skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like pg's theory here, it's definitely something I try to live by (keeping my identity small), but I think he missed a key observation:

Religion (perhaps moreso historically) and especially politics are mine fields because there are so many inputs and so many outputs. That is to say almost any policy decision will affect a lot of people in a lot of different ways. He touches on this by discussing vague and definite questions, but he doesn't really explore that avenue.

For instance, consider the evaluation of how much a government program is going to cost. It doesn't matter how precisely you can answer that question because it just leads directly to other questions such as where the money will come from and what the results of the program will be. Even if the follow up questions are precise as well, they bloom out into innumerable consequences far and wide. It's not just that the bar of having an opinion is low, it's because these decisions actually affect all these people, and all in different ways. The fact that they may not have the expertise or knowledge to know the true affects and are easily manipulated by identity-appealing propaganda just exacerbates the problem, but it's not the root cause.

The more fundamental problem is that politics is a direct view into the massively interdependent organic ecosystem of large-scale human society. Even if you are the foremost expert on the implications of some political issue and your facts are indisputable, people will still (with good reason) disagree on the merits of those indisputable implications.
Markdown hyperlink syntax:

"squared circle" aka []() aka [word](http://link)
Someone could take apart such a switch once and verify that it works, and then tell everyone else who owns such a device. With software, this is very hard, and when software can be updated at any time it is impossible.
Right, who still wants to share their data with Google?
This is a great argument against people who "got nothing to hide".

If the government suddenly decides you are a terrorist you will understand privacy is a good thing.
you do however get WhisperSync when you chose the version from Amazon.

It would be so easy to implement that for arbitrary books, but even Amazon probably has to add a bit of vendor lock-in here and then.
For those of you trying the link and unable to find it I have copied the content from the post:

My experience at a YC startup

This story needs to be told. I am an engineer turned business guy who recently left a cozy job at a top-tier tech company and joined a YC start-up. Needless to say I took a huge pay cut and a big risk. I talked extensively to one of the co-founders and he/she did an amazing job of selling me the opportunity. I got the sense that VCs were lining up for Series A (it was still early stage) and the company had amazing growth curve (numbers like growing 100% Mom etc.). Once i joined the startup, to my horror, I discovered a few things:

* The company tried to raise Series A earlier and failed.

* The numbers that were shared were not entirely true. It was kind of half-truth and part of the marketing pitch to VCs.

* The leadership was struggling with the vision of the company. It was pulled in many directions - sometimes ad-hoc based on customer feedback or angel advice.

* The culture was bad. Engineers were constantly told what to do.

* The quality of the people were much lower vs my previous company.

One of the first things I did was steer the company in the right direction from a strategy perspective. I constantly butted head with one of the founders but my strategies were clearly impacting the revenue numbers. For example one of the tactics doubled the weekly revenue. I wanted to have a significant impact so I was constantly asking the founders to work on the long-term vision and culture for the company. I also told them that VCs invested in talent and not the idea.

Then another round of raising Series A started. The “nos" started piling up. Our last hope said “no" 2 weeks back. And then I was asked to leave last week (though I was already planning to leave). I think they got what they needed out of me and now the first person to go would be the business guy (along with some other engineers and business folks). Actually the team is paying for the incompetence of the founding team.

I would add the disclaimer that my experience may not be reflective of every single YC startup. But I don’t want you to make the same mistake so this is my piece of advice before you join an early-stage startup:

* YC doesn’t necessarily mean sure shot success. Paul Graham is a human and bound to make mistakes.

* Talk to as many team members as possible before joining. Try to gauge culture by visiting the office quite often.

* Preferably join a startup where you know the people.

* If you don’t know the people, work part-time for some time before making a decision.

* Ignore marketing pitches by founders.

* Go for post Series-A. VCs have already done the vetting for you.

I just heard they are planning to raise more money via AngelList or FundersClub (not listed yet). If you are an individual investor, do your due diligence before investing via AngelList or FundersClub - don’t invest blindly.
Something for consideration, Chrome...it's not JUST security against badguys, it's also security against family members (aka, 13 year old son or daughter) who want to know what your password is so that they can do things online that you don't want them to do. You just can't make it EASY for people to SEE passwords. Sure, hacker badguys and even 13 year olds may get access to this information, but why make it easier for them to access? Or make it impossible for users NOT to import their passwords?

