skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing in the article that suggests that accents lead to innovation. I'm not fully aware of the PG controversy but maybe he's privileged to some data that we aren't. Stating stats shouldn't be rebutted with fluff pieces.
Trucks are easily the most dangerous threat for cyclists in a city (more than cabs I would argue).

When they turn right, they often can't see what is next to them, and they are deceptive because they appear to be going straight but then suddenly veer right, and can easily knock an unsuspecting cyclist down under their back wheels.

If you are a cyclist you should _never_ be next to a truck while crossing an intersection. Even if they are slow off the line, always follow behind, it's just not worth it to try to pass them..
You make some good points, consider my counter-argument:

Voting is a formality, elections are a formality, etc. Democracy is also a formality. There have been many cases of kind autocrats who are loved by the people and who govern with their consent.

Many in the US are biased by the allure of democratic formalities and lose sight of the larger principle which is consent. Whether you vote or not, if you do not dissent then you consent to whatever is happening. This is true in any kind of regime, democratic or not.

I'd argue that it is the duty of all citizens to dissent aggressively when leaders act badly. This can take the form of voting behavior, public or private discourse, letter writing, fundraising, boycotting, civil disobedience, etc.

The contract between the people and their leaders should be reevaluated every hour of every day, not just viewed in retrospect after the 4 year term is over. Impeachment is an extreme measure, and too much of it is bad for the stability of our institutions, but the threat of it should be very real.

But just as stability is important for our institutions, so is trust. If the people cannot trust the president's words, that is just as large a threat to our stability as an impeachment proceeding.

We have granted our leaders the privilege of keeping some state secrets. They have taken that trust and created a massive surveillance infrastructure that goes well beyond what anyone imagined and well beyond the intent of the law. Now it is time to reduce the level of trust and dial back the excesses.

So far our leaders have shown no inclination to engage in a mutually respectful dialog with the public about the excesses (or about the crimes revealed by the leaks, for that matter). This conduct weakens our institutions more than most people realize. It is not only profoundly undemocratic, it is also profoundly disrespectful of the democracy that so many have fought to achieve.
Cool story, with a definite hacker vibe to it. It's also understandable that Jobs didn't want to drill a hole in the case just to improve the boot beep.

Then again, it's cool that he listened to the demo.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
You can read it here
http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
"The nearest city that doesn't enforce gun control is over a 1hr drive away in traffic, and you don't own a car. Do you (a) commit a crime of desperation at a local, familiar place, or (b) find a way to travel 20+ miles to knock over a liquor store?"

Being a criminal, its easy to add c) steal a car and abandon it when you're finished with it.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+have+a+dream&p...

thank god for those who don't respect overzealous copyright holders.
And watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

Incidentally, please do take the 17 minutes to watch this speech (and perhaps follow along with yread's transcript link). It really is one of the greatest speeches ever given.
There is no such thing as an "appeal to authority defense fallacy".
How 3D printing companies are using Kickstarter
They also dug (by hand) underneath Lake Michigan 2 miles out, to bring fresh water into the city. Amazing.
Not really... I know the NSA is topical and all, but they do not handle weapons development, civil defense engineering, and ship construction.

If anything he was really applying to be a defense contractor.
"A" hires "A"; "B" hires "C". And Generation Z's "A" players will not work for the NSA.

You don't just need loyalists. You need loyalists who are good enough to operate your systems, who are also conscience-free enough to dissociatively split what they're doing from how they do it, day to day. And you have to have 100% accuracy to avoid the next Snowden.

Speaking as an engineer hiring for software, we are desperate for good people. It is a seller's market out to the horizon. "A" engineers will be picking among many options for at least the next decade, another generation of change.

I am at the head end of Generation Y. I have a nice computer job. And in my personal life story I have already voted with my feet against working for similar institutions. I can pick my post, more or less, and I picked one that doesn't offend my personal convictions about privacy and power.

Computer science does force you to think hard about bullshit. You can't bullshit a compiler. I remember thinking in an early experience with C, my code is right, there must a be a bug in the compiler. You get chastened in a hurry with that kind of attitude.

I guess I'm just saying there is a negative correlation between the anti-knowledge you get from Fox News and the sense of mastery you get from making a computer do what you need it to. So the future of the NSA is decay.
Not strange at all, the problem is that you had an entire generation ripping through Paris' streets throwing bricks at the police while holding mao's book in their hands when in china people were dying by the millions due to the pogroms better known as the "cultural revolution", one of the biggest success stories in marketing considering mao was able to repackage state-sanctioned genocide with a cool name less than 10 years after the abysmal failure of the "great leap forward" which also claimed the lives of million of chinese.

