skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the first time a request like this has been made. In the Noriega case, the attorney for one of the co-accused pilots requested copies of telephone conversations intercepted by the NSA at their secret facility in Panama called "The Tunnel." The Government went ballistic and tried to have the defense attorney arrested--somehow he had obtained a copy of a map showing the existence and location of the facility. The Government merely denied that it had such records but quickly made a princely deal with the lawyer which ended up excluding the pilot from the case and giving him a sentence of less than a year.
The other issue that bothers me with respect to the defense lawyer's tactic here is that it does not appear he has complied with the Classified Information Procedures Act. Since the request was made in the middle of trial, perhaps the judge waived these, but failure to comply would be another way to get around the disclosure requirement.
Finally, line U.S. Attorneys really have no knowledge of these matters--Main Justice flies in CIPA specialists to assist whenever there is classified information.
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About 4 months ago I moved a mail server from a 2GB Linode instance (london) to a 4GB DO instance (amsterdam) and overall I've been very happy with them. No major outages, the cost saving is huge and I/O performance is great.

The only negative so far is network reliability. Every once in a while my monitoring stuff fails to establish a connection to the DO box. It's transient though and usually connectivity comes back within 2 to 5 minutes. The box is running a low traffic mail server so it hasn't been a big enough issue for me to worry about yet. Other than that, I'm a happy bunny.
This is exactly what I've been looking for, a clear walk-through of Docker.
You have to appreciate his dedication to rigor.
Just don't go out and build some bullshit Zygna for pets app and call it "changing the world"...
NEVER USE CLEAN WATER.

That was the first thing my mom told us when as kids went to protests against Pinochet. CS reacts with water, even if you are not feeling the effects water can make the chemical react again.

The CS gas effects are just temporal, no longer than 5 minutes... try to survive them.

I've been documenting social movements in chile since 10 years ago, i've been exposed to CS directly more than a hundred times. I know you will panic, but never try to use clean water on an affected area.

salud

ps. I don'know if sodium metabisulphate works, but cops use a chemical when they got hit by CS, if this is the thing they use ill give you a pizza when you come around here.
I had an attached comment with this information but want to break it out as it will likely be useful to people without lots of time dealing with the various ways Wordpress can/will (mostly will) get attacked.

First: Double-check your folder and file permissions. A lot of plugins like and love very open folder permissions so they can write stuff everywhere. Be very careful with changing permission on core Wordpress stuff! If for instance you give the web-server write permissions to the core, you're going to have a bad time. This is made worse by the fact that many people are used to using the wp-admin 'upgrade' functionality. In my view this is beyond awful. A lot of WP exploits would be made much harder by just not allowing this and manually upgrading the Wordpress core. It's very easy anyway.

Second: Disable the following PHP functions in php.ini on the server hosting Wordpress

disable_functions = exec,passthru,shell_exec,system,proc_open,popen,curl_multi_exec,parse_ini_file,show_source

You can just add that line anywhere in the php.ini, restart apache (or php-fpm if you're using that) and you've suddenly blocked 99% of the Wordpress and greater PHP attacks against your server. Essentially you'll run across some PHP scripts eventually that want one or more of those permissions. If they do, run them on a server separate from Wordpress and also keep the application way up to date (or you'll have a bad time).

Third: Install and keep this handy http://wpscan.org/

WPScan allows you to do a URL/folder based wordpress scan looking for vulnerable files, wordpress versions and plugins. It is a very good tool to keep handy if you host lots of Wordpress sites.

