skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See this? This is part of the problem, stop being so stereotypically blinkered.

The rest of the world doesn't care if the US government is spying on its own citizens. The US government is ACCOUNTABLE to its own citizens (well nominally, but hey...), so if they don't like it they're in a position to do something about it.

As a none US citizen, I care that the US government is spying on ME, unilaterally and without any accountability.

This is what the rest of the world cares about. Stop pissing away what little sympathy you have by moaning like a spoiled child about the bad shit your government is doing to YOU, and open your fucking eyes to what it's doing to EVERYONE ELSE.
you seem threatened and unsettled by a woman whose reaction to sexism in her industry (building a platform for herself from which to fight it) demonstrates intelligence and strength of character

and you used a throwaway YC account to lob words like "militant" and "anti-men" -- when no balanced, serious person would use these words to describe femfreq

so bye bye, you silly boy

and good luck navigating the adult world, with which you seem to be struggling a bit
What's the point of modal logic?
Oh god, someone please agree with me that it's the Safari icon!?

Big fan of the new interface but I want to flush that safari icon down the toilet.
All this because they found a few plants in a field? Wow.
Evolution says that GM wheat in the wild will be weeded out in the process of natural selection, because GM wheat are made to grow big and resists certain pesticide, which is costly uses of its resources in a wild environment. Instead of growing big and juicy, maybe it needs to compete against other plants.

In other words, GM wheats and plants varieties need humans to proliferate.
Stop it with the smileys.
The reality is that approximately 200 million people were killed by people in government in the 20th century. If the basic role of government is to protect "its" own citizens against that, then not only have they utterly failed in that role, they have actively opposed it.

I do have an extreme philosophical position: that relations among people should be by mutual consent, or not at all. It is compromise that is dangerous.
Quite so. I highly doubt the people of Japan are better off thanks to their country suspending wheat shipments from Oregon...
> unscientific, mushy ideas.

Uh, most things involving people are kind of mushy, because you can't experiment on them like you would with rats. And they tend to behave oddly at times. Also, there are a tremendous number of things that bear on their behavior - isolating them is not easy.

> modern stability that we enjoy is maintained

Could it be that the modern stability also exists because most of us feel relatively safe in our persons?

It's not as if the only thing preventing most of us from running amok is the presence of police, but some kind of security force does act as a backstop for those individuals who do not care about your self-interest, social norms, or whatever.

Once again: not trying to justify the NSA stuff, but I think the idea that no security at all is needed for one to live in freedom is handwavy bullshit.
But it's safe already! The only thing that's different is that you can spray it with RoundUp and it won't die. What's the problem?
The new Mac Pro: approved by Dart Fener :P
That's the first thing I thought.

Having spent literally the last 10 years removing stored procedures and extensions from software products to eek out a little more from the black box that is a database engine and remove all the rats nest of logic, why would I want to go and do the same all over again?

Of all the things I've learned in the last 20 years or so, you shouldn't stick any logic or programmability inside the database engine. It's hell down the line.

And don't get me started on where the programmability abstraction gets fudged in with the data resulting in executable data and all sorts of security hell.
The ATF form 4473 (purchase record) is a paper record that gets stored at the local gun shop until they go out of business (upon which they all get sent to the ATF for scanning). It records the model, serial #, purchaser, etc. However, when you make a purchase the national instant background check (NICS) people do a national records search (to see if you're a felon, or other class of person not permitted to own a gun). The systems they query record who ask for information (security audit records, basically) so in those systems it will show that a NICS check was performed. Thus tying together the info that John Q. Public just bought a gun of some type.

At the state & local level, several states require you to get a Firearm Owners ID (FOID) or purchase permit. The background checks for these are also an indicator that John Q. Public is a (probable) gun owner.
The design of iOS 7: simply confusing
As a non-biologist, the comparison with cross-breeding does not seem reasonable to me.

With cross-breeding, I can get characteristic A from some corn, characteristic B from some other corn, and end up with corn with A+B. And also maybe over time taller, or larger.

With GM, I can do a much larger range of things taking genes from fish and putting them in corn (for example), which we currently poorly understand. The kinds of things we would like to do (make plants which grow fast and are hard to kill) seem like exactly the kinds of things that might lead to serious issues (we make a plant which we lose control of, grows fast, and is hard to kill).
IP addresses that access accounts might be of interest.
The problem with GM isn't that we've been "modifying" them. As you say, we've been doing that since the dawn of civilization (probably earlier).

The problem with GM is speed.

Those thousands of years acted as a wonderful buffer to see what works, what doesn't. What creates healthier humans and what has the potential to wipe out whole villages with a single mutation. It also provided us with ample time to adjust our digestive tracks to the new types of food we were ingesting.

