skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes it pretty clear that Australian Government has has been blocking sites, "The ‘voluntary’ filter only blocks a set of sites which international policing agency Interpol has verified contain “worst of the worst” child pornography "..."Under the Act, the Australian Federal Police is allowed to issue notices to telcos asking for reasonable assistance in upholding the law. It is believed the AFP has issued such notices to Telstra and Optus to ask them to filter the Interpol blacklist of sites."

Notice the quotes around voluntary. Do you really think Telstra and Optus are going to refuse a request to block child porn sites from the Australian Government?
Tesla’s Stock Is Trading at Rich Multiples
"For the record: I have always felt americans (and anglosaxons in general) are orders of magnitude more afraid of the world than any other people I've ever spoken to. Men and women alike."

Would it be fair to rephrase this as "Americans and citizens of the UK and its former dominions have an expectation of public order that many other people do not, and are troubled when the expectation is not met."?

For the record, I (an American) have been held up at gunpoint. It did not keep me from being out and about late at night, though it made me more aware of what was around me. What should I have done to reduce my fear by an order of magnitude?
This seems common, someone should come up with a name for the phenomenon, similar to Muphry's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
5 Things to Watch at the Google I/O 2013 Conference [LIVE STREAM]
Yes (genuine answer).

I have been passively searching for a new error monitoring service, so I clicked this link from my phone while on a train to work. I'm not going to find headphones, wait on a video to load, and then hope it's high enough quality on my phone to be a useful look at what you're offering. And the About page is hidden beneath a 'Docs' menu, which is actually right next to two links that take me to a sign-in form, so it never even occurred to me to look for it. I thought 'How It Works' was all you had besides the video.

So I added it to my "hey maybe come back and look at this some day" list of TODOs. That's a very big list. I rarely actually go back and look.

Had it been two screenshots of a decent UI and a quick blurb about your (likely very useful!) grouping/filtering functionality, I'd have been much more likely to make sure I went back to view the video.

That said, I'm now watching the video, and this looks pretty nice. Good luck!
Stormpath Community Roundup: Python Login Guide and CAS Integration
Yes, the word "startup" does seem to cause many developers to jump to wildly false conclusions about how much I intend to pay, what kind of backing I have, what the working conditions will be like, etc. This is a surprise to me!

Anyhow, I think you've given some very good advice, and I'll take it. Will you be at tomorrows's HNLondon meetup? I'd love to pick your brain for more advice on how to build a team here -- if not there, then perhaps over coffee sometime. Email me at nathan@podaris.com if you're interested.
You can also try proxify (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/landing-proxify/) actual cross-platform binary that is based on top of NSS. It has been designed to be really fast as it is not buffering anything. It also has a lot of useful command line options.
> It doesn't have a cloud component

What is the 'cloud component' of Dropbox. Isnt that just the (storage) servers? Isnt the native Dropbox app using the "Dropbox API to interface with Dropbox's servers directly"?
Any ideas of the detail level/resolution? Based on the "5 billion pixels" statement, it sounds like it would be something like 150-300m/px, which doesn't sound very high-res to me. For large scale maps it probably makes stunning images, but is it suitable for google earth -like zooming and panning around?
The discussion on the xkcd forums frequently attributed every single comic to be a cancer reference. The forums have since been removed from the main page though. so it's not quite as visible anymore.
"People poke fun at each other. It's how we establish groups. It's how we operate. We pick a trait and converge around it, as soon as we see a member of the species who does not have that trait, we make fun of them and maybe, just maybe, we eventually let them join the group."

That's true. But the traits chosen are not arbitrary. There are some traits which are consistently used to exclude people from certain groups. As a lifestyle entrepreneur, people on HN look down on me. 99% of the population don't care. Whereas if I was female, or black, or whatever, suddenly I find myself excluded from a lot more groups.

Yes, there is much worse sexism in the world, but I can't think of many people who would think shouting sexual abuse at your manager as anything other than sexism. You seem like an intelligent guy, but you seem to have already reached the conclusion that this isn't sexism and are now trying to justify that conclusion.
This one also kinda remind me of water

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,3,0,1,1,2,1,0...
> Does Mike Matas? (Doesn’t look like it, judging by the “via Twitter for iPhone” metadata on his recent tweets.) Why not?

