skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to take a side on this (there's bound to be a silly amount of controversy over taking any stand over what is and isn't slavery), but what do you consider slavery? Do you have to be physically forced in to it, or can economic pressures cause slavery? If you consider "right to work" an inalienable right, maybe slavery is a spectrum and any degree of infringement of that right puts you on the spectrum. And no, I obviously wouldn't argue anyone has it as bad as those in physical slavery by any stretch of imagination.

Anyway, take for example the McDonald's employee who has no hireable skills, doesn't make a living wage, and his employer schedules him a) erratically and last-minute so he can't get another job and b) under a certain number of hours so the employee is not full-time and therefore not due benefits. Here, and in the Carmack case, the employer is deliberately taking steps to reduce the employee's ability to work elsewhere or to improve his place in society by work done on personal time. That seems like a pretty significant parallel to slavery, if not a criteria of slavery.
RailsConf 2014 Job Board
The whole point of DNT is that it is a voluntary measure by advertisers to avoid tracking people who don't want to be tracked.

Given that turning DNT on by default would essentially turn DNT on for everybody, supporting DNT in that scenario would have imploded the whole business model of the same advertisers.

Obviously they're not going to voluntarily decide to go out of business, so the advertisers then dropped support for DNT entirely.

Now no one gets the benefit of DNT, not even the privacy-conscious minority who actually cared about it.

Welcome to second and third-order effects...
E-book: Essential Coding Theory
I would describe a dream the same way (but only have dreams when I am at least half asleep). O wonder how neurologically similar are hallucinations and dreams.
One of the answers towards the bottom linked to an incredibly interesting read on programming using nothing but Procs[1]. I found it to be incredibly fascinating, and it even goes into implementing FizzBuzz under these constraints.

[1]: http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
What if I told you that Java code is perfectly compilable in Groovy and learning the required amount of Groovy isn't that much anyway?

There's even a JavaDoc that you can reference at any time.

And even now in Java 8, you have Lambdas... well guess what? Groovy uses Closures everywhere, and the syntax is similar too. So it really shouldn't be black magic.
Zoom in a bit west and a little north of the Cayman Islands. There are some runners and some bikers in the ocean. I'd guess these were people on a boat.

Zoom in to Puget Sound and you can see the same thing, clearly showing the ferry routes. One oddity is that the density of bikes seems a lot higher in the water near the Bainbridge Island docks than in the water near the Seattle docks. All of the ferry routes to/from Bainbridge are from/to Seattle, so at first I'd expect Seattle to be at least as dense as Bainbridge, because it has all the Bainbridge traffic plus Bremerton traffic.

I wonder if what is happening is that most of these people live on the Bainbridge side, and turn on their tracker when they take their bike to the ferry to head for work in Seattle. Then they turn it off on the ferry to save power. They do not turn it back on until the ferry docks and they are leaving. Hence, for the morning commute, the only dots in water are on the Bainbridge side.

For the even return to home, perhaps many whose work is only a short ride from the docks do not bother to turn it on to track that segment. They only turn it on when the ferry gets to Bainbridge. Hence, on the Seattle side of the Bainbridge run, there are mostly only dots from people whose have a significant ride on the Seattle side to get to the dock.

Anyone have a simpler explanation for the Seattle/Bainbridge dot imbalance?
...citation?
SEEKING WORK - Denver, remote

Entry level Clojure/Python dev, also working towards web development. Willing to learn new frameworks/languages. Looking for part-time/full-time.

Clojure/Seesaw desktop app: https://github.com/CJOlsen/tiling-todo

Python/wx desktop app: http://thiscurrentproject.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/perfect-m...

http://www.cjolsen.com

https://github.com/CJOlsen

email on website, contact page
Lenovo.
Sure, kill them. I mean, as long as you realize that killing off online ads essentially means opting in to a future where quality content is forced behind a paywall as a matter of course.

