skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one, the United States has a ton of enemies because of dirty and mean things we have done to other countries. Maybe if we fixed our foreign policy and stopped dropping bombs on poor people there'd be less people that hate us. That would be a lot simpler than making people hate us more by spying on them, installing backdoors in encryption standards, spending billions of dollars on said spying, not having proper auditing of said spying, and putting our democracy at risk due to said spying.

As for the monitoring preventing a terrorist attack:

A. As of yet they have not been able to demonstrate that they have successfully prevented an attack based on information they gained through the NSA. The best they could show was that they arrested some taxi cab driver in California who sent $8500 to some militants.

B. Even if the massive spying prevented some attacks, you have to ask, "at what cost?" This type of unaccountable intelligence apparatus has the very real potential to undermine our democracy and turn the United States into a police state. In some ways that is already happening. And if you get too far down the road towards an authoritarian government, some humanities worst atrocities await.

Terrorists may have killed thousands in the last century, but murderous governments have killed 10's of millions, potentially over 100 million. And I'm not talking about war, I'm talking about state-sanctioned murder. I'd rather take my chances with the occassional nutjob with a pressure cooker than an oppressive government .
Two minutes ago I was watching this documentary about Trevor, the american guy who got shot. His mother was being interviewed. She asked the video to hide/blur her face.

How pointless is that. At the age of internet...

That's why people have trouble being themselves. Facts of life.
The solar industry is growing exponentially
> At this point, the USA has a ton of enemies. Filtering through emails, phone, etc. is a good way to catch these.

Evidence for this claim?
But equally if not more likely to have to filter through fluff pieces and submarine PR to get to any useful information.
> These studies are typically set up such that there's no choice; you have kids (usually)

There's a lot more literature behind this than just studies with kids, though I'm a total novice here. Here's[1] a painfully detailed meta-analysis I found.

> Developers that are attracted to OWS projects because of this reward probably won't stay if the reward is removed, but I'm not sure, and don't predict, that OWS projects will attract fewer developers overall because of this.

Reducing this down to just "more or fewer contributors" is the kind of over-simplifying that I worry about here. The software industry is not historically people-savvy, and open source is an entirely social phenomenon. It's easy to mess things up.

I'm less worried about the number of people changing than I am their relationship with the projects they work on changing. Right now, if I send someone a patch, I feel good because I know I'm doing a purely good thing. If I send a patch to a project that pays for patches, that's not bad, but it means now I feel more like I'm freelancing or some other more complication jumble of emotions.

Likewise, if someone sends me a patch, do I get excited that they want to be a part of my project? Have I met a kindred spirit? Or are they just gunning for a chunk of BTC in their off hours?

I'm not saying introducing money is a bad thing here, but like all other avenues of social activity, involving even a small amount of money radically changes the nature of it. Don't believe me? Try tipping your parents after they have you over for dinner. Maybe leave a fifty on your significant other's bedside table and see how that goes. :)

[1]: http://www.rug.nl/gmw/psychology/research/onderzoek_summersc...
"Schneier told The Register this evening of his departure: "This has nothing to do with the NSA. No, they [BT] weren't happy with me, but they knew that I am an independent thinker and they didn't try to muzzle me in any way. It's just time. I spent seven years at BT, and seven years at Counterpane Internet Security, Inc before BT bought us. It's past time for something new."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/16/bruce_schneier_leave...
I'm not saying we need to get rid of the NSA completely, but it should be dramatically curbed and it should have a lot more independent and transparent oversight. From the get-go dragnet spying on Americans should be ended.
why would anyone be interested in watching this? this is not HN material
... you can sign your git commits with GPG, which is a hell of a lot better than "technically signed" via random internal LDAP and implied relationships.

Git has an intentional separation between author of a commit, and the person who signed-off on it. So if you hired an outside contractor to work a little bit of code, he could write it, send it to you, and then an internal person with a GPG key would review it and sign-off on it. It would retain the original author (contractor) and it would retain the person who put it into your code and "signed off" on it.

What other non-reasons do you have for using SVN?
As a younger person that these types of articles are so fond of talking about (I'm 21), I don't agree that members of my generation are leaving and that we don't perceive Facebook as cool. I think what's changed with the new social media companies is the timeliness of when we do things.

Perfect example- I was out for a Secret Santa dinner with a bunch of my friends. While we were at the dinner, we took tons of pictures, some of which ended up as Snapchat stories or on Instagram. But later that night, every single one of those pictures went up on Facebook. Cover photos were updated aplently. Why? Because all of us are on Facebook and Facebook is still the best way to permanently store and share the experiences you've had with your friends (while also tagging them in the photos).
I don't care about teenagers, but I do find it very interesting that the "founding members" of Facebook, people who were college students in 2004-2005 who excitedly joined and engaged with Facebook in its early years, are just not very engaged with FB anymore (I'm one of them), unless they maybe just had a baby.

