skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any Karma measure analysis would be biased since Karma is accumulated through both Links and Comments (in contrast with Reddit, which splits both measurements).

"Dominated" is a flawed qualifier since Karma is not a zero-sum game.
The response was designed to send a message. And it seems to have accomplished that.
The nuances of a given spoken language take years to master even with regular use. They are used for brevity, cultural identification, conveying meanings that are often different from the dictionary definitions, many other things that programmers don't need to do. Much lawyer and engineering jargon is motivated behind removing these nuances.

You don't need nuances for a language to be expressive. Haskell is a formally rigid language that can express many things in a billion ways. Python is a simple language that accomplishes the same effect. Clojure has almost no syntax but is more expressive than almost any language I've seen. I don't want nuance in my programming languages. Nuance is how you get write-once source files and migrane-inducing bugs.
The parent is referencing the third party doctrine, which the Supreme Court has ruled on. For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

Of course, there is growing chorus of voices that believe the 3rd party doctrine needs to change, including comments by Justice Sotomayor in the recent US v. Jones case, which I've quoted elsewhere in this thread and are worth reading to get a sense of how some members of the current Supreme Court may vote if and when the Court decides to hear these NSA cases.
As someone who has a passing knowledge of perl, what do you mean by nuances? It always seemed that perl the language is pretty minimal.
Such institutionalized equivocation can only go on for so long...
Direct link to all 989:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28collection%3Aconsole...
You should take a look at Chicago Boss[1], the Rails-like Web framework for Erlang.

[1]: http://www.chicagoboss.org/
Reminds me of this quote from our favorite space saga:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz20lu2AM2k
Keep in mind that karma includes both submissions and comments (unlike reddit, where they are separate).

For comments, at least, there is a clear bias where comments from users with higher karma tend to stay at the top of the comment page longer, regardless of the votes for other comments. This is intentional and definitely contributes to the effect
Robyn Miller (cocreator of Myst) is doing an IAMA on Reddit
Can you see the video annotations? The very first one says Google employees contacted her and got her videos back.
Got a link? Google found this Quake2 railgun, but it doesn't look to be the same on first glance https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2/blob/master/ctf/g_wea...
Prism participant Youtube link brought to you by a NSA stooge on HN (j/k)
The impression I get (university class on OSes) is that the microkernel/modular approach is more about making it simpler to port than making a specific instance simple? Similarly it'd be less complicated to extend since that's just a case of adding a new loadable module. In terms of a learning OS I'm not sure exactly which should be prioritised - extendability/portability or a simple structure? If this is a topic with a lot of depth I'm obviously not getting I'd definitely be interested in a discussion - my exam is soon :)
560 bytes css grid
a more organized way to navigate the collection:
https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
Essentially, we agree, though: treat everything on the internet accessible to everyone for the foreseeable future.

You write: "It's not reasonable for you to claim a privacy interest in documents over which someone else has unrestricted control."

If my wife has access to it, then I am not protected.
If I live in an apartment, then the landlord has access. If I rent a VPS on the internet, but the files are not connected to the internet (ssh access only, no other port open), the VPS provider has access.

No, it's not about someone else having access. It's about your expectation of privacy. If you expect something to be private (like my https gmail, or my unshared google drive files, or my unshared dropbox files...) then it should be considered the same as a paper diary in a drawer in your nightstand.

If you are led to believe the information will be kept private from government access (except as outlined in the 4th amendment), then you have a right to expect privacy.

I know very well how the internet works. I know there is more that can be done physically than legally, but the privacy expectation is a legal standing, not a physical standing.

The NSA, however, and the Patriot Act (such a horribly-named law) which seems to allow it, have ignored this legal restriction, and have, because of physical access, obtained data for which US citizens had reasonable expectation of privacy from search by the government.

You write " but whether to indulge the fiction that documents which are as a factual matter not private should nonetheless be treated as private for 4th amendment purposes."
Ah, but that's exactly what the 4th amendment addresses. While the government can physically obtain such information, they are prohibited to do so by law. So it's not a fiction, it's the law.
Really two different worlds. Pixate isn't "native-like", it's 100% native.
Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn't Believe in Races
I want to play Big Top!
Past performance isn't necessarily predictive of future results. Big data is entirely unprecedented in world history.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454

N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
(nytimes.com)

========

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827

Federal Judge in New York rules NSA activities constitutional
(uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787

U.S. judge upholds NSA phone surveillance program
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666

N.Y. judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
(politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626

NSA gets win in court over bulk data collection
(cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622

NSA surveillance lawful, judge rules
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526

NY Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal
(usatoday.com)
Glenn Greenwald's talk is over now; loved the standing ovation that just didn't want to end.
This guy didn't even bother to name his computer!
I was going to tear your response apart, but I think your logic is actually very correct. This is especially true if the employer is a monopoly.

