skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an auto-biography, but one of my favorite books is a biography of a modern saint, or at least a man who I think will be canonized some day: Strange Vagabond of God[1], by Fr. John Dove, S.J.

The book tells the life-story of John Bradburne[2] – mystic, poet, wanderer, care-taker of lepers. There are very few recordings of John reciting his own poetry[3] but a couple of them were featured in a short film about his life: Mombe! (Cry Cattle!)[4] and Love (1971)[5].

For a Catholic Christian, the Church and Jesus always go together, for the Church is Our Lord's mystical body[6], of which he is the head. The Apostle St. Paul in his epistle to Timothy refers to the Church as the "pillar and foundation of truth"[7]; St. Cyprian of Carthage, a bishop in the 3rd Century, would remind his flock that "he cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother."[8] The Church is the context for my personal relationships with Jesus and His Blessed Mother[9]. It is in and through the Church that I have received and am continually strengthened by the life of Divine Grace[10], nourished with the very body and blood of Jesus[11], and taught the truth about myself, other men, the world and its Creator and Redeemer.

[1] http://www.johnbradburne.com/shop.php

[&] http://books.google.com/books?id=VjdXWDpt34YC&pg

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradburne

[3] http://johnbradburnepoems.com/

[4] http://vimeo.com/23668242

[5] http://vimeo.com/23669547

[6] http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/docum...

[7] 1 Timothy 3:15, http://newadvent.org/bible/1ti003.htm

[8] On the Unity of the Church, paragraph 6, http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/fathers/view....

[9] http://www.catholictreasury.info/books/true_devotion/index.p...

[10] http://www.christianperfection.info/tta5.php#bk1

[11] http://www.livemass.org/LiveMass/dailyHD.html
>You can't DM someone that you don't follow. Twitter already exposes all the text of non-protected accounts to advertisers for their contextual ad products.

I agree but think about it this way. I follow Starbucks because I like them and visit them often. Now I see a link for discounted Starbucks coffee on Amazon and purchase them via twitter. Prior to that Starbucks had to make assumptions or run some machine algo on my tweets to determine: a) I am not a bot and b) My loyalty can or cannot be leveraged. However with this purchase, whenever they bring out a new flavor they could be certain with some confidence that I would make a purchase, thus messaging me personally or including me in one of their tweets.

Its not necessarily a bad thing but history has it that convenience always has its price.
You've used the memory metaphor a couple times, but I'm not sure it's fitting. There's a significant difference between memory (for most people) and a camera that's always on. Yes, it would be absurd to toss someone in jail because s/he happened to remember the license plate of some parked car. But that person didn't go to great lengths to set up an elaborate, distributed recording system. Those are different things.

As to my original question, I'm still curious how you'd feel. What if it were facial recognition on public sidewalks and parks, and not license plates? Would you feel differently?
To add another perspective, I very much dislike getting emailed patches. Creates more work for me. We use Phab add getting an email with a link, clicking the link and immediately seeing the diff is super easy. Reduces friction to increase use.
It has probably been given to the guys that have applied for the internship earlier this March (at least that't when I gave that email address to YC)
Oh I agree completely that sexual attraction shouldn't be the reason for a bad deal, but OTOH consider that there are a lot of very attractive women in sales who are able to subtly use that attraction as leverage.

Not that they promise sex or anything remotely that overt, only that a lot of men think with the wrong head and will go out of their way to please an attractive woman. That includes signing a deal they may not sign otherwise.

I don't fault women for this state of affairs.
> This is why corporations still use tapes, HDD's don't offer such protections

Well tape drives don't offer insurance either... As you mentioned, Oracle and IBM do. If you have the cash you can insure anything you'd like, even hard drives.
> One of little secret of Clojure is that you almost never use Java based library. Because it forces you not to use idiomatic Clojure. So, most library you'll use in Clojure are in fact Clojure made. From this point of view of number of libraries, Haskell and Clojure are in fact at the same level.

