skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rapleaf's API provides income given an email address, when available. I ran the list of emails from the git commit log across that API, which only gives me data points for the users who have income data available.

Is there really any way to correct for the fact that not all the data is going to be available? It certainly doesn't exclude a sampling bias, which I did mention in the post, possibly not aggressively enough.
Please see the HN poll to predict top YC summer 2013 performers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249141
It baffles me, if you look at the bigger picture, had Bradley Manning chosen to abuse human rights, murder a few civilians himself instead, he would have been living a free life now and probably would have been awarded medals too.
The law and constitution we hold to such a high standard and protect and hope it protects us, is not working anymore.
And it's not only about US citizens.

As things are, any non-US-citizen is under suspect by the US gov which is totally legal in the US. Now, just imagine the US outsourcing surveillance of homeland communications, say to the UK. Again, it would be totally legal in the UK — as in most countries — to monitor the communications of a foreign state. So the American people (same applies to other countries) shouldn't be concerned with domestic effects only. (As of writing this, most European democracies are co-operating with the US and are retrieving informations on their own citizens via US-intelligence.)
I may be wrong but I believe at the time they said that they had gone through the documents to check for information that could put people in danger. They did a good job seemingly as the US govt said, internally, that nobody was endangered by the release of the documents.
xkcd.com/605/

In all seriousness that is a staggering growth rate. Though I don't see the majority of the population moving the AB. It would be interesting if you could objectively gauge what kind of users are prone to using tools like AB and then see how close we are to saturating that portion of the user base.
You've missed the point of fast. It's not about attentive time, it's about total time and not cooking. What you suggest fails on all counts. People who want fast want it because they're in a hurry, often because they're running late for something. They don't have time to boil water or prep a steak. Love my foreman, but it takes a solid 4 minutes cook time and 10 minutes rest time to make a proper steak, that's not fast.
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But from what I know democracy had no hand in the rise of the Tea Party, apart from the Tea Party consisting of the dêmos.

In general, simplifying the situation, PR-systems simply give the population more degrees of freedom in steering the government.

Even though it's still just a handful of options over a single binary choice I'd argue that this difference is not inconsequential.

My usual argument against FPTP is that it's much harder for the population to challenge the two dominant parties in case they choose to collude (or more precisely: impossible to challenge the degree to which they collude) which seems to be the failure mode the US democracy is currently experiencing.
I think it's a great point to reward developers who submit bugs and give feedback.

Though I do think hackathons can serve different purposes. The most important thing is to be clear on the objective and don't try to win on every front. e.g. If it's to publicise your API among developers, great, focus publicity, talks, challenges around that. If it's to get feedback, same thing.

And this mirrors how developers should approach hackathons, which is again to have one clear objective. It could be to build something amazing, it could be to learn an API, but you'll rarely achieve both.
You should at least attempt to follow the chain of command before deciding to break it.
Oh this one is cool :-)
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They sell statistic data and have a "DNS failed" page with there "search engine". They also sell my phonenumber if i don't opt-out.
But I think part of the purpose of all of this is to prove to phone manufacturers that there is a demand.

If you put your money in for a couple weeks and then got it back, you'd be contributing toward that goal. And it sounds like that's a goal that maybe you care about, since you were tempted to pay for it.
See the HN poll for predicting most promising YC S13 startup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249141
The CNN Headline is sort of misleading... The International Conference on Quantum Technologies was held in Moscow, but the company profiled (ID Quantique) is based in Geneva.

http://www.idquantique.com/contact-us.html
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Oh, yes, I totally missed that and that seems very reasonable actually. I've now changed (commit 34e3c16 http://git.io/4MeJNg) so the start-method will stop at 95% instead of stopping at 100%.
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VO2 max is another quantifiable measure of physical fitness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max
Core OS is awesome. The problems it is solving (discussed previously on HN see links others have posted) are needed. This is the kind of idea that's really going to change deployment and managing distributed applications and services for the better. This is really important for where I work, because we want to be able to distribute our application to others, and I think we'll be able to do this with CoreOS. It is something we are still investigating seriously, because working with enterprise level companies we need some option that doesn't exist yet that works with our infrastructure. For many large companies, web based SAAS doesn't work with their security requirements.