But let's say there are multiple employers competing for the superheroes, each with their own bad guys to hunt down... Then you can get paid more.
If I had a million dollars, I'd have time to develop skill to the next million. No brainer decision for me.

For most people the decision should be easy as well, as a million is life changing money, whereas skill entails risk.

The question might be better as, insta-100k or a chance for a million (skill).
China rejects shipments of genetically modified corn
So, if I give some papers to a lawyer to hold in his safe for me, I'm actually less secure than if I held them myself?
from the article:
"In Chrome there was only a single TCP connection and a single DNS lookup needed despite the presence of three domains."

See cloudflare's answer to my original question.
Students are there because society at large has demanded that they be there. A college degree has transformed from a certificate of achievement into a proof of purchase that HR departments must validate in exchange for an offer of employment. The Universities are only too happy to play along with the charade as they hoover up increasingly absurd tuitions. The increase in tuition is yet another bubble being driven by "too big to fail" banks, this time saddling what are for all intents and purposes children with crippling lifelong debt which is conveniently immune from bankruptcy protection. Sometime soon the music will stop and all that's left is to find out who's going to be left without a chair. One thing that the previous bubble should have taught us is that it won't be the banks who are left holding the bag, which means it's between the universities and the students.

If I was running a University right now, I'd be very worried. The many and sundry administrators in particular should be asking themselves what's going to happen when universities suddenly find themselves in the position of having to cut their budgets by 50% or more of their current levels due to the sudden lack student financing options and the inability of students to pay even a fraction of current tuition levels. For that matter the worth or need of a degree in a great many fields will likely be called into question quite soon.
The cloud providers told their customers that this information was secure from government interference, and that the government had to obtain search warrants in order to even inspect the data. This turned out not to be true, as Snowden demonstrated. This changes the level of risk, and apparently at least some companies are rethinking their cloud commitments. Also, as Target's 40 million customer credit card breaches demonstrate, there is a real cost of not providing your own (good) security and keeping data safe. And that cost may get higher. See http://finance.yahoo.com/news/senator-calls-accountability-t...
The huge irony with these events is that they are used as primary recruiting grounds for spying agencies.

The same people who are learning how to hack government/corporate systems on their own are the ones who the intelligence community wants to hire most. The benefits are many-fold: You get an extremely high-quality employee, and you remove them from a scene where they are capable and encouraged to cause damage, and you remove the opportunity for an opposing government to hire them.

There's some amount of philosophical resistance that these folks would have towards working for the intelligence community, but how quickly can $150-200k/year change your philosophy?
I think it's mistaken for Yogaglo to believe that what distinguishes their business is some specific camera angle and frankly it's disingenuous for them to pretend so. They have a set of very popular teachers (even celebrities within the yoga world). That's the reason why Stanford grads can't build it in a weekend -- are they going to be able to get Kathryn Budig and Jason Crandall and the others? I really think they just got greedy, and want to force their competitors to film their classes at awkward angles and in undesirable formats.
This reminds me of the self-defeating property of an "uninteresting" number -- a reasonable definition might be "any number that does not have any property of human interest", but then of course there is a smallest such number, and so that has the interesting property of being the first uninteresting number, a contradiction!

You're right though that a more precise definition of "real-world numbers" is needed, but I confess that my attempts to think of one in the past few minutes have been essentially circular (coming down to "the ones we know how to compute")!
they have a multi gigabit link from the conf iirc.
odd, tried to post the link to archive.org/... to my fb page (via iphone) and it rejected it saying it was flagged as spammy.
Could this be a possible benefit of the Google Barge? Could they be trying to get data out of the jurisdiction of the US government?
> writing code that can be easily corrected is arguably just as important!

The easiest to correct errors are the ones that are detected as early as possible.

> No programming language can prevent all bugs. Not even most bugs.

Sure. No programming language can prevent you from misunderstanding a specification. But some languages can prevent you from missing out corner cases in your case analysis, or from redundantly writing overspecific code that works in essentially the same way for a wide range of data types.

> In practice, I have even found that constructs and limitations that are intended to prevent bugs of one type can lead to bugs of some other type.

