skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have used Draft for several weeks now. It's simply awesome and has replaced my flow of drafting up posts in all sorts of random places (email, evernote etc) and sharing them for editing in random other places (google docs, hackpad etc).

And Nate is incredibly responsive - always a good feature in a founder. Hope they crush it.
They definitely need a better landing page to really 'sell' this thing. Should do a contest of one for them.
I was incredibly skeptical of this until I looked at your bio. This looks pretty awesome.
Spring 2013 Systers Pass-It-On Award Winners: Cool projects
Using Django querysets effectively
95/5 splitters.

Rackspace buys service from somewhere. Those fibers are suspect.
The average pay of contractors is between 70k-100k. The only ones making more than that are typically program managers for large contracts or other administrative folk who work on winning contracts for their company.

Contractors are typically not busy making powerpoints, but busy actually working on what they're hired to do since they have to do their hours. The busy work is left to the military folk and interns as stated in the other comment.
Are you ok with the information that has come to light about our government collecting masses of data about US citizens under the guise of fighting terrorism? I think what is coming to light here is that the Government does whatever the fuck it wants and justifies those actions in any way they see fit. As a United States Citizen, I am NOT ok with this.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The last time Russia officially threatened anyone with a nuclear strike was in the 60s and it was the US :)
If you are that worried about FSB spying on you, make sure you are not running a Kaspersky product: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/

But in all seriousness... it seems to be a rather unfortunate reality of using FREE email service, that the actual level of privacy afforded to you is minimal. Russia has a very stringent set of anti-extremism laws that curb free speech big time. If your content is labeled extremist, it has to be taken down by an ISP via a swift court order. Note that the "court" is either a single judge or a small panel of judges making the decision. Under that set of laws.

The hosted paid services like Google Apps is another matter all together. There the privacy expectation should be extremely high... but who knows if that's really true.
I Failed a Mensa Test, Twice
Campaign financing only exists to buy propaganda to influence people to vote one way or another (excluding some dirty tricks at the margins). Issue voters are largely outside the reach of this propaganda, which is why they often have so much influence (think NRA and Christian conservatives, who are willing to go against party interests to pursue their issues).

If a large enough block of organized, committed issue voters were to emerge from this event (especially a bipartisan block), that would do much to change the political landscape, and could significantly undermine the influence of money in certain elections.
"1984" by Apple
i worked Lockheed Martin R&D for a couple years and slides like this are par. they are written by the principal investigator for an audience who doesn't give a shit about glitz and glam. these aren't marketing slides.
It is not irrational. Books, before all else, are primarily entertainment. Programming books don't so much compete with the web on content as on medium: Reading a book, for people who buy books, is more pleasurable than sitting at the keyboard.
Yeah. That was the paragraph that put me over the top too. Blaming the vicim doesn't make any sense here.

"The reason I don't tell anyone outside my family anything is that I'm afraid my sister will tell them"
Dribbble and Behance have proved to be great networks. Forrst is being revived again so thats where. I've seen most people turn to their social networks to get feedback and critique though.

I built something for private feedback which we just posted to HN in fact. (Lucky to see this post!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5862176
See also: http://www.powercity.ie/
The CAPTCHA really cramps your 'instant' style :( It would be great if it had more convenient ways of preventing abuse. Perhaps look at IP/current server load/user agent patterns/etc to give most people the benefit of the doubt, and only fall back to a CAPTCHA in edge cases?

Thinking about it more, just using an easier CAPTCHA would go along way to making it more user friendly. ReCaptha is hard. It usually takes me 2-3 squinting tries to get it right :/
I signed up. If for $1,000 you can help me learn how to better secure the web applications I'm building for a living, it will be well worth the cost and time investment. See you in class :-)
Criticism is easy. Rather than heckling from the peanut gallery, suggest something more useful.
DING DING DING
we have a winner.

Any company that doesn't comply and hand the data by API will have it's links scraped. Sure it's more costly. That's why they go through the arm twisting.
I like it. A font-awesome for buttons.
I think the NSA, the CIA, .mil .. all have many good people, who probably want to see better oversight.

Many of them will be cringing at Abu Graib ... its about real oversight and balance of power and correct policy.
1,000,000 Drone March
I volunteer for snow ball duty....

I know what you mean though. My point is that you need the political will, and politicians are way too scared of a bomb going off, and the people forgetting that they demanded privacy, asking why the NSA didn't magically know of it in advance.

I do think the people need to once and for all decide on what they want, and once decided, be reminded of it every year or so.

