skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My inner civil libertarian cheers at this, although one wonders how useful a public storage locker is without any associated content discovery tools.

But my inner policeman hesitates. If actual bad guys (organized crime, drug cartels, spies, terrorists, governments, script kiddies, or anyone else working outside the law) can communicate and operate with impunity, the technology is not an unequivocally good thing. The broadly accepted way we deal with this is to have warrant-based interception and eavesdropping; it's hard to argue that our law enforcement services would best operate without any tools other than direct physical surveillance. So presumably even Mega would need to comply with legal wiretapping requests. Happily for Mega, and unhappily for law enforcement, doing it at the server doesn't get them anything with this scheme. But that simply compels law enforcement to get much more invasive, in a way that's hard for citizens to monitor: Find a way to install eavesdropping tools on the suspect's machine so access is gained before encryption.

I'm not sure where all this is headed; it's a brave new world.

(Heading off potential replies about the growing use of warrantless wiretaps -- of course those are unacceptable. But wiretapping with a warrant is a vital, crucial tool, and that's all I'm discussing here.)
afaik mongohq works closely with 10gen
The current link is to the comments thread. This is the URL you want:

http://blog.count.ly/post/33777818277/cost-of-tools-and-serv...
Encryption doesn't counter jamming, because jamming happens at the physical layer (RF).
Juju reminds me of Linode's StackScripts, no?
> You changed that, likely because you realized that companies have always fired people for saying "vile" things publicly outside of work. Which is why pseudonyms have always existed.

Sometimes the definition of vile has meant, "Argued for democracy", or, "Came out as gay", or, "said my religion was false", or, "suggested reforming the government".

Freedom of speech must in many ways mean the freedom to be a despicable scuzz, because freedom means divergence. And divergence frequently (to the horror of the mainstream) includes divergence from morality.

I am profoundly impressed with the need for anonymity, pseudonymity, and free speech for all of us, because otherwise we are simply limiting truth telling, the capability for reform and improving our collective lot.
And the confusing thing is that this question would seem to fall into the latter bucket.
If the state of the smartphone market is such that incremental improvements in turn-by-turn mapping is now a mark of innovation then the market has got stale very, very quickly. When Apple release a new version of iOS with 200 incremental improvements which operate in a cohesive package (because even the iPhone's staunchest critics tend to accept that it does that well), it's criticised as unambitious yet here it's touted as innovation?

I'm not saying that customer satisfaction ratings reflect innovation. I'm saying that if the design was as flawed as suggested you'd expect people to be unhappy with their phones which clearly they're not.

You know people who've broken the glass three or four times, I know no-one who ever has out of dozens of people who own 4s and 4Ss. Anecdotal evidence is pretty poor for this sort of thing (my friends may wrap their phones in cotton wool, yours may sky dive with them) which is why I point to something which could be seen as a more objective measure, though I accept it's measuring many things, not just this one factor.

Not saying that there's no problem, just saying that saying "frequently" is an overstatement. I suspect if it was a massive problem the press would have a field day - it's not like the go easy on Apple design issues (see antenna-gate et al).
I've been using "just sit down and have a nice cup of tea" for some time. I use hyphens in the actual name. Alas, my neighbours still have SKY-some-large-number or the BT equivalent. They all do have wpa2 turned on however.

http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/exhibitions/current/?id=50

I think goto10 have automated the id string thing. I saw something like this in Birmingham some months ago, goto10 did a residence then.
"highly offensive subreddit communities that perpetuate racism and sexism are not helping anyone"

I disagree. They have helped me. How? I live in a very nice bubble, for the most part. In many ways, these issues don't exist in my day-to-day life. It is valuable to me to see that there are still assholes in the world. Granted, I know this on a very abstract level, but sometimes it is good to get smacked by the reality of a situation. It enhances my empathy and keeps me from the easy path of dismissal. This is also the reason, to a lesser degree, that I visit news sites that I know I will disagree with and I occasionally get in pointless internet arguments with their die-hard fans. Is that enough to keep them from censorship? Probably not, but there is /some/ value there.
I keep seeing you and other Reddit apologists throwing the word "distasteful" around. Sorry but "distasteful" isn't going to whitewash Reddit and Redditors any better than "horseplay" did Jerry Sandusky.

Stalking is not merely "distasteful":

- But the girls don't know!

- Bullshit. We know. Every time.

- But we took these photos in public!

- Bullshit. You took the photos from down below or up above.

Taking upskirt photos of minors is not merely "distasteful":

- But these girls are too sexy to be minors!

- Bullshit. Did you ask for an ID?

- But we took these photos in public!

- Bullshit. Child porn is illegal everywhere.

