skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is complicated. There is a recognized right to travel as implicit, not in the Bill of Rights, but in the structure of the Constitution. The idea is that we are all citizens of the United States and we have a right to travel about the United States. See Crandall v. Nevada.

That poses some very interesting questions. If there is no right to a specific mode of travel, but some places can only be reached effectively by plane (say Hawaii) then does placing an American on a no-fly list impact that right to go to Hawaii? Does it matter if that individual is a resident of Hawaii and is thus effectively barred from interstate travel by this?

Internationally things get more complicated. I am not aware of any cases which hold squarely a right for Americans to travel about the world as they please. Certainly bans on spending money travelling to Cuba have been upheld. However what the government clearly cannot do is to take a protected criteria like speech, religion, or political viewpoint and use that as a basis for travel.

If an individual were to say that policy was to dissuade Muslims from travelling, the harm would be that Muslims would get together and sue the government in order to determine the scope of this misbehavior and put a stop to it. There really isn't that much harm when compared to the likely other uses of such a power (silencing discussions, for example, of what Islam means for politics in the US). On the whole disadvantaged groups are protected by bans on hate speech, given what the government has done in the past.
I grew up in the 90s (in NZ...), we also had all of that. However I can say from years 5-9 there was bullying, but not much, but it grew way out of control when things were taken away... The last couple of years at primary school, we were not allowed to play bullrush, not allowed to play tackle rugby, flying fox was gone, not allowed to climb trees, too many restrictions on taking equipment out (for things like soccer/cricket)

Bullying grew more and more, i suspect because we were doing less at playtime and spending more time hassling each other.

I got into far too many fights towards the end of primary school than my first couple of years.
Perhaps it varies wildly between countries. I've never heard of anyone I know having a CT scan, but I know of 3 MRI scans.
Thank you for sharing this, peacemaker and FigBug.

This magic-bullet interview question had me depressed and made me feel like a failure. I too have nearly 15 years of professional experience. My last projects that I can show off were 4 and 8 years ago.

I don't feel like a failure anymore. I got a reminder that success depends on blind luck a lot and is rather overrated. Hard work, improvement and patience are still essential.

P.S. I have used both Miranda and ACDSee in the past. They reached my highest criteria for software, that few applications reach – were small, fast, reliable and very useful. I wish FigBug best of luck.
I worked on a system where we could see these people's behavior. I recommended that we take the top X and refund their money. They had problems, and it was unethical for us to continue to bill them. Senior management said, "No." Which was appalling to me. It would cost us nothing, all virtual bits anyway. To see the greed of taking a sick persons money is kinda depressing.
that's bullshit. Having your own business lets you decide yourself how much you work. You can spend 80 hours a week on your business, or you can spend 30 hours a week on your business. I chose the latter, and it works just fine. (but I don't have any employees, maybe that would change things)

On top of that, I have the freedom to just stay at home and take the kids to the zoo when I don't feel like working.
Why would they rewrite if their entire staff knew PHP already and there wasn't any guarantee that the new language would perform at their scale as is?

I'm not a fan of PHP but I don't think their issues could have been solved by simply porting over to another language.
Weird, I've never really heard it except in the context of someone trying to sanitise their language, such as when kids are around.

Then again, there are some weird regionalisms out there. I once met a pair of sandgropers that said "type of" where other people would say "sort of". They were siblings, so it may have even been family-specific. Haven't heard it elsewhere.
This is a failing of most coworking spaces in SF, and I imagine its a question purely of economics. I'd like to see (or hey, get funding to start) an open plan office that at least has the option of high-wall cubicles. I also think there's a bit of a gold rush in that commercial real estate owners figure they can just take a big open room and throw a bunch of tables down and charge everybody $300/mo to huddle together.

However, there are also several hackerspaces that have woodshops and whatnot, so it seems like a short hop to think that if computery people can work as part of a multidisciplinary office next to a bandsaw, why not work alongside daycare workers? Maybe there are some legal issues in sharing in this way, but by splitting a big open office into a daycare side of a wall and an internet one, maybe there's a way.
I would recommend having a "back up" technology just in case.
Try to go for a quite different language/technology that is more "hype" (objective-c, nodejs , f# , scala, haskell , golang, python, whatever). Nobody knows for sure what the next trend will be , so just cover yourself. You don't need to switch to that new tech full time, but just enough to be able to answer a few quizz question with it in interviews.
Yes, as built-ins I consider literals (with specific language syntax). Well, otherwise most modern useful languages have at least a library level implementation of some associative data structures. Erlang has them too, dict, gb_tree and a few others.
Beer delivery drone grounded by FAA
I'm willing to bet that 99% of the letters defer to Allies/Commonwealth.