I have no idea what you are going on about. What kind of bugs do features like algebraic data types (Haskell, ML), smart pointers (Rust, to a lesser degree C++), effect segregation (Haskell) and module systems (ML, Rust) lead to? I can only see the bugs they prevent.

Normally, the kind of feature that "leads to bugs of some other type" does not try to prevent bugs in first place, just mitigate their consequences. For example, bounds-checked array indexing does not try to prevent programmers from using wrong array indices, it just turns what would be a segfault into an IndexOutOfRangeException.

> Personally, one of my top criteria is to choose a language with which those who will write and maintain the software (now and in the future) are going to be most productive.

I see writing buggy code as negative productivity. So a language that gives you the illusion that you are writing correct code, when you in fact are not, actually makes you less productive.
At 14, Girl is published in Jama Internal Medicine
"Disclaimer: At the time of writing, I don't have any kids of my own, and I have no firsthand knowledge about how to raise kids. Enjoy reading, though!"

Great! So I'm just off to write a blog post on how to produce gold from base metals. I have no firsthand knowledge about alchemy, but how hard can it be?
Here's the strange thing though... Some charter schools do educate the same poor populations, and do it well. The Success Academy [1] is very controversial, but their kids in Harlem and the Bronx do get good test scores. [2] One can argue that they weed out bad apples, but the numbers are still phenomenal even if you assume they've pushed out the bottom 10%.

Of course the new mayor of New York wants to stop their growth, but that's another complaint.

[1] http://www.successacademies.org/

[2] http://projects.nytimes.com/new-york-schools-test-scores/cou...

and

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2013/08/bronx-succes...
Before 9/11 the idea that terrorists could destroy two skyscrapers by simultaneously coordinating multiple hijackings was ridiculous - a B-movie plot or paranoid fantasy. Today, not so much. What ridiculous fantasy will be true in 10 years time?

Again, none of this means that the reactions were smart - but the idea that there needs to be some reaction is not a priori stupid, and to try to characterize it as such weakens your argument (imho).
Ok this is getting pretty convoluted. I didn't mean to imply that photon noise was not a real thing, just that diffraction is a more direct concern. Photon noise can be amortised by a number of different processes which aren't applicable to the case I was trying illustrate. You can't amortise diffraction errors by longer exposure or better photon capture. Pixel size is a primary concern regardless of its noise characteristics.
Sort of a "founder effect" built into a site for founders. How meta.
I have always been a GUI person since the Amiga 500 days.

Yes the CLI might be good for certain tasks, specially automation, but that can also be achieved with scripts in languages like Python/Ruby.

The programmers that insist in a term/vi/emacs world are trapped in a 1970's world, loosing the progress that happend in between.
"Does prior art mean anything with the US First to File system?"

Yes, first to file is about what happens when two people invent the same thing within the same year, not about "first guy to ever file something gets a patent".
Yes. And more accountable. The waiting lists are huge for charter schools. Why not give the parents more options for their kids? As a parent, I would prefer results like these, to the results of failing schools.

http://projects.nytimes.com/new-york-schools-test-scores/cou...

and

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2013/08/bronx-succes...
Yes. I have.

I started an early career in tech and did well. At 17, I had a full time position in the data center of a school district, and from there, went to a special support department for a major corporation.

At 21 or thereabouts I realized I hated the tech industry, and it was making me bitter and cynical at too young of an age. I wanted to know if I could start over from scratch and still do alright. So, right about the time of the dot-com bust, I bailed out and started wandering around.

My jobs after that included ditch digging, climbing instructor, rock gym manager, outdoor retail, and tree planting.

It's still, overall, the happiest I've ever been.

One of the worst things about tech is that there are so many problems that you become responsible for, but can't solve. You can't do anything about somebody else's stupid program. You can't do anything about a bad piece of hardware. But, if you're digging a ditch, there's no problem you can't solve with a bigger shovel. :-)

Climbing instructor / rock gym manager was my favorite. It was pretty amazing, I met a lot of cool people, I picked up a lot of good skills. That's not a part of my life anymore, but it'll always be a part of me.

Unfortunately, none of those things ever paid a lot. So, some years ago, I went back into tech and eventually started my own little tech business. I have more money now, but I'm not happier. But, I still get to revisit my old life from time to time, and that makes tech a lot more bearable than it was in the beginning.

So, in short:

> If you want to do it, do it.

> Money might be scarce but you'll survive.

