skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won election as President with no substantial prior notoriety, overcoming a strong Democratic candidate in Ms. Clinton, a popular "maverick" Republican candidate, and did it all while being black and wearing "Hussein" as a middle name.

Further strategic arms limitations treaties negotiated with Russia.

Osama bin Laden.

Withdrew from Iraq as promised and on schedule.

Set a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan and, so far, every indication of sticking to that.

Shifted American strategic policy away from Cold War Europe plans over to the Asia-Pacific.

"ObamaCare", which if you think is not notable, can only mean you're not paying attention... Hillary herself had tried to push for health care reform in 1994 and been utterly and completely stonewalled.

Managed to get re-elected as a black president, in a fairly decisive victory against a very capable Republican opponent (for everyone who was afraid of Romney's Mormonism there were 3 who were happy the GOP had finally fielded a not-crazy candidate).

But either way, 100 years is a fairly long period of time, especially in the Age of the Internet. Ask your average person the difference between the accomplishments of McKinley, Harding, or Taft and they'll just stare at you and drool. If you're lucky they'll have at least heard of Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt.
His question is: should he send him to a good-good university, e.g., U of Michigan or one of the good-great ones like Harvard. In one case the son will get scholarship in the other most probably not.

Which one will give the better scholarship depends strongly on your family income. If you're from a well-off family then U of Michigan will probably end up a better deal (lower tuition + merit scholarships). But if you're from a less-well-off family, then the prestigious private universities typically have more generous aid, due to their huge endowments and insulation from state budget crunches. For example Harvard waives all tuition and provides a living stipend for students whose family income is < $65,000, which is more generous than U of Michigan's scholarship policy. Between $65k-$150k there's a sliding scale so you'd have to make a more detailed comparison; above $150k you pay the full Harvard tuition.
Cox's work builds on Thompson's work from the 60s. He says so himself.
I've tried to purchase a shipping label online a few times, and it is always a pain. USPS makes you sign up for an account, and fill out lengthy forms. You can buy USPS and UPS shipping labels through your paypal account, but that link is also difficult to come by.

I'd love to see a site when you can enter 2 addresses, a shipping weight, and a size, and then it shows you your options. It looks like this is what you're doing, so I'll definitely check you out once you release this.
You can't really have proportional representation for the role of President, unless you want to split up the roles (head of state, commander in chief, chief executive, etc.).
The difference between a voter's influence and a non-citizen's influence is negligible.
Apparently Thomas Jefferson never said anything notable to popular sensibilities. I don't often encounter a quote that goes unchallenged. He seems to be a composite phantom made of misattributed quotations.
Obama was elected on a platform of opposition to those programs. Many he shut down outright. Others he imposed changes on.

In this case the changes didn't go far enough, IOHO, but it's amazing to me how quickly people change their opinion of someone, even in relation to much worse examples, due to single issues.
Put it into perspective. If you're a multimillionaire or a famous film persona, which Woody Allen is both, then you have so many greater rewards that life can offer than a frankfurter. Sure he can give into one of these pleasures, but perhaps, at the cost of a shortened life where he can experience so many more rewards. I respect him for watching out for his diet and health because there are so many other people in similar positions that always make me wonder why they don't take better care of themselves (now that they've "made it") so they can better enjoy what they've been blessed with. To many people this is all obvious.
Hasn't this happened with Blink[0]? And now Opera is going to be using Blink as well.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_web_engine
well, you are exposing the database at the javascript level. If it is javascript then you can mess with it in your browser via the developer console. So if you are using firebase via javascript your application is fundamentally insecure. You cannot even put serverside sanity checks like "this person should not ask for this value" or "nobody should have a string for a score" because of firebase's limitations.
I found taste is very malleable. I have (had) IBS symptoms. I don't eat any processed food, sugar, dairy or nightshades.

I like the food I'm eating more than I used to. Berries now taste as good as ice cream used to. Cranberries taste sweet instead of sour.

Good quality black coffee is better than a latte.

I don't know what woody Allen eats. I expect he enjoys some of it, and is writing for effect.

If he actually doesn't enjoy eating, then that is indeed sad.

But having gone from 'not health' to 'health', at a young age, I'm very, very willing to give up a few modest pleasures to preserve health.
I usually say that my rates for work are $X/hr, where $X is my freelance cost. Then I recommend finding a professional repair shop.
The post you are replying to is why I take evo-psych explanations with a grain of salt, as your post is just as plausible while it doesn't try to stretch the findings in the article by reducing complex evolutionary processes to explain human society.

edit: ugh, grammar. this is what I get for posting from a phone
I had a massive caffeine addiction (think 2 large cans of redbull a day) about a year ago until I quit cold turkey. It may be in my head, but after about a month off the stuff I felt like I had more energy than ever.
Yes, it seems this post was de-listed?
Potentially stupid question – how is this different from the Tor browser bundle?
Obama also mentioned that he signed an E.O. giving IC members whistleblower protections for the first time in history, protections which Snowden declined to pursue.

