skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're an Australian, if you woke up tomorrow in an American city of an Australian one, you'd probably have a hard time telling them apart until you saw which side a car drove on or somebody spoke to you.

On the flip side, Canada, which isn't the U.S. and has all of the benefits being claimed here about places that are not the U.S. is so virtually identical to the U.S. in most ways that I've watched entire seasons of TV shows and not known they were filmed in Canada with Canadian actors. After a night of bar hopping in Toronto, I once woke up in Canada and thought we had made it back over into the U.S. overnight. It took me a few hours and trying to pay at a diner with the wrong money to figure it out.
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It seems you first have to become an "Avaaz member" before signing any petition. I'm presented with two options: 'Already an Avaaz member? Enter your email address and hit "Send"' and 'First time here? Please fill out the form below.'. This form asks for name and email address. In addition, it seems to be possible to connect to Avazz with your Twitter or Facebook account. So, most likely you have provided your name in the past in one way or the other.

But honestly, I'd be very pissed if someone would be able to pull my first and last name when subscribing for a random newsletter.
I hope this will make it easier for me to use CentOS at NASA. They only want us to use Linux distributions that are actively supported with security fixes and for some reason they don't think CentOS qualifies, since it's not a "real" company. They prefer us to use RHEL, Ubuntu, or Suse. But if this new arrangement increases the perception of timeliness for updates, then maybe we can start using it and save some money.

Edited for clarity.
Rapleaf, Acxiom, etc.
I see the old 'representative democracy' fallacy is still quite prevalent in broadband talks. Maybe another decade of complaining on the internet might do it?
Is there some reason you do not simply install VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and then spin up your own Ubuntu, Centos, OSX, etc. VM's to compile the binaries upon?
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Thank you for agreeing with my argument then!
I know where you're coming from and I agree with the sentiment, but despite "gender, race, class, or any of those other things" being "irrelevant to technology", we live in a world that is much more than programming languages and processors. We are not soulless machines.

We should put a stop to talking about topics relevant to our society and culture just because they create dialog? Many discussions beyond gender politics and tech have a tendency to get blown out of proportion and off point. Should we ban discussion on that too?

I think HN is one of the most appropriate places to discuss these and other kinds of issues (theoretically at least).
Not just make the change in one fell swoop but also rollback the change in one fell swoop if it turns out to have broken something.
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Cool. One less agency trying to put people through our nation's god awful federal court system, and one more agency that can get slated for dissolution when people finally get sick of being raped and spied on for their own good.
I bet the driver's license database would be handy too.
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Yeah, it was SearchWiki, launched in 2008, discontinued sometime in early 2011 IIRC. About the only thing people used it for was to kill expertsexchange.com, and that problem took care of itself when StackOverflow got popular.
You know, within my lifetime there was an actual state-level adversary with actual nuclear weapons, an active campaign of support of terrorist organizations far more effective than Al Qaeda, and a well-funded espionage program with real, live agents in the most sensitive parts of the US and allied governments. But somehow this threat is worthy of pooping our collective pants over.
This looks great Taylor. You had offered me some feedback about getting into freelancing a while back, so I knew the username looked familiar.

Great work!
I hate to be that guy but… If you do HR, could you clarify the need for a visa early on?
More impressively, see just how crazy strong F1 driver necks are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBtKSGvVxw8
I laughed, but to be clear, of course that's not true.
I would also consider using this: https://github.com/bruce/node-temp
Could GoldCoin be the next big thing?
Regarding the overpriced-ness of Australia, for a long time our dollar was worth around 2/3rds of the US dollar (at one point in the past 20 years it was down to 50c), and pricing made more sense in comparison, with imported things being generally more expensive due to remoteness. Then we had a mining boom and our dollar increased in value to a peak of around US$1.12. Of course, your local prices don't fluctuate to match the exchange rate, because it doesn't work that way. So for a local, that bus ticket has always been the same price, but it doubled in cost for tourists. The Aussie dollar is now on the way down again. Real estate is ridiculously expensive though - most expensive in the world in relative-to-average-income terms.

Apparently, the volatility of the $A combined with the general stability of the economy makes it the 5th-most traded currency in the world (US$, Euro, Yen, GB pound, then $A... the middle order might be a bit mixed up)
Priconomic just refocus to this business model
GnuPG Crowd Funding Campaign
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) recently launched its first crowdfunding campaign with the aim of building a new website and long term infrastructure. With a target of 24000 Euros, they have already reached 34000 Euros with 20 more days to go.
Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs?
Lately while conducting a job search, I've been running in to company after company that just seem to want another cog in their feature grinding machine. I've been having a hard time finding software engineering jobs that are more than just "crank out web application features" smoothly put as "solving hard problems".