And I say this as someone who loathes advertising and the creepy mentality behind them. They're kind of necessary evil. Keeping a tighter rein on what kinds of ads can be served would help tremendously. They need to eradicate that stigma of them being a dangerous vector. Erf.
Question (I have never used any app or service that allowed for checkins):

Is there any app that allows one to place a digital file onto a map's geocoords - whereby you can ONLY access that file if you actually go to that geocoord and then can open/see the file?
Utopian Science
Customer Segmentation: Excel and R
I, for one, keep all my nuclear launch codes in an offline drive :-).

really, most US users better be worried about NSA and local PD, they can jail you, China can't.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read-...
I'm coining it now, Guenther's law, corollary to Atwood's law:

Anything that can be implemented in CSS, shouldn't be.
Most sensible response here. Google created a win-win relationship for advertisers and consumers where the consumer / seller relationships run in both directions.. with themselves in between. As long as they maintain a level of impartiality in the relationship and do not seek to weight their exploitation in either direction, I for one am fine with the arrangement.

the second they do, of course, we are all fucked.
Top 1% take lions share of income growth...
Show HN: Instant search for Spotify
Lisp 1 Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]
that is why I pointed to this article, but the reason I asked this question was to let everyone know (who didn't already know) because I think it is important.
Cells, Pods, and Squads: The Future of Organizations is Small
shame about that near-eastern medical attache in Boston...
Hah ha,

The parent quote doesn't deserve to be downvoted but it seems to have been massively downvoted for the same reason a massive number of people use GIT who shouldn't - the bandwagon effect.

Git may well be a perfect tool for the Linux kernel but it's still an opaque nightmare for the many average non-kernel-developers who use it as "the new good version control system" (which it isn't, it's only a tool for a specific purpose made by a famous person).

The poster's point is valid - if Linus created a make replacement for his purposes, the effects of everyone else inappropriately adopting it would be horrific (even if it was indeed, a great make for the kernel and just for the kernel).
I have to admit, this made me laugh out loud. For those who don't know, the word counting example is the "Hello, World" of Map/Reduce.
"Can look" is not the same as "can compel the company to not notify the victim".
ANY ONE KNOWS THE BEST API FOR A LiveSCORE APP
anyone knows best API for livescore app...?
> the easiest way to back it up is to take an image of the entire hard drive.

You mean, say, just via XCOPY? So far for my
boot partitions (on one hard drive,
C: is an old Windows 2000 installation;
D: and E: are Windows XP installations;
and my usual boot partition is E:) I have
NTBACKUP of E: on I: on a separate hard disk.
I have successfully restored an NTBACKUP
of a boot partition back to the same drive
letter and boot partition and had a
good running system. Yes, NTBACKUP can
backup a live system, but what's really
involved in backup and recovery of a
boot partition, especially master boot records,
I don't know.
I took a poll of my friends, most of whom are not technical at all and most found it annoying.
Here is a observation I have and a question for the HN crowd:

Recently, I think I picked up a lot more articles in the tech circles, on reddit/HN/slashdot etc. that talk about the borders of mental illnesses, the question of the value of the humanities vs. STEM, Buddhism, the meaning of live, and more such fundamental/philosophical topics.

This is purely a gut feeling so far (I didn't do any math on frequencies of posts/submissions or similar), but:

Is this on the increase recently? I do feel some kind of phase transition the last couple of months. I actually posted that at a comment here on HN a while ago, back then I felt it was kind of like a 'collective identity crisis in the west'? Maybe I am just completely projecting my own inner soul searching to the outside world. But I do have the distinct impression that our society is at some kind of inflection point.

If I would try to boil it down to more 'everyday thoughts', I get somewhat of the impression that technology changed society so much that we all collectively begin to realize that we have as many new questions as we gained answers.

No one seems to know what will happen to our now quite-remote-from-the-people-governments, Bitcoin, surveillance, drones, etc.

