skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that I put more value into and mull over more the ideas that I will write in my Moleskine than on a random piece of paper.
I'm running Chrome "37.0.2062.120 m" on Windows 7 64 if that helps.
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When people say recite Pi is there some calculation involved or are they just memorising a large string of numbers?
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They're unsafe. High center of gravity, probably have no emission controls, too heavy for city streets, etc.
That's the premise, but in practice, they're never recalled and usually scrapped by the receiver after reaching EOL.
The heuristic whether to use real-time information is the following and I am paraphrasing Avinash Kaushik:

"Will a decision be made in real-time based on this information?"
having "Jamison Cummings, Former Tesla Technician" as the first person for the testimonials video is a bit intellectually dishonest given that he is now VP of Manufacturing Operations at Skully. Questionable at best. Other than that it looks pretty cool.
A Test Data Generator that uses a regex like syntax
...not a python user either. The README mentions 'pip' but I don't seem to have one of those either.
Would say that the filter bubble is probably as significant, if not more so, than ads (which have been around a long time).
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I recommend two resources on creating dashboards, both from very experienced practitioners:

1) http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/digital-dashboards-strategic-...

2) Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few - http://www.amazon.ca/Information-Dashboard-Design-Effective-...
Yes, that is one premise of BNW, constant engagement and thus constant and immediate satisfaction is one purpose of the media, but media as a form of propaganda is an age-old tactic.

The widespread reach of modern media just makes it easier to spread any given point of view, with the chance going to the highest/most powerful bidder.
Everything the government is 100% out in the open (except for ongoing police investigations - but the moment they are finished they are made public). There are only direct elections and almost all decisions are don via general elections. The whole population is well educated on all issues that are subject to politics so they can make informed decisions when voting.

This is of course unfeasible. The only way to make something like that feasible would be to link up our minds like the Borg. Still, the current state is not good enough.
It's not surprising that a prototype-type of car has a drag coefficient of 0.15. Does it have AC, airbags, comfortable seats, audio system, power windows, ABS, etc?

Volkswagen XL1, a production car, has a drag coefficient of 0.189.

If you look at the modern experimental cars, they have much lower drag coefficients, like Aurora 101 is 0.08.
Maybe monads make this kind of chaining safe.
For an earlier posting without all the tracking data in the URL, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8303027 from three days ago, which has 58 comments.
No problem. That is understandable, depends on the trip for me. Some I just want to be chill, with little scheduling, others I want to do everything I can.
Okay, it looks perfectly fine without it. I thought it might be a nice touch, but didn't see the bug until now.
Here's a link to the actual interview itself. It's one and a half hours long, so pretty long.

http://youtu.be/RpwOmwysqJ8
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Is there anyone who's worth giving a try against the Mac onslaught and mindshare? I believe that Apple's hardware is simply superb. Is there any vendor that I can spend ~ USD 600 on a laptop and get a decent value for money? (Had pretty bad experience with Asus, Sony Vaio :-( )
Just sent you an email few minutes ago. Let me know what you think :)
Same thought here :)
The name was Coin: https://onlycoin.com
I thought that was the point: to highlight the "great minds" that worked in the project. Am I wrong?
Sadly your use of the word government is so sickeningly far from the meaning of a constitutional republic, I weep that yes such things do undermine the government (IE the people of the united states of america and not a small military cabal of police beholden certainly not to its local citizens).
If you know exactly what you are waiting for and you know exactly what you will do when it happens, then you should probably automate and optimize that process instead of spending your time building some fancy graphics. And if you don't know what you are waiting for nor what you will do about it, you don't need real time metrics.
Weird to imagine that these antiterrorism officers are having to fund their operations out of their own pocket.
OK, and where do I start? How do I make a pretty blue border around a text input to subtly indicate focus? What's the best gradient / padding to use in such circumstances? What fade in time will looks good? There are so many questions I could ask just about the text input highlighting.

The thing is, if you actually designed web UIs professionally and didn't rely on these toolkits, you could immediately make a reasonable first guess at all of those things and you'd be doing it in the context of your specific project. The total time to refine everything over the entire development cycle might be a few minutes, and most of that would be cross-browser testing, which obviously for professional work you should be doing even if you're using a toolkit.

I've nothing against toolkits. They can be useful for quick prototypes. They do a competent basic job for in-house tools written by people who aren't front-end developers and just need something that works. But for high-end UI work? I have never written a major professional project that still used any of these toolkits in the final production code.

Most toolkits aren't sufficiently reliable that you can trust them without testing, so you've still got one of the biggest and most tedious jobs to do whether you use one or not.

