skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happily, after traveling for 5 months now in South America, I can report that you do NOT have to worry about this here. I've yet to see anything at all like this and have used ATMs in 6 countries and 37 cities.

Europe? We'll find out in a month or so.
US Govt can force a US-based company to handover customer data from an overseas data center.

So no, you're not safe in London.

[In fact, due to close cooperation of intelligence services of the five Anglo-Saxon countries (Five Eyes), you're not safe in any of them if you want to do anything that challenges the interests that US law enforcement and intelligence protect. That includes any activity that would unsettle current intellectual property and copyright regimes, strong political activism, completely free speech, etc. If you're a web startup, that of course applies to your users too.]
The best bank for this is Capital One. We signed up for cards (both debit and CC) for our overseas travel only. We haven't had them charge us a single time to date.
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I am a founder of Manaslu Technology. I am working on bootstrapping my startup doing a product development. As a part time gig, I can work on Ruby on Rails project for about 10 hours a week. Shoot me an email at paudelp[dot]gmail[dot]com, if you are interested.
Privacy protection of the citizens and intellectual property protection have preciously little to do with each other. Storing your data in the cloud should come with automatic extension of the rights that you'd normally have to data stored on your own devices. Anything less will be a disaster, not just for the citizens but also for all those that earn a living building cloud services. A ruling like this has enormous implications that extend far beyond the piracy debate.

The RIAA doesn't have any bits worth protecting in the same way that people's private information warrants protection.

So artist 'x' is a citizen and their privacy (and hence their private data) warrants protection just as much as any other citizens privacy. Whether or not the data they produce and release into mainstream culture (which is in the end an affair between citizens) warrants economic protection is an entirely different matter.
This resonates well: I just finished a first proto install of a local personal cloud with a Raspberry and a USB drive. I've always been reluctant to putting my files in a 3rd party cloud except for backup. I have pics of my kid and feel I have the duty to ensure these will still exist in 30 years, and in 30 years most likely none of Amazon or Apple or Google or Dropbox services will be the same as they are now, if they are not simply discontinued.

I live and work in China, and often advoces the same lines to my colleagues, most of whom are trusting Apple with all their files. They don't see the danger, but even if you leave politics aside, moral values and taboos change much faster than we think. For instance, the "loli" thing in China is not taken as seriously (litote) as it is in the West, and many pics/drawings that would send you to jail in US are deemed most innocent here. But in 20 years it can be different.

The electronical devices I buy are my property, I have root access. I can change the software running them.

My files belong to me and no-one else. I am responsible of them, if some are lost it is my fault.

Etc.
I don't think anyone is worries about the government copying the evidence drives. There are two issues here. First the government is (edit: in some cases, not necessarily megaupload) inspecting the files without a warrant. Second, the government is taking away user access to primary/key copies of a lot of data. Neither of those apply to copyright infringement, where someone that legally obtained ownership to a copy starts abusing that access.
If you don't do what you love you won't be good at it, hence you are reducing your contribution to society. Of course we have a moral obligation to others because we are social animals, but that doesn't mean that the only way to help is doing humanitarian work.

What's generally morally condemnable is being lazy, not contributing.
3. If you're moving between countries and have cash to change over.
I've skimmed through the comments and I (at least from that) haven't seen anyone mention what I think's the most interesting question:

Is there a way we can improve social media tools (or replace them with something different) that helps minimize their negative effects and maximise their potential?

In the scheme of things, computers are a very new technology and Facebook and the like even newer still. I wouldn't be surprised if there's still a lot of room left for improvement.
I tried python and c. Both were horrid.
Is there a description anywhere of exactly how the FOV/perception of distance changes as you get closer to c?

Also why is it that you can't see the Lorentz transformations until the final orb? I'd have thought that they'd be apparent somehow -- is it somehow cancelled out by visual effects?
Wow, this is a sitemap of .gz files containing the links to the actual profiles. I did a wget to download all the .gz files. It's still going 10 minutes later.
There is research showing that fairness may be innate in humans http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193506/Humans-innat...
When I'm driving 600 miles, I usually stop for lunch.

In the UK, all you would need to immediately make most long distance journeys viable is charging bays at about 5 or 6 existing strategically chosen service stations on trunk routes[1]. Remember, you can recharge fully in less than an hour.

Supplying power to charging points is not going to be a big deal. 85kWh battery charging in 1 hour will draw 1.4kW, less than half the maximum for a standard UK domestic plug, in fact less than a plug-in electric heater[2]. So I can also fully recharge in an hour at anyones house, just by running an extension lead out the window at a push. And, it's only going to cost me in the order of £10 to recharge at day rate electricity prices (about £5 on night rate). My current car does about 650 miles on a full tank of diesel driving at 70mph but this costs about £80 and it's much less efficient for city driving due to engine idling and no regenerative braking.

