skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At a news conference Friday, President Obama insisted that the threat of NSA abuses was mostly theoretical:"

As are the vast majority of the "threats" we are suppose to give up our freedoms for. We live in a "what if" society.
From http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

"10.4 Client Error 4xx

The 4xx class of status code is intended for cases in which the client seems to have erred. "

The client has not erred by requested a document that exists and which the server can technically provide (separately, the server has not erred by refusing to provide a document to the client which the exists and which access control would allow the client to have, because a government is threatening the server operator in some manner).
My six rules for mobile app design
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The new Gmail compose SUCKS
Do you also think the new Gmail compose Sucks?

I love Gmail and used it since it was launched (2003) but in the couple of month they made some bizarre product "improvements" that makes we want to switch back to my yahoo / hotmail account.

If you also think the new Gmail compose SUCKS - join us and like this page:
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You are forgetting all the mobile browsers out there.
Maybe one of the big oil companies that wants to show they are forward looking could build it? The already have expertise building tubes from pipelines.

If Texas were to do that, I might even consider moving there.
If Obama is serious about not violating civilian rights. He should just fire the NSA boss WITHOUT giving him any other job opportunities or compensation!

But be honest, he's never going to do that... Obama is just as involved as the chief of NSA.
Why? Looks like a legitimate question to me.
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
Don't be a front rudder
I agree with you that an American moving to the UK is not taking a risky path. But that is not the general case for immigration, it is rather an outlier.
How Apple Is Changing Its Definition of "Pro"
My father in law is turning 78 and still does 200km bike rides that I cant keep up with. He trains very dedicated about 5 times a week for the last 15 years. Which was the mOst surprising part to me. I always thought no performabce could be gained that late in life much less so much.
Considering the level of access that government agency's have it is amazing to me that they have not been more effective in clamping down on the drugs trade. Considering the amount of goods and money that is flowing; does that not leave a detectable trace? Is it really that difficult to find?
Jesus, you people are delusional!

You are not perceived as eccentric geniuses, not by anyone. Never, ever. They might say that to keep you on the treadmill but the the truth is that (especially by VCs) you are perceived as cannon fodder with a personal hygiene problem. You are kept around as long as you are useful and don't bitch too much. The minute that stops you are out on your ear. Welcome to the real world.
I think that the Space Activity Suit project proposed that you would wear an extra loose layer over the top to provide some micrometeorite protection.
The chilling effects of the threat of arrest for secret crimes should be even more concerning than if he has been arrested or not.
Yep, second this. I've remapped both ctrl & esc to caps lock as described here (http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...).

Works great in Vim & other applications that need esc as well.
Example: I'm working on a "large" CakePHP application (similar to Rails) with 24,000 lines of our own code, 57,000 lines of code from community plugins, and 240,000 lines of core framework code.
drivebyacct2 is hellbanned but I see no reason why this particular comment of his should be censored:

>That distinction would mean more if it didn't literally come on the heals of them explicitly trying to suppress the entire court decision.
1.4 million Americans have 'TS/SCI' clearance, but only Manning and Snowdon felt inclined to suffer the consequences of speaking out of principle.

I think it's easy to imagine you would speak out when you don't have access to anything secret - but when it's you and your family that will be put at risk I can understand the disincentives looming large.
That doesn't mean you can't learn from it though.
oh man, can we get this for regular daily Earthling use as well!?
The issue wasn't the fact that an innocent mistake happened; the issue is that a major breech of privacy for some large number of US citizens wasn't reported to the groups tasked with judicial and congressional oversight of the NSA.

The reason it occurred is meaningless. The _fact_ that it occurred should have been reported.
What Tau Sounds Like
Profitable is not that big a deal with something on the size and important of Reddit though.

Firstly, as with Wikipedia, if Reddit were forced to close because of money issues, Reddit could simply post a 'donate now or reddit shuts down' post and they would likely be rolling in millions of dollars.

Second, simply because reddit itself is not profitable does not mean people are not making a lot of money off reddit. The moderator system lends itself very well to a kind of 'corporate capture' of communities where moderators can be (and are) bought off for very tidy sums.
haha .. that is so funny :P I did warn, though about not running it for the 7th iteration unless you want 125 million bang bangs in your history file :)
There are more people who surrender, than those who fail. - Henry Ford
Living in Berlin and really can't think of another european city i would want to live in.
USA? Nope. China? Nope. Singapore? Maybe. Australia? Maybe.
Or maybe the NSA is a very large organization with many departments so secret that their capabilities and existence are on a need to know basis and not flaunted around unnecessarily just to save some time or effort?
Only a miscreant would read such articles, no?
Reddit still uses Pylons, and I imagine moving to Pyramid would be very painful. He's not clear on this in the video.
Yes, but I moved from here when I was 2 and only moved back a few years ago
Building very inaccurate stats i guess.
Couldn't resist: try tokumx if you want "mongodb with compression". There isn't a speed/space usage tradeoff. Our latest blog post is about long field names: http://www.tokutek.com/2013/08/tokumx-tip-create-any-field-n...
Hmm, so enforcement of our secret laws is determined by the political implications. They seem less like "laws" and more like whims.
> What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people

I don't have a solid block of 40 undisturbed minutes to listen to a talk. Give me a transcript and I can read a paragraph here and there as I do other things at my own pace. I might have ten minutes here, ten minutes there. I don't want to be constantly pausing/unpausing the video, or worse - switching between the video and my music.

