skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in education, so I looked at this with interest (PowerPoint is a teacher's staple, although I personally prefer Reveal.js).

I think a closer model to GitHub and the Windows app would be more useful to me. The Github Windows app is able to pick up differences in Word documents without any trouble already (although probably just text changes).

When working on a project, we normally have multiple files in a directory. A PowerPoint or two, a couple of Word docs and maybe an Excel file. A standalone app, rather than a PowerPoint plugin, would be able to look for all changes in the directory such as the addition of image files.

More importantly I would like to see pull requests. I like to share my resources with other educators, that aren't part of my 'team'. It would be nice if they could make improvements to my resources and then submit a pull request, so I could review what they've done and then accept it.

Just my thoughts. I've long thought we need a GitHub for teachers, but I don't have the skills to implement this yet.
> Sometimes I think cooperating with cops can get you a lot---even consenting to a search.

> Especially (unfortunately) if you're white and upper class looking

If "being white or upper class looking" gives you an advantage with the police then, by implication, not having those characteristics is a disadvantage.

This is exactly why laws exist and should, ideally, be applied impartially. I'd feel much better depending on the law than a cop's favorable feelings about me. I don't mind pissing off a cop of to assert my rights.
Texas State Troopers caught on camera probing women
Delivering Stripe templated email receipts & notifications.
IIRC it is the legislative branch of the government that is responsible for raising funds. So when I see this defense "It’s definitely a valuable asset to law enforcement, for purchasing equipment and getting things you normally wouldn’t be able to get to fight crime" I get concerned. There is a very good reason that those with the monopoly on the legitimate use of force are not intended to self-finance.
the couchdb at iriscouch went down completely for me.
When journalists say really stupid stuff about GMO's
If the cops are willing to make certain claims ("I smelled The Dread Marijuana"), they don't need your consent.
It is very interesting and fun playing with WebRTC.
Couple months ago, I completed a weekend project https://github.com/imomin/videoChat
Supermarket olive oil of any price is only suitable for frying

Yeah, yeah.

and both the [eminent] foodies gave a thumbs-up to Unilever's much-derided Bertolli brand.

Same as with wine. It's just a fruit and the variations from its production simply aren't as great as people like to think. Anyway, the best fat comes from bacon.
Thanks for that. Turns out there is an amazing shop (somewhat) near me which it turns out I really need to visit:

http://www.oliveoilarizona.com/olive-oils.html
Oh, hell, yeah. I stopped donating to the ACLU for similar reasons. I've since moved twice, once across several states, and I still get phone calls and mailings.
Try browsing rightmove and zoopla. Might get a fresh perspective on living in London.
Well Bezos has already shown he's capable of making one low profit margin business a success so he's got form for the role.

It's a classy move, and a very classy letter.
Ah true, but the underlying effect will be the same.
Sorry but did you even bother to read the links you posted ? Because the behaviour of Washington Post is completely legitimate and common sense. Of course they aren't just got to post the PRISM presentation verbatim without redaction.

From reading this I can understand the antagonism towards Snowden. He deserves it.
And yet, they are all best described as "conspiracy theories". The process that InclinedPlane outlined needs a better label.
I can tell you first hand that sometimes refusing to consent to a search simply doesn't matter. You'll be given the choice of allowing the illegal search, or having your car searched anyhow after you are removed from it at the point of a gun.
Precisely. There's something particularly grating about the self-righteous attitude of this author.

He may not care for such a call, but if there is an actual vacancy involved, there are millions of unemployed/underemployed people in the UK who would kill to get unsolicited calls from recruiters offering them £35-40k roles.
Coinbase Launches a New Design
I wish to educate my ignorant palate, not settle for a lowest common denominator, and somehow do so in a manner which will neither exhaust my wallet nor remaining lifespan.
Having grown up in the "jocks vs. nerds" deep south myself, I worry deeply about interactions with police. If there are ever two sides to a story and they have to pick one, they're certainly not going to pick yours.
Where were the drugs? There was no solid evidence a crime had been committed. It is common for poorer people not to have bank accounts, which would explain the cash, and neither the cash nor the pipe are illegal.

It doesn't matter one tiny little bit if you think the people in question are drug runners, or even if they actually are, in fact, drug runners. All that matters is that the government took their property as a de facto punishment for having committed a crime (running drugs) without ever actually proving that they committed a crime.

So yeah, there was definitely an agenda here, but it seems to have been to demonstrate a genuinely scary trend in law enforcement and government overreach, which is exactly what it should be.
Thanks for this. It's not whining, we take feedback extremely seriously. It is generous of you to provide it.
Amazon.com Founder to Buy The Washington Post
Being a developer that works with Rails daily, the first thing that jumped out at me was the code on the screen in the landing page image.