Oh, one more little thing. The timthumb vuln issue someone mentioned below... keep this handy for newest version http://timthumb.googlecode.com

Any questions?
I noticed the same thing when I initially switched. I actually had them lose the box I was on, and the backups associated with it. They apologized and indicated it was an issue at the datacenter that they didn't have much control over. They gave me a really nice bit of credit on my account and I've since had no problems. I'm a fan of the pricing as well as their support.
> Yes, but it has an exception for treason and felonies

There are two separate parts:

1. While they are attending a session they can't be arrested, and

2. They can't be held accountable in any other forum based on the content of any speech or debate in either House.

The exception for for treason, felonies, and "breach of peace" applies to the first; the second, is an absolute, unqualified immunity, and, as applied by the Supreme Court, applies to all "legislative acts", which includes quite a bit that is not physically on the floor during a general session of the House.
hours? This is the BBC. It is probably months, possibly years worth of material.
The Greek root actually means 'lofty'.

I love etymology: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-met1.htm
> Or in stabilizing a huge and cost-effective rotating structure.

So a ring-shaped vehicle that spun at just the right velocity so that the outward centrifugal force would be more-or-less equal to earths' gravity. Is that what you are implying here?
Thanks everyone. I know there are other choices, but they always involve drawbacks as well as benefits. I'm looking for something slightly more powerful than nautilus in gnome 2 and will try the alternatives you've mentioned.
I read somewhere that Flask was born as an Aprils first joke.

So I ask. How safe is it to use in a real project? Is it a serious project today? Would you recommend Flask to someone who has never done any server side programming?
IMHO Firebug is superior to anything regarding web dev (hence, Firefox)
Not a patent lawyer, but I would think that

1)the ruling focuses in on retrieval of how DNA is naturally stored, which is more or less the same in all organisms

2)you can replicate just about any gene, either chemically or via PCR. The form is definitely "snythesis," and I would assume the latter is as well but I do not know the law offhand.
I've played with DigitalOcean some. But I've kept my main VPS on Linode, and also recently recommended Linode for a group that I'm peripherally involved with.

Using SSDs for multi-tenant virtualized servers seems like a good idea to me. My intuition on this may be wrong, but it seems to me that the lack of variable seek time ought to lessen the variability in I/O performance that one hears so much about.

However, I have the following reservations about DigitalOcean:

1. No IPv6 yet AFAIK. I figured that would be a priority given the scarcity of IPv4 addresses, particularly in Amsterdam.

2. Not all resource allocations are proportional to the price or amount of RAM. On Linode, a 4 GB VPS is 4 times as much as a 1 GB VPS in every way. On DigitalOcean, a 2 GB VPS only has 2x as much CPU, 2x as much storage, and 3x as much bandwidth as a 512 MB VPS. Don't get me wrong; the prices are great. It just doesn't seem like a logical way to allocate resources from a pool.
Let's not forget he's also been able to see how the US has treated cases like Manning and Assange and learn from those situations.

I'm fully expecting that Snowden has prepared some kind of "insurance file" ala Assange and made sure it's set up and triggered to go in case he's suddenly taken into custody and rendered into parts unknown. He's hinted as much in his initial Guardian interview (e.g. "there's a lot more here but I don't want to hurt anybody personally").
Wordpress.. the reverse shell with a blogging engine.
Are we really worse off today than we were in 2001? Google isn't perfect, but spam and SEO existed before them. They've beaten it back pretty well in my opinion.

Can I get more detail about the "new protocol" solution? The only anti-spam protocol solution I've seen discussed is authenticated identity for every packet. So no more anonymity, but much better reputation/authority/trust. I'm not down with that. Got something else?
The judgement: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf
I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection
Snowden Charges Further Complicate US-China Ties
A bite of Me (buy access to my personal data)
This is cool. I'm actively looking for a invoicing tool for my SaaS app that my users can use to bill their clients. The key requirement is that that the invoicing tool easily integrates with Quickbooks. Any suggestions?
Hah, so it is. It was pretty late when I finished this one off, sorry about that.
Separate viewing and editing applications isn't that rare; perhaps every single example of it is niche, but in aggregate I'm not convinced it is.