Except Thatcher's, of course. Hers probably ordered retaliation.
Pune, India - Fulltime.

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If fashion is not your thing, but machine learning is, you will find our work equally exciting :). We have produce patent-worthy work in various aspects of ML.

We are looking to hire Python, Javascript and Front End developers.

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This reminds me of an article about Komen and the abuse of mammograms http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war...
VICE VERSA – diagonal UI optimized for single hand IX
I agree. Inkscape and Gimp do everything I need them to do. The last time I hit a limitation was when I needed Inkscape to create a multi-page document. But that was more than a year ago and I managed without that function.
I'm a C# veteran and have programmed for more than a decade. I started PHP last year for a project, and I must say 5.4 is quite rich in features (it's also very weird, agreed, but nothing beyond any control, the docs are great).
It's astounding how much more productive you can be with PHP and its library, compared to ASP.Net for example. The libary is greatly grown (besides being impossible to remember it is the fastest way to use global functions for standard stuff and classes if you need custom implementation).
You won't probably find any language more productive than that.
If you're aiming for becomeing more well-paid as a specialist, web programming won't get you too far though, unless you have great back-end qualifications for special-purpose architecture. You could look into unity3d for a change (C# or Javascript).
The only language that you must know in 3 years is Javascript. You should be proficient in it, since more and more moves into the client and cloud callbacks vs. serverside processing.
Tried to sign up for BizSpark about 18 months ago, small start-up business looking at developing a SaaS system.

As a primarily linux web dev I still thought it worth seeing what the MS technologies might offer, they told me to bog off.

So my entire company is and will be built around Debian/Apache/Postgres/PHP and Python for now and the foreseeable.

(In actual fact it left such a bad taste in my mouth that all non development machines (when I have some lol) will be non-MS entirely aswell).
> "Are you okay? (Please reply yes or no)"
> Kidnapper hears phone vibrate... reads text... responds "yes".

Without Kitestring, emergency isn't contacted.

With Kitestring, emergency isn't contacted in your particular situation, but might be if you fell when hiking or somehow got yourself electrocuted, or were caught in a rip while swimming, etc. Or if you had a PIN lock on your phone.

Sounds like an overall gain to me.
The sad thing is that while I spend about 1000 a year on non-mobile gaming and 300 a year on mobile-gaming (DS), the phone/tablet market gets exactly 0 of this because either everything really sucks or I am just unable to find anything that does not cause me to uninstall the game in disgust after playing it for 3 minutes.

And it's pretty unnecessary; I would be happy with something like HoMM2 or a successor to Master of Magic, which would fit the tablet form factor and user experience perfectly.
BUT the advertisers can aggregate the data between apps to spy on users.
I wonder how a landlord in SF would feel about using a residential address as a shared office: much more affordable than downtown real estate and maybe the bonus of a garden for the summer. I expect that happens a lot unofficially..
Well that is interesting. I typically jump to Google News in response to such accusations to show a thread of stories on the subject 'being blacked out.' In this case..

Shows some search results: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0...

Clicking on the '73 news sources' link results in blank thread: https://news.google.com/news?ncl=dePJixL6H8f9VzMIt-2rs1GZLI9...
If you think that's bad, my 703 area code "home phone" is currently in Beijing. The wonders of VoIP.

Thankfully, due to the absence of "long distance", it doesn't matter too much. My cell phone still has a Wisconsin number but nobody cares even though it's not a "local call".
This post strongly reminded me of Beatrice and Virgil.

I'd like to point out that the protagonist loses the moment he turns on his friends. That's the turning point.
Why I chose to statically generate my website
Define marginal, and I'll accept the dare.
That's called "Freedom" I believe.
After the Hundred Years' War, it's kind of ironic to see that one of the possible orders for the last-resort British weapon is to place itself under French command.
I see 5 results. Also, if you click on "sorted by date" rather than "sorted by relevance, a lot more appear.
"10 Things You Didn’t Know About Russia’s Anti-Gay Law & LGBT Rights" on page 7 is a good summary
You might not like it after 3 years when you're deeply tied into their software/services and you realise how expensive it can be...
This is essentially what I do - Black on White for production, White on Black for development. If I'm running development commands on a Black on White screen, something doesn't feel right. It isn't a life-or-death application, so this is enough.
London Underground lines have names. One of them is the Circle line. They are shown on the map in colours.

