skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, trusting/encouraging commercial entities to morally parse which laws they should and shouldn't obey seems absolutely crazy to me.

Not sure what is going on with the massive cognitive dissonance being displayed.

Government ignoring constitution/laws for perceived moral/efficiency benefits BAD, commerical entities ignoring laws for perceived moral/efficiency benefits GOOD.
Keep searching and applying. Frankly speaking interview is a quite structured experience, so you can learn the rules. Also you will be able to become more extroverted over the time. You are lucky because it's just about only modern profession that allows you to be both introverted and relatively successfull. I would bet that John Carmack and Mark Zuckerberg are quite introverted, it's just that they had a lot of practice and people wanted to hear them regardless.
Fast forward two months, and I decide to sign up for facebook.

And this is where your use case fails: some of us already know about Facebook and will never, ever sign up. Don't track us until we ask you to, full stop.
I thoght that too, but is really strange that he has the same photo five or seven years later.
It no longer asks for these things on iOS?
You have too much talent to spend on being a top web/Android app developer. The world needs you to do bigger and better things.

It doesn't matter how you do it, just surround yourself with people smarter than you are.
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i'm too dumb to pursue anything that I find interesting, it seems.
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Because every group you've named has the same overarching goal - to keep people free and safe.

Pretending like the intelligence community is some kind of evil monster is a great way to get ignored by the intelligence community, and for good reason.
In theory, sure - but in practice... Most of my friends are @yahoo.com, @gmail.com, or their ISP.

Meaning, in practice they're centralized.
How can the site be down, but all 'lights' are green?

Anyways, hope they get back soon.
And you're going to be in for a shock if you ever decide to do some research and find out that you can request your name and number to not be listed in a phone book.
Anyone else in this thread think that this blog post covers a painfully trivial calculation problem? What's next - someone's going to write a full blog post to explain to me how to perfectly toast my toast using these visual sensor things that seem to be built into my head (eyes)?
The next version (1.2) will remove the pressure on GC by using in place operator and by reusing more entities
Ok so maybe I'm alone here, but this doesn't bother me at all. How is this an invasion on anyone's privacy? They are just using the info a user already gave them access to.

Why does it matter if Facebook has information about you you can't see? Is it really surprising that they do? It's not like FB just shows us the DB tables so that we know what info they are storing on us. As programmers we should all understand that there is some data that you keep that doesn't need to be shown to the user but helps make your program run. That's all I see this as.
Well, at least it also feels like a 'service pack'.
Not a great test. All of the editing problems stemmed from using Google Drive. Why not test using iWork which in my experience is pretty good.
>>"Shadow profile" sounds scary, but in actuality it's just the modern web at work.

I think you have a different definition of "modern web" than most people here.
I wish Facebook fades into oblivion like Myspace.
I've always had this weird observation. What makes child porn different than a parent having photos of their naked child? Porn isn't just sex acts.

There are clear distinctions, yes, but this line can get extremely blurry real quick. I often wonder at what point a police state would get the wrong idea and arrest a parent for their own perfectly innocuous photos.

It just always fascinates me when morality can be subjective like this and completely up to individual interpretation.
Strange gmail bug: I'm sharing an email address with a stranger
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Not inherently, no, but practically, yes. The type system of, say, Java, isn't even formally sound; overridden functions can be covariant in parameter types, which would not be permissible in a proper subtype-based type system such as OCaml's.
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Just to add to this, here's the list of TLDs Google considers generic/geotargetable: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en
Your mom was a hacker? I'm jealous.
Call me crazy, but it seems like a marketplace exactly like ThemeForest/CreativeMarket so I wonder why their business model does not follow the ThemeForest business model...where the law firm would buy bulk credits in $100/$200/etc increments and then they would have clerks read and review and annotate cases which can be purchased on a micro level (like say $5 for a case) so that CaseText can provide high quality content for lawyers bc the creators of the content would be getting a kickback.

Then, maybe, the cases could be bundled together in logical formats so that they could distinguish themselves from the big guys by not only providing a better tool, but logically grouping cases to ease the burden of the lawyer's ability to search effectively!
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Something that no one has mentioned here, you will have a HUGE amount of free time at college. Far, far more than you will have if you go get a job.

If you are more interested in starting/continuing to run your own projects than working on someone else's, then I would- without a doubt- go to school.
I think someone needs to start posting modern-day eighth-grade tests, because a bunch of supposedly smart, middle-class guys going on about how horrifyingly hard they find tests like this is starting to worry me. I think your memories may be fading.

