skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What the government is allowed to know about you," isn't useful either since the government is allowed to know anything about you.

The issue is how the government learns it.

The 4th amendment only protects against information within a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The Supreme Court has found that information turned over to a third party (like the phone company) no longer has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The general idea is that if you turning over data for a third party to read it is not private data.

Things like email and text messages are private because they are kept private from even the business.

However, there will be major issues in the future because of some of the practices that tech companies have engaged in. Google, facebook, etc. do not keep your private email and messages actually private. They data mine the shit out of it.

There will eventually be a case that argues Gmail falls under the third doctrine. The tech community will be outraged at the government overstep. But the real problem is the tech corporate communities total disrespect of the their users privacy.
Reviewing pull requests in github with the inline diff is a pain. You also don't get enough context to do a correct review. This app is a way to fix that.

At this point I want to validate the idea. If you're interested in this please leave your email address. or a comment below. Any feedback would be great!
Well, given that they presented this advantage as an incentive to buy a home, there better be an uproar. Many people based their decision to spend a huge amount of money on the presence of this benefit.

And of course, what the government won't do is give them a second stab at that decision after they cancelled their end of the deal. Especially since making this decision will cause a massive drop in home prices as well, so there's very good reasons for most people to want out.

The second reason is that removing this entitlement will, for a huge number of people, effectively be a tax increase of 20, maybe even 30%. Since most people also have a discretionary spending budget of about 15% of their income, this will effectively mean they go bankrupt (selling the house won't work as it'll drop -a lot- in value as a result of the repeal of this credit).

There is no way the banking sector can absorb a 5% drop in house prices, and this policy sounds like it'll drop them by maybe even 50%.

So no, you can't repeal this without an uproar. There are very valid reasons for these people to feel entitled.
OR has better gun laws, strip clubs, sales tax, WA has better income taxes and capital gains taxes and pot laws. (WA B&O tax is almost more annoying than OR corporate income tax)

Live in Vancouver, shop in Portland seems to be highly efficient jurisdictional arbitrage. It's also a win if you spend years out of the country.
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Probably because that is not the whole truth.
Short story equivalents of RPG's sound interesting. I still enjoy RPGs, but often can't make the time commitment to play them. Do you know of commercial or polished freeware examples of games like that? At the extreme end of the spectrum is Half-Minute Hero[1]. (As one of the reviews says, maybe more puzzle than RPG). If you haven't played it, you might want to check it out.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/214830/
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The point is to let people know ASAP that you've been taken, and to get out on bail ASAP. I agree it won't prevent you from getting a lawyer at trial, but I personally think spending time in jail is highly distasteful and something I'd like to minimize. (I've never actually been arrested, though, and my only time in jails or prisons has been fixing medical equipment in them.)
So, what's the statute of limitations for Palestine on the history of Israel's aggressions against them? At which point did the aggressors become the defenders?
You could phase it out, with some combination of grandfathering existing homeowners and gradually decreasing caps on the benefit or percentage of your interest that applies.
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Sadly, "business and medical purposes" covers a great deal, and in the day-to-day that is where the impact really is felt, not from some mustachioed government thug (much as I'd like to claim otherwise).

The best reform we could probably see is to say that your health and medical data belongs to you, full stop, and consider it a work-for-hire. Then, a national regulation on how to represent that data (normalizing what is pulled in) and interoperability specs, as well as a public option for warehousing your data if you choose not to go free-market.

There are a lot of issues even with the simple data-representation part...terminology and whatnot, for example--and getting that straightened out is exactly the sort of boring work that, in the long-run, yields extravagant dividends.
Your logic does not follow. "There is a problem affecting how implementors have to implement a language, so therefore the language has no use and everybody should just go home" is silly and hyperbolic. From an end-users perspective, Python is still a very useful language. Sure, it has some idiosyncrasies, but that doesn't make it "crap".
Nice links.
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north africa ? not many jobs there ... :/
Alt. title: "Hipster News".

But seriously, good question. I like stuff like this, but I have no idea how it fits the content of this site.
They haven't done that in over a decade...
I love the idea. I use terminal Vim as my daily editor, and could see myself switching (at least part-time) to something like this.

Yes, you can achieve all this using plugins like NERDTree and Ctrl-p, but sometimes a polished GUI just provides a better experience than any ncurses-based interface can. And you're not giving anything up in the process—you can still open NERDTree from VimR if you want to.

