skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Much more rigorous? Other than using these stupid full body scanners, nothing much has changed since 9/11. Before 9/11 I walked through a metal detector, and occasionally got pulled aside for a frisking and a hand held metal detector waved over me... Today I bypass the full body scanner and get a frisking. The frisking is a bit more hands on, but thats about it. They use a sniffing machine to see if there is bomb residue on my clothes. But I don't see anything more sophisticated than that.
That problem is easily dealt with, though: if recordings should have been available under normal circumstances but weren't provided, create a presumption to find against the authority/officials who should have been on camera unless there is compelling evidence that the lack of recordings was due to a genuine problem.

Officer accused of police brutality and has no recording without a good reason? Go to jail. Suspect accused of resisting arrest and officer has no recording without a good reason? Automatic acquittal.

These kinds of devices can be quite robust, and it's unlikely that only a single recording device would be present at the kind of incident where this sort of issue might arise. The odds of all of them failing at the same time are negligible under most circumstances. And the idea that it's not possible to detect those failures and recall the affected personnel to replace their equipment is similarly implausible under normal conditions.
You obviously appreciate thoughtful investigation into serious topics, and that's commendable. But I think you're going a bit too far here. I think most people on HN enjoy pg's essays because they tend to be well written and logical. You're annoyed by some of the things he's written/spoken about, but that doesn't mean everyone who likes the guy is a "$-eye'd idiot". You're getting a negative reaction because you've gone totally off topic for the sole purpose of personally attacking people.
While I agree that sans controversy, the exclusion of "these' might not have been so important, I think that when reporting on issues like this that are apt to cause controversy, it is better to err on the side of caution and stay as close to the original quote as possible, in order to avoid situations such as this.
I've been using Haiku since around 2009, and while I've no experience with BeOS itself (I'm far too young), I adore it. It's such a well thought out and designed system, right down to the APIs. Heck at this point, I'm tempted to use it for all my dev work (server side), as I enjoy using it so much. It lacks the quirks linux has across distros (somewhat an unfair comparison, as haiku has one distro and that's it), while being super quick and a joy to use. It's truly a desktop operating system, which I think is a good thing. It's like an unpolished, open source Mac OS in that way. The multicore and scheduler work being done is going to be handy for taking advantage of new computers.

Now building a desktop OS is a an odd niche. At this point, all of us live on the web, and the desktop matters little, as we have the move towards mobile OSes, and the integration of mobile features into our operating systems. If we ever see a move back towards more "traditional" desktop OS paradigms, perhaps Haiku will see more use, but for now it's community is small, passionate, and fun. I don't think it will ever be big, but one can dream right? :)
Oopps..meant to post this on the Computer Chaos club videos.
These failed attempt's failures had nothing to do with TSA and security.
It reminds me of BSD in some ways: small, focused, albeit on the desktop instead of the server. I love using it, and have a VM running alpha 4 on every computer I own!
Nice commentary.
It's good to remove hardcoded limits, but everything I see in this post looks like it was implemented in Linux and FreeBSD years ago. I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, but it's not that clear why Haiku has its own kernel at all.
Ah, i see what you mean. I think you are correct in that iOS takes a screenshot of pretty much every transition, but i'm willing to bet that it has nothing to do with the screen flashes as it should be automatic and in the background. The screen flashes are UX features for user controlled screenshots. I believe the screenshots of each application's state before transition has to be stored somewhere and if someone manages to access them, some damage could be done, but at the same time, not that much. I don't know exactly how the screenshots are queued up (is there 1 screenshot for each application? If i open the app again and navigate to another view and transition out, is the first screenshot overwritten?)

Apologies, your initial comment sounded like you thought you were being targeted by the NSA or something.
libertarians are absolutists. They are always on the same side of issues. So obviously they will be on the right side sometimes. But they are on the completely wrong side on other issues because they see things in black and white. they cant imagine things being more complex than that. There have been liberals and conservatives on the right side of these issues from the start.
Personally, I don't think wearing Google Glass makes you an asshole. I think it makes you look ridiculous (when I first saw someone wearing them I burst out laughing, I couldn't help myself).
I guess you probably mean J. Edgar Hoover, a former head of the FBI.
Mentally calculating the # of Tuesdays between 1700 and 2014
The army doesn't make people stand in long lines next to a barrel full of suspected explosives. And then make them take their shoes off and walk across a dirty floor, so someone else can stick their hand down the persons pants.
At least we know why Obama still uses a blackberry
A VC offered to fund you as a technology user?
I tend to get around large network operations on slow connections by rsyncing the repository from the remote mirror, doing a git clone of the now local mirror with no hard links to a local version, and finally setting the remote origin of the local version to the original remote mirror.

