skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think people should be able to just waltz right onto an airplane without identification. It works great for trains, why not planes? I don't see how the scenario you outlined is a security risk. There are plenty of other, better ways to make stolen tickets unusable.

How do I expect age restrictions to be enforced without ID? I don't. The US's age restrictions on alcohol are stupid and should go away.

Edit: actually, I don't see how the current regime prevents using stolen tickets in the first place. IDs are only checked at security, not when boarding. So you print out a fake boarding pass with your real name and use it to get past security, then use your stolen ticket to board the plane, where they make no effort to ensure that you are the person listed on the boarding pass you present. Easy! Well, until the real passenger shows up with a reprinted boarding pass and wonders why you're in their seat, at which point you get hauled off to jail.
Ask HN: Is our criticism of surveillance not a bit hypocritical?
It feels like we have a bit of a double standard on here when talking about metrics / tracking.

Quite commonly we see articles about tracking users etc but with the stories such as the London 'tracking bins' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6198883) and NSA stories we have a significantly more negative response.

I'm a fan of metrics and tracking - the amount we can learn and good we can do with such information is incredible. In my mind though, there is not much difference between tracking user views on my website and tracking pedestrians walking in my city.

What makes one more 'right' than the other?
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I just bought cry.bz... anyone want to make an airbnb clone targeted at high end crybz? I'm also open to other ideas, I can finance the development of the site etc if there is a good idea out there.

And great site though, its really easy to use, nice work!
"rather than replacing one dynamic library"

Library and version management at Integration (and before test) simplifies the question "what version are you on?" There is one answer, which for many environments may be useful.
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Please no, BB10 is superior to Android and already runs Android apps.
Wealthy people like to protect their personal privacy.
I love how there's a "growth hacker", as if this is an actual viable business plan!

This is kinda like saying "People who go to concerts seem to like the music a lot, so let's start a service where a bunch of drunk people show up at your house when you're listening to music and stand really close to you whilst talking or screaming at the band"
Disagree completely. Technological solutions are the only feasible ones because the majority of the population is absolutely fine with the status quo.

In a democracy, complacency guarantees that nothing will change and in fact will likely get worse.

For those of us to whom privacy actually matters, we need to recognize that we are in the vast minority, and as such, our voice will be completely incapable of effecting political change. Technological tools then become our only option.

Then there's the issue that even IF political action had a chance, it would still be ineffective. Case in point: voting for "the other guy" HAS ALREADY FAILED everyone who actually bought Obama's lies about reducing the police state.
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What are those "obvious" reasons?

The only reason I've ever had for knowing who wrote code is if the code+comments+tests do not adequately explain what's going on and I need to know.
On most of those occasions the person who wrote the original code had already left the organisation.
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See also Word press's "Silence is golden" php files.
It's lazy-loading the images (otherwise, BAM 30MB download). The blank screen thing is the resize handler breaking. I'm looking into it.
Technology supports the law. That swings in one direction with CALEA: telecom equipment is now designed to support on-demand eavesdropping. There is no reason that things could not swing in the other direction, so that technology is used to ensure that the government is not abusing its power. If the Internet had been designed to protect personal privacy, things like PRISM would have been much more difficult to implement. Laws can be changed easily when there are no real-world issues standing in the way.
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The science suggests the sounds increase creativity, specifically. That distracting noise of a coffee shop actually helps abstract thinking.
Cutting the GitHub Pages Gem
The bins article talked about things like "Installing a sensor in the bathroom so you know which gender the person has." Not to mention they'd connect things like which shops you visit and at what time. At any time a police officer could come along and say "We want all records you have on MAC address xx:xx". Quite a difference from websites tracking people.

The same problem exists with Google tracking - it's not that you know who's been to your site, it's that Google know every site you've been on, when you've been there, and what you did there.
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> When someone else posts a short explanation of how they created something, why do you feel the need to deride it as being "not a big deal"?

Because the details of how it was made doesn't matter much, since you could bang on kitchen appliances and come up with a similar simple fraction-of-a-second jingle. Though I have conceded that it is a nice enough story for historical purposes. But hardly anything more than that.

> Does dismissing the work of other people help you feel better about yourself?

