skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realize that TCP/IP had a "race" byte that introduces errors preferentially based on the ethnic background of the programmer.

OK, so I'm being snarky there, but the nucleus of computer science and programming is truly objective and has no preference or prejudice based on race/sex/religion/disability/etc. As others have said, the compiler doesn't care who or what you are. And there are a ton of free resources available online. A person who wants to learn this material, who truly has the will and drive to mastery, and an internet connection, can do so.

The barriers to learning that you describe are cultural, not intrinsic to the subject, and people are chipping away at them (Ada, Black Girls Code, etc), and that's a fine thing too. Changing the stereotype of "programmer" as a fat white guy in a basement chugging Mountain Dew and covered in Cheetos dust is a goal we can all get behind.
I've met one of the founders a while ago. pretty smart people, but it seems to me that the whole purpose of silicon valley is advertising. not a world I want to live in. google establishing an ethics committee for proper AI? give me a break, we know how well that works.
I chose United Kingdom and on the second click it showed a street in my childhood hometown!
I've worked with all three (if I count pythons ~4 as 1).

There are improvements to be made to all of them but gosh python is a complete mess in this regard.
Well, page opened fine in my system (Chrome 32, FF 26, Win7).
Using CSS Regions in Responsive Designs
I kinda think the problem is the other way around; everybody's guilty of something, but most of what they are guilty of, prosecution is actively against society's best interest. Our legal system theoretically recognizes this as a problem, in practice it doesn't. The more information is collected, the more irrelevant infractions the government has at hand to do with as it pleases.
A decision making app
As oppose to python "name it whatever you like because no one will ever find it" naming convention?

Every solution has drawbacks, but python's solution has almost every drawback.
They are currently over Hongkong/South East Asia, where it is night time.

Too bad, the background with earth lit up would have been awesome ...

Edit: In about 15 minutes, they are expecting orbital sunrise. That would be great !!!
We had a crazy Windows NT 4.0 + Lotus Notes bug where something in the window manager leaked memory (only when Notes was running). Maximizing and minimizing the Notes window would recover the memory. If you didn't do that, the OS would eventually hang. This was a public-facing server -- why we were running Notes for that is a whole other story of sadness and despair.

Anyway, eventually my colleague wrote a small VB program that maximized and minimized the window every few minutes. Cured the problem.
Sky don't have the best reputation when it comes to issue resolution. I was a former Sky broadband customer and found their customer care and technical teams to be woefully lacking. Additionally, they have no real SLA to speak of, and all of their service plans (as far as I understand) have a standard 1:50 contention ratio. Ouch. And when I was a customer (a couple of years ago), they refused to divulge the the ADSL (PPPoA) RADIUS credentials, making it much more difficult to use your own ADSL router.

For many users (especially your average home/family users with less technical requirements, not using it for critical purposes such as home working) they're probably perfectly adequate.

FWIW, I use BT's (formerly British Telecom) FTTC Infinity for Business product. 78Mbps down, 20Mbps up, worst case 1:20 contention, no caps or allowance-related FUP. Their customer care and technical teams are pretty decent. And I can get a /29 in addition to the dynamic PPP IP for the WAN link. Where I am (NE Scotland), BT own all of the widely available (non-private) infrastructure so it's easier to deal with a single company in the event of a failure vs being pushed between ISP and infrastructure provider. YMMV.

EDIT: FYI I pay £45 ex VAT (~AUD 102).
If you don't use email, chuck norris has your inbox anyway.
And not unique, unless you're Paul: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A-Fat-Pipe.aspx
Using Redis sorted sets to build a scalable real-time web waiting list
I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Now I feel bad as I was specifically thinking of my girlfriend and her academic peers who all have expressed that they would like to be more active in protecting their privacy but don't know where to begin. None of whom I'd patronise in any way. When talks over dinner strays onto the news of the last year it will inevitably end up with the question, "What can we do?".

Part of the answer to that is to take steps to protect your own privacy, encrypt, reduce what you share with third parties, and operate a reasonably sane set of defaults with regards to how one protects their data.

And I, who know how to take some steps, cannot realistically help, give guidance and support to them all. And they all have slightly different and nuanced perceptions of what their priority is, what they're seeking to achieve. Everyone has their own reasons.

I personally am at the point in which I don't wish to become the 2010's equivalent of the guy who can give computer support to Windows users, and yet here are smart people wanting a simple way to explore their options and choose what to act on.

I didn't mean game as in "cutesy candy stuff". Just a score would do, simple game theory... do some action, increase your score.

