skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly related ... I'm only supporting IE8 and higher now for all new website work. Wow! I just said that out loud! I feel ... better.
Notion Ink clears CE
I'm on my fourth country, but only my third continent. But my feet sure are getting itchy of late.

Moving country is real easy. It's something everyone should try for at least a year or two.
I'm not sure -- it was just a free meter off the apple app store. That level isn't constant; it's just what happens when everyone around you is having animated conversations simultaneously. I probably shouldn't have said "averages." More like, averages over short bursts of time.
I'm surprised they didn't use Washington D.C. as one of the featured images. The contrast is nearly as start as Detroit's.
Oh god, I read the comments. I know comments on news sites are awful, but I didn't expect that on Wired.
When a bear is chasing you, if it is a black bear (scared of you) you play dead. When a bear is chasing you and it is a grizzley, you stand tall, don't run, yell, and act combative. Otherwise the bear may see you as lunch.

I think that is a great metaphor here. If the government no longer respects the people, then the right approach is to stand tall and say things loudly. If they do then compliance is better.
Growing prime factorization plants
No, it's not always the lawn services. I remember a dozen or more years ago driving down Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring, a neighborhood of small bungalows with lawns to suit, and seeing a man, evidently the owner, running his leaf blower.

I don't particularly mind raking leaves. Our yard is probably a 90 minute job two or three times in late fall. But I also mow the lawn, with a power mower, so I'm making some noise too.
One of the interesting things about this map is that it shows not just distribution, but also density. Non-Caucasian ethnicities are not only concentrated in certain "neighborhoods", they also tend to live in households with far more people per square foot than whites.

From the map, overview of the Bay area: http://hackeress.com/ethnic-distribution-bay-area.png
I thought 'oh, is this a new book'?

Then I looked at the date. It seems as though all 'classical' sources on lisp or functional paradigm are either two decades old, or just-out-yesteryear. What happened in between?
Don't you hate how your "internal sounds" get loud?
Yeah, yeah, I know: I'm just a graphic designer without a deep knowledge of the technology... But what happens in the diagram is still pretty close to what you describe, to be fair: messages duped and delivered simultaneously. Absolute accuracy would have made for a pretty complex illustration. Point taken anyway, I'll try harder next time!

Btw, did you notice it has blue heads? I thought those were cool.
Also, plenty of bad services out there that restrict passwords in lots of different terrible ways.
Seriously? Ever heard about this Forth thing?
On the other hand, at the moment you are still free to leave. You might not be so lucky if you wait.
immigration at Toronto Pearson

I'm kind of scratching my head here, because that doesn't jive with my experiences (and I do have plenty of experience of entering Canada there as a non-Canadian -- in fact, I've done it twice in the past month). Some times of day the lines are a bit longer than others, but I just don't know of anything else that I'd consider to be bad about it.
> I just don't get the deal with the millimeter wave scanners. Did everyone raise a fuss like this when airports had you walk through metal detectors?

When metal detectors were introduced, they weren't sensitive enough to pick up the change in your pocket. They were only sensitive enough to pick up large metal objects. This meant that to start off with, you didn't have to empty your pockets to go through, and the average passenger was almost totally unaffected by them. That frog was slowly boiled, and now we take off our shoes.

We were also pretty certain back then that the way metal detectors worked had no health implications. There was simply no danger attached to being near one, nor was it even slightly suspected.

> I don't see anyone raise a fuss when you have to walk through a metal detector to get into the local Barnes and Noble...

That's not a metal detector, except in the loosest sense.
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The scanners are already worthless. They can be defeated by being overweight and putting $dangerousitem under a fat fold, or between your butt, or any of a million other places.

They are actually less secure than magnetometers, which is my primary objection to them. They take longer, are more invasive, and are less effective. Why would I support that when the magnetometers exist and work well?
It's the only way I could explain #fuckthelaw being banned but #fuckthepolice not being on that list.
Constructive Mathematics in F# (and Clojure)
They produce naked images of your body, which are stored indefinitely.
They scan my naked body through my clothing. I consider that invasive.
Sorry, it appears you are correct about the protected storage. I was basing my understanding on a work discussion we were having, where we appear to have been wrong. Thanks for the correction.
Yes, the UI is really sluggish at times, but I can maybe attribute that to the pretty bad mobile-network coverage in my area. The old Reader UI was much preferable in this regard.

Also: The lack of an option to just open a link in the "real" browser drives me nuts. Is this some kind of lock-in attempt?
I'm not an American, but one thing that bothers me about working abroad are the strict rules about levels of education. "You only need a four-year degree," is easy enough for someone who had the opportunities in life to go through that track. I have been very successful in life without a degree but attaining work visas is bloody difficult.
If winning is not the point, then why is a win state defined?
What counts as a "mundane celebrity?" Jimmy Carter has already said Snowden's actions were "beneficial" and that "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/jimmy-carter-edward...
It doesn't seem very accurate in Munich, either, particularly WRT housing — all the 1BR flats we saw were north of 1,200€/mo.
The above comment is content-free (at least argument wise).

