skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History in the making

With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk.

[...]

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
Yes, percentage of population earning below that income value.
The U.S. is locking up undocumented kids with adults
There are plenty of old typewriters lying around. Although you would still have to take precautions like getting rid of it afterwards and make sure it does not make use of polymer tape ribbons (in which case you would have to destroy and discard that as well).
Pixate
A large non-voting would-be constituency means that there is little mandate for politicians to drive policy.

If say 90% of the population didn't vote, plus there were public demonstrations of discontent, officials would be so afraid of a revolution (or other radical action) it would in theory temper their ambitions.

Tocqueville touches on this in Democracy in America.
Yeah, I get it. I just don't feel this level of caution is productive. If you aren't being currently tracked, then your concern is about whether someone can backtrack forensically and find you. I think a simple trip to a public computer at a library, particularly at a busy time, affords as much pragmatic anonymity as jumping through all the hoops described in the article.

On the flip side, if you are already are under suspicion, then all your efforts to anonymize a leak are in vain. You'll be the first person interrogated after a leak, and if your beliefs about the Orwellian nature of the government are true, the $10 hammer to the kneecaps (thanks XKCD) will undo any clever hiding you did.

I just don't think it makes much sense to go to these lengths. It's already understood that governments are corrupt. Are the specifics of what secrets you want to publicize worth the personal risk? If no, then you're playing spy, which is fine. If yes, then they'll probably find you if they really put their heart into it.
I think it depends on who you ask.

I think the fact that the NSA could routinely search Facebook/Google/Apple for whatever data they have about a particular person (after being reasonably confident that that person is "foreign"), without needing to get a new and specific subpoena each time, is news to most people.
Unless it's been fixed in the 8 minutes since you posted, it does say 404 error in the graphic (in a thin font, though, so it's hard to see).

I agree that it should be in the page title, be more visible, and explain what "404 error" means, though.
It's almost as if he's speaking to a cult. Might as well have said something along the lines of "Obama is the savior of the US. Let him into your heart and soul and you will know it to be true. Go forth and vote!"
Turing machines? What do they have to do with privacy?
Ask HN: Why do you care about privacy?
In light of recent events, I thought it might be useful to start a conversation about the trade-offs between privacy and security. It's easy to see the consequences of a terrorist attack, but the implications of losing our privacy/civil liberties are a bit more subtle. Why do you care?
Here is a good guide from Cryptome http://cryptome.org/cryptome-anon.htm
Funny, but I don't really see the point. Since when providing free tools became a target for sarcasm?
US gov't defends NSA surveillance, slams 'reprehensible' journalists
This has been integrated into at least 3 sites in production at our company and our HTMLs have increased by 400%.

A+++++ would use again.
Control Your Computer Like Tony Stark
That's already sort of happening in HTTP/1.1 with Keep-Alive and pipelining.
Watched it last week, squeeling with delight. Thought it was awesome, really captured the feel of the original.

I was only disappointed when, 7 days later, there wasn't a new episode.

Anyone know what release frequency they're aiming at?
The puppet strings you refer to are trade (and other economic development) agreements.

The other Scandinavian countries may not have had such close ties to the US as Sweden, however US-Sweden relations have a rich and storied history[1] stretching back quite far (with particular emphasis on defense against Soviet aggressions).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-Sweden_relations
DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 6: Higgs, a JIT compiler in D by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Fine for me in the UK:-

$ host algasm.io
algasm.io has address 176.58.123.62
The fact that you missed the satire on the first pass proves the authors point.
Actually, it is. If a third party gets more than 5% of the popular vote, they have rights to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund[1] which can further help in future years to get said third party elected.

[1] http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/fund.shtml
The reality of voting is that you pick the least worst choice. "Representative democracy" isn't democracy. It's bloodless regime change. You get a choice of who you can work with.

Actual liberatory politics begins the day after the election, and involves things like pressure groups, petitions, protests and lobbying.
The difference between a third party getting 1% of the vote versus 10% could have some impact on politics even if it doesn't affect the outcome of the election.
Thanks, people seem to forget about the Electoral College.
Odd the book isn't on the list, perhaps because it's not quite finished: http://www.packtpub.com/angularjs-web-application-developmen...
Sorry here is the right link: http://interactive-answers.webmaster.yandex.com
I thought Firefly was a pretty good attempt, shame it didn't take off.
but it's not that funny (#7)
Wait.. are you being sarcastic or you really don't realize that Obama was making a joke when he said that? I remember when he said it and certain media outlets sort of went crazy - but the audience just laughed.
Typewriters have signatures too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Forensic_examination
You're right.

