skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't think its taxes that suppress corruption in America. Its the tendency of ordinary people to blow the whistle on bribe-seekers. As such, its cultural, and making laws won't change that quickly.
Actually, that's one good thing about Santa Clara County (ie Silicon Valley proper), despite being a suburban hellhole, there's a ton of ethnic diversity.
Google sets record straight on Glass with ‘top 10 myths’ blog post
In Australia, a majority of business, accounting and many other courses have compulsory textbooks. Their prices are quite similar to what the OP quoted; $125+ apiece. That's why there are companies like Zookal renting out textbooks.
People have different bodies. For this guy, a standing desk did not work out. For others, it does.

Personally, I am more focused when standing. I feel more active and less likely to get bored. Also, I frequently walk a few steps when I need to think about something.

I used to have my brightest ideas when I stood up from my chair to go to the toilet, or while showering in the morning. Now I just walk a few steps from my desk and look out the window, or get a glass of water. This keeps my body busy while my mind is churning on something. It works for me.
I actually met patio11 in person at MicroConf Europe, last year. He's a nice guy, and some of his BCC stories are very entertaining.
The OMNI solves the issue with monotonic muscle use, that arises with classical Treadmills:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-na...
The food culture and restaurants in NYC are on a completely different, higher level than SF. Having experienced both, I laugh whenever people in the Bay Area try to claim that SF has the best restaurants. It's not even a race; NY has SF whipped in that regard.
I got some zero drop shoes some time ago. I've been running with a forefoot strike ever since, but with those shoes the muscles on the back of my legs start to hurt consistently about 25 minutes into the run. If I continue, the damage could take up to 2 weeks to repair before I can run again.

I still run with the zero drop shoes small distances from time to time, but it doesn't look like I'll ever be able to get the the point where I can run as fast and/or as long as with regular running shoes. Granted, I'm a relatively fast runner (usually 9km in 45min) and it may work better for lighter running.
If they would work together on some FOSS frontend ATM software, probably on top of boot to QT, they could easily have one mutual firm package installer images for some minimalist system that just auto updates itself in the background as a rolling release. It could even use those "hot kernel" patches from Red Hat and the auto-reinit cycle of systemd to always keep those two up to date as well without rebooting.
ok, I need to download && install just to see a demo?

Maybe you should create a demo page.
Clickbaiting education (Part 1)
So I've been thinking about how to get more young people engaged in online education, and decided to look to see if 'clickbaiting' would do the trick. It's all a bit tongue in cheek, but here's the plan:
http://christudor133.tumblr.com/

Full disclosure: I run an online education website.
> I don't recall deliberately reading any, but having my friends' personal messages sitting on my server in plain text format just seemed weird and icky and wrong.

It's not icky and wrong, it's part and parcel of the ethics of managing user's data. I've had access to corporate user's e-mail at various companies for decades, access to my entire family's e-mail (my wife, parents, siblings -- I host it for them), access to corporate instant messaging logs, and a whole slew of other data ...

... and I can definitively state that I've never read any of it without prior permission, and I've never been remotely tempted.

It's no different than having access to someone's mail, being handed the keys to a friend's house to house-sit their cats, or having someone hand you their mobile phone and then step away. As a matter of ethics, courtesy, and decorum, you simply don't look where you shouldn't.

Even for corporate e-mail, where we have an absolute legal right to look at e-mail, it's simply not something you do without a legal justification that outweighs the right to personal privacy -- which is why hosting your personal e-mail with a third-party corporation is a bad idea if you don't want them digging through it.

> I'm sure people will object to this opinion, but I don't think it's reasonable to send your messages to a third party's server in a totally open, unobscured format and consider those messages private.

The difference is that a third-party corporation like Microsoft or Google have very different ideas of ethics, courtesy, and decorum than your friends or even your employer.

In short, given the ability and even the legal right to engage in privacy-snooping behavior, everyone is not created equal, and not all relationships have the sort of constraints that we would (and I posit, should) expect.
It's easy to confuse the negative effects of scale with cultural similarities. I've lived in both cities and you'd have to step outside the US to find two cities less like each other.

Its easy to understand why New York magazine would publish high-brow link-bait: the decreasing relevance of banking-- NY's primary economic engine.

The funny thing is that the importance of banking is cyclical. Banker misbehave, markets punish them, they pretend to cower, they quietly recover... and then they misbehave again.

These kinds of comparisons will diminish once it's misbehaving time again.
> The number and quality of restaurants in NY is unrivaled.

