skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a really good article, and really sad.

This happened to me recently, as well. I hadn't spoke with my best friend from Junior high in years (since I was 18), and I looked him up this past winter... died in Iraq (in 2006!), in an attack on his convoy. The reports were mixed. He either died by gun fire while defending the convoy after the initial attack, which was a road-side bomb, or he died as a result of the road-side bomb. It was the weirdest feeling, because I was sure I could have him on the phone in less than 1 day, and we'd be reminiscing about all the fun times we had back in the day, etc., and have some sort of "let's do that sometime soon" plans before the call was over. I was wrong. What's more, he had a wife and kid, which I never met. If I'd been a better friend, his wife would have had another person to comfort her with anecdotes of his younger days... I was a terrible friend. He was killed while fighting for our country (whether our imperialism is justified or not, our soldiers are important to our country's sovereignty), and I was busy vacationing in the Florida Keys.
There are apps as you describe.

A better solution would be to render the device inoperable after it has been reported stolen. I hate to be a cynic, but it seems Apple, AT&T, Verizon and others are resistant to this not because it is difficult to accomplish, but due to lower revenue possibly.

Frankly, more people are getting assaulted and injured due to smart phone thefts, and while I do blame the perpetrators, I also find inaction on the part of smart phone vendors abhorrent.

FYI, I've lived in Oakland over 30 years and have not been robbed yet. Not to say it won't happen, but people on their phones are generally more oblivious to their surroundings than usual. Oakland has its problems, but it gets an inordinate amount of this type of bad press that greases the public fear wheel.
Is this "any platform" as long as it runs Chrome?

Getting tired of more and more Google products apparently not being tested to work in Firefox.
Wild guess, but probably smartphones. Never before has something been so easy to take (it's just in your hand and not tied to anything, unlike a purse), worth so much money, is so easy to conceal, and is so universally demanded and easy to fence.
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Also PNG file size is typically smaller than SVG size unless you are literally drawing Bezier curves.
It really gives "famous last words" a whole new meaning since all your tweets and Facebook statuses are forever immortalized. It makes me wonder what seemingly mundane thing will be the last thing people see from me on social media and will in turn be the first thing people see on my page when they find out I'm dead.

It reminds me of Cory Monteith's (from Glee) recent passing. His last tweets were, "what the crap is Sharknado" "oh. IT'S A SHARK TORNADO." Just seems so odd to be remembered that way.
An unfortunate truth. Many settlers who came to the New World did so to escape persecution from the existing regimes in the Old World. But upon arrival, they created their own societies, cultures and governments that persecuted new groups of people.

I'm afraid that the saying "you can take the [person] out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the [person]" applies to all of humanity.
Be proactive about your health.

lef.org is a great resource even if they are selling stuff to you...
Interesting; I didn't know that. (Or knew and forgot)

I guess that calls for a re-examination of what Amazon/Google's most frequently ordered items even look like and whether there's much/any cross-over between that and what people walk into a 7-11 to buy.

Though the picture immediately suggests that such a kiosk would have to support asynchronous browsing and order compilation. So that one is not stuck behind a person trying to choose between two candy bars and then 3 bags of snack mix and then... Luckily in 2013, most everyone has a reasonably powerful and competent mobile device in their pocket.
Is it really? If you look past Western Europe and North America it is definitely not. And even there you can see things, like that spike in Bay Area. Except for population size, there seem to be at least two more major factors at play: wealth and English proficiency. Even in Europe they are clearly visible: Oslo and Sofia are about the same population, Rome is at least three times more populated than Edinburgh. So, no, not really.
Even if it doesn't have a profound effect on your perspective or if you find the conclusions uninteresting, the journey itself is very informative. Read if you don't already have much exposure to: first order logic / predicate calculus; formal systems; DNA; Escher and Bach; number theory; Goedel's incompleteness theorem; Turing machines; neuroscience; information theory...
That's a nice way to report typos on web sites
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough.. I don't actually want to block all ads, just animated ads. Because they are annoying and drain battery life.

I just want an HTML5 version of a Flash blocker.
I have also had a great time using `ddd` which is a lovely front-end for GDB. It's memory visualizer has helped me tremendously when learning complicated data structures.
Yes, Clojure has "protocols", which allow multiple dynamic dispatch on generic functions.

http://clojure.org/protocols
Is it really that great? I started reading it when in college, got tired of lugging a huge dead-tree book around in my bag, and eventually just sort of put it down. Maybe I didn't get far enough in to hit the parts that would be interesting to someone who's already long-since done basic programming and math?
Same here. The ZX manual that came with a list of Z80 opcodes was how I learnt assembly/machine code programming. I lived in a real backwaters, and getting the ZX Spectrum as a gift from a distant uncle changed my life.

