skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a win. These underage workers likely weren't doing it against their will. So really we just fired a bunch of poor people, because we think they are too young to work... Win!

Do we really think these underage workers are going to go home and play Xbox, or go to school?
[Shakes his head in disgust.] Hackers, it's time for me to hack the discussion. You and your first world problems have NO IDEA how to fight for freedom. This is the wimpy way to protest whatever it is you are protesting. Unlike most people who post here, I have actually lived under a dictatorial regime that ruled a territory that later had a peaceful transition to democracy and legally protected civil rights. Anonymous or whatever the name of the latest Western hacktivist group is going about things all wrong.

If you really want to learn about effective popular action to bring about more freedom, point your Web browser to the Albert Einstein Institute publications

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

and choose your language for titles like From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle and others. Note that the main author of these publications has consulted with freedom movements all over the world and has had notable success in the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, and other countries, and is credited with much of the mobilization of the two-year-old Arab Spring movement.

Going after the United States Sentencing Commission website is beyond stupid. The federal sentencing guidelines were a helpful reform. Before they were adopted, on the example of Minnesota's sentencing guidelines, federal sentences were just about wholly indeterminate, making each judge could make up his or her own law of sentencing at trial. The Minnesota reform, which was the example for the federal reform, set up guidelines based on a "severity score" of the offense--so that for the first time legislative statutes from many different decades were compared as to the actual social harm resulting from each offense, based on community standards as of the time of the reform--and on a "criminal history score" of the offender, so that prison time was reserved only for the most dangerous repeat offenders. (Minnesota imprisons fewer convicted criminals than most states of the United States, being much like Scandinavia in this regard. Minnesota spends more dollars per prisoner but fewer dollars per taxpayer on its prison system than almost any other state.)

I know actual freedom fighters, that is publishers of opposition magazines and organizers of nonviolent protests, from Taiwan. Some of them experienced hard prison time while in the struggle for freedom, with family break up and ill health and the other consequences of imprisonment. But today they can look at a much freer country in their homeland than they grew up in. The biggest problem with website-defacing movements is their cowardice (no one in Anonymous seems courageous enough to go to prison) and lack of perspective (they complain about first world problems that they mischaracterize as important problems for the common people). It's time for the discussion on Hacker News to grow up and make more room for the real freedom fighters.
And we care why?
You have been arguing this line in this and other threads quite vehemently and yet I can't escape the impression that you haven't even done the most basic research on the case under discussion. I'm confused. You're obviously quite clever and it appears to me that you have no dog in this race. Why not be more objective?
Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Exposure
OK, I am deluded.
I'd like to see this technology used to build a decentralized, uncensorable alternative to twitter or reddit.

That would have a far greater impact than yet another file-sharing system.

The architecture would basically be a flooding P2P network with measures against spamming (machine learning?).
> The tech is yours to be used.

Well, the tech is for every website to be used, as a visitor to the site that may or may not benefit me. I think that was the reason for the same-origin policy and is, probably the source of concern of the OP.

Personally, I use NoScript and RequestPolicy to deal with it. After all, just because JavaScript exists does not mean I want any random website to execute arbitrary code on my machine (especially not with WebRTC).
> I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook

Ignoring Facebook here, this chart should give them food for thought: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=instagram%2C%2...
If liberty was the point, they'd not be libertarians by US standards. Right wing US style libertarianism is "liberty for all, except when it threatens my ability to monopolize property, when I prefer liberty only for me".

Maximizing liberty for all necessarily requires severe limitations on government enforcement of private property, for example.
I am using Chrome 24 on the desktop. Not working.
Grid layouts are the new tables.
I would rather want Tab Overflow in Chrome. But They already dismissed that.

That is why i am staying with Firefox.
>they are one-upping themselves with every release

This!

Also, I wonder what it's like to be 14 today and watch this. Anonymous would certainly make a strong impression on me if I was ten years younger.
E. Coli is commonly found in the intestines of all warm-blooded animals, and it is usually harmless. There are only a few problematic strains.
Explains the recent move to trick all the YouTube users into signing up for Google+.

