skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Put it this way, if you suspect a serial killer has taken residence in your neighborhood - are you going to wait around for a 'smoking gun' before making conscious decisions about your interactions with that individual?
> (I discount the gay smear argument. It might play in the US, but here in the UK there are/have been out-of-the-closet gay Conservative cabinet ministers.)

Somewhat surprisingly, I don't think it plays in the US anymore either. I have heard fairly little about either Greenwald or Manning's GSM status. The media has made more of a deal with Snowden and his "pole dancing" ex-girlfriend.
I have to agree. If I had been in their position, I would have listed myself at the top and bottom with "and we are hiring too". Even if they objectively figured out they are the fastest growing, it is still a bad signal.
I second this - thank you for sharing the code.
I'm guessing you don't live in california, do you?

edit: Oh, I think you're sort of a mentor figure to one of my friends from kindergarten (and a board member of my startup nonprofit...) HN isn't really the best venue for a nuanced discussion, if you'd like to talk about the problems with CHSR and why comparing Hyperloop to CHSR official figures is charitable to CHSR - feel free to contact me personally!
Appearances to the contrary, the word "woman" is not actually based off "man", or indeed very related.
I love anecdotes like this. Were you taught Morse purely visually, with the flashing bulb? Do you find it easier to watch a bulb or to listen to a tone?
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> They probably thought that it was highly likely he was a data mule between Greenwald and Poitras. I'd guess that they were probably right in that assumption.

If you're right, they screwed up, because they detained him on his trip back to Brazil. Any data he might have been carrying to Poitras he could have already delivered -- and I'm sure he would have been smart enough not to keep a copy.
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Specifically came into the comments to say the same thing. She dripped insincerity.
This has been done on the scale of entire mathematics and CS papers:

http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Indeed, the creators of SCIgen have amused themselves by presenting randomly generated papers at conferences.
I'm not sure if this would be immune to the NSA or not.
Strike three for SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket (2008)
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(Original title: "The Inca Internert")
You're 100% correct. There is definitely an amateur radio community out there, and many of them are fluent in Morse. I guess I was just trying to say that nobody in my "natural" social circles knows Morse. But if I start hanging out with the right types of people, I'm sure I could communicate in dahs and dits all day!
Looks interesting -- too bad it's controlled by a creepy asshole who thinks the NSA is essential and says stupid shit like "Who's ever heard of government misusing information?"
This is starting to look like a nice example of the Streisand effect. The more work the authorities do to squash the story and intimidate those associated with it the more legs it is getting.
I don't know Scala but the very basics of the language, however notation seems clear.

Class HashMap is parametrized over two types, A and B (presumably, key and value types). The rest seems to be implementation details, that play no importance unless you're going to actually use them. Just as integers are totally ordered, but unless you have use to that fact (i.e. comparing those integers), you can safely ignore that.

Same as with interfaces - if there's a interface Foo { ... } somewhere, you don't have to care your types implement it unless you're actually using it.
'"For my part, I will never give up and I mean never," Musk said.'

I found this to be a great article to re-read in retrospect. His determinism is truly applicable to everyone's lives.
In the heady days of my youth in the early 90's I was foolishly of the opinion that Apple would one day rule the world, and that Steve Jobs would be seen as some sort of Christ figure. I kinda looked up to him in that fashion, at the time, even before he'd come back to Apple after Next.

Of course, when I actually became an adult, I realized the error of my ways, switched to Linux,and over time my admiration only grew for Woz.

I once appeared in a reenactment of a Jobs/Woz story on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEuJMPBZJ7c . It was a cheesey TV reenactment, and it really doesn't matter which one of the two Steve's I was playing, versus which one was portrayed by my child-hood friend, Travis. But during the filming, I did get to handle a Woz Blue Box, and an Apple I board. It was like touching a Rembrandt, or a Van Gogh.

At the time, I pretended to be Jobs. These days, I say I played Woz.

Woz, to put it bluntly, is the awesomest hacker/engineer, ever. He's just a freakin' god! Everything he's ever done has been 10% pure hacker ethos. The early Apple I's came with a complete explanation of how they were laid out, hardware-wise. The manual was a work of pure joy. You don't get technical writing like that, ever. Nothing was hidden. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Apple/Appl...

