skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very common for people to blame external factors for their own shortcomings. Gender descrimination may have played a part in whatever trama made her so defensive, but it also may have played no part at all. Her perception of gender descrimination is skewed, so why would you take it at face value? We are all capable of experiencing events which never actually occured (as she did in your class) and so scapegoats are not necessarily tied to the events and mindset which lead to the problem in the first place.
Or they could simply use rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
It's a really phenomenal film. It was shown a couple of years ago at SIGGRAPH's annual animation festival with John Lasseter (of Pixar) introducing it and saying it was one of his favorite films and a real inspiration to him.

Frederic Back (the creator of the film), was present as well, though not in great health. When he was brought on stage (I think after the screening), Lasseter had tears in his eyes.

Sadly, Back died at the end of last year.

We spent the whole day in silence, walking through his forest. It was in three sections, and measured 11 kilometres long and 3 kilometres at its widest. When I reminded myself that all this was the work of the hand and soul of one man, with no mechanical help, it seemed to me that men could be as effective as God in tasks other than destruction.
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French bills evolution versionned in git and visualized with d3
Not in this case [1], or rather, not always. And if you consider where the term arose (canaries in mines), it's really an issue of state more than it is absence. If the state of the canary changes it's cause for alarm.

In this situation, warrant canaries (or maybe an NSL canary as the case might be) is a subtle indication that everything is no longer in a known-good state and something has been compromised.

Although given some of the comments by danielweber, I'm increasingly less inclined to believe this was a canary. Developers throwing in the towel might be a more plausible situation, no matter how disappointing that may be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
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Has capitalism succeeded so wildly that it's now basically invisible? So something created and meant to be sold, but having some other quality ("art", in this case), can't be considered a "product"?
I used Epiphany last time I needed something like this. https://github.com/jmathai/epiphany

Note that is more than a router, it's a microframework.
Yes, and so does a publisher. Publishers don't provide free services; it gets paid for by the author in the form of reduced royalties.

If there's increased money to be made in edited books, the market will find a way.
In the campaign page, it states that 1 in 4 kids is illiterate in the US. Is it just me or does that seem untrue? I would of expected it to be something like 1 in 10 maybe...
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Communism per se is badly, badly broken. Piketty seems to be drawing to trying to get the genie of international capital back into the bottle. I doubt that's do-able.

Megan McArdle has, I think, a fine treatise on how the globalization of capital killed off the equilibrium that made even organized labor possible:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/e023c820e0110130a0d758...

In the world described by JK Galbraith's "Modern Industrial State", organized labor sorta made sense. Now? Not so much.

Hayek and Milton Friedman ( generally considered economists of the Right, although that has problems ) have both espoused a basic income/negative tax. That's quite distinct from Communism.
Oh I see what's going on! They cancelled it in 2009 because of their surpassing epic smartness, to create more demand for this for-profit venture, and to raise more money on kickstarter 5 years later. Washington post, hire me.

Seriously though, cancelling the show in 2009 was probably just a mistake or it could have been anyway.
I'm not even talking about Lavabit. They have done this to others (it was unconstitutional at the time, but was not yet declared as such). They could do it again. Only the most selfless person would be able to bring it to the publics attention.

Until the current regime is dismantled, we cannot rule out the possibility that these abuses are ongoing. To label it as a conspiracy theory is just shameless apologetics.
Check whats your need, if you are building up much bigger apps go for a fully fledged framework, rest for small apps you can use microrouters , according to your need, each has its own unique features.
Comparing someone thinking less of women with someone who starts killing people? Now there are two similar things to compare (great example of two similar things)...
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Customer here. It's far superior to any regular bank I've used, but lately I've stopped using them in favor of a credit union (who offer some extra services that Simple doesn't). Their web and smartphone apps are slick, but I've been using Mint.com for years and it provides a lot of the same features. I don't really care for Simple's "Goals" method of budgeting.
"has nothing to do with sexism" is too strong.
imgabe has it right: "they aren't cruel because they are sexist, they are sexist because they are cruel."

Consider 1960's era Chicago real estate agent who makes money by the following process:

1) Scare white people out of the neighborhood by having a black woman push a baby in a stroller outside their house.

2) Buy their house for cheap

3) Rent-to-own the house to black people and just as they are about to own it, bring up some bullshit thing and evict them.

He is more likely motivated by greed than a desire to fuck over black people for the sake of racism. But he's still acting racist and contributing to the system of systemic racism. A troll how picks sexist remarks to fuck with people isn't really motivated by a sincere desire to advance sexism...but they are still contributing to sexism as a systemic problem.
"If Reading Rainbow is so epically popular, then why was the show cancelled to begin with?"