It's almost disturbing that these days a company can be founded, become an overnight success, grow immensely, have a huge IPO, then get disrupted and on the decline in a span of only nine years.
The worst thing about this exchange is that you seem to honestly, actually not understand why people are having problems with you. You don't need to respond to this, but if you really totally don't understand why people are reacting badly to you here, it would probably be good for you to try reading some basic interpersonal self-help stuff like "How to Win Friends and Influence People", or to ask someone you know and trust whether they think you have an excessively abrasive/confrontational style.

Or maybe you're just having a bad day, in which case, hope it improves, chill, try not to get caught up in arguments when you're already pissed off (I know I do that and come off as a jerk sometimes).
Google Acquires 7 Robotic Companies
Ah, but the lawyer for the government will know the personal beliefs of each member of the jury in advance!

(hopefully kidding)
Well, at least he admits he's an idiot.
Consequences of leaving as a slave: being chased, beaten, maybe killed. Consequences of leaving for Amazon workers (well at least many of them probably most of the ones not on strike): losing roof over your head, family starving, children being denied things.
Slaves had it worse, the argument about it not being voluntarily decision still applies.
If I was doing this I'd also scale by a readability score, like the Gunning Fog index:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning-Fog_Index

http://www.readability-score.com/ is an online calculator that will check your text and give you an average of a few scales like the Gunning.
Well, there is nothing stopping Germany bringing in a minimum wage which is set at a higher level than this Amazon pay. Otherwise Amazon has every right to pay at this level.
An Open Letter to Greg Gopman
I'm uncomfortable with the way things are, I'd rather things be more like they were a decade (or more) ago, which is to say nearly universal access by law enforcement to call detail records on demand, these records might include location call is placed from (for both Mobile and Landline telephones), I'm also comfortable with disclosure of Text Messaging metadata (envelope information), but not Geolocation data attached to texts without a warrant.

I'm deeply uncomfortable with anything beyond this - that includes but is not limited to geolocation data not tied to a voice call without a warrant, taps on IP/Text/Voice content without a warrant.
If you're looking for a fixed fare/cost predictability with regards to transportation, there is always the bus or subway.

This is market forces at work.
You're right. When doors are opened randomly you can not tell whether the host was "lucky" (to not reveal the car) or whether you picked the right door to begin with since these are both equally likely.
I feel sad reading this. I'm happy that they left him alive though and with no permanent injuries (what if you were left paralyzed?). Also that he learned his lesson.

As for the other commenters here, have you never done anything stupid in your life? Maybe not on this magnitude, but then all you're doing is trying to rank order yourself ahead of him on the gradient of stupidity. What value does that add?
Yes, perhaps. But it could have been incongruent if instead he had said "I would bet that the vast majority of people who fall for this stuff are also deeply skeptical."
I remember reporting impersonation as a problem to the gitolite project years ago and was told in no uncertain terms that I just didn't understand the distributed nature of git (which was true at the time).
By default Rethink requires an fsync from disk to guarantee data safety. So a typical default query goes like this: client request -> network trip -> wait on disk fsync -> network trip -> ack. That's going to be really slow in any system, and makes 10k writes/sec pretty much impossible on any rotational disk.

In Rethink you can turn on soft durability which will allow buffering writes in memory. That would drastically speed up write performance. Another option is to use concurrent clients. Rethink is optimized for throughput and concurrency, so if you use multiple concurrent clients the latency won't scale linearly.
It is possible to be fighting a war in an allied country, (i.e. England in France throughout WWI).
I'd prefer the safe approach be taken as well, but I imagine even if there were contamination we would still be able to identify original Martian life by DNA or whatever.
Well, where "screwing around" == killing. Screwing around by taking probiotic supplements, eating fermented foods, etc. is generally considered to be good, or at least harmless.

The stinky hypothesis is interesting, I would think it would require an experiment designed around the use of deodorant soaps (which often contain anti-microbials). We know of course that people who wash very rarely often do have a distinct odor, though there's at least some implication that diet plays a part in exactly how stinky it is.
I'm glad the guy decided to tell his story. Most people are ashamed to admit that they fell victim to a hustler. They don't want to be seen as stupid, or get ridiculed by others.

About the same time (ten years ago) I went in for a job interview that turned out to be a hustle. They promised they were looking for programmers (really generic, like they didn't know what they were asking for).

When I showed up at the door I was sent into a conference room where a guy was giving a presentation on a new buy-in-application that was "guaranteed" to make money. Everything about the room made it uncomfortable to say no; there was one door with a guy standing in front of it smiling, they would hand out papers and not ask but pleasantly direct you to fill out your information.