This is just childish, emotionally charged rhetoric.
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mass surveillance can be blinded

Suppose the political climate creates incentives such that ordinary people are compelled to report on each other. Explain to me how technology blocks that?
while listening to the structuring of the haskell version, with a "world" and an "actor" for each element, and the interaction as message-passing, I would think Carmack would find using erlang very satisfing as another alternative :D
This is why I always preferred vertical masonry. Sites such as VKontakte, Google Image Search, and the recent Flickr app tile things horizontally, but this sometimes means you have to crop the images to fit into your masonry. Not so with vertical masonry, which you can just resize to have constant width.
There's a rather wide gulf between a moderate claim that there's a wide gulf between Ruby and Haskell concurrency, and the claim I responded to that it "isn't even something you can do with Ruby".

I am curious, though, what Haskell provides that can't be done with any of the current Ruby implementations? (not least because I'm back to working on my ahead of time/static Ruby compiler)
If everyone is fine with the status quo why would they adopt technologies that challenge the status quo? In general security systems will cause some amount of inconvenience and the perceived benefit must outweigh the cost of that inconvenience.
It looks nice (much like Google Image results) but IMO it's not "equally distributed". For example, an image that has dimensions 800x531 gets ~2.3x the space as one with dimensions 531x800. That arbitrarily incentivizes/rewards landscape photos w.r.t. portraits. "Equally-distributed" would probably require an algorithm that works mosaically (without row constraints) and couldn't achieve "taking up all the space available [in a rectangular region]".

Still, looks nice.
You can also pick up a domain name and point it at your github repo. I've got wickerbox.net for $10 a year from Namecheap being served out of wicker/wicker.github.com. One of the neat features is that any time you do put in a gh-pages branch in one of your other repositories, it's accessible by wickerbox.net/name-of-repo.

Thanks for writing this, swanson. I've written on and off over the last few years but lately I've wanted to write, started to write, and then lost the nerve and never posted. Hearing "you don't have to be the next Joel On Software" helps.
When centering an element on a screen, ask yourself whether not it's necessary.

I would personally like to get rid of the presentation layer, not because I hate art(I do lots of web design and development) but because it's an enormous waste of time for the users, creators, and traffickers of those data.

I would prefer to read all blogs the same way I read IRC, email, XMPP, source code, logs... And I mostly achieve this, but addiction to the presentation layer on the web prevents me from having this typographic and stylistic consistency for blogs, news articles, and the whole shebang.

Before trying to convert the concept of modal dialogues and print ads to the web, ask yourself if this is what you really wanted.
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Considering that STARTTLS is still optional and most MTAs don't implement it, what value is there behind storing the mail encrypted? Because governments are storing every email anyways, when they want to get to my data, why would they bother asking you to decrypt it for them (which you can't) instead of just looking at the SMTP communication between $OTHERSERVER and you.

With a very high likelyhood, that SMTP communication is unencrypted.

Of course $EVILGUY might have encrypted their message before sending it, but then you can't help the government anyways.

IMHO, as it stands currently, encrypted mail storage provides a false sense of security.
Would it essentially disable it, or just reduce the points stories get drastically? I think only allowing voting within the comment page would make it more likely that votes would be on content (or up-voted summaries in the comment page, at least) instead of the headline. If this affected all submissions, would that be a bad thing?
As patio11 said, this is a good approach and that was a well written post. I wrote twilioflow for similar reasons, including ease of testing interactions.

https://github.com/dkeskar/twilioflow

Its been 3 years and Twilio has come a long way. All the best to you guys!
Having a Patch operation in my town, I can speak from experience.

They put papers in the most affluent communities only to attract high-buck advertisers. The quality varies, but where I live, they hired away the town's weekly newspaper editor. This editor has since left. Essentially, the editor is required to personally produce a high, minimum number of articles per day. Everyone else but the ad sales person works as an independent contractor on dollars per piece or photo. I have sometimes seen good journalism from these contractors, but most of the good ones seem to have left.

Patch attempts to bring in outside bloggers and letter writers from the community simply to increase clicks and controversy. Initially, they tried to pay these bloggers, but that ended very fast.

Most of the articles are designed to be timely pieces about the schools, town sports, weather, traffic, politics, or local views about current events. In fact, it seems like they believe the most important thing they do is spin national news by interviewing locals about controversial, state or national news stories like PPACA or gay marriage decisions since it creates lots of clicks. On the plus side, they have done more to cover local politics than any other outlet.
New research shows cell phone use (calls) doesn't increase driving accidents
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> I'm often tempted to ask how old the poster is

Go ahead. You might find there is a lot more to computing then web programming and not everyone works as a web developer.
Wicket isn't suitable for highly scalable or single page applications as is (the ones which benefit from a rich client side and a stateless API approach). It is highly productive for typical backoffice applications though. The only problem is the complexity of the framework - writing custom reusable components is really hard.
You're arguing against a strawman. The author didn't say "Throw out all your old tools, sysadmins, and rewrite them in Go"
We're all very much part time, but that doesn't mean we don't have distinct roles!
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Admins warned: Drill SSL knowledge into your Chrome users
I'm in much the same position. I'm very much an introvert, and find small-group smalltalk to be exhausting, difficult, and often results in flubs.