OK so the tesla costs about £46k($70k) and I can't afford that, but that's around what you'd pay for mid to high range BMW estate car. There are enough of these around to make me think there is a seriously large market for this car in Europe, easily enough to jump start the economies of scale in manufacturing needed to drive down the price for lower end models.

[1] Say, M6 Cumbria, M1 Warwickshire, A1 Northumbria, M90 Perthshire, M5 Somerset, M20 Kent

[2] e.g. http://www.johnlewis.com/230843376/Product.aspx
The entire financial system has been based on absurdity and lies for decades. It is only now becoming apparent to the man in the street, as the the whole thing is about to collapse over the next few years.

http://detlevschlichter.com/2012/11/all-power-to-the-state-m...
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Besides, regarding his citation of Musk, that guy (and his team to boot) is only doing it because he is really passionate about it. Being something extremely relevant to human progress that no other private company is doing to that extent might help fuel the passion, but could not for the love of him trigger it had he not loved the field.
I was just thinking about this the other day when I saw a clip of "Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo" in a YouTube video. The family is white trash, they aren't very educated, and they don't care. They sleep well at night by saying they're happy just the way they are. Under this logic, nothing would get done. Humans would we drawing pictures with sticks in the mud.

The real question is, what's so bad about that if we're all pretty happy?
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FPTP and IRV for single-winner elections are completely compromised, due to tactical voting (and lack of fairness to third parties) in common scenarios. I don't think you can support your claim that other systems are just as bad. In every informed discussion of voting systems I've ever encountered, FPTP and IRV are considered inferior to voting systems like Condorcet variants [1] or Range Voting [2] [3].

Preference between condorcet and range voting is a lot more murky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Compliance_of_sel...

http://rangevoting.org/rangeVcond.html

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting

[3] http://rangevoting.org
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It's honestly people just not understanding what he's doing, not bothering to try, and then making inane statements about it. There's a reason he's popular, and it's not that journalism is ignoring him, or "can't stand him". It's because a lot of them point at him as their reasoning for events.

Sure, a few ignorant ones say things to earn a bit of attention, but they are neither the standard nor the rule.
HTML5 videos on YT start automatically, which is exactly what I don't want, and in fact the second-biggest reason I use click-to-flash (first being animated ads). At one point, I was being forcibly opted into HTML5 video on YT and had to disable that feature in Firefox to get back out of it.
I continue to be disappointed the US doesn't have data protection laws (in the style of the EU), because that addresses precisely this issue: you own your data.

Furthermore, I continue to be irritated that non-EU companies don't comply with these laws while still offering their services in the EU. You can't have it both ways. The physical location of the server or the legal entity behind it shouldn't matter: if you want to offer your services to a country, you should have to abide by local laws.

It's issues like this that really emphasise just how young the Internet is, in that the law still hasn't caught up. I find it sad that a lot of these issues are being resolved "accidentally" (i.e. when it comes up in court and laws that predate the digital world are used to set bad or misguided precedents) rather than proactively, by trying to make new laws that take the nature of the Internet into account. Surely that's what the EFF should be campaigning for. Why not require, by law, all cloud providers to offer an API to let users access, modify or delete any and all of their data?
Happiness is not the only ingredient for a good life.
But it does. Many people that are pro-piracy believe that once bits are purchased or shared anywhere on the Internet, they are "free".

How about the argument that bits are different than physical property and can't be stolen?

Now, the government believes the same thing and suddenly, when it involves you personally, it's wrong.

The hypocrisy in the tech community doesn't surprise me. I've been witnessing it for years.
It already exists. The manifest has a "debuggable" flag that allows for a remote debugger to attach to a running app. Nothing on the Play Store is debuggable.
Agreed and its what I do with windows. My rationale is that power management works properly, I have to test against windows anyway and all the Linux desktops suck, oh and I need to use office still.
Right. Just a placeholder so that if friends use Facebook as Eventbrite or Evite or Gmail, you have a place to be contacted.