What are those "sins"? What are the non-orthogonal constructs, and how are they "non-orthogonal"? What's unwieldy about them?

Seems mostly like pissing on somebody's work for the fun of it.
Although I agree with you, a lot of these movies have expert consultants (ex FBI, ex police etc). So he could have gained quite a lot of information.
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This is what people usually miss when discussing about the costs of software development.
Here's a few more:

http://www.pingwire.com/ (now defunct, but it was pretty good)

http://jellibug.com/

http://picfog.com/ (live stream seems down)

http://gimmeshiny.com/ (other sources than twitter)

http://twicsy.com/

http://twitcaps.com/ (defunct)

These usually don't live long, I'm not sure why. Pingwire was by far my favorite, mesmerizing.
I have let to see a local business in the US use a metal detector. Most will use shoplifting-detection gates at the exits. An "empty your pockets and purse" metal detector is terrible for business.
Lots of toons & manga & game screenshots, so maybe wouldn't call it a "photo project"..
You left out (non-proprietarian) anarchists, who believe in neither solution.
Exactly. The evil in every human's heart is the real problem.

Governments and corporations are just powerful collections of humans doing what humans do.
we would like to think that people having LaTeX resumes are more probable of accepting our product since they already know of the quality.
Now why would they use us instead of making it themselves. primarily 2 reasons: 1. LaTeX is code and you will need to maintain it, while on our system it would just be data you will need to update
2. changing template of your resume would mean rewriting the whole thing while on our system it would mean 2-3 clicks (it is our responsibilty to give you that good a template that you are willing to change :))

and for small consultancies. sure, we wil try to talk to them, try to sell it to them. Thanks.
This is not a new practice for Amazon. This happened to my Significant Other during holiday shopping five years back. Utterly confused when we saw it on the bill. Bill searching, etc. My SO remembered seeing something, but thought it was just a one month trial, not signing up for a subscription. A bit of shame for feeling sucked in.

The only difference between our stories is that upon doing the research, we decided that Prime was a good fit for our Amazon purchasing patterns and haven't canceled yet.
README
https://npmjs.org/package/noodlejs

Npm package
npm install noodle

Npm tarball
curl -kO https://registry.npmjs.org/noodlejs/-/noodlejs-0.2.0.tgz
All i see is Korean/Japanese posts. What's that about?
I haven't been successfully proxied in a very long time and I'm an awful sc2 player (you see many more proxies in bronze than silver). A standard build order will crush a proxy 99/100 assuming the players are vaguely close in skill.
A city can be racially diverse and also predominantly white. London, for example, is a metropolitan, racially diverse city that is nonetheless 60% white.

I'm not denying that there are European cities that are racially diverse. But every single U.S. city over a million people, and most of the cities between 500,000 and 1 million, are majority-minority, usually by a large margin (say 2:1). I think that's a phenomenon that's alien to major European cities.

As an aside, I think Europeans unfairly jump to calling Americans racist, when they don't have to deal with the political dynamics of majority-minority cities. It's one thing for a city to be diverse. It's another thing when the dominant ethnic group of a country ends up being a minority in the city, in the process losing political control, etc. Add to that the layer of economic conflict that arises from tax revenues flowing from the richer majority to pay for municipal services for the poorer majority. That creates a wholly different political dynamic, one that is alien to Europeans.

Look at Paris. There is tremendous tension there between whites and Arabs. But the Muslim population of Paris is only 10-15% (estimated). What would the political dynamic in France be like if Paris were 60-70% Muslim and hadn't elected a non-Muslim mayor in 40 years, yet still relied on whites for most of the tax revenue? I would hazard a guess that the French would handle it a lot worse than the Americans have been doing in similar situations...
Reminds me of the "WebCollage" XScreensaver - Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999. :-)

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/

This creates collages out of random images from
the World Wide Web. It finds the images by feeding
random words into various search engines, and pulling
images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned.

WARNING: THE INTERNET SOMETIMES CONTAINS PORNOGRAPHY.

Even has the NSFW warning ;-)
WTF. Actor who has been playing Jason Bourne and been in Good Will hunting now is now expert?

It is not like he's got a PhD in the history of surveillence, but he's going to be better educated on the topic than joe random citizen. After all, at the very least he's spent a fair amount of time thinking about the details of his roles and in this case those details have a lot of overlap with the current situation.
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Metal detectors (as memory serves) merely detect a change in inductance due to objects having a metallic composition. It's a purely passive system.

By contrast, the full-body scanners bombard you with very mild radiation and capture results, giving the operator a view of your body and whatever you have on your person.

