skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a list of counterforces?
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
https://prism-break.org/en/all/
...

And EFF is NSA centric - is there a UK equivalent? Why are GCHQ getting insignificant heat?
Well, what would it take to record the whole US? One version says that we make ~5 calls a day on our phones [1] and ownership hovers at 80-90% of the 18+ population (and probably a bunch younger). The US is 311 million, lets say 80% of 300 million, so 240 million people making 5 calls / day.

The average call length is 1.8 minutes right now [2]. So we've got 240 mil person * 5 calls / person-day * 365 days * 1.8 min / call. So, about 788 billion minutes of calls / year at a flow rate of about 2 billion calls / day.

At MP3 compression of 128kbps, vocal data takes about 0.94 MB / minute [3]. So, close to 688 petabytes of storage data at a rate of about 1.9 petabytes / day. Seems within the realm of doable.

The problem of analysing this is in the "ridiculous parallelism" category, so they'd just be constrained by server farm capacity. Lets say they had a system with a conservative million nodes. Each day, each node would have to process ~2 GB of audio data looking for patterns. Not even challenging. If I were clever, I'd probably run a brute force audio to text on each node, then a text to symbol pattern analyser. I'd also have higher level net processes that look for patterns in calls spatially and temporally, but with far less processors.

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2010/09/02/cell-phones-and-americ...

[2] http://www.statista.com/statistics/185828/average-local-mobi...

[3] http://iaudiophile.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-2081.html
I did. I contend you're reading too much into the study by American Psychological Association by the authors Gaucher, Friesen, & Kay called, “Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality.”

They polled 96 random women.

The study in its limited form did not (or even try to) differentiate the characteristics of any women who would find terms such as "intimate" in an engineering post as patronizing and incongruous.

I'd prefer not to alienate those type of women. To do so would run counter to the objectives the article is trying to promote!
That very much depends on the locale for the latter. If I call 911 and either hang up after they answer or if you say that it is not an emergency but rather a mistake or test, they'll still arrive where I am.
Women's underwear gets an upgrade
I highly recommend reading Chris Hadfield's book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth". He talks a lot about remaining calm under pressure, and how astronauts train to burn that mentality in.

Beyond that, it's simply a great book.
They could also help drive HTTPS adoption by being more alarmist about unencrypted traffic (e.g. a warning triangle instead of a globe icon).
The parent comment is saying that those things wouldn't be created in the first place if the environment were already hostile to them. You can hide your present to some extent, but not erase the past.
I think the biggest factor to overcome would be confidence. To remain calm, you must be confident in both your abilities and those of the people you are trusting. If you have this confidence, then there is no reason not to be calm, as you know you will work through the situation.
"PEG-based transformer provides front-, middle
and back-end stages in a simple compiler"

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010003_PEG.pdf
I agree with you about JSON. YAML Front Matter (like in Jekyll), allows you to have a mix of both markdown (for the bio part) and structured fields (for the education, past experiences, diplomas etc). Works for websites, should work for your resume.
Could try https first, then.

While it's possible to serve completely different pages and sites on https vs http, it's rare in practice, and would be reasonable to penalize.
Chrome extensions are pretty much Javascript+HTML bundles in fact. Something like what you suggest is not only possible but very easy to accomplish.
"if you are traveling to Long Island for a wedding but your passengers express an interest in going to Long Island to attend a baseball game." "Based on these facts, there appears to be a bona fide common purpose, as the destination was dictated by the pilot, not the passengers, and both you and your passengers have personal business to conduct in Long Island"

You can't just go there to transport people, but if you want to grab a burger at the airport restaurant while the people coming with want to go explore the city, that's allowable as you both have a purpose in going to that destination besides just transporting people.

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc...
> I am kind of embarrassed to admit that after all these years, I still don't understand Bitcoin. Not the underlying software and algorithms - but the concept, the system.