If you like that, ever head of the CL 9? Woz, after leaving Apple due to surviving a freakin' plane crash, decided he wanted to fix the then common remote control. The CL9 Core remote control was a hacker's dream device. You could program it to emit whatever IR signals you wanted, and it came with a manual explaining as much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL_9

Jobs, on the other hand, was a seriously driven guy. An entrepreneur's entrepreneur. Take that for what you will, the good and the bad. I've always taken it to mean he was good at spotting an opportunity and exploiting it.

I, for one, will always worship the engineer, first.
Laws require "nexus" between the law and the party governed by the law. There needs to be some connection, some thing which can be gripped and used to obtain compliance -- because, as the Romans observed, without punishment there is no law.

Google will have a British subsidiary for administrative purposes. That's a nexus. They might have some money in British banks, which is another nexus. And so on.

More to the point, brother courts in different jurisdictions in the Common Law world will often respect and uphold each other's judgements where possible and where their laws are aligned. An order to pay a certain amount, made in Britain, might be upheld by an American court saying "yes, you broke their laws / performed a civil wrong / broke your contract; now pay the guy". Or instead there might be an inconsistency: "I'd love to help you out, but we just don't have that rule, sorry".

The law is a sophisticated institution unto itself. Every time you think of a first-order or even second-order problem with a story (written by a non-lawyer), guess what? The lawyers thought of that. Probably decades ago. For example, the cases which cover the way ISPs are treated in defamation go back to a pair of cases about AOL and CompuServe.

CompuServe, people. Lawyers think as hard and as far ahead about the law as we do about the web and software development.
Yes, not many fascist leaders from Italy were ever prosecuted for their crimes post war. Caused quite a stir in places like Yugoslavia. Britain was initially trying to be helpful but they were losing support from the locals (Italians) and then USA told them to back off.
I found this: xpressive@modulay.com

Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Xpressive_Team
Rust's polymorphism system is somewhat limited compared to, say, (GHC) Haskell. But, to the best of my knowledge, it is the best among languages aiming at mainstream.
Given the original title "The Inca Internet" why is it not just a mail system?
D3 is so very cool. And this is beautifully executed.
Not many people can relate to being a head of state, but plenty of people can relate to just being someone else's partner.
Java's not a clusterfuck? I'll take the clusterfuck that's not controlled by a creepy asshole who thinks the NSA is essential and says stupid shit like "Who's ever heard of government misusing information?"
> They for example refuse[1] to defend historians who go to jail for politically incorrect opinions.

Holocaust denial is pretty clearly antithetical to their mission. Their decision that they "would exclude from prisoner of conscience status not only people who have used or advocated violence, but also people who are imprisoned ‘for having advocated national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.’" does not seem unreasonable.

To take the opposite position - to argue for the release of ALL political prisoners - would have resulted in some fairly absurd situations over the years which don't really need to be enumerated here, I would think.
Neither did I, although Pro Evo was gradually declining in quality, after having 2 bad years in a row (they had huge issues with getting online play to work without lag) I think the scene was set for FIFA and suddenly it felt like the tables had turned.

Since then they've been playing catch-up, plus not having the full licenses doesn't help them.

Pro Evo had a lot of character and it felt like you could see their passion for football in the way they made the game. Little details throughout the gameplay were awesome.

I thought EA was a souless corp that didn't have a clue about football, but now they lead the way.
> 20committee

Wow that guy is a dick. Tons of FUD and highly partisan cheerleading, and some pretty sad troll responses (though I'm sure he gets a lot of troll attention, which does wear down a person's reasonableness).

I can understand that someone may have a different view on the balance between liberty and security, but his view is hyperbolic, not informative.
Language is important to people who aren't you. Your notions of what is and isn't important are personal, not universal, and you really don't have the right to dictate to people that they're no longer allowed to speak a certain language simply because it's not the one you picked.

That's presuming that the very notion of a one world language would even work, considering all we know about linguistic mutations.

