skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post just makes me mad. While I am sorry that she had a bitter sweet experience, I also find her extremely unaware and unaccepting of a foreign culture.

It is only human to stare at some thing you don't see that often. May not be pleasant but to assume that her photo was being taken to be used in a pornographic sense is just, utter rubbish.

FYI: I have been stared at in the Midwest, in small town america and at times in the great epicenter of knowledge - that northeastern city called Boston. Look out for me in that next porno. Oh my.

Her imagination runs wild thereafter. I am sorry, I lived in India for 18 years and practically grew up there. I have never ever seen anyone disrespect or "jerk off" at a white person in public. Yes, they hassle you to make a quick buck or two but saying everyone chased her around the place is a wild goose chase around reality.

Sure, the media has done an amazing job of portraying India to be this sexually out of control state, and I agree it has its issues. It is only as bad as any other country in the world, really. Even the so called developed ones.
The lack of critism in this thread is astounding.
> The Scouts are a great organization on a local level...
> However, the BSA at a national level is a pretty awful organization.

Thank you for pointing this out. I've been trying to explain this to people for years. When I was a kid in the Scouts, we lost a grant for a brand new gear trailer (that we badly needed) because of the bigoted stance that National had just taken on homosexuality. As a troop, we tried to explain this dichotomy to our would-be funders, and even went so far as to openly refuse to enforce National's policy. We lost our trailer anyway, and National continues to reduce the credibility and relevance of the BSA in the eyes of less conservative Americans to this day. And it's a damn shame, because it's really a great organization.
I've been working on implementing a solid HTTP library in Rust, currently at http://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http. Servo has been using Joyent's HTTP parser and this is a problem that I had observed with it. Yes, it is pretty badly implemented, but it's not a mess because of the style of code—that's for performance. It's only a mess because it's inconsistent and incorrect.

Reading the HTTP method in a high-performance way does lead to superficially ugly code. That's why code generation is good. Ragel has been mentioned and I intend to seriously consider using it, but for the moment my own HTTP method reading code is generated with:

generate_branchified_method(
writer,
branchify!(case sensitive,
"CONNECT" => Connect,
"DELETE" => Delete,
"GET" => Get,
"HEAD" => Head,
"OPTIONS" => Options,
"PATCH" => Patch,
"POST" => Post,
"PUT" => Put,
"TRACE" => Trace
),
1,
"self.stream.read_byte()",
"SP",
"MAX_METHOD_LEN",
"is_token_item(b)",
"ExtensionMethod(%s)");

This is pleasantly easy to read and meaningful.

This generates the high performance artwork shown at http://sprunge.us/HdTH, which supports extension methods correctly. (Rust's algebraic data types are marvellous for many things in implementing such a spec.)
The dangers of "willfull blindness" [video]
This is absolutely essential, and the most inspiring. This is Snowden and all other whistleblowers, told through stories of ordinary people who are not in the news and controversial. This is reality. Face it.
>What bugs me are people, largely motivated by financial interests, in my opinion, who downplay the massive cultural and social advantages we still enjoy in the west over places like India.

Most immigrants I know could not care less for those -- they come in the West for the money.
First: SUVs don't survive crashes particularly well

This is outdated information, SUVs are now far safer than cars. Death rate (per 1M vehicle years) for 4WD midsize SUV: 23. Midsize Sedan: 51 [1]

[1] http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4605.pdf
He is implying the drug war will have ended, while also making a reference to prohibition.
Neither it seems, does voting for one of the two main parties.
Stupid Interview Questions: Reversing a Doubly Linked List
>A lot of "traditional" values turn out to be wrong.

As judged by whom?
I wouldn't imagine that. All we really know about the NSA's cryptographic powers are that they have a shit-ton of money and a lot of very smart people. And even if your cryptography is actually as secure as you think, the power that can be brought to bear here is immense.

Could they, from a distance, read the EM emissions of your computer? Could they compromise some physical object on which you set your computer and read the EM emissions from there? Can you afford to have somebody watching your computer every second of the day? Is there some possible attack that you haven't thought of but they, having devoted lifetimes of thought to the problem, have?

Of course, they could also be bumbling idiots, so there may be no need to worry. Certainly, this sort of ham-fisted pressure suggests that there are, at least, idiots involved. But if you have gotten to the sort of prominence where somebody might be willing to burn a billion dollars to cause you trouble, it's really hard to say what's safe and what isn't.
A good measure of how free a country is: are its own journalists safe putting their feet there.
There are some very subtle aspects in this discussion and we are talking about the same from different angles. I absolutely agree with everything you are saying.

