skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AT&T, maybe, but Time Warner recently doubled speeds in NYC for free. The announcement was rather silent; I noticed downloads being faster, did a speed test, and had to search for information about it. A couple months later, I got a little card in the mail about it.

100Mbps isn't 1000Mbps, but I'll take it.
Github repository, I wrote a simple app to pull in a repo and I can view, edit and delete and also create new files. All the files are markdown so I can export to PDF or HTML if I need them outside the app.
> I can't work on any open source projects because of the learning curve required to get familiar with the codebase

That's totally not true. You'll definitely be expected to contribute with in the first 4 month of starting at work, why are open source projects different?

The processes are probably similar as well. You need someone to help you on board, explain the big pictures, guide you through how thing are connected. Then you take bug, dig into the code and figure out a solution. This is probably what you'll do at a real job, so might as well get used to it. The hardest part is finding someone who is patient enough to guide you along and answer your questions.
Ok sure, I'll nitpick right. FUBAR is an acronym. "FUBARed" is the informal way of using the term in its adjective form in a spoken sentence.
Just wondering how many people will click the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom...
Evernote

Github wiki
My thought exactly.

A jackhammer and dynamite when a pair of pliers would suffice.
Simple steps to implementing a programming language
Two more game development diaries, from Andrew Braybrook (the 'Carmack' of that time!), who wrote Paradroid and Morpheus for the C64:

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/mentalprocre.html
"foo" and "bar" are metasyntactic variables that have nothing whatsoever to do with the meaning of FUBAR. Using "foobar" to mean FUBAR is utter nonsense, and serves only to show that the writer has no idea what FUBAR is and is spelling it phonetically. Which is to say, they're typing the word wrong.
This is an excellent idea, very cool, very nice (although, why Courier New?? ;-)

What happens to the exercises once they're completed? Is there some sort of social review, advice from mentors or the like?

Edit1: after using it for a (very short) while, some thoughts.

1/ It would be cool to be able to compare what others have written for the same "katas".

2/ Some katas are uninspiring/difficult. A button to change it would be nice ("try another").

(3/ Maybe it's just me and I need more practice, but for some stories I find it hard/impossible to fit everything in just one sentence.)

Edit2: Okay, so from the "board" we can access "public cycles" of users. This is nice, but it would be interesting to access the work of others not from their usernames but from the katas themselves: group all answers to a given kata (possibly limited to the katas one has already completed, as to not be influenced by the work of others).

It could also be nice to be able to continue a story -- although I'm not sure how this would work.
Your comment brought to mind "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs. I believe he used to suffer badly from writer's block (and morphine addiction). Burroughs had no recollection of writing the novel, apparently it's just his habit notes strung together.

If you were to read the pages of Naked Lunch in a random order, it would make just as much sense as if read in the order they were printed.

> Inspired by the practice of coding katas, I decided to create WriterKata.

Would you be thinking of one in particular? I'm always up for more practise.
Emacs (naturally), with org-mode[1]. ssh replication along with the mobile org-mode app on Android [2] meets all my needs.

[1] http://orgmode.org

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mo... (there are others... /search?q=orgmode&c=apps for more)
Voice recognition is a good thought and totally doable. A camera probably isn't a great choice for a bathroom mirror though.
After famous Putin answers - Snowden asks (biased questions and completely ignoring Ukraine case). In my opinion Snowden lost his credibility.
I'll admit it's a little bit strange, but it's not like you can't just alias frequently used commands that are more complicated. Besides, Git's utility makes up for this by far.

Then again, I alias nearly all the CLI programs I use frequently. Grep's recursive search is aliased to `sr`, Python to `py`, Django's `manage.py runserver` to `run`.
Alternatively, search for:
* "This week we’ve heard that the Danish weekly"
No, the TOC is not final, but mainly. It is true, the examples are more from the equities world. However, the approach is not to show Python for equities, fixed income, commodities, trading, risk, etc. It is to show Python (technical) topic-by-topic (data, viz, IO, Excel, Web, etc.).
Sex is way more expensive. Most of your life's spending is spent indirectly on sex.
Shortcuts for Sketch Plugins
I wonder what will it look like after a year, when you work on mutiple project,multiple poeple.
What about his early claim that he had access to everybody's email inboxes through Prism? He lost credibility at the very beginning because he didn't read or understand the documents he leaked. There was just so much interesting stuff to look at in his leaks that we gave him a pass.

