skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that he doesn't seem like a soup-kitchen kind of guy (from reading his Medium), why not take a new approach where you try one thing, understand one person in depth, see what you can do, and work from there? That's how you learn and get in-touch with anything.

There's more than one way to skin a cat. People do methods A, B, and C all the time. This guy is trying method D, and doesn't seem to be gunning for repeatable or sustainable or "solve the homeless problem in one fell swoop". He comes across as arrogant and out-of-touch on his blog but he's basically got the dude's back. IMO, at the end of the day all of that adds up to a good thing.

Also, I've worked with some NGOs and I've found them to be generally ineffective at solving problems but great at making volunteers feel good about themselves so the last place I'd want to go if I wanted to understand homelessness would be aid workers, and the first place would be some reading, my own instincts, and working with one individual homeless person. I personally like the "ballsy n=1 experiment" approach he's taking - even though his language makes him come across as kind of a dick.

Also, he is making a real sacrifice - one in terms of time/effort teaching him to code, and two in terms of reputation/job risk. If Leo fails, or if the media twists it the wrong way, McConlogue looks like a jackass and he seems smart enough to understand that.
> I want to live in a nice city, but I can't.

If you want city living badly enough, there are countries that still have viable cities.
Let me know when we can compile QEMU with a modest amount of RAM. Last time I tried, on a memory constrained laptop, it took over 1GB of RAM! That's a lot of memory just to compile a single program. By comparison, I can compile a kernel loaded down with heaps of unneeded drivers with less than 200MB of RAM. I suspect this situation will only get worse with future QEMU releases.
Being manipulated into wars for profit is a functioning democracy for you? Guess what, democracy doesn't just mean "citizens making decisions, period", it means "citizens making informed decisions" at the very least. I wonder if any country in the whole world is a "real" democracy in that sense, but the US sure as fuck isn't. It's not even running.

> It's not really a compelling argument to point to a random list of bad things about America then say "it's just like Stalinist Russia."

Then point to where someone said that? Let me quote it:

The kicker is a comment that juxtaposes the logo with a warning illustration saying "Know your communist enemy" with a nearly-identical logo, presumably implying an evil enemy from the Cold War, which we have become.

An enemy. Not "just like Stalinist Russia". Nobody was even talking of Stalin... Yes, the Soviets were also an enemy to their own people, but I read the above as the US slowly but surely becoming an evil enemy to others. That your population even is for letting people rot in Gitmo (not because there is even a shred of evidence against them, but because they might "turn terrorist"), or don't terribly mind extrajudicial killings, by drone or otherwise, or aggressive wars doesn't even matter. That it's (in your eyes) a functioning democracy isn't relevant either: it's like the Nazis aren't excused by everybody voting for Hitler or screaming for total war. If murder of foreigners is somehow less wrong to some, then that doesn't make it less of murder, it makes it worse in my books. And while you could quibble about scale, I would respond that if a friend of yours killed 1 person, you would probably not want to be their friend anymore, at all - instead of saying "at least it wasn't 10, 100 or 1000". Also, the US is not stingy when it comes to scale or brutality, either.
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I absolutely agree with almost everything you've said here. You've essentially described the kind of company culture I want to build.

In particular, you nailed it when you talked about the difference between "capitalism" and "crony capitalism". I personally do not have a problem with capitalism in its pure form (as I understand it). At the risk of sounding like I am parroting a platitude - perhaps I am - I think that capitalism is too often understood to be a zero-sum entity.

I believe that the best way to do this is to set a standard of ethics by which you operate your company and then to be as successful as possible within that context. Be competitive; don't use competition as an excuse to contribute to the American economic divide.

And now I really will parrot the Buckminster Fuller quote that many people are intimately familiar with:

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest."
OpenJDK is available in the ports tree though, and will work just fine!
The key is there are quite a few places where use is tolerated, but not actually legal.
Put on some proper clothing and take your bike?
Sure. I'm just pointing out how these hypothetical self driving taxis/car shares would be a substantial improvement over actual taxis, enough so that they would be able to displace more than just the niche that taxis currently occupy but also car sharing programs like Zipcar and probably a substantial portion of car ownership.

I think that I'll see them in my lifetime; I don't know if it'll be in 5 years (though I think that would be pushing it), 10 years, or 30 years, but I'm pretty sure they will come about, and will be a huge improvement over our current system of letting distracted, impatient people try to pilot cars through chaotic conditions.
Of course, we're still just the shoe-shine boys of the ruling elite.
Many people are forbidden due to the threat of treble damages for willful infringement. Also, they're completely useless, so there's almost no incentive in the first place. I haven't learned a single useful thing from any of the patents I've read, except contempt for the people who think it worth thousands in lawyers fees to patent something like doing email on a cellphone.
Waiting for it.
From the sounds of it, he apparently simply hates the 3rd Dimension..
Is that completely adequate? There was an earlier round of changes due to attackers being able to forge the .xhr header on requests. (This was the patch set at which Rails started checking CSRF tokens on .xhr? requests; before that, they got a free pass.)

