skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a question has been developing world-wide that remains without a solid answer: How do we, the people of this planet, evolve into a species that is free from the chains imposed onto us by governments?

Now, I know that I am solidly floating on utopia here and that what I am thinking about might require centuries of change. No issue there.

I just feel that almost every nation on this planet is enslaved, in some way, by its own government --whether put into place by the people, by force or inheritance (royals).

I happen to think that most people on this planet are good people and that most of us want pretty much the same things: To live a good and peaceful life, have a family, provide for them and do the things we enjoy doing.

Governments, on the other hand, are all about power and control. And they, invariably, take liberties that we, the people, might not want to take. They get us into wars and conflicts, they enslave people, they engage in genocide and they create antagonisms that might not exist.

I am not so naive as to not understand that some people will behave badly. History is full of these examples.

You take a country like China. Over a billion people. And a few dozen (or less) call the shots? Why?

Take the United States. Do you realize that you can never really own your home here? Why? Property taxes. That's why. If you don't pay them the government can take your home away from you, even if you paid all loans and have no debt. Why is our government entitled to tax our homes? And why are they entitled to take our homes away? If you really think about it and make an effort to clear your mind of any preconceived notions or indoctrination it becomes clear that this is but one example of the lunacy that government has become.

I think that humanity needs to evolve away from these systems if we are going to survive and thrive. Of course there are too many issues to even attempt to list them here. Like I said, maybe in a few centuries. John Lennon said it best:

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
All the cool kids are using https://sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/home-en now anyway.
"Sent from my iPad." Nice.
Absolutely, there will always be a place for DRAM (in bulk 'fast' memory) and for Static RAM (in caches), this is just a new (for this generation) tier beyond DRAM.
Very impressive. May try this out on some pet projects.
The heck? Even though it's integrated directly into the OS?

I'm hoping that the explanation is along the lines of Apple building their own Twitter client to replace the existing one.

Twitter having its own desktop client made it exciting like a whole new internet protocol: Usenet, the Web, IRC, email, Twitter. Having it just residing on that terrible website demeans it.

Having said that, the iPad client is vastly superior to the desktop one anyway. Although the select-text-and-tweet-it feature was a workflow with a unusually profound impact on social media.
It's fantastic to see PayPal finally paying attention to these kinds of nightmare stories, but it's hard to believe it has anything to do with altruism.

They are seeing Stripe, Square, etc getting way more mindshare, and they are scared.

With all due respect PayPal, good riddance. You've sucked too hard for too long, and now we finally have alternatives.
> Does this overrule "unauthorized network access" in the criminal code?

If you steal your neighbor's car, sue them for wiretapping, and the judge rules that you did not commit wiretapping by stealing the car, that doesn't mean stealing cars is now legal. It just means they sued you under the wrong cause.
Honestly, I felt like the end of the article was a bit of a cliffhanger.
Yeah, unfortunately "can't win them all" has been part of the developer platform since the dawn of the internet.

I didn't drill down deep into the UX on the site, but the m. version isn't that bad on a tablet - it's just quite obviously more fitting to a screen 300-400 pixels wide.

If you had iPad users previously saying they wanted a "mobile" version, see if you can figure out what specifically it was about the desktop version of the site that was bugging them. Do the same for the people asking about a "tablet version", and then find a happy medium of the two to start working towards.

Of course you can already predict that a desktop AND mobile AND tablet version is approaching silly, which is why the feedback you got before was a resounding "responsive design". At the moment, that's the closest you can get to "winning them all".
Zynga made vast majority of its money from the people significantly older than 14. And they swear by gamification.
Having worked in the insurance industry, I can tell you there are less and less fires. The main cause are that there are less people who smoke and that old electrical wiring are replaced by the newer standards.
I'm not defending Facebook I just have actual experience working in real world enterprise size companies. My previous gig was as an engineer for one of the largest websites on the Internet. It employes thousands of engineers and software developers working on hundreds of different small teams who all release early and release often.

There isn't some magic wand that Zuck can somehow wave to prevent software bugs from occurring. That's how things actually work in the real world.
But 5 months is a long time. Why only now? Surely there have been high-profile cases whose media frenzies can be capitalized on before now.
Here is what I would do... I would take him up on his offer (personal attention from the CEO? Sure!), but I would ask him whether he'd be willing to pick 3 or 4 other customers who had _NOT_ written an article which had gone viral and offer THEM the same deal.