To refresh your memory: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-says-nsa-has-direct-a...
Whether or not it's a sample size of one, it's the longest soylent trial I've read about so far. You have to start somewhere.
My problem with Caplan's arguments on education, which I've admittedly only read a few of, is that he seems to derive them largely from an elitist, Ayn Rand-ian sort of worldview where most people are simply beyond hope and investing in their education isn't worth the resources (as priced by market forces). My view is more that most people have a distaste for learning, education and autodidacticism because they grow up steeped in a culture that discourages these things, while simultaneously rewarding the opposite sorts of behaviors. Though it seems to have gotten better in the past few decades with the rise in popularity of "geek culture." Rather than promoting only the top 5% or 25% of people achieving advanced educations, I'd rather look at the culture and socioeconomic factors that cause the bottom 95%/75% to not be as anxious about advancing their knowledge as the ones at the top.

The whole thing easily leaves him open to accusations of trying to build a world of grunt workers who will serve as cheap labor for those at the top, especially when you consider how much of people's potential isn't determined by their genetic gifts, but by the socioeconomic environment they're raised in, who their parents, teachers and peers are, etc. His suggestions seem like they would create a self-fulling prophecy towards a caste system, where as I'd rather see something more akin to "posthumanism for everyone."
He probably would've lost more if he would've told the blatant truth about Putin.
Everyone knows that his statement regarding the Russian leader are to be taken with a grain of salt.
Adding to this: yes, the book should serve as a good intro to Python for people with an equities background. But it should also useful for people with a different financial background.
Would sorting by popularity, or critical acclaim, or something along those lines be a possibility?
About a year ago, I got a free email address with Google Apps on my custom domain by doing the Google App Engine workaround (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/pVZfd...). Does this not work anymore?
Seattle on the verge of unprecedented $15 minimum wage
It's the current of having-your-money-stolen, so there's that.
I am really not sure about what you mean with this comment. Would you care to elaborate?
Why would Snowden comment on the Ukraine case in this letter? This is a letter to a danish news agency about privacy, not about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. And how does that connect with Snowden losing his credibility?
Why should Snowden have cared about Ukraine during that interview? It has nothing to do with what he's known for and the information he released. The man has ruined his entire life to bring evidence of government abuse to the public and because he did a shitty interview on a Russian TV show he's lost all credibility to you???
Of course it's entirely up to you what to provide. It would be silly of me to question that. I'm not paying you for that, so how can I demand anything? I'm just saying what I think should've been done. That's how I would do it, at least.

You see, I have a strong opinion on that any data-analytic work is pretty close to being useless if it's not reproducible. And I mean really close. I already mentioned few questions that naturally arise reading your article which are crucial to understand your results and are not addressed by the article. So, ideally, any data analysis done for the open community should provide both full dataset and full sources. Unfortunately, it's not always possible: dataset may be several terabytes long, there might be legal issues about disclosure of the data (or letting everyone know how exactly author acquired them), sources might be under NDA, whatever. In this case description should be as pedantic as possible, because some little details can change the whole meaning of statistics entirely.

By the way, NLTK allows you to do all kinds of processing, so it isn't the answer.

So what would I do? The usual course, actually: would do the work in iPython Notebook, cleaning it up afterwards, would've drawn graphs in place and printed some few slices I've said already while processing, so it would be easier to understand what actually that unique words counted might be like. While fancy d3 graphs are cool for sure, but not nearly as useful.
its' kind of like the undercover boss program that they showed in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss

Not tech orientated, but lots of CEOs doing 'front line' work (e.g CEO of hotel chain working as a receptionist in one of his premises)

It sounds cheesy, but the program was often enlightening.
perhaps not exactly what you asked for , but my sideproject might be useful. it spits out a static template that looks quite nice.

www.landinggear.me
You're reasoning that eating fast food isn't all that bad for you, and for that Soylent can't be worse? Because there are countless clinical trials and scientific researches that prove a correlation between fast food and heart disease, cancer et al. All I'm saying is that for a product like Soylent the long term effects haven't been studied yet.

To be clear: I'm not biased against Soylent. If it's indeed just as healthy as regular food it can save a lot of time, and maybe it can even solve some hunger issues in the third world. I'm merely saying it should be studied more before jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, it's made by a 25 year old electrical engineer who failed a cheap cellphone tower startup. In an apartment in The Tenderloin. If you want to put your life in his hands by all means go ahead, but I'll just stick with actual food for now, at least until I see the results of some clinical trials.

On a side note: food as a business is hard. Medicin is even harder. There are so many rules, regulations, government agencies, etcetera. They're mostly there for a reason: to keep food and medicine safe. I hope these guys realize what they're getting into. If there's only a hint of claiming something is 'just as healty as regular food' you're opening a giant can of worms...
You are right. I've been working in this domain for 15 years. Technologies such as GPS, auto guidance, remote sensing, were common in agriculture back then. Some farmers are hackers too. I saw some pretty amazing Excel (!) spreadsheets modeling crop growth or disease damage.