See http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypas...
> It certainly is not true that, for a matrix of any size, computing the determinant is a good method for checking whether a matrix is invertible.

Can you explain this part? I don't understand what you mean, and I have an Advanced Linear Algebra final in a few days, so I should probably know this stuff.

I thought the determinant was not defined for non-square matrices. Also, I thought that inverses only existed for square matrices (implying that the determinant check is a good way of testing invertability).
Legalization puts gangs and smugglers out of business, while decriminalization only has the potential to give them more customers. Legalization has much more to offer society than decriminalization.
Methamphetamine is already legal, it's a Schedule II substance. Ask your doctor about Desoxyn. Compared to pot, which is Schedule I and actually "illegal", not just highly controlled.
Funny, I've been wondering when that little bug was going to surface again. Interesting that it sprung up in a relatively secluded island nation which would be comparatively easy to quarantine. If that hit in the slums of India or Brazil...CDC would be losing their shit right now.

Speaking of the CDC, nothing about the outbreak on their website right now. Neither in the news or outbreak sections. I also checked the travel section and the plague does not show up on the radar as a disease with a history in that nation.
Well, there's OpenJDK, but to use the standard one from Oracle you need to run it under linux emulation layer.

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/java

http://www.freshports.org/java/openjdk7/

http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk17/
I mean, obviously a criminal organization having this data would be much more of issue than the government having it...

But, I don't see how that justifies the US government having the information in the first place. That's obviously not the point that you're making or agreeing with, but I feel like it's almost being implied.

"Oh well, at least it wasn't Russian cybercrime that completely and pervasively destroyed the worlds trust in our entire nations technological infrastructure", seems to be a tangential point at best to the conversation at hand.
As much as I love CORS, it unfortunately have a ton of browser compatibility quirks... And not just from IE.
Whats the best (highest paying) mobile ad network?
Whats the best (highest paying) mobile ad network?
High-resolution displays for regular eyeglasses could put Google Glass to shame
(Almost) Giving up on the Road to My First $1,000 in Revenue
Is Ubuntu Touch OS the same thing as Ubuntu for Android? It's not clear on their site.
Where is the documentation for worldwide inequality falling? According to this page for instance GINI (a measure of inequality) has been rising in most countries since the 1980s: http://geo-mexico.com/?p=5044
That's not the point. If something that would be dismissed as the mutterings of a lunatic 20 years ago is now taken as true, perhaps we live in a world of lunacy (even if other things that were also dismissed as the mutterings of a lunatic aren't true).
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The stat I've heard (in soundbite form; I don't have solid data for this) is that inequality within countries is rising across the board, but inequality between countries is falling. In other words, a rich Chinese person is now much richer than a poor Chinese person, a rich Mexican is now much richer than a poor Mexican, and a rich American is much richer than a poor American. However, a rich Chinese person or Mexican is now almost as rich as a rich American, while a poor American is now nearly as poor as a poor Mexican. And a rich Chinese person is significantly wealthier than a poor American, while it used to be that poor Americans were significantly wealthier than even wealthy Chinese.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence to support this, eg. the richest person in the world was Mexican from 2010-2013, and it also makes a lot of sense when you consider how globalization works.
Here's my ideal security policy:

- Cross-site requests not allowed without whitelisting. This means some setup will be required at first (for example, for separate image domains used by Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc.), but after a bit it shouldn't be a problem. This also serves as a "better adblock" in some ways, as it blocks ad networks without relying on a database that needs to be updated.

- All cookies blocked by default; whitelist as necessary

- JavaScript disabled by default; whitelist-enable as necessary

- No Flash or Java, period. If I need Flash for something, I'll launch a VM.

Sadly, Safari doesn't support whitelisting for any of this. Chrome supports whitelisting of cookies and JS by default, but the Chrome UX is worse than Safari's IMO (for a few reasons, but that's another topic entirely).

RequestPolicy handles the first one quite well, but is unfortunately Firefox-only.
Presumably using the same skynet tech it uses to look ahead and see where the rdrand is going to be xored into. I'm less familiar with precisely how linux does it, but it's not as simple as "newsecret = oldsecret ^ rdrand". The bits are scattered all to hell.