But google also has part of the blame: it reassured people with "do no evil" and it's fights with government, instead of telling from the start that this would happen , as they would probably have known , and offering better technical protections against such things.

But in reality , it's a complex subject. Maybe they really thought that in world with global terrorism and crime , internet surveillance is the lesser of two evils.
It was funny the first few times. But the real problem is that it's not interesting or useful in any way.
It's the same one. I've had it in my browser history since the last time it hit the front page.
Hey guys, let me tell you a little story ... I'm somehow what your government is calling a "terrorist" ... I didn't yet kill anyone but I do a lot of drug related stuff, fake ID and paper, hacking, money laundry and I already spend time in prison as very dangerous but not for one from the above. I did participate at demonstration similar to the one in Istanbul and I have over 18 complain against me for insulting, threaten and sometimes extreme violence against the police. That's why I spend time in prison and probably I will do again as I have already fabricated files at the judge table.

This Prism scandal is somehow numbs me. What good does it have if people like me and many others like me walk free and do, with the help of corrupted people from the government, many more other criminal things? Absolute none. I don't use phones, I do not have a job (obviously), I do not use social media "spying" sites, credit card, real ID or other crazy stuff like donating blood or something.

I'm a real free man.

The Prism software will never catch me even if I use my real email cause I speak in thief's slang, I do hacking related things from free internet points, I never use credit card, only cash and I'm really loved for that, I do not eat meat packed with hormones that can bring me to hospitals or other genetically engineered food, I do practice yoga and listen good music. I'm a very happy "criminal"

You on the other hand are very NAIVE. It is a very soft word for what you are. The Prism is really a tool for more inside corruption, more control over YOUR LIFE, not mine, more money laundry, more power excess, more real and dangerous crime as in people killed for they belief and probably "wrong" invention or other related whistle blowing scandal's. There is nothing in this software related to criminal activities, only control. It cannot be really, thief's know how to speak and how to live but I assume there is a small segment of people that gone bad and do lame things like stole a bike in from of the street camera. That is because they probably need money for food or shelter for their kids. And you have to ask yourself why this draconian control over YOUR life?

The answer is very simple. Cause they want you to fail so they can justify and steal the billion dollars budget. It is YOU who fail and start think in wrong terms after all this pressure from work, home, media and society. It is you who are blind and very naive about the true meaning of their "democracy". There is nothing special about so called criminal and terrorist - they just want their freedom and life back from the corruption - that's really all. Everything else is just government bull, please excuse my language.
It would seem that two choices is approaching none. Different speeches, same game.
that site you posted might actually be of use to someone more than the original site.
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I had a nice two-bed flat in E1 for £300/week, which is about 15,600/year. If you're two people earning 25k/year each, you're household take-home will be around £40k making the rent perfectly feasible.
Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link
+1 i see the same behavior on my android, but don't see the issue on the desktop !
Yes, but among (some) Americans, Amsterdam == "legal pot", and I wanted to say my Amsterdam crush wasn't about that.
I don't think everyone agrees that votes only matter if they lead to a tally in the Electoral College. Funding is one example.
© Copyright 2012 Farragut Films, Dracogen Strategic Investments
and Vic Mignogna

Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®,
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, Star Trek
Enterprise® and all associated marks and characters are registered
trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All rights reserved. The use of
anything related to "Star Trek" on any of these web sites is not
meant to be an infringement on CBS Studios Inc. property rights
to "Star Trek."

It's just like the standard youtube uploaders' disclaimer - "no copyright infringement intended." I wonder where this started... why do so many people believe copyright infringement is only wrong or enforceable if you really meant to steal it?
FTA: "There’s another option I didn’t originally mention here — leaking over mail. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin of the Wall Street Journal points out that physical mail, dropped in a random post-box with a bogus return address, is perhaps the best way for anonymous one-way communication."

DO NOT DO THIS! Every printer leaves a microscopic fingerprint on every printout. The printouts can be traced back to your printer. If it's an office printer, that still narrows it down considerably.

