skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think if you were imprisoned there that you would think it was soft.

Many of those picked up were fighting for the government of Afghanistan at the time so they should have been considered lawful combatants. The whole reason they were put in Guantanamo at the time was to keep them out of the reach of the Geneva convention.

I am hardly a support of islam or any of the cranks and criminals doing acts of terror - my opposition to what was and is still being done to Guantanamo is it totally counterproductive. It is the equivalent to a take no prisoners policy in war. If you want to bolster the enemy make surrender equal death and watch while every battle becomes a fight to the last man.
Snowden did however try to run it up the chain of command, and was told to sit down and shut up. Once all legal means have been exhausted, going illegal is generally acceptable, IMO
I know it's seems like it's 'dark pattern' week on HN, but not everything is a dark pattern.

Dark Patterns are user interfaces that are designed to trick users.

Facebook requests the permission to go through your stuff and if you read their data use policy, they go so far as to tell you in detail exactly the information they're taking from you, as well as how they use it.

Sure, it's a little bothersome when the information that you've given them goes farther than your personal preference, but it's not a 'dark pattern', it's just a feature that you don't like.
Which rules didn't he follow?
"Booking fees have long been something that consumers grumble about–but pay."

Not exactly. I mean yeah, I sometimes pay them, but I simply go out far less because of them. So choose wisely if you're going to go that route!
When we have evidence to the contrary. Speculation about what we might find in the future doesn't change anything.
The fact that arbitrage is happening is obviously bad for the Opera, but I want to point out that every opera ticket is sold at a loss. Selling opera tickets just at break-even would drive down attendance significantly (and it's already low).

Opera companies run like VCs: most of the audience/startups are losses, but a few of them are donors/unicorns who keep the opera/VC afloat.
you forgot sex :)
Or https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa

(Who me? _Never!_)
BSD 3-clause vs. MIT on GitHub
Google could just add this as a feature in Google Maps.
> There is a huge difference you're ignoring... Snowden, however, violated numerous amounts of laws

The difference that you are ignoring is that it's in the government's power to legalize or even incentivize whistleblowing on a company while at the same time it's equally easy for the government to outlaw whistleblowing on the country. The government of a country sets the laws. It defines what's lawful and what's not.

Therefore when it comes to whistleblowing on a country it becomes borderline irrelevant whether some laws are broken or not as long as the whistleblowing otherwise aligns with universally accepted human values and ethics.
Lasagne (on top of Theano): https://github.com/Lasagne/Lasagne
That might help, but facebook is still fully capable of seeing that the clients have the same number in both of their phone books.
Ways the Internet of Things May Affect Your Business
Blocks (on top of Theano): https://github.com/mila-udem/blocks
That might actually be what we're looking for, we assume that cloudflare is already trustworthy since they're performing the MITM - however there is no way for the client to distinguish whether the backend network is in the clear or not without such an indicator. Also this assumes we're OK with Cloudflare to report the backend status accurately and that can't be spoofed as well.
Trust of a CA doesn't have to be binary - it could be stochastic.

Let's say that when a browser wishes to revoke a CA certificate, it chooses a timeframe for a "deprecation period". Before the deprecation period, the CA is fully trusted. After the deprecation period, it has been completely eliminated.

During the deprecation period, a browser will possibly pop up an error page rather than accepting the certificate. The probability of this happening increases as the deprecation period advances, slowly "turning up the pain" (likely exponentially or quadratically, for slow initial growth).

A reload will clear the error and load the page (or perhaps go through the probability again). Obviously it would be good if the site were notified through a header that this was happening. And user feedback will accomplish the same thing in a cruder manner.

Proactive sites would move off before the deprecation period even began. Less connected sites would get user reports and move off early in the period. Negligent sites would see their users migrate to different sites as their functionality got ever worse.
What are these whistleblower rules? "Tell the people covering up the wrong-doing that they are um, doing wrong?"

I doubt Snowden was ignorant about what happened to those who "followed the rules". Their lives were ruined and nothing changed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon...

"None of the lawful whistleblowers who tried to expose the government’s warrantless surveillance – and Drake was far from the only one who tried – had any success,” Devine told me. “They came forward and made their charges, but the government just said, ‘They’re lying, they’re paranoid, we’re not doing those things.’ And the whistleblowers couldn’t prove their case because the government had classified all the evidence. Whereas Snowden took the evidence with him, so when the government issued its usual denials, he could produce document after document showing that they were lying. That is civil disobedience whistleblowing.”
You could have backup certificates that you install when an untrustworthy CA is booted.
Let's Build Green Infrastructure
The other day I pulled up behind a Tesla Model X with a SpaceX license plate frame. The driver looked to be no more than 22 years old. The Hyperloop competition drew more team designs than the last DARPA Grand Challenge. How much of doing what you do is about inspiring the next generation to take moon shots?