I mean seriously why does creating a private video playlist require a public Google+ page.
How Can Cloud IDEs Save Your Time? Part 1
Cloud computing is definitely among the most dynamically developing industries in IT. It’s also definitely the one that promises to surprise the global IT community with new technologies, tools and services in 2013. Cloud hosting, document management and data storage have become common and ordinary even for non IT-savvy people. If you can store your docs and host your apps in the cloud, why can’t you code in your browser?
How Can Cloud IDEs Save Your Time?: Build and Deploy – Part 2
IDE in a cloud uses cloud’s resources on demand to make development process more productive. You can win a minute or so by decreasing IDE boot time. It might look insignificant, but just multiply those minutes to your time size. Add those seconds to the time you can save with faster builds and deploys, and you will get an extra coffee break every day. With an IDE installed on a local machine, your productivity pretty much depends on specs of your laptop or PC.
The judge very clearly disagreed with you about it being preposterous, on the basis of a total lack of evidence to support this assertion, while the hotel owner on the other hand was able to demonstrate that he and his staff have alerted police to suspicions of crime multiple times and generally been cooperative.
I'm not sure how best to put this, but try hanging out with dumber people. It's like this, sometimes we can't help comparing ourselves with others but we mostly have a habit of only looking up and not down. In this industry you are encouraged to look at the brightest and learn from them and their habits so that you too can be a 10x programmer. Not everybody can be a 10x programmer, that's just how it is.

Chances are you are somewhere near the middle of the curve, that's where most people are but there is a climate around at the moment where everybody is supposed to be ahead of the pack but that's not possible so relax, do your best and see how that turns out.

Before the light from our sun reaches the centre of the Milky Way anybody who is left will have long forgotten about the achievements of everybody who has ever been alive up until now. All that really matters is the people you care about and who care about you. Focus on that and the rest of it will take care of itself.
Great Hack Shirsendu. Once again, JavaScript Rocks!!!
The CBT waiting list is vastly longer in some areas (over 18 months). The mindfullness course is very good. Also search around, some charities will run free CBT courses or pay for private CBT courses for you if you are unable to.
Can you change the past? No.

Can you change the future? Yes.

I think you're placing a lot of importance on things that don't matter. There's only one real thing you can achieve in life, which is to enjoy it. Anything else is secondary.

Comparing yourself to the best parts of others will always fail as you're more aware of your own failings than theirs. Life isn't a competition.

As for being convinced things cannot get better, try changing the things you can and see if elements of your life improve.

I do think that you might get better results talking about it with close friends or a professional rather than random people on the Internet, but focusing on your regret stops you from moving on, which is why it's important that you don't.
I'm running Chrome 24.0.1312.56, on Mac OS X 10.8.2, yet I still get the alert about unsupported browsers...
Not working on Chrome 25 either
We've been working Sharpen (https://www.sharpenapp.com), a site for sharing your creative pursuits. You can fork a project, like in GitHub, and cooking is pretty popular with our alpha users: (https://www.sharpenapp.com/#!/tag/cooking). We haven't messed with fork in a while but we've got some idea on how to make it more useful... forking recipes makes total sense to me.
This isn't true. People who call themselves 'libertarians' seem quite happy to vote for people who are extremely socially conservative. The economics is what they care about (and perhaps pot). Obviously the GOP is very socially conservative, but so are factions of the Libertarian Party. In 2008 the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States was Bob Barr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr

>During his tenure, Barr was regarded as one of the most conservative members of Congress. In 2002, he was described by Bill Shipp in an OnlineAthens.com article as "the idol of the gun-toting, abortion-fighting, IRS-hating hard right wing of American politics"

>He voted for the first USA PATRIOT Act

>Barr took a lead in legislative debate concerning same-sex marriage. He authored and sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, a law enacted in 1996 which states that only marriages that are between a man and a woman can be federally recognized, and individual states may choose not to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in another state

>Barr was originally a strong supporter of the War on Drugs, reflecting his previous experience as an Anti-Drug Coordinator for the United States Department of Justice. While in Congress, he was a member of the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America.

>Barr advocated complete federal prohibition of medical marijuana. In 1998, he successfully blocked implementation of Initiative 59 — the "Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998" — which would have legalized medical marijuana in Washington, D.C. The "Barr Amendment" to the 1999 Omnibus spending bill not only blocked implementation of Initiative 59, but also prohibited the vote tally from even being released. Nearly a year passed before a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union eventually revealed the initiative had received 69 percent of the vote. In response to the judge's ruling, Barr simply attached another "Barr Amendment" to the 2000 Omnibus spending bill that overturned Initiative 59 outright. The Barr Amendment also prohibited future laws that would "decrease the penalties for marijuana or other Schedule I drugs" in Washington, D.C. This preemptively blocked future attempts by Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) to reform marijuana laws in DC via the initiative process. In March 2002, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan struck down this portion of the Barr Amendment as being an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Barr's response to the ruling was defiant:

>Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics, and the right of Congress to exert legislative control over the District of Columbia as the nation's capital. —Bob Barr, March 28, 2002
[Show HN] Whos Who?- Android Quiz Game
If you like Watsi, try Ads Fund
Like Watsi, Ads Fund is charitable and supports investment in health. But the long-term goal of Ads Fund is to fund work to improve human longevity -- work towards living forever.

