skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing this out! My volume of spam robocalls and SMS has gone through the roof this year, and I knew there had to be some app that did like a collaborative blacklist for these numbers. This TrueCaller appears to do the trick.

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller
Her name was Carly, she was a VP
With Lucent and AT&T and a degree from MIT
She went to HP and wowed the board room
And while she tried to be a star, sometimes went a bit too far
And then September 4, Compaq became the score
They were failing and needed each other
Leaning drunks galore!

At the HP, HP/Com-pa-q
The merger that upset the family
At the HP, HP/Com-pa-q
David and William were always the fashion
At the HP... they ran the show

His name was Walter, his dad was famous
He wasn't present for the board, but he wouldn't be ignored
And what she pro-posed, "Dad would've hated"
Then Walter went a bit too far, "Carly: time for au revoir!"
And then the insults flew and careers were smashed in two
There were ads and a lot of bankers, but just who screwed who?

At the HP, HP/Com-pa-q
The merger that upset the family
At the HP, HP/Com-pa-q
David and Walter are today the fashion
At the HP... they run the show

Her name is Carly, she was CEO
But that was 30 weeks ago, when she used to run show
Now she's a VC, but that's our Carly
Still in the suit she used to wear, new blonde highlights in her hair
She sits there so refined, and drinks to Walter's health
She lost her job and she lost the proxy, now she enjoy's her wealth!

At the HP, well just the HP
The toughest job belongs to Walter
At the HP, well just the HP
William and David were always the fashion
At the HP, don't buy the stock...

http://blog.jgc.org/2008/03/bouts-complete-song-parodies.htm...
"belief is the source and solution of all problems" I believe Plato said that. I believe he also said that of alcohol.

Rather than the age old "either X exists or it doesn't" your entire thing unraveled right here:

"I am not strong enough to be an atheist"

Anything from that point on had a 'motivating circumstance' behind it, a bias, a solution being sought.

Now, the concept of 'pray once a day' will be accepted, because a certain belief is already had: that belief is the issue, not a certain state or mode of being. A certain "strength" -- I believe you hit that on the head. There is a certain quality of person, called atheism.

Some of the "best" religious people I know, while having a "faith" are what I could also call atheist, in the purest sense: not just in an ideological sense, but in an active one: did they do that "all by themselves" or were they rubbing the magic rabbit foot all the way there? When they wanted to reach out for help, did they do it? Or did they endure?

The thing that is changing is a different mode of being taking root: one of operating on belief, rather than on your own. The answer when you cannot cope is not to find a mechanism to cope, a crutch, but to just endure or execute the thing. It is about strength. Sometimes it's about accepting things without a reason: what if one of your twins died? Exactly why is that "bad" per se? It feels like shit, yes, but all you can really say is that you currently do not want that. Petitioning someone for your desire is pure and simple. Making it into "I couldn't take it anymore so I felt too weak to be atheist" is just covering over the fact that you really really wanted your wife and kids to be ok.

That is your religion then. It's strong enough of a source of desire that you'd reach outside yourself to manipulate the universe itself if you had to, to cause the outcome you wanted. It could be said that is what the deity concept is. It's a mutable global variable ( which is not threadsafe ) designed to circumvent your own individuality and provide a hack to route-around the system as it is, allowing you to not learn or grow, just have what you want. Confusingly, some people have a deathwish or a sense of inferiority, so they get what they want so much easier.
How to make your bullets 'impact'
> What's your experience with Google Maps at the free 2G speeds?

"Unpleasant." What I'd strongly recommend is to download the map using offline maps before you leave. If you wait for Google Maps to download the data over the 2G/free tier you'll be in for a very long (10+ minute) wait.

I did not do offline maps before I left, but mostly we were on tours so we didn't really need them. But if I was e.g. exploring a city or doing something on my own, you'd definitely want to do offline maps if you wanted to use Google Maps on their free tier.
Iron.io's DockerWorker
I've read this is Mark Zuckerberg's policy when hiring people to report directly to him. It makes sense when hiring management positions, but there is a lot of room in organizations for people that aren't going to manage others and don't necessarily need the skills, experience and interests that make good managers.
It has a lot of stub sections which need help being fleshed out, we should all pick an area we're strong in and pitch in.

I think this is likely to shape up as less of a "school" or "course" than the DevOps equivalent of the anarchist's cookbook.
I'm pretty sure they just look at our website or other contact information. I'm not sure it's just the WHOIS info.
I've been involved in the gamehacking scene for longer than I'd like to admit; it's a tremendous amount of fun and feels rewarding but it's a very hollow reward. Sure, you can build programs to manipulate game clients to do all of those things. The problem is that there's most often no legitimate way to openly bring the fruit of that labor to market as a result of the MDY vs Blizzard case regarding wowglider[1] and more specifically with the DMCA.

