skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, so we definitely teach how to find gems, read through documentation and troubleshoot errors. There's a little bit of API knowledge that may be lacking (which we're definitely working on as a module - we've gotten a lot of requests).

Students who have taken the class have definitely figured out way more complicated stuff afterwards using some of the techniques we teach. Whether this person in particular will be able to figure out how to incorporate Stripe, I'm not sure.
One thing that worked for me was to give up illusions about the quick fix.
You won't kill procrastination tomorrow or anytime in the future, you can only develop habits that will be harder to break after some time.
I like to see myself as an abstinent - it can come back anytime and therefore I stick to my routines and avoid any situations leading to procrastination. It's a life long process in my eyes and only consistence leads to change.

What helped me was to develop a morning routine - I started with making my bed. Every day. I know myself - if I leave out one day I will leave out second day too and eventually fail. After a while I added cold shower, 2 glasses of water, workout, 5 min meditation and a healthy breakfast - to cut it short I have been working out every morning for last 6 months, not missing a single day.

I created an excel sheet where I track if I miss the routine or not, the time I spend working and the time I spend studying something. I have it done for 9 weeks all on one paper - it works better that having a daily to do list because you can see your progress and how you've been doing so far, unlike with daily to-do where you can quickly forget you wasted last monday. ( I have it printed out - and I put it on a visible place. It works better, because once I turn on the notebook I get distracted about wanting to check my email and what to do next. I keep this stuff strictly offline )

After 9 weeks I sum it up and take a week off. Over the last year my net working hours have increased 500% and so has my income.

Another thing that helped was to change environment, clean up stuff, email, desktop the room, throw things out. I have put a K9 on my pc blocking porn, youtube, facebook, quora and every medium where I can read something about politics. I threw out the password and blocked even the email provider I have my backup email on. Sounds ridiculous right. Well I feel liberated, I just don't have to fight with the temptation anymore and it saves a lot of energy. And most importantly I actually do what I love doing every day. My life is much better since then. It also forced me to spend my time more meaningfully.

Also note that I tried many things before and most have failed. This is what eventually worked for me as an individual ( yes my procrastination was that bad, I had to get that radical ) I remember feeling so hopeless I actually thought I won't change ever in my life, that I am doomed to be lazy. Well anyway I still have to remind myself I am a step from falling back and I still work on the improvement.
Because renting is more flexible and often less expensive...

Imagine you loose your job in a crisis, you have to move/sell your house in a crashing market.
Yup, sounds like the Microsoft I know. (Used to work there)
I made the same decision after about 10 months at Bing back in 2011 and joined an early stage startup in Seattle. A year and a talent acquisition later, I'm in SF working for a web company that couldn't be more different (and happier) thenMSFT. Good job on getting out; I'm glad I did when I had the chance!
I'm sorry...what? He blew an interview by mentioning he follows industry trends on reddit?

Okay, I can understand being disappointed in hearing that because you don't like reddit and would wish for a better source (opinion), but even then I can't imagine acting on something so...trivial.

That's like me mentioning to a company I'm interviewing with that I like to browse my smartphone to keep up with feeds. Whoops, no job for me, I might dick around on my phone instead of helping clients.

I mean seriously? Is that the real reason why he screwed up the interview? Holy hell...
Didn't Snowden talk to The Guardian?
Also—other subject matter of this article aside—what are these HTTPS delays the author is talking about? All of the online merchants I shop with and the secure logins I experience are plenty fast. Why is this author trying to sell the reader on something that's neither (a) a problem, nor (b) the cool thing about this topic?
Only Apple can get away with something like this.

Yeah, you're right. And that's because of their behaviour the other 364 days of the year.

Broke the screen on my iPhone, they replaced it for free. Lost a plastic insert on my headphones, they replaced it for free. My Earpods stopped working after a few months and they replaced them for free. The logic board on my MBP stopped working, they replaced it for free.

So yes. Only Apple can get away with something like this.

Apple does get a free pass. I don't think anyone would deny that. But come on. They treat their customers pretty darn well.
There's a fantastic olive oil store in Downtown Denver as well.
Sweet... thanks for the input. If you like I can add you to the github repo
We already know we should all be using prepared statements or combining data sanitizing methods with an ORM and to not trust raw user input and that its cool to hate on PHP. So I ask again, what are we learning here? That there's a ton of programmers who are doing sloppy incompetent work? Not news.

We are not the problem, but we should consider trying harder to be the solution. Maybe new PHP programmers do need to be educated, and there's a lot of outdated source material out there giving them bad advice and spreading bad practices. Maybe people putting their stuff on Github don't entirely realize how networked and public it is... and they need a polite reminder that other people might end up paying for their haste or negligence. We can do more than just point and laugh. PHP might be bad but a lot of us know it doesn't have to be as bad as most of it still is.
Mbox-convos: Export all emails in an mbox mailbox to or from somebody to a PDF.
Right. But searching the car without consent requires probable cause. The point is not give consent.