And I have the impression even most of us are unable to see a clear picture for the future.

If I would look at history, I would expect some kind of mass movement(s?) to form soon.

Is anyone else having similar thoughts?
I don't really follow. How are you going to recommend changes which help the pilots make correct decisions if you don't say that this event occurred because these pilots didn't make a correct decision?
This could be a real win. If there was a way of marking a standardized form with some meta data or tags to say "hey, this is safe to use automatically in the expected way" such as the typical form with old > new > repeat new or something. One little HTML change and it advertises compatibility.

That way, classy sites could enable a 'safe enough/good enough' flag that any software could use.

There is also the thought that it may be worth hard-coding for the biggest sites. The high profile sites are the most vulnerable when a vulnerability hits, there are big existing databases of user names around, and these can be exploited automatically and quickly on relatively high value targets (gmail accounts, amazon, facebook, twitter etc). Even top 10 would be helpful, but top 100 seems approachable, especially since the bigger sites are probably more consistent. The payoff here could be big next time around.

Also if the framework were around for doing this, you could target a particular site or three that just had a major breech, and push the rules for reset out with the breech notification.

I know it's a huge amount of work to do manually, but even a relatively focused effort could have payoffs, and if working with big sites can start a 'automated password reset' standard rolling, others might adopt it.

Just thinking out loud, I know you've got to juggle priorities and features with limited time.

Thanks again!
Is "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" a valid argument?
The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse is a term for internet criminals, or the imagery of internet criminals.

A play on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it refers to types of criminals who use the internet to facilitate crime and consequently jeopardize the rights of honest internet users. There does not appear to be an exact definition for who the Horsemen are, but they are usually described as terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime. Other sources use slightly different descriptions but generally refer to the same types of criminals. The term was coined by Timothy C. May in 1988, who referred to them as "child pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc."[1] when discussing the reasons for limited civilian use of cryptography tools. Among the most famous of these is in the Cypherpunk FAQ,[2] which states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyps...
Azores. They are on the mid-atlantic ridge. The Canaries are off the coast of Africa.
Move over Lockheed and Boeing. There's a new guy in town.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aslavery

a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.

I've been using this definition the whole time. I really didn't want to have this debate, but you're hunting me through the comments and forcing me to. How is it disrespectful to use a word in the way that it's defined? I'm genuinely curious and looking to learn.
Placester Raises $5.5M Series A Funding –
The article brings to mind this wonderful short story by Ray Bradbury, "Pedestrian" [1]

"What are you doing out?"
"Walking," said Leonard Mead.
"Walking!"
"Just walking," he said simply, but his face felt cold.
"Walking, just walking, walking?"
"Yes, sir."
"Walking where? For what?"
"Walking for air. Walking to see."

[1] http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1...
Threat Stack raises $2.7M in funding –
I understand virtual machines from my old IBM days, but
so far I have yet to do anything with them on PCs. Likely for my startup, as the work moves along (today made good progress on some de/serialization issues -- wrote some small test programs that showed that de/serialization was working
like it should; now to find out why it was not working
in the code of a Web page talking to one of my 'servers',
now just software on the same computer but intended to be
on a separate computer, TCP/IP communications in both cases).

The sand boxing security sounds good. Maybe in practice for years VMs are the only easy path we have to
security from 'malware', etc.

> Have you considered a hardware upgrade and switching to a virtual OS workflow?

I intend to buy a second computer fairly soon. I will install the copy of Windows 7 Professional I already have and then get used to the computer, arrange that each of my computers can copy backup files to the other one. And/or get a hard drive connected vis USB and some appropriate software, or maybe just use XCOPY or WinZip.

With two computers, if one of them is down for some reason, then I can still get to the Internet with the other one.

The second computer will also be the first server for
my startup, to go live fairly soon -- the software is all ready except I just need to debug the code for the last
two Web pages.