For those people acknowledging the holodomor and giving it the same status of the holocaust or even that of the armenian genocide means admitting they spent most of their youth defending mass murderers.
It's a Sergey Brin love Quadrangle according to an Aussie paper - with names and photos:

"an office romance that is being blamed for a split between co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, and the sudden resignation of another senior male executive who was the former boyfriend of Brin's new love interest."

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/sergey-brin...

If you want to go tabloid, there's Gawker:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/meet-the-google-founders-mistres...
"There is nothing complicated about the underlying technology that can't be explained adequately to a bunch of intelligent people."

Assuming the underlying technology and it's implications are explained adequately at all. We already know how they try to explain metadata, so how are they going to explain the stuff we still don't know about?
Wait, that's from Seinfeld, no?
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Postman claims that tools "attack culture…[and] bid to become culture", subordinating existing traditions, politics, and religions. Postman cites the example of the telescope destroying the Judeo-Christian belief that the Earth is the centre of the solar system, bringing about a "collapse…of the moral centre of gravity in the West".
Dark Patterns: inside the interfaces designed to trick you
> If I am innocent, and have nothing to hide, I don't really see what the issue is in this.

Turing was similarly naive - in admitting to a homosexual relationship - and the government chemically castrated him and effectively hounded him to suicide. What's decent isn't always the same as what's legal.

And even if you think it is, and somehow know all the laws - which I'm convinced is impossible - and you think you've nothing to hide, can you really say the same about all the people with power over you? Politicians, police, doctors etc? Who will be open to coercion via whoever controls the surveillance apparatus. - Can you really say that no law will ever be put in place curtailing your freedoms in a way that you'd find unacceptable?

Information is like a weapon. Altering the balance of surveillance contributes to strategic political instability. Got to think very carefully about how you do it; when, why, what the costs are.
Building the RJMetrics Data Import API
I have my profile setup for endorsements in Milking Cats, Fridge Shelves, and Electric Eels. I did this as soon as I realised how dumb this whole endorsements thing was getting.
Related: someone has reproduced the beep in Javascript for posterity:

http://blog.parse.com/2013/02/27/reproducing-the-macintosh-b...
Typed Clojure is in fact based on the research behind Typed Racket.
They meant Uncle Sam.
ALL the notorious recent mass murders except for the Arizona Congresswoman shooting happened in gun free zones. If the people right there hadn't restrained the shooter he would likely have been stopped by an armed citizen who showed up moments later (while the restraining was still an act in progress).
Can someone explain to me why I should care whether Steve Jobs could code or not? Is there some lesson to learn here?
"I Have A Dream" shows the heights of humanity, and its copyright status shows the pettiness of humanity.
I like these, but I think some of them are too slow. If my cursor passes over them on the way to a different destination, they'll begin animation, and then reverse as soon as the cursor goes over. It'll just be barely a hint of movement, whereas normal links change color instantly. I think as soon as your cursor touches a link, you should think "this is a thing" instead of "I think something just happened". An example is that blue one that starts with "umbrella".
3D printing from Bacon to Narwhals with Shapeways
The Remarkable Value Behind Sacrificing Sales for Customer Connections
Does it really matter whether he knew to code or not ? Job's area of brilliance was complimenting to Woz's technical competence and they both managed to stay "generally" out of each others way yet focused on the same goal.
I feel like there's a common misconception that guns are hard to make. They're not. Even 'assault weapons', by and large, are extremely simple systems. This guy[1] made an AK47 out of a shovel, for example.

Similarly, guns are nearing the 'grows on trees' level of simplicity with 3D printing.

[1] - http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x368/_ak_74_/shovel_ak/5...
For anyone looking at this and potentially taking it seriously, I can tell you from abundant first hand experience that Compete is garbage - not only is it frequently an order of magnitude off in its numbers, but it's very frequently directionally wrong from month to month, sometimes hilariously so.

Edit: For example - http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/anti-web-analytics/
Forget about moving to Los Angeles. The culture shock of simply changing countries will take more than a year to get used to, and during that period you'll be uncertain about your decision, uncertain about your sustainability in expensive LA, not knowing the city there is a strong likelihood you'll move into an unsafe area, and you'll get crazy lonely in this large place.

Exactly when you need the most confidence, you won't have any.

Plus, let's say you do move, and you get extra parts and take some acting lessons... "acting" is performing someone else's script, ideas and emotions. If you really want to be a successful Hollywood actor, you don't begin in Hollywood. You begin right where you come from, and you start making your own stories.

You have a unique life story, with hopes and dreams and trials and crisis. Being a successful Hollywood actor is "nothing more" than being able to communicate the life experience though your filmed actions. However, that is extremely hard. And "Hollywood" is not very consistent at communicating the life experience well. That's the whole point behind the award shows: so much disposable media is created, when the few that actually convey our trials in life are released we celebrate because that successful communication is so rare.