I agree that these sorts of mental acrobatics would be unnecessary if git had proper resume support, but for me at least it's not a total showstopper.
This is true. In research communities they actively tell graduate students not to care about teaching because it looks bad on a CV to have teaching awards, etc.
Penny Arcade was the first step in that behavior; they injected at least a blush of humor into the notion of a "glasshole" early on. They may have even coined the phrase.
Full quote:

> If we really wanted to fix this problem, what we would have to do is not encourage women to start startups now. It’s already too late. What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that.

I don't think he meant to say that women should be specifically discouraged from starting startups. And that interpretation does not fit with the rest of what he said in the interview.
You could see it differently:
The guy actually made and released 30 games/apps this year. You: zero (thats what it sounds like).

As you described you have already gone through the pain it is to release even a small project and thats what its all about here. I can spend all day telling myself "oh i can do this too, easily" or "thats such a simple/obvious idea" and still accomplish nothing in terms of released products.

So talking him down for showing his simple games and bragging about your own unfinished project wont get you many sympathies around here.

But you are 15, at that age i was mostly playing quake and talking smack all over the internet on how good i am while programming very basic dos based text apps in basic/pascal, so you are forgiven ;) Just take this as advice
I find it difficult to believe that you can get a device that'd have problems playing back a Netflix stream. Even Intel integrated graphics can scale a 720p stream to 1080 without issues, unless you use a pixel shader-based upscaling algorithm.
At least the most notable woman and YC founder in the django community, Leah Culver, hasn't backed Jacob in any of his witch hunts. I think this says a lot about how the women in his community feel about his actions.
Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton, author
Interesting that no one seems to be talking about the wisdom of placing an EMF field next to your brain, for hours at a time.
I'm sure most of you all have heard or read about the poor guy who pissed off his kids college fund on a pipe dream but I can't and won't let that happen to me

Good, don't do that. Web-based applications can be developed fairly inexpensively, especially if you were willing to learn to code yourself. Otherwise, try to spend other people's money (but with the caveat about being careful about how much equity you give up if you get this thing going and start raising money).

Another thing you have to consider... if you want this built, you have three realistic options:

1. Learn to code, and do it yourself, at least through the initial stages.

2. Subcontract the work to somebody on a pure "work for hire" basis

3. Bring in a co-founder who receives a share of the equity in exchange for building the site.

In many ways, (3) above is the most attractive, but in this case, you face an interesting conundrum... you have an idea, but a potential co-founder is going to ask what else you can bring to the table? If you aren't going to code, what are you going to do? If all you have is the idea, and the other person(s) have to do all the work, they are (rightly, IMO) going to want the lion's share of the equity. You, as the originator of the idea, may not be so comfortable with such an arrangement.

Given that, unless you have some money you are comfortable spending on option (2), I seriously recommend considering (1). It wouldn't be the first time a non-technical person learned to code and built their own prototype and then used that to work their way forward... once you have a prototype, you're in strong shape to seek a co-founder or outside investment.

All of that said, if you want to subcontract the work out to somebody, feel free to shoot me an email. I might be able to help you find somebody.
Do you drive? Walk across a street? Before 9/11 what were the odds that you would die pre-maturely in a fireball (an airplane fireball?) I don't know the number but it was so small to be virtually 0. You were much more likely to die in a myriad of other ways. Probably more likely to get shot to death at a movie theater. Yet that probably doesn't stop you from going to the movie theater... And yet you don't mind being treated like criminal at the airport.
Not to mention, in my experience taxi drivers have a tendency to want to get to their destination quickly!
Unless you're Telegram.
Anyone got original license for that game? Did it include clause that could have allowed for anything like that?
We have this thing up in Canada called Interac Online - you may find it of some use/inspiration as you build out yours...I believe the tx fees are flat rate vs %age...

http://www.interac.ca/index.php/en/interac-online/interac-on...
The issue? Time and money, for nothing. It costs you times (even 20 minutes is a long time, especially when you consider it costs EVERY passenger at least 20 minutes) And money. Not only is your airline ticket higher, your taxes are being wasted. For nothing. Supposedly to keep people safer. But that isn't true, in fact there is evidence that more Americans die BECAUSE of TSA.
That FICA number is high, at least according to Wikipedia.

> Under the SE Tax Act, self-employed people are responsible for the entire percentage of 15.3% (= 12.4% [Soc. Sec.] + 2.9% [Medicare]); however, the 15.3% multiplier is applied to 92.35% of the business's net earnings from self-employment, rather than 100% of the gross earnings; the difference, 7.65%, is half of the 15.3%, and makes the calculation fair in comparison to that of regular (non-self-employed) employees.