Dogs didn't become poodles in a thousand years. They became work dogs and watch dogs first and many hundreds of such generations of selection of traits. And we've seen the detriments of speedy breeding already. Dogs with breathing problems, hip and other bone problems. Dogs that can barely lift their own heads, have glaucoma, diabetes and other preventable misery.

The difference between those thousands of years of breeding dogs and today? A few decades of speed.
Hey guys, i am a author, as you can see project in alpha state... Everything is working, but i need some time for translate the docs/tutorials, with my english this can take a lot of time... If some one can help me with it, i will be happy.
I'm not down!!!

Oh, wait, I misread. :)
The reduction in health care could just be a function of a salesman saying "We can save you money here" without anyone really knowing the service would be inferior until after the switch. The overall decrease is probably as you reference - when the money was more abundant, the fridge was better stocked. This isn't a unique story in that respect.

Are you disappointed in how the company is run from a business point of view, or is this about the coffee and yogurt? I doubt you joined for the food, but that and a change in health care (annoying /= reduction) are all you point to. Did they cut vacation? Salary?

Of course startups try to offer some extras to attract and retain if they pay below market, but most who stay longer term probably aren't as concerned about these things.
Even governments cannot rely on taxation to fund armies or anything else they do. For centuries, they have relied instead on seizing monopoly control of money and then debasing it. This has the effect of stealing people's savings and the benefits they would otherwise obtain by increased productivity, and it is much harder to detect than blatant taxation.

(By all means read "Creature from Jekyll Island" to learn the details of that deliciously evil story. :)
E3 2013: Microsoft announces sales date for Xbox One
There are so many tools for unminifying JS, why would you squint at it in the browser?
If you are interested by the Bezier Curve easing, it uses a micro JS lib I wrote: http://greweb.me/2012/02/bezier-curve-based-easing-functions...
Because nearly every-time I click a medium link it's as if content is being written for the sake of writing something, rather than because there's a coherent well thought through point to get across. Many of the posts including this one are like an extended tweet - but at least a tweet would be to the point. It's just unnecessary words.

In the case of your article I feel the point you're making (which I didn't find clearly structured) could have been done so as a comment to another post - I have no idea why it merited a post of its own.
I can say that, in my experience, the sales/marketing folks are never truly technical people; they are sales/marketing people who've been trained about the basics of the technology. However, every company I've worked with always has a technical person review important things like table of contents, chapter outlines, and such. And then there's almost always a technical editor. To what degree they "work" is dependent upon many factors though.

I think sales/marketing work, in this regard, as a response from their customer base. If people are saying, "Well, we would spend $30,000 to send eight people to this class if only it featured generics", then what do you think happens next? Big money talks. That's why so many mature products that have "new features" are often features that less than 1% of the companies would use - that 1% of user sales represents 20% of revenue (or something to that effect). It's fine to wax philosophical and debate, "What should a training course or book do?" However, the companies writing the big checks almost always determine what goes in and to what degree. It's hard to sell a training course using phrases like, "We'll teach you the things that you won't use in your real-world job!"
You're here talking about it, so... conspiracy is one.
It is an extension of Redis that makes DB scripting in JavaScript possible, as far as I understand.
May be the $20M is the projected cost (or amount paid to, or contribution required, or...) for each 'participant'?
Zuckerberged: What the Winklevoss Twins Can Teach You About Copyright & IP 
Essential startup founder read.
Scroogled by Cory Doctorow (2007)
I work on a large application that uses Guice, and it doesn't seem so bad, so YMMV.

Mind you, this may just be because there are other things in the application that are so much worse.
I counted go lead on 3 of the tests, but I agree with your point, will fix the article accordingly, thanks!
That seems like a fault of Firefox that it can't wildcard password storage. That situation works in 1Password.
> but since it has become property of Microsoft everything is said to be shared,

I wonder what this tells us (or should tell us) about using a Microsoft OS for accessing or storing private/personal/confidential information. TrueCrypt is useless if Microsoft can send you personalized, silent Windows updates at any time and if they unscrupulously opened up Skype as claimed, why would they respect their Windows customers more?
Lawsuit filed over NSA phone spying program
Somebody should port GlusterFS to Go!
Guide to Conducting an Online Job Search (Part III – Sales)
Sure but the early adopters for this type of product are probably running Linux...
I certainly don't think it's the style I've picked up from any of the books/tutorials I've seen.