Already Ads Fund has gained users from across the world (around 20 different countries).

Ads Fund will earn money by providing its own online advertising platform. You might not know that Google earned over $30bn from online advertising last year, and the year before. I think with the monopoly of Google, the market is open for a large-scale charitable alternative.

To get involved is simple: If you use Firefox, you can install the Ads Fund Firefox add-on (no restart necessary). Whether you use Firefox or not, sharing it with your friends, and keeping Ads Fund in mind would be extremely useful for its success.

I currently have a bug filed for Chrome (which has been assigned) to allow an Ads Fund add-on to function, so hopefully that will be available by the end of the year.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

You can either go to http://www.adsfund.org to learn more, or search for Ads Fund on Google or the Mozilla Firefox add-ons website/manager.

You can send feedback to adsfund.help@gmail.com

I'd like to hear your thoughts about Ads Fund, and hopefully, with your help, we can make Ads Fund a success.
I love how few people mention Sir-mix-a-lot -- You know, the guy that actually wrote the song and popularized it. The Acoustic-version-of-hip-hop song genre is not terribly original, and even predates youtube considerably. I have a hard time feeling sympathy for either one of these cover artists.
So that's one person who wrote something that someone interpreted as "all sex is rape". Got any other evidence or is that it?

Feminism, like all groups, has many overriding ideas and then within that movement you'll have disagreements and there's be a tiny minority who take extreme uncommon views that the rest of the group don't share. "All sex is rape" is such a minority and extreme view. The majority of feminists don't think that at all (I might be wrong, so please, more evidence if you have it)/.

You can find gay men who don't support gay rights, I'm sure there were (at least one) black person in Deep South of USA who supported slavery. etc. etc.
Now thats an idea! The web as it should be - Uncensored!
You could reassign employees so that there is no reporting relationship which is a universally bad idea.
After.js, :after support in ie6/7 with no dependencies or syntax requirements
You will probably be amazed at the number of web sites and phone apps that have had access to your contact list - just to get something done. Easy to forget when and when.

Could even be that it was someone you know who has your email address who gave their contact list to this spammer (directly or indirectly). The bad guys could then have simply picked one email address as the from and got to it spamming the rest.
Though there are many quiz games out there but very few games have quality questions. So I made this.

The objective is to identify as many famous personalities using as few hints as possible before the time runs out.

Personalities are from academia, business, entertainment, politics and sports.

Open for suggestions and reviews.
Slowtech society
25 years ago the Slow Food Movement emerged as an answer to fast food. Today the Slow Tech Society wants to question the ever increasing speed of the Internet and technology, find answers and than take action.

What is your take on consuming and producing digital services and products in a notion of respect, fairness and mindfulness? Please write – one word or a dozen. Help us think!

What do you particularly dislike about the Internet? Which sites or services do bug you? Any suggestions how to do it the slow way? What would you like to improve? And what are you willing to do for it? Write us whatever and as much as you want – we'd like to hear from you!
Wouldn't this require each computer on any receiving end to process all of the incoming data in order to determine if it's spam or not?
I also sometimes face the same issue on the same configuration. It seems chrome sessions doesnt always get support for IndexedDB. Try refreshing.
ابراج اليوم ، ابراج يوم الاحد 2013/1/27 - حظك ليوم الاحد 2013/1/27
Exactly what I was thinking. It says on Wikipedia that YC takes about 6% of the company's equity. But I suppose a nonprofit doesn't have equity. So what's the benefit to YC? Simply some good PR?
Version 26.0.1394.0 (178735) and guess what... not working !
Quirky got served. Must be shameful to work there this morning.
Both companies end up winning here, for different reasons. OXO is the voice of reason that calmly explains what's what while Quirky looks like the protector who goes to bat for their inventors and community.
You misunderstand. I don't mean, "do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may"; I'm not talking about deontological ethics.

I'm talking about the fact that the system does not work. It was and is ruining people's lives, and all the bail-outs (which have become systemic) did is prop it up for its few "winners" at the expense of everyone else. Economically speaking, the West is being transformed into Japan: a zombie economy run for zombie banks through zombie companies by ever-more-impoverished workers and propped up at the taxpayers' expense.
Drop.com.au user account info compromised
To be fair Bradley Manning was prosecuted because he bonded (they had very long chats) with the guy who was supposed to relay that information. If you read the chat transcripts you can tell that Manning was very troubled at the time and wanted someone to talk to. IMHO this does not necessarily apply to someone who works at the DOJ and uses an anonymous channel to submit confidential documents to e.g. Cryptome
Disney Issues Press Release Confirming J.J. Abrams For ‘Star Wars Episode VII’
All of it, no, only the data coming from peers. Peers would only repeat data if they consider it good.