NYC native and mostly SF-hater here. Hate to say it but SF has us beat for food. If you want to go have a 5 star meal you're going to pay about the same and get about the same food in both cities (NYC obviously has the edge here, but not hugely), but San Francisco has NYC (especially Manhattan) absolutely dominated at the everyday eating level (ie: burritos, sandwiches, cheaper restaurants). The general ingredient quality just blows NYC away - both meat and produce.
If you aspire to be a Professional Engineer (PE) you buy your books so you can take them with you to the exam. Sure, you could check out a stack of books at the library the day before but then you're not familiar with where equations are, what example problems exist, etc.
The thing is they weren't updating their ATM software anyway, and they were always on isolated subnets. Why would you care if support is dropped?
Oh thanks, never new that one existed. :)
Are we facing a bubble in shared office space?
Hyperbole. Most folks want to keep (at home) and bear (in public) a safety device not dissimilar to owning a fire extinguisher. Having fire-suppression gear in my house doesn't get me branded a redneck or violence-freak. I don't have to consider myself a fireman to imagine using an ABC extinguisher to save my home and family. Yet I want to carry a pistol, I'm some nut apparently.

Its not sophistry because others interpret things differently than you would like. And saying 'military grade' is silly; might as well say 'commercial grade'. What, should people only own badly-made pistols and rifles? That'd be very hazardous.
Red Hat is a 21 year old billion dollar tech company. Unless they do something catastrophically stupid (that can just as soon sink MS, like the Windows 8 bullshit is destroying their bottom line) they will absolutely be around.
I think, to the typical anti-gun bigot, by definition nearly all of us gun owners are "rednecks", in spirit if not quite so the stereotype.

Quoting production and sales numbers isn't likely to help with them, except to possibly scare them away from trying to pass gun grabbing laws that will result in massive resistance and/or civil war. We're holding our breath right now with Connecticut, which was surprisingly quite pro-gun in practice pre-Sandy Hook and which, due to passive resistance, has now created an estimated 300K felons, with the usual suspects calling for all of them to be prosecuted.

And a cherry on the top with Connecticut State Police Spokesman Lt. Paul Vance telling a newly made subject of the state, after she said "You're the servant, we're the master", that "I'm the master, ma'am. I'm the master"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxjuz2o9Gk; jump to the end).

I don't think these people understand the forces they putting into play.
The herman miller chairs offer far better adjustability than the IKEA Markus chair. The Markus is a good chair for its price, but they're not comparable.
Yeah, absolutely!

My wife took a couple years off to work on her startup. It never really went quite where she wanted, but did "ok" (a few thousand regular users). When we decided we needed her back in the workforce, having it on her resume was a source of intense discussion during all of her interviews and was a big part of her landing the job she has now.

People talk about knowing the entire SDLC as important for jobs, but running your own thing means that the software life-cycle is a really small piece of what you do and those additional skills are very valuable in the workplace.

edit btw, last night I thought about asking you if you'd consider adding a donation button on the free tier. People may be intermittent users, think it's useful, but not want to commit to the paid tier, so they give you a donation instead?

It could be a way to transition somebody up to the paid tier later if they're regular donators. Maybe keep track, and if somebody donates a certain number of times, or a certain amount of money, offer them a discount for a year or something.
> I would think that it's all the same if you know where to go and what to do to get in.

It isn't. You have to find completely different loopholes in each implementation of networking stacks to exploit them. Anyone running outdated software is always vulnerable to newer exploits, but the thing with Linux is that is audited by thousands of businesses around the globe, whereas Windows probably has back doors for the NSA through some backdoor dealing with the US gov't and nobody can audit that.
Paramilitary police is called "gendarmery" and they are used against organized crime or at outbreak of civil war. US did good job at Philippines with those units.

Current SWAT teams are just bunch of happy triggers and robbers.
I'm not sure where this comes? Ed Bott? This is totally insane thinking. They can surely contact authorities to start investigation of the leaks. Police would then get a warrant to search evidence from Hotmail.
Please, admins, edit the title to "Feminist Software Foundation".

As for my opinion on the PR, I left a quite blunt statement on the PR itself.
The History of Flat Design
Allow me to tell you about the worst kind of problem: getting used to government being naughty. When quirky and nasty stuff happens so often, it is commonplace. When everything is so rotten, one first questions "what is their benefits from this" about every thing someone does.

Also, what you see and what we experience here is just a game on actuality, to turn away people's looks from problems that are deeper and nastier. It is all done in order to feint reality and get it to go under the dark curtain of a scandal.

Basically, we're told "Look! What's over there," and then are slapped in the face.
And the interpretation of 'militia' is often muddied. Consider the definition below. Which was meant? Plenty of room to argue there. It was likely the 3rd definition meant 200 years ago, and continues to be the threshold required to earn a 'carry permit' in many states.

n. An army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers.

n. A military force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in an emergency.

n. The whole body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
> the first 6 URLs are Google products

One of which is Google+, every cloud has a silver lining.
> The public transportation in SF (and the larger Bay Area) is a classist, unreliable nightmare.

