skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that the ability to identify "fast growing markets" has a lot to do with what kind of market you're talking about. Of course I'm biased, being 41 and firmly in the "older" camp relative to this crowd. But I'd say a 20 something college student probably is well served to trust their gut on fast growing markets for things like consumer web apps, mobile apps, mobile devices, etc.

But if you're talking energy, enterprise software, Internet infrastructure software, maybe healthcare, and some other areas, I'd think that it would be a push, or that an older founder might have the advantage.
Incredible, even after seeing up close what America has gone through because of laws like these passed in the wake of 9/11, Australia is going to pass the same sweeping type of surveillance laws? And Australia doesn't even have the excuse of a recent terror attack.

What is going on there, Aussies? How is there enough support to pass these kinds of laws? (or is there?)

I would have thought post-Snowden this would have been out of the question.
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I never had a great impression of PMs when I was at Microsoft. The enduring image is, after asking a pointed question or raising an objection, watching some PM respond with a bunch of meaningless verbiage while nodding their head as if they're agreeing, when in fact they're disregarding every dissenting view.

That said, PMs at MS have a very challenging job, at least in the parts of Windows where I worked. The joke about MS being a bunch of separate orgs at war with each other was very real, and PMs were the ones who had to cajole, convince, and sell other teams on why they should spend their time doing something that would enable the PM's team to do something they wanted to do. They were the ones who chased people down and got them to agree to do something necessary.
Your question reminds me of Peter Suber's excellent book, The Paradox of Self-Amendment [0].

[0] http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/psa/
Why is that odd? The "goal" was to incentivize multiple people per car.

Not unlike say, babysitters transporting their charges from school to daycare.

Some places put the limit at '3' to avoid just those situations (but it also freezes out couples going on a date) and at least one jurisdiction was quoted as allowing only vehicles at their 'full passenger capacity' what ever that is (which seems a bit extreme to me)
> This is a controversial opinion, but I am actually of the view that SSL is structurally unworkable against nation-state-level adversaries.

Seems like a pretty sensible opinion to me. The entire CA system is full of flaws that can be exploited by anyone with enough money, power or influence.
Yea they must have. I have a domain that is a catch all address and I have a bunch of tumblrs that are random things like hn3@email, hn4@email, derp@email, and all 10+ of them get the spam emails
Are you against demand-based pricing for other things? Such as eBay auctions, fluctuating gas prices, etc?
I have met a handful of craftsmen willing to provide training for the right workers (as in, the ones that seem promising and likely to stay a while)

Also community college costs have stayed pretty darn reasonable amidst the inflating costs of four-year degrees.
Wow, this is the impatience of our age. How long do you give a network distribution methodology before you declare it a failure?
How is demand pricing usurious? Are you against airlines charging more on Fridays and closer to flight dates etc.?
A compiler I use, based on lcc, did this automatically without even enabling optimizations.

The division is transformed into multiplication and a right shift.

I don't think your usual programmer must care about that with the modern compilers, but it is nice to know if you are implementing one or you are coding in asm.
Glenn Lazarus is a former rugby footballer, who was nicknamed 'the brick with eyes'. He's basically a warm body whose election was paid for by a political party founded by a billionaire miner who - the miner - has hardly been present in the House of Representatives when it comes to votes other than to vote for climate change legislation repealing one of the lowest carbon taxes in the OECD and - go figure - a mining tax. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/clive-palmer-is-mp-lea...

He's also building the Titanic II. Nevertheless, this wasn't the stupidest thing heard in the Senate this week, which would be Chris Back's "Some people may be distressed to know maleness is actually suppressed femaleness".

Edit: Yes, I already know there's a TV show just waiting to be written out of the daily tales of Australian politics. No need to tell me. But the media here, controlled like politics by Rupert Murdoch, isn't going to be the one to do it.

You want to see the cover of the best selling newspaper on that day? Here it is: https://i.imgur.com/2TglCpg.jpg "Hellfire justice" indeed.
I'd love to learn more about how the role is evolving at Microsoft. Anyone has pointers/stuff to read about this?
they're a bit rough on vi hart and numberphile as being 'math lite' and all about pictures whereas they are all about the rigour by animating their proof. the obvious counter-argument is that vi and numberphile are working on 'inspiring' people about maths and letting the formalism follow. btw i don't agree that pictures aren't proofs, they're not everything but they're a good scaffold in many situations.
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The concern about drawing conclusions from correlation is legitimate, but it's more than "an" (i.e. one) observational study.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html

That page cites 188 articles, almost all of them finding health benefits to drinking alcohol. Without having gone into all of them to look for methodological flaws, that hints at a very consistent pattern of correlation.