I wasn't sued but paid for intellectual property counsel to examine how the Ninth Circuit ruling would translate across the US and they didn't exactly tell me to go ahead.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to extend games, which is why WoW had LUA and many other games are at very least hooked into for parsing capabilities. These kinds of 3rd party parsers are in many cases not legal, so not openly marketable.

So for anyone considering a future for-profit project, hire a lawyer and review all those nasty agreements and see how the DMCA might come back to haunt you before you're too invested in it.

For anyone who's considering it for fun: Just understand that the time you spend on gamehacking probably won't result in a revenue-producing project. If you're looking to learn, gamehacking can teach you a lot about a variety of things like memory (address space/pointers/offsets), rendering, assembly code, geometric and pathfinding algorithms (Dijkstra/A*), pattern matching/signature scanning. Many of those things have real-world applications such as signature scanning for virus definitions. You'll get plenty of hexadecimal math practice. You can learn about DirectX or network traffic. You can have really enjoyable learning experiences working with games at a lower-than-intended level, but keep in mind that any time not learning is only about as well-spent as time playing video games... it's fun but incredibly addictive and they're already at "Pwn Adventure 3" so there's no end in sight!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MDY_Industries,_LL...
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

If you scroll down, there's:

$30 per month — Unlimited web and text with 100 minutes talk
100 minutes talk | Unlimited text | First 5GB at up to 4G speeds

I'm considering switch from that plan to Google Fi for Canada data.
I think you're ignoring the context of my statements.

Let's assume two things off the bat:

a) The government is only surveilling people under reasonable suspicion. [1]

b) Encryption is not a confirmation of illicit activities.

The problem:

1) Government has reason to suspect Person A

2) Government cannot see their communications due to encryption

3) Government cannot investigate any further due to encryption

In the past they could monitor communications of a suspect and determine whether or not the suspicions were true. This has prevented a number of crimes - both drug related, mafia/gang/cartel related, and terrorist related. With encryption methods becoming commonplace - the government can no longer do what they have been doing and these once preventable crimes are becoming less preventable. Encryption is now too powerful and secure.

This is not a problem in and of itself. It's a good thing for citizens too! The problem is that crimes that were once preventable through surveillance are becoming impossible to survey.

The solution is to not weaken encryption - but find other methods of confirming suspicions on a suspect who is
under reasonable suspicions of illicit activity. [2]

[1] We know this to be false, but go along with me here

[2] Which is what is being asked for: "We need your help to find the solution."
My hunch is that there are worse initial 7% equity holders than YC should control become an issue down the road...which is to say I haven't read about YC screwing people over control, not that founders have nit perceived such actions.
>> the fact that as a language Ruby is superior to Javascript remains, even if Javascript VMs are a hundred times as fast.

As someone who frequently switches between Ruby/Rails and NodeJS (sometimes in the same day), I wonder about this statement (err, fact).

You mentioned that the Ruby language is superior and that this is a "fact". What about the Ruby (I know Node isn't really a language, but for the sake of discussion, Node,JS,npm) is substantially better that the speed trade-off is worth it (besides familiarity)?

In my case, I'm familiar with both, and I prefer Node,JS,npm. Node,JS,npm are definitely not perfect, yet still, I like it over Rails,Ruby,Gems/Bundler.

I'm not looking to "win" here; I'm just very curious now given your assertion.
18M Americans Need Your Help
The article makes it sound like that these techniques are ground breaking new, but in reality 3D software sound has existed for a long time already.
I have a raspberry pi A I think it is, hooked up with the camera taking timelapses every day and automated posting to youtube. Gave me an excuse to play with ember for the frontend too -> http://timelapses.psdavey.com

Current project for the pi2 is hooking it up over a 3G modem for remote monitoring of a study site for a science friend of mind. I want to be able for her to send an SMS and for the PI to send back a picture. All the bits are in place, just need to make it nice!.

Love the pi - so much fun!
The most logistically frustrating part of the ordeal:
"Dining halls at some schools, for example, close for spring break, though some students can’t afford to leave campus."
He need to try run Rust code :)
this site shows them in a better way

http://forre.st/storage#ssd

though atm it appears to have mis-scraped the price on some of them..
Well since cardsharing came prevalent it's easier than ever to get Sky illegally. They shut down HD recently by messing with the ECM timing.