In contrast, I love public speaking, be it on something defined or extemporaneous. It's just so much easier: you concentrate mostly on your thoughts and contributions from the crowd some in small, controllable bursts. It's much less dynamic than actually conducting a conversation with someone.
I worked with Steve in the 90's. Can't comment on the rest of his articles but you have a good point.

Not whether it is relevant in this particular case or not (people will most likely read the entire piece because it's short and it's by Steve Blank) but as a general rule in any writing such as this you have to draw people in, make them curious, and make them want to read the entire piece you have written.

You can't rely that without the correct first paragraph or sentence that they won't bail on you before you get to your conclusion or are able to make your point. I guess a good headline might also take care of this. "How to get meetings" is just a so so headline. It's like "how to make more money from your clients". Sounds bland.

Personally as far as this statement which Steve made:

"“I’d like to have coffee to bounce an idea off of you and in exchange I’ll tell you all about what we learned about xx.”"

I would have flipped and restated "I'd like to tell you what we learned about xx if I can have a small amount of your time to get your thoughts on yy".

In other words leading with the benefit at the start of the sentence. Saying "I'd like to have coffee" as the first part of the sentence might act like a trigger that makes the person not even read the rest of the sentence or the email. You have to grab people's attention when you have it.
Sounds like you just need to use a hosted blog service like wordpress.com, tumblr, blogger, etc.
Except they're not. The profusion of even naive encryption amongst the general population is effectively zero, assuming you exclude transparently-used encryption like SSL.

When 50% of the membership of AARP is using GPG and having key signing parties, then we can talk.
People make logic mistakes that'll fly straight past a type checking compiler too.

In my experience, most of the type related errors I make in Ruby "fall out" when testing functionality anyway, so that the amounts of tests that actually need to care explicitly about typing tends to be tiny.
I like this, but can I make one recommendation? Ditch the classes and just operate on primitive data! You're very close to thinking functionally with the pipelining of commands operating on a message, but you've got a bit of overhead with the explicit data types.

Of course, this is just an opinion from someone who has been doing a lot of functional and declarative stuff these days with Javascript using underscore, d3, and angular, so your mileage may vary. :)
To the author of the article I say, "can't we have better legislation /and/ tech hacks?"

I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea that we can't solve the surveillance problems just through technology alone (apart from maybe some of the more naive HN members). But since we are partly in this mess because of technology, I don't think it's too radical to suggest that we can in part help get ourselves out of it using technology as well. To suggest that the tech community are a bunch of introverts, unconcerned with "the plight of the majority" sounds kinda dull to me, and certainly unoriginal.
The Twilio Erlang library has a built in Extended TWIML library that is compiles to a human readable statement of the state machine and the state machine that implements it. It also guarantees that the state machine doesn't hang for the user.

So for example you write:

SAY1 = #say{text = "My you are looking swish"},
RESPONSE1 = #response_EXT{title = "Praise", response = "1", body = [SAY1]},

SAY2 = #say{text = "What you looking at, fannybaws?", language = "en-gb"},
RESPONSE2 = #response_EXT{title = "Abuse", response = "2", body = [SAY2]},

SAYD = #say{text = "can you no use a phone, bawbag?", language = "de"},
DEFAULT = #default_EXT{title = "a slagging", body = [SAYD]},

% now put them all together
[#gather{numDigits = 1, autoMenu_EXT = true, after_EXT = [RESPONSE1,
RESPONSE2,
DEFAULT]}];

and it compiles to:

1 - GATHER (request Keypad Input)
1.1 - SAY "Press 1 for PRAISE. Press 2 for ABUSE. Do nothing for A SLAGGING"
1.2 - end of Gather (wait for response)
1.3 - Response 1 : PRAISE
1.3.1 - SAY "My you are looking swish"
1.3.2 - HANGUP
1.4 - Response 2 : ABUSE
1.4.1 - SAY "What you looking at, fannybaws?" en-gb
1.4.2 - HANGUP
1.5 - Default : A SLAGGING
1.5.1 - SAY "can you no use a phone, bawbag?" de
1.5.2 - HANGUP

Disclaimer: I wrote it...
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Most people with a few year's experience have long been inoculated against that - usually after having given a couple of pseudo-interviews and later understanding they have been played like a banjo...
How many people did they catch before the fingerprint scanners were installed.