Hosting said upskirts is not merely "distasteful":

- But we didn't know!

- Bullshit. You knew, and you profited.

- But we are protecting free speech!

- Bullshit. Rape- and pedophile-adjacent porn is not free speech.

Let's call a pig, a pig. We are talking about a forum whose sole purpose is to make and distribute pornographic photos of children and young women.

By the way, an almost identical set of arguments happened around Amazon's defense of its sale of a book titled "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct". Amazon defended the book with the usual "if we stop selling it, Freedom Of Speech will die", and Amazon apologists made arguments very similar to yours. A few weeks later, they voluntarily took down Wikileaks because "It is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy."
It's a set of flag icons for the web, it's not to hang off the government building.

If we did exact aspect ratios for every flag they would all be different and look shit. We tried to be as exact as possible with colors and shapes, if they don't work for you guys or are not close enough then you don't need to use them.

Not aimed directly at you, just at anyone who doesn't find them precise enough.
Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqF3SGFigdY

I absolutely love this one (especially around 3:30 onward) due to how tremendously satisfying the sounds and visuals are.
> But my inner policeman hesitates. If actual bad guys (organized crime, drug cartels, spies, terrorists, governments, script kiddies, or anyone else working outside the law) can communicate and operate with impunity

This tool is still just a cyber-locker, it doesn't allow you to launch a ddos attack, or run scripts, or even communicate, you need a channel of communication established elsewhere to pass the keys. It's just an easier way to share files with people you're already communicating with in some manner.
I find there is a ritual in bringing out the cork screw and opening the bottle. Think about how a waiter presents it in a restaurant. There's no anticipation or show in having them come out, showing you the bottle, then twisting the cap off.

In a similar note, we have a "rabbit" corkscrew. It's super efficient at opening a bottle, but is not particularly satisfying. Have you ever asked yourself, If only I could open this bottle faster? (Although it can be convenient if you're cooking with wine.)
First of all, I'd love to hear what hacks you've actually used. A lot of them seemed interesting, but I'll probably forget them when I actually need them. Hearing about specific ones will help.

Secondly, friendly recommendation - you should check out Reddit. You're a serious HNer, so I assume you care at least a little about the goings-on online, and Reddit is a big part of the internet now. See it, if only to be able to say that you saw it.

I barely visit Reddit myself, but there are a few things it's good for - for example, information about specific topics tends to be found in subreddits about that topic. E.g., I started playing piano recently, and to get interesting info on it, searched "piano reddit" in google. Not only are there generally good discussions there, some popular reddits like this one have an FAQ which lists links to lots of previous discussions you might be interested in.
I've had google geocoder mark things as serbia instead of kosovo which resulted in angry emails accusing me of deliberately taking sides. No idea that I even had data in that region
The US has a lot more influence in these kinds of things than you would think. I'm continually amazed at how easily countries buckle when faced with, for example, financial industry sanctions. Look at the way copyright law has changed over the years.
a phone call is private

Tell that to the government.
I'd rather the role of government in correcting society-wide problems caused by hidden costs be simply ensuring those costs are properly accounted for up-front.

e.g.
You don't stop industrial pollution by educating Americans to not buy products that were created by factories that pollute. You stop industrial pollution by enforcing reasonably safe waste disposal methods, so those costs are reflected customer-facing prices. (And thereby also encouraging free market advances in disposal and production technologies.)

So why would you try to combat an obesity epidemic by attempting to educate people to not buy sugars? You simply identify the problems ('cheap' sugars in processed foods, huge portions) and ensure the costs are reflected up-front in the price (yes, a sin-tax on junk food and absurd portions).

Or, at the very least, stop government subsidies for the production and use of things that we know are contributing to the problem.
(cheap corn->cheap HFCS->cheap sugar in everything)
You might expect so, but apparently a lot of satellites are just dumb repeaters. Remember that they have a low power budget and you can't upgrade the hardware once they're in the sky. If you design something that relies on a particular modulation scheme it's going to become obsolete once everyone moves to a beeter one.
I find it somewhat instructive that the reddit founders started a new business where they don't host user content and make revenue by getting their users off the site faster or with a higher level of satisfaction than competitors.
That's about it! It's like a B+Tree in that the data resides in the leaves (well, and in the buffers), except that the fanout is a lot lower because we save room in the internal nodes for the buffers.
Ummmm, false. I'm going to go with false.
Communities will be policed, one way or another. If an authority (like Reddit's administration) refuses to do it, then the community will do so itself, and likely in ways the authority, and perhaps even some community members, would rather not happen. This means the Reddit folks have a choice to make: they can police the userbase, or they can allow the community to do so, or they can ban one community policing measure after another until the community itself is no longer useful.