In a production server I'm running right now, I've used three java libs, wrapped them very nicely and neatly, and they work great.

> I was sold in part by the JVM argument. But in reality, in practice, I found it to be more a burden than a delight. First, the stack trace errors. To deploy your application, it is not just a "copy your jar in Tomcat". You have to serve using Clojure. So in reality, you don't get all advantages provided by the JVM environment, only some.

For my current app, I just need to do:
lein ring uberwar, copy to tomcat directory. done.

The rest I can't speak towards as I don't know Haskell. Also, it should be noted, I'm only offering counterpoints because I don't want people to not use clojure because of some of the incorrect claims. I guess we've had different experiences with clojure. :)
Automattic, makers of Wordpress.com, ... is more accurate.
"I never had access to the accountancy results"

Disclaimer: I work as a teacher and have done management committee work in the UK voluntary sector; charities housing coops &c. Pretty tight regulation.

Isn't having monthly management accounts (cash at bank, income, expenditure, liabilites) sort of basic? Am I being naive?
I have walked out of technical interviews having spent 40 minutes struggling to write code on a whiteboard, sat down in front of a laptop, and coded a working solution in 5 minutes.

For my current job I was provided with the specifications for a simple app to display images from a flickr rss feed and asked to code however I felt was appropriate. It was interesting and fun, and vastly less stressful than any whiteboard test.

It was also a great indicator of what working at the company was actually going to be like.
Some links:

Book landing page: http://kcovia.com/thebookofnaming.html

My naming methodology: http://kcovia.com/naming-methodology/

Other writings about startup naming:
http://kcovia.com/naming-strategy/
With how Jesus scholarship as a field has evolved and how achademia as an industry operates, it is not surprising that a "scholar" was duped.
Slug, unsurprisingly, wouldn't be very high [0]. I've always felt like nearly every rapper he's associated with is great, but he's kind of mediocre.

I don't see any data on Busdriver, but I imagine he'd fare better.

0 - http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/24nw9p/rapp...
Except there is a record of those crimes - and largely due to other persistent sensors like gunshot sensors that have been put into high crime areas [1]. This one individual was not involved in those activities so he did not see them in his FOIA request.

What you see with these types of sensors are easily deployable, fairly cheap, useful sensors that are doing what cops already do (license plate searches) only more quickly with the addition of geo-tagging.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator
This is the kind of gesture control I'd like to see for AR products like Google Glass. You shouldn't have to raise your hand to your face to interact with the device. It would be amazing to be able to control an AR headset under the table with your hand during a meeting or similar.
Massive +1 for this, I am an 'IRIX refugee' living in Linux-land and I miss the sheer class that went with everything SGI. I am so pleased there are some people out there making sure the memory lives on.

I would personally quite like the 'cpueater' desktop back, with some giant SGI logo rotating around in the corner of my desktop. I know everything is supposed to be better these days, but I don't feel it is. So much of the IRIX desktop - including the screen savers - could do with being rediscovered. I liked things like those little scroll wheels to zoom up the icons in a folder. The icon animations were pretty cool too, they had a language of their own so you knew if something was open or running from the icon state.

Thinking about it, when IRIX died, Linux was just a little bit lame on the look and feel aspect. Imagine how cool it would have been if the picks of IRIX were ported to Linux to deliver a decent desktop. SGI could have done that but they went with NT. Had they gone the Linux direction they could have brought the 3D content tool makers over to it and they could have created something useful for programmer types. But it all went babies and bath water.

P.S. Is Google Docs still down?
You are communicating a difficult lesson very well.