I don't either. Which brings me to a point, is it even intended for a mass audience and wide-spread adoption?

How could I explain Bitcoin to my mother for instance?

I'd end up down the rabbit hole just to explain the words and concepts used in the definition of Bitcoin...cryptography, private keys, wallets, addresses, miners, the block-chain, and on and on
5 Things You Must Do Before You Write a Line of Code
Shower is really great. It also defines sensible print styles which work well for "print to pdf".
So? Sue them.

And make sure to put this on the election agenda. Track a few politicians going to their mistresses to drive the point home.
RelateIQ is cool. I'm little surprised that they "gave up" so easily :-).

Regarding the exit, I would appreciate if somebody more experienced can give example how much is this for 1st employee. The sold company for $360. First employee probably got ~2% of stock options. They received $69 of investment and there was some dilution.
New product announcements from large tech companies make it to #1 before getting any comments on a regular basis. Submitting a duplicate URL counts as an upvote for the original submission, so it's pretty easy for something like this to make it to #1 just from people racing to be the first one to submit it.
And if other pilots are like me, destination is often irrelevant -- I have a general intention/desire to fly (log hours, stay current, etc.), and I'll go wherever weather, time and budget permit.

If I want to log two hours of cross-country flight time on a given day, which I will do regardless of having a passenger, is it against regulation to let that ride-sharing passenger pick the destination and split the bill?
So glad you mentioned Nacchio.
How about using "multipart/related" ? Would make sense to me. Although I've never seen that so I guess I must be missing something.
Working Smarter with Alfred: Custom Web Searches
"For example, landing pages, email signups, and fundraisers aren't ready to be tried out yet, so they don't count as Show HNs. Once it's ready, come back and share it then."

We take Show HN out of the title when posts don't fit the criteria for Show HN.

Edit: Oops, I quoted an earlier version of the guidelines. Will probably put that bit back.
I believe it is supposed to be messy. My understanding of those regulations is that they are intended to prevent unqualified pilots from engaging in commercial flights for passengers that may not be able to give informed consent about the dangers involved, while still allowing a private pilot to take Aunt Mildred up so she can see her house[1]. It's a messy problem.

[1] And the family on vacation, etc., etc.
HTTPS Everywhere works great, all the time, for me. I've never heard of "HTTP Nowhere". If you were just misremembering the name, it might have been a long ago old version? Or maybe the borrowed computer was otherwise jacked.
As were the originally proposed names "Cadabra" and "Relentless" (http://www.relentless.com still redirects to Amazon).
Wow, that sounds very bad to me. It's important to learn how data structures work, but I believe it's more important to learn how to find and re-use existing code/libraries in your work. This is something schools seem to be avoiding and even discouraging (mine didn't take it as far as your school, but they never once covered the standard libraries).

I've tutored students in Java classes who would write a bubble sort every time they needed to sort a List, instead of using Collections.sort, simply because they didn't know Collections.sort existed! Or their own ugly code of looping, indexOf and substring to get values from a CSV instead of using string.split(",") or a premade csv parser (which I know that professor would have been fine with, he would have even encouraged it).

Unless point of the project is to learn how to make one from scratch, you shouldn't be wasting your time writing an alphabetical sorting function when you can be solving novel problems.
It's not a question of legitimacy, isn't about demand. Currency is a token. You need tokens to play the game. The difference with taxes is that you don't choose to participate. You must play, so there is always demand for tokens.
Pilot, not attorney. I'll be shocked if FAA permits this -- though happy to see anything that helps make more general aviation enthusiasts.

What I infer through having read various FAA letters in the past is that there needs to be a personal relationship between the parties (preferably established in-person) in a context outside of "share airplane ride".

Of relevance is the FAA's 1985 Chero letter [1] about a similar Pilot/Passenger sharing: "The PPA system is not a casual one of an individual pilot wishing to take some friends or acquaintances with him on a trip. The PPA system would violate the letter, as well as the spirit, of Section 61.118."