The rest of your figures aren't really what I'd consider personal income taxation, although they're definitely interesting. Also interesting is that married people in the US of A experience a tax advantage when filing jointly - not so our tax code, it's very theoretically pure.
Always on DRM is also a threat to the preservation of artistic works for future generations. Folks still play the early Civilization and Sim City titles even after all these years.
The parenthetical is what I meant by my sentence. But also to a lesser extent Paul Erdos was a famous proponent of always finding simpler and more obvious proofs.
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Your comment would be of more value if you removed your "Apple fanboy" rant and made a point about the government being out of control.
> And really, three sins were committed. The first was changing a quote. You just can’t do that, ever

What utter nonsense!

Unscripted speech, especially under cognitive load about complicated topics, is disfluent. About 5% of the words you speak will be edited on the fly, and not part of the final utterance to be understood. Many professional speakers train themselves not to do this, but even many politicians at the peak of their profession will remain disfluent in unscripted remarks.

Interviews are _always_ edited for fluency. You make someone sound like a bumbling idiot if you supply a verbatim transcript.
In those scenarios, client side crypto isn't even applicable to begin with. If the service requires trusting the server with sensitive information, then the best we can hope for is to secure the transport of the data, which is done with https. Client side crypto only comes into plays with apps where you don't want to trust the server with any sensitive data.
The purpose of life is to enjoy God's company. If you pick random passages, everything comes up eventually.

Every person has to decide how serious God was when He said stuff and if they will obey. Sometimes, you do. Mostly just enjoy His company and grow.

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

agements!
Admission 25 cents; children and servants, 10 cents.

Then we went loafing around town. The stores and houses was most all
old, shackly, dried up frame concerns that hadn't ever been painted; they
was set up three or four foot above ground on stilts, so as to be out of
reach of the water when the river was over-flowed. The houses had little
gardens around them, but they didn't seem to raise hardly anything in
them but jimpson-weeds, and sunflowers, and ash piles, and old curled-up
boot
"I have no idea why my wife was resistant to live-casting the birthing experience."

Seriously? Is this a joke? He really is a Glasshole :P
The gen on function calling conventions
Looking for hacker-founders is what YC does. That is its reason for existence. It's not an employer. It's not a general investment firm. It's not a school. It invests in hacker-founders. PG expertise is hacker-founders. Only looking for hacker-founders isn't sexist, in of itself.

If there is a larger problem in society, that's not really PG's domain of expertise and we shouldn't expect it to be.
It's a nice UNIX with a cohesive environment and design (both in terms of software and UI) philosophy. Other than than there aren't a lot of "advantages" because its alpha software.

Maybe check out some BeOS R5 videos, they were doing some really cool stuff before they went under!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCODBIfWKY
…and Asteroids and Pacman via MAME and other emulators. Those are even older.
> First, the TSA itself has admitted that there is no evidence of terrorist plots against aviation in the US

That's funny, because I got searched more thoroughly leaving the USA than when I was flying to the USA.
that shows a total lack of touch to their own product, or the more probable answer, they are bleeding thanks to content owners boycoting them and so they are scrapping the bottom end.

see how this thread is full of joyfull clients on their first months? everyone loves it... until they ve seen all of it, which is very limited to begin with. and they only add things like sharknado...
This feels like a bit much to do mentally, without practice. I'd have to write something down I think.
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I've never seen Glass on someone, so I can't say for sure how I'd feel, but I assume that when I'm in public, I could be recorded or photographed at any given time. I'm more worried about someone drifting into my lane on a two lane highway while they're reading a text or email (with a false sense of security provided by hands-free use).
Apple wants users to buy new hardware and I guess they figure it's not a big deal because you can buy adapters and/or hardware is usually bought together in generations. Their software APIs have remained quite stable; certainly no Silverlight-esque shenanigans from them.
I know. But it need not be that hard - being suicidal does not automatically mean someone is prepared to e.g. fight their co-pilot to kill themselves. In fact, most people who are suicidal are not strongly intent on going through with it - it often takes just a little nudge one way or the other to change the outcome.

A co-pilot at the helm, or an unlocked door through which someone may come in and question the pilots actions could very well make all the difference.
> Are you referring to the ping/pong message frames in the WebSocket transport protocol, or just a general heartbeating protocol layered on top of WebSockets?

I'm talking about a protocol layered on top, for exactly the reason you state.

> In this regard it behaves exactly like a regular WebSocket connection - the message is lost.

But it doesn't, with a regular WebSocket connection, you know that if a subsequent message is received and responded to, all previous messages were also received.

> It's a much messier abstraction, and I'd prefer this library to stick to one thing and do it well.