A bit like the LastPass Security Check... which tests how many sites share the same password, how many have weak passwords, etc.
kudos for the mobile support
that's what i'm going to do on my ride home today
I'm so extremely annoyed at King. Banner Saga is such a fantastic indie game that is quite obviously not related to King's games. IP law in America is completely broken and them exploiting it to harm a small indie is enough to land on my hated companies list.
Also possible that most of the wealth is concentrated into a small enough number of people that the average vacationer is fairly poor.
y u no english?
If the point of prison for criminals isn't punishment, then what is it?
A 10 year multimedia OSS to stream your videos using DASH
A friend of mine says Xanadu got quite a bit further, but failed hard at the end because they'd not bothered to do and keep viable the total end to end use case. Specially, to actually interact with the system and display a document was so hard and cumbersome it never had a chance of being adopted (by pretty much anyone, let alone widely), whatever other problems there might have been with the project.

Yeah, quasi-stealth mode vs. bazaar was a killer.
There's a C++ implementation here, but I'm not sure how complete it is: https://github.com/http2d/core

I think nginx and Chrome support SPDY which HTTP 2.0 was based on, so that performance should be able to be tested and be fairly representative of what we can expect.
> Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US.

The Fourth Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. Clearly that is being violated as the recent ruling on NSA data collection has pointed out.
> unconstitutional in the US

So is warrant-less wiretapping, but that didn't stop NSA.
The most important thing I wanted to communicate was that active contributors are very important for a healthy project. And that if you add people to a project, the project stands a chance of outliving your individual contributions to it.

If a project required constant fixing because, say, the code was very bad, then yes, I agree that would be a bad sign. But I was primarily thinking of dependency maintenance.

I took a look at ncurses to see if I could learn anything about their success.

I count 18 contributors in the README file, which is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about really. Seems like the package has been passed from one maintainer to the next as people's situation changes. This sort of thing is important! If ncurses had met with the same fate as most GitHub repositories, nobody would use it any more. It would be forgotten about.

I took a look through the configure.in file too, and it looks like ncurses has very few dependencies beyond requiring a sane build environment. And I see that ncurses releases once every few years, and has been doing since the 90s. Oh, and the mailing list seems alive and well.

All in all, ncurses seems to be exactly the sort of healthy project I was thinking of. Regular contributions, shared maintenance, very few dependencies, and a predictable release cadence.
Yes, true, in the case of a compromise it won't help. But I've found that outages are more frequent (including my own internet connection)

So yes, it also is necessary for development without an internet connection.
WTF! No I'm not :-)
Scientists in Kenya use hi-tech collars to prevent human-lion conflict
No. Advertisements are trying to be more and more subtle whilst still being noticeable. The advertisements demoed in that video are no better than pop-ups.

And God almighty, if I hear another startup video with a ukulele playing as background music, I'm likely to go into a homicidal rage.
This is simply a great example of using the wrong tool for the job. No matter how "smooth" an iOS LaTeX tool is, it's still much less efficient than any computer. People are trying to force things into the iPad, which I understand, but I sincerely think that a radical change is needed to make it more than a consumption device.
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the people behind Texpad.)

Keyboard is designed to address precisely these kind of issues. I'd recommend watching the video.
No. The providers want to have the crapware and simply won't subsidize a phone without it, which means that phone does not sell. Apple is able to prevent that only because their brand is stronger than the providers'.

The audience interested in cheap Android phones is more educated (or more price sensitive) than people paying a premium for a status symbol.

> If Windows Phone added crapware they'd be dead in the water. I can't see them doing this, there is too much competition in the market.

Funny then that they have always done just that:
http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-521/229156-bloatware...
Samsung to pay Ericsson $650 million plus royalties to end patent spat
Isn't this case the exact opposite of what's being claimed in the article? I.e. you're saying wages don't really affect total profits one way or another.
Wow! Thanks for showing me this. I just watched about 3 hours of it. Some random, and almost all week 33 (where one dies).

I thought I wouldn't enjoy it, but it was awesome! I haven't played D&D (or any RPG) since 12, 13 years old (i am 34 now). I really would like to come back to it.
Google and Samsung Sign Broad Cross-Licensing Agreement
That page is about 95% bullshit. For example: the establishment clause prohibits the government from establishing an official religion or preventing the free exercise of religion. It doesn't prevent the government from simply monitoring religious and political groups that may be associated with illegal activity. That argument is ridiculous on its face: if the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of assembly, and gangs are assemblies of people, and monitoring is the same as restricting the freedom, does that mean the government can't monitor gangs? We know that's not what the 1st amendment means for the simple reason that the U.S.G. has performed internal counter-insurgency from the very beginning, and those practices were overseen by many of the same people that drafted the Constitution.