What you want is akin to, "Why are we wasting all this time fighting cancer when we could be achieving spaceflight?" Maybe, just maybe, it's people that are important?
Clerical error, maintained for a day, with Amnesty International and the Brazilian ambassador screaming blue murder? Yeah, right.
Do you honestly believe that by giving your first name when making an order that data mining will ensue?
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I don't know about you, but I'm not really a fan of China's political ideologies.
> politically incorrect historians.

In this case you can safely abbreviate this to "liars." Not everything is a matter of opinion.

> scientific opinions

WTF?
I happened to be a fairly conservative high schooler after September 11th, living in NJ suburb. 9/11 happened in my time there. I saw smoke from the city, not quite the buildings themselves, and classmates lossed parents. We were all militant after that, and someone needed to burn.

No matter how conservative my friends and I were, we saw not so long after those days Farenheit 9/11, the then controversial 9/11 documentary. No matter how hard-core Republican I was then (spending time in the Arab world later had me quickly outgrow that), I was appalled by the admission of lifer Congressman, scumbag Charles Rangel (NY - D) in his interview in the movie. He said no one he knew read the Patriot Act, not a single one, him included. No one would say no at the time to such legislation. Even as a sophomore I was appalled and said in the first real interest in non-partisan politics, we should have people removed for such incompetence.

As I said I was a sophomore then, and discovered subsequently how very sophmoric I was. Nothing is more self-serving than govt in crisis, in the alia acta est way. That was the beginning of my disbelief in my government, then all government more as each year passes. Fuck them all.
affiliate tracking, analytics, etc.
when i used to walk an hour to work (and another back), i considered using morse as an interface to a portable computer (for editing and playback of text). it's easy to hear and understand, even when there's considerable ambient noise, and data entry would only require a single button (plus perhaps a rocker switch or similar to scan through existing data).

at the time i had no real idea how to implement it. now i think i could do something with an arduino or similar. but thankfully i now work from home...
Greenwald: Brazil's intervention kept my partner from being charged
More so if the list is not accurate "15 Fastest" yet I know of several that are growing faster and are not on the list.
So the Incans independently invented a representation of 0 and a based number system? That's pretty cool.
Now or never?
Be careful with this kind of argument. Among the reasons that we object to the treatment of Mr. Miranda et. al. is that it can cause a chilling effect, similar to what terrorism does.

Are you prepared to argue that the threat of home furniture will ever cause a chilling effect?
We listed ourselves in the order we are by score. I thought putting together a list of several companies would be more valuable than just posting our position stand alone.
What makes a movie valuable is the "point" it's trying to make? You sound like my brother, who used to see me reading novels and say "What's the point of reading that? You do know the stuff in that book didn't actually happen, right?". :)
Brazilian government statement on Greenwald's partner's detention
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The EULA of Safari specifically disclaims warranties and fitness-for-purpose to the limits of law (section 7).

Further, it would be pretty hard to get damages when no money has changed hands and actual economic loss is basically impossible to calculate.

Meanwhile, the presence of the door lock, even if faulty, clearly signals your intention that nobody enter without permission. Even a rope across a driveway can signal an unwillingness to receive visitors; anyone who gets past it is a trespasser, committing a civil wrong and probably a crime.

That's roughly analogous to Google's position: sure the mechanism had a bug. But the intention of the mechanism is pretty obvious and arguing that unless a lock is perfect you can do as you please with other people's property isn't going to be a very scalable law.

TINLA, IANAL.
The types of your nodes probably don't have much to do with any algorithms you may be writing. Consider your algorithms as functions which act on an interface. Keep your graph data within a type which adheres to that interface. Then you only have to duplicate the type and not the algorithms, and you can easily create new types which the algorithms can use.

Even if you stuff the algorithms into the same type you have your data in (like most generic languages seem to encourage you to do), you still only have to type-cast/type-switch on getters and callbacks. And the only major missing requirement I can think of is that your nodes aren't guaranteed to be of homogeneous types (and you can hack that with a callback if you want).
Nowhere, it also doesn't say they don't get to pull a rabbit out of a hat and let you stay a little longer.