That page alleges that it is maintained by a professor emeritus, who at least at this time, does not have nor need any funding from e.g. the alcohol industry. That's far from an exhaustive proof that he's free of bias, but it clears the most obvious source.
MacVim is faster, except when it's not? :P

I wonder if the redraw issues were the fault of your terminal emulator rather than vim. I don't have a lot of MacOS experience, though.
The average person doesn't care about government snooping. They have a million other worries in their life. Sure, they might watch the news and see a new report on a Snowden leak, but they probably don't feel very strongly about it one way or the other, and so they'll just ignore and go on with their daily life.
This is really the fundamental problem of Capitalism which we are now regularly butting are heads against. If it were possible, say, to create a light bulb that lasted 1,000 years for a dollar. Who could afford to make such a thing? After the initial flurry of sales, demand would drop off precipitously. And as the world approaches peek population, there would be fewer and fewer sales. And that's just the logistical problem. This story speaks to the further moral dimension in which it is always more profitable to corner a market and force on consumers ever increasing reoccurring cost.
The frame rate is presently set to 24 fps. So it's independent of the gif you input.
For single frame images, gifs: https://oswalpalash.appspot.com/ascii
That's $40K per year at best. Hardly a middle-class salary in contemporary United States

- There's a huge range to "middle-class". Consider whether your idea of "middle-class salaries" is in fact upper-middle-class. Remember that most of the middle class cannot afford to drive Priuses and BMWs.

- In a lot of the United States, cost of living is a hell of a lot lower than the Bay. When your rent is $350/month for a two-bedroom flat and your car cost $5k, $40k might not be so bad after all.

- The figure quoted is starting wage. It goes up from there, and twenty-year-olds don't yet need quite as much to live comfortably as they will later.
with a semi-automatic weapon?
I think the main thing is some developers never use keyboard shortcuts until they are forced to with vim.
I see something that looks like a flying object in the horizon and I think that it has something to do with dust on the lens of curiosity rover's camera.
If you want to use emacs as if it was vim why change?

Personaly: I try to use my console editors as vanila as posible so that I can feel right at home directly. Kind of the exact opposite of this :)
There are a bunch of daemons running on a fully configured My Cloud. I haven't had much success in finding anything yet, but yeah, it has the bug.

nas:~# bash --version | head -1
GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)
nas:~# uname -a
Linux nas 3.2.26 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 15:53:22 PDT 2014 wd-2.2-rel armv7l GNU/Linux
nas:~# env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
vulnerable
this is a test

EDIT: formatting.
Isn't it possible a good number of people install addons that cause noticeable performance hits?
A semi-automatic means that when you pull the trigger, a single bullet is fired. Its not a fully auto or anything of the sort. Still doesn't explain how you shoot yourself twice with a weapon that fires one round at a time.
It's some kind of a heuristic rule: Don't use a product by a guy with a vastly different mindset than your own.
Everyone I know is opposed to most of what's going on here; but the approval rating of the government is going up in response to a few hyperinflated terrorist threats - so that's pretty disturbing.
It's nice to see the media digest and swallow this bull from the FBI & co without bothering to even chew it a little first. "Oh the FBI said something, IT MUST be true!".

All it requires is for someone to find that backdoor & its mechanism and that's it, they can exploit the backdoor designed for someone else for their own purposes. And if that someone doesn't have legitimate intentions, what then? Am I supposed to accept making my device that much less secure because the FBI or another state actor may one day decide I'm trouble? The chance of that backdoor being exploited by someone other than the FBI is considerably higher than the FBI ever using it themselves, and the FBI seem to be in lalaland on this.
Your quote says that water was already there. :)
This wouldn't be so depressing if it was just Abbott and the Liberals ramming changes through, but no, Labour voted in favor as well. Sigh.
"And darkness was on the face of the deep". So in other words, the water was there before the light.

Story checks out.
I think the average person hears "new terrorism laws", doesn't hear any other words, and is happy because they think it means the government is rounding up brown people and imprisoning them for being brown.

As far as I can tell from mainstream journalism here in Australia, that's the top priority for most people. It doesn't matter if the brown people are immigrants, refugees, terrorists or locals.
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/no-conspira...
The best thing is to insist your tech employer interview female candidates. Speak out if they don't.

The NFL has the "Rooney Rule" that has been instrumental in generating more african american head coaches. Make your company have the same.
I only started using intellij because it was the first IDE I'd ever used that had a decent vim keybindings plugin.
Hydrogen + time = message boards
In Mississippi and South Carolina, you can buy a house in many areas for sub-$100k, for a 1:2.5 salary-price ratio. Compare to Silicon Valley, where good tech salaries of $200k and 2 bdrm homes for $800k give a 1:4 ratio.