Now most illegally suppliers have switched to IPTV.
Having moved to Elixir from Ruby (among other languages), I can say that Elixir's syntax is pretty natural coming from the Ruby world. That's probably no coincidence, considering that its creator (Jose Valim) is a Rails contributor.
> They're almost always at the poor and not very educated end of the population
> Really, fining them four figures for what is really a trivial offence is unhelpfully nasty and persecutory.

It's a great reflection of the sad state of the country.
Yeah, a system administrator who doesn't know how to program is just as useless. Why avoid a supremely useful tool because you have some personal aversion to it? You describe people who really don't have a technical mindset to problem solving and were never taught that you need data to back up your hunches. Unfortunately, a lot of those people tend to get stuck in the "system administrator" role because many sysadmin tasks can be easy and repetitive, and putting them on those tasks keeps them away from anything they could break.

Architecture is a "10,000 foot view" type job. I do a good bit of architecture work, and I don't give a flying fuck about how much RAM is in a server or how many CPUs it has. I care about the function the server performs, whether that performance is adequate relative to current demand, and whether the architecture can scale to handle 10-100x that demand. When I was a sysadmin, I used to care about RAM/CPU tuning, but it's not relevant to my current work so I have forgotten a lot of technical details. I do know that if I think a system isn't adequately tuned to its use case, I can go talk to my performance testing team and they will investigate, generate a hypothesis and test that hypothesis.
I feel that if we had representatives with more diverse backgrounds, and we surrounded them with lawyers and staff to explain how to best translate their ideas into bills, we'd be better served.

Interesting. Instead of lawyers on the inside, specialists on the outside, we would have specialists on the inside, lawyers on the outside. I've wanted something similar for a while, and I like this way of phrasing it.
The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++”
I've been really excited about this upcoming announcement, but I'm disappointed at the pricing.

I used 15GB last month, so I'd pay more than double what I pay now for "unlimited" data.
Do you mean that syntactically uninitialized values are set to some well-defined value (0, for example), or one in which uninitialized values have an undefined value but don't cause undefined behavior on use?
My-Apps – Mobile Apps for Anyone for business or personal means
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

Good shoes will save you money if you can put in the initial investment :)
Yeah because the economics of a capitalistic society are never racist...

And, more to the point, if Facebook designs an algorithm for validating names that assumes that names not conforming to particular cultural norms are not valid, that is in fact racist.
I am all for gene editing, even on viable embryos.

Only issue I have concerns for is not knowing the long term ramifications of genetic mutations of human embryos.
Are the problems this is intended to solve problems that also affect F#?
AT&T: We'll always find a way to fuck you.
> Your last sentence suggests that your problem isn't the specifics of the extradition treaty, but rather the concept of extradition in general.

You misrepresent what I said. I don't particularly object to extradition for crimes committed in US law on US soil, although I do think countries have a responsibility to protect their own citizens first and foremost (which is surely the primary purpose of nations).

If an extradition treaty means I am effectively subject to inter-national law while in my home country, then I object, yes, very much.
So is it a felony to play this game as intended?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
That comment was there because my point was not about generics, but about programming language features (that are must have, the must have list of course being different for everyone) in general.
I think they got this idea from indie.vc
The incumbents often see the future, but rarely update their fundamental viewpoint to match the new reality. It's the innovator's dilemma applied to VCs.
This is the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Jon Stewart
Google Launches Its Own Wireless Service, Project Fi
I don't think this is limited to schools. All through life you will find that there are people with more, or fewer, resources than you have and interactions may be adversely affected by that.

The example of going out to dinner and then catching a movie is a good one. In a mid to large sized metropolitan area that is an expenditure of $40 - $100 (depending) and that can represent anywhere from .1% to 10% of a person's take home pay. So people gravitate to socializing with folks who have the same sort of budget for recreational expenses.

And it can get even weirder when you're wildly different in available resources. Consider the following illustrative example

Bob is a very high net worth individual, he owns an interest in a Gulfstream jet. While folks are hanging out they hear about a restaurant in Santa Fe (over 1,000 miles away) that is really great. Bob thinks it would be a great place to go for dinner. So he invites folks to dinner, when they show up everyone gets on the plane and flys to Santa Fe and eats at this restaurant which has been reserved (entirely) for this dinner.

Bob is trying to be friendly and help everyone share the experience of a restaurant they were just talking about. Except that everyone on the plane that wasn't extremely wealthy felt really weird about the whole experience. (surreal might be better).

So its easy to be friends with Bob, he's a nice guy, but it is hard to "hang out" with Bob as his idea of a reasonable idea of what to do next, can sometimes collide with your idea of reality.