Though I've seen cases where the defendant is charged with something and their car seized then the evidence is later found during an "inventory" of the vehicle.

IANAL so I don't how one would deal with that.
Hm, nothing as life changing as most of the commenters below, however I volunteered with my local dragon boat team. Helped them with coaching, their site development and marketing.

It helped me exercise what I learn and at the same time learn to become a better leader. It also helped me get out of my shell as I am a bit of an introvert :P
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Stock options shouldn't be a "huge incentive" unless you're a founder, or one of the first five employees and very good at negotiating. For typical employee package, there just isn't enough to justify staying in a mediocre role.

OP got stuck on low-end work and wasn't learning anything. She got shitty reviews. That doesn't mean she did a bad job or is incompetent (I doubt either is true) but it means they didn't value her, and she made the right call by getting out. If she'd stayed just to vest a few hundred shares of MSFT-- I doubt this benefit rang out to more than $10k per year-- she'd be nuts.
I've now started flagging these kinds of submissions on HN, for the simple reason that they are little more than ads for something vaguely specified that may or may not even exist yet. There is absolutely no directly actionable content in this article that I can see, nor any other original ideas that anyone following HN doesn't see several times a week on the front page alone.

I post this only so I can note that this is not intended as a criticism of Patrick, just a view that the hero worship and endless reposting of A/B evangelism has far overstayed its welcome IMHO. If people want to read the fluff as well, then as we get told every five minutes they can sign up for Patrick's newsletter. Please, for the love of all that is holy, spare those of us who have chosen not to do so the endless join-my-mailing-list spam that is starting to dominate HN, and save the HN submissions for substantial content.
You're missing one of the main problems: this creates a perverse profit incentive which, as the article points out, inevitably permeated down from major racketeers to ordinary citizens. If anything, the confiscated property should be turned over for neutral causes such as financing education or healthcare etc. Not that I agree with that either, but it removes the existing incentives for corrupt authorities.
I don't think any of those except "years of experience" are valid points against the use of Node.js, and even that isn't really on the mark with reality. This is because Age !== Experience. Perl has been around longer than Python, but it sounds like you wouldn't want to use it. Granted, Node.js is still considered fairly new, but remember - it was released in 2009. We're a few months away from 2014, and this has been more than enough time for Node.js to mature just enough to be suitable in a production web app.

I'm not advocating the use of one over the other for you (personally I'd go with Node because my expertise in it outweighs my expertise in Python), I'm simply stating my opinion that these are not valid reasons to disregard the technology. The Node.js community is bustling, the amount of modules available on NPM are in the tens of thousands, and many open source projects use it (Yeoman, Grunt, Stylus, Jade, Roole, LESS, Bower, CoffeeScript to name a few).

Development speed is likely the most probable of your points, but even so - you can write a Node.js app in CoffeeScript, which you might be more inclined to do since your love of Python is so prominent, and CoffeeScript borrows many ideas from Python, such as significant whitespace and chained comparisons. A manual compile step isn't necessary as this feature can be done by most IDE's implicitly. Express.js also helps big time.

The only reason I would use Python over Node (if I was in your position and actually knew enough Python) would be if the web app in question required intensive mathematical or scientific calculations - Python would shine over Node in that respect.
1. Quantum crypto only helps with eavesdropping. To defend against man-in-the-middle attacks you have to use a conventional message authentication code. The system is no stronger than the MAC.

2. Quantum nondemolition measurements have been used to detect macroscopic objects with a vanishing probability of interaction. There is a good chance the approach can be adapted to detect photons, breaking quantum crypto.

Basically, quantum crypto is at best snake oil and probably worthless.
"it won't be long before your paper is a joke that nobody takes seriously"

Washington doesn't have room for another joke of a paper that nobody takes seriously[1]!

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/
Rename Raleigh to Washington and they won't even need to change the paper's header.
I don't mean to be snarky, but how are internships free in the technical fields? Low paid perhaps, but free internships for tech grads is a thing?
But we'll miss out on all the future lols:

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I wonder how they controlled for processed carbohydrates in those studies given that there is undoubtedly a high correlation between American red meat eaters and the increasing plethora of intensely processed grain products over the past 70 years or so.