It's a good deal more invasive.
Anesthesia during wisdom teeth extraction is another good example. I was given 3 options by the oral surgeon (with prices attached)

1) (Cheapest) local

2) (Middle) nitrous oxide

3) (Most expensive) IV sedation

In my case my oral surgeon basically said I'd be nuts to go with option 1, since my surgery was complicated.
I've also found this technique to be effective in getting a speedy opt-out: I get in line for the imaging machine; when I reach the front of the line, I firmly and loudly announce "OPT OUT"; they have me step aside; then I let 5 people pass me, get back in line, and repeat.
The name is juvenile.
When "unsafety" is a Good Thing - strongly tped or weakly typed is better?
"Seriously, this should be worth jailtime."

This "news" is actually worth life.
Twunnel: a HTTP/SOCKS5 tunnel for Twisted
The science behind your wandering mind
Well it's 16 bytes at a time, and not 16 bytes maximum, but there are already the (arguably misguided) repeat prefixes for string instructions, which are designed for more or less that exact purpose.
Struggling to Attract Top Talent? It Might be Time to Build a Talent Factory
Guardian editors discuss reporting the nsa files
I see that as merely double standard.

The main premise is wrong too: "if I'm just telling people "this is no good, it needs fixing" then not only am I not helping, I'm not persuading other people to help either.".

Lots of things that are no good NEED to be pointed out. Project members don't magically see all of them.

Either because they don't have that particular use case themselves, or because they haven't thought it that way, or they think it's not important but the users think otherwise, or they have invested too much in some design that they cannot admit it's flawed, etc.

Pointing things out helps making those flaws visible, helps start a discussion, makes the opinion of potential or actual users known, etc etc.

Telling people to go and help is very secondary to that. I don't think many people ever got motivated because of some second-hand meta-comment from someone not even involved in the project.
Yes and one better suited for PDFs I would think: PDF files are a sequence of pages, and LaTeX pours a little effort into choosing page breaks, when I print HTML pages from a browser, the division into pages seems to done with the greedy algorithm.
When companies get big they lose empathy for their users. If MS can somehow get back to caring about the feelings of people who use their products and not simply follow charts that show increase revenue paths ... well, I for one would be grateful. To start off this new era they should allow their GUI's to be more configurable instead of forcing broad changes. They're so good at supporting binary compatibility ... extend that to include the kinesthetic investments I've made in their older GUI interfaces while selling me on the value of the new platform.
>it might be fun to represent lisp code in a treemap

Wow, yeah, that's a really interesting idea. Is there just one (good) way to map a codebase? Many?

It seems like a bad idea at first glance, since the map shows, at any level, more things with less context-per-thing when compared to straight text. It seems totally natural to use it for profiling. Refactoring would be a lot more grokable if it could all be visualized at once.
But how would it work for scanning/editing & digging through documentation?
2) Language barriers

Language is not an overwhelming barrier for a technology professional if approached correctly. Assuming you need to learn a major western European language, a good rule of thumb is 250 hours of work to become sufficiently conversational for shopping and travel, and between 500 and 750 hours to defend an opinion coherently on a day-to-day topic. (For a totally unrelated language, multiply by 4.) You'll still be at a linguistic disadvantage, but you'll be able to pick up the phone and deal with confused customer service representatives or whatever. Real ingrained fluency and an educated vocabulary takes longer, but most people are in excellent shape after a couple of years of immersion and a bunch of reading.

On the professional side, most HTLAL readers will be able to find jobs using large amounts of English. French programmers, for example, tend to read English fluently, attend talks in English (even at French conferences), and write some fraction of their code in English.

I learned this while trying to improve my technical French—I went shopping for French programming books, French programming podcasts, etc., and I would up finding (a) very few technical books, (b) French programming news aggregators with 60% of the links in English, (c) French programming conferences where every single speaker spoke English, and (d) lots of very friendly French programmers with English skills ranging from serviceable to excellent.

If you want to live in another country for a while, don't let language be the factor that stops you.
LinkedIn, SWAM and a ruckus among its members
I'm using Digg and pretty happy with it.
That's what coffitivity suggests. The iPhone app even has a mixer to mix the ambient noise with your music.
That's true for people arguing against all leaks, not for people arguing against these leaks.

Many people think Manning was irresponsible in leaking what he did - I'm a supporter of his, and even I do to an extent.

On the Snowden/NSA side, I'm completely on his side, and think his leaking was a great thing to do. But that's still subjective. It's perfectly possible to hold the opinion that the NSA is doing the right thing, and that Snowden was wrong to leak it, without being against the concept of leaks.
SMS Racing, a Ludum Dare 27 "10 Seconds" entry about texting and driving
Hmm I think you must have hit it while we were doing a deploy. Looks like the www alias points right to S3 instead of our CDN. The CDN would have hidden the bucket reconfiguration. Oops.