Does your company have a job that is more than just code monkeying? Please post it in this thread with explanation of why it's more.
And if you work for an multinational, even in Asia you can even get your five weeks of vacation a year. (I do.)
It's only not a tech problem if every service has Google levels of server capacity and performance. Websites still regularly fall over when posted on aggregation sites.
> You know, I remember a time—it must have been the summer of 1985—when I'd just discovered a thing called rule 30. That's probably my own all-time favorite scientific discovery. And that's what launched a lot of the whole new kind of science that I've spent 20 years building. [See A New Kind of Science, page 27.]

Oh, Wolfram...

Some self-promotional aspects aside, this was a pretty interesting write-up about the personal side of Feynman.

One quote of his from this article stands out: "peace of mind is the most important prerequisite for creative work." I'd be very interested to know what he would have thought about the current state of academia and scientific research.
I hope that the training set gets released publicly. The more training sets openly available to all the better.
Sounds like you are sick of other people's ideas.
Go is hosted publicly (on googlecode) and adwords is supersecret or some nonsense and non adwords Googlers can't see it.

But gmail and maps...well, they share a lot of code! For instance, they both run on web servers.
Uh...

They're putting people through the court system and double. It's just now they entrap foolish immigrants with fabricated plots that the immigrants just to commit a little to before they get rushed through those courts.
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My business has a redundant 10Gbps connection to our cabinet at zColo. We lease the dark fiber (but it doesn't run very far, so it's not very expensive.) The cabinet has a 1Gbps uplink for Internet.

Home is 50Mbps FTTH right now. Google should start to deploy in ATX during 2014, and when they come to my neighborhood, I plan to switch to Google Fiber.

I also have a Time Warner fiber service on premise, mainly for one of my employees who lives just outside Elgin, TX. (but also because we get a redundant 100Mbps connection.

While I spent an order of magnitude more than you, I also have much better service. :-)
Don't forget that we can also just ignore it or have it hidden from us. In that case it happens without us being for or against it.
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first panel of the cartoon
"Mythology". Mythology?

What. The. Fuck?

Seriously, if you don't think there is rampant sexism in the tech world, you either have your head buried or you have your own agenda here. Based on your shitty little "mythology" quip, the latter is likely.

I'm a man and you don't speak for me. Don't presume to. Those who are perpetuating sexism and misogyny are the ones who in fact DO care about things like gender, race, and class. Don't ask the rest of us not to respond, right here and now.

This is exactly an appropriate forum to discuss these kinds of issues. They are in fact "tech" issues.
This Rift deeply excites me. But I wonder what time-scale we need to consider for this to be an intermediate step?

That is, we're putting an interface on an interface here. Picture on eyeball. How long until we can mainline this stuff?
> If that would work, how complicated would the mesh need to be that solving it with physics is faster than brute-force computation?

Nobody uses brute-force computation to solve max-flow. The problem lies in P.
and rather uninformed. lobbying may not be as efficient elsewhere as it is here, but it exists everywhere.
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Oscar Insurance just raised another $30M. Come work with US :)
The Gemini Planet Imager operates at "near-infrared" wavelengths (Y - K bands), according to Wikipedia. The telescope is designed to detect light generated by the heat of young planets, so infrared is the best bet, I think.
Suppose I take your claim that "only the NSA could break [it]" on good faith.

You're missing the word "presently."

That back door is there. Others not having figured out how to interact with it yet is a matter of security through obscurity[0], and the system is still weaker for it, even though it's not yet fully cracked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
I was promised one thing!
Priceonomics looks like more of a professional service at the moment. I'd like to sell actual data sets in more of an ecommerce/subscription model. Kind of like http://www.cbinsights.com/datastore/
Microsoft is known to be quite blog-friendly, much moreso than Google. Blogs like MiniMSFT have been around for years with quite an irreverent take on the company.
Sonic.net provides their "Fusion DSL" service in LA through resellers. It's worth to check if you are in the service area at http://www.dslextreme.com/ . I ended up signing up through another company, Omsoft, because they were very down to earth.

Yeah, the advertised throughput is a bit slower being ADSL2+, especially on the upload (although you can bond two channels for a simple twice the cost. and if you really need upload, inquire to see if they've got "Annex M" support yet). But it's fast enough, very predictable, and you won't be giving your money to assholes.

Also FWIW, Speakeasy is also still around, they've just renamed to Megapath and raised their rates a bit.
To be precise, bribery isn't just legal, it's mandatory under the current campaign finance setup.

Campaign finance reform is a prerequisite for addressing any of the anti-consumer legislation we are stuck with today. Best of all, it hasn't been turned into a partisan wedge yet, so there's hope, assuming we can find a way to make people care.