I want this to be true. I want PayPal to believe that this behavior is harmful to their business and to push (at ALL levels of the company) to change how they treat their customers. But I won't give them the benefit of the doubt based on one message from the CEO. They burned their second chances long ago, and it's much harder to regain my trust after losing it. I hope that they do.
For me, I'd rather be forced to have ads on a lock-screen than be locked into the Apple 'eco-system', where I have no say on what I'm allowed to install.
True. I'm not sure how to effectively prevent harvesting. Limiting the rate at which profiles can be fetched only goes so far.
Ah, man. Twitter for Mac is the only Twitter client that I really, genuinely like -- I was hoping for a direct port to Windows one day.

I can only hope that, if true, it's to make room for Twitter for Mac 2.0, rather than to convince people to sit there with Twitter.com open, hitting "$x new tweets" every few minutes.
oh sorry if I missed that. Actually I just checked again and It looks like for free you can get only a web dyno with no worker ?(I always get confused by this) DB is limited to 10K rows we have 512MB but in any case we are not competing with Heroku at all - more power to heroku which is certainly a great service :)
Tweetbot for the Mac is a lot better, not sure if it is still available for download.
Perhaps one of the reasons PayPal is being more service conscious is they finally have competition encroaching on their territory like Stripe + Square.

I guess its never too late to stop sucking though.
> Kitchens are by far the most likely source of domestic fires.

Interesting; I would've guessed it'd be in closer running with other causes, but it looks like they constitute around 55% of total residential fires. According to some U.S. statistics from 2010 [1], the leading causes of residential fires are cooking, with 166k fires, followed by heating at 47k fires, electrical and "other unintentional" at ~25k each, and open flame and "intentional" at just under 20k each.

[1] http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/res_bldg_f...
Why Shotguns SUCK - MW3
Fuck Mw3
I would not recommend you use it in production just yet, but from my reading of that wiki page, there are only 3 or 4 fairly uncommon features that are unsupported. Most of them could still use more tests, though, and that's why they are missing that last checkmark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n_FIOqi5DU&sns=em
German documentary. At 09:10 the guy detects emissions.
They don't count if you die in a fire, either.

The reality is with this kind of thing we're really off into rounding errors. To the extent you can affect your odds of getting cancer, the extent to which you do the things your mother told you to do (don't smoke, don't drink, eat your vegetables, and don't get too fat) swamps your cancer risk from environmental sources.
Isn't the "without a warrant" part of this story kind of a huge red herring? We're discussing subpoenas, not actual searches.

A subpoena is part of pre-trial discovery. It's similar in spirit to what a lawyer can compel your company to produce if you're targeted in a civil suit. Any lawyer can get a court clerk to issue a subpoena for an open case. The target of the subpoena has recourse: challenge the subpoena in court.

I see clearly the concern about criminal law enforcement agencies casting too wide a net by relying on "relevance to investigation" instead of "probable cause". But the Wired story makes it seem like the biggest problem with administrative subpoenas is that they're extrajudicial. It's obviously the case that judges are going to tend to side with the government in these cases --- not because they're in cahoots, but because in the overwhelming majority (not ALL of the cases, just the majority), the government is (a) not abusing process, and (b) acting in the clear service of the public good.

There's no such thing as an "extrajudicial subpoena", is there?
> If you steal your neighbor's car, sue them for wiretapping,
> and the judge rules that you did not commit wiretapping by stealing
> the car, that doesn't mean stealing cars is now legal.

What if you're storing cash from a bank heist in the trunk of your unlocked car, and a policeman, realizing it's unlocked, checks it without a warrant?

I think that's closer to the situation I was trying to describe.
Who do you bribe in the US to get things done?
I think you're both underestimating how long it takes to really get settled in and take charge of a huge corporation, as well as overestimating just how long 5 months really is.

Seems like about the right amount of time for him to start really kicking things into high gear imo.
I agree.. They are being idiotic right now. It feels like they are trying to become a Facebook-type website, but it's just not the same kind of activity.. People go to Facebook and click around and do all kinds of stuff.. Twitter is like a glorified RSS feed, and it will never be an "Explore and browse" experience on their website.

I have the Twitter for Mac client open all the time at the right edge of my 2nd monitor, and if they get rid of that, I'm just going to lose the habit of following Twitter.

Given the least of several crappy choices, I would rather see in-stream ads in the native Twitter client for Mac if it means they continue developing it..
Adobe confirms Windows 8 users vulnerable to active Flash exploits
This toolset has a completely different use case from jQuery Mobile. jQM prescribes that your backend responds with typical HTML web pages. While it's conceptually possible to write an app that loads something like JSON into jQM, it's not straightforward.