I recommend you start creating your own short films. You can shoot on a mobile phone - TV shows and at least one feature has been shot on a mobile phone (www.olivethemovie.com).

Now here's the difficult bit: you do this, regardless of feeling embarrassed by your family, friends and environment; regardless of not having the money or the skills to create your own shorts. You do this because you have to or you will die inside. Seek out people in the Malaysian media industries, see how productions are created by being a non-actor gofer, and learn how to create productions yourself. And start creating them, even before you know how. Just do it. Iterate again and again. Develop your writing, production creation, and acting all at once, and do it locally where you are today.

If and when you develop your skill as a story teller and actor, and you are honest in your stories about the human condition... Hollywood will come to your door and ask for you by name. Honesty and the ability to communicate that is what causes Hollywood to take notice.
It looks really cool! Shame about that license though...I can appreciate the fact that he wants a focused community, but he risks not having a community at all.
Deconstructing The Dribbble Dream
I just saw a great picture of this from 1885: http://calumet412.com/post/58699298036/street-grade-elevatio...
Firefox Marketplace Prototype Socializes The App Store Experience
Even using "more force" than the assailant is illegal. Even if both are examples of deadly force, e.g gun v. knife. Done by the courts in the '50s, the Parliament in the '60s, so even the habits of self-defense are a distant memory.
As long as there is the insanely high profit motive with the drug war, there'll be a black market for firearms. Drug cartels are building freaking SUBMARINES to smuggle drugs for crying out loud. They absolutely would make their own firearms if guns were banned in the United States.

Never mind the fact that there are currently somewhere around 300 million firearms in private hands today in the US. It would take well over 100 years to get all of those out of circulation if you were somehow able to ban them today. And chances are the 80 million armed Americans wouldn't allow the government to take those guns anyway.
This may sound snarky, but I'm absolutely serious: the first step in SEO should be to put link-worthy content on your own site(s), not someone else's.
Quite the contrary: people do want office on a phone. They don't want to write documents on it though.

They want Outlook to be the same as their desktop (which it is).

They want integrated calendars and contacts (which they are) so they can maintain their schedule on the road.

They want to view documents straight up without some third party piece of shit viewer that can't render anything properly (which they can).

They want their OneNote notebooks (which they can have).

Not only that the whole shebang actually works 100% flawlessly.
Here's a good summary of the copyright issue: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/...
VHX Raises $3 Million from Union Square
IMEI, phone numbers (and credit cards) are such a small space that hashing them is not effective.
Its not a "Harvard study", its a study by people with no affiliation with Harvard published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Polic, which isn't a scientific journal but a Harvard Law student-run publication that bills itself as "The nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship."

Its also not a structured analysis (or meta-analysis), but a polemic with footnotes.
I appreciate having bosses and sales guys around to play up the BS so I don't have to.
Agreed. It seems less likely that Snowden is necessarily a brilliant/genius level hacker, and more likely that the permissions/logging/granularity/etc were screwed.

For example (hypothetically), you're asking for trouble by having a single rank of sysadmin who can clean out logs after doing whatever they please... or worse yet if you don't log accesses at all.
3 things that the VP of Android could conceivably know that could confer a material advantage to Xiaomi (and/or a disadvantage to other OEMs):

1) Google's future strategic plans for Android (itself and in relation to Chrome)

2) knowledge of what some big OEMs are working on (esp likely re: Nexus hardware)

3) the roadmap for Motorola (corporate "firewall" between Google and Motorola being, well, less than robust...)

he could know all of these, some of them, or even none of them. But it is certainly not outside the bounds of possibility that he could know these things.
Before having a knee-jerk response, let me describe something that undoubtably someone will provide within 5-10 years, and which I'm sure the NSA can already do.

Pick a time period and a geographic location. Scoop up all pictures on Facebook (or some other social media) that match this. Run image recognition algorithms to pull back all pictures that might include a particular person. Then manually go through that list.

Sample use case, "So what did you really do at SXSW?" (I name this example because I was surprised at what I saw when I went there a few years ago, but plenty of other conferences have reputations as well.)

Given current trends, universal surveillance is a technological inevitability. Coming soon to a spouse near you. When it becomes commonplace, are we really going to say that it isn't available to law enforcement?

See http://www.davidbrin.com/transparency.html for more meditations on this theme.
I guess this might be a good place to ask -- are there any good places people can recommend for accent training? I can write English pretty decently (in fact, probably better than most of the American people I have seen - but I guess Dunning-Kruger might be involved.) But I still retain the accent of my native country, which somewhat hampers me in the US (specially if PG thinks people like that are clueless.)

So, can people recommend any good online courses / institutes where I can improve my accent to bring it more in line with the standard American one?
Heard it during MLK Day on NPR, was absolutely floored.