Hope the negativity here isn't discouraging. I'm really excited to see where this project goes.
This is absolutely great and 100% on the mark. I especially agree with "we feel the effect of every hack put in to make a deadline". It's almost a relationship you can develop with the codebase; you can spend so much time in there that it begins to mean more. We finally removed a section of ugly code that's been in the system for over 2 years and I'll tell ya, I felt emotionally uplifted after it, as if a weight had been removed.
It's this cheap because it's a Point and Shoot and not a Rangefinder.
So in order to not drag HN into this your second sentence is some provocative claim about your view on the truth? Very dishonest, IMHO.
The first might be "Let's replace all use of tp_* with hash lookups", which I suppose would be closed quickly, amidst a storm of muffled giggles. But at least by then you'd know why the current implementation works the way it does.

The next might be "__getattribute__ mechanism has surprising behaviour in common use-case" (which itself would imply having a use case where any of this mattered). This one might actually result in some productive discussion regarding a fix.

Your second reply is basically a doc bug, one of "__getattribute__ optimization is not specified in the language reference" or "__getattribute__ optimization causes non-comformance with the language specification", either way, you would get the attention of the few people who can actually help you, rather than attention from the many more who can't
My favorite comment there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169697
>That is precisely how selection works. Ever heard of herbicide-resistant weeds?

And if you want to bet your farm on you being the one to magically find Roundup resistant wheat, you go right ahead. But no farmer is going to do that. and Schmeiser certainly didn't.

You want to argue, go argue with the judge who heard all of the facts. But please, don't spread false information like "Monsanto sues farmers for accidents". It's not true.
I can't ask questions if I haven't used it? I have no interest of trying this out since it's mac exclusive.
>I fail to see how this is better than to use gvim, which is crossplatform, together with NERDTree, CTRL+p + some other language specific plugins that can run on your server, on your desktop (which can be windows, linux or osx, whatever you like).

It's better for people that could not care less using a version that's "cross platform" as the lowest common denominator, and want something that runs well and with native hooks to the platforms they use.
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I currently work with two apps that interact. One might generate a URL to the other. The base url is defined in a config file. I find it easier to just define 'localhost:PORT' for each app.
Replacing 32-bit loop count with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
I have no idea why anyone would post this here and why anyone would upvote it.

This conflict can only be a huge wedge issue for HN and ycombinator and there will be no easy resolution, mostly just alienation.

I was in Israel and Palestine this summer and you just don't get a good understanding of what is happening there unless you go there and talk to the people. 99% of people upvoting or downvoting have not been there and don't have a feel for the real problems.

I have met with both Palestinian and Israeli business leaders, in the same room discussing the issues and the whole situation is far more complicated than I can really get my head around. It's beyond horrible.

This just isn't the place for this issue.
I usually bookmark (^D) and tag everything that I think I'm gonna need in the future, then I look for it by typing the tag/s in the address bar.
For the less money, I'd go buy a cannon fixed lens point and shoot - or for about the same money I'd go get two real cameras, and EOS-1 Film, and a EOS-5D with a 50mm f/1.8 to share among them.

Leica makes a very pretty camera - but not one I'd purchase for the task of making pictures.
Incidentally, it's obnoxious that the enthusiast K series CPUs always had them disabled, as well as VT-d (IOMMU) and vPro. While the current implementation of TSX may be immature, and mainly useful 'just' for hardware lock elision, i.e. some percentage boost (although isn't maximizing performance the whole point of K series?)... in principle it could eventually allow new models of programming to be practical, without the huge overhead of STM, so it should be as widely available as possible. And VT-d, while useful for server-level virtualization (as the name suggests), is also required for security against DMA attacks.
I don't think you and Grey are in disagreement. The content of the video is generally correct and points to where things are going, not specifics of implementation.

The presenter isn't attacking robotics, but outlining the increases in capabilities.
I think that the parent is referring to a jellyfish that 'lives forever' by reverting back to a polyp, and starting the life cycle over. For humans this would be effectively like reverting to a fetus and growing up again. You would still be the same organism, but you would be a different personality / person.
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Most of our social interactions are "performances."
I agree that a smartphone app that contains a responsive website rendered in a web view is the best option.

However smartphones are surprisingly common among low income teens (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/low-income-teens-own-more-...). Eventually there probably won't really even be a smartphone/dumbphone distinction, just more or less expensive smartphones.