Rails hasn't used named_scope in a long time :)

I also found this bit to be just wrong

"I'm not even joking when I say this, but I think some of the resources out there make it intentionally hard for non-technical people to start learning. Maybe they want to keep this stuff a secret."

I don't believe for a second this exists. It's actually kind of offensive.
The point being made here is that isn't what conspiracy theories are. Conspiracy theories are about shadowy unknown cabals who create secret plans and execute them. They're not necessarily wrong, just usually.

You're equating leaps of logic with conspiracy theories. For example, saying "crystal power cured my cancer" is a leap of logic.

Saying that there's probably a consortium of Big Pharma, government officials and diamond mining companies who create astroturf groups that are tasked with publicly ridiculing crystal power in the popular press is a conspiracy theory.

It's not stupid because it's a conspiracy theory, it's stupid because it's stupid.

Wondering if Michael Hastings, a muckraking journalist who was claiming to have new muck who also died under strange circumstances may have been murdered, that's speculation. Speculating that this was the result of a secret plan hatched by more than one person would be a conspiracy theory. All should be judged on their merits.

Putting the possibility that a journalist may have had his car bombed on the credibility scale with "troofers" and fake Moon landing people is bizarre, though. I'm pretty sure that a journalist somewhere got murdered today to make sure he/she didn't report on something. It happens all of the time.
I signed up as someone who has a deep need for this. We are trying to run through 4 months of cold calling data to identify the ideal customer profile / call frequency etc. that has the highest odds of converting into a sale. I vaguely remember learning some of it in my Marketing Research class but have since forgotten.

From your post it sounded like a free online course but it seems like the free course will be presented in person? I wish you had a more formal online offering.
Car Hacking Whitepaper and tools released
HN duplicate filter not working? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162813 is #1 front page right now.
As a graduate, you can live in central London pretty comfortably on rent of about £8k/year.

£35k is about £25k after tax, so you'd be spending about a third of your post-tax income on accommodation. Completely reasonable.
I found my favorite olive oil, Alfar La Maja, in a small shop in San Sebastian, Spain. It comes from Mendavia, Spain, which is part of the Navarra region and is well known for its' olive production. At the time I bought it I had no idea it would be the best olive oil I've ever had, but I had two things working in my favor: 1) San Sebastian's residents and tourists are incredibly serious about food, 2) it was fresh, single source, small production, local, etc.

Later, I looked it up online, and found this gem -- according to the NY Olive Oil competition, "Alfar La Maja is one of the world's best extra virgin olive oils for 2013."
False context. The discussion is around domestic assassination (specifically of an unarmed journalist), not world war or war on a battlefield. Radically different concepts historically both from a legal and constitutional stand point. Your example couldn't be further away from the issue of assassinating an unarmed, non-threatening US citizen (whether domestic or overseas).
"that's not an act created by Google"

No, they just wrote the law to:

" increased supply of high-quality workers pushes wages downward a bit"

That's whats in Congress today.
It amazes me how tolerant we are of law enforcement misrepresenting the truth. Making cops wear tamper proof cameras will fix it, but don't expect that to be an easy political battle.
Not yet gone, but effectively extinct
Hmm. I clicked on the intro video to play it. It started playing. I clicked on the dark background to dismiss it so I could continue viewing the site. The video still played in the background instead of pausing or stopping.
Once a year I get some 5 liters of cold pressed virgin organic olive oil. I know it´s origin for sure because it comes from a private guy doing his own stuff on a small cold press (he is not for quantity just for the best quality for his family, it´s a hobby for him).
I agree with you that you won´t find anithing similar in a store: It´s more acid, spicier, deep green, clowdy (it´s unfiltered) and very very tasty (it has some taste to the olives still in it). It defenitely gives flavor to your salads or bread. You can not use it for frying as it will give a distinct flavor, not that it´ll ruin the food but it´ll taste to green olive oil.

Just to give you a sense of the difference, we are used to cook almost exclusively with olive oil. We buy "virgin" olive oil from reputable brands for the saladas and special dishes. The home made one is soo much better compared to those.

I love it!
What does a stem cell burger taste like?
The locally produced, New Zealand Olive Oil is far nicer to me than the expensive stuff I've had imported from Italy. Country of Origin is definitely not an indicator of quality in my experience.
No, but it has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, willing to bomb Iran. Heeelllloooooo!
These are all fair criticisms that I'm happy to respond to, but let's please be careful when throwing around the word "scam". A scam is something dishonest and I promise that I have good intentions.

We often forget that products can evolve. I'm not pretending that I've come up with the best version of what this product could eventually be. But I've validated the need for a product, released a version of it that has a modicum of value, and an overwhelming majority of the people who have completed the class are incredibly excited and thankful. I just got this email today (completely unsolicited):

"Subj: $100K in wasted programming costs. OMR liberated me!