There isn't anything here that I didn't do in eighth grade, and those tests were half this length or longer for each class. My history classes had a different focus, mind, more "What lead to X war?" questions on tests than "Who were the commanders of the last battle in X war?".
It's a relatively new idea, the modern expectation of 'privacy', and one that's completely out of touch with reality. It's only within the past hundred years that most people did not know everyone in their town - Even in cities, you probably shopped at a small set of stores and were known by name by the clerks. Technology has caught up, and now it's possible for shopkeeps to know your name again.
What if that info became "public" because it was conned out of one of your friends, a friend hypothetically fully aware of your distaste for facebook and also someone who would never put any of your info into it consciously, when that friend allowed facebook to access their email/phone contact list to find people on facebook that they knew?
"Recording the relationship" is the privacy invasion.
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> it has no "troops" with which to engage foreigners.

Well, if you ignore that thing where the NSA is an part of the Department of Defense, and that its director is also the commander of a sub-unified command of the US military, sure.
The bigger picture is in terms of Social Network Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis

and the fact that companies are able to figure out lots of stuff about you even though you never consented to being a part of their service.

Hopefully the next "leak" will be about one of these big companies and what they do with your information.
I guess that the reason I've been able to migrate almost entirely to using my iPad for everything must be the way I used to use my computer previously.

I've pretty much always ran applications "full-screen". The only time I really ever have more than one thing on screen at a time is if I'm splitting a tmux window.

I use my iPad how I imagine people use Chromebooks (with the addition of being able to use more than just the web browser).

That makes me wonder if over time tablets will become used for more and more because they increase in functionality/complexity (mimicking how people use their PC's currently), or if they'll remain the way they are, but people will just adopt their usage paradigms.
By "alarm" do you mean calendar notification or alarm clock alarm?

Calendar

Calendar notifications are in the notification tray until you dismiss them

I wish. See my post for description of what happens 2-3x per week on my Galaxy S4. I'm using the built-in calendar.
Most enterprise level creation is done with word, excel, and powerpoint. iOS already has a pretty capable office suite.
Android apps need to be packaged into a .BAR file (simple tool) and signed with a BlackBerry signing key so it can be submitted to BlackBerry World. There is no Google Play, or Amazon App Store, or any other Android-specific app store.

If you don't want to submit to BlackBerry World, you would need to sideload the app. You still need to sign it with a BlackBerry key.
thanks. that was very helpful.
>it is then just tagged as text, not associated with an account...

Not associated with a non-shadow account.
last year, i - without having a facebook account - tried to get the data facebook might have stored about me through the corresponding EU privacy protection laws. all i got was the answer that they do not compile custom data exports upon request anymore and that i would have login into my facebook account [sic] to any data through some data downloading service...

now i wonder if i should have pestered a bit more, i.e. by demanding the release of the possible stored data (which definitely exists seeing the "please join"-spam from some years ago) in writing through snail mail. anyone had any success with that?
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Oh man, I love BEAM VM's design. Just looking at memory allocators, handling iolists, binary blob referencing, schedulers spread over all the CPUs, async IO threads. Just discovering that I found myself nodding my heading often say "aha, that's a really good way to do it".

It is good to see Elixir work on it alongside Erlang. I don't think everyone will jump ship to Elixir. For example I like Erlang's syntax (I might be in the minority) but meta-programming and ease of access to BEAM for newcomers is great.
This isn't the first thing they've done about it. Getting rid of the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine was a pretty big issue, plus there's been the financial crisis to deal with. The DoJ is severely underfunded.
Good point mentioning the word anxiety. The blog post reads just as well for self treatment of any other form of anxiety. Scared of heights? Claustrophobic? Anxious about "making the first move" when dating? Self treatment reads pretty much like a search and replace of the blog post.

Not saying its a bad post or wrong, but its one overly concrete example of a very general family of coping strategies. And knowing when you can generalize a strategy (and when you can't) is a mighty handy skill to have, so think about it, and not thinking about it, is the only disservice the post did.

There is the side strategy of using introversion as a crutch for anxiety. INT/EXT pretty much boils down to what do you like doing in your spare time, not much more. I like reading books and I don't like talking to that jerk in finance, so um, ah, I tell everyone I don't talk to that jerk in finance because I'm INT, because its easier than the social conflict issue of explaining how the guy's a total jerk.

