skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People accept the current situation for two reasons:

1. Protestant Work Ethic (work is morally good, not-work is morally bad, therefore do work)

2. Capitalism race to the bottom (if you take 2 vacation days, the company can fire you and hire someone who will take only one, then fire him for someone who will take none)

It really, really sucks. But if you get any ideas about standing up for your rights or organizing your labor, remember that the nail that stands up is hammered down. That, plus most coworkers will look at you bug-eyed if you propose that working conditions can be improved by worker organization and negotiation with employers-- after all, they're just trying to do their part and earn their portion, not get involved in some scary organized/unionized/socialist political mess.

There's not even a cultural foundation to build something like a campaign for more sensible vacation policy. Indeed, the cultural foundation is predisposed against such things.
There's a sucker born every minute, but how far can the pyramid go? Is it a snake eating its own tail? Make a bunch, try to leverage that up a level? The losers will eventually be zeroed out.
Make sure to add some shameful evidences on the innocent Windows install to make it more convincing.
"Sh.. you found my porn folder! Well done guys".
Big Data has so many meanings. It really is a little absurd but I guess that is the life of a buzzword. My take on Big Data is 2 parts 1) Big Data is managing the large transactional, daily data of an organization. I believe this is what most people relate to Big Data i.e. map reduce, BI, etc. 2) Big Data is gathering bits of perceived dissimilar minutiae and finding meaningful information from it. This is classical statistics, engineering, and machine learning. The data itself may not be the scale of Amazon, Google or Facebook but it still computational intensive to develop algorithms for it.
Yeah; just look who is first on this list: http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/10-best-metro-system..., unsurprising.
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? (2011)
The "Blank Check" of Entrepreneurship
Just a thought, but how will the NSA change for the better if we discourage "good" people from joining the organization. Doesn't that just reinforce it to become even more of what we dislike about it? Perhaps positive change for the NSA will come from within at some point?

Maybe one of your friends feels the same way about the NSA as you do and intends to do something about it.
Optional?!

You mean that it's optional for users because the can "call this number to opt in for porn and dissident information" or optional because the handful (4) of ISPs who control most people's access to the internet have the option of "making progress on this issue" or else they will have progress made for them. Do these 4 companies need the government for contracts? How about broadcast licenses?

The thin veneer of optionality is (IMO, of course) the most offensive part of this.

I realize I'm sounding shrill and dramatic but… optional here is just a steam vent. The proudly perverted, politically active or other fringe people will be able to access anything easily enough. They're hard to control anyway. The happy 90% will make do with approved content.
This is awesome! I would love to see some benchmarks compared to say, Puma. I'm a huge fan of Vert.x and I love this!

Edit: The demo chat application looks totally awesome! http://192.241.201.68:8080/
But nobody (outside of maybe China) seems that inclined to hinder it... Trolls love to see the volatility because the fall is so fiery and believers are deluded, so whatever. The trickle of fresh meat for the slaughter is the glory. Watching another anti-statist indoctrinated into a believer only to get flounced - priceless for anyone else who was inb4!
From the wikipedia page:
"In addition to increasing height in children and adolescents, growth hormone has many other effects on the body:
- Increases calcium retention, and strengthens and increases the mineralization of bone
- Increases muscle mass through sarcomere hypertrophy
- Promotes lipolysis
- Increases protein synthesis
- Stimulates the growth of all internal organs excluding the brain
- Plays a role in homeostasis
- Reduces liver uptake of glucose
- Promotes gluconeogenesis in the liver
- Contributes to the maintenance and function of pancreatic islets
- Stimulates the immune system"
A more general pattern appears to be along the lines of Monocotelydons[1] vs other types of plants that bear edible fruits. I forget where I read this but it appears that monocots are going to be the dominant class of plants across the globe, hand-in-hand with climate change.

Another interesting parallel in eating seeds is between seeds from angiosperms like pine seeds and those from grasses like wheat. Two very different types of plants, but primates ate the same part of each.

