skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and time. You could get hit with high volts and current, but still be fine if the exposure is short. I have had a few 240v mains shocks on high current fuses, but they were all pretty quick and I had nothing but very slight burns and sore muscles for about ten minutes.

However, there is definitely a risk here, albeit what appears to be a manageable one. Perhaps there could be some use in building volt meters that glow into gloves for emergency responders to help mitigate some of the risk.
This is unfortunately a known issue. The web version isn't responsive which makes it unplayable on small screens. A fix for this is coming soon though!
Any writers around here?
Hi everyone!

I'm building a new journalism startup called Journalium (www.journalium.com) and I am looking for a long form articles about technology and science for our launch in month or two.

IF there is anyone interested, just send me email: aleksi at journalium dot com and name your price ;)
If one already knows Clojure, the value is obvious: you don't need to learn a new language.

It's also of course debatable that scheme is "just as nice", so you can imagine there are people who, other things being equal, prefer Clojure.
The article describes the failure of the roof crush test machine after applying 4 G's of pressure to a Tesla. This brings to mind the memorable 1971 Volvo ad that had a Volvo supporting 6 cars on its roof: http://insomniacgarage.blogspot.com/2013/03/classic-ads-1971...
> Going out of town and missing an interview is pretty flaky, but it happens.

Sorry, "it happens", is such a callous sentiment regarding someone's future. "We booked and agreed on a time and couldn't be bothered doing it and couldn't be bothered telling you, either" is outrageous.
Yes, the article is written as if Amazon is compelled to take this action, and as a result their margins will suffer. But it's more like Amazon chooses to take this action, and doesn't care if it impacts their margin.
I get the impression you didn't read the part of my post where I said these algorithms are useful.

The problem is expecting a candidate to have them memorized and be able to rattle off a particular algorithm from memory in a 15-30 minute interview window, when in the REAL WORLD if you don't remember the exact details of an algorithm, you look it up or grab it from a library instead of writing a busted implementation yourself.

That's why these questions are unrealistic: They're evaluating a candidate's ability to do something you almost never want them to actually do.

Yes, a candidate who can't understand linked lists is probably a bad choice. I never said otherwise. It's lazy to make the leap from that to 'thus, asking a candidate to write a complex data structure utilizing linked lists on the board in 30 minutes is a good idea'. Only if it's something they should actually be able to rattle off like it's no problem...

There are lots of ways to evaluate critical thinking and problem solving skills that don't rely on a candidate having memorized the contents of a CS textbook.

A better interview question is one that focuses on solving a real problem for a hypothetical customer, because that's what most engineers actually get paid to do. If the problem happens to be optimally solved with a linked list, you can see if the candidate arrives at that conclusion naturally, or guide them towards it if they don't.
>A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
The difference is that you don't worry about contracting STDs just because the two of you are in the same room.
You're forgetting POTS lines. I can call someone on a POTS line, with a 1992 handset, and it works the same as if I called someone with a brand new GSM phone.
This looks really nice. I think I've saw one of the browsers using that space at the top for it's loading bar which looks very similar (I'm not positive on this - it could have been a mobile browser).

Edit:

Readme says it was inspired by Medium and YouTube - http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...
The Startup T-Shirt Stereotype
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
Why the hell did they destroy a video card? and what looks like the board from a printer or projector? Are they really that stupid?
Right, so we should all just sit back and let things go the way they are going because I am an uppity little whiner that wants to be able to have a conversation with someone who lives far away without the ability to have that conversation brought up by an NSA subcontractor at any point in MY FUCKING LIFETIME in the future?

Here is some perspective: The NSA is seeking to keep everything that anyone says for the duration of their entire life such that it is searchable whenever they want. That's downright dystopian.

And we are to expect that things are going to get better from here on out?
The trouble with them is they're stackless, which means you can't have arbitrary functions thoughtlessly coded by someone unaware of threading called inside many different protothreads. Coroutines are easier to combine with code not written to account for their existence (of course stack overflow is a big concern though, which can be somewhat mitigated through memory protection depending on the OS and the hardware).
> Every few decades, peacetime makes us forget that the world is willing to attack us. Eventually, we as the citizenry work to dismantle the annoying and invasive defensive measures we give to law enforcement. (see Clinton Era in the 90s, where he reduced the size of Intelligence Agencies by half)

> Then, an attack happens. The US returns to "war mode", and everyone is willing to trade privacy for security... at least for a few years. And that is when these new programs find their way into the system once again.

I appreciate the contextualization. For some reason it's a bit less scary to conceptualize these abuses of power as an autoimmune disorder rather than some kind of intrinsic cancer that never seems to go into remission. Probably because it makes this seem less like an inevitable slide into totalitarianism and more like a simple overreaction to a perceived threat, an overreaction which becomes increasingly malignant. The proper response is to correct this overreaction and work to put in safeguards to prevent future overreactions.