I've never been to California, but used to live next to NYC. Could you expand on how the transit is 'classist' ? Is it too expensive? Does it not stop at places other than the suburbs?
I had a professor who bundled an access code with his "custom-edition" textbook. It forced students to buy new every semester, and he made a healthy cut in the process:

http://lukethomas.com/the-textbook-industry-greed-its-gettin...
The issue is this. San Francisco used to be weird, beautiful, edgy, and affordable outside of known rich neighborhoods (Pac Heights) that, like the UES, aren't very interesting places to be, anyway, unless you live there. San Francisco used to have a lot of unique character to recommend it. It still does, to a lesser extent, but it also has douches wearing Glass and paying huge sums of money for crappy apartments, not even because they want to live there, but because they enjoy bullying the poors.

When MBA culture infected the Valley, it turned it into a shitty New York: the worst of both worlds between a sleepy, semisuburban (but still beautiful and interesting in its own right) California city and the hypercompetitive pressure-cooker of Manhattan.

In 2002 it was still conceivable that a normal person would want to live in San Francisco, just because it was still an interesting place: a genuine big city on the West Coast, with less rain than Seattle and far more character than L.A. Now, all the people I like hate what's happening to Northern California.

Even tech workers are marginalized in this brave new world. How many software engineers are there that could buy a house in San Francisco at the market rate? Seven? Twelve? At typical house-buying, setting-down ages the are... zero, plus or minus one engineer who got in early on a ridiculously lucky startup, negotiated well, and over whom the founders are still kicking themselves.

It's ridiculous. Of course, that's also the fault of the NIMBYs, who should be squashed with extreme prejudice. They deserve far more hatred than anyone on Sand Hill Road. It'd be better if the insane anger were directed at NIMBYs instead of innocent Google engineers (who are also getting ass-raped by rent, thus victims of the same thing).

I don't know what the permanent identity of San Francisco is. I hope the crash will take out the nonsense and flush the entitled, Harvard-MBA culture back into the Stygian reaches from which it came. Let's have the NIMBYs thrown under that bus as well. They're certainly trying to turn San Francisco into a shitty New York knock-off, but they haven't irreversibly won yet.
Just a quick website to add the ideas and vote on them.
Check it out!

We can add all the ideas in this post and then the community can upvote / downvote the most popular ones.

http://ideas.ozonebit.com/
He should just bail out MtGox, that alone would send prices sky-rocketing - aside from the fact that a thorough outside investigation, done as due diligence checks, of the scandal would certainly find out where those BTC actually went.
It means civil discourse, which gives everybody a voice. It doesn't mean having to pretend everybody is right. It definitely doesn't mean being polite, not by a far margin.

I'd be glad to recognize any distinctions that don't require an entirely new dictionary. Especially if they are actionable. Mostly, it'd be nice if folks kept private things private.
Unfortunately I think this particular review is missing the point of Keybase. In the same vein as attacking Twitter for not making the follow relationship symmetric or attacking Instagram for ruining the dynamic range of pictures, this author is (mostly) attacking Keybase for the very point of what Keybase is.

PGP has failed to reach even a moderate userbase outside of crypto enthusiasts, and while part of this, as the author suggests, is painful UI, a large part is also that the web of trust model is unreasonably demanding for most cases.

Keybase asks: who are you on the internet if not the sum of your public identities? The fact that those identities all make a certain claim is a proof of trust. In fact, for someone who knows me only online, it's likely the best kind of trust possible. If you meet me in person and I say "I'm sgentle", that's a weaker proof than if I post a comment from this account. Ratchet that up to include my Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, personal website and so forth, and you're looking at a pretty solid claim.

And if you're thinking "but A Scary Adversary could compromise all those services and Keybase itself", consider that an adversary with that much power would also probably have the resources to compromise highly-connected nodes in the web of trust, compromise PKS servers, and falsify real-world identity documents.

I think absolutism in security is counterproductive. Keybase is definitionally less secure than, say, meeting in person and checking that the person has access to all the accounts you expect, which is itself less secure than all of the above and using several forms of biometric identification to rule out what is known as the Face/Off attack.

The fight isn't "people use Keybase" vs "people go to key-signing parties", the fight is "people use Keybase" vs "fuck it crypto is too hard". Those who need the level of security provided by in-person key exchanges still have that option available to them. In fact, it would be nice to see PKS as one of the identity proof backends. But for practical purposes, anything that raises the crypto floor is going to do a lot more good than dickering with the ceiling.

And I don't buy the "don't reinvent crypto" argument at all. Sure, it's a bad idea to use your own password hash instead of bcrypt, but maybe you think you can do better and you end up creating the foundation for Litecoin. A general-case argument against any innovation is a dangerous thing.