$40k is middle class for that part of the country.
Apparently the two shots caused a stir at the time. The coroner acknowledges it sounds strange, but based on suicide notes, history of depression, suicidal actions (like getting rid of belongings), and apparent precedent of two shots in a suicide, they still believe that was the cause.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20080507054818/http://dwb.sacbee....
It's a project by Jyri Engeström and Ulf Schwekendiek.
While the Contra-LA ghetto connection might be controversial, one thing everyone agrees with is that the American invasion of Afghanistan has turned it into the largest producer of heroin in the world. Creating an explosion of heroin addictions in many countries such as in Russia, southern Europe and the middle-east (Vice also did a great documentary on Iran):

> Since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, heroin production in Afghanistan has increased 40-fold, according to the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service. “Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began, and over $1 trillion has been invested in transnational organized crime from drug sales,” Viktor Ivanov said earlier at a conference on the Afghan drug problem in 2013.

http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24919056

> Such has been the failure to combat the problem that more than 90 per cent of the heroin sold on Britain’s streets is still made using opium from Afghanistan. The United Nations yesterday warned that the situation was out of control.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102158/Heroin-produ...

The side-effects of instability due to war are massive and severely under-appreciated.
We are working on a grass roots campaign to raise awareness about these bills, mainly the data retention legislation which will be up for debate in the upcoming weeks.

The campaign will focus on allowing constituents to easily contact their representatives via calls, emails, facebook and twitter.

Here is the campaign mockup -> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByT3WMbCYAEsFcA.jpg:large

We also have an animation in development to more easily explain in laymen terms the repercussions of the proposed legislation.

For anyone inspired enough to want to help out there are a few roles to fill.

1) Website development

https://github.com/stopthespies/website

There are a bunch of open issues but your best bet is to join us at #ausprivacy on freenode to get a better idea of what needs to be done and where we are at.

2) Legislator Dataset

We have a large majority of the contact details for legislators thanks to OpenAustralia.org but there are quite a few missing still. So for those who can't help out with development, we would love help finding missing contact information. I have already wrote a call for help on Reddit -> http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/2hhh2m/call_for_v...

3) Press/Media

If you are a journalist or influential person/company who is interested in promoting the campaign, please shoot me an email(can be found in my HN profile)
My impression is that most all developers have their own office at MS, or at least share an office with 1-2 other devs (not sure if this is different inside bing teams or not either)

Has this 'more-hats' change you describe (specifically ops) changed that at all? Where I work, I hear an argument against offices: that they promote and encourage isolation in what can be an ops-heavy role at times (I see the merits but think there are better ways to combat that)

My company is at orders-of-magnitude different size than MS, wondering if something similar occurs there.
You're making a mistake Sam talked about in his lecture: measuring a company by the number of employees. Software scales in a way that other businesses do not. Instagram got millions of downloads and a $1B acquisition with 13 employees.
It seems like there must be more to the story...

But it's fun to imagine the US Forest Service subpoenaing GPS data from Instagram / Facebook whenever they need to raise money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9539387

It's rare, of course, but apparently happens sometimes. If the first shot doesn't disable, then more may be required.

As far as Gary Webb's case, it sounds like suicide, according to Wikipedia. He was apparently depressed, out of work, had lost his home, left a suicide note, and had his motorcycle stolen.
Well you'll have to explain me how you fit "greater longevity" claimed by the page you linked with the indisputable fact that alcohol consumption drives the rate of cancers, which are one of the leading causes of death in the developed world. There is clear evidence that alcohol contents cause mutations, which in turn cause cancers when out of control. A number of deadly cancers are directly correlated with alcohol intake, such as oesophagus, stomach and digestive tract cancer. Plus, all alcohol drinks contain some amounts of formaldehyde which is a powerful poison for humans (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/materials/formaldehyde_508.p...).

So I'm not sure how a doctor can say with a straight face that 1-2 drinks a day has no detrimental effect on your health at all.
promoted by people wanting to feel better about their alcohol consumption

Maybe, but this works in reverse too. There is a bias towards assuming that behavior perceived as sinful must also be harmful. This manifests in bad science in any number of examples: meat consumption, fat consumption, and yes, alcohol consumption. The USDA food pyramid (1992 one) came out against sinful fats and guess what happened? A low-fat/high-carb craze that was completely ruinous to public health.
I can see the advantages of using the Arel predicates, but to me this:

User.order("id desc")

reads better than:

User.order(User.arel_table[User.primary_key].desc)

The latter seems a lot less expressive.

Also, Pat's book is great if you're curious about Ruby internals:

http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
How many people commit suicide by being able to shoot themselves twice in the head? I'm no doctor or firearms expert, but it seems unlikely.
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No, it isn't. If I don't have the ability to prevent 3rd parties from entering my house, it isn't a wild exaggeration.
I want to love this, but this is terrible. It introduces yet another markdown useless to edit for GitHub, Jekyll, Scrivener, AirMail, or the like.

