate things, giving them function and pseudo-life. DNA hacking will transform living things, allowing us to customize ourselves, our pets, our food, our plants, and entirely new forms of life.
War

-> Creates new enemies

-> More war needed to kill them (feed military budget)

-> Creates new enemies

-> More war needed to kill them (feed military budget)

-> You get the idea...

To keep the cash cow going, keep it all secret (or at least very nontransparent).
Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise
I think that pure NaOH works better. It is almost impossible to have cell wall not made of some kind of fat acids. Doubt anything can survive such a strong base.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The main page language is nice but explains it as much as a job candidates resume header explain what kind of a job candidate he is in a few sentences. There is no comparison to other languages or code examples, there are no success stories that I can see. Maybe they exist, but no, the OP doesn't explain this at all.
Small world. I just helped design the official UW copycat of this: http://notify.uw.edu/
Chances are anyone using vagrant will already have a box called 'base' -- it might be a good idea to call this one something else.
"C" is for Cheapness ?
I found out about the "India problem" from the response I got on this quora:
https://www.quora.com/Expertise/What-are-examples-of-experts...

You'll see that the first 8 pictures posted in ranked order are all of indian decent. At firs I thought maybe Varrun Ramani's upvotes were some sort of 4chan/anonymous hack but that's the first time I discovered this "Indian problem".

This is my "best" quora with the most followers. Anecdotally, it's peaked around 500 and it seems the makeup of it has skewed towards Indians.

For me, it's just another tool to research and discover things. I'm sure if I worked for quora, I'd like it to be way more than just that.

I like the comments about having country specific stuff, but then again that seems to be tough to break down current content that way. Perhaps that is a Manhattan Project that Quora needs to tackle.

That all said, if I wanted to make a "random indian name generator" I'd definitely harvest it off certain quoras.
CurveCP, CryptoSphere, Tor and Pond would get most of the way without recreating the Internet.

The other major problem, centralized unencrypted services, isn't helped by rewriting basic Internet protocols.