There is something true when he says that farms are inefficient factories. They sometimes fail to give a proper income to the famer, considering the work they put in. But for me the solution is not overspecialized industrialized farms growing one crop for the rest of the world. It would be better to have highly versatile farms dedicated to fulfill the needs of specific areas to minimize transportation impact. I've never seen any environnemental protection concern related to the soylent production. It's all about saving time while eating healthy.

I saw a documentary about chinese farmers growing tomatoes. They could not imagine eating what they were growing. Pretty sad for a farmer.
What are the various 2014 git code review tools out there one can look into besides Phabricator?
Try the hidden feature, it's a defrag storage procedure called "sleep". You can start it up by putting the brain in a dark room, and make it count an array of the species Ovis aries.

Does wonders.
Why not set up forwarders? Simply setup your email on whatever service(every domain registrar provides one), and forward emails to another gmail. In your gmail account setup a from address. Done.
Exception handling is mostly a failure
"Where are those editors that are worth a $500 price tag?" - they would need much more code and thus require a maintainable programming language.
Handling the critique
I agree with you both and that's what I'm hoping for. I start in 1 week at MS to work on some cloud related software. I sure hope it's interesting/rewarding!
As the website does not work unless you enable Javascript and let them cookie-stuff you until you explode, here is an archive for privacy aware people: http://archive.today/EUq4H
Buying a house in an Indian metro (without taking a loan) doesn't look too realistic for a person in his 20s.
Yes, portmanteaus are exactly what I was meaning by "clever wordplay". English isn't my primary language so it's hard to remember the right word sometimes, sorry for that. :)
They do, but they also want things simpler. Reconciling these conflicting demands is the trick.
I don't fully understand it. What exactly did Se & Hør pay for access for? Some nation-wide (or bank-wide) database of credit card transactions? If so, awesome! I wish more people who expose what kind of databases are available if you are capable to pay.
Yes. The website is unfortunately incredibly shitty. It is unfortunately also the original publication of the letter. Thank you for this alternative.
EDIT -- See the response by Svips. It gives a better overview.

In Denmark(and Scandinavia) we have a company called Nets who is a provider for credit card and banking transaction services. They thus have a lot of personal information on everybody

There was a highly ranked entrusted person within Nets who leaked personal information from a database containing banking transactions to the magazine "Se & Hør". This magazine is probably something like "The Sun" in Britain. I'm not entirely sure about the comparison, but I think it's about the same.

Anyways, the person who leaked the information provided information about the location of several celebrities and the royal family to a journalist within the magazine. This allowed the paper to locate people when they were traveling or on honeymoon. After looking at the information the person could, due to his high ranking, delete all traces of having looked at the information.
On which system is TCL running?
Hi,

my expirience in TCL-Programming is very low (well there is hello world?!), but i discovered that homematic is running also tcl. Are there more Systems running TCL? Should I learn TCL?
Gerrit is really good for code reviews
* Brain

* Bullet Journal (http://bulletjournal.com)

* Instapaper -> Pinboard.in

* Research Diary in LaTeX (http://www.writelatex.com)

* Markdown (pandoc) and git for each and every project
I have used evernote for a long time.But Onenote is my new fav after they release a free desktop app.
Adding GulpJS to AngularJS as a Task Runner
He claimed that he had access to everybody's email inboxes, he did NOT claimed it was specifically through Prism.

He still insists on that one: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/461585279434756096
As they say, you do not bite the hand that feeds you. I doubt Snowden was particularly happy about doing that interview, but considering his circumstances he didn't really have a choice.
Let me summarise the case for you:

PBS (Pengeinstitutternes Betalingsservice) was created in the 1980s by the Danish banks and the National Bank, originally to facilitate the Danish national credit card, Dankort. Eventually PBS also took control of all credit cards by Danish card holders including Visa and MasterCard through arrangements with said credit card companies.

Eventually PBS got privatised and joined with the Norwegian equivalent and became Nets (yes, the name is stupid). Nets - in Denmark at least - has access to all credit card transactions by Danish credit card holders.

At least since 1996, Se og Hør has been doing something like this, but it was not until 2008 the process got streamlined. Effectively they paid an IBM employee (because Nets had outsourced that department to IBM Denmark) 10.000 DKK a month to trace credit cards and send journalists at Se og Hør updates when specific cards were in use.

In addition to celebrities, royals and politicians, also regular persons were targeted in cases related to murder, traffic accidents and so forth.

In 2008, the use of this information meant that a Se og Hør journalist knew the heir and his wife bought a ticket to Canada, so he could be on the same plane (much to the surprise of the Prince).

In addition to the data originating from Nets, it is now clear that Se og Hør had sources at SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) and the CPH airport, so they could verify the passenger lists for each flight. And that's how the journalist managed to be on the right plane.

