skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chad has made his garage available for storage without requiring or even requesting a fee. If his next step is to sell your stuff unless you come tote it away--while not actually urging you to do so--one can reasonably draw the conclusion that Chad is a scoundrel who had this plan in mind from the start.
i use dns and whois queries only
Without being quite as harsh, I generally agree. I have generally found new or inexperienced developers become scarred by projects that fall behind more than projects that grow out of control, and bias more towards getting something done, fast. Totally agree that the best advice for OP is to not underestimate his own ability to perform well in a better language. I think it is folly to assume you need a less structured language to get up and running faster.

This very much reminds me of the Worse Is Better line of thinking.
What site is this? Soundcloud?
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> If needed, I'm sure the NRA could get 500 million or so to start a militia.

There are only 309 million people in the United States, so that would be quite a feat.
Ask HN: What can I do to stay focused in the short term?
I used to be amazing, spending 6 hours plus a day on guitar, programming, other hobbies. I work full time and am finding it very hard to focus when at home, I usually start doing something then tab over to Twitter, Facebook, Gmail.
Javascript macro for the Y combinator, using sweet.js
The line is a bit fuzzier when it's not simply mathematical equations or stuff for websites but tactical encrypted radio or whatever.

Some hardware crypto implementations are still export-restricted. http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/default.htm
NRA exec blames video games for 'selling violence' to children
Penetration Testing with Smartphones Part 2: Session Hi-Jacking and ARP Spoofing
That's why AWS Data Pipeline came along.
http://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/
You should read Vernor Vinge's "The Ungoverned". (The implicit spoiler in my reply is that nuclear weapons do play a part in the story.)
Python is also better for Shell with this: http://amoffat.github.com/sh/ if you want to do something mildly complex
> And even tough they wouldn't have enough power to do so, why don't they break down the https connection when it is established?

You have to understand the purpose of China's Great Firewall. A lot of techies think that it's an attempt at 1984-style total control of information. With this in mind, they see a vessel full of obvious leaks, and can't understand why China does things this way. Blocking any connection you can't spy on is a simple solution to these leaks that any techie could come up with, but China doesn't do it (in general). Why not?

It's because the Great Firewall is not intended to be an instrument of total information control. It's intended as an instrument of broad social influence. The Chinese government does not care if you can use ssh or SSL or whatever to bounce through a proxy in the USA to get to an article about the Tiananmen Square massacre. You want to put in effort to seek out that information, go wild. You don't even need to cover your tracks.

This information is out there. They can't stop it, and they know it, and they don't even try. The purpose of censorship is to shape conversation, not eliminate information. Anyone with a little determination can bypass the firewall and read about whatever censored stuff they're interested in. But the vast majority of people don't have a little determination for this stuff. They might hit a link or perform a search, but when it fails, they'll just move on. Thus, while they can't, don't, and don't even try to stop people from knowing about these things, they can and successfully do stop people in general from thinking about them, and guide their attention to other topics.

China doesn't care about a few people using crypto to bypass their censorship. China does care about attracting foreign business, and if travelers couldn't connect to their VPNs and secure web sites then there would be serious trouble with that.
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents
I assume "defend themselves from tyranny" means revolution. Most revolutions require guns (bigger and/or more than the tyranny has) Killing the tyranny's people until the tyranny gives up or is destroyed.

To me it stretches credulity that it's constitutional to deprive U.S. citizens the ability to overthrow their government. That is deprive them of weapons capable of that overthrow.
I get the metaphor but the argument is flawed. The Internet should be protected under the first amendment, specifically freedom of speech and freedom of the press. There should be no reason that what someone publishes on a blog should not be afforded the same protections as what is published at a newspaper (within reason wrt slander/libel/defamation).
That makes the point pretty well. Also, sounds like the start of a good 28th Amendment.
For some people, jobs are hard to come by, I would wager the majority of TSA screeners do not have any better paying options, so to criticize them for being a part of a faulty system, or to paint them as being "from a sixth grade mentality", or "trying to get employed with border patrol asap" when they are just trying to provide for themselves and their families, who may not have better options, is pretty unfair.

To criticize the people at the top, that may be fair argument. But for the higher ups and policy makers in the TSA, don't forget the old adage: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
Oh right, I totally forgot about the name "TDS", which stood for "Tactical Domestic Simulator" and survives in the name of some of the tools like TDSBuild: http://www.scribd.com/doc/117493077/The-Sims-TDSB
Because Prolog and Lisp are really quite different. Have you used Prolog for a significant project? Its resolution and backtracking capability can be very powerful for some problems, and you'd have to implement them in Lisp.