And really, this time around there are a great batch of companies featuring some of the Cloudkickers/Rackers who worked on CK (polvi, ifup) and Floobits (ggreer, kansface) who I know are dedicated to meaningful technology. You can't expect MSM to get into the nitty gritty, but I found this article to do a good job to import the benefits one can derive from CoreOS in a way that is more accessible to non-engineers.
No, but people who contribute to VimL projects (among other projects) do get paid for something.
I'm kind of divided on this. On the one hand, it's obviously horrible to think that someone who leaked only information about something as serious as war crimes, and only after exhausting all legal avenues, would go to jail.

On the other hand, if we adopt a policy of exonerating people whose causes were found to be just, the number of people leaking things that really shouldn't have been leaked is pretty likely to increase. And we're talking about information that would possibly put lives at risk in the wrong hands.

I really don't know what the right answer is. But I know it's not cut and dry.
I live in the DC area and the people I know who work at NSA typically say they work "for the Department of Defense". That's a sure sign they work at NSA, since anyone else who works at DoD would just say more specifically whom they work for, like I did when I was a contractor at the Naval Research Lab.
It's not a walled garden if you can leave and take your data with you.
So if you don't renew it every year, it nags you relentlessly?
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Ignoring the cases where the government was on the loosing side of a war, the only example I can think of is the American colonies, which voluntarily gave up power when they formed the union.
Probably - see Snowden.

Further, the exclusion of possible war crimes is setting up a false equivalence. It is the crux of the situation, determines motive, and is the fundamental point of the release. Removing that, changes the situation enough that it is no longer a good comparison or rough equivalence.
Most likely before "free energy for all" you'll have strange IR oriented sensor apps that can analyze the spectrum not just measure total power.

Personally I think it would be fun to see a revival of IR spectroscopy outside of o-chem labs. Its been mostly superseded by NMR in the labs. But imagine an IR spectroscope on a chip. Perhaps for med purposes (what?) or maybe on oil well drilling down hole analysis or something like that.

Or just day to day appliances, like a "smart" household smoke alarm that analyzes the spectrum to identify and ignore tobacco and broiled/grilled meat combustion products but gets really excited about any measurable combustion products of burning furniture or burning paints or burning fabrics. I bet you could cut minutes off fire detection time with one of those, which doesn't sound like much but I bet it would save a lot of lives.
35 isn't even half a lifetime. He was born in 1987 (geez, he's younger than I am) so with "time served" he'll be about 60 when he gets out.
The "fuck you" is in response to a transparent attempt to exclude others from the discussion by asserting that they lack the credentials to participate in it, even though such "credentials" are plainly not required.

Although uncivil, it was not entirely unwarranted.
Hackathons do a great job of attracting developers to your company though.
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I use Moo myself, and whenever the time comes for a gathering I'm at to pop their cards into a bowl (for a competition or the like, not swinging) I find myself recognising a whole bunch of them as Moo cards too. They certainly seem to dominate the market, and rightly so.

Great thing about Moo is there's always a chance to try before you buy. Here's one of their free cards deals from a partner, just pay for postage and put up with the watermark, but you at least get to see the quality of their regular cards: http://uk.moo.com/partner/crunch/

I've also tried their NFC cards cos I'm a nerd, gimmick, but fun!
I'm under the impression he's transgender, not a transsexual. I'm not sure how being transgender makes one more, or less of a threat to society. People are people regardless of sexual orientation, physical gender, or the gender they identify with.

That being said, I don't think Manning is (or has been) a threat to society at all. Perhaps he should have been a little more careful about what he released but I feel he's done the world community a net good by exposing war crimes, etc[0].

I do agree he is being made an example of, and this sentence and his treatment is intended to be a signal and a warning sign to would-be leakers. I hope they still come forward and behave more like Snowden than Manning.

[0] http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more/what-did-wikileaks-...
PLEASE do not use this.

Yes, the ideal ("most legible") width for a column of text is ~60 characters, no question. But that's only once you've chosen the most legible font size.

You're supposed to adjust your column width to fit an appropriate number of characters, not adjust the font size to your column width! Adjusting the font size is completely backwards, and worst of all, it's breaking my browser zoom, so it's terrible for usability.

This is a cool demo, but absolutely not something to be used in production. (Sorry to be so negative about it, but the whole project seems based on a misunderstanding of an important design principle.)
How could you possibly know that? I'm all about war crimes being exposed but Manning did not do it the right way. 95% of the stuff he released was not needed and did put people in danger. A lot the people you and I have never heard of. I don't know for sure that no one died but you can't possibly know that no one has died. It seems very likely that if an informant or other foreign national in Iran(or other similar type country) was working with the US and was exposed that their fate isn't looking real healthy at the moment.
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> If someone releases a huge dump of classified files, without any possible war crimes, would we still defend them?