Plus, if I concentrate, I could read a 40 minute talk in 20 minutes or less.

Basically, when I'm reading, I control the pace. I rarely watch videos that are longer than about 5 minutes (that aren't entertainment, which is entirely different).
I personally think ember has the best testability story for both unit and integration testing. The screencast below shows how to get started with ember / QUnit and karma

http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2013/07/21/Integration-...
It looks like the sorting is off. It's saying that Cedars-Sinai is the worst priced hospital for the linked procedures, but at "only" a 99% marked over the average $1,300 even though there are many in the $3-5.2k range.
We live in an age of incredible abundance. Yet hoarding continues, does it not?
Interesting, although I think the "beta" is quite literal. Seems to lack a bit of polish.

The one I was most interested in was the Date Picker, but locks up Chrome (28) and Safari (6) on my machine.
http://mozilla.github.io/brick/component/datepicker/demo/ind...
Try clapping your wet hands - a physics lesson
Happy Birthday Debian!!!
You have been an essential part of my life since 10 years ago. Thank you so much.
I left my native Canada when I was 19 to write code abroad. I've since had work in four different countries on three continents. I might not end up being wealthy but I've enjoyed myself and don't regret a thing.
Same is true for drivebyacct2
> I don't think the comparison between callbacks and goto is valid.

What is the largest code base you have worked on that used events + callbacks extensively? I worked on a 250,000 lines-of-code Java trading system, and understanding the way the code flow worked from the central event dispatch loop to handler functions, and back to the event dispatch loop took me MONTHS and seriously spoiled the quality of my life (considering how much many hours we spend at work).

Have you used alternative paradigms like Functional Reactive Programming, Promises, etc;? Maybe you don't realize how awesome the alternative is?
This review about Cattle Prod ( yes, they sell those on amazon ) is pure gold.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R14IVEZTWB0C1H/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt...
One factor is that the individuals forbidden to speak are just regular people, going about their lives. The people applying the pressure, on the other hand, are professionals at scaring the shit out of people. And when they aren't doing that, they ruin lives. Justifiably, we hope; that's what the rule of law is about. But regardless, ruin.

A long time ago, when I was in high school, the FBI dropped by my house to ask some questions about things involving computers and phone lines. When they arrived, the friend who happened to be with me was very smart, very mouthy, and always up for an argument. I'd never seen him back down. He started giving the FBI agent static, and the agent shut him down in about 5 seconds. My friend sat quietly on the porch steps for the rest of the encounter.

In this case, the "'trouble'" is substantial, and most of the people who are forbidden to speak are leading the comfortable life of middle-class professionals. It's not shocking to me that most people aren't willing to throw that away. Especially since the people making the threats will surely talk up how many lives are being saved. And, frankly, because until recently it looked like the public didn't give a damn anyhow.
Country? No. But I live in the same city I was born in.

(I live in Croatia that was part of ex Yugoslavia, which fell apart in the 90es)
Perhaps so, but then it would fit into the category of 'unaware of being a parody of itself' statements/questions that are also (unintentionally) humorous such as the classic "I can tell that site was built in rails from the design".
12:48 GMT. 43 yes, 24 no.

I have a feeling that the yes's will greatly outnumber the no's a little later when the U.S. logs in.
What are some large AngularJS projects that have been launched? I could only find Google DoubleClick and YouTube's PS3 interface. http://builtwith.angularjs.org/

Not to downplay the Ermahgerd Translator!
http://ermahgerd.jmillerdesign.com/#!/translate
Numbers above 48 were added after the program had run for a few years. I am not sure if they changed providers or just the program but they went from a straight pick 6 to a powerball setup with a different number range. It is easy to see they didn't reset the stats when they made the change because the "mega ball" count is much lower than the regular number count.
Think you are making an assumption saying that it's unusable. I'd say it was highly usable.
202 is the North American telephone area code for Washington, D.C.
Do you think you could get usable data with a 'large number' of calls placed from DC? I can't think of anywhere better really.
Having the clearance does not mean you have access to everything at that clearance level, just that you can be given access should you need it.