This, of course, assumes perfect knowledge and efficiency. I wonder if the author of this piece would make the same sloppy argument against, say, Tell Me More, which, NPR announced this month, will be cut (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314256024/npr...). Or consider Firefly, the arch-example of clueless program cutting (https://www.blastr.com/2013-5-3/netflix-exec-explains-why-th...).

I'm not saying this program was good or should be brought back (I never watched the original and don't know anything about it) but doing a hack piece on a KS campaign with such scant reasoning is not cool.
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I think this is really awesome stuff. Now please someone turn this into a product. Take existing FPGAs and the synthesized hardware, and some place and route data, and generate cycle perfect simulations. If you do this, I can almost guarantee that you will be acquired by one of the big HDL companies, and you might even get to make a tool widely used and loved by EEs on the Internet everywhere. We've got spice online, we've got schematic capture online, now cycle accurate hardware simulation is the next target.
This time we'll kill the right people... :)
The kernel isn't the only thing. What about drivers? Getting random hardware peripherals to work with a single-board computer is not always straightforward. A larger community means there is more documentation out there on how to get things working.
That is incorrect as of 2010 and was incorrect for several states before 2010. :/
By what measure is Google poorer than Microsoft? They have less free cash flow, but a greater market cap.

http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT
http://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG
What do you currently build?

Native Android or iOS?

What IDE do you use and what issues do you face?

Thanks for your comment!
Amazon has the beginnings of this in place with Createspace.

My father just published a book through them and received rudimentary copy editing and page layout assistance from Createspace for this.

For serious scholarly editing you must hire an outsider, however. My father used an outside editor and an independent person to create the index.

The end result for my father's book is aesthetically acceptable (not amazing).

The fact that this could happen is an indication that the publishing industry is ripe for (cue HN's favorite word, thrown around with wild and frankly immature abandon) disruption.

The book is a biography of Frank Miller, who built the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA. (Think of a hotel version of the Hearst Castle, built by someone who had less money than William Randolph Hearst.)

The number of people who are interested in the book is limited -- Frank Miller is a a semi-obscure historical figure of the American West, interesting to a few scholars and a few people in the glorious Inland Empire of California. That said, I think my father has several hundred in hard copy sales already.
You say that as if you believe Google will never have a hiring freeze. Are you really that naive to think Google will continue to expand indefinitely? They absolutely will hit a point when they can't just leave the number of new hires uncapped. That's where the rubber meets the road when it comes to corporate social engineering, though everyone seems to just hand-wave that away.
It depends how you define illiterate. People need to show what figure they're using when they claim a particular illiteracy rate.
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Why the lack of any other people?
There's lots of people other than women on the net, but I guess that doesn't count when sexism is present.
So, Where Are My Robot Servants?
Unfortunately a new balance is not easily achieved. Take "editing" as an example:

Most of us read "well edited" books, therefore we take "editing" for granted.
I am an amateur book reviewer & blogger. And I regularly come across badly edited or not-at-all edited books/stories. IMHO, editing can be (at least for me) the difference between greatly enjoying a story and parking a book on the side after a few dozen pages.

Then publishers also come with some sort of brand loyalty. I have my favorite publishers (and editors for that matter). For example, when I hear about the book rights acquisitions of a new author from my favorite publishers or imprints I get really excited. Because I know they've been publishing the type of content I enjoy.

So, all in all, it's shortsighted to see publishers as just "middle-man". This ecosystem has evolved to be more complicated than that.
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> They’re being talked down to, fired, catcalled, harassed, abused, and raped—and blamed for it, too.

In this sentence, they means "women", but practically the same applies to men as well. All people, really. Employees are getting fired, getting talked down to by their superiors and customers. People are catcalled, insulted, ridiculed, harassed. Recent research indicates that domestic abuse is practically gender-blind. Men are getting raped too, mostly only in prison, but also in real life (but the laws often don't recognize that as rape). And a lot of people are getting killed every day in situations that could be prevented.

It looks like a huge sarcasm how this recent tragic shooting has been converted into a discussion about misogyny, not about guns. You're always going to have crazy people. Woman haters, men haters, children haters, liberal haters, people haters. The common denominator is guns.

Edit: Downvoters, explain? Or are you just expressing your disagreement in the wrong way?
I think the grandparent poster meant nursing homes where mentally disabled people work taking care of the residents, not nursing homes that care for the mentally disabled.
thanks, I did sign up
Transplanting a tree that has been growing for 20 years would generally require a substantial amount of digging!
Number 7 on the front page and rising, with 7 upvotes, at 1:26PM.