I don't remember the source, but I remember reading how back in the 60s there were two divergent schools of thought on the increasing obesity epidemic from two prominent researcher, one researcher heavily backed the saturated fat theory and one heavily backed the sugar theory. For some inconsequential reason, the latter got discredited personally which led us down decades of ill-proven assumptions about how bad saturated fat was.
So you think you and your "target customers" are immune to the effects of subtle changes? You and your customers are the lucky ones with complete, unfiltered, and unbiased access to the conscious and subconscious (well, not to you) processes going on in your brain that influence your day-to-day life?

Please.
They look like internal lens reflections and not blurred background details to me...
I've done this with Coursera classes. I just sign up for them so that they're always saved in "My Courses" and go through the video lectures at my leisure. I miss the grading and a lot of the live discussion, but the notes and lectures are certainly valuable.
that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm sure it sucks to be downsized, but cutting staff you can't afford to pay in order to save a dying company is infinitely better than driving a company into the ground because you don't want to fire anybody.

and i don't see any promise here not to fire people. he explicitly says change will be necessary.
You have a media mouthpiece owned by Bezos. Don't complain too much. My choices for national media mouthpieces are owned by: Rupert Murdoch, Gina Rhinehart, The Australian Government.
Most definitely. The refrain I was railing against was a reply of, "Nothing" to the question, "What CAN an average citizen do?".

The answer is not "nothing". The answer is "Anything _except_ nothing". What they WILL do is a matter for the historians to debate after the dust clears.

There are many reasons to bow down to those that would do yourself or others harm. I live a comfortable life. I'm not in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails (hello NSA), but to say it is because there is nothing that CAN be done is a fantasy. It would help me feel better about seeing evil in the world, recognizing it, and then giving it a pass out of laziness or because it directly benefits me. It's an attitude that makes us part of the problem. It's not an excuse that pardons me from the fight.
Tools and community are the key, the rest can be argued for days or months or years with no real winner nor real value to it...
Out of curiosity, what city did you base the startup out of? (Couldn't find it on the website). I recently moved back to Toronto (Amazon Seattle to Amazon Toronto) and I've noticed that there really seems to be growth in the industry here. Lots of little start-ups, and lots of large companies opening and expanding offices. It's fantastic.
In a coldly rational sense, the shape of the legal system contributes to the cultural context that informs the future actions of the courts and their apparatus.

True, if primary cause isn't challenged the legal system doesn't consider antecedents as evidence; but the courts only make decisions - they have no input into the consequences of those decisions, other than the making of them.
Science versus SoftRAM
If you are okay with Greek olive oil (and you probably should be) go over to Astoria and visit one of the Greek supermarkets.

E.g. http://www.titanfoods.net/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store...

Actual Italian immigrants are scare on the ground these days, so I'm not convinced you'd see anything particularly unique in e.g. the Arthur Avenue section of the Bronx. But I could be wrong.
Right, and we should hold them to their own standards. If they have the capacity to do all this surveillance, then I sure as hell expect that they know exactly who the email addresses they're passing on belong to. And they should be required by law to keep verifiable records ;).
There's an Amazon Toronto?
I miss when people would submit articles about Erlang to flood out the politics.
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The same could be said about any prospective owner of a newspaper. Is Bezos owning media interests really worse than anybody else? I'd argue that a new entrant into news media is much preferable to further consolidation of media among the currently small set of big players in the industry.
At DefCon 2013 on Friday the ACLU described a disturbing trend of local law enforcement emulating the feds in their overstepping the boundaries of our civil liberties. The ACLU and EFF are doing great work - particularly the ACLU and I strongly recommend you become a member or give them an anonymous donation if you'd like to help fight stories like this.

https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give

PS: I'd like to see a kickstarter for dashcams that stream in real-time so even if they're seized the record persists.
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A quick search on the mentioned quantum smart card (a.k.a. generation-1 QKarD) turned up this presentation: "Quantum Cryptography at Los Alamos National Laboratory: QES & QKarD" (2010) http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/tt/pdf/techs/quantum_crypt.pdf
One of the reasons to stay away from PHP. Requesting and int but getting a float regardless? That doesn't sit well w/me.
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I don't mean this to be snarky so please don't take it that way. I don't see where color scheme, button text or carousel slide order will make a difference if you're selling something someone really needs, is informed about, etc. Maybe the argument is less "red buttons get 0.8% more people to buy" and more "red buttons get people to read our copy 40 seconds longer and that means 0.8% more people will understand what we're selling," but it's always been presented as "convince those on the edge to buy whether they understand/need the product or not."
Yes. Stories like this are a root cause for why people often welcome federal law enforcement -- the centers of federal enforcement may be vulnerable to other forms of coercion, but they are outside the reach of whatever racket is currently corrupting local law enforcement.
How can you characterize the Post pre-Bezos as being unbiased? Different biases, to be sure, but no news organization is free from bias.
Thanks Michael. We have some bitcoin experts in our batch. I'll talk more with them.
> Bad journalism.