I'm glad I have never clicked "save my password" on any browser.
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Defective Heat Sinks Causing Garbage Gaming
Completely off-topic but I've this a few times now in different places. I'll come to the end of what I'm reading and there'll be a tl;dr at the frickin' _end_ of it! Isn't it supposed to be right up front so that if I am incredibly lazy and trusting I can just slurp the tl;dr and move on? When placed at the end is its meaning changed to something like "to summarize" or "in summation" ???
An IJulia Preview: IPython + Julia
iPhone asks you if you want to enable Location Services when a) you set it up the first time, and b) when an app wants to use location data
Platform as a Service Offerings Comparator
Give them a break? Why? They're trying to push this as a better way of managing a system.
it's a command-line argument --removeComments, install and run tsc.exe with no args for the full list of options
A webGL version - even using JS to make lines, and just using gl.LINES for the plotting - would be much more responsive. For extra points though, put the rendering inside a GLSL fragment shader!
What font are you using there?
I call BS for most of the so called "attacks". Bored foreign teenagers maybe. Hostile governments, not so much.

Do people seriously believe that third world countries oficially back hacking attempts on american companies? Like they have something to gain from this? People really consider the possibillity of some third world country messing with a large foreign power, like in BS tv serials and movies? Or think they need to create their own pretext to get invaded themselves? Such actions are only done by the big players, as it always was.
Strange one. FYI, "class" has the same meaning in French slang -- probably borrowed from you guys.
This construction

{{point}}; {{elaboration}}

tl;dr: {{point}}

is about as redundant as it gets.

For what it's worth, I take that form of "tl;dr" as emphasis, not as a literal tl;dr.
i do, i built up an infrastructure around angular with typescript, and requirejs honestly it was a pain in the butt to figure out all the stuff required, but that could be because my company is new at webdev so we are learning webdev techniques at the same time.
Specs and discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6167099
This already happens to some degree; it's very common for web design companies to also handle hosting and mailing lists on behalf of their clients, and there are plans built specifically around this kind of need. Back to you example, you are doing the market segmentation and sales work for SEOMoz, so I don't see why they would mind. It's better for them to receive $299/month from three users than NOT receive the same amount from one user.
The site seems to be down after it got trending on Google Plus.
That seems ambiguous to me in several ways. There must be more semantics you are subconsciously depending on to clarify it.
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As someone who recently moved to Paris, I can confirm. Parisians don't eat breakfast. It's weird, and I miss my big north-american breakfast, but I'm getting used to it.
The ISA is not better than others in any real way, but IBM put a lot of early work into RAS features for their server chipsets, and this sort of leaked into the automotive and aviation world.

If you want to run 3 cpus lockstep, verifying each other's results, the PPC world already has the infrastructure. This and other similar things make it an easy choice for some applications.
Babushka not found
Original Guardian article here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-direct...

Interesting quote further down where he begs the question, Betteridge's-law-of-headlines-style:

Hayden: "But certainly Mr Snowden has created quite a stir among those folks who are very committed to transparency and global transparency and the global web, kind of ungoverned and free. And I don't know that there's a logic between trying to [punish] America or American institutions for his arrest, but I hold out the possibility. I can sit here and imagine circumstances and scenarios, but they're nothing more than imaginative."
void* is used rarely in practice, apart from perhaps kernel mode or language VM's. I have a 150kloc program in front of me which doesn't have a single void*.
What will they do about the person or persons who disclosed the provenance of the information leading to the closing of multiple designated sites in countries in MENA?

Should we not protect the sources and methods involved in obtaining communications (not chatter, but actual intelligence) of such high valued targets as the head of the group we are most interested in, and a local organization with similar goals and growing scale?

I assume that whoever this person was is on the run, or at least not speaking from an official podium or floor of an illustrious deliberative body, right?
> We live in a world doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

But now, we have storage and much faster circulation of information. Which means we can track these "mistakes", dig them up easily whenever they're about to be repeated and discuss them again (better yet, "fork" the old discussion and adapt it to the current issue).

Maybe somebody should build the perfect tool to do just this. (I feel it doesn't exist yet, but the need is now clearly here.)

EDIT: I tried to hint at that (in this case regarding surveillance only) here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152935
Heh, don't you see? By identifying as a Buddhist and classifying a particular bit of wisdom as "belonging" to that religion you are falling into exactly the trap that he described. I grew up in the Buddhist community and ironically the greatest trap that Buddhists fall into is pride. Similar to the technology community ;)
This reminded me of point #2 of a comment I just read [1] on mistakes journalists make:

> "Mention every possible debate on the subject, without attempting to either offer a conclusion or a new set of arguments for any of them."

Keeping your identity small may prevent you from participating in certain arguments but it doesn't make for a good story. I'd rather hear a spirited debate between proponents of radically different ideas than bland statements that scrupulously avoid engaging anyone's identy.

The more I think about it the more ridiculous it sounds to exclude things from one's identity. An exclusive identity is not any smaller than an inclusive one--it's just identified by its exclusions. Identity is who you are and thus can be no larger or smaller than the whole of you.

