skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the whole NSA debate isn't about voluntary data sharing at all, it's about the government demanding access (or simply breaking in) without a warrant.

Why not both? The NSA "breaking in" is certainly a problem, but I don't understand why the third party doctrine isn't.

> There are many reasonable cases where private companies should share information with the government

Yes, but the third party doctrine goes far beyond what I would consider "reasonable."

> Voluntarily supplying information to the government is not a violation of the constitution.

That's up for interpretation. The extent to which single companies held large swaths of information about our lives has changed dramatically in the last decade. Do you seriously believe that, if the constitution were written in the present day, personal information (of some description) would not be included in the 4th? Alternatively

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause

I'd consider anything in gmail/gdocs to be "papers and effects" of mine. I understand that the US government has a different interpretation, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with it.
I see what you are saying, and after some additional reading on the subject can now see your point.

I guess it breaks down for me when you actually bring dollars into the model. You are absolutely right, widgets made of resources come from the combination of those resources and ingenuity. However, in modern society, refined resources are quantified in terms of dollars and once dollars are part of the equation, it must be zero-sum because people cannot just create dollars for themselves to buy stuff. They must create stuff to convert into dollars so they can buy other stuff. You can absolutely create stuff from nothing, but that does not mean that anyone is going to buy it, which would convert it into dollar wealth.
Jackpocket - first app to buy your Mega Millions from your phone
This is bad news - Paypal is an incredibly shady business and I dislike them intensely.

They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability. They can freeze your assets and if you want to complain dial 1-800-talk2robot, like pissing in the wind.

I'm sure you've all read the horror stories about Paypal. There certainly isn't a shortage of em.
I'm guessing that the submission bots are getting better at working around the submission detector.
Guys and Bitches be like (Viral Video Vines)
We decided to make a breakup scene for my Viral video.

Synopsis:
The girl frustrates her boyfriend and compares him to her Ex-boyfriend.
He gets really upset and gets out of him moving car, leaving her to crash. lol

Actors: Ebuka and Katherine
Crew: Chidube, Terry Johnson and Lauren.
http://youtu.be/8dlPLO4mqGI
I think that the over all sentiment of this post is correct - hard work can pay off, and sometimes not in how you originally expected.

I also recently applied to a company, Blizzard Entertainment in Austin, that I have wanted to work for since 1999. In 1999 I didn't program, but playing their games got me into programming (through reverse engineering the games) and I have wanted to work there ever since. I applied for internships through the years, and then after school I started applying for full time positions. I never once even got a response, other than the automated rejection emails that come 2-3 months later. A few months ago they actually called me though, and I had the opportunity to go through the interview process for a .NET position. I sailed through the technical phone interview and was given a take home project to work on, for a week. It had some requirements that involved some design patterns that I'd never used before, but I easily put in 60+ hours on the project after getting home from my current job. After seeing that submission though, they decided to not continue with the interview. It's hard being rejected by a company that you've dreamed of working for for so long, especially when the rejection was after they looking at my code. As a coder, that code is all I am evaluated by during that phase of the project, so it's rough. I couldn't let it end there though. I researched the design patterns requested and completely re-wrote the project. In retrospect, my 2nd attempt was much better than my first. I don't know if the developers I spoke with, from Austin, saw my 2nd attempt or not, because I was going through a recruiter of theirs from CA. The recruiter basically just cut off all communication, and I got no feedback as to what I could have improved on.

But, I didn't stop there! That was basically 2 rejections. I decided to go around the recruiter and drafted up an email to the developers here in Austin - all I asked for was feedback on my code so that I could improve and apply in the future. I didn't have any of their emails, but I had their names. I sent the email to various combinations of their name and magically one went through. The guy responded literally 10 minutes later. He seemed open to helping but was busy (this was happening during thanksgiving and blizzcon, so it was definitely busy for them). We emailed back and forth several times but each time he kept forgetting to respond, so I just let it go. I didn't want to come off as pushy or annoying and ruin any future chances at the job.

No real moral to this, other than I kept trying and ended up with a real developer's email here in Austin. Maybe next time around he'll remember me.
> 1. What if you don't expect this question and thus don't trawl through memories ahead of time? It's easy to feel put-on-the-spot and have your mind go blank.

Well now aren't we just walking about interview skills? Interviewing poorly leads to not getting job offers, and if that's why he didn't have a better example off the top of his head, it's due to his poor interview skills that he wasn't hired.

> 2. What if you're really talented and worked at a place with rigorous process and thus all the stuff going bad gets caught in test or QA or whatever? Nothing really goes sideways in that situation.