> If you want to go back to tech later, you can. Don't worry about being "behind" in the tech industry. You can catch up, it's not hard.
One of the classes that had impact on me at college was "Sources of Social Order." I was a very socially awkward and defensive kid, and it was a beginning for me to understand people better. Of course, it would have been better for me to learn organically on the playground instead of like an anthropologist watching apes, but then we can blame high school instead of university :)
To see a model for this, look to companies with B2B DNA. Facebook and Twitter are used to taking a "PM knows best" b2c approach, not a "customers first" perspective. Salesforce REST is a good example from larger companies (disclosure - my cofounder was one of it architects), and Stripe's API is a great example from the startup world.

From studying these, I found that the best practices aren't all that surprising: versioning, discoverability, and following HTTP standards.
Should RESTful API's include relationships?
Did these guys go to the Rap Genius school of P.R.?

This kind of "apology" is just pouring gasoline on the fire.
Moderately competent security/developer/etc. people do not have to work for the government to make $150-200k/yr.

I personally have no problem working for the government in certain roles, and am actually proud of the stuff I did to help the medical/etc. people in Iraq/Afghanistan. There are plenty of civilian agencies who have missions I fully support -- keeping medical records, nuclear power plants, consumer financial records, etc. safe is totally legit. I'd even do it for GS-wages instead of the 3x more I can make in the private world.

Fuck spying, though.
If I drive the speed limit for 300 miles on the freeway, but I speed on the last 10 miles, and a policeman gives me a ticket during the last 10 miles, can I say: "Officer, I was following the law most of the time, so it's ok?"

Acting within the constraint of the law means always acting within the constraint of the law, not just when it's convenient.
Again, this is the job of the university. A degree is a university vouching for the education of a student. So what I mean is the university should only give degrees to those students that the university deems worthy. The problem is that that bar is too low for too many universities, or the bar is in wrong place altogether.
Charter schools don't address the existing problems with public education in regards to many communities being able to have a voice in achieving quality education.

Yes they do. You always have a choice of charter school or non-charter school. Many charters are so popular that they have 10 applicants for every spot. This isn't the sign of a lack of a voice, it's a sign of people voicing their displeasure with their terrible zoned schools.

We allow airlines to compete for our business, and the bad ones should close. We allow grocery stores to compete for our business, and the bad ones should close. Why not allow schools to compete for business and let them close?

Charters have more accountability than district public schools. If a charter misses it's #s, it won't get renewed. Every 5 years they have to prove themselves.
This page has links to 6.828 lecture videos (2011):

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/schedule.html
Thanks for the advice. I'm actually going on vacation in 28
days 9 hours and 23 minutes. Going to the dominican republic for 7 days computer and worry free. I also go to a therapist to help me deal with work/stress/depression.
Astonishingly, I think you are incorrect. Apparently there are serious figures who think the torturing of infants is in fact legal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo#Regarding_torture_of_...

> "If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?", to which Yoo replied "No treaty." Cassel followed up with "Also no law by Congress—that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo", to which Yoo replied "I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that."
I'm not knowledgeable about different philosophies when it comes to OS's, but it seems that pretty much everyone thinks that being Unix-like is a good thing. Is that true? Or is there some people that think that some different philosophy that is perhaps more or less mutually exclusive with regards to being Unix-like is better? I don't even know if that last question makes sense.
Intel Hires 16 Year Old For New Devices Group
Unreal. for some perspective, from: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/faq.aspx

"4. Can Postal Inspectors open mail if they feel it may contain something illegal?
First-Class letters and parcels are protected against search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, and, as such, cannot be opened without a search warrant. If there is probable cause to believe the contents of a First-Class letter or parcel violate federal law, Postal Inspectors can obtain a search warrant to open the mailpiece. Other classes of mail do not contain private correspondence, and therefore may be opened without a warrant."

So the phone companies are a third party. The postal service is not.
> We also use programming languages to communicate to other programmers (which includes our future selves).

Communication using natural language is fundamentally different from communication using programming languages. The ability to be vague, redundant and even wrong - all of these are features in natural languages, but bugs in programming languages.

> Perl has many, many nuances. This is often derided by people that prefer more rigid languages. I like to think that it helps me see the programmer intent and thought process more clearly through the code.

Nuances obscure intent, because they require you to be actively aware of the possibility of their existence in order to understand code.

> Obviously there are downsides to this, just as there are downsides to overly rigid languages.

I see no downsides whatsoever to reducing the extent to which one can be wrong.
There is a linux version, it's available here:

http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=252...
Basically I just quit going in unless someone tells me I have to. So far it works but then I end up working the time I would have been driving so it doesn't lead to more free time.