My opinion is that Im happy to take more risk of being killed in a terror attack and keeping freedoms. Since one is about 1000 times more likely to be killed in a car crash, I reckon we can have some freedom back.
OK, I understand why you don't want people you work with to use Gmail. But treason for using Gmail? And what is the penalty? And we think this is a fair idea, to completely ruin people's lives because they use the 'wrong' internet service that we don't like?
Sneakers the movie has my favorite NSA/FBI/CIA jurisdictions quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r6y4vjADwY (0:46)
Islamic extremists are not the only security threat to the USA. We continue to exist in a relativel tense peace with China, Russia, and other nation-states.

The ability to drop a bunch of nukes on someone on short notice is not to deter terrorists, it's to deter nation states - anywhere between North Korea through Pakistan.

The existence of nukes and the submarines that carry them is almost entirely orthogonal to the (relatively new) thread of terrorism.
Not true. If the purchase is from an actual dealer with a Federal Firearms License then a 4473 (ATF form) must be filled out and an accompanying background check will be made. If the purchase is between two non-dealers then there is no requirement in many states for a background check or paperwork, so long as both are residents of the same state the transaction occurs in.

However, all new guns are (since 1968) purchased from a licensed dealer, so there is always the beginning of a paper trail. How far that goes before it gets muddled in private sales is another matter.
Searching isn't that easy for things other than public meetings, but you can making an access request through just about every level of government's website.

E.g., Here's the FOIP request page for the City of Calgary http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks/Pages/Freedom-of-Inform...
1. Users notoriously have no idea what they want. Surveys may not be the best method to determine the effectiveness of an icon because youre asking the user to predict their future behavior (which most are happy to do, confidently). The only way to test an icons effectiveness, is to test icons in a real world environment.

2. We hear this story every time Apple releases a product, when Google updates Gmail, when Facebook gave us Newsfeed. An instant gut reaction to change is not indicative of long term success or failure. People "hating" the icons is meaningless - they havent even been released yet. Change is good, its what drives our ambitions forward. Don't survey people and let the results scare you into stagnating.

3. http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/graphic-design...
Thanks, figure its a simple library to cover most of the different types of buttons you might need.
Find out what really happened before hyperventilating?
I am so shocked by this dingy piece of character assassination that I barely know where or how to begin refuting it. If Edward Snowden betrayed his society, then surely his society betrayed him first. The ineptitude and callous disregard with which the nation state serves it's constituents is the real crime here: No conspiracy, just incompetence. The banality of evil writ large.

Brooks claims that the bonds of society are weakening; that we are atomizing in an inexorable trend towards individualism. I refute this. The bonds of society are as strong as ever; but they are being reshaped and reforged in a manner that crosses geographical boundaries; that renders old allegiances obsolete and creates new societies; new movements, and new sources of power and influence.

Brooks may find it confusing and frightening; I find it exhilarating and liberating to live in such an age of change.

Edward Snowden; together with a great multitude of like-minded individuals are forging a new pact; a new power base. One built on a common culture of technological literacy coupled with socially progressive and economically libertarian views. We have no geographical focus, and our representation in traditional power structures is limited; but we are a real force for change, and the change is only just beginning.

The main slur that Brooks seeks to perpetuate seems to regard Snowden's anti-social behavior, Putting aside the disgraceful Ad-Hominem attack for one moment, let me use myself as a counterexample: (Perhaps not the best, but the only one I have to hand) I have a wife and a family; I am gregarious and social; yet my affinity (and loyalty) to like-minded individuals half a world away transcends all of that. Like Snowden, I have had security clearances in the past. Unlike Snowden, I choose not to leak what I know, but I make my choice not out of loyalty to my family, my community or my country, nor out of fear of reprisal, but out of a dedication to professional ethics.

There are more, and greater things in this world than governments and nation states.
Well, neither is YCombinator, while both Reddit and 4chan are.

I agree they were probably contacted, but still I'd like to know, in any case, what was the procedure behind selecting those (and not other) companies.
Dribbble.com
Yandex and Baidu have existed for a long time, go ahead and use them if you want to.
He seems to be updating his twitter account:

https://twitter.com/kaepora
Bitcoin Alt-currency Undergoes 51% Attack
Note that while not as widely deployed as the US versions (most likely due to spending barriers), Russian UAVs are under active development. If/when combat ready, you better believe they'll deploy them. Probably with the same attitude as US/NATO. As sad as it might be, it's the rational thing to do - not endanger any of your citizen's lives, get the target, remain relatively untouchable... From the military's perspective, the "innocents" are collateral damage, to be minimized, but acceptable within a given range.
Last I checked, you could not sue the President of the Unites Sate for actions is undertakes as CIC
yeah, not so funny.
And why do you think that FSB ever had an impediment to getting that data?
Simple responsive vertical timeline with CSS
But they're talking about a layout change, which can drastically alter the way someone goes about using a website. Icon changes don't really do that.
Yup. I hesitated despite my strong belief that this is wrong, for fear of the backlash down the road. I can come up with some scenarios where the government could hold this against me. Fuck it. We must stand up for our rights. I signed.
"It's true that (as far as I'm aware) Solaris never supported the 64-bit application on 32-bit kernel hack that OS X did"

It also is true that (as far as I am aware) Solaris never had lots of 32-bit customers running applications and drivers that neither Sun nor those customers could recompile for 64-bits.

