skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BAE Systems has a product called NetReveal that includes a compiler called "DataServer" which compiles a large subset of SAS into Java. Legend has it that the original author wrote the first version of DataServer in 6 hours on a train ride to visit his mother.

As a programmer, I was constantly frustrated by it. I felt that SAS as a language was pretty restrictive, especially when your algorithm wasn't a natural fit for the dataset model that it uses. It was like trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. It wasn't uncommon for me to sneak some Java straight into the output, but that wasn't really a sustainable / maintainable way to use it.

So your suggestion is doable, but I'm not convinced it's worthwhile.
I have had to walk people through the process of downloading a user stylesheet and setting it up for use, typically for accessibility purposes.

I don't want to imagine that process getting even more complex than it already is.
In theory, but it seems like it's gotten substantially worse over the past year or two.

The only ironclad hiring process I've ever had has been "work on non-commercial/open source/fun project with someone, then hire that person". But that doesn't scale at all.
Apple's options for Auto Layout in code aren't the best. Check out some of the fantastic third party APIs available.

I'm the developer of UIView+AutoLayout, which is designed to provide the API that Apple should have in the first place (it's inspired heavily by the IB options): https://github.com/smileyborg/UIView-AutoLayout
This is incorrect. “The preferred place to break around a binary operator is after the operator, not before it.”
We've worked with an assembly house that does manual assembly for small-quantity (10-20) batches. Usually they ask for extras due to attrition, but so far we've not lost any.

I usually check the quality of their assembly under a 20x microscope. I've only found 1 board that had a bit of stray solder between 2 pins which was easy to clean. So, yes, manual assembly seems to work, but that may depend on the assembler proficiency.
Britain preparing to end plans to tax Bitcoin trading
The article is 99% full of BS. I believe that too, however it made an impact: didn't knew there was a book[1]. I will read it and post a review. The amazon reviews look promising...

http://www.amazon.com/Snowden-Files-Inside-Worlds-Wanted-ebo...
Let's keep our focus on the argument and the logic of the situation. Trying to infer my political biases and then tearing down that strawman doesn't do much to advance our understanding.

For the record, my politics are pretty far from the libertarian image you might have.

My argument is that, contrary to Shiller's assertion, cryptocurrencies really do solve a "sensible economic problem". That problem is very similar to the information problem that the internet itself solved.

Just as governments and corporations tried to put the internet genie back in the bottle, so they're trying to bottle up cryptocurrencies. As with the internet and information, we'll see greater access to money and financial instruments that aren't controlled by the existing power structure.

We can see now that ARPANET, despite its flaws, had value since it was a precursor to the internet. Similarly, today's nacent cryptocurrencies have value despite their flaws.
Fairly normal for a lot of jobs in other industries. I haven't seen it much at the online application stage in development openings, but most companies after a certain stage are required confirm the legal working status of their employees in the US, which at some point or another will require a SSN or other identifying information. Unless they looks like a particularly sketchy outfit then don't worry too much.
Yes, but it's compiler dependent.

For GCC, see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html
There are plenty of institutions in the world (the US Congress, Hacker News) that are markets for social capital with a design that orients itself towards a particular contributor. Blaming them for the right things is how they become better intuitions.
You might also enjoy Jeremy Rifkins' Empathic Civilisation stuff. Here's the RSAnimate version of his talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
I don't expect a recruiter to lead with the name, but if asked, they'll provide.

Hell, I'd be happy if they'd lead with the city, state, or country, half the time.
Some non-Japanese speakers are giving him credit for apologizing in Japanese, and Japanese media is also giving him leeway -- only because he's a foreigner. But his Japanese is really pitiful, and the apology is a farce.

The point of this kind of apology is to tell people you are sorry and you have caused trouble to other people, and you are repenting for this trouble. There is no such feeling in this act of Karpeles.

Moushi-wake-arimasen is a phrase used to mean "there is no excuse [for what I have commited]". He was unable to finish it, and half way through he goes, nan-dakke? Meaning "what was it?". If Mark is really trying to do it Japanese style, he would not have messed up like this. Some people say he is under stress. I don't think that gives a free pass for such a shameful performance.

It's like a foreigner going to US court and thinking, I should act American, so starts by saying "Yo dude, my bad."
It's very gobsmacking that the SEC finds the time and energy to make an example out of a 15 year old but can't muster the backbone to prosecute actual players in the investment banking industry, who regularly engage in pump and dump schemes exactly like the one this kid was doing!

it's almost as gobsmacking that the kid's Yahoo Finance stock pitches are completely indistiguishable from the blather on CNBC that occurs every single day of the year. WHO THE FUCK IS TRADING ON STOCK TIPS FROM YAHOO FINANCE MESSAGE BOARDS?
Obviously everyone has differing opinions about Cook, his management style and ideas but I think that since taking over Apple has lost a lot of its ability to be exciting. A lot of the things coming out has been quite textbook and boring and didn't command the excitement it did when Jobs was at the helm.