And of course in the United States, even middle and upper class Black teens are often targets of police harassment.
As I said in another comment, google has reached cult status with a lot of tech people.
BTW here's an article in the local press that came out when they initially petitioned the FDA for the treatment.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1009&sid=29959572
I came to the same conclusion from a slightly different angle: you'd be disrupting an area of financial services which is largely unregulated, full of shady middlemen and the big banks and lenders actually want you to succeed. Even just a platform for buying and selling debt of verified provenance sounds like potentially low risk profits (though I'm less sure about the attractiveness of the customer base...)
Did the author use one of his own tweets as source material?
Thanks. Responsive problem is probably because I use special jquery lib to align column sizes.

It's difficult to make testimonial part, because, at the beginning, it's chicken and egg problem. But definitely it must be solved.

P.S. HN drops me "you are submitting too fast.."
I think the parent post is referring to the "Practice of Engineering" exam: http://ncees.org/about-ncees/news/ncees-introduces-pe-exam-f...

While I take the point that there is a difference between code-monkeys who don't have deep understanding and serious well grounded engineers, I don't agree that a two year old exam in a field that's had a history of failed certification attempts is a reasonable benchmark.

I think part of the problem in the field that contributes to the article is that the field is young and we don't have strong, well accepted professional organizations and licensure yet. We're still figuring out what those look like, and dealing with some serious challenges in breadth as we do so.
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In this context, PE is the professional engineering exam. You take it in a specialty area, and software engineering was added last year. It's one of the last steps for licensure as a professional engineer.

Some states, like Texas, are extremely picky about who calls themselves an engineer, irrespective of industrial exemption (which the vast majority of people fall under). PE licensure in other engineering areas (like civil engineering) is required to offer services to the public, helps when offering expert testimony, and can be required for principals at consulting firms. The software engineering PE is an extension of IEEE's efforts in software engineering, and is probably a good thing for safety-critical industries.

Since passing the fundamentals of engineering (FE) exam is (usually) a prerequisite, someone who has a PE in software engineering probably knows their way around a free body diagram or Laplace transforms or MSD systems, i.e., stuff the other engineering fields do.
I love the negativity in many of the responses here. Obviously people like native apps. Macvim is a thing. Emacs has a gui version for os x. Sublime is a thing. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim.

If this isn't for you then fine but don't rush here to proudly proclaim how you don't understand the point of this. I don't know why anyone submits their pet projects here.
The problem is, if they're doing it right, they won't even know you failed background because of your credit score. Companies outsource background checking to protect themselves from exactly this. They don't even want the potential liability of knowing why you failed the check. They pass your name and address as parameters to the background check company, and the background check company just returns a boolean value. The offer is always conditional upon passing background, so if you don't, the offer is null and void. You don't get to know why.
Do you have any plans to support Google Drive or other cloud services?
Unlike the M series, which remains unique in many ways, this seems unimpressive compared to some other interchangeable-lens cameras.

A 16MP APS-C sensor was available in the NEX-5 several years ago, and the tiny magnesium body of the NEX-5 is sexy as hell.

I would look at the Sony and Samsung compact interchangeable lens cameras if you want the best sensors, lens choice, and UI. The Sony a6000 is an awesome camera by any measure. Some of the new Samsungs have a "Google logo" Android complete with Google's suite of proprietary apps, and Google is doing some interesting things with the camera APIs.
If we're talking about someone that passed the software engineering PE, then yes, I think they get plenty of (well-deserved) respect.

(Edit: On first read, I didn't know what the PE was. I thought you were just talking about the typical tech-company interview process.)

Difficult interviews (which many focused on, more than I did in the original article) aren't the problem. In fact, I think that difficult interviews are generally a good thing. My problem is that passing the difficult interview doesn't necessarily confer respect.

If I have to spend a whole day at a whiteboard proving my intelligence, fine. I'm confident that I'll pass. If after proving myself, I'm still offered 0.05% (at 50 people) and no relocation package, then I'm going to be pissed. I've already proved myself qualified for a real job with a real package, so either come up with one, or don't waste my time in the first place.

Challenging interviews are a good thing. Challenging interviews with no upside (i.e. even if you're smart, you still get the default shitty/take-advantage-of-clueless-people-in-their-20s engineer offer) are a total waste of time.
Engineering as a profession has a licensing system similar to medicine and law. In the US this involves several years of on the job training as a Jr Engineer and then passing two exams: the generic FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) and then a field specific PE (Principles and Practice of Engineering). Passing these exams and becoming licensed is all but required to practice civil engineering, but much less important in most other fields.