Often attention to detail is lacking in significant areas. Using a big name toolkit is no guarantee of quality; many of them have absolute howlers on their own demo pages that are immediately obvious in at least one major browser, often just in the visuals before you even start interacting.

But more than any of that, for real projects, you're often going to have branding requirements that will mean extensive customisation. All those default colour and typography schemes aren't worth much. And some all-things-to-all-people toolkit that works great if you use its defaults might be hiding all kinds of limitations if you're not using a flat design, or if your layout requirements are more demanding than "simple responsive grid", or if you want something that works right on mobile or supports proper keyboard navigation or meets accessibility requirements or...

Toolkits are great for basic work, and for a lot of projects that really is all you need, but you don't design a Rolls Royce by picking wheels and bodywork from a catalogue.

People with the "code everything yourself" attitude remind me of when I was fresh out of university, and didn't realise how incompetent I was at the time.

Code everything myself? Unlikely. Code things myself when quality matters and off-the-shelf isn't good enough? Always.
I find it fascinating that, according to this story, he could not be productive without amphetamines.

"I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. "
This is a good point. Though there do seem to be a few lower-stress workplaces out there - Vanguard seems to be one of them, in terms of not having much crunch time or overly-long hours. They're pretty sociable people, though, but it might still be something to consider.

(I'm a former intern and not currently working there, and not a recruiter; pretty sure their hiring managers don't read Hacker News.)
calendar is a builtin as well.

It appears the OSX specific modules are located (on latest Mavericks) in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python

So you need to add that directory (for xattr) as well as that directory + PyObjC (for Foundation) to your PYTHONPATH
Honestly this is more insidious than the brain washing that went on in the Hitler Youth. This has got to be what the Jews in the ghettos were seeing before everyone found out who they were to be used on.
Here's a "non-magical introduction to pip" http://www.dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtuale...

Pip is an excellent package management system.
I think you'd like the bourbon framework, which is basically a way to structure your css and doesn't get in your way. See their grid framework: http://neat.bourbon.io/ and their default style package akin to bootstrap: http://refills.bourbon.io/
Lode Runner creator Douglas E. Smith passes away
What? It's only on for about 3 seconds when you are looking at it.
Yeah it seem channels are basic primitives. Kind of a like a class in OO programming.

Just like Erlang has explicit processes and message sending primitives So it is pretty simple and concise at that level. In order to build large systems there is OTP (or e2) that embodies and abstracts away some common patterns/behaviours: gen_event, gen_server, gen_fsm, supervisors, logging, distribution between nodes etc.

I imagine over time go will acquire those kind of libraries (maybe it already has them?).

There is also an interesting duality between Erlang and Go. In one case there are explicit processes (identified by PIDs) + an anonymous (implicit) mailbox. Where go has anonymous goroutines but explicitly identifiably channels. It seems they are duals. You can simulate one with another. And you can build concurrency patterns on top of them.

I personally prefer Erlang's model to think about concurrency. There is an active entity -- a client request, a server, a socket handler, it has a an id/name, it can be monitored for liveliness, it can be halted, upgraded, killed, can send messages to it. Somehow to me that makes it easier to map to concurrent problem domains. Channels can ultimately do the same things but it is harder for me to design using goroutines.
I wanted to understand more about how randomized algorithms worked, so I bought Randomized Algorithms[1]. The book is full of proofs involving probability theory and computational complexity theory. It's also kind of dry; I had a hard time reading it.

My complexity and probability theory are both at kind of an elementary level, so I'm sure it will take me several more years of periodically reading this type of material to get a good grasp of what "randomized algorithms" really are.

However, like I said this type of material contains a bunch of complexity and/or probability theory, but Eliezer's conclusion doesn't really seem to be drawn from the same level of rigor that I've seen elsewhere (at least he didn't publish his proofs here, did I miss something). So I'm not sure how much I really want to trust his conclusion.

Also if his conclusion is correct in a way that provides useful derandomization algorithms (that is an algorithm to derandomize other algorithms), then why are the academics all talking about nondeterministic turing machines? It seems like we could move past that (although I'm willing to accept that nondeterministic turing machines are an archaic idea from a bygone era that people continue to cling to because it gets them grant money, but I would like the proof of this so I can be certain it's safe not to spend my time on it).

Finally, if his conclusion is correct, is it correct in a way that will allow me to get work done? I guess my point is that I would rather not rely on intuition in order to derandomize my algorithms if I can use some sort of technique or series of techniques. Additionally, it seems like understanding such a technique would also answer a lot of the questions I had about the nature of randomized algorithms in the first place, so if there's anyone out there who knows about these things (or has a list of papers/books/websites) I would really appreciate if you step in and give us your two cents.