What you have described is just a non-hierarchic file-system which has been tried in the past; it is possible that the time has finally come for it though. Some issues are that a general-purpose one is much harder than a special purpose one (e.g. music only) and getting vendor buy-in has been hard. Apple is in a position to force vendor buy in so it will be interesting to see how things play out.
http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/

Link was posted on here a while back but is still the go to solution for me. Pretty well curated list of trance style stuff. Also has a fast and slow option.
Working to obtain external financing for a startup is a miserable experience, even for people who are good at it, and for most of the kinds of ideas software people have for companies, usually results in a situation where (a) you have worked your ass off and beaten extraordinary odds simply to land yourself in a situation where you are working a job for a boss and (b) assuming all the risks and liabilities of working at your own company but with incentives that are now tailored for financiers.

External funding for startups has a place, but we'd all be better off if it wasn't glamorized to the extent that it is. The more money you raise, the worse problems (a) and (b) tend to be, with the possible exception of extreme cases where revenue growth and customer adoption are so clear that the glamor of having raised is less than that of having started such an amazing business to begin with. Most companies that raise good-sized A rounds aren't like that, though.

It doesn't have to be that way, and if you're wondering how anyone would go about getting a company funded, it shouldn't be that way for you either. Start your company in your spare time. Scale down the ambitions of your product so that you can accomplish it with the resources you have now. Prove your idea on a very small scale, and, as you gain small amounts of traction, gradually expand your ambitions, which will now often track your returns on running the small business. At some point, you'll be making enough money and have enough apparent upside that it'll make sense to quit your day job.
Does this mean that someone born with synthetic DNA is guilty of infringement if they have children? Do they need to buy a licence to keep living? Perhaps as a compromise, the court can decide that they count as three fifths of a person.
No, it's not, my bad. Not that there's a need for them, as it turns out.
Now, let's contrast this to a hypothetical guy. Guy has big dreams. Guy probably has not shipped a product. If Guy has shipped a product, Guy got 20 people to look at it once, but no one still uses it. Guy lives in the Midwest. Guy graduated from a respectable (but not name-brand) school. Guy worked has worked the last few years as a freelancer. Guy has not convinced a second guy to join him on his crazy adventure. Guy has an idea which Guy thinks is awesome but which Guy has not succeeded in actually selling to 10 customers or instantiating on the desktops or home screens of several thousand users.
Guy will have a very, very difficult time raising funding.

Stabbed me right in the heart. Pretty much what I'm doing now. Thank you for the article and your response.
And you forgot a point: can they get an SSL root certificate signed for them, in order to perform MitM attacks on seemingly secured connections?

Yes, that is a good point that I forgot. I tend to assume the answer is "yes".
There are more links like this. For a list of the ones I have compiled so far check out this page.

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/614

Feel free to add to the list if you know of some I forgot.

I'm also planning on writing my own Docker for dummies tutorial that goes from beginning to end explaining how to use each part along the way. Now I just need to find some time to put it all together.
Oh no doubt, it just didn't generate anywhere near the same amount of very vocal crymaxing.
Are you bored by defining moments in history? Maybe if your work doesn't involve computers, but that would be called ignorance.
Because of my Calendar and my todo lists, and my emails with friends and family, and my searches on Google, I do think that Google could know precisely what I may be trying to map as soon as I open my maps app on my phone :)

I just emailed Mom asking what Dad might want for Fathers day, and I told my wife I'm headed out sometime this week in a text on my phone, and I searched Google for products that took me to Amazon....

So, when I pull up my map one afternoon soon after these communications, I think it will know what I'm up to - or could at least show me a popup saying "Headed Father's day shopping? Want some locations based on your recent web activity?"

I say Yes, and all kinds of fun spots and deals popup.
Blog paragraphs are rough on the brain, but here's how to fix them
Superman's Fortress of Solitude Would Cost $800 Trillion
Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting in touch!

You bet I'm interested. A few other HN readers have also reached out and suggested projects, so I can't make any promises, but I'd love to take a look at the project in more detail.