The Haberkorn Letter (2009) [2] has relevant content:
"You question whether advertising, on Facebook, the specific time and date of your trip to your "friends/family/acquaintances" would be acceptable as a private pilot, since you do not consider yourself to be holding out to "the general public." As described above, holding out is accomplished when one communicates to the public, or a segment to the public, that transportation services are indiscriminately available to any person with whom contact is made."

In a later paragraph:

"You question whether you may post the specific time and date that you are travelling to Long Island on an FBO's bulletin board in order to carry two additional passengers with in exchange for a pro rata reimbursement of the operating expenses. Again, the FAA cautions that this type of advertising may be construed as holding out (see explanation in question 1
above)."

And in a later paragraph in regards to being reimbursed via PayPal:

"Whether or not such payment comes through an online payment system such as Paypal has no bearing on the legality of this situation. However, payment through Paypal would suggest that there is an interest in carrying passengers with whom there is no previous personal relationship and that the offer to accept passengers is being made to the general public (see concerns raised in question 1 above)."

With regards to how Flytenow describes things: "Flytenow facilitates common purpose because pilots, rather than enthusiasts, unilaterally dictate the destination (and purpose) of an adventure, and enthusiasts express shared interest in the specific date, points of operation, and adventure."

The last time I checked United Airlines unilaterally dictates the destination of their adventures and the specific dates and points of operation. These characteristics do not seem to me to turn the flight into a "bona fide common purpose".

Again, without having explicitly stated it I believe the FAA wants expense-sharing passengers to be:
- friends
- family
- acquaintances

And not just those artificially constructed for the purpose of working around FAA rulings. At least, this is how I'll interpret the FAA rulings & letters until they explicitly state otherwise. Again, IANAL, hope they rule favorably, but wouldn't risk my license to learn the answer is "no".

[1] http://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=88055&st...

[2]http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc...
Very true. Infinite risk, finite reward.
Do pray tell, how many more people were brought onto the web using IE and AOL than some janky 'nix browser?

As much as everyone bitches about them, the entire reason we even have affordable desktops and laptops enabling this magical open-source revolution is because of the work Microsoft did in the 80s and 90s.
Behind the gate
Ask HN: Redo of OwnerBuilderBook.com after 10 years
I just bought it. The pdf version is only 40 pages long, is this just a sketch of a future book? Also, not much info is provided about the author.
Same here.

Flytenow would make this a more attractive proposition by agreeing to pay my attorney fees if the FAA takes action against me because of a Flytenow flight. That would include representing me before the FAA in administrative proceedings and in federal court as far as I choose. (I'm a private pilot, not a commercial pilot.)

Better yet, because I'm not aware of the funding behind Flytenow, put the estimated maximum cost in escrow with a trusted third party such as a bank so it would be available even if Flytenow runs out of money and ceases operation in the middle of the litigation.

Then I'd be more likely to try it, and as an additional benefit the FAA would be less likely to pursue Flytenow-affiliated pilots. (FedGov agencies would rather try to make a test case, all else being equal, of citizens lacking aggressive legal representation.)
How we built and launched an Amazon Mayday SDK in 2 days during a hackathon
My understanding is this... In New york, you hail a cab, and you call a car/limo service. Uber operates legally as a car service. The cab companies are upset because uber is faster, whereas car service typically require a long wait time.

right?
Ask HN: Is there a Hackreactor that is not for geniuses only?
I LOVE the idea of http://www.hackreactor.com, and I was extremely happy when I found the site until I realized that only best of the best gets accepted. Is there any similiar program for an average people?
I'm not claiming to have invented these graphs - they've been around for a while!