Will be updating the alias to point to the CDN. Thanks for catching that.
Perhaps you and I have a different idea on what "Political Correctness" actually is.

My view is that many mistake Scientifically Correct from Politically Correct. It is Scientifically Correct to say that there is very little difference, genetically, between Europeans, Asians, Africans, Latin Americans, etc. It also happens to be Politically Correct. However, it is also Scientifically Correct to say that there are huge disparities in victim reported violent crime rates between Europeans, Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans. However, this is not Politically Correct. This is an example of where a problem is identified, but unable to be discussed in the public sphere. If a problem can't be discussed, it can't be solved.

An African-American male is over 7 times more likely to murder a person than a Hispanic or European-American male. He is also over 6 times more likely to be the victim of a murder. This is elementary statistics based on data collected by the FBI. If this problem (which in my opinion is cultural rather than this phony construct called "racial") can't be discussed in an honest fashion due to political organizations which will threaten politicians with boycotts/villification/etc due to their refusal to acknowledge inconvenient truths, then the problem will simply continue. Not talking about it makes the problem become uglier, because non-Black Americans in general have internalized the fact that poor Black neighborhoods are vastly more violent and dangerous. Any realtor can tell you this. They deal with people's ACTUAL prejudices every day, rather than the Politically Correct, aspirational notions of the desire to live in a diverse neighborhood.

I say this as a white guy who grew up in various poor parts of the south, and spent large parts of my childhood with mostly black friends in mostly black neighborhoods. Political Correctness prevents us from collectively helping the predominantly black victims of a large sub-culture of black America that celebrates crime, dehumanizes women and gays, views educational/career achievement as betrayal of black identity, and tolerate men who willingly abandon their families.

America will not succeed as a nation unless black Americans succeed, and political correctness throws them to the wolves by pretending a problem they are victimized by doesn't exist.
Really overly dramatic. Just because they are nice enough to say "use of the machine is optional", you are not losing your rights if eventually you have to pass through. What if they had never put that option on display to begin with. Would you then have decided to never fly again? Are airport checks in general a violation of our rights?

I don't know what measures are effective - apparently a lot of procedures at the airport are not effective. But in general I would say if safe flights require procedure X, it is not a violation of our rights if airports require procedure X.

Just because the government erred in one direction (too much intrusion and security checks), doesn't mean that to oppose it we should demand the complete absence of security checks.
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> it seems you're suggesting Germany curtails freedom in the name of economic efficiency

Not even that. I believe it has to do with Ruhezeit (Quiet Time.) It's just that rattling the bottles is noisy, so it is more like curtailing freedom in the name of neighbors' freedom to have their Ruhe.
Yeah - re-entering the US is feeling more and more like entering an armed compound. I distinctly don't like it.
You are assuming that because he's an actor, he isn't an intelligent, informed, politically aware human that may give a shit about people.
Backbone.Modal
is this why the crime rate in USA is so high? because from 5 to 9 there are no cops?
One of the places where you don't want backtracking is with public-facing regexp search, where specially constructed patterns from anonymous users can bog down a search.

These are also cases where it's likely okay to omit back-references and the more complex options which give rise to exponential time.
Unlicencesd copyrighted material. Most free software and free music/movies are copyrighted, but they are licensed for distribution.
You're absolutely right - when I commented I was thinking purely in terms of "you shouldn't tell others to get involved, you should be getting involved yourself", I didn't stop to think about the pros or cons of the original comment.
I very much like the mwe-color-box.el example. Is something like that possible for backquoting? The quoting-levels would be much easier to see with nested background shading. I'll have to try it at home.
> I'd also add that the three worst travel experiences I've ever had were: immigration at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, anything at all London-Heathrow, immigration at Toronto Pearson.

Funny, my only complaint about Toronto was that the immigration officials tried hard enough to avoid charging me the work permit fee that it wasted a bunch of our time.

Best experiences though have been Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Worst experiences have been Houston and JFK NYC. Sea-Tac is ok aside from the body scanners.
Impoverished communities are a problem here.

For some reason whether you have a community of muslims or africans, it happens to be impoverished. On the other hand, if you have a community of asians or western europeans, it doesn't.

That's exactly the problem parent is trying to convey. It's not that africans are inherently criminal, it's just that they have dangerous group dynamics.
I think you've exaggerated the perspective being espoused, so your reply is equally exaggerated.

Encryption only solves the problem of a suspicious link with perfectly trustworthy endpoints and a perfectly trustworthy side channel (for keys). Nobody is saying, "don't encrypt." But people are saying, "don't assume encryption is perfectly safe."

Also, the plausible way that physical carriage is safer is that you know when interception happens. If you encrypt everything and then use your husband's pocket as a transport medium rather than a wire, that's better data security because interception is harder, and can't be done in secret.