I'm currently working towards a bachelor's degree at Olin College of Engineering, and I've decided that software is the line of work for me. For the moment, I'm just looking for more experience out in the wild world of software.

Any chance you could shoot me an email with more details about this project? You've piqued my curiosity.
Your definition of "good hacker" must narrow down who is a real hacker to a few thousand people in the whole world. Many of the best computer hackers I've known could barely organize a picnic if they had to, let alone run an industry-changing company.
If he front-loaded the price you wouldn't have progressed to this point in the negotiation yet. You would simply think he was an expensive photographer. And he'd have to average out the money he makes from prints/copies in the up-front price to stay in business. That would be unfair to those who don't order many.
Just curious what kind of work are you in to consider Java as a great choice?. Anything Web related because Java seems like an overkill to do Web development with.
Ok, I'll bite. Lets go through these one by one

1) Weather - The similarities are that they both use white text over an image that somewhat represents current conditions. The alignment is different, and its not even presenting the same information.

2) Answer Call - They look the same because instead of a picture of a tree you have a picture of a person, that is not an IOS7 design change. The other similarity is that they squared off the buttons.

3) Multitasking cards - Pretty much the same, but they both took that from WebOS, mostly because its been recognized as the best way of presenting that information.

4) Lock screen - Almost identical to the IOS6 lock screen, but with the black backgrounds removed from the top and bottom. Completely different from the Windows Phone one except that the background images are similar, which again is a user selected thing, not the OS.

So these screenshots "prove" that Apple has copied the concept of designing a weather app with text over a picture (also known as how 90% of the weather apps currently in the app store work) and that they took the idea of multitasking cards from WebOS. Oh, and they made some buttons square instead of round.

The horror
Spam and SEO concerns are nowhere near the biggest threat to the WWW. Try censorship, DRM, surveilance, and security.
A Stage Coach To The Stars
Nonsense. The U.S. has numerous secret laws related to terrorism, torture, and surveillance, which they have vigorously and successfully fought to keep secret in numerous court cases.

For example, this law was secret from 2002 to 2009:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/16/torture-memos-bu...
Sounds like a typical hospital EMR/EPIC/Cerner/Meditech deployment!
Samsung pays Apple 1 Billion in 5 Cent coins
>Linux is a "copy" of Unix, and Windows is a "copy" of Mac OS which is a "copy" of the Xerox GUI. Doesn't that piss you off? Doesn't that make want to go threadcrap in the Ubuntu forums about how they're all sheep for not understanding that this stuff is just a "copy" of SVR4? I have a feeling that you do not. The web browser you're using to post this is a "copy" of Mosaic, but something tells me that that doesn't bother you either, because you can't use it to justify a preexisting hatred.

Point me to articles and blogs heaping praise on Microsoft Windows 1.0 for innovating icons and UI design or calling them innovative geniuses. Same with all your other examples. Now read the article again or yesterdays iOS7 front page articles.
A lot of 'nerds' are actually politically active with the Pirate movement. The difference is that it's 100x more difficult to pass a single law when you're trying to change stuff like copyright laws. And over 99.9% of people active in the movement are getting paid 0$/h.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

"I take great solace in the fact that there are people out there actually changing the world."

As if the only way to change the world is through legislation.
> Re: #3; can you seriously imagine that they can't take control of an MS-Windows PC, with or without MS's knowledge?

Can they take control of an MS-Windows PC without the cooperation of my router maker and my firewall maker? And what does it cost them to do so for the different makers?

You know? I'm fairly sure they can, after all if some kiddy off the internet can what are the chances they can't. But what's the cost to cover the different profiles? Is there a single point of failure?
Good points, and my thoughts exactly when I left university with a business degree.

My take now:

The workflows of large enterprises are not really well understood at all. With lean management and how management careers work, even the lowest management levels has only a vague idea what is actually happening in their departments.