Building a "where will this rdrand go?" backdoor is harder than building a backdoor that just trawls through load addresses for various common kernels looking for the symbol table so it can poison the entropy directly.
Generally, people don't like her for lacking 'heart'. However, most people don't actually understand her message, nor do they appreciate her definition of selfishness.

It's very unfortunate because her writings were on the spot on about human behavior.
Thanks, i have been doing a lot of machine learning hacks lately and almost everything involves "vector spaces", 249 pages should be fun, just finishing up "Think Bayes" by Alan Downey.
Oh, I thought I was clearer than I was. I feel zero-based is more natural.

However, I do agree with you that in the vast majority of loops there aren't any interesting index tricks. For this reason, I actually think language constructs like "foreach" and iterators and so on are better than counting from either 0 or 1 in most cases. In high-level languages, use high-level looping constructs, and let the compiler figure out the indices for you :-).
Morning - 6am until 10am and late evening 8pm until 11 or so.

I generally hit a lull around mid day and often get some exercise and run errands to wake myself back up.
Remember when HN was about programming and startups, not class warfare and income inequality?

That was nice.
Chromium does it, to a pretty useless extent. With so many window managers, it's pretty hard to draw correct window borders on every machine, and Chromium doesn't even try: with Ubuntu, for example, it draws the titlebar buttons in the "wrong" corner.

Let's face it, the Linux version will only show the window frame if you choose to draw it: not all do (with tiling wm's it's pretty rare, even). Firefox is easy to customize, which allows every distribution to match it looks to whatever theme they use. Linux doesn't have the DE like OSX and Windows do.
Be Careful with Coin
Ask HN: Which companies pay in bitcoin?
Following the recent surge in interest the number of employers that will pay in bitcoin must be increasing. If you work at, or know of a business that pays their employees in bitcoin add a comment, preferably with evidence.

Kentucky Police Chief to be Paid in Bitcoin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10496993/Kentucky-police-chief-to-be-paid-in-Bitcoin.html
I think/hope it will be some of those "chinese phones" which is quite interesting. Even the big ones of them like Huawei, make really good phones for good prices. Thats why I did not understand the hype about this Motorola thing for 200 bucks or something. Those china guys do this for quite a while and are now really pushing here (europe) in the market with really quality and competitive phones.
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Maybe this is just the cynic in me talking, but if his intentions were truly selfless, why are we aware of him and aware of his actions?

Somewhere along the line he helped make the world aware of his own actions.
Please do post your research when it's cooked. It sounds like useful stuff.

Firefox, ABE, NoScript, Request Policy, Ghostery, HTTPS-everywhere, hygiene.

The irony of my militant approach toward privacy is that I probably make myself more interesting to would-be eavesdroppers by my carefulness than I would if they could see it all -- I'm just not that interesting.

On the plus side, the LCD of legitimate-threat hostiles is greatly increased. I'm fairly boring even to neighbors and law enforcement and copyright holders and scam artists and advertisers. I imagine I'm pretty stultifying to nation-state actors. :)

Still, I'd like everyone else to join me so that I can get lost in the crowd. The untracked, encrypted, well-rested crowd.

Come on in, the water's fine.
VizJSON: The grammar of graphics in JSON
Original source: http://www.king5.com/news/local/TSA-agent-confiscates-sock-m...
Thanks for this- I described this game at dinner tonight. It as a bit.
You can file a lawsuit saying your rights were violated (the ACLU has done it multiple times). You can also sue under The Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"). The Federal Government is not immune from rights violations.
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Subtext: "...even a homeless person."

Hmm.
Quick and easy terminal sharing
I have the luxury of having both of things. At the time, I had neither the money nor the time to deal with getting a 157 visa. Guess I've been lucky so far.
It also seems like does the risk of being eased dropped upon outway the benefit of having data to drive business needs?
No offense, but your thoughts are ridiculous. Do you really want to see the country enter a shit hole? Ask those folks in Michigan on the other side of the 8 Mile if they feel drugs need to be legalized. If they feel that drugs didn't destroy their town and community.

Look at your history and check your ideas. While I will defend the fact that you have ideas, you are grossly wrong.
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This is getting ridiculous:

https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/142/files

https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/143/files

https://github.com/sferik/t/pull/144/files

Shameless.
What does it say that HN is becoming increasingly aware of these issues?