Also, did humans evolve to carry gluten digesting genes over time, hence a subpopulation that cannot handle gluten?

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocotyledon
Paywalled, but a freedom-hating pirate has fortunately given us what i believe to be a copy of it:

http://casinocap.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/the-road-to-hell-i...
[cairo] Cairo and ISO C++
Awesome! This is actually quite helpful and it gave me a couple of ideas.
Hanlon's razor has become an excuse for malice and should not apply:

Stupidity (within government) is malice.
Beyond Google: How to find vital information on customers and competitors
Why is #oomf so popular on social media?
Not R2-D2 but definitely would shoot C3PO.
Orthodox, Coptic, and other pre-Great Schism Christians fast twice a week (Wednesdays and Fridays), where fasting is defined as eating only vegetables and grains. In addition, there are various other periods of fasting throughout the year, such as the 40 days before Pascha (Easter) and Christmas.

The intent of the fast isn't for health reasons, although from my own anecdotal experience it does seem to have healthful effects, such as sharpening the mind. The rules aren't set in stone but are an ideal for the purpose of cultivating self-discipline and a humble awareness of our limitations. If a person fasts from food but "consumes" their neighbor (through anger, jealousy, etc.), then the whole point of the fast has been missed.
Temperature Conversion Application In Python
I don't even know what hackernews has become.
Actually, I'd say that developments like this help to kill the crypto-currency ecosystem.
Learnings from running my first online workshop
Almost 30.
That's why I'd rather take a plane or a train than driving myself across the infinitely boring desert.
People are so mature
Who wants to co-found the next Google with me?
What I have:
Software: crawler, indexer, distributed storage, front-end / back-end interfaces.
Data: large sets of urls to crawl

What Im looking for:
A motivated engineer that has experience in developing search engines and wants to build and become part of a new multinational media company that spans across the globe.

Interested? Please send any questions or suggestions to my email: djarend@gmail.com
Pi is beautiful (video)
You obviously have never seen how a king lives. At $4k, you will live like the median American. Maybe that looks good if you're from $1/day but, it's not nearly royal ever.
The argument is an extension of the reason we don't let stores sell porno mags to 13 year old's -- it is ridiculous to assume the parents will always be with their child to make the decision for them.

I've no measured and thought-out opinion on porn filtering or censoring at ISPs one way or another. But a lot of recent research on the subject of youth and lewd material consumption suggests the current free and unfettered access to pornographic material is unhealthy.

Is there a "slippery slope" to cry out with where this line of thought goes? Sure. But in societies that decide their federal system should be arbiter of its health care system, it makes no sense to argue when that government takes measures to act on information regarding the health of its citizens.
How do you differ from Swagger, Blueprint, I/O Docs, RAML and all these API endpoint descriptions?
Don't get me wrong, I find your site useful, and must I add, well designed. Maybe you could ask the user if he wishes to revoke the authorizations for your own app after scanning.
Shopping around for broadband in the UK is not difficult, broadbandchoices, MoneySavingExpert, uSwitch & MoneySupermarket are 4 places I know off the top of my head where you can type in your phone number & it gives you a list of providers, and there always "cheap broadband uk" in Google too.
You can always write your own incremental allocator to provide word aligned (or whatever alignment) blocks of memory (from a large block of memory you obtain via a usual malloc() call) for the individual structures such that their page offsets are spread evenly (and avoid other problems such as spanning pages).

[EDIT] although it is tricky to do optimally given that different processors will have different cache set characteristics (as the article shows).
Sorry to hear about your father. These medical and technological advances should serve to make us realise that whatever the state of the politico-economic world, we live in pretty amazing times. I hope that the curiosity of humans, and our drive to learn beats out the system in the long run.
I would second this. We know for a fact that the NSA uses BIOS malware. I don't believe we know for a fact that such malware is routinely installed by border guards, but it's not a very far-fetched worry at this point.