But this is not the case I am discussing. If you are able to prove objectively that you are not getting a fair share of the value you bring and management doesn't fix it, then everybody loses. You lose what you could have gotten, and they lose because now they have a resentful and demotivated employee. You don't even have to leave or you can't leave until you find another job. It's not that hard for an employee to do the bare minimum and not get fired or demoted.
> be faked

Be careful: The purpose of the agent string
is to tell the server how to treat the client.
That is, different Web browsers do different
things with the same HTML, JS, CSS, etc. So,
the agent string tells the Web site how the
browser wants to be treated.

In my little program to get Web pages, I just
tell the Web server how I want my program
treated -- like a certain Mozilla browser.
This is not "faking" anything. It would do
no good to tell the Web server that I
wrote my own Web browser because the Web
server would know nothing about my browser
and, thus, have no way to respond to it in
any special way. So, I just tell the
Web server to treat me like Mozilla.

Faking is not really the point.

We've got evil on the brain here.

I wrote my own Web browser. So what?
David Brady isn't in any bubble, he lives in the middle of America.
Your cellphones and personal computers shouldn't be protected by the Fourth ammendment; They should be protected by the Fifth. More and more, cellphones, PCs, and even other people's servers are becoming invaluable, impossible-to-live-without brain extensions. That they should be allowed to be used against you in court is insane. The communications that they send and receive should be subject to well-overseen surveillance, but the devices themselves are as much you as you are.

I imagine a not too far off future where your glasses tell you your schedule, where haptic and audio feedback are constantly feeding you a stream of your important information; Where even moreso than today, your personal data network is you. There's a chapter in Accellerando ^1 where Manfred's glasses are stolen, and the thug who steals them becomes Manfred by simple virtue of putting them on and being overwhelmed by the signals. He's not a very good Manfred, but he quickly is more Manfred than the person he was. It's only a matter of time before "I" am my newsfeeds, e-mails, calendar reminders, etc.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
I think you're overstating a little - I've been editing RED footage on laptops for years (no joke - my main machine is a mid-2011 MacBook Pro 15 inch and I can edit 4K RED files natively in Final Cut Pro X and Premiere CS6)... Rendering takes a little while at the end, but the files downscale to 1/4 resolution on the fly and play back real-time while you're editing.

It's never really been that bad - originally we'd just pump out a 1/4 or 1/8th res proxies out of Redcine and then reconform to the full-res files at the end, so you'd only have to render out the ones you'd need in full quality for grading. We did it all in house on pretty standard machines...

And I wouldn't say that 35mm film was 'better' - really, that is a big oversimplification. 35mm definitely had the edge over the original RED Mysterium sensor in dynamic range, but not in resolution - although some crazy people scan 35mm all the way up to 6K, when you measure what you get you don't get anywhere near that (I can't remember the numbers exactly now - If I recall, due to the OLPF to stop aliasing and other factors, a 4K pixel raster from the RED ONE would measure at about 3.2K (horizontal), and a 35mm camera neg was somewhat less (around 2.8K or something?)).
What inherent differences between an engineer and a programmer?
so if someone mentions the Gestapo they explicitely do not mean to bring up the overall context of the third reich, gotcha.

i am an austrian of polish decent. for me bringing up the fucking nazis in this context is completely laughable.

the securitate? maybe. the stasi? same. but only internet nerd rage immediately brings up nazis, fascism, etc. the whole discussion here at HN is an exercise in hyperbolic bullshit.
In the comments Rudsbridger, in all sincerity, is asking why a newspaper should have fought a government request to destroy source material.

I mean this is the strongest position the Guardian could have challenged the government from: No risk to the story, public visibility, government has nothing to directly gain from having the material destroyed. What is being fought over is purely principle and a demonstration of obedience: Gov asks and Guardian rolls over.

I presume we can expect the Guardian to routinely delete source material upon gov request if it hasn't been doing so already?
No, it sounds like first they made sure they could get the 5-star rating on the test, and then they kept working so that the car had 5-star safety even if they changed the test. They could have just gamed the test to get an inflated score but instead made a car that isn't just built to pass the test.
I was under the assumption that confiscation of private property was more widely condemned no matter what domain. Apparently not.
>>> The Scouts are a great organization on a local level... > However, the BSA at a national level is a pretty awful organization.

Note that the BSA is not unique in this regard.

At the local level, people genuinely care about the sense of community enabled by the organization.

Whereas at the national level, the only thing people care about is politics. And politics attracts all kinds of assholes.
Guardian journalist Charlie Booker is the showrunner of a series called Black Mirror on Channel 4 in Britain where each episode is centered around exploring the potential impact of technology in the near future.

There are some scripts written up for a third series and the NSA revelations would be perfect to explore in a show like that. The problem, as is the general case with this issue, that far too few people are actively engaging it. Black Mirror drew around 1.6m viewers at its highest point, but this was admittedly only in the UK and there was no hot button issue being explored.
> How about a scenario in which all the people who claim to be voting for the lesser of two evils reevaluate their own defeatist attitude? If the only thing stopping a significant enough percentage of people from voting for a 3rd party is the perceived inability to win, then it's just a coordination problem.