This is more of a lower level transitions toolkit - only one piece of what jQM does, and I would imagine easier to fit into your hand rolled js app.
"And the most astonishing thing to me? The mashup itself is catchy, but it's far from being technically great."

It's a musical MVP!
My comment wasn't intended to defend current Chinese government policy. My point is that using official education for brainwashing and political indoctrination is par for the course in a country founded on the principle of popular sovereignty. One consequence of this is that virtually every educated Westerner, including most readers of Hacker News and the New York Times, has been exposed to the same sort of brainwashing and political indoctrination decried by the protesters in the OP. One effect of this is a reflexive support of popular movements of all sorts without an appreciation of the potential costs of that support.
Whenever I've seen clips of Starcraft / Starcraft 2 played at a high level it looks a lot more like an action game than strategy.

That's because the high-level strategy is invisible until you understand it. It's things like subtle variations in build order, timing, unit and expansion placement, etc.

Search YouTube for Day[9]'s screencasts, watch a few, and notice how many there are. SC2 is a very deep and difficult game. Even if you're really good with fast action and micro, you won't get far without a good strategy to match.
If I had to guess, I'd say because it took the ceo a few months to see how things are currently done and identify problems. The rest of the time I guess would be waiting for the right case to come along.
In urban areas, at the level of units or buildings, aren't improved regulations leading to better fire containment, and/or improved firefighting response and techniques, likely to be contributors as well? There are still apartment fires in Manhattan and Chicago, but they seem much more contained than in the past, with whole-building and especially multi-block conflagrations now quite rare.
Five months may seem like a long time, but trying to fix something that's pretty broken probably requires a bit of time to understand just what the hell you're trying to fix.
Requiring personal supervision from an executive to withdraw funds is a negative against PayPal, because the president isn't going to personally supervise every account).

True, but as you note in the second paragraph, this is still a major improvement. I stopped using Paypal a long time ago because of an utterly typical story: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/december-2011-link... and have been encouraging other people not to use Paypal ever since.

It's almost impossible for Paypal to be worse than it is, and it might even get better.
cell phones also use encrypted data streams. cordless landline phones did/do not.
> I have the Twitter for Mac client open all the time at the right edge of my 2nd monitor

I'm in the exact same situation. I try to use the iOS client, and that works alright (much better than other apps I've tried), but I think you hit the nail on the head:

> if they get rid of that, I'm just going to lose the habit of following Twitter.

I'm not very good at tweeting. I try to make an effort to be part of the scene, to connect with my peers and colleagues, etc., but I'm just not that big of a Twitter guy. It's not for lack of effort.

Having the small, unobtrusive Mac app makes it so easy for me to see those relevant conversations and participate in them. If the app is discontinued, I would desperately search for a replacement before closing my Twitter account. If it's just a lack of active development, that's not as huge of a deal--I kind of like the app the way it is.

Again, I can only hope Twitter developers realize this, and have something new and better planned.
How not to get sales on Etsy: Focus on low-quality visitors
What Could You Do With 52 Extra Years?
Not for the CEO of a big company like that. 5 months is barely enough to get the lay of the land. The press may have you believe otherwise (e.g. Marissa Mayer is changing Yahoo overnight). It's a more interesting story than "she's slowly getting to know how things work while trying to fix the most obvious and visible disasters."
The part about hand maintained lists is a common pitfall in game development.

Whenever I hear something about hand-maintained data structures I think probably some manager or lead programmer banned C++ templates and other abstraction mechanisms because they were "too tricky and hard to understand".
Correction: not lethal.
It is paid by myself and I do not need to make any money out of this - similar to the official mirror I am running for the PHP project. The service doesn't need ads/paid subscriptions but again it is not to be compared with a paid service as we do not provide professional support.
Credit where it's due: out of all the hundreds of Paypal horror stories, this is the first time I have ever seen a reasonable, let alone personable, response come from that nebulous digital beast.

Fair play to the new CEO, he has won back one notch of respect and hopefully averted the slow motion train wreck that had probably already started at Paypal.
Google Donates $20,000 to Eclipse Foundation
Some of the older ones, like the PBDEs, have been the subject of thousands of studies and have since been taken off the market (although many of us still have them in our furniture).

--From the NYT article. There is alot of failure avoidance, it seems.