In other words, the number of people who have access to material showing wrongdoing of any sort is likely a tiny fraction of those 1.4 million.
My original phrasing may have been unclear; with the elision you made the thrust becomes quite different. I intended to convey two thoughts: that Useless Use of Cat and other filters is pervasive because it is so easy, and secondly, that spawning tons of unnecessary processes is a common performance waste. The specific example with just three processes (cat, grep, awk) is not such a big deal--the bad cases are when stuff like that happens within loops (but the performance loss is not due to the loops, but rather the spawning).
Lua has LÖVE (https://love2d.org/), a 2D engine. Python has PyGame (http://www.pygame.org/). Both are cross platform interpreted languages. If you are planning to develop for mobile, unfortunately there's no cross platform.
Sure, but you have to look at how many people got arrested, beaten, or lynched for equivalent actions to no benefit at all. For centuries.

I admire Rosa Parks immensely; her action was the spark that lit a great fire. But there were plenty of sparks before her that made no immediate difference.
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Why? Does it matter whether or not people can see if you have read their message? I will answer your question when I have time, and if you're on my friends list I guess you should know me well enough to know that.
US -> Australia here; left for personal reasons. I would probably still be in the US otherwise. I miss the memory of the US sometimes, and the people I left behind. Also New Haven pizza.
>"It's hard to have a debate about the reasonableness of the government's actions — or Lavabit's response, for that matter — when we don't know what we're debating."

I'd say that actually simplifies the situation quite nicely. It is unreasonable. Period. The end.
"ask me anything about running a profitable social media company".

Except for that reddit is not profitable.

http://blog.reddit.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1ihwy8/rathe...
Assange's seldom mentioned manifesto[1] talks about the goal of making secrecy impossible by making the secret systems either completely disconnected from the real world, or so liable to leaking that they are no longer secret.

It's difficult imagining that goal being completely achieved, but it is interesting how closely the Snowden story matched Assange's thoughts.

Note that Assange's writing is pretty.. umm.. dense. It is worth reading the commentary at [2] at the same time.

This analysis is excellent:

[Assange] decides, instead, that the most effective way to attack this kind of organization would be to make “leaks” a fundamental part of the conspiracy’s information environment.... the idea is that increasing the porousness of the conspiracy’s information system will impede its functioning, that the conspiracy will turn against itself in self-defense, clamping down on its own information flows in ways that will then impede its own cognitive function. You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so paranoid of itself that it can no longer conspire

[1] http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

[2] http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...
A movie about Douglas Engelbart has my vote.
Maybe different US states should count as a No?

Depending on what the point of this exercise is.
Yes, and still liking it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zürich.jpg
Over double the population.
Doubt that the golden years ever were what they used to be.
studying in US currently, born and raised in Burma (Myanmar), don't think I will be back home anytime soon
Came to London from Slovenia about a year ago. Quite an exodus these days.
It is rare that 'a funny review' makes you buy the product, however I did after reading about 'Chompy', let me quote:

Is it possible to become emotionally attached to a kill-crazy cannibalistic worm that looks like a facehugger from the Alien movies and spends most of its time attempting to eat its siblings? Having recently shed a tear while burying my last one - Chompy - in the back garden, I'd say yes. These little beasties inspired fear and disgust in my girlfriend, but to me they were true friends.

The rest of the review:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3V27MXZINXUSL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_...
You're just playing with words though. People choose to use debt, I've got debt, on the car we just bought, that's it. I HAD debt, but the student loans are now paid and the house was sold.

Am I lucky to make a good salary that allows me to pay these things down? Absolutely. However, I'm also responsible for the choices I make. Many people make more than I do and don't save as much, many More people make less and drive cars that are twice as expensive as mine.
Capitalism is a recent invention. Societies in the past were not capitalistic, I challenge you to find one.

They were imperialistic, mercantilistic, corporatist, fascistic, communal, the list goes on.

Adam Smith invented capitalism as a response to the mercantilism of 18th century England.
The first example (flip widget) already does exactly nothing on Android.
Note that a vote in a poll does not count as an upvote for the poll! (just in case that wasn't clear...).
I must say yes, unfortunately...

I really want to leave, but I cannot yet.
I had written comments for the rest of your points, but then I read your final paragraph.

> Programming itself requires design skills, so we know all (good) programmers have what it takes to be good designers by default, they just need an environment to frequently practice those skills in contexts other than the text editor.

This is a huge red flag for me. The design skills you are talking about are incomparable to the design skills my comments have referenced.
I'm doing 3D games though, with OpenGL. Would definitely use LÖVE if I was doing 2D games.
Solzhenitsyn may be right. But he was biased, having been prosecuted by NKVD.
I am the sole maintainer of a framework free PHP codebase with ~100K lines. Who's jealous?