They featured pretty prominently in every investor pitch deck we wrote at GoCardless.
I do say that. If I'm dealing with somebody's rude enough to force me, I open it in vim and pull what I'm looking for from the XML.
Craigslist doesnt really have a rating system though so its not really the same.
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I'm wondering if the large scale data gathering (and I take your point about the organisation perhaps not being able to process all the data it has) is actually detracting from more focused action on appropriate targets, i.e. actual enemies of the state who represent a real and present danger of death or injury?

I've witnessed the assumptions that senior managers sometimes make in medium to large organisations that what they call 'IT' will somehow improve things or answer vital questions when in fact it is the observation of a business process with steps in detail that is needed to find the bottlenecks.

Perhaps I'm being cynical but the 'selling' of large volume data collection (even if a lot of that data has no predictive value and remains static on the hard drives in the data centre) to the politicians might be seen as guaranteeing budget.
It is interesting to me that you compare to Lyft, which looks very much like a taxi service to me, whereas Flytenow looks more like a ride sharing bulletin board. For what it's worth (IANAL), I agree with their interpretation and would not be worried about it.

EDIT: Of course, it is easy to imagine scenarios where a pilot, using this system, could get themselves in trouble. The same could be said, however, of a traditional bulletin board, so the onus is on the pilot to make sure it doesn't look too much like transportation for hire.
I think that there is a difference between rules intended to protect consumers and those designed to protect incumbency. In many cases, such as taxi medallions and other types of business licensing, what once was designed to be a light weight way to protect the public because cumbersome and anti-competitive. These are the areas ripe for disruption.

However, regulations that still predominantly serve the public interest, such as those set out by the EPA, FDA and SEC (though not perfect) are much less open.
Definitely on those two. Also, I'm confused on why the "region" is really a city and not a full geographic area.

To clarify: is the point of the service to offer flight sharing for convenient flights all over New England to get to remote or local airports faster? Or is this only to go flying/sightseeing for fun?
Urban farming takes root
Hello, we have been working on a redo of OwnerBuilderBook.com (website and community for "The Owner-Builder Book"). The site has been around since 1997 and was in desperate need of an update - the last time the layout was substantially changed was in the early 2000's. Here is a wayback link that shows the old sight for comparison: https://web.archive.org/web/20120328175741/http://www.ownerb...

Please let me know what you think.
Service based Startups from foreign countries
I'm in the process of starting a startup that's in the ''Service on demand'' space, I'm from the Netherlands,
I want to start this startup in the US, in August. I know I can legally SELL to the US, I can incorporate in the US, BUT, I can't LEGALLY WORK in the US, and I can only stay for 3 months in the US.

How do startups from foreign countries launch their startups in the US?

I can understand how Software based startups do this, but for service based businesses it's a different much more legwork needed kinda story.

I currently have a Visa Waiver.
Wow, you're still missing the point. Uber is already working fantastically in hundreds of markets, including many considered suburbs. The author gives perfect examples of where Uber is already a great choice in the suburbs: evenings out, kids, elders, etc. I've experienced this myself in the suburbs where Uber works even better than in cities. With $6000 per year average cost of auto, a $20 average fare already covers 300 trips. Easily enough to forego a second car.

And you don't have to engage in the biggest time-waster of all time: driving.
That letter also seems to contradict the assertions in the blog post about both whether the "holding out" test would apply to the kind of flights offered through Flytenow and how the "holding out" test is applied.
If they suspend service to pilots without a commercial license, they harm their overall position, IMO.

It is not enough to have a commercial rating. If you are engaging in an (technically, almost any) operation which requires a commercial rating, you also need a 2nd class medical certificate and most of those operations would fall into part 135 (charter) or part 121 (scheduled airline service).

The items that a commercial pilot can do under part 91 that a private pilot cannot are very limited in scope:
1. Tow banners
2. Tow gliders
3. Provide sightseeing flights in a 25 mile radius (and landing back at the same airport)
4. Fly certain types of cargo
5. Fly powerline patrol, aerial fishspotting, aerial photography
6. Conduct demo flights for aircraft sales purposes
7. Part of the path towards becoming a paid flight instructor.