That goes all the way down to things like skiing (fun, but expensive to do for the day).

To avoid that you need communities of people with similar resource levels, and yes this means that things like the 1st generation outreach program mentioned in the article will collect all of the 'poor people' together, but it gives them a social structure to start from. And if they mix with the the 'not quite so poor' people they can start to move through the variations in strata. Once they graduate they are very likely to be at least part of the "middle" and their kids the "upper middle".
1 Gigabyte per hour? Are you really chatting at 22 Mbit/s? That's like half Bluray quality.
I am impressed that it's able to work for both when the Habs are at home and on the road. The only similar thing would be the commentator's reaction. The ambient sound is reversed (cheers and horns when the Sens score). I would think you would have to train the algorithm separately for both cases, and tell it whether the current game is at home or not.

Anyway, this is very good work, the light setup is very clean. I hope that the (your?) system will get a lot of "true positives" during tonight's game :).
If you are using the game as it is intended, you are by definition not cheating.
I think the article of this author is pedantic. The articles written by Shaw will show how to create programs with a specific language such as C, Ruby or Python and the C version is, of course, no substitute for the K&R book.

The K&R book tells you all the ins and outs of the C language. The Shaw article gives you a practical way to build a program with the C language.

I would assume that an experienced programmer, such as the writer of this article seems the be, would understand this.
I am curious whether anybody else has experienced this in professional settings.

I make as much money as most of my peers at work, but fairly regularly I am made aware of the fact that my upbringing was less affluent than many of theirs. They have stories about exotic vacations they went on with their families, while my stories are about manual labor on farms. On some occasions somebody has made a crack at the expense of blue-collar workers, but I don't feel particularly far removed from that life.
Show HN: Introducing Nitrous Pro
It's not an exploit when its a documented, and warned feature that reduces your security since day 1.

"Warning: The docker group is equivalent to the root user; For details on how this impacts security in your system, see Docker Daemon Attack Surface for details."

FUD
Not exactly the same idea - one of the main point of Datomic is consistency, and no guarantees are made here.
In fact, only the idea of immutable value seem to be shared.
skillswap.in is the only site I can find, next closest thing would be: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/

Or try twitch, since streaming programming has been an up coming item.
The best example of this for me is the initialism style rule:

> Words in names that are initialisms or acronyms (e.g. "URL" or "NATO") have a consistent case. For example, "URL" should appear as "URL" or "url" (as in "urlPony", or "URLPony"), never as "Url". Here's an example: ServeHTTP not ServeHttp.

> This rule also applies to "ID" when it is short for "identifier," so write "appID" instead of "appId".

> Code generated by the protocol buffer compiler is exempt from this rule. Human-written code is held to a higher standard than machine-written code.

To enforce this in the linter they literally define a list of initialisms[1].

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#initial...
[2]: https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go#L695
I attended Stanford business school on scholarship. I was brought up in a middle class household, not poor. I couldn't fit in with the rich kids, many of whom were sons/daughters of millionaire/billionaires, the bankers and the consultants. All the students were obsessed with networking and as a "lowly" engineer pursuing an MBA, my classmates never considered me worth getting to know. I tried but couldn't really forge any meaningful friendships.I felt like an outsider all the time. This was in sharp contrast to my experience in engineering school in India, where the only thing that mattered was how smart you are, irrespective of who your parents are.
You no longer are :).
Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos
..plus knowing which apps are you running.

I can't think of a valid reason why an app should require such permissions besides information gathering.. there are API for making you app talk, or discover other apps
Honing your skills as a content creator
"I pass very well for an upper middle-class man thanks to a spiffing british accent I inherited from my mother"

Its amazing how a "upper crust" accent will play versus something something considered "low class". Its one of those hidden assumptions that adults make. I have a deep, loud voice that was tinged with a rez accent and quite a lot of slang.

Watch a kid react to Mater from Cars versus an adult. The story of the voice acting for that part worldwide is quite interesting.
I just got a T-mobile plan, the one you're referring to, an hour ago, and you are right, I paid $50 for the plan (plus $15 for the card).
>> That's what everyone predicted half a decade ago, yet it hasn't happened, not even the PHP death part.

Indeed. I don't think it will happen...at least not the way people are predicting it to happen. There are plenty of dev jobs that ultimately, you can pick any of the mentioned technologies and if it makes you happy, you'll find a job that will allow you to apply that skill while paying you a great salary (or hourly fee).

These debates are good fun for sure, but ultimately, it doesn't matter in most cases.