skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for speaking some sense. I suspect the author got the notion of Singaporean pride wrong. We're far more prideful when we feel attacked or maligned by foreigners, despite the day to day lamentations. You've stated arguments I agree with, but I do honestly feel that you're overgeneralizing to a large extent. I think it helps if we consider again what you mentioned about size. Singapore has a relatively small population. It's true, we don't produce that many groundbreaking innovations, but we need to consider the mathematical probabilities of having them in a relatively smaller population as well. My guess is that the detriment is at least an n^2 term, with less sharing of ideas, interaction and encouragement to pursue risk. As a student, I increasingly see people pursuing the entrepreneurship and more risky careers, rather than "selling out". After reading so many American articles and opinions and blogs, I don't think the idea of pursuing low risk paths is specifically amplified in Singapore. Everyone wants to do amazing things, but no one dares to. It just so happens that it's more common in other countries because of larger populations, and the environment that successful by chance entrepreneurs (I say this not to deride them but as a point of argument) have fostered. I don't have statistics to back this up, but hey we had Creative and Sembcorp/KeppelCorp. Our successes are just a lot less sexy. There's a lot of fallacious stereotyping as a result. Pragmatism doesn't imply a lack of innovation, creativity or success. On the contrary, it finds the most efficient way through to it. Our research institutions ASTAR focus on the commercialization of technology. That means we miss the sights and sounds and new discoveries along the way, we don't have Nobel Prizes, but can one really say that one type of practical innovation is better than the other?

Although props to you on the culture analogy. Nothing interesting ever happens in Singapore. For that, I think we must be at least slightly thankful. It's interesting to watch a government's politicking, gridlock and shutdown, but if and only if it's in another country
I guess you haven't used IPsec, SSL is a lot better option.
Agreed, I have been told by Europeans that it's not common in their region to ask what you do for a living. It's as though they'd rather talk about real things rather than mundane money-related humdrum topics. It's rather refreshing, actually.

Quite the opposite from Taiwan where I lived for a couple of years. People would ask questions that in the West would be considered incredibly intrusive: how old are you, what do you weigh, are you married (and if not, why not?) and so forth. To me it was like a giant Jewish family. Or, I guess, a giant Chinese family :)
Another alternative is:

Independent Publisher: https://github.com/raamdev/independent-publisher/
Batman prefers due process.
Everyone can already afford basic goods. Its just at the lowest of incomes instead of a varied portfolio of extremely expensive to administrate benefits, all that would be wiped out and replaced with one simple check.

A slumlord can TRY to raise his rent 10% anytime he wants, including today, but if the residents aren't making any more money, that plan is not going to work very well.

At the highest levels multimillion dollar lakefront homes aren't going to be affected unless we unleash subprime loans again (which would be profitable, so we will, but thats another discussion).

The primary effect would be on the shrinking middle class. Many of those extremely expensive welfare administrators are middle class and replacing those jobs with an extremely small shell script is going to result in massive middle class job loss. That should be modeled.

One mistake in the model was assuming "basic job" would produce anything at all. I suspect the most likely outcome of putting one dude in charge of two dudes, one digging holes, and the other filling the holes in, is both guys are going to pay a small bribe to the boss to falsify the paperwork. Another severe attitude problem issue is you assign a guy to a "basic job" picking up trash in a park, well, if he goes fishing instead, you can't fire him from a guaranteed job. You're supposed to be a teachers aide at school; well, yes, but I'm checking facebook on my phone instead, what are you going to do about it? I suspect the value produced will approach zero.

Another model error is assuming the only unusual payoff will be JKRowling style, but I suspect you'll have 100000 amateur theater geeks and wanna be musicians for every billion dollar author. So the cultural production should explode. Hard to say if it'll be worth anything, but they'll be a lot of it, that's for sure.
https://www.htbridge.com/ Swiss-based, but international operations
Troy Hunt's write-ups about Intro are quite a good read.
http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/10/disassembling-privacy-implic...

Personally, my old hotmail account was breached multiple times, I don't trust Microsoft with my data...

Given LinkedIn's previous security woes, I think it's only a matter of time before it turns out that they've had attackers scraping user emails for credit card information since the start.
Heck, I'm sure it's been longer than a decade. Previous generations of mobile phones used FM unencrypted. You could eavesdrop on them with just a television that has a UHF dial on channels 70 to 83! (Audio carrier 811-889 MHz)
The steps I'm following to build my product
> governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret.

That isn't the goal, not for privacy advocates nor for Wikileaks or Julian Assange, who said:

"The goal is justice, the method﻿ is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method."