Follow up: how the blazes do you keep the SpaceX factory floor so pristine? I've been inside clean rooms that look worse ;)
Snowden violated laws in order to reveal government violations of the law, as confirmed by a panel of judges on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals who declared that the NSA's bulk telephone data programs were not legal.
There was an interesting NPR episode on ticket resellers a while back: Planet Money (episode 468 - Kid Rock vs The Scalpers)
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episo...

They talked about how it's more complex then resellers charging mark-ups to meet market demand. Often, venues have either social pressure or pressure from artists to keep prices low. The idea is that if the venue sells Katy Perry tickets at market price (say $2000/each), her fans are going to be upset with not only the venue but also her, so her management will make sure that doesn't happen.

However, simply lowering ticket prices means losing out on tons of money for both the venue and artist. One solution that is used is: the venue offloads large chunks of their ticket pool to ticket resellers (ticketmaster/stubhub) under the condition that they split a % of the markup with the venue and artist. The reseller absorbs the social blame for 'egregious' ticket prices, the venue/artist keep more of the profits than if they had kept prices below market price.
Its hard to dedicate people to less popular/profitable tasks when recruiting takes 6 months and expects post doc level of CS knowledge.
Former Models for Donald Trump's Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules
Thanks! That's what we aimed for.

Feel free to shoot me any suggestions of content you'd find useful via email. We're always looking for more ways to make valuable and interesting content more accessible to everyone.
Actually, I'd say that the infrastructure and tools work being done on Google+ for the Web are bleeding edge and some of the more exciting stuff being done, so it's not unsexy.

Look at how fast the new + loads, and open up the sources tab in your browser and look at how the JS is split. The way Closure Compiler is slicing up the app into tons of tiny individually loadable, optimized and minified chunks is very awesome. Google+ photos on the Web works the same way.
FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers
Back in the day, when Google opened up a 411 service, Microsoft did the same. It looked like a way to expand the search engine. After several years of operation, they shut it down. Why? They were collecting voice samples to feed into their voice recognition system, and they had collected enough.

I can't help but wonder if this ride sharing is a similar move. It sounds like a stepping stone for the kind of services that might be practical with self-driving cars. There might be some angle on collecting data that isn't obvious.
It makes me so sad that products like picasa, sketchup, wave, and google labs projects like google sets got decomissioned, but google plus lives on.

Meanwhile, they are trying to make the guber car service.

It's hard to understand from the outside.
> They missed the opportunity to call it the Francophone, though.

Yeah, if you only had to speak french with them, but I'm sure a lot of ppl in France know English by now or do they?
Not just 20 year olds but everyone is affected by, and can't help but absorb a great deal of, the values of their culture. That's what it means to call it their culture.
For an experiment I opened up the dev editor in Chrome and changed the CSS of the content blocks/cards so the max-width was ~700px instead of 530px and it looked better. The content expanded just fine in a larger form so I'm sure it could go bigger.

I'm not sure why they chose such a small default width for desktop.
Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60M Dropbox Users
> We figured users would want to use the tool standalone without babel and the simpliest thing we thought of was to wraps babel-cli and pass in the preset.

With all the other minifiers out there the only real draw here is you're already using babel so toss the minifier at it. If anyone, other than for the novelty of it being new, actually downloads babel ONLY to use the minifier I will eat my hat.
Undocumented Human Tour Embarks on Second Trip Around US
As I understood the paper, blocks MA and MB can have arbitrary contents as long as possessing the following block (MA' or MB' respectively) is required for decoding.

An eavesdropper cannot then substitute the contents of either MA or MB without either breaking the decoding process or dropping portions of the conversation. Either way, the eavesdropper cannot fully conceal their presence.
Sorry, but Your Browser Password Manager Probably Isn’t Enough
Everything is a probability right? I generally don't spend my days worrying about how I'm going to survive the next asteroid strike on the planet (guaranteed to to be an issue at some point). I also get in my car and drive on the highway between here and there even though I know there are people driving under the influence that can kill me if they hit my car at speed. There are people who are getting shot by other people trying to shoot still other people all over the place, but I don't strap on the kevlar vest when ever I go out. It's all probabilities.

The risk is out there that at some point Gonorrhea can become the scourge of the human race. It is instructive to review how the staph bacteria has gone from nuisance to menace. But the exposure isn't there for Gonorreha to get ahead of us. Read that opinion piece in the Guardian.

It is important to respect that things in the world can kill you, it is also important to not let your fear drive you to action that is counter productive.
Rather than weakening the attacker (killing the bacteria) we could look for ways to strengthen the organism (boost the body's own defense mechanisms). The health industry as a whole, has been weakened by the discovery of antibiotics and designer molecules, and as a result now spends too many resources on looking for killer chemicals (antibiotics and other drugs).