But even changing several levels of call from "." to "<=<" (and presumably back again when I've finished) because I've added a temporary logging call somewhere in the stack, still seems rather a pain.
It's also not very good:

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
Google chief wrote about 'terrifying' surveillance months before NSA leaks
1) JS is easy, almost everyone can work with it.
2) V8 is faster than LUA 5-10 times........
3) MVC - Model and crons, i think should be in DB.
Irrationality from regular-joe "investors".
None of these documents have anything to do with PRISM. Seems like a red herring to me.
I disagree with the premise that the new iOS design is that similar to Windows Phone 7. Yeah it's "flat" and no longer skeuomorphic, but it doesn't remind me of the experience of Windows Phone 7.

I don't disagree with you at the same time that AAPL didn't do anything revolutionary here either. They hopefully, just made a much better operating system by iterating on the core UI that millions of people have come to love.
Yeah it is quite cool.

Some time ago, I wrote a movie database with fuse backend and data supplied by imdb. It is really easy and straight forward to program.
Apple updates iOS; geeks commence arguing
I put forth no such assertion.
How to Reduce 'Infant Entrepreneur Mortality'
almost as big?

check your data.
> Russians don't use Facebook and Gmail

huh? Gmail/FB and local alternatives (yandex/vk) take about the same market share. Russia has it's own NSA (SORM-2), so I'd stay away from it.
For most people, for most uses, it does not beat credit cards.
Hey, this looks like a pretty interesting project. I am very curious about the tech behind this. How open are you with the code which supports the site?

I am building a matching engine right now and would be very keen to talk to other people who are building similar things.

https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine
Ayn Rand hated the libertarians of her time because they were not capitalists and denied the need for a government to protect individual rights. In modern language, the libertarians of her time were anarchists.

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertari...
Not sure what your rant against Rand has to to with the quote in this context? Whenever someone uses "alea iacta est" to make a point, it's usually not the case to discuss Julius Caesar.
> a silo for a whole bunch of features. When you closed it the rest closed as well. Was a great way to turn off work.

Honestly, it sounds like you want an OS running in a virtual machine. Nobody is going to pursue your ideal "monolithic productivity suite that does everything" path; it's just a plain-bad idea.
http://redis-v8.com/norobots.txt , i have not finished a website... This awesome because of speed, easy usage, traffic less, currently a make a fully REST service with gzip...
If you can submit a query by email address and get a Google Takeout or Facebook graph style data dump back, what does it really matter how many pieces of equipment or API layers are between the request and the database?

Your Facebook profile page itself doesn't have "direct access" to Facebook's "central" servers, it goes through several application layers, not to mention several intermediary server and networking layers. So what?

I haven't seen any dispute of "email address > data dump", and as far as I'm concerned, arguing about the directness of the word direct (when even front end vs back end is hazy on HN) is just distraction.

This article is just hand waving. If an agent who wants info can put in an email address and get out user info, it's a distinction without a difference.
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The purpose of NATO isn't to keep the world safe. The purpose of NATO is for Europe to outsource its collective defense to the U.S., specifically to protect Europe from the Soviet Union. It worked, at tremendous cost to the U.S.
But it's safe already!

Extraordinary claims etc... etc... You make this assertion based on what data? Was it studied with the same scrutiny of the FDA? Because I can recall at least 4 medicines off the top of my head approved by the FDA that were recalled in the last few years for causing very serious unforeseen side-effects. Now those are drugs, things we (presumably) have an option of not taking.

What about things that grow on their own and we don't have an option of saying no to? I.E. Food?
This is only a suggestion of a MP. Is Ilya Kostunov an important politician in Russia? What are the chances that this idea will become a law?
The pendulum has peaked at globalization and now it's swinging towards isolationism. Whether we like it or not borders have been drawn along the previously wild-west-like internet, and it may take on the form of virtual Berlin Walls.

Brilliant insight. Globalization will probably be only a blink of an eye when compared to the history of human civilization. A snapshot in time when conditions were favorable.

Now the conditions are changing again: peak oil, international surveillance and rising labour costs in developing countries are all deal breakers.
This is similar to Mar Ambinder's explanation in "Solving the PRISM myseter" [1] and Robert O'Harrow et al's quotes from intelligence sources in "U.S., company officials: Internet surveillance does not indiscriminately mine data" [2]. From the second article, discussing "direct access":

Intelligence community sources said that this description, although inaccurate from a technical perspective, matches the experience of analysts at the NSA. From their workstations anywhere in the world, government employees cleared for PRISM access may “task” the system and receive results from an Internet company without further interaction with the company’s staff.

According to a more precise description contained in a classified NSA inspector general’s report, also obtained by The Post, PRISM allows “collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations,” rather than directly to company servers. The companies cannot see the queries that are sent from the NSA to the systems installed on their premises, according to sources familiar with the PRISM process.