So this second computer will also have appropriate
copies from the Microsoft BizSpark program
of Windows Server, IIS, and SQL Server for production for
my startup.
DataXu Acquires JasperLabs – Venture Capital funding, Mergers and Acquisitions
http://craphound.com/makers/Cory_Doctorow_-_Makers.html (2012)

Now the place was spotless—and what’s more, it was
minimalist. The floor was not only clean, it was visible.
Lining the walls were translucent white plastic tubs
stacked to the ceiling.

“You like it?”

“It’s amazing,” she said. “Like Ikea meets
Barbarella. What happened here?”

Tjan did a little two-step. “It was Lester’s idea. Have
a look in the boxes.”

She pulled a couple of the tubs out. They were jam-packed
with books, tools, cruft and crud—all the crap that had
previously cluttered the shelves and the floor and the sofa
and the coffee table.

“Watch this,” he said. He unvelcroed a wireless
keyboard from the side of the TV and began to type: T-H-E
C-O. . . The field autocompleted itself: THE COUNT OF MONTE
CRISTO, and brought up a picture of a beaten-up paperback
along with links to web-stores, reviews, and the full text.
Tjan gestured with his chin and she saw that the front of
one of the tubs was pulsing with a soft blue glow. Tjan
went and pulled open the tub and fished for a second before
producing the book.

“Try it,” he said, handing her the keyboard. She began
to type experimentally: U-N and up came UNDERWEAR (14).
“No way,” she said.

“Way,” Tjan said, and hit return, bringing up a
thumbnail gallery of fourteen pairs of underwear. He tabbed
over each, picked out a pair of Simpsons boxers, and hit
return. A different tub started glowing.

[...]

“Have you ever alphabetized your hard drive? I mean, have
you ever spent any time concerning yourself with where on
your hard drive your files are stored, which sectors
contain which files? Computers abstract away the tedious,
physical properties of files and leave us with handles that
we use to persistently refer to them, regardless of which
part of the hard drive currently holds those particular
bits. So I thought, with RFIDs, you could do this with the
real world, just tag everything and have your furniture
keep track of where it is.
BizzPages
You misunderstand my "un-invaded land as a resource" point.

I'm just pointing out that un-invaded land is a resource, and that these people weren't able to cope with the loss of that resource.

So, is there something about un-invaded land that makes it different from other resources, such that humans can cope with losing others but not that one? If so, what makes it different? If not, then it shows that resource exhaustion can kill civilizations.

If un-invaded land is unique somehow, then obviously we're not under threat in that respect. But if it's not, then it demonstrates that this class of problem exists, and shows that we need to take steps to ensure we don't run out of the resources we do have looming problems with.
It could be perhaps a failure of society (mostly media and institution) for assuming what he was experiencing was "psychosis." Most religion could be considered psychotic or schizophrenic, yet it serves a very necessary purpose. I feel that much of what modern society considers 'mental illness' is actually a natural part of human development which religion developed around.
I'm not familiar enough with typical prosecutorial practice in the US legal system. However, when a prosecutor's overreaching actions in a case, which clearly was not for a heinous crime, results in the death of a bright young man who was fighting for freedom of information, I think it warrants that all parties are put under the spotlight and their actions adequately examined. If corrective steps are to be taken to avoid such tragedies, people have a right to know what wrongs were done before they can voice their opinions via their lawmakers/voting etc.
The senate hearing was a nice watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_azyt1JhI0
Need a lawyer-ish person to help me with this:

So SpaceX has an open lawsuit against the US Government for the awarding of a contract to a joint partnership between Lockheed/Boeing, and now SpaceX is granted the legal ability for the courts to stop the Lockheed/Boeing partnership from entering into any rocket-buying agreement with a Russian company.