With that said, I totally agree about uploading your private key to Keybase. That's one very scary basket to put all your eggs in and I don't trust it at all. Luckily, it's optional.
It kind of sounds like 'No true Scotsman'. Could you explain what sort of diversity you miss in tech sector?
Why does the NYT post 2 week old NYT stories on HN?
ITT: Subjective 'Facts' and Emotional objectivism.
Microsoft Doesn't Need a Court Order to Search Your Hotmail
Not to mention, New York is relatively clean compared to San Francisco.

I am a NY resident but I was in SF this past summer. Regarding cleanness it depends on which neighbors you live in. If you live in Richmond or Outer Sunset like I was the neighborhoods should be pretty clean. Where I live now in NY is considered one of the safest neighborhood but with the ever increasing population the neighborhood is getting dirtier.

San Francisco shuts down at 10pm; New York truly is the city that never sleeps, and many neighborhoods feel busy and alive at all hours of the night.

True. Most local restaurants close around 10. Even those in the city closes early too. Usually I have to drive to Daly City to look for better and bigger restaurant.

But that's fine. I wouldn't want to dine too late. Now if you are looking for late night entertainment....

New York has probably the best public transit systems in the country

Also one of the dirtiest too. The problem with SF transit (subway) is that it runs on the street so they compete with cars and buses. Also SF subway trains are smaller and shorter so it can't take that many at once. So it's unfair to say SF doesn't have a good transit system.

SF's buses are quite on time, unlike NYC. I could check nextbus.com to confirm the next arrival and usually the bus can come within 2 minutes within the estimated arrival time.

The only pet peeve I have is there is very few bus sign. Looking for yellow paint mark can be tricky. When I was new to SF I was constantly asking people and looking outside the window to check whether I was approaching my destination. The only clue I had was to look at the street sign (X ave X street) and guess. Or I have to stare nextbus.com to watch for the next bus stop.
Buses are the only public transit that run all night, but those are limited/different than day routes. Plus many people I know who live here have an unreasonable dislike of the buses, so many just don't consider it an option. I think they're great, except for some passengers who get on in the Tenderloin.
So, you agree to what kevingadd wrote.
To be honest, I ate better day to day when I lived in Portland, Oregon than when I lived in SF. Wouldn't know about NY - I've never been there. And I don't know about 'fine dining' options in either PDX or SF, having been in my early 20ies and not gone in for that sort of thing much.

These days, the best eating I do is when the in-laws have a big dinner, with stuff like hand-made tortellini!
I wouldn't mind an article titled: "Why New York is Not San Francisco"
Can anyone explain what the "kinematic coupling" is, how it helps with bed leveling, and why the same approach cannot be applied to any 3d-printer?
I enjoyed the wording of this question: "I’m from Missouri. Can you give me a simple reason why virtual functions (dynamic binding, dynamic polymorphism) and templates (static polymorphism) make a big difference?"
Close in America. Its rapidly becoming obvious that big business doesn't want/need even a fraction of the available workers. Folks resort to entropic work, where they sort out fad and fashion for one another while producing no useful product. A way to keep everybody busy in pursuit of the fantasy of 'full employment'.
I dunno, my bank not only pays me 3% interest on a current account with free withdrawals from most ATMs and free payments to other bank accounts, it also doesn't send me computer games I don't want if I don't forget to cancel them.
Wouldn't shock me, my experience has been most of the food on the west coast is better. A lot of this has to do with how cheap it is to get quality produce compared to the east coast.
" The general ingredient quality just blows NYC away - both meat and produce."

Well, west coast (meaning: access to Australia and some other selling markets), good climate, etc
I can't believe it either. And it doesn't stop there. Car companies start putting Android in their cars and really think customer will like it. I wouldn't even buy an Oracle DB but use Postgres, even if this seems a bit too paraniod. Everything Open Source and no public services / hosting is the only answer.
Careers in Science
Marxism is strong in the US? As a Marxist I can assure you that is not the case at all :P
I don't live in SF but the few times I've been the bus system has been a complete joke. It's like a stereotype of a bad bus system: dirty, unreliable, slow, filled with junkies, loud, doesn't really go anywhere you'd like...there's a reason Uber was founded in SF.
I don't like the graphics (I haven't installed the game, just looking from the screenshots).

The graphics look like it was something created in 2002 using Paint Shop Pro.

I'm not a designer, but in order for me to install a game, the design needs to look appealing.
I'm not sure an over-indulgence in food is worse than over-indulgence in self righteousness.
They are cops pretending to be soldiers; if they had to fight a real army, I bet they would all shit themselves, and die shortly thereafter.