Hi Mattan,

I followed your Rails course and created Shruffle.com. It's a simple way for businesses to do text marketing. Nothing too fancy, but I'm marketing it to local restaurants and barber shops around where I live, and have been getting good responses.

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for making a kick-ass course. I wasted so much time hiring wack ass programmers in the past who never understood what I wanted to do half the time. Over the course of 5-6 years I must have spent at least $100K in wasted programming costs for various projects that never went anywhere. Your course liberated me....now I can build anything that I dream of without spending a penny.

Most of the other courses were a big freaking waste of time. I was looking for something that showed me how to do basic things quickly (login/logout, validations, etc etc), and your course did just that. Next step is to incorporate Stripe for payments."

Now I'll admit that I'm not happy with what % of people finish the course (it's higher than average for an online class but still relatively low) and I'm not happy that I don't teach enough to give people the flexibility to build more than just a fairly simple CRUD app, but rest assured that as the creator of this product, I'm more critical than anyone else of its flaws.

The first version was 3 hours, I took a lot of feedback and completely redid the lessons to turn it into a much longer class. The course has been redone 3 time so far and I'm currently in the process of expanding it out into a much larger one that teaches people the various concepts of web applications within the contexts of different kinds of applications (an about me, a wordpress, a yelp, a pinterest) which will give people more of that understanding that we're both looking for.

Anyway, as I'm sure you can imagine, it hurts when someone takes a product you've spent a lot of time on and calls it a "scam".
I don't. I'm far from an expert on high-performance Clojure. (I'm really glad that there is such a thing, and that people focus on it, however.) Joy of Clojure and Programming Clojure get into optimizations a little bit, but I think that field is still fairly new.

Sometimes with seqs one can end up with a "holding head" problem; if you're doing stream processing but holding on to a seq, you can end up having the whole thing in memory, which would kill you. That's not what's happening there, though; a default-configured JVM can't hold anything close to a billion longs in memory.

One of the neat things is that, because the REPL actually compiles code (there's no interpreter) you get the same performance with the time macro as you would get in compiled code. What that means is that testing for performance can be done at the REPL and quickly.

To explain what I did and why, I figured that the tight loop would be optimized to Java-like performance. With the more elegant formulation, I didn't know what was going on in terms of types (how is +, a vari-aritied function with many type signatures, being handled)? If the loop performed poorly, I'd probably have put type hints on the arguments and replaced + with unchecked-add; but it performed well so I left it as it was.
The United States is… (How autocomplete describes the 50 States)
Visual LANSA:

begin_loop using(#int8) to(1000000000)
#r_dvp += #int8
end_loop

From which VL will then generate 2,050 lines of C++.
>> [Freedoms] are not being eroded by irresistible laws of nature.

>Yes they are.

No, They are not. Trying to apply a physical law to a philosophical construct is folly. Freedom has no mass, it's an idea.

I'm familiar with entropy. You could just as easily say that the power structures in this story seeking to steal from the weak are being eroded as well. They, too, must be maintained. Entropy is a force that both sides of society must contend with, and has little to do with my argument as gravity.

Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal of the application. To think that horrible things done by humanity are no ones fault. To think that it's forgivable to acquiesce and accept evil as inevitable. I've surely succumb to it myself throughout my life.

However, evil and maliciousness can be fought by the same agents that perpetrate it. Small acts by many individuals add up to greatness (NASA) or horror (War).

Evil will never be eradicated, it's part of human nature. It can be held in check by those who seek to do good, and throwing up hands and saying, "It has nothing to do with me. Forces of nature." is not some virtuous way out. It's not some noble intellectual loophole that you understand shit happens and are above the squalor. It's an insidious brand of laziness that I see far too much of from in a crowd as empowered as those on Hackernews.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Possibly[1] Edmund Burke

1. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Disputed
Still no Seattle? You're breaking my heart.
Woman too beautiful to be developer on Linkedin
Cartero: A modular client side asset manager
State rankings:
http://www.ij.org/part-ii-grading-the-states-2
There are only two states where there's any question about the legality of recording police officers in public without permission. The laws you're thinking of only require consent to record private conversations, and an interaction with a police officer on a public road is not private.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/05/7-rules-for-recording-...
Please redirect your shock toward the US government.

And by the way, at the time of writing 27 of the top 30 articles don't mention Snowden in the comments, so...
Ask HN: How would you defend Python against Node.js in a SaaS web app?
Some folks at the office would like to use Node.js for a SaaS webapp, which I find extremely useless. We don't except huge amount of customers, and we already have a WebSocket api written in Clojure ( which will change in the future, Node.Js might be a good fit here) .
What do you think Python's biggest strength against Node.js ? First thing that come to my mind is the development speed, great open source projects, tools and huge community, years of experience, etc.. Help me out to support my argument..
All server side code will be in CoffeeScript( if node.js will be chosen )
Thanks
http://dropitto.me/
To be honest, I've found that the ones most apathetic are the ones complaining about apathy. If you don't like it, DO SOMETHING.