The technical expertise required to do so is very limited as long as you don't password-protect the BIOS: Basically, they only need to be able to plug in a USB stick and reconfigure the BIOS to boot from it.

In other words: If you leave your laptop outside of your physical control for even a few minutes, you may have to assume that it is totally compromised as long as you don't have a BIOS password.

If the laptop is outside of your control for a longer period of time, you probably have to assume that it has passed through the hands of somebody with sufficient technological know-how to work around the BIOS password as well.
Samsung, LG, Alcatel have factories in Brazil. Foxconn is building a factory in partnership with someone and will produce apple stuff here. Even microsoft and sony build things such as xbox and playstation here (more like assemble but still get incentives). Simply building a Jolla factory with BNDES support will not give them a foothold since everyone else is doing the same thing.

To succeed in the Brazilian market they need the following:
* Cheap devices. The Jolla phone is more expensive than Android competition, even higher end devices such as Moto G.
* Whatsapp support is a must in here. People will decide against a device if it doesnt have whatsapp client.
* Agreement with some carrier to push it.
* Localized stuff
* Multi-sim support. Many Android devices have two or three (and even four) simcard slots so that people can use a simcard for each carrier and call everyone for free. There is a moto g with dual sim in here.

Right now, IIRC, Jolla has no multi-sim support, no carrier agreement, no cheap device. Being cheaper than iPhone is not enough, it needs to be cheaper than ~R$300 (close to USD 130) to succeed in here.

PS: I am working on this market right now. This are trends I've been experiencing here daily.
Changing the culture of cycling in London
It's not clear to me why we need another Google. You are talking about implementation, but what is the value you aim to provide?
That is really interesting in the context of broken escalators.

When the escalator breaks, you have the flat section to rest at, just like the real stairs. Most escalators make bad stairs, because they lack such sections, and frequently have unusual rise/run lengths.
And a chorus of silence from the general population. The bad guys won here, no matter how upsetting it may be to the general HN crowd (at least, if I've read the mood correctly).
bittorrent.js
I have seen the corporate response of only providing remote desktops via browser and SSL to foreign (US) deployed personnel. Means the data never physically crosses the border.

No clear players in this market for consumers though. Where is the consumer remote desktop via browser+SSL that doesn't rely on a US hosted cloud service?
Describing an API is not hard, but the API authentication method is. How do you think you will do it?

Edit : If you don't make oauth consumption simpler, you don't really solve the problem
warning: there is no script escaping so someone malicious could redirect you to other sites, etc. use with care.
Cost/Benefit Analysis of NSA's 215 Metadata Collection Program
Best I've ever read on the auto dealership industry.
The big reason, in my opinion, for there being few successful FOSS games is that the only thing bringing the team together is a shared vision. This makes it much harder to succeed at a large project unless the project is inspired by/a clone of a nostalgic game, or is in one of the dream-niches that are now being colonized by Kickstarter projects. It's the same reason there are a lot of failed mods: putting a team together is hard, and content production isn't exponentially scalable like code is.

Which is not to say that there aren't lots of open source games: every Ludum Dare Compo game is required to be open source, which is tens of thousands of games right there.

There are a few "big hits" in the FOSS world: Battle for Wesnoth, Vega Strike, FreeCiv, 0 AD, Nethack, Angband, etc. The ones that don't start of clones of commercial games tend to be at the end of a long heritage of open source development: roguelikes, Netrek, and the like. _Playable_ projects with ongoing development often accrue a very dedicated fandom. It's just hard to get to "playable enough".

The real breakout for FOSS and games has been in development tools: open-source engines and libraries have been one of the major reasons that this as become a golden era of indie game development. Even commercial tools like Unity rely on the existence of Mono, for example.
> I believe he's claimed to have gotten rid of all materials prior to going to Russia.