And bad comment :-/

Nothing personal, this is intended as constructive criticism.

You completely ignore the main point of the article, and come quibbling about an unrelated detail.

This kind of comment often ends up at the top of the comment thread and obscures the comments that discuss the subject matter.

Your point is rather obvious, and I suppose that you end up being upvoted by folks not knowledgeable enough to discuss TFA, but feel validated by the fact that they also spotted the error.
Another note: If you can't make that tool work (I know I couldn't), you can also use something like DownloadThemAll. It works great.
When I was a young man, at my first job, I expressed my discontent. My dad (Viggo Jensen, RIP) gave me sage advice. He nodded his head, and said "it takes about 3 years to find out what's wrong with an organization. After that it's harder." (Shockingly, this from a guy who spent 35 years in Los Angeles City Schools.)

I would not suggest that Jaclyn is wrong in her choices. Not at all. But sometimes it is a choice between working within an imperfect organization, and moving on to another .. whose flaws you will discover over the next 3 years.
Yeah I thought it was balanced. I expect insiders will consider the study incomplete, because he's just looking at indictments, and those aren't among the objectives for the black-bag squad. (Although frankly I don't know what the relative percentages are, it's not as though Anwar al-Awlaki was a one-off.) Still, when we have a public discussion, only public information is relevant. You can't base an academic work on "secret" information. Within the NSA, this analysis is probably old hat. I'm pretty sure some of the geniuses know queuing theory.

The comparison between lightning and "terror" emphasizes that security is a game of trade-offs. Although this is one of the basic mantras of computer security, we rarely hear it from those employed at public expense. Why do they have a different emphasis? We do spend some money on lightning protection, and most of us do use caution to avoid lightning-prone situations. Each of those costs is a pittance compared to those of the War On Terror.

Really though, since lightning is not a sentient opponent who changes his tactics in response to human action, the more fair comparison in TFA is to violence in general. While that has dropped precipitously for decades, credit is given by many to the tyrannical police state we've built to match our tyrannical security state, so the proper amount to spend is still "more". LEOs are just as unlikely as NSA people to raise questions of priorities and trade-offs.

If this were a dilemma the USA political system could solve, it probably would have been solved already for both of these cases. In my more pessimistic moments, I consider the widespread public apathy in the face of common knowledge about The War on Drugs to presage similar apathy to revelations of The War on Terror.
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UP again for me :)
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That summary is not quite in line with what the warrants were used for and ignores the context... Britain was at war with the West Indies and created new import taxes to help finance it as well as economically damage their enemy, but traders at ports such as Boston continuously traded illegally (smuggled) with the enemy, thus avoiding the needed foreign-import taxes and sustaining the enemy's well-being. Writs of assistance were authorized by the Massachusetts governor to allow customs officers to generally search ships or buildings that they suspected contained smuggled goods (and demand the assistance of local authorities), and this was pretty effective at stopping the smugglers. Naturally, the Boston merchants didn't like being deprived of their tax-free profits on the black market, so they sued: http://revolutionaryboston.wikia.com/wiki/Petition_of_Lechme... And lost, as generalized warrants, though falling out of favor, were not without precedent. (There's actually a whole book on this: http://books.google.com/books?id=pBBBwSTwdrEC&printsec=front...)
There's a natural conflict of interest when someone with large commercial interests outside the media also owns parts of the media.
Absurd to blame Murdoch for a war that had majorities of Congress vote for it. If any media outlet deserves some blame for Iraq, it was the New York Times. In any event, the Iraq war has saved lives compared to the sanctions regime that it replaced.
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This is slightly off topic, but I find the writing style in the article odd, though this kind of writing is common in supposedly good newspapers and magazines with long winded stories:

"Outraged by their experience in Tenaha, Jennifer Boatright and Ron Henderson helped to launch a class-action lawsuit challenging the abuse of a legal doctrine known as civil-asset forfeiture. “Have you looked it up?” Boatright asked me when I met her this spring at Houston’s H&H Saloon, where she runs Steak Night every Monday. She was standing at a mattress-size grill outside. “It’ll blow your mind.”"

What does the grill have to do with this? Why does every story have to have adjective laden filler how the people's hair looks like and where the interviewer meets them?
The article advocates an idea with which I am inclined to agree. But, how does the cultural impact of rapidly hiring employees compare to the 'new building' impact discussed here? I have a strong suspicion that hiring too many too fast is just as effective at destroying the startup culture as moving into a more professional (read: corporate) office.
Just like we cannot have Bootstrap threads without mentioning Foundation.
We will! Thanks :)