I read the sources of an algorithm-derivation system that was done in Prolog (you give it some model relationships and it pattern-matches to find a learning algorithm to fit model parameters to data). It was quite elegant and got a lot of power for free.
Candle Sessions Reversal - New From The Gang at Bloomberg
You can turn the internet off with a little reconfiguration. Or cut some cables; it's not /that/ redundant.

You can't turn off 300M firearms, or (guessing) millions of people willing to use them.

Anyway, the 1st amendment is the one he wants.
I haven't seen confirmation, but they probably use Alexa given they make it easy to download their top 1 million list:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip
xkcd: often right, rarely funny.
You have to store the key with the data. These contracts are silly. :(
The `Erlang -> Haskell` is weird, they're very different development model and systems, covering rather different "use cases". Yeah sequential erlang is a rather ugly functional language, but that's pretty much the least interesting part of erlang.
Anyone have a link to the working .ova download?
Codeschool.com just released a (not-free) iOS intro online course a month or so ago.
How The New York Times’ ‘Snow Fall’ project unifies text, multimedia
Those are quotations from really instructed people in the current state of the art.

> the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference

Any data on this, all data suggests that were there are more guns there are more deaths, apparently evil interferes can buy guns too.
IIRC (I'm on the developer mailing list, but only skimmed the relevant thread), the X.509 part has been made optional, and there is support for other trust mechanisms such as PGP.
so with respect to the DNS-based geolocation efforts of many websites, you'd be treated as if coming from the location of whatever region the datacenter is in

wut? how does dns based geolocation work? you seem to be saying that sites assume you share the physical location of your dns server?
The Interconnective Web of Global Debt
>> Quora and Wikipedia have long been seen as complementary <<

How is that true?
I can't even search on quora without loging in.
1. I think you mean parable. not parabola.
2. You can give the second amendment any meaning you want, but unless it is the same meaning as the authors of the amendment, you're wrong.

(from another HN comment) "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
The Most Fascinating Human Evolution Discoveries of 2012
Create HTML select dropdown for states of any country
If millionshort.com made it into the top 1 million domains would it cease to exist?
Finger Management (OS X)
I don't think this service attempts to fight spam. It seems like a market research tool, or a lead-gen service; a middleman that connects companies with consumers who are willing to be solicited.

That said, it's unclear what problem they're actually trying to solve, so it's understandable that we're all coming to different conclusions.
Of course, this practice of settling and signing an NDA needs to end. I think there's room for a company of lawyers that does nothing but fight patent trolls very publicly- perhaps with a solid dose of anti-patent lobbying on the side. The key question, of course, is whether such a service could be priced reasonably - clearly the age of $500/hr lawyers doing bespoke work to respond to computer-generated paperwork is not really working out so well.

I suppose whether such a company would fly hinges on whether or not there are lawyers willing to work for ordinary salaries. The interesting thing here is that if this company is technologically savvy then I'd imagine that a great deal of the litigation effort could be automated, again yielding good cost savings.

As a programmer and a concerned citizen I would jump at the chance to start and/or work for a company like this.
Sure, anything can be learned quickly. Problem is the drive to master it.
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I would like that as well, but sadly a lot of U.S. politics seems to be based on personal factors these days...
"...he's going to let strangers pay to wear our clothes..."

How does this match up with Instagram's TOS in any way? I still do not understand what Instagram is doing that is getting everyone so riled up.
I tend to agree because I feel like we've moved to a point where influencing the masses is more important than having militias or arming ourselves to fight a tyrannical government. I think the protests and resulting ongoing changes in the arab world these days proves the power of communication and the spread of information.

I actually owned an AK-47 and a lot of other weapons and I did enjoy shooting them but I got rid of them when I moved to NYC. Part of living in a community is making sacrifices. If it scares the crap out of my neighbors that I have weapons I'm okay with getting rid of them as long as we all agree that we will work together to fight crime and any tyranny we might encounter, however rare. I believe in that unspoken agreement.
> Erlang is actually a fairly elegant language, it's just weird-looking

Most of the "sequential erlang" syntax is ugly as hell, from the various separators (statement, case, function) to the (downright dreadful) records syntax or the function reference syntax (both anonymous functions and reference to named functions are pretty bad).

The language itself, as in the model and the underlying concepts and ideas, are generally neat, but the syntax isn't when compared to Haskell or even MLs derivatives.

Aside from the literal bit syntax, that part is beautiful (for the most part, the complex modifier atoms still weird me out)
Really glad to see the REPL!
The genie is already out of the bottle. People have already lost their trust with Instagram, I did at any rate. Problem is if you try high handed strategy like they did, as in we will sell your pictures without giving you a single dime, people will react. And they did. What they should do was to follow deviantart's model. Grab a percentage from the sold, printed out photos. Or put in a premium package. Or both.