There are not a "lot of unconstitutional practices" that are law in the U.S. There are a lot of people who read the words in the Bill of Rights extremely broadly and without historical or legal context, and then put up poorly-designed web pages about all the "unconstitutional" things they have discovered.
Tom Perkins compares treatment of U.S. rich to Nazi persecution of Jews
Open letter to Mike McCue: Dear Flipboard, please give me an API
Fair enough. May I mention the default parameter bite too. It's hard to notice at first.
A lot of the statements here don't even make sense. For example:

" We’re not trying to stop Stoic from using the word Saga but we had to oppose their application to preserve our own ability to protect our own games. Otherwise, it would be much easier for future copycats to argue that use of the word “Saga” when related to games, was fair play. "

Except, that is exactly what they're doing.
Sure: http://www.xilo.net/adsl_broadband/

Disclaimer: I've never used them, I've just read some positive reviews on reddit and places a couple of monnths ago.
Yeah, it's tricky. I remember it by breaking it into two pieces. "2>" means redirect stderr (file descriptor 2) to the following token. "&1" is the token for stdout (kinda like the address-of operator). So taken together, "2>&1" means redirect stderr to stdout.

Bash-only shortcuts like &> don't improve the situation :)
She's not. You made a poor point toward the larger argument, you got called out on it and now you're trying to back out of it. You're claiming that it's off-topic or "moving the goal posts", when in reality it speaks to the very core of what you're not understanding on this issue.

It's not about whether or not you find it offensive or exclusionary. It's about whether or not many others would reasonably find it offensive and/or exclusionary. And it asks so little of you too. It's such a small consideration to choose a name that wouldn't contribute toward reminding women that technology/software is a "man's world."
Silicon Valley elite are being treated like Jews in Nazi Germany
The road to surveillance is paved with good intentions – and warning signs
I understand people who have an issue with the "grab everything" mentality. But, from a technology point of view, how else do you do it?

Imagine your the FBI IT guy. How long do you think it would take YOU to walk into an unknown datacenter, locate the specific computer / IP address referenced in the warrant, connect to that computer and copy just the minimum amount of data necessary to prosecute said bad guy (just his e-mail .mbox file? or is this a windows shop..grab the pst? What about backups? What about his contact list? All this just for e-mail!)

Often times he probably doesn't even know the specifics of the case. Maybe just let the local DataCenter guy copy the data off for you right? Well hopefully hes honest and not involved in the crime.

The fact of the matter is, it is 100x easier to walk in, grab the servers of interest and walk out. If the FBI IT guy is smart and prepared he just brings tools to remove the hard drives from the server, copy them and put them back. BUT, if theres child porn, contraband, etc. the FBI is NOT giving that computer back any time soon. Doesn't matter who owns it.
There's definitely something intriguing about seeing random mundane scenes (with occasional awesome exceptions) in far away locations.
I'ts a non-answer answer. No new information. No real information period.
If you can create arbitrary collisions with something cryptographically secure like SHA-256, malicious jquery is probably the least of our worries.
Ask HN: Do you have an online resume?
I have often just sent my resume via email (from Google Docs) when people have asked about employment or partnerships however, I am thinking about moving to an online format. I have viewed endless templates, I have seen people do things in a more creative manner such as with YouTube videos or Facebook time-lines. I understand the effectiveness of your resume is in the resume itself, but presentation can be a nice touch.

If you have an online resume would you mind sharing it? Also, would you suggest keeping it private (viewer must request a password, mainly to track who is viewing it) or do you just keep it public? How often do you update the page, I have viewed a few that utilize a blog and actively post as well. if you have done something unique please share and advise if it gained you leverage with your objective.

Of course the big question is, did you receive more traction with an online resume vs the traditional "here is my resume" approach?

Thanks in advance!
Isn't this already happening with cryptolocker? I had read the cryptolocker wallet has received something like 23 million USD worth of bitcoin at $900/btc.
What a great argument. "There are other more serious problems going on, therefore this one is completely irrelevant."
"I think you've made an unstated assumption that it will go around to everybody."

No. I've simply observed there is a lot more to go around.

"f the government utilities stop providing water and power to your house, what do you do?"

In general, and under the conditions you've stipulated where the government is also preventing me from taking any other options, start rioting. This is what I mean by your model failing to accurate predict the real world; you need only look out there to see this happening. If the government wishes to make this stick, they are going to have to use violence.

You seem to simply be unable to conceive of the possibility that violence is an option for the non-government as well, which will require either violence or acquiescence from the government in response. I assume this is because you live in a place that has probably been civilized for centuries. But it's all ultimately based on violence. Try to not pay your taxes, and not go to jail. Sure, the enforcement starts nonviolently; it isn't in anybody's best interests to escalate that fast. But if you've done anything the government cares about at all, sooner or later the police come out. If they don't, then it is because the government didn't care in the first place.

"Where's the violence?" Why, of course you don't see any. You've carefully crafted your examples to stop right where the violence would start in real life.