Will be flagged out of existence by 1:35 PM or so (predicted).

EDIT: At 1:33PM it's dropping fast, currently at #28.

EDIT: And at 1:35PM it's gone, no longer in the top 300 posts. And this comment is receiving heavy downvoting.
That explanation fits well with the n-grams results. Thank you.
Disclosure: The writer is a friend of mine.

That being said, she is one of the few science/technology writers whose articles I read from beginning to end, because the fascinate and engage me.
The last two paragraphs sum it up pretty damn well. I don't trust my money in any investor's hands right now, especially after witnessing my parents lose almost everything, so it will take me some time to re-invest in the market. I also believe a lot of Millennials are looking at their current cost of living, student loans, and low paying jobs to be another issue.
Might be because the script is injected during `onload`, which is arguably the very end of the page-loading process. But, yeah, the hint is clearly incorrect in the latest version of Chrome.
1. I want a "build a language" learning path, updated for the modern ways and with emphasys in what to do after get the AST (ie: Is easy to find info about lexing, parsing and build a AST. But not what to do with them)

Something that explain how implement small bits (like: This is how build a assigment, how build a function, how check types, etc)
It's very nice to read some women have positive experiences and that some companies are able to create a discrimination-free culture. I'm happy for Gosia and it gives me some hope for the future.

What I am scared of is some people using what Gosia wrote as an argument to silence other women: "Look! Read! See? It's not bad! So shut up".
Another approach is sql.NullString and related types from database/sql: http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#NullString

foo := sql.NullString{"bar",true}
if foo.Valid {
fmt.Println(foo.String)
}
Looks like a server room with barely anything in it. Two rack mount cabinets, lots of exit signs and fire extinguishers, whatever they've got on the walls, lighting and signs for the rows. This appears to be room 140.
Possibly, but the internationalization of capital has made this much harder.

Throw in that governments have lousy track records at actual redistribution... it's much harder than it looks. You have to have government-levels of instrumentation of the processes, and that's expensive. This isn't just governments, either - public charities can run into this problem as well.
I feel the exact same way. After building a few systems (mostly out of IBC totes) I played around with the idea of doing this as a startup. I'm not 100% convinced in-house growing will ever go mainstream though. My guess is that a small number of people will have these systems and most will rely on regional high tech grow facilities that can take better advantage of scale. This comes to mind: http://brightfarms.com/s/
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> Not to say that can't be addressed in this new world

Before I buy a book, I read the online reviews of it, and check the reputation of the author. I don't look at who published it.

I find these to be a good predictor of whether the book is good for me or not.
I guess we may be seeing a story soon about 4chan swapping to an alternative analytics provider, I'm very interested to see what challenges Moot will run into whilst swapping over.
Care to spoil how? I used an external server (Dropbox), but I'd love to know how to do it without.
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Abstract sockets were added to Linux waaaaaaaaaaaay before dbus existed - they were already there in 2.4.0, which is as far back as the history I have goes. You really can't blame the Freedesktop people for them. If your init daemon doesn't run on Linux there's no reason to care about supporting them, either. Write a library that implements sd_notify(), and just leave that bit out.
Big props to Leap Motion on the skeletal tracking. It was very easy to use. Took me around an hours to dust off my 3d trig and build this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX7pQlB6-IY&feature=youtu.be

So easy to use...
Good idea - I'll add it to my to-do list :-)
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Dish/Echostar is a very frugal organization. Maybe it's less about subscriber privacy and more about boosting revenue a tiny amount when skipping credit card merchant fees.
If he wants his client to meet the development team it almost certainly means the exact opposite: he's pushing for larger agency deals with clients offering projects big and complex enough for the client to want some line of communication with the rest of the dev team, and trusts the dev team isn't going to cut him out of the loop altogether.

A guy that brings you random spec work that includes you as "his company" in his pitch is a lot less likely to ditch you than a guy that brings you random spec work who represents himself as a one-man band whilst subcontracting the work to you, or for that matter a regular small business client contracting with you.
How complicated were the Etsy routes? And were the added overhead and complexity?

And I know it is a pain to restart Apache each time there's a change to the configuration file, but does anyone know the time differences between a PHP router and Apache rewrites?
Would Piwik be feasible on that level?
If dish is hacked and their credit cards on file are stolen, yours will not be one of them.
That's a good point, and it's certainly true on many fronts. Commercial alternatives are questionable at best (particularly given the NSA revelations), but the F/OSS community (and others) relied perhaps too heavily on popular software like TrueCrypt to fill the void. Now that it's gone and the other alternatives aren't quite as cross-platform as one might like, it does seem to illustrate a dearth of cryptographic software available for the general public.