I think that's a bit idealistic. A lot of people voted Ralph Nader in 2000, and while it's up for debate whether this cost Gore the election, I think many voters are now turned off the idea.

In a close con/dem race, I think many would rather have some of their positions represented by the resulting POTUS than shoot for the moon and risk "splitting the vote". One of the major parties would have to do some truly outrageous shit and alienate their base before this dynamic changes.
Great software is an act of empathy
You note that a "drug dealer" faces a warrantless search of his electronic devices to determine others involved in the "drug trade" but how is the determination that a suspect is a "drug dealer" made?

Is this another discretionary power afforded to LEO?
Yes. Ethics are often at odds with legality.
No, this is the guy who started a camera company (RED) in 2005 and now about 1/4 to 1/2 of major motion pictures are filmed on their cameras (such as the Hobbit, which had 25 RED rigs (with two cameras each)).
Geoff Boyle is probably more a commercials DoP than a feature film one, but in this context he is notable for running the CML mailing list, which is a pretty incredible resource for cinematographers. I think it's the most focussed, knowledgeable online community I've ever known. It's so on-point that you can buy a physical book of the discussions.
You have a fourth option.
send me your resume developer@huffingtonpost.com
> The Scouts are a great organization on a local level

At the local level it is hit or miss. You end up with people who don't care if you are gay or an atheist, or it becomes a problem. Because the national organization is bigoted, people who experience discrimination at the local level are left with no recourse. I cannot advocate for "local BSA" because I know nothing of the particular troop somebody will interact with, but I do know that "national BSA" are scumbags. The best I could possibly do is tell people that a particular troop was decent.

(My troop was filled with bigoted shitheads. I got a "get eagle scout or we cut you off and kick you out at 18" ultimatum, and got eagle scout a few months before I turned 18. I did manage to never have the award ceremony though, that was my little personal victory.)
The SWIG effort is struggling with the changing API too.

https://github.com/oliver----/swig-v8/pull/9
Could a mod link this to the original post instead of someone else's mirror of it?

http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/
LINK was added after HTTP/1.0, and removed before HTTP/1.1. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registr... is being cited, but that is still a draft and the registry that refers to does not yet exist. I believe it is thus fair to say that LINK is not a standard method?
Dude. This is serious stuff. Try and understand that for the better part of Western History, getting caught with anything that might be considered a tool of espionage or meeting with the wrong person might be a death sentence.

Hence, tradecraft. These are skills designed to make things like hand-offs of materiel (called the brush-pass) or an surveillance detection run (to make sure you're not followed) a kind of second nature.

I'm sorry you were offended but I took your comment to be quite flippant. There is a reason why we have professionals for this sort of thing.

If you're truly interested, go read up on the subject. There is a lot of good info that details what the training is like, and what skills you need to do this sort of work. Double-O-Seven it ain't.

Good tradecraft keeps you ALIVE. It's not for amateurs.
'The man with the 132-pound scrotum': Unraveling the medical mystery
Yes, this is a good example. I have my own timeout value for promises - about 6 months. That should be enough.
UK Govt "Pulverizes" Guardian Hard Drives In Snowden Retaliation
Definitely look at OctopusDeploy.com for automated deployments. Amazing.
It does as much as voting for the major party.
Nice of Scotland Yard to state exactly what the problem is with this situation.
"The first thing they teach you is: If there is any doubt, there is no doubt."

"Who teaches you?"

"I can't remember. That's the second thing they teach you."
It is not run the mill asshole politics, it is rather extreme bigotry. For a long period of time they maintained that gay people could not be troop leaders because gay people were likely child molesters. If I understand correctly, they actually still believe this.
The Idea sounds good, but lately I was downloading a lot of plug-ins to go "anonym".

How 'bout a combined plug-in that contains the following:

-No-script

-No-cache

-Clearing browser history every x days -Entering random results into history

-Disables tracking
(I'm not sure what how normal tracking works on a technical side, so sorry if that's a double with some function above)

Additionally you should be able to make exceptions from the restrictions, for specific websites. (Like you can in the No-Script add-on, that you might know)

I believe most of it can be done using multiple plug-ins,
but there seem to be space for new inventions.
No, definitely use Mailchimp over rolling your own. It will save you time and what they offer for free before having to pay is fantastic.

Although I haven't used the other two suggestions, both look to offer great tools to go even further than just collecting the address.

I myself am doing the same thing right now, just looking for a good way to promote sharing of the page after someone signs up. I want to incentivize people to share with friends by some sort of affiliate program.
Anyone who gets "inspired" by politicians is dangerous. A politician should cause mild disgust, at best.
The British Public are the (ideological) descendents of people who had the "Magna Carta Libertatum" as a cornerstone of their civil society. Now from everything that comes out it looks like Britain is closest to becoming the Orwellian nightmare - constant surveillance of citizenry, arbitrary detentions, suppression of the press and an uncaring bureaucracy.