How can this injunction bar Lockheed/Boeing partnership from performing this seemingly separate business transaction? (More to the point, I mean, a separate business transaction that Lockheed/Boeing could 'claim' was unrelated to the government award)

Does it have anything to do with the fact that Lockheed/Boeing created this new company (Open Launch thing) which technically won the contract and presumably is the entity making the purchase to this Russian company?
APIcon Hackathon
The reason to be off by default is that you needed the advertisers and publishers to voluntarily agree to honor the DNT flag. They can signficantlly make more money by targeting users based on tracking data (a targeted ad might be worth 10X a non targeted ad). Now you might not like that but, DNT is not a law, following it is completely 100% optional. You could probably even lie and say you follow when you really don't and there is little that could be done (I'm not a lawyer btw).

The advertisers agreed that as long as the flag had to be set manually by the user the would honor it. They made that agreement because it would not impact their revenue significantly. It would be very presumptuous to expect them to voluntarily destroy their own business. Because DNT is optional you need the advertisers and publishers to agree about it. So by making DNT on by default in IE advertisers walked away from the agreement and their is nothing we could do to stop them effectively killing DNT.

Now you mention most users don't want to be tracked, but what are they getting in exchange for being tracked? If you asked the average user would you allow your self to be tracked online to use Facebook I be most would say yes. How about you allow yourself to be tracked on line for 1 free latte at Starbucks/month? Again I think most would say yes.
It doesn't. As someone pointed out, Tic Tac Toe can be implemented in Finite State Machines [1], which have less computational ability than Turing Machines [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
That patch is set up for a later bug to be introduced: no brackets on the if statements.

Instead of:

+	if (wb->buf == NULL)
+	if (!ssl3_setup_write_buffer(s))
+	return -1;

Why not:

+	if (wb->buf == NULL) {
+	if (!ssl3_setup_write_buffer(s)) {
+	return -1;
+	}
+	}
Eh, still chuckled.

Consider the accent affected by #BigDataBorat...
This is why everyone's trying to cram into San Francisco. It's extremely walkable. At some point Americans decided to abandon the walkable city that was designed by thousand year old civilizations and spread out like crazy. Thus requiring cars. Now people are realizing why driving everywhere isn't such a good idea.

Trust is also increasingly disappearing in America and the car, gated communities, and spread out maze-like suburbs are what people put in front to make themselves feel safe.
The password I am asking for is completely independant from your HN password. I make note of that in the text underneath the form area but you are not the first person to assume that I'm referring to one's HN password. You are absolutely right though, as a user, I would never give up my HN password to a random 3rd party. Your authentication implementation idea completely sidesteps any ambiguity - I'm going to go ahead and move towards this as soon as I can. Again, thanks for your feedback!
The youtube video stabilization makes for wobbly video. I take video inside of race cars, and they're unwatchable if you use the youtube stabilization. They turn out much more watchable without it.
A friend sent me this article on IM, and I read it when I needed a break. I needed a break because the method I want to call is private, and deprecated, and the suggested substitute in the deprecation comment doesn't exist. If I go ahead and call it via reflection, the implementation is commented out with a TODO comment.

Sigh.
Does anyone here do Java development sans IDE -- like, say, with Emacs?
The majority of Apple's revenue is from outside the US. I have no idea what proportion of their credit card data is from outside the US, but we don't have these ID numbers.
http://www.worldofapple.com/archives/2014/01/27/apple-posts-...
If you liked that you'll love this:

http://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-up-to-lambda-calcul...

and

http://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-la...
Same thing in parts of New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy, Verizon refused to rebuild the landlines and installed 4G base stations instead.
After testing around 10 at random, they seem to have the same md5 hash.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/11391873@N05/
Yep. SCATS is the name of the base system, very successfully exported to many countries overseas, some of which became our later customers. We were focused on third-party provision of complementary products.
You are right. The biggest pocket book has the biggest chance. Who is that? Zenimax? Facebook? IP claim fights when executives leave is not new in tech.
As my pilot buddy says: "Flying is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror".
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