Wait, why is he using Twitter at all?
This is all very recent...changes are apparently afoot. My guess Conroy is trying to have one last, desperate stab at trying to reign in the Internet before he gets tossed out in September (good luck with that). The guy seems to be unable to grok the concept of a free, open and wild space for the unrestricted exchange of information and ideas that exists outside the realm of government censorship and control.
Facebook Chathead JS
My experience with their free open source scan is that of the 50 or so "defects" found, one was an outright bug, one was a false-positive, one was intentional (a deliberate crash in some debug code), and the rest were basically style complaints.
DynDNS now requires free users to manually log in once a month
There is a middle ground, you know. You're right, you probably can't completely boycott products from evil actors. But that's not what this is about. This is about making more informed decisions about who you are supporting with your money. Not everything has to be taken to its extreme to still be worthwhile.
That's interesting. I fly first on a bunch of random airlines but most often fly SWA. I've had very few unpleasant SWA experiences, and lots of excellent ones where they bent over backwards to make sure things worked out for me.

On the other hand, almost every other airline I've flown has been nothing but bad experiences: repeated last-moment cancellations, surly staff, lost luggage.
A Vision Splendid
One of the big mistakes startups here in the Netherlands (and the rest of europe)make is that the try to copy the Silicon Valley eco system, which will not work here. For a hole lot of reasons like history, culturel difference, political system etc.

For instance, one mistake a lot of startups make is offering Dutch people shares while their productivity wont be higher. Giving them a higher salary or more freedom on where and when they work motivates them much more and is often enough reason to leave a big boring corp.

It's true that there is less money here then in SV but it doesn't mean there are no jobs. But most of these job postings won't be on a site like the above. I even think the problem here is more on the supply side and not demand. I can name a few startups that are looking for talent right now, including us, willing to pay a great salary but simple can't find the right talent. Take a look at the type of open positions, cto, technical co founder, developer intern etc. I think that's the biggest problem we have to solve here first...
United States of Search
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Stripe are in closed-beta in the UK, but they've issued plenty of beta accounts. They made an open invite at the London hacker news event a few weeks for anyone who wants to join the beta just to email them, so if you ask they'll probably give you an account.
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If I am chair I run the meeting - I once told the company founder to sit down and let some one else speak :-)

This rule should come from the top if I was chairman of a company and any director/attendee turned up having not read the papers I woudl be having words with them.
> You have to look at the DMCA as a system.

I do? I was approaching this thread as being about the correctness of IP rights as a concept. Again, I'm not disputing the defects of the DMCA, only the use of DMCA abuse to imply that the whole concept of copyright is inherently flawed. (As it happens, I don't even live in the US, so the DMCA doesn't apply to me).

> The bias in copyright law as a whole is towards the rightsholder

In its current US (and EU) implementations, sure. But unless you're saying the existence of copyright as a property right itself is the bias (in which case 'unbiased copyright law' would be an oxymoron), that's an implementation issue.
If we just let kernel do the job, it's essentially a queue. If we do the packet processing ourselves, it can be a parallel problem.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m...
First off, the MOOCs associated with this degree will still be free. The degree is not. The change here is that a) an entire MS worth of course material (and the systems to support it) from a respected institution are being created, b) the actual (O)MS degree just became a great deal less expensive.

It remains to be seen whether this lowers the bar or merely opens up more opportunities. I don't think education is a zero sum game. And while there may be a glut of PhDs, there is a shortage of employees with the advanced knowledge and skills in demand now. That's why e.g. AT&T is pushing this program.

While the union issue and age discrimination are interesting and important topics, CS graduates don't have a lot to complain about economically. The field has maintained high employment and excellent compensation during recent times when many other professions suffered greatly. Now, at 40 I don't expect to get funded by Y Combinator because I've almost certainly suffered crippling age-related innovation dementia, but there are plenty of employers that don't think that way.

There have been several articles posted here about the glut of PhDs versus available faculty positions. And actual instruction is a pretty small part of what full professors are expected to do. If you aren't pulling in research grants, your career is on a weak trajectory. So the problem was already there, and I don't think this seriously affects it one way or the other.

One might hope that making education available and practical to many more people at much lower costs might actually help advance the field, both within and without the ivory tower.
Finland Rejects IBM's "Abnormally Low" Offer For New Tax System
The courses are still free, as per the announcement. However, to be on the actual degree track, you pay a nominal amount of money. I think this arrangement is quite reasonable. Information should be free; credentials should cost a bit.
Rapid Web Assessments with RAWR
I got some bubbles wandering up the screen quite slowly: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,0,1,3,2,1,2...

Not exactly a glider, but it looks like this does at the start, but reversed...sort of... (maybe)
Freezing a Raspberry Pi in Liquid Nitrogen
Show HN:  Your Shot, National Geographic Community Photography Site
Our team built the site for NGS. We used Django (they're a Django shop), RabbitMQ, and a whole lot of Elasticearch.

Our biggest challenges were scaling to the size of their membership, migrating 1.1 million photos from their legacy system, and making the site performant.
Beyond demanding royalties - demanding that the state enforce his monopoly. This entitlement to someone else enforcing the monopoly is a really pernicious part of the whole "intellectual property" scheme.
Thank god I'm not the only one who worries about this.