British folk ..."Remember remember the fifth of November".
Speak out against this at every forum possible and kick out these enemies of freedom ASAP.
It should be evident to anyone with a modicum of understanding of what types are for, that Scala is a superior language to Java. (And Haskell even much more so, but Scala is friendlier to your existing investment in a Java codebase.)

> There will be some very tense discussions about how things things ought to be implemented (...)

Encoding as much as possible of the problem domain's logical constraints in types. Any property enforced by a type checker (and not subverted via a type system escape hatch) is a property that you do not have to test.

> (...) and if not well managed, it can feel like "this approach is wrong. your code is bad and you are a bad engineer"

My experience with most programmers using Java/C#/Python/whatever is precisely that: "Their approach is wrong. Their code is bad. And they are bad engineers." I have to waste my precious time subverting their brittle type systems (downcasts, reflection, assuming stuff is not null, etc.) and enforcing correctness the hard way (extensive testing or even good old non-computer-assisted brain usage), when I could simply read type signatures, get free theorems, run a couple of tests for checking stuff that cannot be inferred from types, and move on to the next thing.
Here are some references to get you started:

http://www.volokh.com/2012/01/02/the-original-and-traditiona...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec... (Relevant part: The majority opinion viewed "freedom of the press" as an activity, applicable to all citizens or groups of citizens seeking to publish views).

However, before you even delve into the references, note that the First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

IMHO, the expression freedom of speech, or of the press conveys the idea of freedom of the spoken word and freedom of the written word. Of course, I am not a lawyer, not an american, and also not a native english speaker, so my impressions on language have to be taken with a grain of salt.
>>Hmm, sounds like they were promising more of the same.

>>If your suggestion is voting for an independent, is there a realistic scenario where an independent candidate could get elected in the United States?

Do you feel disenfranchised yet?
I guess that's why there's a difference between the spirit and the letter of the law.
Justo unibody brogrammer
The fifth amendment was only ever intended to be dealing with testimony - you couldn't be called as a witness against yourself (the history of why it exists makes this clear). That is, you literally can not be asked to testify against yourself, in a custodial interrogation, court, or other setting where it could be used as evidence against you in a criminal trial.

It was never intended to prevent evidence you were stupid enough to write down from being used against you.

So basically, "insane or not", the fifth was clearly not intended for this purpose, despite your attempt to view this as "an extension of yourself".
I'm not a genius but I think the answer to your question is a simple, "contribute $21M".
FontAwesome is free and open source. And has more number of icons than what you will get with this Bootstrap only free version of glyphicons.
Here's a Prius v. Looks worse than the c.

http://youtu.be/GNZ5ojGRiRU
You're right - that phrasing is sloppy. I'm sure there's a kick-ass PR team behind this.

But it smells different than normal PR. It actually contains surprises and a conversational tone and it reminds me of Musk himself. Giving an interview, for instance.

This could be me projecting onto it, or maybe Musk really does drive PR more than you'd expect for a company at this stage. Or maybe his team is able to pull this off on their own. Either way it's fun to watch.
It was a pretty incredible shift though - The more common cameras of the day, such as the 1080p Sony F950, was going for over $180,000 a package, and suddenly you could get a 4K camera package for $35,000. And it could record Raw footage to compact flash cards! The F900 and F950 recorded MPEG2 to HDCAM and HDCAM SR tape at that time.

And they were pretty unprecedented (for the cinema industry) in the way they handled upgrades - dramatically improving many aspects in their cameras through free firmware upgrades and then offering a major sensor upgrade for the cameras, whereas their competitors would just release whole new camera models.
I was thinking about that, and here is my idea of the workflow.

When someone posts a question, multiple people can answer, but the question asker only sees the first answer received. He can either choose to accept or reject that answer. If he rejects that answer, he can move on to the second answer and then accept/reject accordingly.

Because if it is like a forum where you see the entire thread, you might run into a problem where you choose between the answers.
Welcome to Geppetto
> One of the major parties would have to do some truly outrageous shit and alienate their base before this dynamic changes.

For me, recent events qualify.
I think many of the founders would have agreed with you.

That said, it's my understanding that personal diaries are admissible in court. Our electronics are similarly private, so the fourth amendment, protecting 'persons, houses, papers, and effects', applies.
This that same Obama that was on TV two weeks ago saying 'We don't have a domestic spying program' and that same Obama that a few days later was 'promising greater oversight and transparency and insisting he had no interest in snooping on ordinary citizens.' ?!

This feels like an Orwellian nightmare that I just woke up in.