That and the fact that some of those customers desperately wanted/needed to access more than 4 GB of memory forced Apple's hands. They had to keep the kernel 32 bits to support older drivers, and had to provide a user space that supported more than 32 bits.

The world is so much simpler if you can force al your customers to recompile their applications. If you doubt that, ask Microsoft or Intel why Itanium didn't even get a chance.
Given your title, I was expecting the latest from 3k, but including 2.7 by default is probably better. People could get pretty upset if an OS update broke all their Python apps.
Given the love of authority, and OPs seeming inability to tell the difference between valid and invalid syllogisms, my money's on Bush-worshipping :p
Enough with these useless petitions on HN. All they're good for is getting your name on a marketing list to be solicited for donations.
You’re More Likely to Die .... Just About Anything OTHER THAN Terrorism
Tech Companies Tread Lightly in Statements on U.S. Spying
Excellent project!

Graphics for Monkey Island in Safari on a Mac seem to be corrupted.
I think the public out cry of loss of civil liberties in this instance verse the relative lack thereof regarding the Executive creating the authority to name US citizens for extra judicial targeted drone strikes is very telling.

It is not that people fear, or care more about the governmental power to intercept our electronic communications than the reality that citizenry might be killed without right to trial - they feel the loss of civil liberty in one instance is more likely to affect them personally, that is why it is important to remember "injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere." - MLK Jr.
I'll Never Be An Astronaut
If you are asking someone to sign a letter, shouldn't the text of the letter be present by default before the field to sign?

Blind signing is a reason why petition results aren't treated as strong signals.
Where does the "70%..." figure come from? It's not mentioned anywhere in the article. For that matter, the article itself throws around a lot of phrases like "clearly performing better", "proof", and "worst way", but the only evidence seems to be self-selected, explicit choice online polls?
The dealer maintains their own record but those are not handed over to the government and it is not possible to do lookups by a person's name, only by serial number. So police can trace ownership history of a specific weapon, by going from dealer to dealer - until it has entered the private market - but they cannot get a list of everyone that owns a weapon.
Why are you in such a rush?
If you get the right lighting (early evening is best), such storms have even MORE vivid colors than that. As a child of the midwest, I love watching supercells and the amazing colors and textures they can generate. Not crazy enough to chase them, though. I once watched a tornado tearing through a treeline in the country, realized that it could have a buddy hiding in the rain behind me, and sobered right up.
I don't have a spare $1000. Write an ebook after this and I will buy that.
I like to create a rails wrapper gem for this. Your project should have version number on.
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"Facts" don't miraculously appear out of prosecutors' asses. Prosecutors are not uninterested parties in trials, and if you really cared about the veracity of media reports you would encourage the media to do its own reporting rather than lap up press releases.
At least change it to "Free NSA monitoring!"
What the heck do you mean by "freedom"?

When I say "freedom", I talk about choice. Options. Influence over one's light cone. All of which are drastically diminished whenever you're locked in a cell, or threatened by a madman with a gun.
With libraries like this, my first question is always: "Why should I use you instead of _________".

In this case, how are you better than Highcharts, NVD3, Google Charts, and gRaphael?
This assumes that you give a shit about the collection of papers with ink that is your 'state'. I don't. I give a shit about not being locked in a cage.

Dulce et...
One sentence from the piece. "If federal security agencies can’t do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods."

1. Eavesdropping does not disappear when vast data sweeps are allowed.
2. The problem with secret vast data sweeps is that they are secret and the efficiency cannot be questioned by the public. Even if the result of the sweeps induce more eavesdropping and wasting even more resources.

He doesn't exactly question that the data sweeps are accurate or not, he just assumes that they are. After a little exposure to machine learning, data mining and statistics he might question them a little more.
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
"Please speak clearly into the potted plant."
I have invested a lot of money into good headphones and good speakers and I can't tell the difference between good lame mp3s and flac...
Still can't understand why gun registration is supposed to be so awful but car registration is apparently perfectly fine.
Imperfect takes practice
Me too. Is like putting "NSA passed".
Current gen smartphones are 3x more expensive once you add a game controller. That's a pretty massive difference in market.
Course content looks awesome. No way in hell I can afford it though. :(
It would be pretty shocking if Microsoft continued the "Scroogle" charade after all of this.