Moreover, it is now apparent that not only journalists at Se og Hør were aware of it, but also editors and owners as well. New information in this scandal is practically coming in by the hour.
No, but in any Indian metro you can easily buy a plot on the city outskirts for some money. Agreed that you may still need a loan. But that is likely to be in the figure of 10-12 lacs, given you have done basic savings in your early 20's.

Also the inflation in India is close to 9%. Which means the principle you owe to the bank is losing value at the rate of 9% per annum, while your property value appreciates.

Buying a car in your 20's is the worst mistake you can make. If you haven't made this mistake making 50% down payment to a plot in city outskirts should be a walk in the park.

And the monthly gold saving schemes available with any big jeweller has helped people triple their money in as little as 5-6 years. Add to that the regular tax saving endowment insurance policies.

In all if you have made your investments even with mediocre planning, you should end up pretty rich by 35.
Aperture can do it, and as iPhoto's big brother isn't too much of a leap for people used to that.
it's pretty good advice for 49 year olds too
I've used Puppet extensively for server management (and also done some Chef, and currently som Saltstack.)

Although they are both configuration management tools, they are different.

What kind of issues did you have with chef? And when?
Because the cool kids are all using Angular and NoSQL.
And foobar is a word that has come to mean FUBAR.
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We have published a summarised version of the letter in English, extracting the key quotes on thenordicweb.com http://www.thenordicweb.com/2014/05/05/edward-snowdens-lette...
Doen't suprise me one bit. In Holland even the parking lots sell your data. Your licence plate, time spend and date. The buyer? Well the government and tax-department af course.
Nets operates in Singapore as well. I kept using them instead of regular debit cards there. Is the same company?
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Is that with or without 'the' 'be' 'to' not that its any sort of literary accomplishment regardless but English is a terrible language for lexical density.
The issue with this is that you still expose your gmail address (not very professional). The recipient will see something like "Sent from name@domain.com on behalf of username@gmail.com".
Have you tried FastMail.fm? It's not free, but has a fast web UI, excellent IMAP support, customer service, etc. Search other HN threads to see what others think of it. (disclaimer: I co-own it with some of the other staff)
http://www.nets.eu/Contact/wheretofindus/Pages/default.aspx

According to that page, I doubt it. Must be a different Nets. Nets appears only to operate around the Baltic and Nordic countries.
I use both for years.

The Microsoft solution for your problem is not Outlook.com - it's Office 365 and/or hosted Exchange. They have a slightly different -- in my opinion better and definitely faster - web UI for the latter.

Being a Google Apps user basically means you have a Google Account associated with that user. Being a hosted Exchange user does not imply that. In other words, you can use an Android phone with a Google Apps account, but with pa hosted Exchange account you cannot log in to a Windows Phone, you need a normal Microsoft Account. In my opinion this is good, because your email is not related to mobile purchases and so on.

I personally find the hosted Exchange/Office 365 solution much better, mostly because it's only about email (+office stuff, if you buy it). It's not polluted with anything else, it does only a few things but it does them well.

Fastmail.fm is a completely different option, I am using that as well, their biggest problems are:
- lack of proper push email (on mobiles)
- lack of good contact management

Calendar is coming soon as far as I understood, and they're the fastest.
Read the link I posted, in which he displays an astounding misunderstanding of what Prism is and claims it gave him the access we're discussing.

If he still thinks he had access to everybody's email inboxes, then how? He hasn't leaked any documents to substantiate that claim.
The Leap Motion device might be another option.

https://www.leapmotion.com
> and most important of all investments by the time you turn 30 try to get married and have at least one kid.

Why?
"foo" and "bar" of course have a lot to do with the meaning of FUBAR, there's even a RFC(!) about that:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt
Because it wasn't a god damned promise!! There should be nothing wrong with saying "this is our current plan" and that plan changing down the road (when it makes sense to change).

Anyone who has ever worked on anything in their life knows that plans change. Sometimes plans change to something else that's better. Sometimes ideas that are great on paper don't work in practice and need to be scrapped. Sometimes a plan is a great idea but an unanticipated roadblock makes it impossible or prohibitively expensive to accomplish.

So yes. Companies can never say anything publicly until it's already done. And I think that's a god damned shame. So again I say, this is why we can't have nice things.
I have the new UI and... it's awful.

I get the whole "it's for preventing phishing, etc." but I believe that it shouldn't be done by hiding the URL from the user.

Furthermore, it's a real pain to have to click to see it. And guess what happen if you go to another tab and then go back to the first one? The URL is gone. You can't even compare 2 tabs URLs.

IMHO: good problem, wrong solution.
The C10M problem (2013)