Also, you could also select peers for the quality of the content they forward to you.
What about Boston? That's an example of the newer city being more important, globally speaking than the original. Or what about Cambridge - that one's especially unclear because it can refer to two cities with great universities.
Sorry to hear about all of your troubles Diego. Wishing you the best and hope it works out at some point. I've had quite a few friends go through the very same thing (fertility treatments, miscarriages) -- such difficult experiences.
Does anyone have a pic of what it looked like? It is down now. (DNS doesn't resolve).
One day I was thinking of using github for writing novels, stories etc. Each branch will have different climax. Newbies in writing will be motivated to write small parts and get feedback.

Although it's not a startup idea but a use case of github api and will need a different interface.

What you all think of this ??

edit:grammatical error fix
no working with chrome 26 ...
False and misleading title.

_serverless_ file sharing says title, yet the technology "requires a HTTP server". "Its completely anonymous as no data is ever stored on the server". Incorrect, only mild protection against sniffing and spoofing is provided.

The underlying code documentations speaks of "This makes it perfect for anonymity": https://github.com/ShirsenduK/WhatAreYouDownloading/tree/mas...
No PKI is linked or included. Proxy service or Sender/receiver unlinkability is not provided. The used WebRTC technology limits UDP/TCP listen sockets. Browser constraints mean WebRTC offers a severely limited experience. For instance, the state of the art in UDP NAT traversal using the neighbor-invite method (beyond STUN/TURN) is not possible.

Rant Disclaimer: As an academic working on a real deployed zero-server P2P technology for 7 years, this sort of claims are a bit upsetting. Zero-server file sharing systems, with a proven effective spam/pollution prevention mechanism have been proven to be extremely difficult to build. (e.g. no-spam version of Kazaa,Gnutella) See,
https://torrentfreak.com/tribler-makes-bittorrent-impossible...
Tribler research group created an upcoming IETF Internet Standard on sharing/streaming which features integrated NAT/firewall puncturing (IETF PPSP work). Compliant IETF PPSP implementations are capable of doing HD-quality streaming, both on-demand and live streaming: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoc...
Anonymous hackers deface United States Sentencing Commission
um no Apprenticeships are strictly craft skills and sit at the base of the engineering pyramid.

An apprentice might make a wind tunnel model designed by an engineer but they would probably know zero about CFD.

I do wish people who have never worked in proper engineering would stop throwing craft and apprentice in to discussions when they have no understanding of what they are taking about.
Post the headers (after scratching out the email usernames)... there may be clues lurking.
Have a look at this, exactly what you are looking for: http://badassjs.com/post/40691367335/voxel-js-a-minecraft-li...
You can not change the future. You can only be in the Now. Eckhart Tolle - Power of Now.
The user decides what he intends to share. His files, his webcam, his printers, etc.
Meet قلب, the programming language that uses Arabic script
It's a "shopping" vs. "buying" thing.

Apple Stores are starting to suffer the same problem as most wireless provider stores: It's just too hard to walk in and quickly buy the thing you want.
Startups for Startups: Top B2B Tools Used by Startups
I had no agenda, except to provide a better reference point for defining socialism than Wikipedia. From my experiences, most people have never heard of von Mises, so may not even be aware that definitions and criticisms of socialism may extend beyond how it is categorized on a site whose goal is collective ownership of information.

Of course, not many people understand that psychology (for price tolerance) and sociology (for price determination) are not the same thing; so trying to understand why any old "economic system" won't do, and why society's governing structure cannot just be changed like an operating system.
Could be interesting to juxtapose old/actual photos
I immediately recognized this perspective, in the (nowadays) turkish district :
http://i.imgur.com/Lj5guCF.jpg vs http://goo.gl/maps/d7rDc
What It’s Like To Be An Ubuntu User In The Linux world
I'm trying not to leak any more personal info, so I'm not sure which parts of the message I can post publicly.
Google cached page:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Ground Water
It's never too late. You're not on a race track competing against others who have a huge head start. There is no single track and no single finishing line.

Things cannot only be done better or worse, faster or more slowly, they can also done in an infinite number of ways. An infinite number of new things have yet to be invented. No one is ever far ahead of others in terms of having ideas and creating things that others like, simply because there is no "ahead" in an infinite dimensional space.

If you pick up a new skill that I have been perfecting for the past 20 years and we both try to make something new that others like, there is no reason to believe that you will be any less successful than me 6 to 12 months down the road. Unless it's theoretical physics perhaps ;-)
"I mean, you're justified in a way. I don't think it's fraud though. Consumers are equally complicit."

That reminds me of the Homer Simpson quote:
"Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."
I strongly suspect they are using something built on WebRTC.
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