Advocates of individual privacy rely on the government, as a service provider, to keep secrets in order to protect the rights of individuals.
And here I thought that the only sure thing in computer science was that all problems can be solved by another level of indirection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software...
Just start reading from "Let us consider another demand : I should always be understanding, sympathetic, and helpful":

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34058295/Karen-Horney-Neurosis-and...

Karen Horney, "Neurosis and Human Growth : The Struggle Towards Self-Realization".

If I was asked to recommend a single book to read, I would recommend this. My 2nd would probably be a Jiddu Krishnamurthi book.
Phonographs and music CD's don't have DRM, yet they exist, and have been very profitable for studios. If DRM had never been invented, we would still probably have DVD's (whose DRM is so broken it may as well not exist) and Netflix.
Their very existence depends upon the continued good will of Big Content. DRM could disappear tomorrow and Netflix (not to mention thousands of other sites) would be better for it.
BULLSHIT. Yes it has to be said this strongly.

These guys are reading your mail: https://www.li.admin.ch/en/index.html

Random sample from heise news:
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/9/9462/1.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Big-Brother-Awards-Sc...
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Online-Durchsuchung-u...
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bericht-Datensammlung...
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Neuausrichtung-der-Ko...

If you can't read German laws and news (or whatever language the jurisdiction in question uses), you can not make an informed decision on these matters.
1. There's nowhere NEAR enough information in the text to start diagnosing, so beware of wrong assumptions and bad advice.

2. There's an opaqueness around the post that doesn't inspire trust.
No.

The Apple TV will keep its current look and feature set

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5098224/netflix-introduce...
A lot of mental health problems can be managed without pharmaceuticals, but since all we know about this person is that they worry a lot, it's extremely presumptuous to diagnose based on that. If the underlying problem is severe depression or bipolar disorder or crippling OCD, then a drug intervention is most likely prudent, at least temporarily. But that's a decision for a licensed professional to make.
I hope someone will post tl;dr indeed. This is like reading licenses. No wonder there's people who just blindly accepts everything without reading. I love when there's a blog post and they put tl;dr on head.

On the other hand, by sticking to the tl;dr you accept the version the non-lazy guy will give you.
And cashing out your 401k while holding a Top Secret clearance sounds like a major red flag. If he did cash it out, I wonder if he stuck around to pay the tax penalties for doing so?
I feel like you're not talking about single purpose applications that have human users, but rather ones that have other systems as clients. If I told our users that I had written nice APIs for the things they do I'd probably be out of a job. Likewise, every time I've had to store the same data multiple times in separate databases it's eventually become a headache.

I might be missing something, though. Perhaps it's that other situations have concerns without lots of overlaps in business logic and data, or that there's an easier way than I've found to deploy multiple applications transparently so that users don't notice or have to deal with multiple applications.

I'm curious, though, how with a true multiple application architecture you deal with database duplication and fragmentation? This is always the single biggest issue in my experience.

(I also might not be talking about the same thing as you - if I can make a single purpose application that handles back-end tasks and isn't user facing, doesn't need auth, and also doesn't need it's own DB, such as for background processing images, or generating compute intensive reports, I'm all for it. But that wasn't really what I was talking about at all.)
Uh, no. That's some impressive exec-level doublethink.

Content is open by default.

DRM is a method by which you prevent people from accessing content.
It follows the same vein as "spying on allies" which -- until recently -- was tin-foil-hat conspiracy territory.

Not at all. Nations have been spying on their allies since there have been nations and spies. Anyone "shocked" by those revelations is either putting on a show or rather naive.
>what you do (this is really big blunder a lot of Americans make)

Woah, woah, woah, is this impolite to ask outside of the US?
This article came into my Google News feed this morning. I thought it was baffling: Connected entrepreneur raises millions of dollars in VC money to build...LastPass?

I don't understand.
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Besides geococcyxc's remark, how are you to know that the first certificate is legitimate? How are you to know that the new certificate after the old one has expired is legitimate?

If you want pinning, there are better solutions: http://patrol.psyced.org/
The end game is, if they couldn't keep things like this secret, people would demand they stop storing this information in the first place.
I don't think the points mentioned are very discriminating. Planning, design, documentation... Aren't these traits indicative of all "great" software?

Maybe the best way to express what makes an API great is to lead with an example. Show me a great API.
Actually I'm still in the planning phase so was wanting to know if there are free or commercial ways to get "experts" to advise. I'm thinking of Cloudant for the database (particularly due to need for offline phone apps and bidirectional syncing), imgix for image serving (dynamic resize, etc), Wordpress for blogging, Bootstrap for the responsive framework, Mapbox for serving maps. Still totally undecided on things like Ruby on Rails, node.js, amber/ember/etc.js or bug tracking or usage/statistics tracking, phone developmpent platform (e.g. phonegap versus pure native), etc.
"the US is to Russia what North Korea is to the US - a small nuisance."