Do you want me to copy-edit the text? I can do this later Wednesday evening (UK time zone)?
This is inaccurate; water content is one of the easiest things to measure with near-infrared spectroscopy, and NIR has enough penetrance to be useful even for fruits with fairly tough skins (eg avocados, see last link below)

There are multiple commercial manufacturers selling NIR sensors for fruit quality control:

http://www.moisttech.com/

http://www.ndc.com/en/Products/On-Line-NIR-Gauges.aspx

Research articles:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673116/
http://www.cropj.com/miraee_4_3_2010_175_179.pdf
http://www.brimrose.com/pdfandwordfiles/I_GRASA-CSIC.pdf
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/36050.pdf (avocados)
Thank you! I can't believe I missed it and didn't think to check for a white paper for this. Especially since that's what really cleared up bitcoin's proof of work blockchain to me.
Marketing with Alex review
Sam Altman on Valuation, Competition, and Evil
What's the difference between React and Ractive?
Given these stories, I sometimes wonder if 750 years from now, a copy of the National Enquirer will be found in pristine condition, and, it will be taken as representative of today's society... people will start using "Kardashian" as an archaic honorific, for example...
With whom are you disputing, though? Who's suggesting the type of law you mentioned? When people express concerns about surveillance tech, we aren't talking about one pedestrian looking at another pedestrian. It's not hard to imagine a world in which a) there are no mass license plate recording devices, and b) it's perfectly legal to look at another person on the street.
Yes, I'm the author. You'll find my contact info at the frontpage of the blog. Please, send my any feedback :)

The language is a simplified variant of Lisp. This is just a toy language, so a lot of things from a real Lisp will be missing, but I think there's enough to give you a sense of the core of the language. Actually, this version isn't too far off from the original Lisp written by John McCarthy over 55 years ago.
I suspect this'll be the basis of a new major version, based on early discussions. It probably won't be a 5.x release.
Geeks and Money
In my opinion, "stop emitting information if you want privacy" is just as weak an argument as "stop spying on me by remembering information that you perceive." There is a continuum between privacy and convenience, and a certain amount of privacy must be given up in order to actually get things done. Mass surveillance takes advantage of the necessity of leaking information in order to control people. Taking extreme measures just to get a little bit of privacy should not be necessary - you should have a "reasonable" amount of privacy by default.

It is the intent and reasoning behind the collection of this information that is usually found to be objectionable, not the actual process of perceiving and remembering it. And the opposite applies here - just as a certain amount of information must be leaked in order to get things done, a certain amount of information must be spied upon in order to regulate things. It's all about balance.
If you open the link provided, you can see that OSM doesn't even have basic road names. So in any app, that would be a big drawback. thanks for your reply. Whats going on my mind is that I will use Google Maps for some time. Cause this will make easy for users. When we will have enough users, we'll make the switch. Porting all our data to OSM. What do you think about this ?
For handling distributed convergence in an entirely trusted space, take a look at Vector Clocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock

Blockchains build off the general concept by introducing proof of work and consistent design to handle forks (longest blockchain wins)
I don't think this fact is discussed much when people talk about excessive executive compensation. It's sort of like TV actors who negotiate tens of thousands of dollars per episode or sports stars who may not have more than a five year career.
> When I start using a language, there are usually some situations where I can't understand why my code isn't doing what I expect it to do. When that happens to me in a language like JavaScript, for example, finding out what the problem was is generally a very frustrating experience

This is a very weird paragraph to me because I've experienced the exact opposite. You can see my frustration in this stack overflow question I titled "How do I get better feedback from Clojure errors?": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16901836/how-do-i-get-bet...

While I agree that JavaScript has tons of "Wat" quirks that shouldn't be there, I rarely run into them. And more importantly, when I get errors in JavaScript, the cause is relatively easy to track down.

With Clojure on the other hand, it is really difficult for me to figure out why I'm getting the error. Yes, I get the error because I "was doing it wrong", but the errors don't help me figure out what I was doing wrong.

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> With Clojure your editor (be it Vim, Emacs, Light Table...) is permanently connected to a live REPL. You continually develop, test and modify functions with subsecond feedback. Continuously. All the cores in your brain are lit, as you have literally no time to think about anything else. That's not only deeply satisfying, but also leads you to certain thought paths that slow feedback and its inevitable lower focus would have simply blocked. That's one of my favorite parts of Clojure.