This is my two cents anyway.
Tech Secrets From Obama’s Re-Election Geek Squad
Must be an awesome view from the surface at midnight on Saturn.
Where’s My Holiday? The Great New App for iOS and Android
However, in C language features GCC becomes PostgreSQL and Clang becomes MySQL (Things like nested functions to name one).
Yes. One has to wonder whether IV actually has software that generates new companies at will.
http://mygunculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Ireland_m...

http://www.justfacts.com/images/guncontrol/england.png

http://politisite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/dc-gun-ban-...

http://www.justfacts.com/images/guncontrol/chicago_handguns....
PR stunt. Clearly a good one!

I remember reading of people running openBTS and FreeSwitch/Asterisk on an android phone, connected to USRP, so this very much isn't a surprise to me!
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That's actually a lot of stuff coming from not a very large company. Nice to see.
The writer commits a common fallacy:

" In 1791, that check meant arming the citizens with rifles and muskets. Those were the effective tools of the revolution back then. But since we started rolling tanks, bombers, and aircraft carries off the assembly lines, the citizens ability to match power with our potentially 'tyrannical' government is nil."

To be clear, a bunch of farmers with muskets in the late 18th Century were not capable of beating a late 18th Century military in the field, or "match power" with it. Armies weren't formed for kicks, guys: they were by far the most powerful means of projecting force of the day. We mythologize the American Revolution as being a bunch of sharp-shooters who beat the dumb redcoats by not being an army, but that's not true. We had to form an army, with artillery and cavalry support, with discipline, that formed into ranks and did army things, to win the Revolution. We also used people with experience in the British Army to form the Colonial Army, and got plenty of help from the French and the Germans.

What a militia of disorganized people with guns could do, then and just as much now, is provide a visible, nettling presence to occupiers that allowed an actual rebellion to form around them (or, more likely, fail to form around them). Our disastrous adventure in Iraq should make it perfectly clear to anyone doubting it that tanks, aircraft, and cruise missiles do NOT make a militia irrelevant to the occupation of a country.
I learned about cooking with a rice cooker from living in crappy grad student housing, where real cooking appliances were forbidden and no one had a kitchen. I thought I was stuck with a microwave. Thank goodness for the Asian grad students I met who showed me how they made delicious tasty meals with their rice cookers. I would note that please do buy one with an attached steamer because it's a really nice bonus for steaming meat/fish/vegetables.
Given that a militia in their context is a completely obsolete concept, the validity of their ancient beliefs should be considered as current as their dire fears of a ginormous standing Army.

Get rid of the Army & Marines, and we can go back to such quaint times.
From a Google search (using the noun version):

> Munition: Military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.

I already think that classifying crypto as "munitions" is a pretty big stretch, and if they try to lump the entire Internet in the same group, then we might need to use the 2nd amendment in it's original meaning (call up the NRA and get a real militia going).
Usually there is a separate timezone for daylight saving periods. For example where I live, there is a +9:30 timezone for half of the year, and a +10:30 timezone during daylight savings. This removes all the ambiquity, and allows the illlusion that UTC is a continuous stream.
H-1B visas.
For those that follow game development, John Carmack had this to say at QuakeCon 2012:

"But, one of my pushes on the greater use of static analysis and verification technologies, is I pretty strongly suspect that the Clang LLVM sort of ecosystem that's living on OS X is going to be, I hope, fertile ground for a whole lot of analysis tools and we'll wind up benefiting by moving more of our platform continuously onto OS X just for that ability to take advantage of additional tools there." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk#t=45m4s
What kind of products allow users to compile and run custom C code, but would feel constrained by the GPL? Any examples (OSX excluded)?
David Cameron Plans 'Radical' Child Protection Internet Measures
Tesla Announces Model S European Pricing, Says 40kWh Model Won't Cross Atlantic
Show HN: What Search Plus Your World Should've been in the first place
I agree, but this helped. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952908

I can better appreciate the view now.
I thought elegance was about conciseness and freedom of expression leading to creative and "neat" solutions to problems?

The way you describe python as a language of structured constraint is pretty much the opposite of my understanding of programming language "elegance", with lisp or haskell being some kind of ultimate to aspire to.
The author is incorrect when he assumes that tanks/aircraft/artillery have any bearing on how easy it is to control a population armed with rifles.

If you're outnumbered 10-to-1 by people with AR-15s and AK-47s and IEDs who can fade in and out of the civilian population, you simply aren't going to be able to maintain control over a vast land area like America. At best you will have fortified "Green Zones" with tenuous control over some major metropolitan areas.