Had no other books, no community, absolutely no other resources to learn anything. But the ZX and its manuals got me to where I could write machine code programs without even looking up the opcodes.

Ah...nostalgia.
HBGary, Palantir and the likes... socially conscious, green, recyclable.
>I would say that likely you work for a company that is either based in India or another similar country

Actually Germany and the company has its strongest workforce in the US.
I've long thought of a start up that would offer a kill switch service. Something that you checked into every so often to verify you were still alive (by email, text, or it just monitored your social feeds). If over a custom set period of time 30-365 days, if it hadn't heard anything it would attempt to confirm you're still alive either by notifying you directly or a friend to confirm if you weren't. At which point it will notify services to suspend accounts, or send a list of passwords or account access information to those you trust to handle deactivating your facebook, twitter,or turning it into a memorial of sorts (since I guess your social feeds kind of become a digital memorial of your life). The killer feature even possibly delete sensitive data you don't want relatives seeing on your computer by installing some client app. :P

I don't know I'm surprised a kill switch service like this doesn't exist.
I rather thought Al Quaeda was the Bayer of aspirin. There are a lot of incompetent and not-really-a-credible-threat terrorist groups with ideologies similar to that of Al Quaeda, including them. A sort of brand recognition for something that really doesn't so much matter any more.
I thought about using whenever a spam email arrived in Gmail, set up a rule to forward to IFTTT...
Chrome's new Tab page always have my bookmarks ready. All New Tab Replacement extensions do not show that or does away with my bookmarks. I want them too.
Keep in mind that a motivation to change was the end of Windows XP so they're probably assuming the training costs for each OS (GendBuntu vs Windows Vista) would be identical. So while it is a victory for Linux, it's not a rout like these numbers might make it seem.
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SkyNews reporter can't stop laughing on air, gets replaced
The only way these abuses are going to stop is if the government employees and contractors who ordered and/or architected these systems are prosecuted and convicted.

When is that going to happen, Eric Holder? Barack Obama?

Unless it does, good luck, Democrats, hiring the best data guys for next election.
With the state boarders.... Seems pretty close:

http://i.imgur.com/cGuetKg.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_contig...
What's new:

* The ZFS filesystem now supports TRIM when used on solid state drives.

* The virtio(4) drivers have been added to the GENERIC kernel
configuration for amd64 and i386 architectures.

* The ZFS filesystem now supports lz4 compression.

* OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y.

* DTrace hooks have been enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel.

* DTrace has been updated to version 1.9.0.

* Sendmail has been updated to version 8.14.7.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.2p2.

* Import unmapped I/O support from head/.
Coping with the death of friends who you've got as "friends" on an online service is… complicated, too. "Unfriending" them feels callous, but keeping them around has its issues too as services happily remind you that their birthday is coming up, or count up the months since you've seen them online.
Stand your ground?
I always thought to write instructions about how to delete everything I have on the Internet and ask a relative to share that written instructions to a friend. Now I'm unsure if I want this to happen...
What are "pump and dump" schemes?

EDIT: Oh wow, Wikipedia has everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
The pricing honestly makes this unfeasible for me. This is exactly what I was looking for, but if I have an app I expect to be at least slightly popular, even the 20,000 plays a month at $95 is going to be too much, especially for launch month.
How did "Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 to build your side-project/MVP" go?
A government agency can always select hardware with good Linux compatibility.
Uhm, "Show HN" is for your own projects.
And this is why trying to keep to some mythical "Neutral Point of View" is impossible.
Just because I'm not married to someone doesn't mean that I'm not loyal to them.

I will defend the company I work for from naysayers, work my ass off to make them more successful, promote their achievements without pause, but that doesn't mean I'll stay with them forever.

If a substantially better offer comes around that's more in line with my personal interests and values, of course I'll consider leaving my current company. Does that make me disloyal?
What I don't get about Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem is why it's considered a problem in the general sense. It shows that in any formal system (of sufficient power etc. etc.) you can produce a Goedel number which cannot be interpreted via the system as both provable and true at the same time. So in the strictest sense the system cannot be complete... but have we shown that it is missing anything except these incredibly tortuous, specific Goedel numbers? Isn't it a bit of a dead end?

(happy to be corrected on this)
One of the confusing issues here is that there is not a single, constant density necessary for the formation of a black hole. Instead, the Schwarzschild radius of a (potential) black hole is proportional to total mass. That means that as you increase its mass, the actual radius of a sphere of constant density grows only as m^(1/3) while its Schwarzschild grows much faster as m^1.