[1] - http://books.google.com/books/about/Randomized_Algorithms.ht...
I'm referring to the 2nd video which is titled "These motorcyclists have already experienced the SKULLY AR-1. Here's what they have to say."
What kind of schools they're running if they need cops so often that they've formed their own force? I'm pretty sure none of my schools in Canada and Finland had even a security guard.
MicropolisJS, a JS/HTML5 port of EA's original SimCity engine
That makes no sense. Lithium carbonate is a prescription drug and companies are making money off it.
It is not a high-end notebook construction-wise, but I have had very good luck with a Toshiba S70 with a full-hd screen. $499 on woot and it has a 17.3" screen, i7, a second sata bay and 2 open DIMM sockets. Battery life is good and it uses a common power adapter. It has reasonable internal speakers (better than average, not a gamer machine). Mint 17 runs like a clock and all hardware is supported by a standard install.

I wouldn't want to drop it though...
"Take care dashboards for example. They use vast amount of real estate to display information that is useless 99% of the time. How often do you need to know the RPM on an automatic car? Can’t you just take that stupid dial out and put something useful instead?."

Assuming the author meant car, this would be very dangerous (i.e. irreversible engine damage):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline
But would also be difficult, and introduce a political element to it
McCoy addresses this theory in his book: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. His conclusion was that the CIA appreciated having a little no-strings-attached pocket change, but that it wasn't funding them in a meaningful way, and that their involvement in the drug trade was more for the access that it gave them to shady people.
Is this on github/bitbucket/google code or am I going to have to dig around the JS to mess around with it?

Regardless, pretty cool.
Just because something is an element doesn't mean it can't be patented as a medicine. There are use patents and formulation patents that can protect a drug that contains a chemical that itself can't be patented.
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"usually the dev will just poke around for that time and make small changes and debug it a few times to see how it works. 4-5k lines i would say 2-3 days tops before they are comfortable with it."

It really depends what the OP means by messy. If by messy he means fairly straightforward code but not built for easy extension and lacking proper layout/architecture then a few days is enough.

On the other hand if by messy he means complex code implementing requirements in a non-obvious way then it could take much longer. I've seen plenty of code that uses multiple layers of indirection when a simple switch statement would suffice. Where code that looks like a simple mistake is actually implementing a critical requirement. Where you have to keep multiple heavily abstracted domain models in your head at once to understand the code because there is no clean separation.

It depends on how well you need to understand the code to be able to make changes. Reasonably well written code can be skimmed at speeds of up to 2500 lines of code an hour and only the core domain objects and algorithms need more intense study.

On the other hand if you have to understand the entire codebase in order to change it then 100 lines of code an hour is an upper limit.

So anywhere from half a day to two weeks depending on what you mean by messy.
"Many papers own their printing presses"

Ownership of the press is really (in this day and age or even 20 years ago) not that important. There are plenty of web printing houses that would be glad to print your newspaper and use some of their excess capacity. There are (and have always been) many companies that would be willing to distribute that paper if you gave them names of people that want to receive the paper. In fact if you have NYT homes delivery in many cities (outside of NY Metro) it is probably delivered by the same company that delivers the local paper (thrown on your law by the same driver).

The key of course is getting people that want to buy your newspaper. The content and the marketing of the paper.
>They also employ UX techniques that dates from a time where the only UI component you can use was a light bulb. If that red thing is critical, can’t you tell me right away what it means?

This annoyed me a little bit. A check engine light is the perfect component for what it does. If it's on it means that something may be seriously wrong and that you're probably too stupid or ill-equipped to fix it.

If it was something simple, easily detectable and fixable it would have its own light, ie the door is open, you're running out of gas.
Honestly for most "real" projects, I just use the Bootstrap LESS source files for the normalizer, grid etc. and just compile my own UI components. I believe that for any app to be unique, it has to have its own visual style and when you use the whole of Bootstrap (or just about any other framework) you just can't differentiate yourself. Don't get me wrong, I love these frameworks. I just think they're good for quick and dirty prototypes / open source hacks.
Sleep deprivation. Yah, that's my excuse for titling it Forrest instead of Forest.

I assumed Phubbing was a polite way to say "fucking". Stop phubbing around. Stop fucking around. I dunno, that's all I could come up with.

I really like your ideas for additions to the forest. Hope the developers see this.
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> GCHQ operate to English law. They have specific exemptions and exclusions under and protections under all the relevant English law.