"There are means of coercion other than force."

Which, by definition, can therefore be resisted by force.

"And there are men-with-guns in places without government."

Which is actually an important point to why the "men-with-guns" model is not actually bad. Government centralizes the men-with-guns, so they fight each other with methods other than raw violence (voting, bureaucracy, etc.) and allow us to get on with our non-violence-related lives. The government monopoly on violence is a brilliant civilizational innovation, not something to be deplored. But it is also something not to forget. Laws either are backed by violence if you persist in violating them, or are ultimately irrelevant, and I wish people would treat passing laws a bit more seriously, instead waving the laws and consequently the guns around so casually. This is part of how the police have gotten so militarized in the US, by being so casual with our drug policy, among others.
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Neat! There was a similar project here a few years ago: http://www.mapcrunch.com/ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215460
I don't get it.

What's hard about GPG or S/MIME-encrypted mail? You set up the thing to integrate with the MUA once (in GPG's case, S/MIME are supported out-of-the-box with most common desktop MUAs), then the only hassle is to enter password on startup or when reading the first message. And lock the computer properly when you're getting away.

Write a message, tick "encrypt" (or don't untick it), send, done.
Receive a message, see a badge "encrypted, verified", type a password (if key's not cached before), read it as usual, done. I fail to see how anything can be easier and less obstructive than this.

At least, my only problem with encrypting email is that practically no one of my peers have keys published. This could be easily solved if mail client software vendors could make their products ask user to generate and backup a keypair on install.

Oh, right, encryption has problems with webmail. Extension/userscript kludges are insecure (unless they open separate window/tab for anything private) and break with every other update.
To keep them out of general society. Possibly to put them in a situation where they can be reformed to rejoin society. Setting aside ethics entirely, prisons cost resources and also take human resources out of society. It's in society's best interest to reform a prisoner and release them ASAP, provided the reform works and they are no longer a danger to society.

Obviously there's a lot of vague terms and wiggle room in that paragraph, but there's certainly a purpose to prisons aside from punishment.
I wonder if you'd see more variation between countries or more variation between singles/married-with-children.

I found my vacation pattern dramatically changed when over half my days became onesie-twosie "school play" "choir concert" "awards ceremony" "school conferences" "sports event" "scouts camping" kid-type stuff.

In the BC "before children" era I used to take entire weeks and go to overseas or far away rural type stuff. Once the kids are old enough to avoid getting lost and/or eaten by a bear I have plans for a couple national parks I haven't seen yet.
Awesome, I was just about to comment that making a game out of it would be cool!
Geoguessr is actually awesome for social gatherings and stuff, its amazing how you can sometimes get pretty close just from the first glance
One goal for prisons could be rehabilitation?
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The point is that FBI cases go to court. You're not going to be prosecuted in a US court for something that was legal when you did it and illegal when it was found out.
Ask HN: Is it legally enforceable for your company to own your IP?
I work for a company that claims it owns all development work that I do in my spare time. I don't use any office equipment, software or accounts for this work. Is this legally enforceable?

Note: I work and live in England
Add to that the "American Dream" of owning a house and therefore being more likely to be stuck looking for work in only one area.
>I'm not saying it's good or bad, it's just our culture

Let me say it for you then: It's bad.

>If you want to change it, then say that's what you want to change, don't go after hackers who, in my experience, are far less into this culture than other demographics.

"Other people are worse, so these guys are okay."

Yeah, no. Maybe the reason that so many of us are going after hacker culture first is because it is a culture that we are a part of and one that we would like to see make positive changes on these issues first.
I would love to know how much Google spends on StreetView.

When they first started sending those cars around, I think everyone collectively mocked, "Haha. Well you're certainly not going to photograph every street in the world."
I think you did not understand moccajoghurt's point. Because the errors cascade - that is, the one syntax error causes many, many (many) more errors, there are so many errors that it's hard to scroll up to the first error.
> GTFO and ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM are symptoms of an unprofessional design process.

I'd chose "having sense of humour" over "professional" every day.

> it's a sign that the people designing it did so with the seriousness it deserves.

Or it's a sign that the people designing it are too serious, focusing on political correctness and not on doing good engineering. Creativity, care about the product and sense of humour often go together.
This looks very nice!

However, multi-server support would make this even more amazing.
Because of context.

I know that's lost on a lot of people here, but it's pretty important when considering things like this.
Its silly to argue all govt ends in violence. I guess all child-raising ends in violence too. And all commerce. Etc.

Of course if you don't follow SOME rules, in the end a civilized society has to attempt to corral you or eject you. What other course do you suggest? Sedation?
They are right that in order to protect a trademark you have to actively prosecute users, but it makes me wonder why not sue Candy Crush™ instead of the overtly generic Saga.