Crucial aspects about the mechanisms of data transfer remain publicly unknown. Several industry officials told The Post that the system pushes requested data from company servers to classified computers at FBI facilities at Quantico. The information is then shared with the NSA or other authorized intelligence agencies.
That code is exactly equivalent to:

int sum = 0;
for (Integer x: Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)) {
int x2 = x * x;
if (x2 % 2 == 0) sum += x2;
}

No threads, no weirdness. It's just a different syntax for a loop, really.
Apple certainly did copy a whole bunch of ideas from Android. But honestly, I think every single one of them looks much nicer on iOS 7.
Kind of reminds me of an abstraction of the Snow Crash concept of city-state issued visas and specialized bar codes that allow you to walk into said city-state problem free.
Thank you. Assuming it's true that email address in, data out, then to the agent getting the info, and to the user whose info is gotten, the layers involved are irrelevant.
The job posting from Booz Allen recently featured here required Windows skills: http://careers.boozallen.com/job/Honolulu-Systems-Administra...
If it would, they just leave them in gitmo.
I had the same thought as you, which is why I posted the skeptical response "... All without telling anyone or getting noticed by ops people etc."

To anyone who notices, there's always "shut up and not notice." But there's also "oh that rsync you see there is for our geographically redundant backup facility" or whatever -- in other words, dissembling.
Not at all. The moment someone points a gun at you and tells you what to do, your freedom has been usurped. Without the security to make your own choices, you do not have freedom. Thus, it's important to restrict certain actions (i.e., your ability to point a gun at someone and make demands) in order to protect the freedom of others.
Yep, you are absolutely right. Every one can do that, no needs to be a genius NoSQL programmer or something =), if you want to migrate from SQL solutions, i think redis-v8 can help.
However there is a question of how much exaggeration he is using.

For example, technically a police officer could shoot anyone if they wish. The only thing stopping them is society's laws.

That the NSA has the capability to ask any company for an email address's data is different from any employee having the ability to do that peeking without repercussions.
Ask HN: What technologies can we use to minimise data collected into PRISM
We all now know the news about PRISM, so I was wondering on your thoughts on how we can stop the majority of our data going into PRISM.

So I thought this would be a good Forum to discuss the technical approaches to minimizing our Data making it into PRISM?

There are essential services and tasks that we all use and do and I was wondering what suggests we as a community can provide to minimize the Privacy Invasion.<p>Here are some examples:

Browsing: Tor

Email: Private Mail Server with PGP

Social Network / Media Sharing : Diaspora?

Storage: Mega?

Etc....

Looking forward your comments.
If he's given a presidential pardon, and that is then rescinded, presidential pardons don't exist any more [1]. The only question is then, is he really worth it?

[1] In case that's not clear, consider: who would trust them?
The Ascot Project: Tag here. Share everywhere.
Uliy, call me please
You sound well meaning and I believe it to be the case. However, I also believe you probably have a subconscious bias resulting from over exposure to one side of this question.

The difference between GM and natural modification of genetics subsequent to the (however you measure it, extremely recent) advent of agriculture can be summarized as one of scale (individual sites are far larger), totality (homogeneity of genes, frequently near-absolute destruction of other plants within the zone of growth), and mindset (commerciality: view toward maximum and permanent human-centric functional yields, with all of the technology and complexity that brings to being - machinery, energy consumption, chemical fertilization, potentially pesticides though these are often claimed to be used less with GM, and a clear and solely profit-taking motive for the GM supplier).

Many people who maintain a conservative view towards GM (many don't "actively oppose" it, they simply don't buy it or support it where possible) do so recognizing that homogeneity is unnatural, dependence upon an external source for seeds eviscerates the fundamental security of farming, the integrity of the farmers relationships to their land, and large multinational companies are generally profit taking soulless beasts with a history of shafting anyone and everyone possible.

I would invite people who are still on the fence on this issue to consider this single document which shocked me of late - it is a collection of 'heritage' potatoes from New Zealand, ie. those brought with European settlers only 200 years ago. Try reading this document, then try to find even four different potatoes available in your area via modern industrial agriculture! http://www.koanga.org.nz/media/wysiwyg/Potato-Trial-2013-sml...
Hey fmstephe, sure I have an API although its very limited right now. I was told that a good way to increase usage was to allow developers to interface their own trading scripts with my engine. Drop me a email on joe@btc.sx
Uncertainly, as usual, is my guess. For one thing (more paranoid) people are worried that the fallout from PRISM, the realization how easily everything is monitored, will cause a loss of trust in the internet, resulting in laws that damage it internationally. Maybe even a balkanization of global networks. Bitcoin will have a harder time operating without a united internet.