Unfortunately, last time I saw a campaign finance reform proposal cross the HN frontpage, it fell off within 5 minutes :(
That is pretty much what I was getting at.

I wasn't actually meaning to be disparaging at all, just waxing a little poetic, though I thought it was funny that I was being chided for being disparaging in a comment that was disparaging the exact same thing :)
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I did write a more "polite" version "asking" for opinion on this and everyone ignored the thread!

Also this modification would change nothing .... everyone would still get all the feeds, only change is those who want to filter stuff out can! There is a huge volume of articles.. and I have other feeds and things to do... who are you to tell me I should NOT be able to filter things out?

My proposed change wouldnt effect you... what you are saying is effecting me.
I don't know if I'd call it spam. That actually seems like a more practical application for the thing than the ones they describe.
After a moment of consideration I wondered how "investigation", which thought of as "gathering evidence", came to mean "enforcement".

And now that I say it out, I clearly see the surveillance around here.
Similar, but less general.

Serializable continuations can be saved to disk. You can reinstate a completed continuation (eg. go back from the final page. After clicking the link again, the page completes again. Or try clicking the link in several tabs; the page concurrently completes several times as you expect.) Generators make this pattern impossible; Continuations give it to you for free.

Second, by being saved on disk, they aren't crammed up in the event loop so they aren't a RAM leak. Racket even provides a way of having the client store all state if you wish; such "stateless" continuations have no memory or disk overhead on a long-running server and never expire until you change your site's source code.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not paying (it's not really free as far as I can tell).
A possible new business model for the USPS.
Nothing will change until we get to the root cause. Get corporate money out of politics. Its really sad to tell you the truth.
You mean the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO, which spied on every domestic activist group and potential subversive from Vietnam war protestors to Martin Luther King? The same FBI that assassinated Fred Hampton? Or a CIA that operated with zero oversight, ran drugs, orchestrated coups, committed assassinations, and experimented on people to see whether LSD was a truth serum?

You think that's a government that's in control? You think all these abuses and expansions of power are a new thing?
Yet more "Pay Toilet" WiFi.
Teh shirts.
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I tried to build Jelly.co in 2009... does it sting? A little.
I think you'd have to put lights everywhere the camera might look. With lights on the user and a fixed camera, you just have to make sure the user doesn't move out of frame.
This is not possible with promises or generators, because their flow is unidirectional (so no back button). It may be possible to come up with an abstraction that works like promises (.then chaining) but can be rewinded, in which case the code would look like this:

askUserForValue
.then(value => res.showLink()
.then(_ => res.render(res, {"user-value": value}))

Infact I think something like this could probably be built with monadic observables and a nice library. The only thing you couldn't do is automagically keep intermediate state anywhere else other than memory :/

The thing is, isn't this just a pipe dream? The moment you need to interact with an external system, like say an SQL database, you can say good-bye to rewinding, or be fine with the fact that you might commit a transaction twice, or otherwise come up with a complex method to also rewind the database state, or write your own database that supports this :)

Edit: Also, these days this approach is largely unnecessary. Now the entire thing would work on the client and the server would only be responsible to provide an API :P
Promises are _not_ dual to function composition, unless you mean by “dual” something very different from the common mathematical meaning.
The main thing here that I didn't realize is that it seems there is ALWAYS an option to skip checking in, either by clicking "Skip checkin" or by getting the code from the cashier.
Monads are not a language feature, they are a library feature.
re: overpricedness

I think it has something to do with the better labor laws (for low-end workers) which push up prices on commodity items. I don't remember any country outside of maybe bits of Northern Europe and Switzerland where I paid more for local food. I've even been on some pretty remote islands and not paid that much, exchange rate adjusted or not. I remember the first time I paid $22 for breakfast and $5 for a smallish, very lackluster, meat pie I knew I was in for a huge hit on my wallet. I know someplace have isolated foreign or exotic foods that are expensive (the famous $11 Japanese hotdogs for example), but even in Tokyo you can find plentiful meals for under $10.

I hit a decent steak house in Canberra (Australia has great beef BTW), and was very happy it was paid for by a local. I think the tab was well over $50 a head for a steak and a couple sides.

It may have been a particularly weird time to go or something (2007), but it left an indelible impression on me.

Don't get me wrong, I'd still readily return, Australia is a lovely country for the most part.
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Matching = Magic
In short: Generators are useful when you use callbacks to wait for the server to finish doing something (eg. finish a DB update or an HTTP request)

Continuations are useful when you're waiting for the user to finish doing something (eg. an HTTP response, not a request).