This is very useful when you're writing new code, but I found myself scratching my head when I had to go back and modify already existing code to add a feature. As a workflow, I don't "get" when/how you're supposed to add automated tests when you're using REPL driven development. But, once I went back to my code, I always wished they were there.

You see, I'd modify the code and break something and then the problem I described above made fixing it very time consuming. Usually the cause of my problem was my simple functions wouldn't integrate together the way I expected. The REPL gave me the quick feedback to say that "increment-number" worked, but I would accidentally pass in a String or a vector into the function.
I remember reading (with horror) the methods for factoring cubics and quartics and thinking, "Well, I guess that's what they did before they had Newton's method and computers." Ewwwww.
You have a point. A serious one.

Not sure, but I guess, the distinction here is active vs passive surveillance. If there's an attack on my privacy (i.e. a stalker or a bunch of ones targeting me) - that would be problematic, because I'm quite limited on (legal) options to stop that behavior.

If someone walks around the city and records everything they see, systematizing the collected data - well, we all do this. Our brains do this, our smartphones do this, some of the cars do this, and as tech progresses a number of examples would only rise. Technology just enhances our vision and memories, and I think it would be very bad idea to limit that.

Yet, I don't know the solution. I just say, that I believe "make it illegal to record things" is a bad option too - maybe not as bad as "make everyone wear garbage bags", but certainly not a good solution.

Added: I say that because I have somehow bad memory (medium-term one, like remembering dialogs after half an hour or faces of the people I met yesterday) and really happy that modern tech helps me to mitigate this issue. Obviously, I'm not thinking of spying on anyone, but I think having an ability to remember anything that happened around has a value.
>"even a few minutes"
Oh boy, do they have straight roads where you come from...
Show HN: Born With Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Story
>I don't like the idea of forbidding someone to remember things they've seen

There's a huge difference between a human, who can typically only remember a fairly limited amount of information, and a machine that is only limited by its hard drive capacity.
How much did Target actually lose as a result of the breach, and how much of this talk is just post hoc ergo propter hoc?
Time to write three letters.
Most Americans Make It To The Top 20 Percent (At Least For A While)
I received a similar email and have applied for an internship sometime during March. YC did mention they received over 1600 applications for it.

Pretty cool gesture.

Though, I think you are slightly luckier than I am because I received 0.002315 BTC :P
function renderApplication(tweets) {
return(document.dom.ul(
{ class: 'tweets' },
tweets
.sort(compareTweetsByScore)
.slice(0, 5)
.map(function(tweet) {
return(document.dom.li({ class: 'tweet' }, tweet.text);
})
));
}

What I like best about Ember and Angular.js is that you don't have any hint of the DOM in your controllers. I don't like how the above example mixes concerns.
Your assumption of $100/month is way too low.
I think that's a bit past hyperbole, that's 200 end-to-end "wraps" per tape cartridge. A tape drive is (in theory) a LOT more durable, my drive has an official MTF of 250,000 hours at a 100% duty cycle.

That said, at least for my purposes, using one such SSD drive as a 5+ year "consumable" would work just fine, and the price for the Intel 335 is just fine.

(On the third hand, since all my system "disks" are LSI RAID 1 2 disk mirrors, I had all the infrastructure to add a 3rd drive, and I trusted Seagate enterprise SAS drives more than I trusted SSDs of that class 3 years ago (not that the latter were big and durable enough back then, unless perhaps you went to the $$$$$$ enterprise level of SSDs drives), I use the drive for some other backup systems, like sending my most important data to rsync.net using rsyncrypto, so I need some speedy disk to disk action. When I do a major system refresh in 2+ years I'll seriously consider SSDs, or if I have to replace my LTO-4 drive before then and need to seriously look at LTO-5 drives and media; I just passed the 2 LTO-4 tapes per monthly full backup threshold....)
Here's The Solution To That Encoded NSA Puzzle Tweet
Yep. Those Kardashians are a real pain.