The "software engineering" PE is apparently pretty new (first offered in 2013) and kind of an oddball since this industry didn't grow out of any engineering tradition and doesn't really place too much value on certification.
I agree, that's really annoying. Thankfully it looks like they may be slowly introducing some of these features to the K line. The 4790k for example is the first k chip that advertises support for VT-d. Still no vPro though.

http://ark.intel.com/compare/80806,80807
Nice design. Still, I prefer a viewfinder (as a built-in EVF/OVF, not as a $600 accessory)
I really would like to see, when the suggested, simpler system would be tried. It is sometimes amazing, how by simplification gains could be reached against common wisdom. And even, when no gains or little losses would be there with the new, simpler system, it could be worthwhile to change, since the current system has his huddles, that I also already stumbled about, and which are not clearly communicated, since it is such a deep implementation detail of CPython. Also it was mentioned, that a simpler system could be even more powerful.
Well, the examples at Facebook are: Engineer, Engineer, Engineer, Engineer.

I get "Staff Engineer" (some seniority indicator, which we don't have at Facebook on purpose), but "Architect" seems more like a change in role and in expectations rather than advancing on your existing path.
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Open a new tab and go to google.com.
Type in a band name like: "All Time Low"

You'll notice a box on the righthand side with more info about the band.

If you click the down arrow you'll see a "People also search for" section.

If you can scrape that data, in under 4 seconds(Sorry no PhantomJS), I'll pay you 500$ for your solution.
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Correct. We've demoted the current thread as a dupe.
Maybe visit Thailand...?
And I don't mean a "Hangout" style, Bangkok only trip, but more like travel across, see all ends of it, observe the people and their attitude towards life, look into what do they consider problems... Then Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, India if you got used to Thailand.

It's really transformative. (while not even very expensive)

The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia is too easy; too many people speak (some kind of) English there.
>Whereas in fact any engineer worth her salt will tell you that she makes business decisions daily–albeit on the micro not macro level–because she has to in order to get the job done. Exactly how long should this database field be? And of what datatype? How and where should it be validated? How do we handle all of the edge cases? These are in fact business decisions, and we make them,

I would suggest that software programmers do not adopt that mode of thought unless they want to be disrespected by business people. Even with the author's qualification of "micro-" as in micro-business decisions, it still does not make the statement respectable.

I say this as a someone who's been on the business side and the hardcore software programming side. I think other engineering-entrepreneurs sympathetic towards programmers would also be dismissive of such proclamations trying to glamorize "VARCHAR(30) vs VARCHAR(40)" as a "business decision".

If software programmers want to be viewed as key business people, they have to make real business decisions and not dress up or redefine programming thoughts as "business decisions".
Thank you everyone for all the amazing feedback. It's so helpful after you get stuck in your own head with your thoughts. Very good stuff to ruminate on here.

I probably should have mentioned for context - for people recommending radical alterations to my life, or wondering why I'm not on the verge of retiring - I'm a divorced dad. I have my kiddo 50% of the time and still write his mom large checks every month. So, no spirit quests for me nor moving somewhere cheaper, etc.
Wow, talk about money causing a person to loose perspective...
I apologize for my ignorance, but does anyone know the brand and model of that unusual watch about a third of the way down the page?
It's a guy thing. A high percentage of semi-retired tech entrepreneurs fancy themselves fine art photographers. Most of the rest just love stylish gadgets.
I suspect that it appeals to hackers who have an appreciation for visual aesthetics. You know how dogs can hear sounds that humans can't? Well, some people can "hear" and appreciate the language of design in ways that maybe aren't apparent to everyone. I sometimes strain to hear this sort of thing and I can appreciate that perhaps some people don't "hear" it at all.
There is no "content of this site". Interesting is not a subject.
Everybody still seems to be referencing the original news story, which in turn referenced a tweet. Nobody seems to have a clue what the actual errata is; looking forward to seeing the explanation of the bug and the conditions under which it can occur.
This is the perfect approach to take! While I think the future of Famo.us + Phonegap is super bright, at the moment you're definitely better served using something like this to prototype (while still looking good) and validate, and then potentially go Java/Objc if you need every last drop of performance.
Thanks, fixed the data :)
A reader liked it and posted it. And apparently enough members if this community liked it as we'll so their upvoting made it to the front page. That׳s how.
ugh.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hacker+news+ranking+algorithm
"Try something you dreamed of doing as a kid. You were more honest with yourself as a kid."

Don't think I agree with the socio economic commentary a whole lot - after all, the capitalism MMO is what brought me my childhood dreams - but the above statement is deeply true. It guided me for part of my career. But I lost my way.