"Blue circle" is a brand of cement.

It's a week joke kludging these things together.
Honestly, I think the conversation in 2014 has already shifted to "strength". Ie. does my phone have apps for [insert new virally growing app here], and what's cool is the answer is "yes" a lot of the time now for WP. My girlfriend loves her HTC 8X, and loves the apps on there, but her needs are not long: Facebook/Messenger (the latter is built in), Snapchat (through an amazing third party app that I forget the name of, 6snap maybe?), Pintrest, Instagram, and her bank (she set up a tile for the mobile site).

What's crazier, is I've come to the conclusion myself that I don't care what OS my phone runs... All it needs in terms of apps are FB Messenger, and an awesome web browser that integrates with web apps like the iPhone does when you "Add To Homescreen" (the N9 was my favourite for this). Anything else is gravy, basically.

The one exception is VSCOCam. You can pry that app away from my cold, dead hands holding my iPhone, heh.
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It's in the NY Times "Lede" blog now
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/video-from-snowd...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/video-from-snowd...

josh_fyi and I seem to have had the same search result simultaneously.
http://world.time.com/2014/01/27/snowden-german-tv-comments/ isn't censored as far as I can tell. The "Sorry This video does not exist." is a bit ominous tho.
There seems to be an unfounded fear of gastroscopy here in Austria so people often choose to get fluoroscopy during barium swallows (euphemistically called "stomach x-ray") for check-up on common issues like gastritis, ulcers, etc.

It always boggles the mind how doctors will habitually do fluoroscopy first (approx. 6mSv per session) when gastroscopy as a diagnostic tool is often 100% as effective while being mostly harmless and offering the option for a small biopsy for further diagnosis.

I've had gastroscopy multiple times myself, it's really no big deal and doesn't warrant getting a (general) anesthesia in my opinion but YMMV.
It can be hard to market quality vs sheer numbers. Hell, the rise of the "phablet" and the lack of high end smaller phones other than the iPhone sort of proves that. Although I agree with you, they should try exactly that.
It's one of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom from thought, freedom from knowledge, freedom from privacy, freedom from doubt.
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BString relies on undefined behavior for security:

The reason is it is resiliant to length overflows is that
bstring lengths are bounded above by INT_MAX, instead of
~(size_t)0. So length addition overflows cause a wrap
around of the integer value making them negative causing
balloc() to fail before an erroneous operation can occurr.

I wouldn't touch this library.
All from a few days ago:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snowden-nsa-conducts-industrial-...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-tv-snow...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/video-from-snowd...

Just search "ARD snowden" on Google News. Not front page, but not hidden either.

Giving the interview right around the State of the Union probably didn't help it get any attention in the US.
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In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.

AFAIK, the German company that produced the interview didn't sell the international rights to the German broadcaster, which is also why the original video is geolocked to Germany. So I'd guess it's this company that's behind the YouTube takedowns.
Are there examples of YouTube excerpts that have been taken down? What has been the takedown rationale? (Rightsholder-objection? Law-enforcement?)
Funny they don't even include it on overall timelines like they have here - http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-ed...
Episode #399 of This American Life discusses this.
I've asked this question few time and honestly it's no where close to "the one question" author makes out to be. Lot of candidates drifts on to something very complex, or describe other people's work as theirs, or make up stuff as they go. Plus it totally fails on campus hiring, one-man projects that evolves slowly over time and has legal risk of candidate disclosing sensitive information.

The best interview question, IMO, is still the one that Sergey Brin used to ask: "Describe to me something that I already don't know".
The issue for me is that if you went to every smoker and said "Do you want to just quit now, cold turkey, no repercussions, no cravings?" I think the majority would say Yes. But the majority don't quit on the spot like that because addiction is a tough thing that can wrap tentacles around your brain.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the design language of "modern", and no one ever has needed several resizable draggable windows for their desktop. That UI paradigm should be easy to replace by a nice tiling manager.

What I do need however is a UI that lets me run my legacy apps side by side with new ones, in any configuration and number. I don't mind the look of metro and I never liked the start menu. If my start menu is a start screen, fine.