But you're right, I would've thought Google and the others would be the first to start a major lobbying campaign against NSA's surveillance powers. So maybe they don't really care about user privacy that much, or don't think this story will damage them too much in US or abroad, and that they don't really need to do anything to fix the broken trust relationship they have with their users now.
Yeah, I saw that to.

Tried finding clues who does the website but no luck after first scan.
If they just put all their slides on Slideshare I would certainly never see them...
And the Cube was slower than the midrange Power Mac of the day, and was encased in a thick plastic case, and -- worst of all -- had a capacitive power switch which would trip by itself in humid weather.
Nothing in his editorial comes as a surprise. David Brooks remains the same neoconservative apologist that he was in the spring of 2003, when he was beating the war drums for President Bush. Show me a David Brooks editorial and I'll show you a point in an unbroken ideological party line that goes back for more than a decade. He even got a guest appearance in David Brooks' new book "So Wrong for So Long", highlighting his role in propagandizing the Iraq war. All that said, his argument is lacking an important detail as well--the recognition of culture and society on the Internet. We're not all solitary loners, naked against the machine of the state. We're a global culture that is based on free exchange of information, as well as open, informed, and vigorous debate, and a fluid voluntary participation in social groups and organizations that is nothing like the clubs or companies of yesteryear. Our culture is strong enough to be building toward an immense demographic shift in U.S. politics. Tomorrow's senators and congressmen are today's high schoolers and college kids. We aren't likely going to allow a system of lifelong surveillance to jeopardize the future integrity of our social structures either. On the whole, I'm not too swayed by Mr. Brooks' arguments.
We hired a designer, just not sure if the design is quite there yet, so I don't know if we can post his work to dribbble/behance
Exactly! I'd pay to see an easy one-click PGP integration!
You know, when you guys speak in literal terms of "chattel slavery" and "masters" it becomes very hard to take any point you're making seriously. Get some perspective, or go full Godwin and compare everything to Hitler and the Holocaust.
Mozilla's Mitchell Baker on Total Surveillance
Well, there are warrants. Even the Verizon records things was in response to a warrant. There's accountability as well, but we can't see it.

What I am concerned about is the transparency of the arrangement overall. But if NSA said "Hey Guys, we're monitoring Facebook and G+, don't use those if you don't want us to be able to intercept with a warrant!" then that would defeat the purpose of the system entirely. So it's a difficult issue.

I will say that I would feel better if I knew what legal & policy systems they were using to ensure accountability. But honestly we know in general what needs to be done to keep dangerous systems like these used safely, I don't think that's actually the problem. We've kept nuclear weapons and bio-weapons safe, after all. But I would feel better if I knew that NSA had those kinds of onerous formal controls on when systems like PRISM were used.
For a government program like this, $20M looks like nothing no matter what the context is.
this probably isn't the place to start a chain on how to do this, but if you wrap the statement in the lambda in a {} block and explicitly return the expected value, you can insert line breaks and set breakpoints.

i'm not familiar enough with the vocabulary to explain it perfectly, but i do it all the time.

example:
list.Find(o=> {
if (o.prop == "foo")
{ return true;} // visual studio will allow a breakpoint here
else
{ return false;}
});
I wonder what would happen to these companies if they simply refused to comply with the order to give access to their data?
It will be OK, the NSA has all the phone records, they can find whoever called it in easily.

just like they did in Bost... uhh... in Pittsb... uhh... Louisi... Tex...

How about all that security we get for trading our liberties!
Ask HN: Anyone else have data usage issues with IOS 7?
I'm absolutely paranoid about my usage, and check it constantly. Yesterday morning I was at about 25% to my limit. That night I download IOS 7, and this morning i'm over my limit by 1 gb.

The phone was in my house, and connected to wifi.
There's always value in a guided course, but everything on the outline can be found free online. Unless you need the structure, I'd save your money and use open learning materials.
There can bee some amount of vanity on part of the leaker, but Brooks' argument boils down to "the government can do no wrong".
It greatly heartens me to hear this "straight from the lizard's mouth."

In recent months (perhaps years) many people here on Hacker News have doubted the importance that Mozilla plays. I think today more than ever their importance shines.
That's Not What I Meant [Justice Kennedy's Shameful Ellipses]
Guy...

You're not inspiring the average American's confidence in the US Government.
How so? It says "All Customer Data" and across all their products.
I'm going to see if I can get the business to pay for this, would love to take this course.