Well, I don't know about that. The fact that they're happily sending everything to the NSA can hardly be compatible with EU data protection law, and considering that their best friends, the US intelligence and law enforcement services, were caught red-handed doing illegal wiretaps right before the executive branch retroactively made it legal, well, it doesn't inspire much confidence. Now, if you start looking at, say, the activities of the British secret services during the Thatcher era, you come to realize that there may be a slight gap between the things they admit to do, and the stuff they actually do.
Highly dependent on why it has no current revenue.

Is it easy to introduce ads? Would it be AdSense-friendly? If so, what kind of ads would it attract?

The best way to come up with comparables is browse the "for sale" section of Flippa https://flippa.com/websites/established
The problem (which the article touches on) is that you have to resort to interface{} to make things reusable since Go doesn't have generics. So you have to pick between using a library (which will handle edge cases better) or compile time type checking.
"...they could not get armored truck carriers to come into downtown Chicago due to fears, fanned by the media, associated with the Sears Tower. With banks beginning to run low and one bank needing as much as $1.2M right away, Chicago Fed employees found “alternate methods” of getting the currency delivered within two hours."

Oh c'mon! There has to be a great story behind those words "alternate methods". Were Fed employees carrying boxes of cash in the trunks of their cars to the banks?
There's a premium for established sites (user community, backlinks, PageRank) compared to brand new sites.
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Such a useful, insightful comment. And how BRAVE you are to post it on an account you created just for the purpose. There does seem to be a fair amount of talking-out-the-"ares" (sic) around here, but it isn't coming from the article.

By the way, the correct word in this situation is "you're"
... you're not upholding the Constitution of the United States, which you took and oath to defend.

The oath to protect the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic should take precedence over any oaths to individual institutions that derive their raison d'etre from the Constitution itself. Without the Constitution, there is no United States of America. Without the United States of America, there is no Department of Defense. Without the DoD, there is no NSA or ONDCP.
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Glad to see 'em at work on this :)
This is a database of call detail records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record) and the numbers they have called, and numbers that have called them. It does not contain subscriber data (names, account information) - just metadata about calls.

They use this database to find cycled phone numbers that have similar calling patterns. (Phone number 1 tends to make and receive calls from number 2, 4, 9 and 13. in geographic area X) Phone number 1 stops making calls, and phone number 50 starts making/receiving calls to 2, 4, 9, and 13 in area Y. So they can assume that whomever owns 50 is the same person that used to own 1 and now they're in area Y.

Maybe Im just being clueless today, but can anybody explain to me what is so chilling about this system? I don't see where it can really be abused unless you've got some stalker that works for LA's DEA and they're trying to find out their estranged ex-wife's new phone number?
This is the most intense video I ever seen since the Snowden revelations. I could almost feel Ali's feeling of complete violation. This is absolutely chilling material.
I replaced my Macbook Pro with a System 76 Pangolin, which has since been replaced by the Gazelle but is roughly in your price range ($750 or so).

Pros:

Nice CPU stats - I could mine dogecoin effectively on the Pangolin, not so much on the (albeit 5 year old) MBP. It seems to be roughly equivalent to an AWS m3.xlarge instance. Trackpad is flush with the case, which prevents food crumbs & dirt from getting stuck in it like it did with the MBP. Pretty rugged construction. Haven't had any reliability issues and I've had it a year or so. Good display. Has a numeric keypad and the cursor navigation keys, unlike the Mac. Linux "just works", since Ubuntu comes pre-installed with auto updates. Often a lot easier to get many UNIX programming packages working on Ubuntu/apt-get than on MacPorts, and you don't face deployment issues because of the OS being different from other UNIX systems

Cons:

Wireless sucks - it won't work with 5GHz at all and often has reception issues with 2.4GHz in my crowded apartment complex. Keyboard and trackpad takes some getting used to, because of the keypad your hands are over the left side a lot. I miss the MagSafe power adaptor, I used to trip over my cord all the time. Battery life isn't as good as on the Macs. Can't do iOS development, and can't use Mac-only software like many games.

On the whole I'd say the Mac had slightly better quality, but the Pangolin (at half the price) gave better value. If you're on a budget I'd definitely give it a try.
This is the right way to do it. Great job Spiegel (or whoever worked on this piece). Putting real people on screen, real faces. Showing emotion, showing them swallowing knots when they see their names on the screen of "tasked" engineers.

I think here on HN and other tech and privacy forums we understand what is happening. Unless there is a reporting like this, it will be a bit harder to engage a wide audience. Telling the proverbial grandma about "PRISM" or "they are listening to everyone" is not going to quite work. What works is to do this -- showing one particular grandma with a name, address, life story and showing how maybe her recipe for baking cookies is now logged in Utah's NSA's headquarters in room 5B, on storage node 18Z and so on.