This was in response to the question about this data accidentally falling into wrong hands. He said he was very confident that nothing was stolen copied or accessed during his stay in Hong Kong, and that he completely wiped his harddisk before going to Russia.

This doesn't mean that this data does not exist, anywhere, as a bargaining chip. Just that it is not present with him, on a physical storage medium in Russia.
MIT Hacking Medicine - Blue Button Innovation Challenge
>Where is the consumer remote desktop via browser+SSL that doesn't rely on a US hosted cloud service?

The one you host on your own infrastructure?
reimage it again when you get home?

edit: To those below: True. I thought about hardware after I posted; didn't even think about the BIOS thing but that's a great point.
Currently, I am supporting 3 authentication strategies. Basic, Token in header and OAUTH.

These will cover most of the APIs. And I am open to include other kind of authentication strategies too.

https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca#authorization-strategies

EDIT: OAUTH Consumption is not the main priority here. The problem I intended to solve is automating the development and maintaing of API client libraries in several different languages.

That said, I intend to add support for OAUTH consumption too.
Some great talks here. A question: has anybody got any good screencasts on either authentication with Ember (and a backend) and using Ember with local storage? Haven't found a huge amount online.[0] Trying to see what's workable for a PhoneGap app using Ember at present.

[0] Other than this, that is: http://vimeo.com/81960884
ISPs have been historically strong-armed into providing as close to Net Neutrality as possible. This obviously flies in the face of that, and there would be a disincentive to implementing such a service if not for the weight of the government behind them.
Thanks Ryan :)
http://web.mit.edu/mission.html

Now consider that someone using your open network in order to access a corpus of public-funded scientific literature with the intent to analyze and publish findings about any fraud that lexical analysis revealed.

Does that fit the mission statement or not?

I am deeply saddened by the whole affair and the extent it reveals about how much the institute has changed from a place of learning, innovation, and challenging yourself and others into basically a government-funded R&D lab run by administrators and lawyers. Determining whether this is the kind of place the faculty, staff and students of MIT actually wants it to be is what "pointing fingers" accomplishes.

It seems to me after reading the report that it was seen as a potential attack on the government's interest in the IP on MIT's network and that was the cause of the ham-fisted response.
>My feeling is that most people who commit suicide do it because they decided it on a rational basis. Some people commit suicide because they want to stop a pain they feel and in their view will apparently last forever or will get worse. I.e cancer, someone has to spend the rest of his life in a bed after an accident ... People can also commit suicide as a sacrifice to save others. But I guess you were not talking of these types of suicide.

You think that more people commit suicide for others than for themselves? Care to explain why or cite anything?

>Suicide due to mental instability is probably just a small fraction of all suicide.

Cite?
That was not my point – I did say that the game might very well be entertaining.
No, in this case it's the same.

Saying that MIT didn't do something it should have done, is not the same as saying that MIT did something it should not have done. The fact that you appear to consider them morally equivalent does not make them identical.
Pentagon-Hexagon-Decagon Identity
If you inscribe a regular pentagon, hexagon and decagon in circles of the same size, something cool happens. Their edges are just the right length to be the sides of a right triangle!
If an ISP chooses to force people to call in to modify their filter level that's their prerogative, but the government hasn't required that and as far as I know all ISPs currently have it handled through their website(s). For example my ISP BT just has it as a clickable option in the account management panel, here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dWxORfJ.png
Everyone has a bad customer service story about every company but that does not mean T-Moblie has a customer service infrastructure problem.

Recently, I switched from Verizon to T-Moblie when bought a Nexus 5 on day one. The SIM card I had ordered would not automatically activate which was not a surprise as the Nexus 5 was not in their system (they were not offering it yet). I also wanted their unadvertised $30 plan technically only available to Walmart and their online phone buyers. One call, everything was setup with no problems and no hassles. Verizon is the definition of hassles from my experience.
Here is a short list of both author's peer-reviewed research papers on the topic.
http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/research/
nice but it doesn't work if not all kwargs are passed..
Spot on critique. Two additions:

What about pure carnivores? Surely their food doesn't want to be food, but carnivores do just fine.