Trust me, all that being a pretty strong INT means WRT public speaking, is I don't want to hang out with the audience after a speech. As an INT I enjoy public speaking, its unidirectional so I don't have to listen to their meaningless BS I honestly don't care about. One on one high pressure sales, now that's something an INT would inherently hate, because I just can't get my heart into pretending to care about some victim's favorite baseball team only so I can sell something to them, me doing high pressure 1 on 1 sales would be somewhere between a comedy and a tragedy, only certainty is I'd be way off the script... Public speaking is actually fun as an INT, and that fun feeling comes out in the talk, makes it a good one. Summary, absolutely no incompatibility with public speaking and INT.

Now there's nothing wrong with anxiety, particularly the very popular public speaking anxiety. Personally, I'm pretty anxious about heights, and the blog comments pretty much describe my "heights coping strategies". Everybody's got their "thing" they can't stand. Its not some fake INT/EXT thing.
I think the main problem for this decade is that HTML/HTTP aren't realtime (if I worded that correctly) like IRC or something.
My experience with both Shopify and Stripe (separately) has been absolutely fantastic. Both are extremely innovative teams at the top of their craft, and outstanding customer service the few times we've needed it. Happy to see them working together - great fit.
>1. ... > 4. We need to work out how to maintain our freedom and independence of thought when the objects of our attention, our knowledge and our feelings can be observed and (potentially) controlled in detail.

5. We need to become familiar with what are the functions of the new Fort Meade agencies, having to be recently created to supplement the NSA. The NARUS moniker goes "See Clearly, Act Quickly". NSA's `Unbounded Awareness' et al, gets repeated discussion day after day, this is brought about by Snowden's leaks. The `Intelligence Made Actionable' side of the scale has not even been `tin-foiled' yet.

It is believable McCain's poking Putin's eye is no idle threat, or even possibly Russia will be coerced into extraditing Snowden back to US by orchestrated `Action'. This new `Parallel Construction', Bruce's `NSA Creep' is all I've seen suggesting this `Act Quickly'. Who are these new unknown silent baddest alpha predators --without peer-- being fashioned to be released onto the unbounded wild, to take action, or manufacture outcomes whatever USG wants?
Nowadays, retiring comfortably at all is a pretty good deal, even if you don't end up a millionaire.
Just because someone gets a letter from a lawyer saying they can't do something, doesn't mean it's true! Lawyers try to pull fast ones all the time to get what they want, and most people will go along with it out of unfounded fear.
Is there a breakdown of how a Mattermark score is calculated?

Graphs of the Mattermark score changing over time for each company would make it much easier to see if the company is gaining or losing steam.

Right now, Twitter's score of 1435 doesn't really give me much to go off of in terms of how they are doing, other than out of these 10 companies, it has the highest Mattermark score.
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It took over a decade to make a decent touch-screen device, because our technological capabilities hadn't yet caught up to our aspirations. Now that we can, m-commerce is the fastest growing segment of e-commerce, which is the fastest growing segment of commerce in general.

Basically, the iPad succeeded because the technology behind it had finally matured, and Apple paid close attention to all of the mistakes that were made over those 20 years.

I may be wrong, but only time will tell for sure. Right now we are still in the phase where companies creating hybrid devices are making a lot of mistakes. I'm betting that someone is eventually going to get it right.
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The basic MicroVAX II was quite slow, with tiny memory, just a text terminal interface, ... To get anything comparable to a Symbolics 3640 one would have to invest quite a bit more money and it would still be slower as an 11/780.

The lab at our University was using a lot of Lisp on a DEC 10 and VAX 11/750 and 11/780. Nobody I know was keen to move their Lisp development to a Microvax (though there were some),

There were some Symbolics 3640 users. Then later Apollo/SUN/Compaq/Mac II, ...
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Still, depends on the purpose. Do you want to get a job at Google or Facebook? Then in engineering, Berkeley would be as good or better than Harvard. But who wants to get a job after undergrad?
They're back now! I'll just delete this.
None of this is unexpected.

If you were making exactly the same service, you would come up with exactly the same evil outcomes.

"Hey, we can upload every contact list in the world with no consent then cluster and cross reference every entry behind the scenes!" Sounds fun to me, especially if you have no sense of societal ethics or boundaries (quintuply so if you firmly believe you're changing the world and everybody else only advances at the pace of your unique genius).

Imagine the graph the NSA can construct about how people are connected throughout the world. facebook probably has close to exactly the same information based solely on voluntary information coughed up by Social Internet Morons. People aren't trained to think about data and relations and how everything can be sewn together, and that puts them at a gross disadvantage when interacting with global megacorps these days.
logarithmic growth (I think). Interesting to see. I wonder if this signals that society (with respect to self-organization) is growing more intricate and complicated, thus prompting more conversation in the government and official memos to be generated, or something more sinister is at work.
Yup pretty much, although for mobility reasons you'd want it to be battery powered. I was thinking more like re-purposing a late model Android handset. Root it, put a kernel on it which was designed for surveillance rather than telephony, have it spool to it's microSD drive and get analyzed each evening.
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US Government would block the bid on spying grounds, oh the irony.