So they do solve different problems.
I always think the same. A few lines for a great solutions.
This is my fear as well, i like Centos for what it is and implement it daily on most of the servers i run.
He'll I'd be willin to throw up a few times considering the promise the rift shows for the future of gaming.
Although, scary business model if you lose that customer
First, yes, it is. It's enforcing a social norm without any actual need (by society at large, I do understand the motivation of the icecream shop). Note that I am not saying who is responsible for it, oppression can be institutionalized and without any bad intentions by anyone in particular, that does not make it any less oppressive to those who are affected.

Second, how did you get the impression he was "taking it out on the clerk"? He simply was asking for an alternative method to access the WiFi and expressing his concerns about his privacy. Are you also to blame for taking it out on the clerk if you ask, for example, whether you might open some window because you think it's too hot or too cold or whatever?
I don't see anyone claiming that torturers are inherently evil. I see people claiming that act of torture is inherently evil. I'm perfectly open to the idea that someone who has tortured someone else isn't evil, but torture is always an evil act.
I really hope you are right and it will go this way.
This one is so much smaller it takes a lot more effort to make it seem threatening.
It's because of the cancer I like to call the US government, not to mention corporate media which make a profit obfuscating the process of national theft. Everyone is angry but few know why.
FON (https://corp.fon.com/en) tried to make this work, I'm sure there were other attempts.
Ask HN: Finding a non-technical cofounder?
I frequently see posts regarding joining a startup as a technical cofounder or searching for technical cofounders. But I find myself in a different position: I have a product I want to sell, customers asking to purchase it from me, and the technical chops to handle the IT side quickly. However, I know that if I attempt to bring my product to market alone I'm going to fuck it up.

So, HN: How do I find a NON-technical cofounder? Does anyone have a success story?
I am interested, will contact you on the email in your profile...
Whenever I open the FB app on my Android, the GPS notification flashes for a moment. This information I'm sure is tracked, but is not shared.
When Bush created "Homeland Security" I thought for sure it was a matter of time before that name was changed back to something less fascist sounding. Now I'm surprised the trend is still continuing after all these years with "security" creep into an excuse for broader state power.
Your last paragraph is why Racket provides ways of invalidating "in-progress" continuations. Ideally, in any user flow, you'd want to have the only side-effect operation occur at the end of the flow (User clicks the 'Book ticket' or 'Process transaction' button); the hard part is usually modeling it beforehand in a way that allows the user to navigate naturally back and forth between the parts of the application/open it up in new tabs or whatever.

But sure, there are limitations of course. :)
Sorry, this relates to the posted link how?
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Feynman's views during his time on academia are well known and popularly published in his books. See Cargo Cult Science [1] and his work on a science textbook advisory committee [2] which gave a blank book a 7/10.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
[2] http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
Using plain text Gmail password looks like a red flag.

e.Send("smtp.gmail.com:587",
smtp.PlainAuth("",
"test@gmail.com",
"password123",
"smtp.gmail.com"))
I doubt your statement that a majority of the US has an extremely high murder rate. Some parts of the country certainly do, but much of the country is perfectly safe. The overall average rate is higher than other first-world countries, but that does not imply that most of the country has a higher rate. Crime is not spread out evenly.

That sounds reasonable, but I thought I'd take a look.

It turns out that the Australian states with the worst murder rate (NSW & WA, 1.6/1000) would have been the fifth best in the US (after New Hampshire, Minnesota, Iowa and Hawaii)[1].

So yeah, most of the US does have a higher murder rate.

[1] 2011 figures, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
I've found that demonstrated competency & achievements count for more than both publications and degrees. When I was working on Google Authorship, I was the only one on the team without an advanced degree, and only two others lacked a Ph.D. I never once felt like I was looked down upon - actually, it seemed like I was quite well-respected, and for a year after I left the team they continued to ask my manager to keep me sitting in the same office for occasional consulting. Why? Because I had written much of the code that got the project off the ground, I understood how everything fit together, and I was very willing to consider and advocate for ideas of how it could all be improved.
Not sure why anyone would get one of these. The new MacbookPro 13 inch is the sweetest laptop deal out there right now (if you can do with 13 inch and only 2 cores).
Ok, true. They're certainly much nicer to use if you have nice syntax for them though. :)
It drives me nuts when I log in to Amazon and it keeps showing me all these parts for building a new PC.

Damnit Amazon I just built one! How many processors do you think a single gaming PC can fit?!
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Digital Ocean vs. Linode
d'oh. thanks :)
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Facebook acquires its first Indian startup, Little Eye Labs
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Amazon ran into this exact problem with Perforce. They threw hardware at the problem for a while but, fortunately, soon realized that they weren't getting anywhere with that. They were trying to work "with" git i.e., with one repo per service and were in migration phase when I left.
I see. It definitely looks powerful. Do you know if this is possible in any non-LISP language?

I mean, invalidating of the "observable" chain could also be done in JS, but I don't think that I know of other languages that could automatically transfer the state to the client.