Campaign for increased privacy. Give solid, concrete examples of how the USG needs definite barriers after tearing the ones constructed during the inception of the Constitution. Spread the word, organize rallies, and do whatever you can.

Don't stick your nose in the sand and complain about apathy.
the useful info is here - http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514581/government-lab-r...

it's a star (radial) topology, with quantum links outwards only, which is enough to distribute keys. end nodes only need quantum receivers so it's cheaper than bi-directional systems.
I would skip the passive-aggressive approach. Reading those made me want to seize your assets and send you home on a bus.
completely off-topic for HN -- and yet 151 points. please somebody save this site. it's spiralling out of control. pg, please
...or they will just let you go. It does actually happen (http://youtu.be/8kfoDHYM9yM) and I would rather use my forth ammendment rights than be so scared not to that the United States turns into a police state.
> they for instance remove all e-mail addresses ending in .de

Sehr lustig! As if a yahoo.com or gmail.com couldn't possibly belong to a German user!
I absolutely can.

I arrived in this country on an H-1B, and then I co-founded a company where I repeatedly examined the option of hiring employees on H-1Bs. It never, ever made sense to hire a foreign employee if there was a local one available, even though I have absolutely no bias towards hiring American citizens.

The only reason you'd hire an H-1B is if you were out of qualified American engineers, because it is so much harder to hire foreigners.

The chief users of H-1Bs are big, boring companies that can't attract local talent at any price. And then they can't hang on to them, thanks to the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century act, which lets H-1B holders switch companies if they get a better offer. The purpose of the law was to prevent companies using immigration status to "trap" employees at lower wage. Because the immigration system thought of that problem.

The argument that for the same price, you get a more-qualified applicant for a given lower-skilled position doesn't fly, because

a) the cost of an H-1B is far more than their salary; the legal fees run into tens of thousands of dollars before you even consider relocation. Foreign workers are much more expensive.

b) the pool of people willing to up and relocate from a foreign country to the US just isn't that big; the same market that applies to American engineers applies to foreign ones, and they are just as demanding.

c) once in America, the H-1B holders don't need to stick around if their salary is crappy, and they don't. See above.

The fundamental misunderstanding that a lot of people have about talent immigration is that they think there are hordes of unwashed foreigners beating down the doors to get in. They're not. Most people stay where they are. That's why you have to make it easier for them to get in, because we need them more than they need us.
Well we came across Lucero [1] at a farmer's market, they are a California company, and drove up to their factory and did the tour. It isn't European or African oil but we like it.

[1] http://www.lucerooliveoil.com/
Perfectly framed letter, it's interesting that he doesn't make mention of a single negative point or competitor. All very reassuring instead, and it reads like he has just been given the reins essentially and won't be rocking the boat for a while.
Here in the link you can see for each label of origin they list which varities of olives are more common:

http://www.worldsofflavorspain.com/node/385

(arbequina is a most common variety and more spicy in the aftertaste, but as you can see, like with wine, different varieties produce so different results that talking in generics is rather uneducated).
TL;DR: Your "obvious" conclusions about school performance did not stand up to the scientific method.

I also ran for office three times now as a candidate for Minnesota State Representative. As such, I took a keen engineer's interest in the various reform proposals floating around modern politics. The answers I found may shock you.

The fact is that "merit pay for performance" schemes were invalidated by multiple, peer-reviewed scientific studies that attempted to show they worked.

If any organization had a desire to show that merit pay worked, it was the Rand Corporation. Their close ties to military contractors meant that validating a merit pay link would lead to an easy fix to America's achievement gap woes and a solid solution to produce more and better domestic employees for our nation's contractors.

Instead, Rand's study results aimed high for the merit bonus amounts and achieved record poor results. Several other peer-reviewed studies followed soon after and replicated their results. For an analysis of why this is the case, I recommend the book "Drive" by Daniel Pink.

The fact is, if you want to prove that seniority pay doesn't work, don't stop at teachers. Go to your local software shop. See how they appreciate your suggestion that you should pay engineers instead of based upon years of experience and successful projects finished, pay them based upon the number of lines of code produced and how few bugs are created.

See how quickly they crucify you for crippling their company with vanity metrics. Is it not entirely possible that unions can actually be right at times?
Yes, it's best we forget the whole affair and move on.
Nope. Snowden gave the Post some of his info (the infamous slides), they refused to publish it, he gave it to the Guardian, who did publish it, and the Washington Post followed with their story one day later.

Glenn Greenwald broke the story in the Guardian.