They caught 2000 for 36.8 million people scanned, but how many people did they catch in the roughly 7 years prior to their installation?
I think it won't change the world because technical solutions rarely solve political problems. Call me a cynic if you wish.
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IMHO, built-in support of api-only application is very good. Here are the reasons I can think of right now:

1. unify people who are looking for a standard approach to create api in Rails

2. clear separation between lower level http support and higher level html/js/css processing

3. performance improvement against using regular Rails for api

4. easier upgrade for app developers
> ... and in fact we have around 3 people that are
> working alone on Scala plugin.

As a paying customer who bought IntelliJ solely for its Scala plugin, I'm currently seriously questioning whether it is still worth paying for the next version.

It is not only that I can't see much progress with IntelliJ's Scala plugin and that the free Scala IDE is getting increasingly better as well as having some amazing add-on functionality.

I'm really wondering how much money of their Scala customers JetBrains is really spending on improving the Scala plugin and how much of it is silently funnelled into FUD and vaporware factories like Kotlin.

That's a huge conflict of interest and the reason why a significant part of my next paycheck probably won't end up in JetBrains bank account.
If there was a good way for people to determine site visitor gender, I bet they would do that too.

I realise that the data is a bit more complete when you are looking at movement on the street, so an officer taking the data would have more 'useful' information than that acquired from a user visiting a website, but that surely doesn't mean that collection of such data is wrong?

It's like if an old lady sitting on a porch kept a tally of the genders of people walking down the street each hour - all you are doing is automating the old lady.
That may be true for people who can't see past our current consumerist bubble. I admit that this is probably a large percentage in the developed world. But we need to have a global and long-term perspective.
.im would be nice too - if we're making requests
QNX is a huge asset to the company, raking it customers worldwide in the embedded/real-time/safety-critical software markets. Open sourcing QNX would be a major move, as in a major loss, indeed!
A similar project: Take a picture when a merge fails: http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa...
The world is flooded with low quality products.

That just means that it's useless to browse your options in an alphabetical paginated view.
Canonical has a revenue measured in millions, BlackBerry in billions.

Reality aside, it would also make them owners of QNX.
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or maybe it could be used as a ultra low energy bittorrent client: the cpu should be fair enough (many router/nas use 800mhz-1ghz ARM cpu and they offer bittorrent and other clients) and even though this device is low on memory (32MB RAM) it looks like transmission client can use only 10MB or RAM: http://pastehtml.com/view/5tx16jw.html so MAYBE it could work.
Interesting that the bank had the most stable interface. They may be boring but they know their customers well and apparently are doing a good job taking care of their needs. In the end that's what it's all about.
Hosted Wordpress.

It's not tremendously cheap (WP Engine starts at $30 a month), but if you want to run a sophisticated CMS with no setup or maintainance investment, it's by far the best approach.

(It may be noted that I've tried everything from hosted free services to writing my own blogging engine in RoR, and hosted WP is what I've eventually settled on.)
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The idea is more that there are elements of a coffee shop that actually help increase creativity, so we built a site that recreates that ambiance for people who can't or don't want to physically go to a coffee shop.
Cheers, I like the similar thought-process on seeing that.
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Who doesn't like to drive around in an uber? The premium aspect of this really sets it apart. Cabs are easier to come by, however for those special occasions where you want to show up in something a little fancier - an uber is definitely a requirement.
>cython, weave (C++ inline), numexpr (JIT for a limited set of NumPy functions), direct access to the BLAS (provided via a SciPy module), swig, f2py,....

I agree with your comment, I just want to add a few more Python performance options to the mix:

* Numba (http://numba.pydata.org/)

* Parakeet (https://github.com/iskandr/parakeet)

* Pythran (https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran)
Generally parallelism is really much easier to express in a pure language and thus "sparked" parallelism is almost trivial to use in Haskell. I'm not sure that MRI even allows for parallel processes in its green threads due to GIL? Other Ruby implementations might have different restrictions there.

Also, as Edward mentions in his post on reddit, speculative parallelism is a Haskell one-liner.

spec guess proc actual =
let speculation = proc guess
in s `par` if guess == actual
then speculation
else proc actual

(written in 5 lines for extra clarity on the syntax)