Is this just way Cook is? Or is this a forecast into the way Apple is? Everyone has said that Jobs was the visionary behind Apple, can Cook be the visionary after Jobs?

I think that Apple needs another visionary to drive the way it innovated in the late 90s and 00s when Jobs was there.

I know it might sound one-sided towards Jobs but I'm still yet to see the kind of innovation Apple had ever since Cook took over.
Thin film batteries + solar cells are already being mass manufactured so thats not a problem. RF chips are shrinking rapidly too and you'd need little more than a CC3000 from TI which is already pretty small (16.3 x 13.5 x 2mm)
Not just that - Magic: The Gathering cards containing the word "thief" in the name.
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tl;dr: Emacs is forever, because I got used to the key-bindings.

Seriously?
This story would make a tremendous satirical comedy.
First-mover advantage is a characteristic of a great many systems. Disrupting that, out of concerns for justice or merely to provide a more compelling reason for newcomers to make use of a service or tool, is an interesting and ongoing challenge.

Another approach is to randomly present new content to users. Google's attempted numerous hacks to both solve the "empty streams" problem and break out of filter bubbles at G+, though many of these have been less than satisfactory. The "What's Hot" feature (now deprecated to "Explore") had the typical problems of juvenilia and vapidity, as well as the problem for those whose posts were promoted to it of attracting vast amounts of generally unwanted attention, to the extent that people were begging not to have posts featured.

It's not a specific problem of Twitter, there's a challenge in new-content discovery and promotion generally. I'm not sure that the "active users" hack is a sufficient fix. I do feel that leveraging both technical (e.g., algorithmically determined ratings) and social (FOAF type recommendations) tends to produce more useful results.
Is it completely out of the question that #3 was simply a gay guy keen on him?
Twitter (and other technical platforms) afford technical and other means of addressing the lack of regulation. Actually, so does the real world, come to think of it.
From my time in the military, I've noticed that many who leave the military and have the GI bill available for them for use don't end up using them at good schools, causing it to be a waste of their time, education, and the government's money.

I strongly agree that more regulation of the higher education industry is needed.
I'm convinced they'd have art students lined up around the block if they had ArtRage, Painter, and Photoshop with the WinTab drivers on display. But instead they hock that "Fresh Paint" program, which isn't bad but is no ArtRage or Painter.
Upvote if you used SoftIce and W32Dasm :)

Ahhhh, the memories!
Here, I'll summarize the article for you, as I think you've misinterpreted it:

1. Programs were put in place throughout the last 60 years to help provide better opportunities for kids who did NOT come from affluent backgrounds.

2. Over the last 20 years (and perhaps even earlier, posits the author), these programs have been increasingly abused by for-profit universities. Additionally, these programs have become less effective as the cost of tuition grows.

3. So, if we want to restore the opportunities for aspiring students from less affluent families, we need to regulate the for-profits and we need to bring government aid programs back in line with the current state of higher education.

Of course the kids from affluent backgrounds have better opportunities -- that's not the point of the article. The point was that kids from less affluent backgrounds have fewer opportunities than they did within our parents' lifetimes, and that systemic corruption/abuse is responsible for this change.
NY/SF - Venmo is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to join our team and continue to develop the leading mobile payments app in the Google Play store. Ideal candidates have spent a couple years working with the Android platform and mobile development as a whole, have good testing experience, and have thoughtful answers to what makes good mobile engineering and what makes Android unique compared to other mobile frameworks.

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and this has nothing to do with Adblock? I feel like it must ...
I'd ask everyone to go back and give jitsi another try. Recently they've implemented all three OTR authentication methods. I've switched away from pidgin to jitsi for the past week now and noticed no major problems. Yes it uses java but finally we have a recommendable skype alternative that is truly cross platform. I even played with the (alpha) android port on a tablet and it handled ZRTP voip/video fine. Let's stop fragmenting every great idea into 12 competing idealogies and develop at least one tool we could point the layperson concerned about privacy at.
Why would everyone on Twitter have imperial ambitions?
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A sequence can be completely deterministic and yet pass all randomness tests. For instance, if I tell you I randomly chose numbers between 0 and 16, inclusive, and got 14, 13, 10, 1, 6, 5, 2, 9, in that order, as far as you can tell it looks random. However, x_{n+1} was generated by taking (3 * x_n + 3) % 16, and hence I can predict the next random number in the sequence trivially. [This is a bad random number generator for other reasons --- see Wikipedia on LCGs for more --- but a good demonstration of how random numbers can appear random but be usable by $attacker.]
Or if you're a company being repeatedly contacted by recruitment agencies:

http://recruitmentcheck.com/

(and also kind of an ass - try just spamming a few letters in each text box)
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Yes, we are top ramen profitable and just hired out first full time sales person at the beginning of Febuary. The two owners are not taking any money right now, and we are dedicating it all to sales.