I think the real argument here is one for skepticism as can been seen in the second footnote:

> "A scientist isn't committed to believing in natural selection in the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to rejecting it."

Really?? First, I don't think biblical literalism requires a rejection of natural selection (unless that's shorthand for a naturalistic origin of life). Secondly, this statement itself seems like a religious argument in the sense that it implies scientists are somehow more detached and objective than biblical literalists.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171593
It is just a general concern, not derived from this particular announcement. As marshray says the company has commercial interests in making people pay for their tool chain, so it's only healthy to be a bit sceptical when they free a standalone tool.

I hope to be able to use TypeScript for years to come, it solves the problem of opt-in types in JavaScript.
How long do I have to use this site before I get downvote?
IP Tables and Dynamic DNS
I just used <blink> in a blog post last week. For my purpose it served as a visual pointer to the past. I'll be sorry to lose it too.
Everything that can be implemented in JavaScript, eventually will be implemented in JavaScript
Sometimes I wish that "Little brother" was a completely made up story. But lately many parts of it read like a script for what's happening at the moment. What is published by news lately makes me wonder what would happen the next time some big event in the US happens... the first "conspiracy theory" will be - NSA/FBI/... organised it (wouldn't be hard, people were given "support" before so that they can be arrested - just skip the arrest part) to prove more monitoring and control is needed. And could anyone really disagree at that point?

Some of that was already seen after the news about closing the embassies. There were many comments saying it's only a show, put on to "prove" that there really is a danger of something happening.
I am a believer, so I don't know if same is true for non-believers.

Well, everyone is a non-believer in something that others believe. Assuming you don't believe in, say, Isis, do you think that non-belief becomes part of your identity?
What if you could see Wi-Fi signals?
It's a "all squares are rectangles, but all rectangles are not squares".

Hispanics are statistically far more likely to be illegals and thus unlicensed or uninsured. The problem is, most people of hispanics are 100% legal. Some have ancestors that have been in California since before it was a US territory.
You should definitely try out JavaScript. At least in the front end. Later on you can experiment with Node and see if you like it.
That's what we have valgrind, test cases and decent software engineers for.

Java don't forget suffers as do other languages from lots of nasty things related to types including invalid casts, null reference exceptions etc. When these go phut in production, you're usually in the same situation.
"who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years."

This is the scariest aspect of the data collection. People like this have the data to identify homosexuals. Hell, I suspect that a lot of the rationale for the data collection was tracking Muslims.

The potential this information has to facilitate genocide is astronomical and homophobes are in positions of power.
I also have a melody for the default method signature in Java which is the same except a slight difference in case "public static void main(String [] args)"
Chrome is over-agressive in blacklisting GPU drivers on Linux, try Firefox.
When working with axis - "X is a-cross"
Thanks for showing, exactly, what I was looking for recently.
It comes at 500 karma. You'll have to wait a while. And if you mean the article, then you'll never get downvote. There is no downvoting articles. Only flagging.
Turing-completeness is a Mathematical phenomenon which doesn't have anything to do with our Universe. Whenever we talk about Turing-completeness in relation to our Universe, it is always an assumption. That's why the Church-Turing thesis isn't a theorem.

Hence, if it's reasonable to go from "lots of complex stuff exists" down to "simple fundamental physics exists, complex stuff is emergent" then it's not unreasonable to go down a further layer and say "computation exists, physics is emergent". It's pure reductionism; the first step takes us from a world of "complex stuff with fundamental physics which can do computation" to a world of "fundamental physics which can do computation"; the second step goes from "fundamental physics which can do computation" to "computation".
I'm a PC-12 pilot in the Northeast and have been watching this company since it was little more than an idea and a Twitter account (original name Plane Red). Their marketing and execution is so much better than other small airlines. I'd love to see a service like this come to the NYC area. So many people spend far more than this per month on tickets to go to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the Hamptons and coastal Maine.
Not so much in cars and airplanes, but somewhat ironically, a typical x86 pc has many more ARM cores than it has x86 cores. My hard drive has 3 arm cores, my ssd has 2, my sound chip has one, my network chip has one...
Yes, I can't believe people trusted those little gold locks on their diaries when they were teenagers. Didn't they know that someone malicious could just force that with a modicum of strength?

Hiding passwords doesn't protect against someone malicious; it's enough of a speedbump to mean you don't need to be vigilant over all of your computers every second of every day.

Say you have a party with your friends, and are playing music through your laptop. What if you want to use the bathroom? Do you have to lock your PC? Is leaving the room "risky behaviour"?
I use the same visual trick (more or less, looking at < and > as arrows, or if you want, spears) but I visualise bigger numbers as more "powerful" numbers that poke the "weak", smaller numbers with the pointy bit :D That's how I imagined them when I was a small child and that's how I still "see" them :D

Numbers are cruel and ruthless :)
I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it.