What I do is imagine I'm going for a handshake, if their arm extends it's likely they're looking for a handshake, otherwise turn it into a soft hug!
Apparently MtGox/Japan does not know about it:
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130515.html
Thanks, I will into this as well then.
The Science of Web Design
full email: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/sfk-manifest/message/76...
I'm lobbying very, very hard to get our code open sourced, but it's going to take some convincing. I do, however, have one Racket project on GitHub right now, though I haven't touched it in a while and it is very simple:

https://github.com/capnmidnight/philly_mud

I don't really blog that much, and when I do it's not usually about programming. Maybe I should...
I agree, and think that when you move cross-country for that new job you got, you should just tell your baby to drive himself and meet you there.
Two names come to mind:

Irony[1], and

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?[2]

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

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3...
Maybe Mike Matas isn't the target audience of facebook home. Does Mattel CEO need to play with Barbies?
Are other browsers any better in this regard? 1 GB seems reasonable to me for "many, many tabs", I'm currently using about 500MB with 16 tabs, as rally is pretty bloated. Solution: install more RAM?
LogMeIn’s Xively: An Amazon Web Services for the Internet of Things?
Perhaps I'm better at ignoring the capitalisation, having had to deal with it for a while (my native language doesn't capitalise titles).
Hug more people imo, geez
My eyes hurt after looking at your website.
What are the anti-piracy people supposed to do? They trusted the web design firm and apparently were let down. Should the site owner have to vet the content again?

Should Pirate Bay have to vet the content that it's users make available?
Show HN: My friend made this - Codebunk.com
CodeBunk is a Collaborative Editor with an Online Compiler/Interpreter for PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Javascript, C, C++. CodeBunk also has Peer-to-Peer Video/Audio chat facility.

CodeBunk is ideal for Online Interviewing of Developers.

Current practice

Online interviews are the norm in the tech industry given its nature—a handful of hubs looking for brilliant minds from all over the globe.

Usually, the process involves 3-4 rounds:

The interviewer calls up the interviewee on Skype or on telephone
Using a tool like Collabedit or Google Docs, the interviewer creates a document and sends the link to the interviewee, after which the interviewer poses a problem and the interviewee codes it up on the editor
The interviewer runs the code on a machine at his/her end or does a dry run (goes through the code mentally to determine its correctness)

Why CodeBunk

CodeBunk provides one platform for the interviewing process: communication tools (mic and camera), editor and compiler are built in the same interface.
It is simple and easy to use.

CodeBunk can also be used for learning programming from friends or sharing ones cool algorithms with others (I shared a few right here on HN).

CodeBunk is under active development even as I write this post. Lots of features are to be added to make the experience smooth and truly kickass.

Do check it out and tell us what you think.

You would require to login via Github, Twitter, or Facebook to create Bunks or Fork a Bunk. However, you can view Bunks made by other people without signing up.
For eg. http://codebunk.com/bunk#-IsrtQcv125Udslem2wL

Sign up and start creating Bunks here - http://codebunk.com

P.S. If you are a facebook person, visit their FB page https://www.facebook.com/codebnk. Quora users can visit http://www.quora.com/CodeBunk
I won't be attending tomorrow's meetup. I'll drop you an email.
In my experience, I simply do this as a way of polling the app to see whether it's still working. A working app will often have the main gui loop running so you'll be able to see the GUI respond to clicks, focus changes etc. If the app doesn't do that, it's a sign that it's blocked waiting for something (network or file access, for instance). Experience then informs me whether it's normal for a certain app to behave in this way, and whether I should wait longer to let it finish or just kill it off.

So for instance, a long time ago I was an Opera user on Linux. In certain cases some bug would cause it to go on a memory eating rampage which would slow the machine to a crawl of swapping if I didn't react quickly enough to kill the process. I developed a very good sense at "smelling" when this was about to happen, so I could react quickly enough to kill the process before just switching over to the terminal would take something like a minute.
I don't see any themes?
If in 2013 people still believe that once a censorship infrastructure is put in place governments will only block "child porn" or the "worst of the worst sites", they are being really naive.

It usually takes months or even weeks before the system is used to block something else that has nothing to do with the categories they promised to censor.
Show HN: Ask your visitors to test your website
I recently launched a new feature of my startup that allows you to ask your site visitors to record a usability test for your website.

You get a couple lines of javascript code that you embed on any page of your site you want the user to begin their test. You can even entice them with a special incentive for giving you their feedback.

An example of the widget in action can be seen at http://www.betapunch.com/popover_window.

What do you think of the widget? Is it useful? Would you use it to test your own site?