Ha. The US military is just slightly more advanced than whatever North Korea has. In terms of sheer firepower, the US military is formidable. These so-called "lost wars" aren't pitting nation against nation, which is what US vs. Russia would be.
Those other digestive functions are used/required by Soylent.
Very cool and a great springboard for others to develop from.

Bug/feature: only uppercase works in formulas (A4 works but a4 does not).
going to google that!
No, the manual should be correct.

The key is to attach the last negative clamp not to the car's negative battery post, but to a grounded metal object away from the battery. This prevents sparking near the battery that can ignite hydrogen around the battery and cause it to burst.
This works wonderfully.

Definitely the most punch I've seen per line of code.

You can use javascript functions in your excel formulas. In a 30 line of code program this is a feature.

= alert("I love it.");
Except throughput of course.
Probably the most misleading article name in the history.....
Aside from losing input when tabbing out, works a treat in Opera. Can think of a couple of places that a fork of this might come in handy in my work this week. Clever, thanks for sharing
A) Python is not context-free; this is a common misconception: http://trevorjim.com/python-is-not-context-free/

B) No one feature of a grammar provides context-freedom. It's not meaningful to compare Go's grammar to another grammar; it's meaningful to compare Go's grammar as-is to the way it would be if it allowed both forms.

In this case, I believe the same-line braces rule is not strictly necessary by itself (they could have gotten a context-free grammar other ways), but this was (part of) one approach.
In other words, is there a forum or service where you can list high level requirements, list frameworks/libraries/technologies you plan to use, and have people critique that or suggest alternatives. And in case it wasn't clear, I'm absolutely fine with this being a commercial service, whether it's an individual freelance or more crowdish like 99designs.
I tried CM on a Galaxy Ace. No amount of turd polish could make that a good handset. I think the installer for it though is a great idea.
> who gives a shit?

The problem with this line of thinking is, that you might ask yourself: why should I give a shit about life at all?

What is than the point of life?

I'm not saying, that the "universal" perspective can't help sometimes, but you have to be careful how you apply it.
For just one second I thought it was a dance partner as a service for women.
Mmmmmm that should work :-D
You'll be protected against NSA-style snoop-everything passive attacks.

CAs will always be able to MITM you. Like I said: "the notion of CAs is problematic."

There are two caveats:

1) certificate pinning: your browser has a hard-coded list of certificates for all major websites (e.g. Chromium: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n... (scroll down!))

2) there are add-ons (ie Certificate Patrol) that warn you when the certificate changes
You should update the copy right info at the bottom of the page. It was kind of jarring when I saw that it wasn't changed from the default text from the template.
Unfortunately governments are obliged to reveal their 'secrets' despite any misgivings, since they are acting on our behalf. They know this, they don't like this and they have utterly failed us.
You are not a worrier, you are a person who worries. Disconnect your behavior from your essence and it will be easier to change a problematic behavior without the much more scary proposition of "changing yourself".
I don’t think the team has done anything noteworthy by coming up with a hack that increases risks for the end-user (privacy and security come to mind). Additionally, the technique is not new — redirecting email for scanning and possibly injecting additional content is how spam services work. Conceptually, even Chrome plugins do the same thing in your browser.
1979 Revolution game
Deploying Java Web Applications in Separate Jetty Instances
A dangerously awesome feature: eval means it probably would support anon funcs.
This has been the overall impressions of the system on all the review sites: Good hardware but no software. It is a beefed up PS3, no next-gen leap worthy step, and the games are not there. Seems like an iPad3 to iPad 4 type transition, not like iPad 2 to iPad Air type.

One of the PS3's selling point was Bluray drive, which is not a selling point anymore. It is an affordable system, and I want to see it improve its UI, XMB is hideously ugly. Let's wait for Naughty Dog magic on games side. Sony has high quality first party studios.

That webpage is beautiful. Minor nuisance was the jarring transition while scrolling onto next section it kept me taking to top of the page, but it's still fine. Well done by the designer.
Enumerated types can get in the way of fast and safe iteration
"governments will become incapable of keeping anything a secret"

I assume he meant what he said.
I just want to make plain old moonshine.
These comments freak me out. Guys, come on... It's just 30 lines... Great job author, fascinating.
It's not quite so simple as considering all leaks of government information heroic. For instance, would it have been heroic to leak news that U.S. code breakers had cracked enemy codes in WW2?
Crash it with

=DATA[$.id]
Sure you can beta test foodstuffs. They're not under the same level of regulatory scrutiny as cancer drugs. That is well established by the FDA.
Wasn't intended to offend. I'll reword that sentence. I do go on to explain why it's a mistake. It's really just that one word that seems to offend.
You have it backwards. If I spend $1M doing some awesome product and will ask for it $1.1M to cover my costs and make some profit, then it says nothing about how many people would actually pay that price.