I hope your observation that "peacetime makes us forget that the world is willing to attack us" is not implying this is a bad thing; on the contrary, it seems like the closest we'll get to rationality.
You just described more or less the behavior of how a nym.alias.net address worked back in the day, which had the added benefit of not even knowing who you were, because you chained as many remailers together as you wanted.
don't pay them a cut in the form of taxes

Illegal. You will be jailed for a very long time. Not something the I, or the average Joe Schmoe, will be willing to risk.
Thunderbolt and lightning? Very very frightening.
>What difference does it make if the disclosure was responsible or not?

If someone gives you reproduce steps for an issue, that's a lot better than just seeing intrusions or weird stuff happening without any idea of the cause.
Then you also need to carry a second-worth of timestamps in a queue.
End to End Encryption in JS Web Apps
> You're on Facebook because you put yourself on Facebook.

Friend with Facebook account takes picture of you at someplace you'd rather not be seen at, posts to Facebook, puts your name in caption.
When you really need something, there is a premium for shipping within hours. Whether it's diapers or a six pack of beer, speed matters. This is a huge pivot from Amazon, which was previously won on price and size of catalogue.

Note - If Amazon gets licensed for beer and can deliver it in hours, game over for a lot of players!
It is an intimidation tactic. Publish material the government wanted to keep secret, have your equipment destroyed. The cover story was about the security of information or some nonsense, but that is just meant to make things look and sound legal to the casual observer.
Hackers Raise White Hat Money for Khalil Shreateh
Look in a textbook at the definitions of "fascist" and "police state" - then read about Hitler's Germany (fascism) and the Cold War KGB (police state). You could even read about Stalin too.

Then you'll know at what point we can call the United States and the United Kingdom fascist and police states.
"Doing good things is how they get you! They get re-elected by doing good things, and that gives them the voter support to do bad things. Down with good things!"
You don’t need a thread pool or threads at all. Just schedule a timer for each server. You could do it in JavaScript.

I’d even guess that a JavaScript implementation would be more efficient than Go. A goroutine has an overhead measured in kilobytes; a JavaScript timer is presumably smaller.
Clojure has a much stronger polymorphism story than Scheme. This makes sense as Clojure was designed to live in an OO host language. Practically this could mean, say, much cleaner Objective-C interop.
The gentleman(?) who uttered that off hand and sarcastic remark has earned himself a footnote in history. I imagine he will be having 'words of advice'[1] soon from a senior officer.

[1] http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2013080119551...
>Does the US Government do this anymore? No, it doesn't. Period.

Bullshit.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=us+...
I have never seen a non-native app that works as well as a native one does or would.

It's a simple trade-off: easier development vs better user experience.
I am not actively working with Angular enough to vouch for its usefulness in real apps, but the style of the posts themselves, with live copies of the code that's being discussed was really well done.
I'm certainly going to look at improving the information that is available about each site. Perhaps icons to indicate ownership rights.
So it's not bad enough yet? I have watched everything the progressive left has warned America about for the last twenty five years come true and at every turn I have heard the same thing, "You are overreacting."

Media Consolidation, NAFTA, GATT, WTO, Glass Steagall, etc.

The issue that Groklaw broaches specifically is one that has major consequences. Change in America comes from upstarts, individuals who put their fear aside and try new things. Things that often throw a wrench into the works of established economic interests. What is now being made clear is that any plans you make might just find their way into the hands of your disruptee.

PJ makes clear that she is scared, and to you it may not be rational, but that's not the point. She was willing to put herself at the front of a machine that regularly goes toe to toe with powerful entities. But now she is not and how many others will not even try in this current environment?

I am surrounded by young people and the prevailing attitude is that the game is rigged, why even try? I've watched progressives grow older and walk away as soon as they realized that they had something to lose and that their opponents are vindictive.

When that fear sinks in, it is over. No one does anything except the privileged who can't fail.
Last night in the thread on Groklaw shuttering due to pj not liking her personal life being burrowed through I made a comment asking people to distance themselves from companies involved NSA related activities if they are not willing to make firm demands of their employers. Enabling the works that the US government/NSA pay for services on while bringing home a paycheck is indeed being complicit once made aware of the activity of your employer.

Due to my inclusion of the name "Dell" I was accused of thinking that "the entire info-tech infrastructure, companies and "wage-slaves" alike are complicit in all this.[1]" Even though I never mentioned "wage slaves."