Thus, as you pile up more and more of your identical 1cc cubes, the size of the pile will grow more slowly than the size of its Schwarzschild radius. As soon as you add enough cubes for the Schwarzschild radius to exceed the actual radius, the system must inevitably form a black hole.

I think that this behavior is directly related to the information density limits that we've been talking about, but certainly the end result is the same: piling up lots of similar stuff in one place will eventually lead to gravitational collapse.
Yeah, Poe's Law in action I guess.
protip: every job is like this.

True, and most of them also pay a lot less.
What about learning/discovering the haskell language and its ecosystem? Did you have a lot of refactorings, replacements of libraries wrongly chosen, etc? Were these changes facilitated by haskell? Very curious to know because haskell is high on my list as the language to use in the near future.
I don't see how you've proven the illegitimacy of my analogy.

It's really the same argument you're making. Perhaps there are Al Qaida affiliated cells that are only Al Qaida affiliated in name and ideology but do not receive funding or orders from anyone else.

In any case there are people that identify as being members of Al Qaida (Al Qaida proper or affiliated groups).

I don't see what, effectively, is the difference between a monolithic organizations and a heterogeneous group of organization that have a shared ideology.

I think this is what you're saying that Al Qaida is but I don't see how this distinction is significant for any intent or purpose.
This was my first thought. If someone dies and you don't know until two years later, they weren't actually your friend. Or maybe, Facebook just has their buttons labeled incorrectly.
No. But getting bored of a company after a few years and quitting just to do something you think is exciting makes you unreliable.
She forgot #6.

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6. He died alone, now hated by virtually everyone he ever loved.

Getting caught up the "empire building" business caused Walt to lose sight of what was really important in life, resulting in a situation in which he was directly responsible for dozens of deaths including that of his own brother-in-law and the complete abandonment of him by his family, not to mention an untold amount of collateral life destruction via the supply of his product.

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Yeah, I get it, "Breaking Bad" is a hot topic right now. Great show! But is this really the show and character you want to base your sales force on? Jeez.

Also, FWIW, Walt was never a sociopath as the article says. Todd probably was, but Walt certainly wasn't.
As a startup venture, this rate of increase does not pass a significant investment criterion -- for me, at least.
Let me provide a bit more information, including recent developments, on Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears (GWT), instead of having the entire comment thread about Gödel, Escher, Bach (a book for which Hofstadter had to write a second book, I Am a Strange Loop, to ground).

The author, Peter Smith. has a wonderful blog on topics in Logic at [0]. He is planning on releasing a series of posts that will become GWT2, but his most recent post [1] explain why this has been delayed. He is also the author of a textbook on Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems [2], of which GWT is a compression. A second edition of Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems was recently released. He also has a fantastic resource, Teach Yourself Logic Guide [3], which is a collection of pointers of resources to teach yourself properly mathematical logic. He has plenty of other helpful resources that I won't directly point out, except to look under the heading Explore all this site on the front of his blog, along with the individual posts of course.

[0] http://www.logicmatters.net/blogfront/

[1] http://www.logicmatters.net/2013/09/gwt-and-tyl-on-hold/

[2] http://www.logicmatters.net/igt/

[3] http://www.logicmatters.net/2013/08/tyl-17-the-teach-yoursel...
It may use something like Kolmogorov complexity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Compress...

...where symbol matching is used along with variable names after removing all extra white space.

Although, I'm guessing your university uses PMD : http://pmd.sourceforge.net It's a fairly popular tool for detecting code issues (including copied segments).
Perhaps because he goes on to talk about a different loyalty - to people who in turn show loyalty to them. Then mentions loyalty to bosses.

Since not all companies are big companies, and the frequently the bosses are the corporation, there is plenty of company loyalty right there. Just not blindly to every instance of company?

Or are you also making the point that small companies aren't real companies?
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-dig...
How'd you get the state borders? That's exactly what I need.
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Continue as-is - put the money aside and do nothing different at all - until you educate yourself enough to answer your own question. Until you educate yourself to that point, you are asking for others to siphon off that $ for themselves.

The age-old adage "a fool and his money are soon parted" has some relevance here. History is replete with examples of people winning the lottery and then spending it recklessly.

Asking the question is a good starting point - it shows you are aware of the possibility of making bad decisions about it (rather than a naive "it doesn't matter what I do with it" attitude). Now you must accept that there is no simple answer, the burden is on you to educate yourself and find the answers yourself.

It's not the easy answer you might have been hoping for, I know. Instead it is, as I said, a special kind of burden. But one I bet many people would like to take from you ;)
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We're actively looking for test writers at the moment, but we also throw consideration to every dev resume that comes our way for our consulting projects.