None of those are "fly passengers in air taxi operations".

The company seems to be taking the position that they are helping to coordinate already legal Part 91 flights, and it would be inconsistent of them to require a commercial certificate to do that.
One thing to consider is whether, if the passenger wants to go somewhere where weather may not permit, you will fly there anyway. In other words, will you take more risks based on your passenger's desires?

I am completely unaffiliated with the FAA, but I suspect that kind of thought process will be involved before they yank your ticket.
+1
Plus it's open source if anyone feel like contributing https://github.com/hnrc/aula
You can compress human speech while maintaining intelligibility much tighter than 128 kbps.

And did you seriously make a link to cite that 128 kb * 60 = 0.94 MB?
I think, where the author wrote "ASN.1", they meant to say "DER".
My reading is that would not be allowed, since your purpose of the flight (flying) is different from your passengers (getting from A to B).
Cynk Tech shares halted on concern over possible manipulation
Just curious: have you watched any of these games to see what kinds of mistakes the AI makes for various settings of the parameters in your scoring functions?

Also, I'd be interested in doing offline learning. For example, if you have some formal way to record the actions taken in a game, you could ask pro players to submit their games. Of course, this would require Blizzard to allow a replay mechanism like it does for starcraft. But it would make the AI design process much more interesting than exploring game trees (without perfect information) or greedily picking the best single move.
Ask HN: Life advice for 40yo Web Dev, single, $500k savings
Today i read the thread by the 25 year old web dev with 25k savings (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8019558). And i thought: Damn! Im in exactly the same situation as this guy. Only that Im almost twice as old and that my savings are more then 10 times of his. I would love to hear the opinions of you guys about this situation. So I finally made an account here, so I can post my version.

Just as the other poster, Im in Europe, come from a webdev/entrepreneur background and made some money with my startup. I was pretty introverted and socialy awkward my whole life, but teached myself a lot about social dynamics lately. So finally, I have some success with girls :-) But I cannot find any buddies for my lifestyle (go out, meet girls, talk about business, travel..). Everybody I meet is employed, has a relationship, is too shy to try new stuff. And for some reason, I completely suck when it comes to friendship.

Anybody here who is/was in a similar situation?
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There is no regulation requiring a "prior personal relationship" to share costs.
HSA's requirements are far broader than those provided in Metal. A7's shared memory implementation appears to be far too basic to be able to implement HSA-type API. For example, on-demand paging, user-mode queueing and ability for GPU to do CPU callbacks. Many systems can have shared memory but are not HSA compliant.
Interesting. Does anyone remember xmlresume from ~10 years ago?

http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/
Cloud Lamp Brings Thunder and Lightning Indoors
Simple way to raise a 500 error in any rails application
I agree with most of your comments, but I really think Heartstone is Free to Play done right (not to the extent of DOTA2 or Path of Exile, but almost).

After more than a hundred of hours on it, to date I haven't spent a dime of real money (I'll happily buy the single player expansion, though).

Just do daily quests in Ranking and spend the coins on Arena,which doesn’t depend at all on real money spent, and you'll get a lot of mileage (also considering that for an Arena run you get a pack of cards, so you'll get better at Ranking).

BTW, to the OP: thanks for ruining my plans for the weekend :)
Working as a sysadmin, I was once pulled in to an executives office and got a very stern talking-to for appearing too calm during a major outage. Our phone system upgrade was taking 4x the planned time to complete, but we had the situation under control and were finishing as quickly as possible. It sucked and was stressful, but being worked up about it served no purpose. I think I laughed about it at the time, but he did not find that endearing.
>So because they don't remove all corrupt officials, just some, its a bad thing.

Yes! Absolutely! That's the worst-case. It means that the likes of Keith Alexander and James Clapper (and others who they may be in cooperation with) get to choose the government (to a degree sufficient to suit their needs).