Given that border searches of electronic hardware are becoming more commonplace in the US, I should think that something like this is important. I know when I was driving back and forth to university, the thought crossed my mind when I had my laptop with me as I went through the border patrol checkpoint that there wasn't anything much I could do (outside lawyering up) if they took it upon themselves to grab it and search. Sure, the worst they could have done was read my email (and maybe clear out the junk folder for me while they're at it), but it was the principle of feeling so violated by the act itself that drove me to stuff all my school work into a TrueCrypt volume.

(This was years ago, and TC was the best option for XP. Though I later switched the laptop over to Linux.)
This is because at some point ( like ... about now ) consumption becomes the bottleneck* for production.

*actually becomes the bottleneck for the transfer function between consumers and producers we call markets...
Hi, I am also in BC and am currently vetting some freelancers for a web dev project. My email is in my HN profile.

It wouldn't be a 20k project but up to possibly half that (is the offers I am getting so far).

Talk soon,
GH
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I think you nailed it there. Market cap is valuation and subject to change on a whim [edit- specifically, it's a measure of sentiment; it's a prediction of future cash flows] . Free cash flow is probably a more accurate measurement of the "poor" vs. "rich" concept. Let's be honest though- both companies are filthy rich.
I remember the open web. It was great. You'd get into a WebRing and just keep going.
Apart from the good background here about how the wrong lawyers can mess up your company:

Operating without vesting is the most common and probably most harmful company formation mistake you can make. It is amazingly dangerous to do, and will very likely end up costing you something.

Any lawyer who doesn't spot that and totally freak out at you is probably not the right lawyer for the kind of work we all do.
TrueCrypt slide removed at request of US Government? [pdf]
I was unsure of the visibility of the page and unsure if the page could be deleted or edited before we had time to discuss it. It was also just a paragraph of text.
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One of the planned features according to the TrueCrypt website, was "Full support for Windows 8".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Planned_features
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When I read the OP I was thinking exactly along these lines. There are a lot of nifty tricks you can use with atomic compare-exchange.

The Mac/iOS equivalent is the OSAtomicCompareAndSwap family of functions.

For C# users, I wrote about Interlocked.CompareExchange here: http://www.russbishop.net/interlocked-compareexchange. It's one of the few high-level language operations that maps directly to a processor instruction.

If you have side-effect-free mutation functions you can use compexch to merge mutations among multiple threads without locking or blocking, which I've used with immutable snapshots to provide transactional consistency to in-memory objects (without having to pre-check all conditions before mutation or having to create inverses for all operations that can 'roll back' the object mutations). Combined with immutable collections using AVL trees you can get copy-on-write immutable snapshots which is the only real way to deal with massive (50GB+) in-memory datasets that need highly concurrent reads, what-if temporary writes, and permanent writes.
Put it in .htaccess. No restarts needed.
Slide 23.

BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Enigma
Looks like preserve-3D support is "in development" for now. I wish there provided more visibility that that.

Why don't they at least say which version of IE they expect that to land in? Does that mean IE12? IE13? Some minor bump of IE11?
I live in the rural south. While I agree with what you're saying, you'd be hard pressed to convince most people here of that.

Professional football is by far the most respected profession here. Top of the food chain. Of course, most teenagers recognize they aren't going to make the high school team, let alone make it into the professional realm. If you do make the team, well, try as hard as you can. And of course, most people still don't make it, there's just not enough demand for pro football players. But it's still a huge thing that people aspire to. If you do make it, everyone is going to speak of you with awe. There's a couple guys who grew up near where I did and every single person who knew them or knew of them (anyone you meet will eventually bring them up in conversation) speaks of them with total reverence - they _made it_.

Unless your parents are wealthy and/or well-educated, most people don't have a "career" as such in mind - just jobs. Football stands out - especially since the perception is that the only other professional careers boil down to things like "doctor" or "lawyer" which (so the thinking goes) require highly exceptional intelligence beyond the ken of most people, and anyway, they aren't nearly as glorious or high-paying. So it's all about aspiration - and in some places, pro sports is at the top, even if you or I think it constitutes a terrible or unrealistic career choice.

Now, in my experience, that aspiration is strongly correlated not so much with race but with your family's educational history, professions, and income. "Rich" kids (parents with income > 60k) grow up in an environment where they really understand there are other opportunities out there. They're more likely not just to go to college, but grow up believing that college is an inevitability and part of life. A ton of kids never even get that far. I think that's the kind of kid he's talking about.