The first and second options have been successfully implemented, to varying degrees and sometimes with a measure of hybridization, in many communities. By refusing to punish miscreants but punishing those who would punish said miscreants, Reddit is currently on the third path, and that's not a practical place to be.
Everything that you say is true. But I really like the ceremony of using a corkscrew to open a bottle of wine; it is a lot more tactile than opening a screw cap.
Please don't equate email spam to phone call spam. A phone call often requires immediate attention to filter out. Its an interrupt-based process. Email is a different animal.
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Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh.

That said, I may buy it. I know of no other single column mac native twitter client that is retina ready. Seeing as the twitter token limit is discouraging devs from creating new clients, it may be best to fork over the 20 bucks before the token limit for tweetbot is hit.

I really just wish tweetdeck would allow for a single column layout. I keep twitter open on the right side of my screen 24/7 like a news ticker, so single column is a necessity. Tweetdeck is the only app they're maintaining and it doesn't allow for that.

Edit: Scratch that, give https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yorufukurou/id428834068?mt=1... a try
Cyberbullies? Are we playing Buzzword Bullshit Bingo now?

And just because it's been done for decades doesn't make it right. Remember, this whole thing is about morals, not about law.
Disruption isn't innovation, at least not in the sense that's being discussed here.

Google disrupted the market by innovating on the business / payment model, but that's very different to product innovation.

MS frequently used to disrupt markets by entering at lower price points but no-one ever claimed they were innovative, quite the opposite.
yes...let's all go protest at the cineplex because gosh-darn-it my friend who went to the matinee was charged less than me! unfair!

don't like the price? don't buy it.
How would you track or locate such a jamming device? is it possible?
Almost no tablets before 2007 were marketed to consumers. As soon as they were, they all converged on the exact same style as other consumer goods like TVs, digital photo frames, ...
>when there are groups on reddit or wherever that regularly shares and encourages creation

That doesn't qualify as institutionalized to me. The existence of /b/ doesn't equate to institutionalization of trolling.

>And I'm guessing millions now know - how many is enough by your estimate?

I was referring to the subjects of the images, not the people who post them.
Meteor.com runs on meteor, and it survived their own launch, which was bigger than anyone seemed to expect. In practice, that's probably the biggest thing to run on meteor at the moment.

The framework is built around long lived requests, which push data to the client. There doesn't seem to be anything unscalable about that, since Facebook and many other huge sites are doing it.

That essentially leaves node.js and mongo, both of which should lend themselves to scaling pretty well.
> Testing Mobile Apps On Drunks

I've done this before. Not a mobile app but a unit of hardware that is at bars (think those digital jukeboxes). During the final stages of testing we mounted one at a friend's place and set it to debug mode (so anything with a magnetic strip passed as being a valid credit card).

After a few hours of drinking and watching friends we uncovered some interesting usability concerns. The only problem was we never designated someone as a sober-recorder so the notes were almost entirely useless.
Technical Retrospective on the UX of a Rails Rumble Project
Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh.

I have to admit blinking twice my eyes. On the other hand, if we don't want too many Sparrow episodes, developers should be compensated enough.
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> Doping isn't cheating, it's the way the game is played.

This argument bothers me, and it's one used by people who speed.

If all of the cyclists dope, then they have a separate game. They're not cheating at that separate game. They are, however, breaking the rules set out by the UCI (or whoever.)

Performance enhancing drugs are against the rules; using them is cheating. Similarly, speeding is against the law. That makes it illegal. The fact that hardly anyone abides by the rules doesn't mean the rules don't exist.

> If you want to compete, that's the price of admission.

Someone on /r/cycling mentioned a baseball player from the McGwire days. The player stood up and publicly said (paraphrasing) "Look, everyone is on steroids. If they want to be on steroids, fine. At least acknowledge that it's happening. The real problem, though, is the people who don't want to be on steroids. People who are cheating are forcing everyone else to take PEDs to keep up."

That's not okay.
There's nothing inherently difficult with carrying a ball over a painted line, or walking up a hill in the snow. That doesn't trivialize the difficulty of being a professional athlete or climbing Mt. Everest.

The devil is always in the details. While much of the pioneering work in rocketry has been done, it isn't an irrelevant pursuit. A group of high school students can take prefabricated parts and build a pretty cool model rocket. That same team of students are not going to be capable of building an air-to-air missile.

I find it amazing that the audience on HN would be trivializing a "hard" science and engineering discipline.
I'm sure that the atheism and tress subreddits are offensive to somebody, but offensiveness of speech isn't the issue here. Also, I'm not advocating for community votes on banning subreddits, I'm merely pointing out that the site operators of Reddit are acting in a very unethical way.