All tester videos get uploaded into your account for only you to view - and you get an email notifying when each test is completed.

If you want to give it a go on your own website let me know and I'd be glad to get you set up with a widget and some free test credits.
Let me say that the routine in the original post can be actually harmful. It should be performed close to the maximum and beginners do no know their maximums. And their maximums also very uneven - muscles here (stabilizers) aren't as strong as muscles there (main muscles) and injuries should be very likely.

This routine is more for intermediate-to-advanced types and those already spent a big amount of time in gym.
Real Time 3D home environmental performance with Housahedron
Using mymysql the row object has typed getters.

row.Int(3) returns the 4th column as an int, row.Str(3) as a string, etc. Works fine for me.
I think we as a whole got a bit overboard with the theory "social networking is the future and whoever controls that, will control the internets"

Facebook is a very good utility but it's not everything. The social data might be good for advertisers but we have yet to see a single study where people ditched usual advertising streams for it. And there hasn't been a single innovative/exciting feature from Facebook since the News feed.

It just seems they are trying to be something which they are not. They are struggling at both ends. Can't create a good enough advertising platform nor improve the product from user perspective.
Ubuntu version pls :)
Southwest is famous for maintaining an all-737 fleet (I don't know what they're doing with Airtran's 717 fleet, but Airtran hasn't been integrated with SWA yet.)
Bootstrapping Products with Services
I'm using TPG and I can confirm access to www.globalcapitalwealth.com is still working so I'd say "believed to be major telco TPG" is quite... um... believable. www.globalcapitalaustralia.com is going to the GoDaddy holding page so I'd say they're in the process of packing up shop.

I'm frankly disgusted at the underhandedness of Conroy. He has previously pushed completely unfeasible schemes aiming at mandatory filtering. He caved on this due to huge public backlash, so he just re-interprets section 313 of the telco act to give the AFP the power, if not the obligation, to bully Australian ISPs into mandatory filtering anyway.

The main differences now are that he gets to do it quietly, possibly without the public backlash, and secondly, that the cost for the extra infrastructure and personnel required to implement it is now the sole burden of the ISPs, and not the Australian taxpayer.

Unfortunately, with the current state of Australian politics, this mob are still probably the best choice going. The Greens (although I usually vote for them, idealist that I am) really don't have any chance this election, and the Liberals [1], except to say that they'd cut the investment in the National Broadband Network, aren't even providing their usual hodge-podge of regurgitated conservatism; They're happy watching Julia Gillard lose the election on her own merits. The two Liberal party members to keep an eye on here are Tony Abbott [2], and Malcolm Turnbull [3]. They, between them, have the power to either lose or win (in that order) this election for the Liberal party.

So, we in Australia, like many in the USA, are discovering that the more "progressive" party is just as likely to engage in shady behaviour as their "conservative" counterparts, but have more to lose when they're found out. This reminds me of something I read recently [4] where it was stated that trust is bi-directional. The more a government stops trusting the people it's mandated to represent, the more those same people, in turn, stop trusting their elected government.

Wow, sorry, I seem to have gone off on a tangential rant there... Anyway, not happy at all.

[1] for the benefit of non-Australian readers, the capital 'L' should be interpreted as a negator. They are anything but 'liberal'.

[2] Party leader, and historically likely to lose this election with a single misplaced misogynistic comment.

[3] A chameleon, finger on the pulse and willing to flip with the public opinion of his constituents... Technically a good trait in a politician, but most of his constituents are rich conservatives

[4] might have been in Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers, brilliant book.
I'll bite. I don't particularly dislike Airbrake, but I don't particularly like it, either, and I periodically want to use something else:

1. The hideous UI. =)

2. Airbrake would 500 when trying to render the data about some of our 500s! A Rails app I work on was raising Rack exceptions about UTF-8 encodings, but viewing them on Airbrake caused it to fail, too. Meh.

3. We had to disable the JS error handler, as it would routinely take 3+ seconds to download for clients, or just time out entirely. Meh.

4. A few people on my team just never received the emails from airbrake. They were registered with the right address, it didn't go to spam, etc. It just never showed up. We gave up and switched it to mailing our foo-dev@ mailing list, and now people that have no ability to address the issue (and, honestly, mostly overreact to exceptions =) get the email, too. Meh.

See, it's just that "Meh." at the end of everything. A pretty reasonable summary of my Airbrake experience.
I'd put your nav bar (at least the important bits: pricing) at the top. I just spend 3 minutes looking for it and assumed you didn't have it.
Agreed. Think of it like an American football punter doing high-kicks before a punt.
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Let me recommend Syncovery for doing the same job for me for the last couple of years

http://www.syncovery.com/
yes, but you would have to turn them on 10 minutes before departure!