I knew it was a scam, when I got up to leave in the middle of the presentation the guys running the show called me out; shaking their head in dismay and making comments as I left. Sort of a shaming ritual for me on my way out.

There were maybe thirty other people in the room, one guy left when I did but the rest stayed, out of that group I'm sure a few probably bought into it just because they were unemployed, down on their luck and willing to try anything.
Bithub allows to recieve bitcoins with pull requests
You didn't say religious people were prone to superstition, you said they were prone to 'other irrational thinking'. I think there is a slight difference.

You're also generalizing all religions, when in fact there are some religions which actively warn against superstition and miracles (Buddhism, for example). So I can see why someone might think your comment was ill-informed (and I say that as an atheist).
I'm ready to shell out for it; I'd pay more for linear algebra than, say, a MacBook.
It's a hell of a lot simpler if you don't need a ton of branches, and better integrated with Windows.
If the first entails the second, that doesn't mean the second entails the first
Alternatively, it may influence commit behavior. People may not want to be accused of filing fluff commits & slow their contributions to accumulate 'enough' changes to justify the payout.
This makes me wonder when 128 bit processing will come around.
>Why do people have so much trouble with being themselves?

Because people's lives have different sections that often have parts you don't want to overlap. You probably don't want your boss seeing a photo of you drunk at a party, and you probably don't want your conservative uncle to see that you are politically liberal.

In both those circumstances it's not that you'd necessarily hide those parts of your personality from the other parties involved; your boss probably gets drunk too and your uncle isn't going to stop speaking to you because your political views differ. It's more that it doesn't improve the relationship with that person.

Yes, it would be great if people didn't judge each other but unfortunately that's not how the psychology works.

So, unless you live a life in which you're comfortable revealing every opinion you hold and every action you've taken (in which case wow that's impressive) you have to maintain a certain image that you broadcast on a service like facebook.
> Aren't you paid by Google to work on Dart?

I am, this is a great question!

> How is that different?

What it means is that working on Dart is my job. It's a great job, and I love it. Like other good jobs, I get lots of both extrinsic and intrinsic reward from it. (In fact, a curious facet of being at Google is that the intrinsic rewards of being at the company feel like they overshadow the extrinsic ones. I'm constantly in this "and you pay me too?!" fugue of astonishment.)

But it also means that working on Dart is work. I do some extra-curricular activities related to it: I've spoken at a couple of conferences. But even then, I'm getting time off from work for free to go there, so in some sense I'm still being compensated.

I spend time answering questions about Dart online outside of work hours, but that's because, through some Hermione-like mental affliction, I will spend time answering questions about anything I know (and several things I don't).

But, aside from that, I actually don't do much of anything Dart-related when I get off work. Dart is what I do 40 hours a week. It's a happy 40 hours, but when I go home, I stop working on it and stop thinking about it.

Would I hack on it until the wee hours if I wasn't getting paid to do it while the sun was up? I don't know.
For Firefox support, there is SlimerJS, a PhantomJS alternative that is coming along very nicely for testing your websites on the Gecko rendering engine. It even supports WebGL. Try it as an alternative CasperJS engine:

http://casperjs.org/
"says the Qualcomm employee."

sounds legit to me.
True, but teens and young adults are much harder to reach through "traditional" advertising and much more valuable because advertisers can influence purchasing habits that will last a lifetime. As a group, they are worth a lot more to an advertising supported business than the 65-70 crowd.
Personal branding.
Meta-eX: Power to Complect (feat. Rich Hickey) (Live Session)
Agreed! Also, I'd like to add, this channel's videos are SO low quality content-wise.
Tim Cook should do the next keynote in an invisible nano-robe.

The whole industry will be naked in a week.
Oh I've done plenty of partitioning life into parts that I didn't want to overlap. But then I grew up and became me.

What I've found is that people are far more accepting of me, like me much better, and I generally build better and deeper relationships quicker. My life has also become much simpler since I no longer have to filter myself all the freaking time.

It's really nice. You should try it. But it does take oodles of confidence. If you aren't confident in yourself, then you will not be able to pull it off.
Even given proof that I have no reason to doubt, I am still find hard to believe there's an educated and, judging from the writing, reasonably intellectually capable person that can genuinely believe there's a Nigerian official in Lagos that would reach out to random stranger to seek help with stealing a million dollars. And then he has a friend who, being told everything and asked for the plane ticket money, didn't say "dude, you know I'm your friend, but you need to lay off drugs for a while, they're really frying your brain" but actually enabled him in every way? And that happened not in those mythical good old times when nobody knew what spam is and everybody believed every email, but in 2003!