It's a reasonable compromise between being the person for whom "if it's not on Facebook it didn't happen" and the person who dramatically commits "Facebook Suicide" and deletes their account.
The fact hat Adobe still ships expensive, crappy, heavy, memory consuming, battery drain and insecure products is not news. 5 of them in the Top 10.
Actually, it's not so bad. Libraries like libgdx allow you to target native Java and the phone via the same API. You can easily do 99.9% of the development on your PC and then deploy to phone to fix a few shader bugs here and there and be done with it.
When a court says something is "final" that means that it will not be revisited at that level. It does not mean you can't appeal. However, you can only appeal to the UK Supreme Court if you get permission from the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, and I doubt this is the sort of thing where such permission will be forthcoming.

The EU is not one country and does not have a unified judicial system like in the U.S. The decisions of the Court of Appeals of England and Wales (not the UK) have little precedential value in Germany and vice versa.
The Lord of the Rings Online finally on Mac
I completely agree.

The initial rush of being X years old and a programmer soon wears off. For those young people who are serious about programming, age becomes more of an impediment, rather than a badge of honor.

If you broadcast that you are X years old, sometimes people will not take your work seriously. Sometimes they won't hire you. Sometimes people will take advantage of you. This is why, at some point, it's important to abstract away age from your work.
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Someone is way ahead of us on this. Claims 35MM+ profiles

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7031839/35_Million_Google_Pro...
In my experience, most reputable companies take complying with both the spirit and the letter of court orders very seriously.
But it could be argued if the entity "asking nicely" is the government, then that counts as coercion. While not technically illegal, it could be an abuse of power.
Data security and data ownership are not the same thing. In many of these user's cases, it's not about the Government reading their data. It's about getting their data back. It is property that the Government has stolen, that the individuals can no longer use or access.
(submitter here) The original title was "Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge"

I had to edit it because of the eighty character limit. Sorry about that.

The central point of the article is about misunderstandings between people with different 'modes of knowledge', and not really about current USA politics (in which case I wouldn't have posted this here,I'm not a US citizen and so detached from the partisanship.) Hopefully the discussion here won't get into political argument.
Am always reminded of a quote I saw when I stumbled across a survivalist forum after looking for an emergency kit on Amazon - If you aren't armed, and know how to use the weapons, you're just building an ultimate safe house for the guy down the road who is.
How was it that Apple was able to change their web page in less than the two weeks they originally claimed was necessary? I look forward to reading the tales of their heroic web designers and developers trying to finish by the deadline against impossible odds.
can you cite more?
Your comment hardly falls under the "civil" guideline this community aspires to.

Sexism as you have attacked it seems to be "making any decision based on gender," since that's how the grandparent defined it. I can think of countless examples where it's certainly okay to make a decision based on gender. Particularly where gender is the only known variable--there's your decision all wrapped up for you.

An example to make my argument more real-world: Joe works a job where he has to move heavy objects with another employee. His partner quits, and boss has two new recruits from HR--one man, one woman. That's all the boss knows.

If you don't think that women and men statistically fit into different stereotypes (physically, particularly), you should maybe redirect your species-damning shame.
Are you saying history in general is not pertinent to analysis? Is your rule only true for security issues or you do you feel that way about everything?
Not shared anywhere. Something I upload to Dropbox is private data. Something I upload to youtube is public data. If a piece of media is being sold, 99.9% chance it's not private.

Now, about being 'stolen'. The argument about bits being free is that you can copy them anywhere. I think you can see how deleting from someone else's server is not the same thing.

The government is not causing problems by copying the drives, they are causing problems by confiscating them.

In this particular case there is no hypocrisy.
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Well, actually, it is. And it's spot on. Some might have this fetish for rationality that claims if it's delusion it's a lie, whatever, you might think that too. Honestly, in a career path that requires a very big blind bet, and hopes for one in a billion, striking it rich opportunities, those not self-deluded enough about the importance of their start-up are probably going to quit, or not even try.
Doh, didn't think of that. Just goes to show how easy it is to miss something when doing things in a non-standard way, even when just tired. And emergency situations are even worse for oversights.

(Although the generators I've seen where one would be temped to use a male to male 5-15 plug have a 20A breaker on those receptacles)
The argument is usually not that "bits can't be stolen" but that "copying is not theft". If people broke into RIAA's servers and removed their data, I think most pirates would agree that it's comparable to theft.
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Wouldn't you like to be able to view an un-editable version of your yc w2013 application that you submitted? I know we should all have off-line versions of our application (I do, but not the latest version that I submitted). Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks for the great reply to start. I clearly am a little over my head and am always looking for the "right direction" to go and end up getting caught up in buzzwords. I only have a few web pages that I need hosted, so frameworks aside...would hosting options such as linode or rackspace be the best option?
But what decides what we love? Is there some innate sense to each of us that governs what we're able to be passionate about? Or is this socially-constructed, as a result of the environment and culture we live in?
There is no hypocrisy: those people would continue thinking that if they put "their" bits in the public, they would also be free. That has nothing to do with the government being able to interfere with your private relationship with a cloud service. Here, since you brought up physical items perhaps I can make it clearer:

I have a manuscript for a new book which I keep in a safe at home. I may believe that once a book is "out in the wild", anyone should be allowed to copy it. However, that does not mean I think it is OK for the government to have the right to open up my security box at a bank and read the manuscript if I choose to use "cloud safes" (AKA banks) instead of my own personal safe at home. The problem here is not really the reading of the book, but interfering with my agreement with the bank that only I should be allowed into the safe, regardless of what may or may not be in there.
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If he means women in tech, he probably means minority/majority.
I don't know a whole lot about the Honey Boo-Boo saga, but as I understand it, she came from the "Toddlers in Tiaras" world, which seems to indicate that the family does have a competitive streak and do strive for something more. They now star in a TV show that, I imagine, creates more value than I could ever hope to achieve, and while it does not seem like a show I would enjoy, it must have a significant impact on some people's lives in order to still be on the air.

Perhaps the family is not solving problems like world hunger, but to say nothing is getting done under their watch may not be exactly correct.
Took me only 15 minutes to realize what I've been missing. ;)
Red Bull mounts a 360-degree interactive camera on an F1 car
Dead comment by hastur:

hastur 18 minutes ago | link [dead]

US Govt can force a US-based company to handover customer data from an overseas data center.

So no, you're not safe in London.

[In fact, due to close cooperation of intelligence services of the five Anglo-Saxon countries (Five Eyes), you're not safe in any of them if you want to do anything that challenges the interests that US law enforcement and intelligence protect. That includes any activity that would unsettle current intellectual property and copyright regimes, strong political activism, completely free speech, etc. If you're a web startup, that of course applies to your users too.]

Note to hastur: it looks like your snarky one-liners got your account auto-banned, so now nobody can read your comments that are actually interesting.
If it helps, I can share a bit about that. Our API has gone from several hundred hits to several million, while its no Twitter API we are closing out our "0 - 1" phase as Peter Thiel would put it.

Probably the most important thing for a builder of a B2B API like ours to consider is that someone is requiring (read: forcing) another developer to integrate your product. Counterintuitively, you will probably get more push back from tech teams than from the business side. I understand their reasoning, I've been a software architect for many years and often had to figure out how to delicately stretch technical resources to attack what seems like a constant onslaught of new requests. How did we solve this problem? We created a GitHub account, built wrappers around our REST calls for Python, Ruby, Java, PHP and C#. Our whole goals was to create copy and paste code. Technical pushback has gone way down.

Another important lesson that they touch on is simplicity. Don't be creative or try to show how out of the box you can be on picking resource nouns. Accepting product information? Please use apiurl/Products/id. A notable mark of mastery isn't how complicated you can make something, it's how simple you can express it.
I will look into it. [I am in NYC and just got to see this. Thank you!]
Property rights have nothing to do with copyright.
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Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix
The other inquiries are:

Is this problem really solved by the license? The example given (Linux distributions) is not a good parallel to a language implementation. As per earlier, this is more like worrying if people will come up with thirty ways to implement TLS -- something they are still free to do. Fragmentation analogous to that cited is not curbed in any way, from what I can see.

The other side of the coin: is the problem a problem? Do similar but incompatible implementations really typically come from a common base? From what I can see, this is Not A Problem -- usually such subtleties are from complete reimplementations and under-specification or just flat out bugs. So why worry about this?

The final concern that I have left unstated, but other posters have also probed at is "if a group of people have the determination to change Shen's semantics and wish to distribute it and maintain it, and people wish to use that, should they be denied? Why should anyone trust the original designing committee over the course of many years, with their only recourse being to start from scratch?"

It's hard to understand what the authors of Shen want to get out of the whole thing, but I'm not only perturbed by their choice of aesthetics in this area, but the apparent fact that the problems ostensibly treated seem very much untreated. It is this latter fact -- that the stated concerns seem to have resulted in a non sequitur decisions -- that leaves me even more confused and disappointed.

I'll finish this concluding: of course the authors are free to do as they will, but I can't read the soundness in their line of reasoning and am simultaneously disappointed by the result, and I'm sorry I've let that disappointment make me snide.
If such an innate (genetic) tendency towards fairness existed in humans, it would likely have quite a spectrum of phenotypic expressions. I.e., even if everyone had a sense of fairness, odds are that such a sense would not be exactly the same for each individual.
Node.js guy?