The biggest problems are a) the divide between old and new. The mistake was making a completely separate UI rather than making a single UI that could adapt to both touch and mouse interaction. b) the API debacle: what IS microsofts strategy for the future of heavy desktop apps? What happened to wpf/xaml? Developers don't like constant surprises.
I could be wrong, but it looks like a decision come out from some management-only meeting.
How much time do you think it took them to make this whole thing along with their website?
I would say as much time as they spent making a clean website for their product.
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What does "scorch the earth" mean? Are you saying that people will stop playing games? If so, I'm interested in seeing some numbers that demonstrate a correlation between the rise of IAP and some kind of decline in number of participating gamers.

A fundamental issue in this discussion is that one side believes there's a finite amount of "resource" - be it gamer "good will", attention or money. So far I've seen zero evidence to prove this.

As for Zynga: they would have eventually sunk Facebook, but can you truly say their strategy was bad? You have to grab the money while you can.
Bstring relies on undefined behavior for security. Don't use it if you care about security.
Spinner Hell
Just about the absolute worst experience you could have with a spinner.

Here's the code:
https://github.com/dreed1/spinner_hell

Fire effect heavily based on http://www.computableminds.com/jquery-plugin-fire-animation-texture-generator.html
Wikipedia's picture is way more instantly intuitive (for non-americans who don't care much about parties, seinfeld or baseball)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson%27s_paradox_contin...
Games are making more money than ever, destroyed is not the right word. There will always be a demand for games, and if users do get sick of IAPs then the strategy from every game company will change.
> I'm also looking at doing some stuff
with Windows Phone hardware (not
with the OS, just the hardware...), so
there's value in that.

Can you elaborate on that? AFAIK nothing but Windows Phone runs on WP8 hardware.
Hopefully when win9 comes out we can all look back and laugh at this. It somehow magically fixes the dual UI issue. At least if it doesn't we don't have do worry about Win10 at all.
> Desktop apps inherently clash with the immersive app model and UX.

Desktop apps will almost certainly be subpar in Metro mode. The key isn't to define optimal behavior but present a usable default mode. Presumably, in time, those desktop apps would release updated versions that would adjust their UIs when used in Modern mode (or a competitor would).

For apps with multiple windows, dialogs, etc., all windows belonging to the same desktop app should be drawn in the same "strip". It's basically the MDI interface present in, e.g., older versions of Excel and Powerpoint. Not ideal, but usable.

The issues with desktop apps running in the background is trickier. Two possibilities: (1) Figure out a way to suspend desktop apps. which might be technically difficult, or (2) recreate the taskbar in Metro so the user knows what's running and what to close (Jay's demo includes some possible ways of doing this -- I would also add some way of conveying to the user what Window will automatically suspend and what it won't.
What you really see/hear/say when you jump from the stratosphere
Never fear, some the nastiest, unmaintainable code I've ever seen is written in Rails. There is a conspiracy of silence among the Rails gurus that is utterly dishonest. Your self-doubt plays into their hands. Just watch, 10 years or less from now, all the mature programmers will confess what utter folly their "Rails Period" was now that they moved on to Programming Language Awesome 4.6
Times change. Converting demos into premium purchases used to be a viable business model, but it's not anymore. Selling premium games on the app store used to be viable. It's not anymore. You've got access to balance sheets - would you disagree?

Re: "widespread hate for IAP among gamers", that only applies to gamers, who compose a negligible part of the overall population. Any company that's trying to target the wider market ("people" instead of "gamers") is right to ignore what gamers think, because gamers are not the ones playing Candy Crush, Bejeweled, Farmville, etc.

IAP can be done well, IMO, but it requires game designers to accept and embrace the model. If they view their target market as exploitable simpletons, they'll neither make a good game nor make much money, and this happens too often (as I'm sure you're aware). This doesn't need to be the case, though it does require some care to do it well and make sure that the free experience is valuable to players while still providing compelling opportunities for people willing to pay to do so.

Re: updating games in response to telemetry, why is that any worse than when a website A/B tests different calls to action? Or do you think games should not optimize to be the most profitable businesses that they can be?
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If someone finds an "accidental" backdoor in the firmware then I'd bet that's why it was obfuscated.
Are there significant advantages over just picking a childcare facility close to your place of work? Obviously distance comes into it, but I feel that otherwise you're potentially picking the best combo-childcare-workspace rather than the best childcare facility and best workspace.

When I first started reading the article, I thought they were going to suggest working from home with the child around your legs. Ha! Good luck with that!
My startup enrolled for BizSpark 6 months ago and we're super happy so far. Setting up VMs is dead easy and we're running two server instances (small and medium) and geographically redundant cloud storage. Didn't have any problems so far, it just seems to work.
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