skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ChicagoMeshNet forums are now online
Timeline of events:

- you get upset at OP for missing the point and criticizing the author for being too wordy

- you give a neat two sentence summary of the article

- you say sometimes you can't give a nice neat summary of an article

- the massive dose of irony that just happened is lost on you.
Is it just me, or does anyone else want to see missile/beam/energy bold spam in a situation where it's tactically relevant and very effective? (Instead of just a chance to let the hero shrug it off and look tough.)

EDIT: Outside of The Last Starfighter.
The primary challenge is the stated example is speech and NLP. It's not building the decision trees. We can do that today with off the shelf technology. Hell, it's the kind of thing people love to hack together with their Arduinos.

Microsoft even has a pretty slick thing called on{X} that does some amazing tricks with rules reacting to network events and geolocation tools.

Although I confess that commercializing a system that lets you asynchronously start potentially unmonitored exothermic reactions in your home? Probably hard. :D
All the stuff I own that I care about fits in just enough space to take with me on a plane. When I move, I just give away or sell things like furniture and kitchen stuff. It's not too expensive replacing it all with cheap Ikea items.
It's very unlikely that popular sites are choosing not to use ETags in order to protect privacy. If they want to track you, they just use cookies. There is no privacy risk in a site using ETags as intended; it's only when the server abuses them to act as a unique identifies. And you can actually do the same thing with if-modified-since and the date, you just get fewer bits of data to work with.
That's what I got out of it. It's all pretty vague, so maybe it's just a post about how you should eschew the rat-race, go do your own thing, build your startup, and find happiness. Which is even more meh, honestly. Another key of good writing is to leave your reader with just one point in mind, one that never occurred to them before.
I am always in lovee with inventions, especially ones where they are complex or extremely massive/heavy, where they were done without modern computers.

I find that the amount of large scale steel industrial works, done before our current era are incredible.

The fact that these movements, visualized in the mind - then described in 2D, drawn by hand, are fascinating.
No one thought for a minute he was Republican -- there were no coattails. The issue is that the Democratic machine in NYC is so sclerotic and dysfunctional, it is virtually impossible for an outsider to get on the ballot. For a billionaire fiscal conservative who will finance his own campaign, the NYC Republicans will be obliging.
Here's a great set of pictures of the rusting ekranoplan:

http://englishrussia.com/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/
Since when did repo stand for "reproduction" in sofware engineering term? Never heard it around here. East coast.
Couldn't the same be said for cookies (clearing cache vs clearing cookies)? I was just wondering if there were technical advantages.
Y Combinator vs Techstars
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design
The Monarch
Mobile app development is broken
Don't think this is insensitive at all, pretty good point actually. These are the same people who are probably living better than 99% of people in the world and being 100% thankless about it.

If you feel like not owning stuff, stop buying it right now or throw it away. Simple.
It's not really obvious though
BoominAudio
She realized she was just following a path that was full of social approval but didn't feel fulfilling. You could removed Google and add a large financial/media/law firm and it would be the same article.
"Don't Make Me Think!" ~ Steve Krug
"As you can see at https://www.facebook.com/whitehat, in order to qualify for a payout you must "make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations" and "use a test account instead of a real account when investigating bugs."

I just looked at it, then switched Facebook to Arabic and the TOS is magically still in English (edit - and right aligned really badly as the page evidently expects arabic). If you demand that the TOS is followed by people who do not have English as a first language, try offering a translation.

This guy has done you all a service. The chances are that he may not have been able to clearly read the TOS that you wish him to abide by. He should get paid.

edit - hmm, was about to check the situation with other languages, however now all the buttons are in arabic so I stopped bothering after the fourth random page.
Where does this expectation come from, that work should be about personal fulfillment? That you have to love your job, or it's not the right one? Maybe it's just me, but if I leave my job, it'll be because I'd like more money, or a shorter commute, the opportunity to own a home, or better future career prospects. I'm not going to have an existential crisis over it.
Perhaps: Pay attention to where you're going, not where you've been?
Nope, Kindle promotion just for the weekend!
Some of these I had to see animated to even grasp what it might do. Even then I couldn't figure out what use it might be.

A couple of them describe stuff that used it but most were just technical details. It would be nice if there was a link to something that used it so you could see why it was ever made (or maybe some of these are just for fun).

I couldn't get through them all but will come back because it's fun to watch. More fun than it should be really.

edit:
example of one that has me guessing why it exists:
http://507movements.com/mm_115.html
" I could hear old school hip hop from our camp in the distance, but I was surrounded by absolutely nothing and no one, and I felt free in the universe."