I still don't really think that the debate we're having would have occurred in quite that same way, but Obama certainly took steps to comply with that 2008 policy paper.
Hmmm, when looked into this a few days ago with an eye towards a Clojure port (in part a fork) what I remember finding is that the EPL allows separate "modules" to have a different license, although of course that couldn't be an incompatible one like the GPL based on the latter's linking requirements. The Aptana legal link looks pretty clear at first glance, "the EPL is not particularly compatible with the GPL".

I think we would have heard by now if there were any viral problems with normal applications built on top of it, Clojure has been a very big thing in the Lisp world for years.
NO. </grumpycat>
I've never been warned and I've been a user for five years. Very few of my comments are ever even voted down.

I think you're just wrong here.
My account dead?
And still no viable competitor to emacs.
I assume this article refers to CS at CMU, or it would make even less sense. (There are much harsher academic environments in the world than CMU!)

I'd venture to guess that 10-15 years into the real world, very few Harvard grads say "I wish I'd gone to CMU," while probably quite a few grads of CMU (and other engineering programs) wish they were better networked.

In his New Yorker interview, Michael Saylor made a similar contrast between MIT (his alma mater) and Harvard. In his view, Harvard grads did better in life because they had learned to develop relationships, and had more of them.
It is the same prize once awarded to Kissinger, after all:

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
Obama’s former adviser ridicules statement that NSA doesn’t spy on Americans
The pre-rendering I am referring to is the contrast between server and client side page rendering. On my site with the first page load the server sends you a full HTML page so you don't have to wait for the JS to load, then the JSON to be fetched and then the HTML to render.

However, on all further navigation (if you are using anything but IE9 or less) I just request the JSON data from the server and I use handlebars via JS to render each page.
I think you've got it exactly backwards. We need to rely much more on the "common man" being able to take care of his own day-to-day needs, and take the attitude that the government is what is harmful, incompetent, corrupt, and does not deserve a say in how many things are done.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPGk0PXCUAANwGP.jpg tweeted my wikileaks.
I think this comment from djao has some additional insights:

"It would have been nice if TR had asked an academic researcher for comments. After all, if discrete logarithms are ever broken, it'll likely be by academic researchers.

Diffie-Hellman is based on discrete logarithms, but RSA is not. RSA is based on integer factorization, not discrete logarithms. Integer factorization and discrete logarithms share some common techniques, but neither is known to be based on the other, and opinion is split as to whether they are truly equivalent. I can't think of a single respectable academic researcher who thinks that the latest results threaten RSA.

The new discrete logarithm attacks require the existence of a nontrivial intermediate subfield, and work best in small characteristic. They do not apply to the most common instances of Diffie-Hellman in deployment (no subfields, large characteristic), and we currently have no realistic approaches that could make them apply. A similar story actually played out with ECC some 10-15 years ago, when Weil descent attacks were new. Those attacks on ECC also require an intermediate subfield, and 10 years of follow-on research has been unable to sidestep this requirement. To date, there is no indication that Weil descent can be used on the most common instances of ECC being deployed today, and nobody is going around saying ECC is at risk from new algorithms. (Quantum computers, yes, but not new algorithms.)

It is possible that the new discrete logarithm attacks will extend to cases with large characteristic and no intermediate subfields, but I personally think that it is extremely unlikely. I would not put the chances at "small but definite." It would be a major surprise if this happened. Even if it did, RSA may still be safe. I can't speak for others, but my sense of the crypto community is that most experts agree with my assessment."
Uh, Congress has access to classified information. They receive classified briefings all the time from agencies in the Executive Branch.
You press the shortcut for it, type the character you want to jump to, it highlights every instance of that character and shows you a unique shortcut key for each one, you then press that key to jump to your desired character.

I agree though, that gif is far too fast.
'WD' means Western Digital.

Hacker News doesn't have PMs. Leave contact info in your profile if you want to be contacted.
I've had my kit since March the novelty has yet to wear off.

Off the top of my head, I'd think that comes from two main things

1.) Developers are still exploring how to take advantage of the hardware - figuring out what works best or how things like binaural audio, a kinect sensor or a wiimote to add to the experience.