For that matter, a hell of a lot of startups are predicated on the existence of a large middle class as a mass consumer market.
The largest online college course has over half a million students
May be an add-on can allow overriding the priority. I'll take a look if it's possible.
Apparently, I grew up in 96th percentile zip-code, but bordered on a 99 and 2 98s.
I would think that computers will continue to increase social inequity, since now just a few people can run a multi-million dollar company.
Can't we simply block all requests to Google Analytics so that the GA javascript is never loaded?
I have also envisioned a future where physical distribution channels are disrupted because I could easily 3D print spare parts / iphone case at home. I am surprised how little converage 3D printing has gotten in medicine
Heh, the bounces would be from people who wouldn't have any interest in the site anyway and wouldn't use Firebug to take out the comments to read it.
It was. A single line of awk/cut would have sufficed.
RescueTime indicates 6-9 am, 9pm-3am.

My sleeping schedule is so fucked up
http://www.brombone.com

It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites.

For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript.

This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. So, BromBone does it for you. It generates, hosts, and updates the html snapshots. When Googlebot visits your site, you proxy the snapshot from BromBone and serve it to Google. Now Google can see the same thing your users see.
It's a Flash game reference AND an old Internet meme (based on it) reference.

Chill out, dude.
While I support your position, hunting your meat or even eating only hunted meat is not a solution. If all meat would be hunted instead of factory farmed wild animals would quickly deplete. Or at least that's what my common sense tells me.
Serious HN is serious.

Really, though... It was a great game and an unfortunately obvious reference if you've ever played Pandemic 2 for any length of time (and you're only missing out on the fun cleverness if you haven't).
>Being a well-intentioned entrepreneur isn't going to have any impact on the equilibrium. The minute you become big enough to have a non-zero impact, you'll be big enough to feel the heat of competition from China, India, etc, and will be forced to adopt whatever labor-saving measures they adopt.

Well said.

Is there a game going on already.. once you get in, you are just another player that must play by the rules.. so how you could change the rules?

The way i see it, you need to create new games, with distinct rules, in a way this alternative game could get so big as the other one to make a stand against it in the first place..

Some ideas that can subvert the current rules for instance, are the ones like the social entrepreneurship.. companies that do profit, with a proper working economical engine; but are not for-profit..
Safari is effectively ungovernable, and Chrome is part of the problem.

Firefox is the answer. No other option makes any sense, if you're serious about this stuff. I understand that some people like the UI or process model of other browsers better, and that's where the evaluation of priorities comes in.

The good news is that the days of Chrome's technical superiority are truly over.. Speed, memory consumption, rendering engine...Firefox is all there and sometimes better.

Firefox is also the only browser with an ability to sanely handle tabs on the side, which is the only sane place to put tabs on modern screens. If I had to choose between sane tabs and sane privacy policies, I might have some soul-searching to do. I understand that everyone has their own equivalent, but be sure not to dismiss Firefox based on historical issues.
For buddhists, not killing is mostly axiomatic, based on the Five Precepts. The mental gymnastics that guy was undertaking trying to reconcile that axiom with other dogma that would otherwise allow killing was quite impressive.

That's the problem with axioms.
The thing about SJR is that it lends itself much better to progressive enhancement: if you need/want to present a page which also works without JS, that means that you need to be able to render the page on the server, which means that by using SJR, you can easily reuse that same view code that you already need to have for the non-JS clients.

Of course, as JS on the server becomes more and more wide-spread, you might as well just use the same templates at both ends, but it' still more infrastructure than treating the client JS as just part of the view.

I discussed this back in 2011 on my blog: http://pilif.github.io/2011/04/ajax-architecture-frameworks-...
I don't get what the links are. Do people upload them or does the site owner upload them? This is the weirdest thing I have seen
Those are some incredibly broad brushes you're wielding there.
He provided argument, if we think that people should be treated humanely we should treat animals humanely because animals are people. You on the other hand are providing an appeal to nature fallacy.
I guess I should have specified that I was drilling down on the question of "their state" - it doesn't matter whether it's their state or any other, it's always the same.

(In contrast to congressmen, where the number changes with population.)

(And yes, I can believe, unfortunately, that not every citizen knows this.)
This is really one of the coolest interactive tutorials I've ever seen. Embedding interactive code onto the page that can be played with in the middle of the tutorial provides a huge improvement to the overall learning experience.
I took that more as a lesson about PR and public perception, but true enough that strict security could have prevented it.
Forgive me for asking, but are you suggesting this is a good thing?
For a site that has half a million students, this is pretty obsecure. It looks like one of those multiple choice basic training that you have to do before taking a job at Walmart.
Does blocking third party cookies stop Google Analytics from being used by the NSA in the way the article described?
+1'ing more encouragement.

I've been in the internet industry for a while now.

For what it's worth, I think your thesis has significant value.
I can't express how grateful I am for each and every whistleblower. They often take tremendous risks and with their actions show us that we should act responsibly and humanely whenever we can ourselves.
Is there a correlation between high IQ and creativity?