Also, MLK's comments on the Vietnam War were remarkably prescient, and apply just fine to our terrible wars today.

If you still believe that the USG is not, in places and at times, terribly evil and corrupt, you probably don't know about the USG's efforts to kill MLK: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/mlk.fbi.conspiracy/
Indeed, YouTube was my first answer to this.

We need more Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X for the issues of today (regulatory capture and the shredded constitution, political campaign finance, income/opportunity inequality being the main meta-issues), I think, rather than more MLK.
The Apple II started shipping in volume a couple of months earlier, but they were all introduced to the US market at the same time (in fact the PET had been demonstrated publicly earlier - in January 1977 at the Hannover Fair).

A timeline claiming Commodore talked to Apple first, doesn't work. Chuck Peddle, who ended up doing the PET, was at MOS Technologies when he started planning it, and had presented it to the board at MOS. When their board rejected the idea, he was considering leaving for another job when Commodore acquired MOS and got him to stay by entering into an agreement with him to build the Pet after Peddle presented his Pet idea to Commodore.

Then, after assembling a team at Commodore to build a computer, he approached Apple (whom he knew because they were of course one of the early customers of MOS, and Peddle designed the 6502) with the intent of considering an acquisition of the company as a quick way of getting a prototype done.

There are disputes about who did what to whom in terms of rejecting the deal. What is clear is that Commodore did see it as one option of serveral to get a prototype out the door quickly, but at the same time they had already assembled their own design team before talking to Apple, as well as talked Microsoft into doing a BASIC for them (despite Gates apparently demonstrating deep disdain for the 6502 CPU). The reason for talking to Apple in the first place was explicitly that Commodore would be using the 6502 which it now owned, and so it was natural to talk to them to short circuit the development cycle.

So both Commodore (and Tandy, who started even later) are quite good demonstrations at the pace the industry was taking with or without Apple: Commodore went from nothing to a working machine in 5 months, and to mass production in about 10 months. Tandy went from nothing to presenting a machine at the West Coast Computer Faire in three months.

In terms of margins, I don't think Apple had high margins at the time. Their production volumes were tiny, and contrary to e.g. Commodore, they lacked vertical integration - Commodore stayed on the verge of collapse for years despite owning the company (MOS) that manufactured both the CPU, graphics chip, keyboards and many other critical parts of the Pet and shipping far higher volumes than Apple could dream of.
Oh, he didn't do the bit reversal trick! That's the really cool part :)
This is an interesting read. Some of the references are a bit on the "light side" though.

In general I agree with the findings that murder rates have little to do with tools employed and more to do with humanity. Many of course will hold up Sandy Hook as an example of a tragedy that couldn't happen if there weren't fire arms. Yet this isn't true, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E....

Yet I find this to be quite telling:

In the late 1990s, England moved from stringent controls to a
complete ban of all handguns and many types of long guns.
Hundreds of thousands of guns were confiscated from those
owners law‐abiding enough to turn them in to authorities.
Without suggesting this caused violence, the ban’s ineffective‐
ness was such that by the year 2000 violent crime had so in‐
creased that England and Wales had Europe’s highest violent
crime rate, far surpassing even the United States.

Until people want to talk about the humans that do these things instead of the tools they employ no progress will be made.
There are many more areas conducive to mass murder than there are areas where guns are specifically disallowed. As I mentioned already, the Aurora, CO theater was likely targeted specifically because it was the one theater in the area in which guns were specifically banned.

Schools might have ostensibly been labeled as 'gun free zones' as an attempt to stymie attempts at committing mass murder within them, but even if we can't prove their effectiveness, we can't deny that their lack of armed defenders makes them an attractive target for someone trying to inflict the most damage.

Edit: And for clarity, I wasn't suggesting that the signage causes mass murders to happen - but it does somewhat accentuate that if I were looking for somewhere to wreak havoc, I'd have little opposition in areas with 'gun free zone' signage.
This is a good idea. I seem to remember a couple similar directories, but am having trouble digging up links this morning.

From an API-consumer perspective, things like verified user ratings, verified implementations/testimonials, updates, and library/wrapper details would be awesome. That said, I see how these features wouldn't make it into an early cut, or why they'd be avoided; just my 2 cents.
Wow! It is great to see Schema.Org mentioned on hacker news! I gave this domain to Google as part of my open source project http://www.OpenDomain.Org - they still have not given me accrediation, but it nice to see it is being used to support Open Source
5 Windows7 tricks you had no idea were there
Interestingly it mentions that King himself was involved in suing people for selling videos of his speech, showing that the final lines of the blog article are wrong - he actually did enjoy the protections that copyright law offered him.
Thank you for this. I had forgotten how powerful this speech is.