Politics that do not have immediate personal consequences (or politics too hopeless to engage in) can easily become a spectator sport.

On that level, when an instance of "uh, all my private communication just leaked to the NSA" is followed by a case of "oh, tons of classified documents just leaked to the general public", then it's likely that this will be understood as a quid pro quo, i.e. appreciated by a large number of spectators.
Sure, but I really only have a few quick minutes so this might be a little scattered. There are some interesting things in some of the cables he leaked (it's going to be great for historians). There were even a few troubling things in there that probably deserve investigation.... but the vast majority of the cables were, at most, embarrassing. They strained foreign relationships and embarrassed allies & various diplomats by name. I don't know if anyone was hurt or killed over them, but I think it's at least plausible. For what? Were there any documents that Manning had access to that he didn't try to take? The indiscriminate nature of what he took makes me seriously question his motives. What specifically was he blowing the whistle on? I admit that whistleblower protection sucks in the military, but he didn't even try to go through the proper channels.

I agree the US overclassifies documents and is too secretive. I agree we need more transparency and I certainly agree we need better whistleblower protection and oversight...But I don't think that gives everyone with access the right to unilaterally declassify whatever they want without penalty. The military can't work like that. No organization can work like that.
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That's rather the point of people wanting something like Soilent to begin with, people often don't want to take the time necessary to make proper healthy food. It shouldn't be so much work to fuel up.
> Your "foreign activists... helping us" deserves to be qualified. Helping "us" do what? Meddle in other state's domestic politics? Set up arms deals? Intellectual property treaties? Overthrow democratically elected governments?

Are any of those things necessarily problematic if the United States decides it is in its interest to engage in them? Be aware that what you think of when you say "meddling in domestic politics" may be interpreted differently by others.
I still can't speak to bitmessage. but anonymity is not part of bitcoin's design goals.
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I thought Steorn was going to do this!
Wikileaks said they did that, but Manning did not. So they very well could've dumped them all had they been less ethical, or even by accident.
Your assertion ignores the "need to know" aspect of classified information. Just having a clearance does not give you permission to access arbitrary secret data any more than having a driver's license lets you drive backwards down a highway.
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Didn't Snowden and Ellsberg also release a trove of files without "due diligence," relying on a third party to vet and process the files for publication?
I was thinking on exactly these lines: " friends don't let friends join an Army." People don't realize how much negative impact this kind of ruling would have on future recruitments of the army?
I'm sorry if I was being unclear. By "Fancy sounding gimmick" I meant it's not something that special. Many quality watches have used sapphire for a long time, and the use on phones is a result of scaling up production.

Scratch resistance is not the only measure of a desirable screen material. It has to bend and resist breaking due to flexing and impact. Sapphire is unlikely to take over all phone screens because it is unlikely to have superior properties for all parameters.
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Yes they both broke the laws and/or contracts. However, they did it only to expose alleged misconduct or illegal activities of their employers. Therefore whistleblower protections should apply, and they cannot be convicted of those actions.

Whistleblowing always, by definition, includes breaking some law or contract to expose secret information (otherwise it would be public and already known). Since exposing alleged misconduct is a good for the society, someone should not face any penalty for doing so.
"Come on man, "archaic insult" "getting stuck" "bottom rungs" "not keeping up" "remain relevant" "those in our country being left behind". Yeah, I'm sure you're talking about techies working at internet startups there LOL."

First: "Archaic insult" was in reference to the word itself, which, as I was saying, is something I've only ever heard as such. (Hence, the Monty Burns example). That was not a value statement; that was basically my saying this: "I've only ever heard the word used as X, therefore, I was surprised to hear it used as Y."

Second, in reference to "getting stuck," "left behind," etc., those are economic facts, not value judgments. Unemployment and underemployment are serious issues in our country. You seem to think I am looking down on the unemployed or underemployed, for whatever reason, and that is where the misinterpretation seems to begin.