Well, the user wasn't aware of Snowden obtaining NSA documents while there, he just needed to be alerted of the information. But before that time the response I received was "Dell? A computer hardware device assembler? What on earth are you on about.[1]"

I imagine now the question that user is asking is "Dell? A computer hardware device assembler? What on earth is the NSA's involvement with them and why does Dell's employees have access to volumes of sensitive data?"

It is important enough simply because it is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6242740
I haven't visited Groklaw in a long time, and I suspect that many other have the same habits. After SCO, I wonder what their readership numbers have been. They will always be associated with that trial.

The reason why their lack of confidential sources is relevant is that closing up Groklaw because of the NSA doesn't make sense. Their sources were largely from law filings and (very good) analysis. Closing up shop because their email could be snooped just doesn't make sense.

There could be other, valid, reasons, but this just doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps PJ wants to get off the Internet because of the NSA, and I'd buy that. But it just didn't seem like protecting the email of confidential sources was that central to their operation.

Also, it doesn't seem like the NYT or other major newspapers are closing up shop. There are other ways to get confidential information other than email, if you are truly concerned by the NSA.
How we made our new PhotoRearranger on Android
It's not about logic, it's about power. They didn't walk away saying, "Well, we took care of those files!" they walked away saying, "Maybe the Guardian will think twice the next time they cross us!"
Elena Kagan Admits Supreme Court Justices Haven’t Figured Out Email Yet
Seems like there are an awful lot of programming tools, restaurants, and delivery. The programming tools I get - these are hackers developing for hackers. Is delivery a wave because of Amazon and others trying to provide convenience, or is it the softwarization of our industry? And the food - is that on the back of the GrubHub and SeemlessWeb success?
Since we're complaining about Medium: the font is too big. We may be in the post Web 2.0 era where huge text is more of a norm, but I feel assaulted every time I load a Medium article. The text is not readable without physically changing one's position, or adjusting the browser font size.

And why should I have to fiddle with the font size for one site when I don't have to think about it elsewhere? Are Medium bloggers so arrogant as to think that their revelations deserve to be shouted in my face at 22px?
I certainly wouldn't advocate tax evasion, it would be immoral to ask people to risk the leftovers of their freedom and confront IRS. What I meant was, don't give them a cut unless your transactins can be effectively tracked. When you tip someone in cash, most likely they're not paying any taxes from that. And there's currently no law requiring you to pay taxes in Bitcoin unless you previously converted it to fiat. Also keeping your savings in gold, silver or Bitcoin saves them from another tax - inflation.
Bootstrap and Foundation have what Pure offers + more widgets enabled by javascript. Pure is analogous to just using bootstrap.css without the javascript. Short answer, No.
I'm really surprised that's not how it works at Google, both from their perspective, from the perspective of the candidate. I would be extremely hesitant to interview or accept a job at Google if didn't know what I'd be working on, and it seems like you only find that out when you show up the first day.
You're confusing the walking back of an extreme overstep with a fundamental change in direction.

You can't cherry pick a couple of examples of where extreme power grabs were curtailed and say, "See, the government is giving up power!" You're looking at local down trends in an overall upward curve and declaring the whole thing to have a negative slope.

In order to make your case, you'd need to start with the Constitution and the strict limits that it placed on the Federal government and map that to the authority it exercises today. The trend is in the opposite direction you're thinking of.
Categorized list of 5000 best web tools and services
I assembled a list of 5000 most useful and most popular non-free web tools and services, divided into 40 categories:

http://5000best.com/tools/

The point was to create a place where users can conveniently discover useful web tools to buy, and where they can compare different possible choices.

I guess many of you will find your own startups on the list (and the competition).

Critique and feature requests very much appreciated.
What I Learned From Taking a Train Ride With a Bunch of Millennials
Addition of XMPP messaging via eJabberd would be welcomed.
Also, potentially use Baïkal for CalDAV/CardDAV as an option...
Not to mention the hundreds of third party json PHP classes.
In addition to the other problems mass surveillance has done, it has done something akin to spreading toxic waste in a playground. Who would want to play in that?

A big part of technology is playful. A big part of playfulness is pushing boundaries: What if everyone had everyone's genome? What if we injected computers into our bodies? In a surveillance state that is as appetizing as bathing in industrial effluent.