I don't think these places exist. I work for a Fortune 500 with an absolute ton of process due to the sector we work in. I haven't even been here 2 years, I'm not even in sysops, and I can think of one or two things that would have made a good interview story about something "going sideways."
Something that really pisses me off about Yelp and others is that it's now pretty much impossible to figure out where to go. Search Happy Hours on Yelp and you get a bunch of expensive restaurants that might not even be open, not $1 beers. The results are so cluttered with other non-useful data that finding the closest, cheapest, dingiest bar at 5 on a Friday is just not gonna happen.
Cached Copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
This was here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916591
Unless the Facebook backend is a giant monolithic service, they seemingly could have used a loosely-coupled service-oriented architecture and rewrite individual services in some new language or platform. That's how Twitter migrated from Ruby to Java.
Ask HN: Anyone in Manhattan this Friday want to meet up?
I'll be free in Manhattan (near 24th & 5th ave) from 11.30am Friday while my wife is on interviews. Just wondering if anyone on here fancies meeting up, talking tech, start-ups and whatever else? I guess also I'll be starting to look for positions in the area soon as well so anyone wants to chat about that let me know.
Shoot me an email at jamie [at] jamieos [dot] com :)
You had 300b/s both ways and you were _grateful_ for it!

To compare, apparently the download bandwidth with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is between 3500b/s and 12000b/s: http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/qsl-mars-communication3.ht...
Not only this, but it's also very dangerous and intimidating. More than once here in the UK I've been faced with yobs riding dirt bikes at very high speeds in pedestrianised areas or on paths in public parks. The people who do it have no consideration for the safety of those around them, and often drive close by people on purpose just to scare them.
Computers are magic to a lot of people.

Understanding that autocomplete requires a website to log your keystrokes probably requires at least a rudimentary understanding of how machine learning works.
Do we need a new Book readers social network?
Do we need something like that? or what we have is enough?
The difference is that bananas are all genetically identical, leaving them much more susceptible to disease. Commercial banana plants are sterile and must be bred by grafting, which isn't the case with apples (to my knowledge).

https://www.commondreams.org/views03/0719-02.htm
That looks a lot like an error in the test setup to me, it seems the rails example hasn't been updated for a while.
Obviously idealistic 20-somethings make up the majority of the grunt work. Hell, even idealistic 30-somethings make up the majority of the lower-level management.

For most people who treat it as a career though, it's just a job. Rather than a 40-hour a week office job, they have a job where they work 100 hours a week 5 months out of the year. The vast majority of campaign workers I worked with in my younger days are now working in government (state and federal) so that's definitely one of the best ways to get into that work. To be clear, I'm referring to Administration-type posts, not civil service or public service positions. These are still very political jobs such as spokesperson and generic staffers.

EDIT: And maybe this is my idealism shining through (I'm still a 20-something, after all :)) but a lot of us really believe that Our Side is better than The Alternative, and we're willing to give up time to try to make that a reality. Even though I don't make money from politics anymore, I still donate a decent amount of my spare time every cycle to the candidate(s) I choose to support.
You can't breed a banana. The species can't sexually reproduce, so all plants are essentially clones. This makes the production of new breeds very slow (you can't cross-breed to isolate desired traits) and means that when a novel disease arrives, no individual plants will have any immunity.
And using something like `wrk` and not `ab`...
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Senator Schumer Explains It All On Covered Business Method [Patent] Review
Most folk would consider that "dropped", no?
Cool idea. What about using a Google Form instead of a Google Sheet for inputting new workshops?
Banks can and do freeze merchant accounts for the same reasons and same amount of time as PayPal, and you can complain to the same robotic call tree if you don't like it. PayPal's not unique in that at all, most consumers just have no exposure to this as they never operate a business and have to get a merchant account to accept credit cards.

There does seem to be a shortage of horror stories with PayPal compared to how fiercely they're hated by some like yourself. I read a handful a year at most. For 230 million accounts, that's less complaints than you'd expect as a baseline regardless of the company's service record; every business gets their share. Certainly less than I hear about cable and phone companies, big retail chains, etc.
The 100 Best iPhone Photos of 2013
- Knowledge. Alot of knowledge.
(Author of Jester here)

Unfortunately, I still have not had enough time to improve Jester (or this benchmark) so its performance is still at the stage that it was on in the previous rounds. Hopefully this will change soon. Of course help is always welcome, so if you want to see Nimrod higher in the results then please help us improve the benchmarks!
He made eye contact; he didn't run; and he's surprised the policeman left him alone? Hasn't he seen any real criminal behavior or maybe a painting of it in a fine art gallery? I'm glad he got his wish though, but for a minute I was worried he wouldn't.
If you want to use Angular with IE8, use v1.2

Right, that's the problem.
Whats the colour temperature of the LEDs? In the video it looks pretty blue. Have you found it makes much difference compared to a warmer white?
Yes, but that's not the only way bananas propagate. The fruit is how genetic variability gets introduced, but they also develop shoots from the root system, which eventually grow into trees themselves.