But there are other ways. One way is to follow the thread of research opened up by William B. Coley who developed Coley's Toxins, a cocktail of bacterial toxins that sparked the body's own defense mechanisms and in many cases, caused cancer tumors to turn to jelly within days and start being reabsorbed by the body. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1888599/ has more about him.

Or the way of genome therapy where researchers are studying the active genomes in both healthy and sick (or cancerous) cells to understand what knobs and buttons exist in the human organism that we might be able to adjust by means of various therapies, sometimes even benign ones. There is evidence that one of the many hundred subtypes of cancer will respond to everyday blood pressure medication. This is a relatively benign drug that, in the right conditions, will kill cancer cells. Of course, the right conditions include that the patient has certain specific genes. But genomic techniques ca discover these genomic markers and help us sort out the mechanisms by which cells resist attacks from hostile bacteria. The ultimate outcome for cancer would be that your doctor takes a biopsy of the cancer cells, their active genomes are analyzed and this information is used to build a molecular machine that manufacture a custom drug that will cure your cancer.

Look at the molecular machinery of the Polymerase Chain Reaction which makes copies of DNA molecules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction

And there is Reverse Transcription which converts RNA molecules to DNA molecules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcription_polymera...

Not to mention the Ribosome which is the molecular machine in your cells which manufactures protein molecules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
In the case of the smartphone, though, Google was working on a smartphone a year before Apple was. Apple got the jump on it, with a brilliant design.

I think this has more to do with a self-driving car play than anything.
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Adults should be capable of deciding for themselves if a given wage is sufficient to meet their expenses.
Now I Feel Better – Homeland Security to take charge of elections
I learned about this from my grandfather, who talked about how they used to cook that way in WWII. Here's a book describing that the GI:s would heat their food on the manifold: https://books.google.com/books?id=TaQRz3SSclEC&pg=PA252&dq=c...

The 1989 book "Manifold Destiny" (two updates since) contains recipes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Destiny_%28cookbook%2...

Or, if you have a 1920s Ford, you can make your own stove from the engine, according to this 1924 Popular Science article: https://books.google.com/books?id=zigDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=co... . In 1980, Model A restorers were still cooking with a similar method: https://books.google.com/books?id=OPQ6AAAAMAAJ&q=cook+exhaus... .

Here are some boaters cooking on their marine engines in the 1970s: https://books.google.com/books?id=95zqW6gMnR0C&pg=PA92&dq=co... .
That's an interesting comment. Would you care to elaborate?
Then no one would ever minify. Minify makes it faster to download and install (even in some cases it can make the code faster due to some optimizations though I wouldn't bank on it). You minify deployments and, if someone needs to debug, switch to a debug version of the code.
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It makes sense. I would expect the best architects to be in Chicago, the best finance folks in NYC, and the best media folks in LA -- why would tech be any different?

The Bay has a lot of extra draw for really talented developers. For the really good developers it's less about "what job can I get" and more about "what job do I want?". When they have the luxury to work at virtually any company they want, SV is the place to be just by the numbers.

It makes a big difference to students too -- most hot shot developers out of college are going to take an offer from a flashy Bay Area sweetheart over the local healthcare IT shop any day.
> You typically pick which one you want

Typically being the key word. IIRC, at my college, the choices were baseball, weights, basketball and track.
>…that might be novelty, socializing, recognition, or competition

Your comment made me realize why I never liked sports. I don't really care for any of those things.
Partnerships, S-Corps, LLCs are pass-through entities - meaning profits are treated as self-employed/contractor income, and excluded from corporate taxes (though you can elect to have an LLC taxed as a corporation, which may be advantageous in certain situations). However, pass-through income is subject to self-employment taxes, which currently sit at about 15%.

S-Corp - if your business is earning a lot of profit it can make sense to pay yourself a salary and the remainder of profit as a distribution, which is not subject to the 15% self-employment tax: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Busines...

C-Corp - For a company you founded a QSBS or Qualified Small Business Stock can be excluded (in whole or in part) from capital gain taxes. So, as your company grows year after year, and it's valuation rises year over year, this can save a lot of money when selling: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dde20f35-2d5e-...
From the announcement:

> We will make Vesper for iOS, Vesper for Mac, and Vesper’s JavaScript sync service open source on my personal GitHub account. This code will also be provided as historical artifacts: they’re not intended as active projects. They’re also not intended as examples of how to write apps these days.
From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
When individuals given donations to disasters funds and hospitals, is it not reasonable that it has the condition that the organizer don't pocket the money themselves? One obvious condition to me is that the money should end up as advertised, and if not, I would claim fraud and hope that the justice system handles it.