The technology industry is poisoned, and the only enthusiasts left are enthusiastic authoritarian snoops, and those people are disgusting sickos. It's like waking up and finding you work for the TSA and fondle balls for a living. Ick.
Looks like laptop bits to me as well; I imagine the thinking is that they must ensure the data is definitely gone - it looks to me like they destroyed every ASIC on every component. I don't think it's stupidity; after all, you can't just expect Mr Bond to die.
Seems like most of the comments on here aren't getting it. The article isn't talking about products that were discussed on a blog; it's referring to blogs that pivoted into a product.
Scheme is great, but I think there are several key features that clojure has that scheme doesn't provide by default, including (but not limited to):

- Persistent Hash-Trie based Data Structures

- Beautiful asynchronous constructs

- Multimethods

- Protocols

Obviously I in no way intend to discredit scheme, nor start a lisp flamewar :)
/sidenote I love this article comparing a game written in 4 lisp dialects (http://technomancy.us/169)
I want to recommend Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people". It isn't about self-esteem building but it talks about dealing with people in a civilized manner. I listened to the book on tape and it really improved my mood. It has a bit of "snake oil salesman" in there ... if you can look past it, you might enjoy it.

Just FYI ... you can get a lot of these audio books in a library. That's where I got mine :)
You cannot just quit internet, you just can-not.
Aren't there any secure email providers like lavabit in Europe or Asia .

Whenever I think about NSA now , in a corner of my mind , I see Dan Brown Saying, " I told you so". With a copy of Digital fortress (his book about NSA) in his hand.
By convincing one of the trusted CAs to do so. Or if you're a government, forcing them.
Is this the same issue that was discussed on the This Week in Tech podcast about a month ago?
Their only goal was to show the Guardian that they are only as free as the Government wants them to be. They know they can't put the Snowden genie back in the bottle, but they can certainly scare the next Snowden into shutting up before he goes public. Once you accept that we (the U.S. or the U.K.) no longer live in a free society (from the Gov't's perspective) all of their actions make complete sense.
You're not presenting much of a counter argument. "Nuh uh!" isn't really addressable.

You asked for an explanation, I gave you one. I'm uninterested in talking with you specifically any further, so that's basically as far as we're going to go.
These incidents seem like coming straight out of "Atlas Shrugged". different circumstances, similar outcome and government is the reason for the events.
I love it when several incredible technologies come together to allow things you wouldn't think possible. Take this thing over there, stir in some of that, and boom, you've got a working project that is crazy full of potential. Great work Nathan.

Really, when I think about it, it's why I love the world of programming.
Does TI even make a DMD with more than 1920 pixels across? When I was researching before, that was the biggest I saw. I suppose you could tile them, but that sounds like a nightmare.
Even if you have other valid points, please take the conspiracy theories elsewhere. It just weakens your argument.
youtube.com does it as well.
Sure. I'll go back to the Constitution.

* Blacks can't vote.
* Women can't vote.
* Corporations were straight up illegal unless CONGRESS approved of them first!

Oh my, yes, I'd much rather live in 1790s America than today. </sarcasm>

Get your history straight boy.
I have been wanting to do this, hadn't gotten around to detailing all the pieces I'd need to put together, and also I've been wanting to check out ansible. Thanks for this writeup!
I don't have any numbers, but halting new app submissions surely cost them something with regards to their 30% App Store cut.
>Governments are composed of people. The people who ran the government in the 1940s no longer did by 1960s... and the people who ran the government in the 1960s no longer do today.

No, governments are composed of institutionalized sets of behaviours and response guidlines; colloquially known as "Laws" - the architecture of governance.

The "people" in these organizations are agents of these systems. They behave exactly how the institutionalized archetypes are designed to make them behave.

You're perpetuating the same illusion that "elections" perpetuate: "This human, named 'Obama' will change everything!"

No he wont. He will fall into the role and archetype of the office of the president.
Did you do any other marketing when your app first launched? Being featured on Play is great, but what did you do in general to just get your application some awareness?
Gull-wing doors are a smart move, sales wise. They give you the exotic feel. But I'm concerned with them in practice. Since no height specification is given, I used this image as a reference to determine the height of the Model X with the doors fully open.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/bg_03_falconw...

The Model S is 56.5" tall. So assuming the above image is to scale and my math is correct, the Model X is 85.65" tall with doors fully open.

85" tall... For reference, a Ford F-150 is 75" tall (http://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/specifications/exterior/) and a Ford F-250 is 79.8" (http://www.ford.com/trucks/superduty/specifications/exterior...) in the worst case.

Granted, most Tesla buyers are not average people with average-sized garages. But still, that's tall.

There's a reason more cars don't have gull-wing doors. They aren't practical for a lot of spaces.

And yes, I did see the in-garage-with-doors-open image.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/bg_04_garage_...
I interviewed at Microsoft quite a while ago, and the process was fairly pleasant. My only complaint was that eight hours of straight interviews is a little long.
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with the not-so-subtle similarities between the Maserati and Tesla cars

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&sa=N&biw=1680&bih=887&hl=e...

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=887&tbm...
The iOS7 browser has an identical progress bar. I saw it in a leaked screenshot somewhere, I'm sure :)