In many areas AirBnB isn't a problem, mainly when it's being used as a way for regular people to rent out spare rooms or their apartment. But in NYC and London, people are starting to run larger-scale traditional hotel operations, only without following any of the regulations for traditional hotels. There, AirBnB's failure to implement any kind of replacement for municipal regulation is most noticeable, especially in its impact on other people's property.
Difficult to tell from a quick glance around the site how exactly this works. The press release suggests iOS and Android are supported. The landing page suggests all major manufacturers are supported. Does this then include Blackberry and Nokia? Is there an HTML -only option? There are some SDKs that target specific stacks, but no information on what device profiles they target.
You don't want to work with idiots who want to fire you just because of a "whispering campaign" anyway...
It's no more egregious than Google trying to show G+ down our throats. They've become the masters of persistent headers. Yahoo! is trying to the same.
Non-price competition: sell to 100 people at $10 or 5 at $200?
Just discovered flow_lamp
> For what it's worth, I take that form of "tl;dr" as emphasis, not as a literal tl;dr.

This.

I've been inured to using it in that way as well. I see the criticism above as a valid one though.
I'm not really of persuasion that Math is the only way to understand and predict the universe.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/is-mathematics....
Kinect turns your bathtub into a giant liquid touchscreen
interesting,will try it.
Hmm, nobody's mentioned Horse_eComics, the web comic that takes Horse_eBooks tweets and turns them into comics:

http://horseecomics.tumblr.com
Facebook Finally Explains Why All Your Fans Don’t See All Your Posts
It doesn't. There is a switch I use to preserve them.
Nice to see a polished piece of documentation in the arguably muddy field of CL GUI libraries.
> Oh, and how do you sift through the information to determine what is true and what isn't?

Regarding nutrition studies, it is not possible not only to regular person, but also to nutrition experts themselves, because there are many contradicting results from different studies in this field. That's why for this startup he uses mostly plain biology and chemistry, which is far less contradicting, and only fills some gaps with nutrition studies. I'd say nutrition studies are the weakest source of information available, compared to chemistry and biology.

So you call this thing dangerous when others attempt it? If this is dangerous, how would you call mass consumption of junk food and trans fats? It should be called a genocide, if you call this experiment dangerous.
That explains the new accounts with 500+ karma...
ARM realized that this was a problem when they got into smartphones, and while the lineup was a total and complete mess in 2008, their modern high-end chips actually provide a pretty uniform experience.

The half-watt microcontroller replacements still need custom builds, but the chips used in top-line smartphones can now all run the same compiled OS and apps. They are going to do a 64-bit transition soon, it will be very interesting how that will turn out.
I am an Indian so I wasn't referring to the US in particular although my bad that I didn't make it clear.

Well, the voting system is not necessarily perfect, at least not here. In my country there are sects where people sell their votes for alcohol.
I stand by my assertion that government != country on a philosophical level if not a practical one.
When you set up a new iPhone, it asks whether you want location services to be enabled or disabled.
Post Events and Sell Tickets of Your Events at Yapsody.com
>the legitimacy of the expressed vote is in question

Like we had with the Bush v.s. Al Gore election?
You can make it even simpler than that: just put the big number next to the big end of the glyph and vice versa.
facebutt ?!
Since this is a developer preview, there are plenty of other logging options as well.

For example, if you got to the Settings -> Developer -> Logging menu, you can dump all your network traffic.

You can also do this on (some) application-levels, e.g. if you go to the iMessage preferences, you can enable "iMessage Logging" and "Registration Logging", same for FaceTime (though I'm not sure why any developer would need this, it looks more like this is an Apple-internal thing that they forgot to disable for the public).
Yahoo to have new corporate logo next month
This reminds me of another DIY digital camera project based around the raspberry pi camera module - http://robofun.ro/create/the-sprite-raspberrypi-camera/
The dos and don’ts in A/B testing
Hi, I'm not Jesse, but I work with him, and maintain pyrax. I have only done some basic testing with 2.6, and everything appears to work correctly. I have also not used any of the new features of the 2.7.x versions of Python.

I would encourage you to try using pyrax with 2.6, and if you do run into any problems, please file an issue on GitHub and I will address it. We are ramping up our testing capabilities, and adding testing under 2.6.x is in the plans.
GridSure[1] is (was) another one. They've just gone into liquidation. Their story is yet another example of what appears to be a great idea, killed by being closed. If something like this is going to work it needs to be widely available, cheap if not free, and obviously, easy (UX and dev), while being secure.

http://www.gridsure-security.co.uk/