While I agree that the amount of corn we eat is absurd, to call it inedible is ludicrous. Raw corn on the cob is plenty edible, and sweet corn is quite tasty, although that's admittedly not what's grown on large corn plantations.
2c2 by Michal Zalewski ( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ ) is a theoretical exercise in this, but probably not safe for real use.
As is zoidbergcoin, which is a coin I could get behind.
The Way I Develop my Agile Coaching Skills
Pretty sure we'd start associating bleeping domed bipeds (and from time to time tripeds) with fear and death as soon as they arm them and start shooting people.

And teletubbies have always been terrifying.
MIT H@cking Medicine is PSYCHED to announce our collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Tufts MedStart, and the White House Innovation Fellows surrounding the first Boston Blue Button Innovation Challenge! The event is taking place Friday, January 17th to Sunday, January 19th at Tufts Medical School, which is located in the Sackler Building at 145 Harrison Ave in Boston.. Also we will hold a Blue Button developer workshop on MIT’s campus in Building E-62 on Friday afternoon prior to the event.
In fact, it is not the start. Its a finish. Once the system is in place all you need is to add URLs to block. And it is already in place and seems to work fine. Except it is still avoidable via proxies.
Opinion: U.S. Military Aircraft Fly Toward A Waterfall
I’m puzzled by one thing, if risk management is the concern: why not replace that clause by a candid, confidential conversation on what is wrong with the company? Any significant issue most likely affects more than one employee, including remaining ones.

It sounds typical of a culture driven by lawyers, rather than leaders.
sure that's a clever argument?

what if you bought it at any other time during the few years it exists?

anyway that was not the point. The point was people failing to see the innovation and seeing only the problems. Which was the point of this article.
This would match your specification.

def string_to_int(str):

return 1
The big difference here is that purchasing a porno magazine requires interacting with a clerk who will then verify your age and send you on your way. A better comparison would be banning the sale of all porno magazines unless the buyer registers for a porno card for his/her family (which would then provide unlimited access regardless of age).

I tend to agree that unfiltered access to all sorts of things can have an unhealthy impact on the minds of kids, but this is still the wrong way to handle it.
Ibragim Todashev’s Father Writes Open Letter to Obama
Apart pen and paper you cannot trust anything you didn't build yourself from scratch.

And then you have no clue about the vulnerabilities of your creation.

At one point you have to balance paranoia vs practicality.

I think you need 2 systems : one that is connected and where you control carefully the data that it might leak about you and a non connected one, heavily encrypted where you have private data.

no wifi card, Ethernet port glued etc
All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.

That still doesn't make doing nothing identical to doing something. You may consider them morally equivalent, but that doesn't make them identical.

My point was about how to correctly describe what MIT did. If we start muddying our language because, oh, well, it's all morally equivalent anyway so it doesn't matter how we describe it, we end up not being able to think clearly. And if we can't think clearly, we can't tell good from evil, so we end up doing even more evil.
Seeing posts complaining about negativity on HN is almost as annoying as the negative posts themselves. Mostly because they ignore the fact that most negative posts are voted down over time anyways. In fact, I'm having a hard time even finding the negative posts in this thread; maybe somebody can help me out.
I'd like to think that the uk web filter and the wider government surveillance narrative of the past few months is actually a ploy by our leaders to slowly educate the public in circumventing censorship and to stimulate the development of a free internet - like the Socratic method, but for culture.

Then it gets cloudy outside and I stop thinking that.
This post has a point. My gut reaction to the Boston Dynamics video at t=35s? Disguist. "Why would you treat a creature with such disrespect and hate?". Of course I know that was to demonstrate how dynamic stabilization of the robot works, but it really felt like he was kicking a dog.