My intent is just the opposite, in fact. I am suggesting that we have some interesting technologies capable of providing skills and training to those having a hard time finding steady or reliable work. (FWIW - I am not talking specifically, or even necessarily, about computer skills -- though that seems to be the strawman you're making of my post here). I am not making value judgments about blue collar workers, about oil field roustabouts, or about any of the categories of workers you're talking about. I am specifically talking about the underemployed, which is what I originally thought the word "roustabout" was being used to reference in this case. As mentioned, I stood corrected on "roustabout."

Somehow you're reading condescension or insult into what I'm saying, and once again, all I can say is that that was not the intent. I am not sure what more I can say. You're reading something into my posts that simply isn't there.

"You may not like being called out, but it doesn't mean I was misinterpreting or reading into."

Now you're just being dickish for no particular reason. I've gone to great lengths to explain my intent, and you seem insistent on misreading me. If I'm saying something you find stupid, great, that's life. I'm bound to say things others find wrong, and every now and then, I'm bound to say things others like. I'd like to think most of us here are like that. On the balance, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Evidently you don't. Fine.

Nevertheless, I would suggest this: not everything is an argument. Not everything is a matter of "getting called out," or "winning," etc. I am honestly scratching my head at where you're getting all this from what I've been saying. But I'll give up on trying to explain myself further.
Didn't that start with Disney?
His boss was not the guy committing war crimes.
That is... crazy high it seems like to me! Heck, I'd do it for less than $110k!
Efficiency is not the only thing that matters though. As drcongo pointed out Coke is very efficiently depleting the normal aquifers that native farmers rely on in their quest to build a market for their product.

Now if we consider that Coke is a luxury when compared to a necessity like water for drinking and irrigation, we should conclude that a luxury that precludes a necessity is superfluous and should be prohibited. That includes prohibiting "efficient businesses" when their actions to earn profits negatively impact the basic level of life.
Hm, every new bit of news relating to the US government and the Internet makes me question what exactly the Internet is doing for me and if I could live without it.

Lately I've began to realize that within the next 5 years my Internet usage will be extremely minimal(if at all) unless there is some kind of huge change.

I'd rather just cancel all of my accounts on major websites than be forced use this creepy ID system.
He used to be a specialist. He was demoted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Loss_of_rank_an...
Fwiw, if you find yourself wanting a Vim plugin for just about any piece of software but don't know if it exists or not, just assume it does and google it.
Your boss is not your only reporting option, the US Army has a whistleblower option precisely for soldiers to report gross misconduct and crimes without being victimised by their immediate superiors.
Good point. But with the battery swap for the cost of fuel stuff isn't that issue now gone too?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
Ok, now I really need to throw up.
The article points out he is eligible for parole after a third of the sentence, and that he'll receive credit for time already served. They even do the math for us - he'll be eligible for release in 8 years.
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My point is still: new made-for-Windows 8 computers (especially notebooks) are bigger security risk than older Windows 7 computers. Installing Linux on the Windows 8 hardware can help if you avoid some issues, still even then there has to be independent evaluation of the modern BIOSes, appearing more and more in Windows 8 computers, that know how to connect or answer to the Internet and that provide the level of execution which user can't observe.
you seem knowledgeable about military courts. do you know if anyone has the power to grant pardons within the military court system?
If only ISPs would offer an upstream worth a damn, video streaming would be much more fun.
and what about all the people already killed by drones and collateral's? who in gov is in prison at least 35 years ?
Can we please stop with this myth?

The State Department itself has said that the cables were "not damaging."

"...State Department officials concluded late last year that the publication of leaked United States diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks 'was embarrassing but not damaging.'

Robert Gates, Defense Secretary at the time:
"Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest."

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/u-s-officials-re...
The Eastern Roman Empire gave up a lot of its power when they decentralized the military in favor of the "theme" system. Ironically, this reform was undertaken in order to more effectively combat the constant Islamic invasions that were taking place at the time (More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_system).
Is it still a good time to invest in jails?
Also some times you can't read long article on your phone because its too long to fit in phone memory. For ex try to view html 5 single page spec[1] on your phone, especialy if your phone not 8 cores 2GB mem device.

[1] - http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html
I would argue top of the line business cards aren't going to matter a whole lot for your type of business. I would think it's better to collect potential clients business cards and follow up with them on a regular basis. The companies I've seen take client managers out to lunch ever couple of months and build relationships, scope out any work on the horizen network for other people to contact at the orginization, etc.
Wait - what does the transsexual thing have to do with sentencing and length of time served at all? How is that a relevant fact?