Other forms of presents are public services "gifted" by the government to its citizens, like parks. A condition to that gift is that people don't vandalize the park, destroying it for everyone. Shouldn't presents like those should be bound to conditions, both informal and official.

I find that most gifts are given under an implicit or explicit condition, and it seems the norm rather than the exception.
Welcome to the contradictory world of Startup Advice: Survival Bias Edition.
True, youtube comments are really bad. Not just in terms of content but the interactive experience. This could have been a good opportunity for Google to do something like Disqus did with cross-website identity. With a high-quality messaging UX.

But no, Youtube still has second-rate commenting.

Even a voting/ranking system closer to Reddit would be better.
Sure, but many colleges require you to get a meal-plan with the dorm room. And, IME, the food was expensive, and garbage.
Here is a place to start
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/01/29/the-rac...

And given that you can use sugar to help heal wounds http://www.drwhitaker.com/sugar-on-wounds-for-healing/
what if you inject a sugar syrup into the bladder every time after you pee. Might work. Research is needed.
Twitter to share ad revenue on videos by U.S. users
I've noticed that too, and wondered about the connection with this.

I wonder if this was a similar play as when they opened that 411 service back in the day. Turned out, they were using it as a way to amass a large collection of voice samples.

I kinda wonder how valuable ride sharing data would be. They might necessarily have to make a profit directly on that. It might have something to do with their self-driving cars. For example (just randomly spouting off), knowing where people want to ride towards the same direction might inform how to deploy a fleet of self-driving taxis.
The other point is think about how much those new "designer" antibiotics would cost given the current system.
Completely agree.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
Not feeling obligated to tip was almost the entire reason I prefer Uber over traditional cab companies in the first place.
You either logged your new account into a mobile device and it pulled your contacts, or you gave facebook your phone number for account recovery / two-factor and they already had your contacts either from your old account, or if you use whatsapp or instagram.
> "Tipping isn't obligatory" -- yes, it kind of is

The driver can put up a sign asking for a tip, but I don't feel obliged to give one.

I don't tip the cook in a restaurant. I don't tip the receptionist at a hotel. I don't tip the farmhands who picked the vegetables I eat at the supermarket. I don't tip the truck driver who unloaded all the goods I buy. I wish all of these people earned a higher wage and I'd be happy to pay more at the point of sale, but I wish the practice of tipping disappeared.
Usually the neighborhoods with high crime rates are places software developers don't go to often.
"Y Combinator has funded 1,500 startups"

Really?

http://www.ycombinator.com/press/ quotes 1297 startups
http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 has 1069 companies (+ ~100 from the S16 class) for ~1200 in total

Where do the extra companies come from?
Lots of posts in this thread are trying to find a "reason" for why G+ isn't beating FB. I think they're overlooking the obvious: Good Enuf + Path Dependency = Inertia. Simply put, the most amazing social network the world has ever seen, that executed perfectly on every front, is not going to suddenly displace FB. It's like asking why no one disrupted Windows pre-Web/pre-Mobile. Was it because alternative operating systems sucked?

IMHO, the big chance anyone had to disrupt FB was a paradigm shift away from social news feeds. That paradigm shift arrived with photo sharing and messaging on mobile, where increasingly people were just sharing pictures and text messages privately. However, Zuckerberg saw that one coming and acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to head off any disruption.

That shouldn't stop people from trying to innovate. But we should not regard being smaller than the leader as a failure. I use G+, Twitter, and FB, but I have the best conversations on G+. Twitter discussions are an exercise in frustration, and I find the signal/noise on FB to be worse.

There's a benefit sometimes to having a smaller audience.
Exactly right. Its exciting because we get new data and if it contradicts theory, it forces us to reconsider what we think is the correct answer. And in that reconsideration our understanding grows.

It is unfortunate that we cannot image this object once a day for 5 years and then watch its changes over that time period in one 30 minute viewing. Telescope time is too valuable to "waste" but I wonder what it might show us.
I'm not sure where I'm ignoring any of that but you seem to be saying that because a country can make laws preventing you from whistleblowing that therefore it's borderline irrelevant whether you're doing something illegal or not in order to whistleblow.

That is far too general of a position than what I'm comfortable with. Seems somewhat anarchist to me.
The Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Uber for galaxy hoppers.
You're against paying less as a result of increased business competition? Are you a driver or an shareholder of Uber/Lyft?

I routinely take Uber and Lyft and have never been asked for a tip. I never plan to tip either because it's not part of the deal. It's the company's job to provide them a livable compensation, not mine. Not tipping is already culturally entrenched in these services, so them suddenly trying to make it a cultural norm isn't going to work because most of us are against tipping culture.