Designing even a tiny system for a small number of users requires a lot of time and a lot of love. People do many more things that they could ever put into words. The new system breaks many things in ways that are difficult to describe. The users are defenseless because they are up against huge projects with a lot of momentum and are not prepared to communicate those kinds of problems.

Uhm, so let's hope that your ERPs are actually succeeding.
Or go talk them and not guess what their day is like or whether your code solves their problems.

Yes that too, but in a broader sense.

And I would not discuss a potential program in the abstract, but get feedback on something concrete.

Good.

"Follow your bliss" and the endless variations of that are trite.

If you want an income, develop iOS apps. My cousin started writing really simple apps that cost 99c and he's been making a steady 4k a month. Use that money to buy you time to work on your stuff.

When I was talking about 'worst case scnario', I meant it will add to your portfolio, help you become a better developer, and help you land a job.
I tried to make the switch, but found the network to be too unstable.

I have several servers on Linode, that communicates over the internal network (PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcache, Beanstalk etc.) and a bunch of app-servers. If their line of communication is broken, nothing works.

Now I only use my server at DigitalOcean as routing traffic when I am travelling.
A whoopie cushion.
Ask HN: Would you pay a site to manage your startup's social media?
Do you/would you pay a company to handle your company's social media presence/profiles?

Thank You
Was wondering if anybody here would notice that the "CMS" being described here was a project to handle every single second of radio and TV footage from ingestion through recoding through editing to broadcast, and then beyond that to transcoding everything for whatever devices want to watch or hear it once it's finished.

People here hear "CMS" and think we're talking about text.

Incidentally the parts of this boondoggle which actually exist are being used as components in the BBC. The headline last week was about the decision to terminate that particular project because it had got far, far out of its depth. Also to put the highly-charming person responsible for it on gardening leave indefinitely pending the investigation.

It's a massive cockup, but it has had some useable outcomes, and it is a product class that doesn't exist outside the world of the Beeb, or other national/international broadcasters. There's nothing off the shelf to buy here. In the 90s this sort of thing wouldn't have got cancelled, so I'm seeing this as a sort of progress.
Can you justify this? More software projects fail than succeed, private or not, VC's base their decisions on it, everyone knows it.
I have a "music for programming" spotify playlist for anyone interested: http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtg...

I tend to think I do my best work in silence, but for repetitive or boring tasks it's great to have a lovely soundtrack.
I'm not sure if this answers your question:

If an algae produces molecule A, one can determine its structure and (in theory) synthesize it in a lab. Both will be structurally identical. Of course, if the chemist wants to add X or Y moieties to the original algal molecule, he can. One could also determine the source of a certain molecule (bio vs. lab) by looking at the different isotopes in each molecule.

(In theory because some syntheses are practically extremely difficult.)
Show HN: tinys3 - Quick S3 uploads for python with python 3 support
Graph visualization of CrunchBase with Neo4j
Read the article, there is no mention of "Content over Chrome" or "Authentically digital" principles that Microsoft built Metro on. Its all about Apple and Ive's superb genius and innovation.
can you say why ?
That's not a penetrating wound to your chest you're feeling. It's just gas. You shouldn't want to get a company funded. You should want to build a company. If you have initiative and drive and perseverance, which you'd need anyways to succeed at a funded company, you're in a lot of ways better off in the Midwest working outside the pageant system.

Want a couple of examples? How about me and Patrick? I'm in Chicago, and Patrick lives in the Tulsa of Japan.
This is why writing terrible code is a bad idea.
cDNA occurs in nature (reverse transcriptase).

In fact DNA intermediates with introns spliced can be reintegrated into the genome.

Further, faulty viruses can acquire oncogenes (intron-splicted, mtuated versions of growth factors, like EGF and HER2/neu) and transfer them to other cells via cDNA intermediates. It's not hard to believe that nature has in fact passed BRCA cDNAs around via retroviral intermediates.