Especially Gul Kim.
TL;DR: URLs matter; we as developers need to make them relevant again; hiding them is a terrible idea

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I guess this goes to the app-ification of the web.

There's a dangerous slippery slope here. If we're OK with this happening, are we then OK with getting rid of that domain further down the line? What about routing all traffic through Google first so it can check if a URL is "safe" or not. The whole thing strikes me as creating a more locked-down web.

URLs and View-Source are fundamental elements of the vision Tim Berners-Lee. WorldWideWeb, the first web browser had it front and center. Mosaic moved it to the top, where we most know the URL scheme to exist. Safari moved the URL box to the same line as other navigation (what is now more common). Every step of the way, the scheme has been getting reduced for usability purpose.

But the problem with that approach is that it communicates that the web is "hard" instead of educating users in how to understand it and how to build on it.

And we, as technical people have not helped much here. Look at the URL up here. Yes, we know that it's hacker news but what does the ID mean? It has no semantic meaning to a user (unless you know that this is the 7678580th story on HN and care about that). A nice URL would be something like http://hackernews.com/story/google-experiments-with-URLs

Wordpress actually does this by default, even adding a date scheme to it, which makes the web a better place:

http://site.com/year/month/day/story-title-can-go-here is an easy to read URL and yes it's a pain to code properly when you're dealing with a dynamic site but hey it's our jobs to make sure we do things that are beautiful for users.

So maybe this is a wake up call.
I love how, through all the hate and bandwagoning, some people don't get discouraged and actually do something to improve the product.

We still do new projects in PHP and we couldn't be happier.
Here's the part that doesn't make sense to me, and hopefully someone can explain it:

Netflix pays Level 3 and Cogent to connect them to Comcast's network. Comcast claims that only the Level 3 connection is saturated, and that Netflix is sending all their bandwidth over Level 3 because it's cheaper for them.

Doesn't Level 3 buy a contract from Comcast that says "we get to send this much data per month"? If Netflix (or Level 3) tries to push more data through that, which causes congestion, it seems like a contractual fact that Comcast is either holding up their end of the bargain or not.

If that's true, and assuming that Comcast is transferring the contractually agreed upon part, isn't this actually Netflix and Level 3's fault? Isn't it reasonable to assume that Netflix would need to either use another entry point into Comcast's network, or build one?

If Netflix/Level 3 congest one entry point, so movies stream slowly for Comcast users, it doesn't seem like Comcast is being unneutral, in the sense of packet inspection and routing based on content/source.

The problem seems upstream from the last mile networks, and it's very unclear to me whose fault it is, and if this even has anything to do with net neutrality at all (it doesn't seem to).

Please correct me where I'm wrong, I'm sure I am!
If you see any factual inaccuracies in the substance of my conclusions, please let me know (for example, swannodette's updated information in a sibling comment is very useful). I will update my article to correct the distinction you mentioned.

> You can't blame me for disregarding everything after that mistake can you?

Yes, I think it's unreasonable and uncharitable. Any nontrivial piece of work is going to have mistakes. I was investigating a set of technologies that were totally new to me (React, ClojureScript, Om) and I had no friends who were experts in the subject matter to review the article for me prior to publishing it. Given that, I think I did a pretty good job actually. The mistake you mention has no impact on the article's conclusions.

My article was not attacking or argumentative, but a good-faith attempt to understand the prior article's claims better.
Well, all other things held equal, most customers would prefer to buy from an existing vendor (one throat to choke and all). Given the nature of most RFPs for this kind of software it's hard to win on value since the requirements are laid out in advance; so you almost have to win on price. The danger of winning one of these contracts is that SAP/Oracle/IBM all know how difficult their ERP systems are to integrate with, and if you can under-price them, you're likely underestimating that cost.

Basically, there's a lot that can go wrong and you need to have a certain scale before you even attempt to go after the big whales. You shouldn't be trying to work with them while building out the basic version of your product.