I believe traditionally bananas are grown as the main trunk, then 2 baby shoots at differing maturity. Once the main stem has fruited, it is removed and the next one takes over, at which point another shoot is allowed to develop.

The extra shoots that are removed can be used to start another "family" elsewhere, but has the risk of spreading disease. These days tissue culturing is used, with a much lower risk of spreading disease.
Ah, good point. A dirt-bike is basically a stripped down off-road motorcycle. Fast, loud, and cheap.
Terrible Twos Who Stay Terrible
- The Alchemist.
I am reminded of something I once read the President of France had said to someone after meeting President Obama for the first time. "He's a show horse, not a workhorse."

That's exactly how I feel reading about a WH meeting with Tech CEOs who want to discuss this NSA ridiculousness while the White House handlers spin that it's about asking their advice on healthcare.gov or some nonsense. It's just unserious and totally not confidence inspiring.
Of course, you are always welcome to stick with older versions. But given that Angular will not be following SemVer until 2.0, it seems likely that compatibility issues between the point releases will quickly isolate you from the greater Angular community.
I don't understand how your comment relates to mine. Your scale seems somewhat accurate in terms of situations in which a person is killed, but would seem to have next to nothing to do with the case in point.

In what percentage of cases of vandalism that could be called tagging could the person be said to have committed the crime accidentally? Virtually none[1]. This crime is more or less always committed on purpose. Not always with journalistic intent, but still.

The author was punished more harshly because (it seems) he embarrassed people. That is unjust.

Not to mention the generally deplorable conditions in the holding cell where he was kept, filled with other people who presumably were guilty of nothing.

[1]Please. I understand that you could create any scenario in which anything happens. But the vast majority of people who commit a similar crime (spray paint on unowned surface) certainly are doing it on purpose.
This was a total surprise for me as well. I did not know that you could even lose that right. I guess anything is legal as long as there's a law that says it is.
Gonna argue that it's trivially true because everybody is effectively "a criminal", that is, guilty of some crime or other.
All SQL databases share several traits.
What does 4-day week even have to do with the success of fund raise...? I personally think it has little. You can work 48 hours every week and manage to pull a couple millions if you are lucky.
>I don't think there is any argument that crime is a major factor that's driving people, predominantly blacks, out of the city.

Other than that people started leaving the city before the latest rise in crime, and that crime is vastly

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Chicago-Could-See-Fewes...

down since I was growing up here?

>There is never going to be an improvement in the quality of Chicago's schools until gang influence is removed from the school grounds.

I think you're mistaking the cause for the effect. It's the horrible schools that largely create the gang problem, a gang problem that has drastically declined since the 70s and 80s, post-crack.
Headroom.js
Offshoots are non-artificial clones. They are genetically identical to the main stem... It's just the same plant.
With Backbone.js: I usually just hide all views except for my "loadingView" (which is usually just a simple HTML element with a spinner/translucent background/etc.) while I'm retrieving data. When my data arrives, I hide the "loadingView" and display the data as usual. There are probably better approaches, but it works for my projects. Hope this helps.
>>One-way telephathic communication with gods is still wacky.

Not at all. For example, if God would like you to have free will then return communication would be rather scant.

For example - if God made himself obviously known then your will to love perhaps would not be as genuine.

Your premise that Gods would come forms that you expect isn't logical.
It's correct though. Authors donate their work freely. Reviewers work for free. I believe even editorial boards work for free. I'm not sure about that though.

All Elsevier has to do is hassle people for reviews and run a website. Hardly difficult. They only survive because of the insane network effects of journal publishing.
Is it really a "hack"?
It does sound nice, but I'll believe it when I see it shipping. Over the years we've heard lots of "cheap tablets coming" stories, but the final product turns out to be vaporware, or nearly useless.
I'm not sure on your specifics (when and how much your raised) but early stage VC's are hoping for more like 100x. Series B and C maybe 10x and 3x respectively. Anyway, your point is taken. It sounds like you discovered a potential lifestyle business as a funded company.
> Not only that, but people forget that most of the people police come into professional contact with are, in fact, criminals.

The UK sometimes has anti drink-driving campaigns. Police forces increase the number of breathalyser tests. They're only allowed to use a breathalyser if they have reason to suspect someone is drunk - they saw them leaving a pub or driving erratically.

(https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...) Page 77

> • During 2009, there were 813,288 screening breath tests carried out. This is a 14 per cent increase from 711,658 in 2008. This increase coincides with the introduction of new digital recording equipment, which may have streamlined breath test procedures for many forces.