We help companies respond quickly to their inbound leads by routing using text to speech to route their text inquiries to phone calls. We have some national accounts that are using our products, that give us great feedback and call volume.

http://www.leadactivate.com
I run http://hnhiring.me, which scrapes the monthly posts and presents them in a nicer format. I haven't had much time to work on it lately, but the code is open at http://github.com/mwylde/hnhiring if you'd like to contribute or use it as a starting point.

Also, personally I've found the posts to be very useful. I found my current job from a post on the monthly thread.
As author of Safari User CSS extension[1], most of support email I've ever got are from non-developers. There are many kind I can recall, from those who simply want to adjust font sizes of a site permanently, to following tutorials on website on how to customize YouTube layout, to those that wrote userstyles on their own. I even got questions like "how do I turn Google black"/"how do I remove x from this url" sometimes.

I'm not sure about Chrome, but Safari had a similar feature but it lacked a way to scope stylesheets to certain domain. If Chrome userstyles behaves the same way then I don't think this change will affect those users anyway since being able to scope userstyles to certain domain seems very important to them.

[1] http://code.grid.in.th
From the web:
People are required to provide their SSN for tax returns and federal loans, credit applications, government programs, financial institutions, employers and the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA). Social Security numbers are also required for credit reporting companies. However, physicians, dentists, utilities, potential employers, employment recruiters, temp agencies and schools often ask people for their SSN. Some retailers, pawn shops and other businesses also ask for these numbers, and while there is no legal requirement to provide your Social Security number, no law prevents them from refusing to do business with you if you refuse.

Personally, I do not provide my SSN in most cases where it is requested. I usually ask why they want it and then decline.
Yes, but it also usually has declining marginal cost across most of the curve. It's complex. It definitely gets expensive at the margin when growth requires new plant, but the big problem is when growth is unpredictable and may end; SF has a pretty safe long-term growth plan built in, so making 100 year investments (at muni bond rates!) is safe.

I just don't see even 100k rich non-services-intensive people as being likely to cause a problem. What SF should do is get rid of the previous stupid payroll tax and Ron Conway/Ed Lee's even worse gross receipts tax and institute an income tax of n% on residents or those working in SF. Maybe make it progressive (just set it as x% of someone's California state tax bill?, maybe +10% so it'd be about 1% of gross income?).

Then, having 100k people making ~$300k/yr (reflecting capital gains plus wage income) and consuming <$100/yr in city services in some towers along the eastern side of the city would be awesome.

$300mm/yr in extra tax income would do a lot.
Debian GR proposal – preserve freedom of choice of init systems
SAS put out a GUI front end which helps automate stuff for the SAS base program sometime ago, which may confuse people.
That is unfortunate. I have heard of NetReveal (I used the Detica platform at my previous job) never new that about DataServer though!

I suppose the demand just isn't there. If only more SAS users at least had an interest in programming...
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Saint John, New Brunswick Canada.

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They are sensor nodes and... read the book, it's worth it :)
> This is practically an urban myth at this point.

You are wrong. It's not clear-cut. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap for an introduction.

Are you suggesting that women are not prejudiced again in work-place and in technology?

> You can Google for refutations of it if you want (either 80 cents, or 77 cents) and you should be able to find a dozen decent ones.

I did. Here's what I found:

http://asq.sagepub.com/content/44/3/453.short
https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/14253
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prevent truancy. lol.
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>> not the primarily relevant IP doctrine here
Judging from a quick read of his other comments I'm thinking that he might be saying that there is another aspect of IP law that would cover it. I initially felt the wtf-ness as well. It might be nice for him to elaborate on which would be the relevant doctrine.
I definitely agree. I believe that most legal theory follows your intuition on this, sorry if I was unclear. Violations of law by public officials was my lowest bar.