Edit: And also from the Wiki. you site:

The report further acknowledges that trade secrets are preventing effective testing. Sometimes the EPA does not even know what chemical the TSCA application refers to, and cannot report any problems because "health and safety data are of limited value if the chemical the data pertain to is unknown."[6]

This is going on with Fracking chemicals, at the moment.
His answers reflect on him a lot, he comes off as a different kind of person to the rest.
I've never used it personally, but I've heard good things about Piston. Would love to hear what you think if you end up using it - https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home
I wouldn't blame the movement itself. There's always a buzz around lifestyle issues because there's continual evolution. Every day millions of individuals make millions of choices, so every day the culture is changing in little ways. There's a certain portion of the population that is an easy target for the kind of education and advocacy that scientists are good at. Politics is a lot harder. It's harder to make people care, and the target audience is much more diverse. When it comes to people who aren't as well educated or who aren't members of the reality-based community, you need an entirely different message. You have to go toe-to-toe with industries that pay millions of dollars to lobbyists and trot out doctors who say you're trying to kill kids. And even if you try hard and do a good job, it's still boring stuff that's a lot harder to turn into a story than lifestyle issues. Would this article exist without a glamorous protagonist and the harm-to-children angle?
"Imagine" ... is virtually the Communist manifesto, even
though I'm not particularly a Communist and I do not belong
to any movement.

—John Lennon

Before proposing "Imagine" as a founding document for your political philosophy, you might want to consider the fate of people in nations founded on the principles of the Communist Manifesto. (N.B. I love Lennon's qualification: he's not particularly a Communist—which means, by implication, that he kinda sorta is one, even by his own admission.)
Classic case of someone who just can't win whatever he does. People have been crying out for PayPal to change - he notices this, he emails the guy with a first class email but still gets criticised. Criticise him if he doesn't act, don't criticise the guy for being big enough to say 'hey, we have a problem, I want to fix it' - that should be applauded, even if it's come later than people would have liked - at least it has come.
PayPal has earned their reputation for freezing accounts - WePay even used it as a marketing tactic:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/wepay-ice-paypal/
I can't believe anyone here has never heard of reCAPTCHA. This is a pointless post.
> Thanks for engaging with my comment.

Yes, this is not a "read news articles" site, this is a "discussion" site.

> I think you overestimate the usefulness of the CC license to those who would try to fork it

Really? Because the Conservapedia people were unhappy with the editorial policy and they wanted to fork it. And the CC license made it possible for them.

> If Wikipedia's text were not freely redistributable, there'd be other ways of "forking" it [...] for example distribute a browser extension

That would be of no use if the person's complaint were that it was online and they wanted to print it out on paper. Or if their complaint were that it was only available on the internet and they wanted it to also be available on the private military security network. Or if their complaint were that the board had decided to block access in certain countries because of laws passed on those countries that imposed liability risks. CC licensing addresses ALL of these concerns. It's also technologically easier for someone like Conservapedia to simply seed another MediaWiki clone with the same data than it is for them to create some kind of browser plugin that transforms pages and then convince their audience to use it. I, for example, would NEVER install a browser plugin created by Conservapedia, but I do sometimes browse their site (mostly just to laugh at them).

> the most compelling actual development you can point to in support of them is Conservapedia (which [...] does not get enough traffic to count as a significant effect [...]).

First of all, who are YOU to say that Conservapedia doesn't count? Even if they only have 6 users, aren't those 6 users entitled to their own opinion? I want to support that!

Secondly, I can give other examples. The work I'm taking a break from at this very moment is editing a patent application. The lawyers who constructed the text appear to have borrowed many explanations of basic technology from the corresponding Wikipedia entries. This would be illegal without the CC license, but I maintain that it is a good thing.

Yes, SEO spammers who just copy from Wikipedia are bad. They're not contributing anything new. But the solution is NOT to prohibit anyone anywhere from copying from Wikipedia, instead the solution is for Google to discount sources significantly when a substantial portion of the text is identical to text in Wikipedia and Wikipedia does not contain a link to the site in question (which it would if the copying had gone the other way).
I'm guessing this was generated by running `man -f` on the list of executables provided by util-linux.

descriptions() { xargs -I '{}' man -f '{}' ; }
executables() { pkgfile -bl $1 | cut -f 2; } # Arch Linux specific
executables util-linux | descriptions 2> missed | sort | less
I read through expecting to see where people actually died because of these attacks. Spoiler: no one actually dies.
I agree with you: 90% of the value of a developer is knowing what to type, which includes what NOT to type. Knowing the difference comes (IMHO) from being aware of what is out there and stories learned from the experience of others.

So yes: perhaps less cat videos is a good thing, but less exposure to information is not.