Takes one to know one I guess.
Technology has caught up, and now it's possible for shopkeeps to know your name again.

And people you don't even know from nowhere near where you live, and who definitely don't have your best interests at heart (remind me, why exactly is this data being collected?). Even with the "local" knowledge you espouse, I say privacy is necessary. Until society can put aside it's childish prejudices (say, against non-heteronormative sexuality), then privacy will be necessary. As many noted thinkers have seen fit to enshrine (eg, the US constitution).
.com, .net, .org?
Have you heard of sandboxing? I guess not.
Why is the word "actor" absent both in the original article and in the HN comments?
I use my iPad as much as possible. For writing, I use Leanpub so I need to be able to edit markdown files out of Dropbox. iaWriter works great, and I usually don't even bother to use a bluetooth keyboard.

For accessing servers, the Prompt app provides SSH and a special Linux/bash friendly keyboard.

For research, a web browser and Evernote work fine.

So, top level comment: writing works well on an iPad, programming much less so.

Edit: I hardly ever use the bluetooth keyboard: I use my MBA if I need a keyboard. The advantage of the iPad is that it is comfortable to hold while writing as-is.
I was able to root my Arc S (but UK model/unlocked). I seem to recall using this method, but would need look on my PC for the files i used to verify... http://theunlockr.com/2012/10/09/how-to-root-the-sony-xperia...
I'm still known by the clerks of the stores in my neighborhood. That's completely orthogonal to this.

The reason this type of discussion of privacy wasn't being had 30 years ago is because 99.9% of the things we did 30 years ago were private, outside of getting arrested as an adult and, eventually, drivers' license info. If I didn't want to be recognized while buying birth control or hemorrhoid medication, I would just have to go to a store that I didn't usually go to.

Also, of course, 1890: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_%28articl...
I doubt anyone downvoted for minor points of style, more for the aggressive dismissal. I've given you an upvote as don't really feel it deserves the mob-handed moderation, even if it was a bit inciteful.

I think this will very much come down to how you see the sysadmin role - in some orgs they play a very close support role and help debug apps etc (polyglot required), in others they might provide more abstract services for developers and never touch app code, only instrument and manage it on the process level (perhaps more where this writer is coming from). So perhaps the wide gamut which sysadmins cover is to blame for your disagreement?
Visual clarity is a very different thing from visual appeal.
Seems very forced. I've used vim on an iPad for a bit just to try it, and it was very inconvenient compared to a small laptop.
that's my first thought as well: "what's this guy's/girl's daily job?!". and i wasn't any wiser when i read the job title ("Customer Success Manager") on the infographic.
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> would their CEOs all go to jail,

Why wouldn't they?

> doing enormous damage to the stock market?

If they willfully broke the law to act against the interests of their stockholders, that's another thing to keep them in jail for.

Playing chicken with an out-of-control government is a very dangerous game for anybody.
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This really gets me excited, Gittip is turning out to be a GREAT platform for supporting people. I'm hoping we can help Alex meet his goal to continue developing Drupal full time.
I suppose it's probably regional, but here you just walk into a telecom's shop, and they'll replace sim size A with sim size B. There may be a token fee for this, depending.
Firefox has been working on an incremental GC
Is Facetime easier to use than hangouts video chat? How does it accomplish that?
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For my own work, there's an explicit distinction between customer and user. Design the software for the user, design the marketing for the customer.

For a more radical perspective, consider the old saw "You aren't [Google|Facebook|Yahoo]'s customer, you're their product." The customer is the one who pays for the service in cash.
>> My impression at school was they were teaching CS more like math, rather than aiming for anything useful.

Why wouldn't math be useful?

But yes, your professor was an idiot. Just because someone has letters after their name doesn't make them smart.
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Squarespace has a nice balance of out of the box functionality with lots of power under the hood if you ever want to dig into it.
Scriptogram (http://scriptogr.am/) might suit your needs. Free web hosting on Dropbox. Very easy to use and setup. Perfect for blogging with a few static pages for your CV, links to Github etc.

Make sure you buy a proper domain, e.g. yourName.me. Check out http://leandomainsearch.com/ for domain ideas.

There's a list of other Dropbox website hosting services here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6098616

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