Even electronic documents can have watermarks, etc. For photographs, there's the EXIF information, for instance. If you want to share a photo, pipe it through "djpeg | pnmscale 0.99 | cjpeg -quality 90" first. It will get rid of EXIF, and also re-compress the image, changing its signature.
Prism and NSA Spying: why I don’t (entirely) believe it.
I kept looking for the <sarcasm> tag… and well mate… all I can say is I'm deeply grateful not everyone felt the same as you in South Africa during the 80's.
The way business is done
Thank you. I just think that when money is involved there is a natural conflict of interest.

At least on the Mac Pro you can open the box and peek into the hardware.
compared to http://vaporjs.com, this is pretty shitty satire.
Yeah, there's a very real difference between the collection of metadata and actually recording phone conversations and text messages. Both leave a bad taste in my mouth, but conflating the two is dangerous and dishonest.
Ask HN: Simple email SaaS?
Google Apps is way too bloated and has lots of options. I'm looking for a really simple email SaaS that I can bind to my domains.

Should support IMAP for syncing with my devices.

Any suggestions/experiences?
Maybe because it was too fun and watchable? The Onion review of the previous Star Trek movie feels perfect:

http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-fi...;
Aha! Now we know the real reason that most phones sold today have a non-removeable battery.
The ad can be written so as to look innocuous to anyone other than the journalist and the leaker, if those two can agree on a format for doing so.
AppGyver Steroids An awesome new way to develop PhoneGap based apps
That sort of claim seems to warrant extraordinary proof. Do you happen to have any?
Oh, sure it does. "Technically, if you parse my statements with the help of a lawyer, I didn't say X at all!"

That's extremely satisfying, isn't it?
I strongly disagree. People did not take that statement to mean "we will do basically the same stuff, but slightly better". This is essentially just a loophole, which we should not tolerate.
Ink is a set of tools for quick development of web interfaces
http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/404/netmag.html
And putting oneself in a fit because someone is sharing their viewpoint (as opinion or fact) isn't asinine?

There is also a decrease in "herd immunity" when a population has been flooded with a drug to the point where such immunizations have no effect à la "superbugs".
I had a similar idea to this that I never really put in practice which was doing some sort of static recompilation but to higher level code in order to make open source versions of some NES games that could be used by other people to do the same. Accuracy would not be a concern as big as a pure emulation project.

I never got past the reading phase.
It makes sense if you realize those statements are (obviously) not written by lawyers to prevent legal challenges, but by Internet users to prevent annoying comments by other Internet users.

Although for what it's worth intentional copyright infringement is legally worse.
I usually perform a search using the data I can get from the URL. I usually get a category and some keyword (from the clean title URLs) so I can indicate that there's a 404 and then offer some related results doing a search.

Angel
the fisa court DID issue a warrant. it was just obscenely broad.
on the off chance this wasn't a joke it should be pointed out there would be an associated gag order so they, like everyone else, wouldn't be allowed to say. And if it was being done without a court order then HN probably wouldn't be aware of it and again, couldn't say.
I've heard it described as the differences between the Gene Roddenberry universe and the Rick Berman universe. Supposedly, Roddenberry took a backseat after TNG season 2, and there are differences in camerawork, acting, and storylines between the first 2 seasons & the latter 5.
And then spend the difference in train fares. I'm 30 minutes outside london, an annual ticket is close to £4000.
Sorry, I strongly disagree. The people are not responsible for the actions of their representatives. That's the same logic that terrorists use to rationalize their attacking innocent civilians. It's also the same sort of "with us or against us" kind of thinking that he criticized Bush for.

At least voters are trying. They're trying to make the best of what they have. These people with day jobs, barely scraping by to support a family, take the time out of their day to try to make the country better instead of giving up and going home to avoid blame, like Carlin. And then he criticizes them. That irritates me.
It's not an Amex issued by American Express, it's a card issued by Bank of America that is processed on the Amex network.
The problem with voting is your choice is the lesser of two evils. If you dont vote, you're saying that the choices you are given aren't good enough and dont deserve your vote.
I cannot see it. Might be an issue this side then. I see the asteroids floating around, and if I hit it I see a ship and can play an asteroids-like game.
The most sophisticated Android Trojan yet
But just voting to vote is useless. People seem to have the mentality that you pick the lesser of two evils, which is BS. I'm not going to vote for somebody if I don't feel like they are completely up for the job. I'm not going to vote for a 3rd party just so they can get funding because guess what, this years candidate may be great but the funding would be for the next round and who knows who they will have then.
It's not so much a play on making js libraries, it's the fact that there are so many of them out there
This may work for API endpoints but there's little re-course for your primary domain. It makes more sense to have .COM/.NET as your primary domain and have the .IO as a convenient alternative than the other way around. But my opinion is still that this is a short-term issue: the reliability of other TLDs will improve.
I doubt he can say anything; it is all classified. However, it is almost certainly the case that the NSA's software is more advanced than anything publicly used:

1. They can read all the publicly available journals, so they are not going to be any worse

2. They hire top researchers in CS and math, and have internal, classified journals on their cutting edge work
I thought I did link to that book. I'll check again after lunch. I am reading that book now and it is excellent so far.

Edit: The link to that book is there :)
They've got the will and the power to do these things and frankly there's probably not much we can do about it. The key thing to do is to realize that the Constitution was the mistake that gave them their power. When they collapse under their own weight, remember the lesson and start listening to the folks with the ideas about how to provide services to the community (roads, security, etc.) without a government to manage it and without waiving your property rights in the process.
He could be a leader, and have a marketing campaign. They are not mutually exclusive.
The government has way more power to hurt you.
I'm currently writing Ruby For System Administrators at http://ruby.elevatedintel.com A book that helps SysAdmins become more productive and repeat themselves less using Ruby.
Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
Cartoon Can You Hear Me Now?
Maybe break your pills in half.
Morality is of little use without a plan to implement it. True moral conviction will search for a way to achieve moral progress.

Lincoln was vastly more effective than others, and I attribute that to his strong morality.
Does someone knows why FreeBSD doesn't offer any virtualization platform based on Intel VT or AMD-v? Is there any architectural incompatibility or is it just a case of virtualization not being a high priority?
It's a neat idea, but I don't think it's particularly useful. Natural language is an unnecessary abstraction that will not help you solve the problem, unless the problem in itself is about grasping the syntactic peculiarities of your language of choice. From your examples, it seems like it would just be a very verbose way of defining a solution to a problem in basically the same way you do in any imperative language.

Syntax should be the least of concerns, and even if it wasn't, involving the subtleties and ambiguities of english language wouldn't be the solution.

EDIT: I don't mean to say that a natural language programming language couldn't be useful, but I'm arguing that it won't be unless you can use natural language to move closer to the problem domain, rather than abstracting the solution description further.
Ask HN: Personal time/money investment calculator for founders?
I'm looking for something like one of the many retirement calculators that are available online, except this would be geared toward startup founders. For example, it'd allow you to enter the value of your time invested in the company, weigh the additional risks of the company based on it's growth stage, etc.

Anyone seen something like that?
It depends where the data is coming from, but generally (in government analysis) flat sharers aren't treated as members of the same household.
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First, I am very weak in history, so I won't try to engage deeply. But I think some things to consider would be these:

Lincoln believed that slavery would die out within an intact US in time, and that pretty much the only thing the federal government could do was to keep it from spreading to states where it did not already exist. Unlike today, in those days the idea that the Federal government actually had limited power was still taken seriously.

If the slaveholding states were allowed to secede then no pressure could be placed on them to give up slavery, and they might even capture or purchase other territories and spread slavery further. So if the moral imperative is to end slavery, then it's urgent to keep the Union intact. And no, I don't think a country is just a club where a province or state can up and leave whenever it wants. There are times when it's wise to allow this, as Havel did with Czechoslovakia, but generally a country is like the Mafia or a spy agency from the movies: you can't resign.

Habeas: this was a war, but I'm really ignorant of the issues here.

wait to free the slaves, and then only do it in the states that were not a part of the union: see above; you can only do what is possible to do, regardless of your feelings. Lincoln wanted to avoid this war, which was started by the South and forced upon him. Of course many people died.
They don't share everything about everyone, just what they have. Also they can't force other people to do what they want.
Drew Houston's Commencement address
Shiny new look (which I like, BTW) layered on top of the cruft that is Win32.

As great a job that Microsoft has done with maintaining compatibility with legacy apps, at some point you have to introduce something new. I'd like to see a new systems API on top of the kernel that is object-oriented, and perhaps has single-level store and is processor architecture agnostic so I only have to ship one image for both Intel & ARM.
Turkey's troubles: Democrat or sultan?