All the firepower a modern state can bring to bear is only useful if you want to destroy whole cities. If you want to control them, it's still very much a street-level game of rifles and IEDs.
this is awesome, doing the same thing i built about a year ago. couldn't pull it off successfully though. maybe they can
> unless it is the same meaning as the authors of the amendment, you're wrong

Yeah, lets ask them what they mean... Oh wait, well, we will have to ask you right?
IPhone snags its highest U.S. market share ever, says report
Just out of curiosity, where is http://yoz.io. That's what we went with in our apps and think it's pretty good. I wonder if we should consider one of these though.
The mapping plugins are truly impressive but, personally, I'm looking forward to making use of the hexbin plugin and testing out the new transition chaining.

As always, nice work!
Why does it look like clipart?
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The Second Amendment is controversial and deserves to be. These were men who just overthrew their British government, violently. They were maltreated, but their government was far from the most tyrannical at the time. In 1775, you'd rather be an average American colonist (healthier, richer, taller, more literate) than an average European. Now the Irish... they had something to complain about regarding British tyranny. For the Americans, it was more gray. They had to "invent" the right to overthrow an oppressive or ineffective government because that's exactly what they were doing.

The Second Amendment is the right to violently oppose government if it becomes tyrannical and violent, and it's the right to use the most effective weapons available. (In 1789, they were muskets and swords. Problem: in 2012, they're much more powerful and frequently used for illegal and harmful purposes.) It's a bizarre construct, because it's unclear where the line between personal violence (objectively illegal) and overthrow (which would be treated as illegal, even if it's held as abstractly legitimate) is. We also learned in the 1860s that this whole idea (of legitimate overthrow) is extremely dangerous.

In 2012, governments are less powerful. We have a relatively libertarian government, despite protest to the contrary. Consequently, there is absolutely no good reason for a violent revolution against in the US against the government. (Corporations, especially in the multinational theater, require a separate debate.) In fact, we have a legitimate, effective mechanism for firing bad government officials and the problem is that we don't use it. Incumbent politicians have more job security (< 2% firing rate per year) than Silicon Valley software engineers. That's on us.

I agree that the best way to "revolt" against bad government is to use nonviolent tools to delegitimize incompetent or crooked leaders. Right now, the political structures that exist to enable that (periodic elections, removal from office by the people) work. They work well, and no one is violently preventing them from doing so, so violence is neither necessary nor morally acceptable. What we should be doing is using legitimate means (e.g. Internet) to remove incompetent leaders from office. If, however, the U.S. turned into Syria (which is extremely unlikely) I'd disagree.

The problem right now is that a gun that is fired on a person in the US is, statistically, more likely to be used in suicide, by accident, or on an innocent person, than on a criminal. We don't have a tyrannical government, nor do we have that much crime.

Ultimately, I'd say that "government" itself doesn't have the right to make certain firearms illegal, but that the people have the right (as an aggregate) to give up that right and to take it back. Personally, I'm willing not to have the right to own an AK-47 (seeing as I don't have one, and have no desire ever to own one) if it will prevent senseless massacres like last week's. But the distinction is important. The people are giving up the right to have one, in exchange for increased safety.
IIRC OpenBTS was developed by a small group of GSM software experts, with many years GSM experience between them, and GSM essentially being a frozen standard now.

Still an achievement, sure... makes me wonder why pico cells aren't everywhere offering an alternative carrier. (Guess WiFi stayed good enough, and we have moved to over the top apps that don't need cell network).
Probably the most important point of this article is to read the licenses on fonts you buy. Here's the popular Pictos icon font license: http://pictos.cc/font-license

> Use, or allowing anyone else to use any of the Assets to create pornographic, fraudulent, obscene, immoral, infringing, illegal, blasphemous or defamatory material.

Can't use Pictos on a porn site, apparently.
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But of course before 1991-1992, there were no online catalogs. It was an entirely novel idea brought to us by Charles E. Hill. If not for Mr. Hill, there could be no eBay, no PetMeds, no online shopping as we know it.
I did a quickie hexbin / d3.geo map of my Twitter archive, was very easy and nice quick results. Being able to try out various projections and have everything else just work was a really nice experience.
I'm working on an Apache-licensed product that uses some of it's libraries for code generation.
IIRC the guys behind OpenBTS ran a small cell at Burning Man, letting attendees call each other. Pretty robust!
You get 'popularly obscure' results. Which I think is a better name than million short.
I just started a new job in July, and in one of my first projects I learned and applied D3 to create a series of interactive charts for a massive dataset my office had recently received.

After presenting, my boss, his boss, and his boss all came by my desk to express how impressed they were with the work, and a couple of weeks later I received an Associate of the Quarter award, which I directly attribute to what I was able to do using D3.

I'm very grateful for all the work you've done on this Mike, and I look forward to exploring all of the new features in this latest release.