It doesn't and can't. What you've created is completely trivial. If it was indeed better, it would be the behaviour of WebSockets by default.
add windows and .net and silverlight and DRM monitoring in the stream app and bogus graphic card drivers and other concurrent programs fighting for bandwidth on the same machine such as torrents with the awful bandwidth scheduler of said windows, and you have your answer somewhere.
I'm in the same position! I've been following Haiku since it was first announced, and I'm waiting for the day when it can replace OS X.
Honestly, it's the right move if they want even a chance at getting their money back. Best case if they go to the police: a long court battle with Mills in which they get a tiny fraction of their investment. At least this way has a chance, and they can always go to the police down the road.
That's a line from the movie, The Ghost Writer. Good movie actually.
And I'd choose the faster line every time.
Yeah, unfortunately CentOS users don't think this way. It's a serious question whether Py3 will _ever_ become the default in server distributions. I think we'll see more significant adoption once that happens.
> Tax-wise, the US is among the worst places to be self-employed.

Singapore's a bit of an outlier - the government owns one of the busiest ports in the world, thus requires less income from tax compared to others.

If you compare the US to other Western democracies, how does it fare?
Hmm interesting. The first thing they mention is GC. IMO that's very solvable with manual intervention, and probably not too hard to solve with tooling. A call a simple as String.Split can require allocating multiple objects on the heap just to make the call. (An array to string objects.) There's no reason this couldn't be stack-allocated. Similarly, there's probably lots of code that'd benefit from a pool allocation, like say, processing an HTTP request, where GC can be done just by freeing the pool.
News, apart from investigative journalism, is mostly gossip with a patina of occasional respectability.

But by news being essentially gossip, it's something there's plenty of, like artistic talent, so there's not much money in it. That's because there's a positive gradient of information from people that will tell you for free.
Batch scripts I made years ago...company property?
Yep, you can see the video on the person's screen. It's small, but very bright, and pretty obvious. If you look closely, you can see it in progress.

Everything you're doing while in public is being logged in people's brains, very poorly. I would take a video over witness testimony any day.

Videos aren't inherently evil. It's how they get used that's evil, and that's the part that you should fight. We should put strict governmental limits on access to personal video, for example.
Could you elaborate on this? -- I don't know anything about the issues of baseband processors on mobile phones (or even what they are) but it sounds interesting.
> To blame the listeners is one step short of accepting things as they are.

I disagree:

- If the talkers are the problem, then the solution is... less speech? Muzzling/censorship? I'll pass, thanks. Better to have the frenzied finger-pointers grow hoarse blathering to a crowd that's ignoring them, than to give them the very attention that they crave and that drives their fortunes.

- I didn't mention solutions to the problem because my post was already long enough.

Solutions would involve (at least):

- Persuading people to take their media viewership and loyalty away from the worst offenders (MSNBC, Fox News, etc.). Hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook. Do this by pointing out the emperor's nakedness.
- Persuading people to give their media viewership to sources and outlets that don't pander to them (not quite the opposite of the first point). This gives influence (money) to media voices who, eventually, can credibly call our leaders to task for their race-to-the-bottom mentality.
- Improved critical thinking curricula in formal education at all levels.

The above improvements would have gradual second-order effects on civic life, e.g. you might eventually end up with real town hall meetings instead of staged, scripted tripe. It really wouldn't take much overt change to see results -- you don't have to boil the ocean.
Are the workers so stupid that they think shipping empty boxes is normal?
Django only has 1 woman contributor
Looking here: https://github.com/django?tab=members there is only 1 woman allowed to commit to django.

After the last 2 lynch mobs powered by two core contributors of the Django community, I got curious about how inclusive their group of developers actually is, since they criticize companies like YC about their percentage of women founders.

Why do Jacob Kaplan Moss and Alex Gaynor think its so easy to find and include women programmers when their own community has only been able to get 1 woman committer in the 8yrs it has been around? (Same length YC has been around).
No refunds? Really?!?

The guy who sold me my bong has a better fucking return policy than that.
Well the same is true for countries, but nationalism seems to work.
"we won’t be able to tell who’s wearing built-in-HUD-and-camera glasses and who’s just wearing regular glasses"

Oh no! I might have to get laser eye surgery and stop wearing glasses.
Definitely irrational. The problem is the security precautions make you feel safer. But you aren't. In fact, if I was a terrorist and I had the choice of attacking a "secure" airplane versus and unsecure airplane. I'd attack the secure plane every single time... It would spread more terror.
Are you serious? I linked to TIA because they showcase the crazies. I'm not criticizing TIA, but linking to them because they very plainly detail what I was talking about in earlier posts.

For example, this pertinent thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/1u0tmy/appar...
[1] http://nate.flach.s3.amazonaws.com/Pretext.ISO
I only had 8 bits to work with when I started out.