But even that's imprecise, some violations of law by public individuals might not even qualify as warranting public scrutiny (a speeding record 20 years ago?), whereas some legal activities by private individuals might warrant public scrutiny and get dropped from this sort of tort, it's very case by case.
That is your opinion. Designers must know the medium.
The biggest problem I have with the U.S Patent system
is cost. They should price the fee for issuing a patient
on yearly income. This would level out the playing field.
It just might prevent some entities trying to patient rounded edges? And it would allow the poor investor a
fighting chance of protecting their idea. The Internet
has changed Everything. Brilliant ideas will be lost because of lack of funds.
These numbers definitely don't tell the whole story. In my experience, the consulting branch is IBM's number one software sales force. Without it pushing products like DB2 and the Websphere line, the software group would have a tough time staying competitive.
Looks like another closed communication system that won't work for me until all my friends DL the app - and they won't.
Actually, they're in the middle of landing in Mozilla's repository [1], and as of last week some time they haven't gotten their nightly builds back up yet. It lives in comm-central, though, along with Thunderbird/Seamonkey and not Firefox (/Gonk/etc).

I have no actual knowledge of why Tor picked Instantbird over Pidgin; idle speculation says they're already stuck with Firefox anyway (TBB), so the additional risk from JavaScript-based instant messaging protocols isn't high. I do not believe Instantbird supports DNS SRV at all at this point, and it just uses the same infrastructure Mozilla uses for browsing to make connections, so presumably that's already safe.

(Bias warning: I hang out in Instantbird's IRC channel and have made a patch or two. I don't think any of the above would change otherwise, though.)

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/tip/im
For anyone wishing to play with Freescale ARM, a cheap way to get one is the Teensy boards, https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
We can all only hope that now goes everything according to plans.

I fear, a second Tsunami in the region would be a second (maybe bigger) disaster and free even more radioactive material.

They still have enough problems. There is for example the trouble with huge quantities of radioactive water -- that is anything else than solved.
Part of the irony here is that Nick is one of the most respectable, least threatening, most "establishment" people I know -- he's worked in banking/gov security, and his goal in life is to be a CPA for startups.

If someone like that is getting fucked with by the biggest gang in NYC, you know there's a problem.
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What I meant was that, from my experience, updating/upgrading an open source tech stack usually causes the application it's running to break. I end up spending a day or two fixing things, where with a MS stack that rarely happens.
The biggest roadblock to widespread adoption of solar as a baseload power source is the storage problem. Photovoltaics stop producing power when the sun goes down, that's not just inconvenient it's unworkable with the way power is used today. Until we can economically shift the output curve of solar power plants to match demand rather than supply it will always fill no more than a niche. Today the only way to do this is to work in concert with hydropower, but that is a very limited solution.

Also, it's not strictly necessary to solve the problem on a large scale, even at a small consumer-grade scale it could be helpful. If every house had a battery pack or supercap bank or what-have-you and it allowed for smoothing out power demand or perhaps enabled charging electric vehicles overnight, then it could have a huge impact on energy usage patterns. Even with the PV -> battery -> battery losses it would still be a substantial net win.
Ahhhhh the nostalgia..
> Is the "Public right to know" a high bar to pass? Would the footage be legal if for example, the farmer has said its meat was "100% without animal cruelty" or if animal cruelty was detrimental to the meat?

Oh, big warning. I'm using a general common law tort to interpret a new criminal statute, but only to talk about social fairness involved in policies in a really generic, high level way. Much of my analysis won't apply at all to violations of this statute. You've hit on exactly one such area.

I don't know the extent of any "public right to know" exception to this law... I was really just laying out the social considerations at play on both sides when considering a law like this. That was probably really confusing.

If you're talking about the tort, the strength of that bar is probably highly dependent upon your jurisdiction or even your judge. No idea.

EDIT: The lack of a provision to allow publicly relevant facts, however the legislature defines those, may hurt the law's chances under first amendment analysis, as Zak points out. May bump any review up to something called "strict scrutiny" (which in practice almost always means the law fails). Criminalizing the "collection" of information instead of its release may inoculate the law from some challenges, but I'd still like to read more privacy case law before making a call on that (that's probably the single biggest question here, I'd love pointers here from anyone who has done more privacy research.)
On the bright side, Japanese engineers get a blank check to build some awesome robots.
The ThinkPad 8 looks great (great screen res, micro usb 3.0), just wish it had the Wacom style digitiser of the Surface Pro.

I know that the Asus Vivo Tab Note 8 has the Wacom digitiser though but has a much lower res.

Also wish that these 8" devices had seperate ports for charging and USB.
Next paragraph:

In a casual sense, the term "entitlement" refers to a notion or belief that one (or oneself) has a right to some particular reward or benefit— if given without deeper legal or principled cause, the term is often given with pejorative connotation (e.g. a "sense of entitlement").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entitlement