I'm not familiar with Behat. We're using Node.js.
There are over 5,000 crew members of nuclear submarines in the USN. I think they currently only have 90-day deployments, but I don't think they would tell you that 1 year travel "can't be done." It's a matter of motivation/necessity I think.
Yeah, let's disrupt this with private security forces! When I think of what I want the future to look like, it's private security forces for the wealthy.
The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) used to sleep on his right side and place his right hand under his cheek.

It works PERFECTLY for me
really, well double shit again.. They already cleared this off but thanks for pointing it out
I wrote this for just me a while back, and everyone I talked to about it thought it was morbidly weird. I'm glad there are others who think it isn't, but that might be something a startup had to contend with.
>How I achieve that has never been an issue.

Lucky you, I have been there too. But at my current position, trying to use more modern technologies (Angular.js for example instead of a 15-year old stack without clean separation between front-and backend) to be more efficient is met with stares.

And I venture to say this happens very often in a lot of shops. At least outside of California.
Man that last paragraph sent shudders down my back
Loyalty to me seems like the prisoner's dilemma. Sure, you both are better off to each other if you're both loyal (ie I don't look for other jobs, and you employ me for a long, long period of time), but you're better off just NOT being loyal because the other party might not be as well.
An excellent example of why you never let developers name things
The only way these abuses are going to stop is if the government employees and contractors who ordered and/or architected these systems are prosecuted and convicted.

Wink + nod and nothing will happen even if they did something illegal. But, all these shenanigans were OK's by Obama's DOJ and handpicked rubber-stamp judges. So technically NSA et al did nothing illegal, judges approved all of it.
So the question is whether to (1) make the experience worse for people with high-DPI devices, (2) make the experience worse for everyone, or (3) make one bitmap for one market and another, larger bitmap for the other market. I'd imagine that most web projects have a vast majority of users on "normal" DPIs, so the best options would be (2) or (3).
CEO of a company with a single product, which is a web app that he wrote the first several versions of by himself, in his dorm room. Yeah, he did it in PHP, but that doesn't mean he wasn't an "engineer" working on "technology."
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This is how the standard postal service works in Sweden (except you pick up the package from an employee who checks ID instead of an unmanned box), and why I always avoid sites that ship via FedEx/DHL/UPS. It just makes so much more sense.
While it looks cool, it only takes you a second to realize that this is kind of a worthless visualization because to see the height of the bar you have to spin the globe so the line is parallel to the view plane. If you are looking straight down, you only get the color.

Remember, 3d isn't 3d, it's 3d projected on a 2d plane. And if this were real steroscopic 3d, then each of these datapoints would be like the 3d gimmics in movies like a spear right to your face.

That said I've got this bookmarked because I think at it's base it could be useful for other visualizations.
Surely there are people between "Friends whose lives you are involved with on a day-to-day basis" and "Acquaintances that mean nothing to you".

Friendship doesn't need to be a black-and-white concept; there are close friends and there are distant friends.
This lady:

> Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, who represents West Oakland, said joblessness is a big factor in the city's robbery rate.

I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job.

> "We have a lot fewer jobs for adults so kids experience a lot more lack, so they are not able to get things," she said, noting that some turn to robbery to get money. "Really what they are after is really basic things - shoes, jackets. The things these kids are buying with money from stolen things are not flashy things.

She goes on like this, defending criminals and criminal activity and blaming the system. The system may suck, but resorting to guns, scaring people out of their lives and taking things from them that belong to them is not excusable. It's criminal, and she's a terrible person for commenting this way, and a terrible official.
When it comes to awesomeness to fame ratio, I can't think of a language with a higher one than Shen. It's odd how little people talk about it. I, unfortunately, suspect it has to do with the people leading it.
There are several services of varying levels of service, but honestly it's not that hard to write up a small script to fire off an email to get you to turn off the switch for a month. After multiple failures it assumes you are dead and sends a payload email to a trusted friend.

You can easily prepay up a good sum on most hosts, aws, digital ocean, etc. plenty of good low-cost mail apis too, like mailgun.
Maybe an acquisition is in their near future.
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You can actually have a Facebook "friend" marked as deceased (in quotes, because it's actually pretty stringent on how to make this happen, and you have to be family), which prevents them from showing up places like feeds and likes and search. I had to have my grandmother marked as deceased, and it was one of the most difficult parts of the posthumous clean up tasks.
There are many real world applications. He had the highest quality product and that meant nothing without key distribution. How you distribute your product (with an amazing UI for example) can have a huge effect.
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Last 2 places I worked that were not in SV.
What if the company, after some time trying to work a project out, decides that it is more profitable to shut the project down - does that also make the company unreliable?
Where I want to get is that interests evolve and things change. If in two-three years you want to check something out, that does not make you unreliable, but just normal part of the daily business life.