Please stay away from Joshua Tree and other wilderness areas.
I commend the author on her decision to strike out on her own, as there's nothing better than being your own boss, being responsible for your own failures & successes.

Congratulations, and I wish you all the best!

The comment regarding a recurring dream was something I also experienced.

"recurring dream that I was being chased, jumping through windows and doors, but never getting further away from my chaser"

After quite some time having this dream, one night the dream ended with my realization that my pursuer was none other than myself!

I had been running from myself.

This realization had the effect of me going into business for myself, leaving a high paying job, and struggling for quite awhile before I began to be successful.

Today I work longer hours than I ever did for that high paying employer, but the difference is that I enjoy what I do, and I get to choose the projects that I pour my efforts into.

Too many are content to remain in their respective comfort zones, and this stifles innovation...

You go, girl!
> Yes. YOLO. We know.

Again, the experience she described cannot be reduced to "YOLO." YOLO could just as easily mean "I left Google to do something bigger and more successful." But that's the opposite of what she did. She learned to figure out what she actually wanted instead of what she would get praised for, even if it was an overall less ambitious life path.
Often wildly wrong.
I take a strongly libertarian view of that issue. Not only should gun carry by itself not be a crime, but the only reason most of these drug dealers carry guns is because they are in a business where the legal system won't protect them, not to mention the reason they usually get caught carrying guns is that they were also involved in drug dealing. Cops go looking for drugs, and they find drugs and guns. If they weren't looking for drugs, they mostly wouldn't find guns either.

We're talking about a hypothetical ideal legal policy with regard to drugs, right? Why the return to the status quo the moment guns are in the picture?
I completely agree. Having worked with some AI systems in the past (mostly ANNs although I'd love to even begin to understand SVMs), I think that there's more "practicality" in just building robots/software that (based on various pattern analyses/etc/etc) figures out where a malignant tumor is, for example, rather than a robot that can understand coherence relations or what-have-you.

So I don't fault the CS community from stepping away from linguistic puzzles and getting on with more useful stuff. After all, that's what engineering is. It looks like Levesque disagrees, but I'm not sure he's right.
Aside from the article having no real connection to hacking or the startup world; the prevalent self absorption is what I assume to be the biggest factor in the negative reviews this article is receiving here on HN.

Was it well written? Absolutely. Could someone take away something beneficial from it? Most likely. But is it worthy of being on the front page of hacker news? I'd guess not.

Again, though I've seen a drastic decline in the quality of posts in the short time I've been here, which is most likely indicative of the overall decline in quality since combining hacker news and startup news.
What about stories like [1]? Is that restricted to the "bad parts of town"? The impression I've always gotten is Oakland was the bad part of town.

(This is an honest question - not trying to be sarcastic. I havn't lived in the Bay area.)

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57599011/violence-in-o...
In a similar vein, here is a video from the US Navy in the 1950s which describes how mechanical computers work (for calculating trajectories of missiles being shot from ships.)

Utterly fascinating to see how very simple mechanical devices, like differing gear ratios, can be used to calculate things like logarithms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpkTHyfr0pM
I think he is suggesting you read up on the authors.
People get used to their condition and find things to worry, nit pick, and complain about. I think what you do with those feelings comes down to how much perspective you have.

I echo your feelings. I was homeless (living in an abandoned boarded up storefront) for two years after the downturn. I think back to then whenever I get wacky irrational feelings of material inadequacy.
As someone with a friend who, in a different state and different circumstances, foolishly was detained on a road trip in a state with a strict no-tolerance policy, was subsequently arrested and tried by some small prick DA in the middle of nowehre to teach a lesson with his "sorry, I don't make exceptions because we want to look hard on drugs" apologism, I hope decriminalization succeeds at least in the short term.

That friend had trouble finding work and grad school for years because this haunted him, and everyone asks in advance about your criminal record. It was all over a dime bag, and using crooked legal tactics.

Another friend, reminiscent of an article previously posted here, was in the Midwest (we grew up on the East Coast) and stopped for a busted headlight. They then found a negligible amount of weed. He was detained and then arrested on the spot. He was told he either call his parents, as he was a minor, and to pay a wopping 1,000 USD fine, or face charges and a court date, in which case pleading innocent and receiving a guilty verdict would mean doubled fines and potential jail time. You can guess what his parents did when they got that phone call in the middle of the night.

And don't worry, they never had a problem scrubbing this from their record, as youths who had fun. Their record would never ruin their adult (+21) lives, no?

All I have to say is, what the hell is wrong with us as society we penalize people so harshly (let's not kid, the non-white kids I knew got worse variations of these stories) for something so much less powerful than alcohol (I would love to see someone argue with me re this point after four years in the very wet college environment in contemporary America)?