Shows how much bigger and stranger the world is than one could have imagined.
Many would argue that email IS broken.
Here's a hint; is there a strategy one player can play such that no matter what the other player does, the first will win money on average?
Sadly people are going to rip into this guy for telling his story, I feel bad for him. I know there are many of us who know what it's like to be down and out, desperate and willing to do anything to get back to the top (especially if you have a spouse and kids). You have to remember 10 years ago not many people knew about these types of scams, while they probably don't work as well nowadays, once upon a time many people were tricked, this guy just got it worse than most people probably did.
Except that 64 bits is still nothing but a marketing gimmick as far as the memory sizes in smart phones is concerned.

All those companies are panicking, not because they are being left behind technologically, but they are being left behind in the buzzword war.
The lesson I take from this story (aside from the amazing accomplishments of all the people involved and the wonderful humanity of making the sculpture a tribute to American and Soviet astronauts alike) is this:

ASK.

No one had put a sculpture on the moon because no one had thought to ask. Sure, there were a lot of steps involved, but ultimately it was about one woman with an idea and the temerity to say "I'll figure out a way." Sometimes the seemingly impossible is just a matter of thinking to ask.
> Snapchat is a frivolous, silly app

Sure.

> mainly used for sexting.

Is this actually true? It hasn't really been my experience, but maybe my friends are prudes.

> I agree that there is something in combing asynchrony and ephemerality, but come on. Nothing run by the likes of Evan Spiegel is going to threaten Facebook. He's not in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. He's not even in the same class as me. He's a rich kid and a lottery winner and should have sold at $3 billion and let someone else run it.

The amount of butthurt in this comment is off the charts. You just took butthurt to 11.

Mark Zuckerberg was also a snotty, privileged rich kid once (he's not a kid anymore). In any case, who are you to put limits on what some 20-something kid is capable of? Because you have a lot of imaginary points on a comment board? Maybe his success is due to luck, or maybe it's because he didn't spend his time tearing down other people on a comment board.

Anyway, go ahead and build out Quality Social. Take the $3B offer, or maybe you should decline it because you're in another class.
Why won't you answer my questions? It's not up to me to prove a negative, if such a thing were possible.

I wasn't referring to active or co-opted transposons, which make up less than 1% of total transposon sequence in the genome. I'm talking about dead, non-functional transposons. These were indeed active and functional in the distant past, but are long since dead. If you have an hypothesis that such sequences in fact have a function, then by all means let's hear it. Likewise with dead viruses, satellites, etc.

It's interesting you mention 'meaningless speculation in the absence of data', since your friends at ENCODE recently embarrassed themselves in just such a way with their pervasive transcription nonsense, as do those who claim function for repetitive, unconserved regions of the genome without any evidence or even an hypothesis, when we have every reason to believe that these are the remnants of formerly-active elements that were subsequently inactivated.

As I said above, it's clear that a small fraction of non-coding DNA has a regulatory role. We've known about this for decades. Recent discoveries don't account for much; RNA genes make up about 4% of the genome.

Sorry if I've been overly harsh in my replies, but from my experience many bioinformaticians have shown themselves to be ignorant about even basic biology, so I took the precaution of going over a few basics.
Can anyone explain to me why being 64 bit matters on a phone?
Admittedly, I only took a cursory look at Splinter, but in my opinion Robot Framework[1][2] is much closer to plain English. This can be good if you know what you're doing and can come up with consistent naming and test/keyword organization conventions, or bad if used by someone without basic understanding of a concept of a function, white space delimiters, etc.

Still, it is super flexible, and I enjoyed using is a lot. Nice feature is having executable requirements if BDD is used. I.e. you can implement keywords to execute given-when-then req's and they became your test.

[1](http://robotframework.org/)
[2](http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/)
To be fair, iOS is getting performance improvements from ARMv8. That leaves me with the question of whether such improvements apply to non-ObjC code and if so why the rest of the industry didn't realize that.
If a solution to this is really needed (which seems somewhat dubious), github could allow people to register pgp public keys with their account and then users could sign their commits. Github could then indicate that a commit is verified as being from that user.
I think Apple pulled a good one on Android and other mobile OSes. With Android's ecosystem being so fragmented and Windows is still trying to get a foot hold on the apps market, a push to 64bit will further fragment their ecosystem.
As soon as you can put 2^64 bytes of RAM in a PC, I guess.
It's Wales. They have welfare for the unemployed to "feed themselves".
Solidarity to all people.
Apple needs to capitalize on this by abandoning their current lameass numbering scheme and releasing the iPhone64 next year.
Once you reach a certain level of skill and experience, like Schneier has, you sort of outgrow titles. I'd say he's a researcher and an educator.
What do you mean by "buy-in-application"? (I'm guessing something where you had to pay up-front for the rights to market or customize something that might never make you enough money to pay the up-front fees... but more details to confirm the outlines of the scam would be helpful.)