2.) It's a necessarily focused experience. The fact the people refer to being "in" a Rift demonstrates this. This is unlike other games or technologies that might be played alongside an IRC session or a with a movie on in the background.
Should rename the article to oblivious person picks Travelling Nuker as their business name and unsurprisingly raises suspicious from the government. Where's the news in this?
Well, arguably everything he said in yesterday's news conference was at best questionable (and at worst deceitful). But I'm still glad he said it. The fact that he had to address these issues publicly, and in a manner that's effectively "oh yeah, I would have revised those programs anyway" (rather than some senators' "the programs are essential! don't listen to the traitors") is greatly encouraging; the system may not yet be beyond redemption. Are his measures palliatives rather than cures? Very likely. And he's still hiding behind concocted phrases designed to "reassure the people". But the moment can nonetheless be savored as a promising victory for the digital civil rights movement.
That's an awfully friendly reading of what's going on here. I'm not a biologist, much less an evolutionary one, but what I've heard is that explanations for the benefit of the whole group tend to be wrong or at least met with extreme skepticism.

Here's another reading: It could also be that we're wired to exploit situations of power. Isn't it convenient that empathy is reduced when you're more powerful, making it more likely for you to (ab)use that power in your own interest? That seems awfully likely to improve your personal reproductive success...
Of course that would leave us with Joe Biden. Which is probably why Obama picked him.
Could you post a sound clip?
He never promised to end drone strikes. In fact I believe he emphasized drone strikes even then in order to shift away from American "boots on ground" and the then-current policy of using JDAM bomb strikes (which are even more dangerous w.r.t. collateral damage).
WTF is hellban... and if there are rules here where are they?
I was trying to read another article on the lavabit story. (See this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6190620)

And then the thread degraded into some talk on hellban. I tried to follow along but it appears that there are rules or maybe people who have been here longer are treated differently?

All I really wanted to do was read about the lavabit story and I end up more pissed about comments being deleted...

I found these guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) but there is no mentions of bans...

thanks ahead of time
HN has its own reality distortion field.

In time Obama will enter the history books for what he did, Snowden not so much. Maybe only to serve as a reminder that the Nobel peace prize lost its prestige.

Part of this is that Obama did a service to everybody on the planet (including Snowden) and Snowden serves a limited set or interests.
Did Google just kill PR agencies?
Yes, it has. I think that's why it was posted - someone at Opera predicted/suggested/wanted this to happen.
> Having programmed at least 10k locs in all major paradigms

I don't want to sound insulting, but 10 KLOC is not nearly enough to get a reasonable understanding of even very concise languages. 10 KLOCs of APL, maybe, but certainly not with C, Java (certainly not with Java) or even Ruby or Python.

Beware of Maslow's hammer.
If we have HN-users who already feel like they need to "protect themselves" against Glass, the general public would be whipped into a frenzy by one FOXNews report.

I don't think this is true. There is already "revenge porn" and upskirt shots from cell phones. Nobody has suggested banning cell phone cameras, or even complained about it in any serious way. (Remeber that law that would require camera phones to always make a noise? How did that go? http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show. Out of 435 potentially paranoid Fox-News-loving representatives, he could get no other sponsor.)

I think the whole Glass camera thing is just people trying to rationalize their intrinsic dislike for the thing. (It's new. It looks like glasses. I got made fun of for wearing glasses when I was a kid. They are intrinsically weird.) You can already surreptitiously record pretty much anything that happens in public, and people upload the result to Facebook and YouTube regularly.
Tesla success shows what a bad investment the GM/Chrysler bailout was:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/07/28/tesla-success-...
Ignore what you don't understand
What I'm saying is that rarely anyone is treated like that, and the OP sounds like he was just reading all of his insecurities into everyone he was assisting.

But what do I know? It's not like there are loads of other people in this very thread saying the... same... Oh.
And all because of a legitimate policy goal of preventing the destruction of an insightful commenting community due to the chaos that would ensue if unrestrained posting were always allowed.

Ironic indeed.
It appears that this is designed to prevent censorship, as opposed to Tor's broader goal of anonymization.
Sorry but you quitting your job is not related to getting healthy, you can do that everywhere and is only possible if you want.
Ask HN: Hacker Resume
How should a programmers resume look like?
There are a few studies on the same subject. Most notably by Paul Piff

Here is the peer-reviewed paper: "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior": http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

New York Magazine did a feature story about the study: http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/

A PBS piece on the study: http://youtu.be/IuqGrz-Y_Lc

And the documentary: "Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream - Why Poverty?" http://youtu.be/6niWzomA_So - also exams the psychology behind power.
>The word makes you upset only because you assign to it an overly positive meaning it doesn't have.

Well said. In situations like this, I always refer to Oxford dictionary. It's included in spotlight on Macs.

Iconic: of, relating to, or of the nature of an icon

Icon: a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something

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"Time goes by, and this sound becomes iconic, showing up in TV shows and movies, and becoming international short-hand for "you have a text message"..."