Screw it. I hope this guy, and those like him win. But there is something so disgustingly Puritan and fascist, I feel myself working up the "he was a real reactonary" voice of Big Lebowski, full of snark.

Sorry, end rant.
Liu is running for mayor, losing badly, and fishing for votes. His campaign treasurer and a fundraiser were also convicted on fraud charges for fabricating donor information.

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/02/john_lius_ex-campaign_treasu...
Your "TL;DR" is well deserved.
Yeah, really. If your biggest problem in life is that you have too many Tiffany vases, you're doing pretty well. Sell the vases and be happy for your good fortune.
Ha. Came here to say exactly the same thing.

This is why mobile is too important to be in the control of a single proprietary vendor.
Let the non-biased comments commence! ;)
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking or trying to achieve. Cookies are cleared when they expire; cache can be cleared at random.
Why not simply use Bresenham's line drawing algorithm to "draw" a reverse-rotated rectangle over your image, but rather than drawing, you'd read pixels and write them to the destination image. You'll need to only rotate the corners of the image once and everything else is simple integer math.

Trivia: this is how Wing Commander worked. Nobody was concerned about filtering or gamma correction in those days, needless to say!

Bresenham point-sampling is an example of a 'forward transform', where you look at each pixel in the source image and decide where it goes in the destination image. You can also use conventional texture mapping to rotate an image, which is a case of an 'inverse transform' where you traverse each pixel in the destination image and figure out what texel(s) contribute to it.

Inverse transforms are much simpler -- Bresenham sampling has some ugly complexities, especially if you want to scale the image as well as rotate it -- but they aren't as efficient if the image has a lot of transparency.
> 'Technical people' are just as (if not more likely) to be biased than ordinary people.

True but they at least have facts ready to support their biases. ;)

So many nerds assume they're above confirmation bias without considering the sophistication effect.
Here's why I think it's such a frustrating article... It's ultimately an immature sentiment expressed by an immature person enclosed in a veneer of maturity.

The subtle thing here is that she's blaming being at Google for her lack of fulfillment when a mature person would look inward first. I'd bet dollars to donuts that a similar thing happened to her ex-boyfriend. No rationale, vague sentiments, very little actual introspection, except what might make her happy.

Real maturity is about character, finding how to be a better person and not what the world can do for you.

That said, I'm sure she'll go far in life. I sincerely hope she lerans to improve herself as a person in order that she can be a fulfilled human being.
Andy Johnston seems to want to make sure that whenever you google his name, this comes up.
Have to agree with everyone here. The first email gives enough information to base a case on. Enough to simply do a quick search and verify these people aren't friends. I get less information than this from users for a product we support, it's frustrating, but if you don't investigate each lead as a potential you run the risk of having it snowball.

Shame on Facebook for dismissing this guy's reward due to the lazy actions of one employee. It would have taken one question, or one 5 minute validation of the claims to make this a non issue.
Yahoo removes dead blogger's site (despite him having pre-paid for hosting)
I don't see what's specifically American about that. It's far worse in Asia, for one. I imagine it may have been better in Fuller's younger days.
Quote from the linked Wikipedia article: "United States Naval Institute in 2009 stated that such a warhead would be large enough to destroy an aircraft carrier in one hit and that there was "currently ... no defense against it" if it worked as theorized.".
why do we assume automatically that this is a bad thing? it all depends how it is used. I for one see many positive uses for something like this.
Is your whitehat page translated to other languges? If I select a different language, only the login and footers are translated. I don't think you can reasonably assume that non-English speakers can understand the entirely English whitehat page.

Additionally, if you're not logged-in, then the test accounts page doesn't work. It redirects to the same page as facebook.com/whitehat, with no notification that the test accounts page even exists.

You should really pay him.
My thinking here is that NY changing their pot laws seems more plausible than them changing their gun laws... Certainly changing pot laws is what is being proposed here, not gun laws.
"you didn't go [...] below 14th"

Say what? No Village, Chinatown, Little Italy, South Street, Battery, etc., etc.? These are the best parts of Manhattan. No 25 cent trip on the Staten Island Ferry?
Yeah it kind of depends on what the root cause of the feeling that he wasn't The One is. Would she have felt that way about him now, after throwing away all that was causing her feelings of inauthenticity? Did she misinterpret some other problem in her life and project it on her relationship and then talk herself into thinking she "opened doors" by leaving that relationship? Etc.
Clearly it is the "time of war."
Honestly, I can't speak to non-US schools. They might be better, worse, etc. I hear both. I do know about American - well, USA - schools. So I circumscribe my speech to ensure correctness.