Miners invest in mining in expectation of price rise. They could equally go to exchange and buy bitcoins in expectation of higher price in the future. Whether they are correct or not will be decided not by them, but by all other people who demand bitcoins and bid up the prices.

If there is no new demand for bitcoins, price will not grow because there won't be competition for buying them.
Going on a tangent here, if they also assume this stance - meaning, they'll tell you everyone else's salaries - it can be quite interesting.

I can't quite find where I first saw this, but googling a bit brings up a few interesting example. For instance, http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency
How so? Even some formulas work!
Yes. You should make the connections in this order: 1) dead battery, positive terminal
2) live battery, positive terminal
3) live battery, negative terminal
4) dead car, unpainted steel on engine block bolt/alternator housing/chassis/etc, as far from battery as practical. This works because the negative terminal of the battery is the chassis ground anyway.

When disconnecting, break the connections in reverse order.

Lead-acid batteries release hydrogen during discharge (and may vent it if the discharge is rapid), or from overcharging (water can electrolyze). So the live battery is likely releasing some, and the dead battery might be if it's actually damaged and not charging properly.

So making the final, sparking connection (or first disconnection) is safest using the negative/ground wire (no potential), on the dead vehicle (avoiding the definitely-discharging live battery), and some distance away from the dead battery (mostly aviding the possibly-outgassing dead battery). This minimizes your chance of the spark igniting a cloud of hydrogen gas and getting a fireball.

And now that you know why the order is what it is, you'll probably be able to remember it :-)
The public is easily swayed by any industry that feels slighted. While the public might not directly react to the language of a treaty, after a concerted ad campaign featuring actors portraying sad, job-at-risk employees, scary music and dystopian scenarios, etc, they start breathing on said necks.
You have two options!

1) Self Help Industry, multi-billion dollar industry preying on un-diagnosed mental health issues! Do you still bad? You're not trying hard enough!

2) Go see your doctor and look at treatment options. It sounds like an anxiety disorder. If you are losing sleep you need to seek help. Seek therapy and medication in combination ideally. Anxiety disorders can be treated with modern generation SSRIs like escitalopram that (generally) have mild side effects and ACTUALLY FUCKING HELP.

3) Listen to survival-biased startup founders who say you just gotta work harder to achieve your dreams. Hustle baby! Don't knock the hustle! You should worry about that shirt your wearing tomorrow it could cost you 100M in funding!

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OK, so point 2 is the only serious one I'm making, the other two are the facetious bullshit that people will recommend to you because they have never suffered mental illness and think they can talk you out of it. It's the most in-compassionate thing they could do. But hey, self righteousness feels great so you can't blame them more than you can blame a cocaine addict.

The best part of this whole situation is you are self-aware of your anxiety. It took me nearly 10 years to notice how it affected me.

At least in Australia we have state funded rebates on all this shit, and we can seek help and meds without it costing as much as a supercharged ford mustang would be on bad credit repayments, but the cost of not sorting it out can be significant, especially if you're working in tech.

I'm not going in to details of what it cost me, but it's in the realm of millions if I had been in a right mind and had the right advice in my 20s.
Squircle vs rounded squares
You say, tell me how much all your current employees make. Don't negotiate with someone who holds all the cards.
Just like Excel, this version allows you to program almost anything inside a cell. Try inserting =alert("foobar") in a cell :)
Neat idea, lowercase fixed!
Documentation and consistency. I almost don't care if your API sucks as long as it's documented well.
The OP posts about his direct experience in Singapore which are his reasons for leaving. You posted reasons for not coming into the US, that would not affect OP. Is he going to Guantanamo Bay? No. Does he murder civilians? No. Is America a beautiful and exciting country? Yes. It's the government and military which is fucked. If the OP's points for leaving were political, you would make some sense.
Government contracts are usually public information already. More than once I've been at a company that sold something to a government agency, and the agency first had to publish what exactly they were buying and give someone else the ability to put in a better bid.
First thing I tried was "=alert()". While it worked, its tendency to block, recalculate, and persist with localStorage made it a bad idea, personally.
you can generate a gif with native js?
The Future of Digital
So you don't prevent MITM attacks...it's still a step up from cleartext.

All this change is meant to ensure is that all HTTP/2.0 traffic is encrypted, not that it is all authenticated. For authenticated communication, we continue to have what HTTPS is today.

The main issue is retraining people to not think that "https" means "safe". That's something that browsers are already good at, however, because there is already a world of difference between the user experiences of visiting a site with a trusted cert and visiting a site with an untrusted cert.
it does a parseFloat() on the input, so input that can't be coerced into a float gets turned into NaN and not displayed.