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That's from the article. Seems like a very appropriate use of iconic to me.
newspaper blows own trumpet - film at 11.
Have you yet read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbanning and http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h... ?
One obvious way to do that would be to get rid of the employer-employee relationship. Flat management styles attempt to work in this direction, but really you end up with worker cooperatives when you take the thought to its logical conclusion.
I think he means that the 11th is his birthday. (His comments below say he's married)
Take a look at Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, which describes in general terms the political phenomenon you're describing.

I hope you check this—you should put an obfuscated e-mail address in your profile.
I read once that the level of energy you feel from caffeine is actually your normal energy level, and that the 'boost' you feel is actually the caffeine dragging you out of a low.

Or something like that. And I can only presume this is after you've been consuming it for a while.

Up until recently I would drink about a pot of coffee a day. I've also gone cold turkey and while I have fallen off the wagon a couple of times, I've felt more energised (especially in the morning) and definitely less irritable.

I'm also finding that my sleep these days is amazing!
Marissa Mayer's biggest Yahoo buy is 75% cool factor
It's not that simple. The fact that you have Flash disabled is itself identifying information.
I take it the bathroom is bugged now (or some nearby room).
I've found a strong correlation between sites which require javascript, and sites which I should be spending a minimal amount of time on.
> What performance may we expect?

It'll feel very snappy until you try to actually do a lot of computation, especially I/O. This is the curse of Plan 9.

> Is there Linux emulation lib?

Not for ARM.

> Or at least package database based on Debian sources?

This doesn't even make sense.
Nope... offsite... ok. I just thought that would be stated here somewhere too.

No worries. Just made the other thread sad.
Well, shutting themselves down since they can't deliver perfectly safe and secure email because the problem is technically impossible.

SilentCircle's other services are still up and running, for example, because they can be made secure.

Ironic in SilentCircle's case (if you're an HNer) is that PZ noted to the BBC how important his service was because it protects Navy SEALs deployed to areas fighting terrorism where they might otherwise be detected.
I have not found that to be true.
First they came for the PHP users, and I didn't speak out, because I did not program in PHP.

Then they came for the Android users, and I didn't speak out, because I did not own an Android device.

Then they came for the Opera users, and I didn't speak out, because seriously, who the hell uses Opera today?
Suspicions of what? Last I checked naming your company wasn't a federal crime
https://www.life360.com/latitude/test

There is a problem
Error calling GET https://www.googleapis.com/latitude/v1/currentLocation?granu...: (404) Not Found
FBI showed up at Noisebridge this week asking about the Tor node again. They said the Chinese are now using it, but I am sure they have more important worries and reasons to come to NB.
Should have told him thanks but no thanks.

FBI agents should no longer be considered to be on the side of American citizens. Not with their constant snooping, their attitude that anyone with a computer is a potential hacker etc.

I would have made them stay outside of the place, listen to them talk for a min or two and said "thanks for coming and talk later." Then close the door.
The people targeted in drone strikes were not "suspected terrorists." They were actively waging war against the US. The teenager who was killed was not targeted. He was killed a month later in a strike while he was traveling with a terrorist who was the target of the strike.
There's a big difference between using consumer grade MLC flash and running a very high intensity workload and using enterprise grade SLC flash and only using 80 MB/s of bandwidth.

As a consumer you really don't have to worry about write endurance, though. I mean, how much do you write to your drive every day, maybe 5 GB at most? Even with MLC flash and a fairly small 120 GB drive that'll last you for a couple of hundred years. And even when it fails you can still read the data out, you just can't write new data. The problem you should worry about is a firmware bug in the part of the drive that handles the wear leveling abstraction. I haven't seen one of those in a while, but when many companies were just starting to develop SSDs they occurred fairly frequently, though usually the manufacturer would figure out the problem and patch the firmware for new drives after enough failures in the field.
Personalized for each job position you are looking for, nicely formatted and well organized, all the main data on the first page (often the big part of recruiters do not even read the other pages), at least one link to something (your github/sourceforge/personal_blog/etc) in which they can see some exemples of your code/coding_style and if you have a list of other jobs you have done in your life please put first a list of those strongly related to the job position you are looking for now, then a second list with all the others.
Rodney Brooks refines the sequel to previous startup iRobot
One SSD of Vertex 4 speed or higher, usually in a laptop, max RAM. Haven't seen the need for a workstation in over five years. Have gone through 4 laptops for processor increases/lightness/battery in that time, so SSD is always replaced long before anything could go bad anyway. Develop Android/iOS mainly, although there's often a Jetty/Rails/MongoDB/NodeJS/Postgres server or two and a VM running.
Have you taken two week breaks without any coffee to compare? If the article is correct, after two weeks you should have kicked off the addiction. If you're comparing day 1 with coffee vs day 2 without coffee, you might be falling into a trap.