> • The number of positive or refused tests in 2009 increased by three per cent from 91,666 in 2008 to 93,973 in 2009 after a three year decline.

> • The proportion of tests that were positive or refused in 2009 was 12 per cent, one percentage point lower than in 2008.

It seems that traffic officers come into contact with very many people who they think are criminals but who are not criminals.
Only skimmed through this, but it seems to miss one important point: In Germany (1st spot for self-sufficient teenagers in this study) it is perfectly possible to pay for the normal phone/text/data coverage as a teenager by using cash or maybe a bank account. In the US, however, you need a social security number, good credit, proof of address (i.e. unrelated items teenagers often do not or can not get) to purchase your average cellphone plan.
It's the Citisearch problem. They aren't compiling information any more useful than a review and whatever checkboxes the site has decided they're going to provide. Pure data-entry sites always get swamped under the weight of their content, you have to provide something more than that. As an example, Facebook and Twitter evaded this problem by creating their own ad networks and using the data for revenue rather than just eyeballs on someone else's ad inventory.
What else would you wish for? A registry that can get randomly corrupted, complete with nonsensical keys?

It's baffling, but there's reasoning. systemd is actually pretty slick at the core. A lot of the complexity comes from how flexible it is.
This is incorrect. You can't breed fertile bananas from the Cavendish, but if somebody kept records of how they got there (crossing which cultivar with what) we could do the same today starting with the original cultivars, which most likely are still around somewhere...

The problem is finding the cultivars and doing the whole experimental process with specific plants and documenting it... Given that bananas grow fairly quickly it is probably relatively do-able. Just need some land and some volunteers... And flying under the radar of the banana companies :)
This was also an issue in Baltimore recently.
Sandboxie?
"By joining PayPal, the StackMob team will maintain its focus on developers and extending innovative mobile technologies that aim to allow consumers to access the rich capabilities of the PayPal global network... We believe that our work at PayPal will make it easier for developers to create seamless payment solutions that span online, mobile, and in-store experiences."

I think they're done.

They're gonna be joining Paypal to improve what Paypal has.
Cayman 3D Print
It's because change.

Change is how you abandon things that are holding you back. It's how you get rid of the various albatrosses, of which there are many, and clean up the environment for new users.

ifconfig is absolutely not easy to use.
"ftw - for the women/for the weed" - you're not off to a great start in terms of adopting the language of inclusion.
In the comments they say a separate post about Ember Data is forthcoming.
In the comments:

Tom Dale • 2 hours ago

Sorry everyone, I forgot to note that we have a separate blog post on Ember Data on the way. Don't fret! We've got many more exciting updates to share with you soon.

stefanpenner Mod mspisars • 2 hours ago

We have much planned for ember-data, it likely serves its own blog post :)
Sometimes, due to the variable pricing, a 1st class Thalys ticket can be as cheap as a 2nd class ticket. My wife and I traveled 1st class from Amsterdam to Paris, which was extremely comfortable, and came with free wifi, food and drink, and probably some other luxuries.

The return trip was 2nd class, which meant you had to pay extra for wifi (despite many Dutch intercity trains having free wifi these days), and lacked the free food and drink.
Not sure if it was cramped. Still better than a plane, as far as I recall.

But next time, we'll definitely be looking out for cheap 1st class tickets.
A motocross bike would be a good term.
No gear-set alone that can do that, because you need a storage element.
I wonder if their survey captured the difference between teenagers who have their own plans, and teenagers who reimburse their parents (thus "paying" for their own phone bill).
Maybe he should have written a first article on how they are fantastic for his real-life tasks instead of 100th article on how mongodb is bad despite being really used.

All tree of his recommendations strike me as key-value storage. Key-value storage is both easy to write and not very useful in production. I don't know how much meat they provide over mere key value, but allow me to be wary.
It'd be nice to know what the author of the post got out of trying even harder (!!) and joining Exec that way. Are we talking nice experience, multiple promotions, million-dollar exit, or other stuff?

I, honestly, don't try hard at all for interviews. The only work I put in is in doing some quick research on the company and the people I will be meeting, but even that is not so important (because it's usually better to hear from them directly)

I have had some very good success on face-to-face interviews like that, and it makes things equal between applicant and company; if a person has put in hours of work in creating something specifically for that interview, is he desperate for a job? is he trying to make up for a lack of talent? I don't think it's such a positive thing as this article would lead one to believe.
Test on windows?

A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (sometimes unreadable) on Windows.

If you want to use thin fonts only use them for the titles (but even here it looks like that causes problems).
Do you have to provide all that info just to get a prepaid plan?

Can a tourist get a SIM card in the US?