Use pandoc markdown (now aka common markdown) for broadest compatibility and reasonably professional publishing, or github markdown for a developer audience, or let the user choose among engines.

Don't introduce another rando format. Phabricator did that and it's terrible too.

(Btw, www.texts.io supports both visual rich text style controls and markdown typing at the same time, rendered wysiwyg, and is cross platform. Also supports multiple dialects, with pandoc as the default: http://www.texts.io/support/0009/)
Very interesting css preprocessor/layout engine combination, kudos 1999. Many people annoyed with css might love this quite a bit.

I wonder about the performance implications. The layout engine obviously has to run in javascript and thus it will result in a slower startup time (gss has to parse the logic) and the layout itself will be obviously slower than "native css".
A robust reputation system using chain of trust scoring to reduce the usefulness of sybil attacks would rapidly result in reliable, friendly, safe drivers building huge amounts of positive feedback, which would then self-reinforce improved customer service efforts to maintain their reputations.

If the online drug markets can use reputation systems to ensure fairplay amongst the vast majority of anonymous blackmarket trades then local taxi networks should be able to manage it too!
He had a couple high profile successes before Windows 8 too though (Office 2007/10 and Win7).
...I provided you the actual documents as well as articles with links to actual government reports from Congress.

Okay. So what your saying is, no source is acceptable.
Considering that this is a game whose playing field is the entire planet, content generation has always been in the hands of the players. What surprises me most about Ingress is how little of the game scales that way though. Portals (the nodes players fight for control of) are submitted by players but approved manually, which typically takes 4-5 months. Likewise the game's major events ("anomalies") occur only in a few hand-chosen cities at a time, so most players have never been near one.

As for what Google gets out of it, originally Niantic's model was to build a business out of a sister app called Field Trip, which is a "show me something interesting near where I am" kind of app. Ingress was there to gamify the content generation, and presumably Field Trip would pay the bills somehow. There was also a tie-up angle, where some company (Jamba Juice?) had all its stores show up in-game as portals.

But Google acquired them before that process had gotten going, and hasn't done anything of note with Field Trip, so presumably that's not the answer. My suspicion is that they consider Ingress worthwhile just for the the data generated, and for convincing a lot of people to run around with location reporting turned on. You'd think that Google would also start doing something with the user-submitted data (e.g. surfacing the portals in Google Maps as "points of interest" or similar), but AFAIK that hasn't happened.
This is a classic example of the tyranny of the majority, and why government of any kind, democratic or not, is illegitimate. Any institution that wields power over you will eventually deprive you of your freedom against your will.
Here is a recent interview with actor Gerard Depardieu where he says he drinks 12+ bottles of wine in a day.

A bottle of wine is around 7 standard drinks so he is drinking daily what the average "Top 10% drinker" gets through in a week.

http://www.sofilm.co.uk/interview-gerard-depardieu-i-can-abs...
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Downvoter: out of curiosity, which part of my post did you disagree with?
The only thing I really like in vim is the modal editing. Evil replicates all that stuff really well in my opinion.

Plugins in vim are usually pretty poor compared to emacs, and vimscript is frustrating. Emacs Lisp is at least a consistent language, and one that I can figure out how to use much better.
Unfortunately my poc isn't working as expected. I'll continue investigating, and keep the repo up to date.

Feel free to fork it and use it as a place to start for your own poc.
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I say this in all seriousness- can't it be both?

You could have said exactly the same two things about nuclear fission sixty years ago. In the bombs that will destroy us, in the power plants that will revolutionize us.

(That the bombs never destroyed us, and the power plants weren't everything we hoped, is not important)
I have to say...these text snippets (and also the Mass Effect codex entries) show a lot of effort into the thinking behind the back stories of these games. I would say I enjoyed reading those as much as the damn game itself.
You're assuming a bullet to the head kills you every time. That is not always the case.

For example, not long ago the actor who played George's boss from Seinfeld survived shooting himself in the head and continued to call 911. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/seinfeld-actor-shoots-self-in-ap...
It is nice the article mentions Spain. Here you can just give the OK via web signing with a personal certificate issued by the government. But we have a National Identity Document (direct translation from Spanish: Documento Nacional de Identidad) with a nice chip where we can store the certificate [1]. Cons: we must carry it any where we go and show it to the police on request. I believe in USA that would be unimaginable because... you know... government control.

BTW, thanks god Firefox supports client certificates and I sign from Linux.

1: http://www.dnielectronico.es/oficina_prensa/imagenes/modelo_...