Can you write a bit about what makes Asia far worse?
PG also has many essays that are regarding doing your own thing, and about life. Admittedly, I find PG much better in providing insight, however this article also does a pretty decent, (albeit with many platitudes) of giving us insight on living life. Something that apparently many people on HN think is not meh.
The abbreviation he used was actually "repro", which seems like something that would likely be shortened in an environment where you say it a lot.
Honest question. Is this any different from spam?

The end users of MailChimp require double opt-in before being signed up for receiving news letters, email, whatever, etc. Your use of "Automated cold e-mails" in the headline sounds oddly similar of spam to me.
If you're having trouble with the idea that there is a real human behind this article, someone with feelings and motivations for writing what she did and not just some anonymous internet commenter who "takes a long time to get to the point" or "has a boring writing style", I recommend watching this video she published on Youtube in which she responds to questions people had about her article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeyt2Mw4sK4

Like the article, it's very honest and personal. It takes guts to broadcast or publish something like that about yourself on the internet and face the music, as is apparent by some of the responses here and on Youtube. Consider thinking about it next time you decide to post a snarky comment or a TL;DR.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

I believe that he meant to keep learning and reaching...not stacking up degrees.

I love the ole' trimtab
I believe we call that a mobile device manager. Only this one is much more pervasive and used by the Feds. I know of few companies that do not use one nowadays.

Is this not old news though? The first time I was really relieved I use CyanogenMod in particular was when the story broke the an American company was actively encouraging carriers to use a special monitoring system that cooperated with the necessary phone-side code baked into the firmware. This caused shock waves, ironically dwarfed by PRISMgasm. I believe it was CarrierIQ. The current revelations blew the scope out of the water; it took me a while to even re-jog my memory using Google.
Haberman was complaining about the tendency to summarize a long piece of writing in a few words (here, only 3). Haberman's summary was more than three words, and more importantly, did not dismissively imply that such a summary was an appropriate stand-in for reading the article and/or encapsulated the article in its entirety. There was a difference of purpose/context. I didn't find it to be too ironic.

The Internet is great at the rapid dissemination of micro-communications. But let's not forget that there's merit in taking your time as well.
I'm not sure if there was an implication of psychedelics at Joshua Tree, but this comment in that context would be just as egregiously confining.
Can you give an example of a positive use for this, that is better than a cookie?
Actually, this is the type of back-and-forth I (and I think others) would love to see more of. A dozen replies in, lots of good ideas, and no one is calling anyone else an idiot or a troll. Feel free to continue!
That was good writing. The people that complain about it being too long are probably young and don't appreciate a good personal story. This is not about google, but about author's personal choice to leave something seemingly good behind in order to do something more meaningful/fulfilling; and how she made that choice.
How emailsherlock.com gets its info?
I recently registered an domain with obfuscated contact info (except for my name) at Gandi. Then proceeded to create a email account (also using Gandi's email pack) which I used to create an account at Golden Frog VPN service. I also used it to create an account at metafilter.com and stopped there for lack of time.

Today, just a few days after the domain registration, I received a standard phishing scam email. It's interested that I have only used this email at Gandi, Golden Frog and MetaFilter and somehow emailsherlock.com knows about it and I received a phishing scam. Even Google does not have any hits on that email address except for the emailsherlock.com XML file.

I feel I can't trust Gandi/GoldenFrog/Metafilter OR they have been hacked. Any ideas?
"Due to its incessant work, NSA is the largest electricity consumer in Maryland." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

So what would the carbon footprint be of WikiLeaks releasing 50 gigabytes of encrypted random data?
On websites it is not customary or to be expected for scrolling to bring you to essentially another page.

This thing is a slideshow fitting badly into webpage format.
"She learned to figure out what she actually <strong>wanted</strong> instead of what she would get praised for, even if it was an overall less ambitious life path". YOLO.

Why waste your life doing what doesn't fulfill you? You only live once. Is that not applicable as well? This is precisely my argument. I'm just saying we should be ok with offering critique on style and content, not silencing it around here.
When you develop software on top of an open-source stack, you stand on the shoulders of giants. If you make a modification to an open-source package and profit from it, you have a moral obligation to eventually contribute this code back to the community.
S3 buckets can act as torrents.

Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...
Pretty cool indeed. The design process [1] is also quite interesting to read.

[1] http://renelee.net/arc/2/
Kepler actually orbits the Sun, not the Earth[1]. Its orbit is slower than the Earth's and as a result is getting farther away from the Earth. Assuming it needs an EVA to fix, as Hubble did, it's impossible to fix as we lack a manned spacecraft capable of getting there.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)#Spacecraft_...
Ploom.com
That's irrelevant in this case, please see http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-will-move-mega-privacy-se... and more.