Theorizing about being intimidated and kept without any form of process is different than being in the middle of it.
"business" ? dubai ain't no fun
Over the past few months at a 'working class' bar that I regular, I've listened to plenty of people rant about the NSA, DEA, and the Feds in general, usually prompted by a television turned to 24hr news.

What catches my attention is the wide variety of reasons people have for carrying. Some are afraid that the government is going to use it to take away their guns, others are concerned about surveillance of GSM/LGBT activists, others are particularly disturbed by the NSA/DEA angle. One of those conversations was then followed up with a tirade about 9/11 and the moon landing... but the vast majority of people who are concerned by this are perfectly normal people.
I've also thought about a pocket-sized clicker device that you could use to send Morse to your friends, perhaps interfaced with your phone. Or maybe, as you said, you could use it as an input device. One day when I have some extra time on my hands I'm sure I'll sketch one out. But I've got to learn Morse first! ;)
More than a language, Morse is a script (or whatever is the generalisation of "script" to other transport layers than the written page), isn't it? The fact that you experienced learning Morse similar to learning a new language is rather surprising. For example, I would expect that you can transliterate random Morse into ASCII, perhaps at a lower bitrate, and, if so, the role of understanding the meaning of the content would be far less important than when learning a new language.
Mods invisibly changing titles really bothers me.

It's even worse that the mods decided it was a great idea to silence debate by [dead]ing the topic when HNers discussed possible alternatives.

Makes me wonder how much longer I want to stay in this community.
Lightning doesn't strike twice? It would be silly for the police to have a dont search twice policy, because once such a policy is known, it provides an obvious loophole for people interested in concealing or smuggling items.
no, i was dismissed for some other reason. My emails (i reread them a while ago) explained perfectly where's the bug.

On this topic: i still have no clue what vulnerability it was. Guy, do you know such terms XSS, CSRF etc? Can't u just say where's the bug, nobody wants to watch 6 (!) minutes long video with arabic subtitles rofl. peace
> compatible with freedom of speech

Which actually has little to do with prisoner of conscience status by itself. It's true enough that a prisoner of conscience has her freedom of speech violated in most cases. It doesn't follow that everyone whose freedom of speech is violated is a prisoner of conscience.
> Also, if you do this, it has to be at a company where the environment and the work you do isn't toxic, but rather something you enjoy. While I was at another company doing work I really didn't like, I thought to myself that I'd compensate by working on a side project. I was only fooling myself, because when I got home I was so bored, tired, and frustrated that I had no energy to do anything technical. Different personality types might cope differently, though.

Absolutely. I stayed too long at a defense contractor where the environment was a slow-drip toxin that eventually sapped my will to do anything outside work not related to history or wargaming. Throw in anxiety and personal issues I refused to seek help for due to the stigma of psychological treatment in a secure environment, and I was a mess. I'm in a better place now, but still recovering from the low point.
I've been thinking about getting an external SSD to install Fedora on, and this post has convinced me to do it. Any suggestions for brands/models? Also is anyone else really impressed by the design on this blog? So clean, so pretty.
Pay the man. He did you a you favor. Stop with all this jibber jabber regarding TOS. He could have used this security flaw to do damage. Instead he posted his name etc. "Rules are Rules" are for people too dumb to think. Pay up. Man you guys and gals who don't want to pay sound like a bunch of parrots. All you know is how to repeat words. THINK
How has no one yet shunned the author for writing poor documentation. Sure you can just throw the code away but ultimately his time was wasted. He probably wants to keep it for the next time they write poor documentation that actually does need that feature.
Probably worth pointing out that the ACLU also operates with finite funding and has still famously defended the KKK on numerous occasions.

I think the real difference is different mission statements and cultural attitudes. Finite funding isn't the reason, it just simply isn't something they are interested in doing.
Funny I thought you of all people would be aware of this :)

Yes, the UK is worse. I never really got why Assange went there willingly in the first place.
It was always visual. It seemed useless at the time, spending hours out in the pouring rain on a ship, sending a message with a flashing light to another ship, but they always reminded us that even with all our technology and cryptography, flashing light is still the most secure method of close ship-to-ship communications because it's directional when using focused light.