> I am not defending CreepyShots. I am trying to start a conversation that might lead to some answers that I simply don't have. How do we defend open expression of ideas while censoring things?

Creepshots isn't just about ideas, it was a community which promoted and encouraged actual, physical acts that violated the privacy and safety of others. Again, this isn't just about speech, Reddit created a space that endorsed and promoted what those assholes in creepshots were doing all while the owners of Reddit profited and did nothing to keep the overall site safe for those targeted by users of creepshots. Again, they are not obligated to do so, but they should sure as hell be called out on it and feel the consequences of that.

> I know how I personally deal with it. I just don't subscribe to those subreddits.

I'm sure many of the women that ended up in pictures on creepshots didn't subscribe to it, but that doesn't help them when they have been violated or when those photos are used by some weirdo to target that person for more of the same treatment. Saying "just ignore it" is the kind of derailment that perpetuates sexism and racism, hence why you are de facto supporting creepshots.
Usually subjective questions are now closed as "not constructive".
For me, that actually worked better. If you start with a fully loaded framework such as Django (even though it is an awesome framework too), I found it difficult to fully understand whats going on in the background. For example, I personally don't like all batteries and prefer to only have the core web functions out of the box. Flask works for me because it just about gives me enough and not much or too less. I don't want to necessarily build my own WSGI layer but I do want control over how I create/save my user details.

Also you don;'t really need to learn Jinja etc. separately. Flask does enough to get you started. For example, I can easily build routing using app.route() decorator in flask which in the back is using Werkjeug. I honestly don't know much about werkjeug itself (yet) but that did not stop me from building a fully functional web app. Of course, if you really want to get in the details, you learn the individual libraries that gives you flexibility to build a real work production app. YMMV
Google bought MOTO for the patents. Major portfolios like Motorola's have been going for a lot of money lately. So while I think it was a poor investment, it really depends on whether or not that huge portfolio is useful to Google.

Color has nothing comparable.
They even sent out statements that basically pretended the original court ruling against them didn't happen in response to media inquiries about that ruling. That had to require huge brass balls, but I can't see it impressing any judge.

Edit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18773690

'Apple declined to comment specifically on the UK case but, in a statement, repeated its view that there was no "no coincidence" that Samsung's latest products resembled the iPhone and iPad.

It added: "This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual properties when companies steal our ideas."'
I agree with your basic point, but for clarity we as a society hand a fair bit of discretion to cops and even more to prosecutors and judges. In at least some instances we want them to make moral judgements, so long as thos moral judgements are within and guided by the law.

This is especially true in sentencing. For a minor traffic violation, a cop has discretion to say "You were speeding, but you have a totally clean record and it wasn't much, this time you get a warning." Most people want them to be able to do that and it is a mostly moral judgement. A prosecutor can say, "You met all the technical definitions of the crime, but you had extenuating circumstances. I decline to prosecute." Sometimes that is based on either law (the extenuating circumstance, like self defense, is explicitly recognized), or the evidence (its a close call whether they could win and they have "bigger fish to fry"), but sometimes its a straight moral call. Often we want them to be able to make that moral call.

With judges it depends on the jurisdiction, but they often have enormous discretion once it comes to sentencing. In many jurisdictions, the legislature hands out some guidelines, but just guidelines. The same crime might get many years in prison or probation, depending on the judge's moral decision about whether that instance of the crime was heinous or more excusable and whether the judge thinks that person is a career criminal or someone who gave into temptation once.

They must follow the law, but within the law we as a society explicitly hand out a lot of discretion at different points and we expect part of that discretion to be used to make moral calls within the framework of the law.
This will probably go the way of Aimster. IE: You can't play dumb to shield yourself while knowingly assisting copyright infringement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Aimster_Copyright_Litigat...

The court held that in this case the users of the systems were the direct infringers, these who are ignorant or more commonly disdainful of copyright and in any event discount the likelihood of being sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement, however companies such as Aimster that facilitate their infringement, even if they are not themselves direct infringers can be liable for copyright violations as contributory infringers.
To everyone looking for expiring/dropping domain lists, ive been building an app called dropparser that uses a free source (though I dont see it being mentioned in here yet). Some python code for you:

domain_file_url = "http://www.odditysoftware.com/download/dldoms.php?domdate=

def today():
return str(datetime.date.today())

def get_raw_domain_file():
return urllib2.urlopen(domain_file_url + today()).read()
Curiously, traditional (Orthodox) Jews cannot use umbrellas on the Sabbath Day. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_orthodox_Jews_allowed_to_use_a...