It could probably be rewritten down to about 10-20K lines (maybe less) if I had a spare month or two.
Portugal -> Switzerland/France -> Germany

Who knows where to next.
Thanks for the info! Makes sense. Is this performance you're expecting in the long-term, or will this be tuned at some point?
No, Portugal -> UK and not planning to return anytime soon.
I see the point, but it seems like recklessness is a loophole you could swing corporate manslaughter to murder.
Most people in general. A lot of people think they're much better at small talk than they are, and blame the other guy when an interaction doesn't go as smoothly as they hoped, or there's an awkward silence.

People who are excellent at small talk have to be very charismatic and seem genuinely interested in the conversation even when it's very boring. Very few people are capable of either of these things, and in my experience it's actually management & marketing types who are the worst at both.
Nice country, I did the whole coast a few years ago.
Left in 2003, and for the looks of it, I share your feelings.
Angular on Rails: first attempt
BOOL DONE WRONG IN C/C++
Jekyll on iOS: When Benign Apps Become Evil (while passing App Store review)
With the Destructuring Objects, I was like: WTF, but it all makes sense once you get to the Practical Applications of Destructuring. Nice stuff.
Monitoring a production Go server with MemStats
Apparently it goes well together with some Unicorn Meat. (Frequently bought together section)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000796XXM/ref=azfs_379213722_Urani...
Although experiences across different states can differ. The OP states having moved to a different country. This entails new culture, language and traditions for many countries.

Of course this is more likely to happen in Europe where countries are smaller and borders, well aren't borders anymore.

The United States is a huge country and the job opportunities and lifestyle in Mexico may not seem beneficial to most citizens.
You are right. Google owns all that content. Kim Dotcom should learn from the masters.
I always have a hard time answering the question "Where are you from?"

I was born in a country that doesn't give out citizenship (A middle eastern nation). My father, too, was born there. In fact, I need a visa to go visit my own birth country (where my parents still live).

I inherited Indian citizenship through my father and his family (I've never lived there), and potentially British citizenship through my mother (she was born in England but British nationality laws are very complicated). I travel on an Indian passport although I can not vote in India as I am a Non-Resident Indian (That might change for the 2014 elections).

My permanent residency, interestingly, is in Canada; and I live and work in the US.

Edit: I just know there is a business in here somewhere.
ShellCheck - automatically detects problems with sh/bash scripts and commands
Yes for the time being, but there’s probably a move in my future.
Hehe that's my next destination (next year)!
Some countries have more opportunities.

Some countries have more freedoms.

Some countries have more resources and that translates into more money, more technology and a better quality of life.

.

Pick one, or all three.
I think it would be interesting to see how this changes when you fix the distance between numbers on the chromatic scale (e.g. using only semitones or whole tones) to make it less arbitrary.
Yes, this is valid for other similar instances, like the former Soviet Union republics, Germany, Sudan, and a bunch of other places which if not changed their boundaries, at least changed their political regime calling themselves differently now. Taking this a little bit further, you may also reach the conclusion that all places are different now because they changed somehow along the way, even if are called the same.
It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails). Lines of code comparisons do not scale between programming languages.
My case is similar: Portugal -> Ireland -> UK. Not going back soon either.
Angular enables testability by design. This is one of the better written tutorials on how to approach it:

http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/01/full-spectrum-testing-with-...
> Debian is a large part of that history isn't it?

Debian was an early full Linux distribution, but it wasn't the first. Debians big (early) contribution was apt, which could install packages and resolve dependencies over the internet and made package management easier than rpm based distributions of the time.
Ireland->UK->Australia->France. Plus probably 6 months in the USA spread across a number of visits.
In C, accessing an out of bounds array index does not necessarily cause a segmentation fault. It's called buffer overrun and regularly used in malicious exploits / attacks.

What does occur many times is you mess up your stack, or mess with other memory in your heap, causing segmentation faults for various other reasons.
What was the country you were born in?
Locks FF Nightly too.
Synopsis: "A novel attack method that ... allows attackers to reliably hide malicious behavior that would otherwise get their app rejected by the Apple review process... make the apps remotely exploitable and subsequently introduce malicious control flows by rearranging signed code."

Direct to PDF: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

I thought the idea of using dynamic analysis to find and exploit private APIs without referencing them in ways app review could find, was inspired.
The small team I am on just re-wrote a number of different apps written by 3rd parties that were 20/30k and got them down to ~3k -- mainly by throwing out all their library junk and just doing things right in AngularJS.
Ecuador vows to resolve Assange situation
They are asking Google for open access to content Google doesn't own just as Google is telling Facebook the same thing.
No, but yes. I was born in USSR, but Lithuania gained independence since then.

Been living in different countries and even on another side of the globe, but keep coming back.