skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks great, just as long as there's a verification process to ensure that only designers are giving design feedback.

You wouldn't want your MBA boss looking over your code and suggesting you "break that method out into a new class," why would you want someone who's not a designer telling you to "make the logo bigger."

Joking, but seriously.
If you are that worried about NSA spying on you, make sure you are not running Windows.

Because, you know, routine software updates is just what the doctor ordered for on-demand installation of backdoors.
Google Acquires Waze
I take it you do not visit Poland or Trinidad and Tobago often. Fair enough, to each for their own needs! But keep in mind the grandparent is not necessarily a high-flying high-paid bit-pusher like you, so your dismissal is still a little self-centered.

(Should I mention that it took two standard-size Phillips heads to replace my screen, the kind of sizes frequently found in a basic swappable-head screwdriver?)
Some Thoughts about PRISM
Sorry I was on a tablet when I typed that response (I've given up on stylistic punctuation in that situation, such as: "No, no, no."). Also, being on a tablet I presumed that I wouldn't be able to get it working in the first place, and others had already commented on the site being brought down by the traffic...and to be honest, unless the OP writes it out explicitly in the landing page, I wouldn't have know that the emscripten version was different than the past version.

This isn't negativity, quite the opposite. It's very exciting to see this kind of application done with different approaches.
Some people prefer to be right about certain predictions, than do the right thing, and pushing the needle in the right direction. I really don't like such self-defeating comments. They cut through everyone else' "enthusiasm" and energy about doing something about it, and have negative impact on the movement for change.
Who Owns Hackathon Inventions?
I think I could connect the Million Monkey syndrome to the Linux ecosystem, but what does it exactly mean?
What are you listening with/on when you perform these comparisons? You probably won't hear any difference when listening with set of standard ear buds that come with your smart phone or laptop speakers. If you have a nice pair of headphones/speakers, the difference is easier to hear.

Who knows, maybe any differences I think I hear are just placebo effects :-)
You underestimate the training of your average Stanford CS grad.
It's a beta release, fill a bug report.
I'm not so sure that most US firearm purchases are recorded.

In many US states, direct private gun sales are perfectly legal. For instance, a Pennsylvania resident can directly sell (most) guns to another PA resident. They don't need to run background checks, keep records, or submit forms to the government. As long as the buyer doesn't know that the seller is a prohibited person (convicted/indicted felon, etc), it's kosher.

Because these sales aren't documented or reported, it's harder to count them. There are estimates, but I can't find anything that seems reliable. I did find an interesting article that discusses this issue at length, though:

* http://www.policymic.com/articles/24070/gun-control-policy-u...

Anecdotally, I know dozens of people who've collectively purchased many, many guns through private sales. Also, take a peek at Armslist.com, GunBroker.com, GunAuction.com, GunsAmerica.com, and similar sites.
You make a valid point about usability from the point of view of viewing the slides online. However, it wasn't designed for that, but as a tool by the Go authors to be able to quickly churn out presentations in a simple markup language and run code from within the presentation similar to how play.golang.org works. There's a presentation on that, actually[1]

The assumption is that if you use this software you'll read the instructions and know how to use it. In other words, being able to put it online was an afterthought. Not that this isn't a fixable problem.

TL;DR: historical reasons, designed for different usecase, can be fixed.

[1] http://talks.golang.org/2012/go-docs.slide#20
I completely agree and actually would argue that it further pushes the point of why we should be concerned: They cant even make good slides, how can anyone be sure they're keeping the data they collect (legally or not - irrelevant for this point) safe?

I suppose you could also say they spend their time keeping the data safe and not producing quality slides, but i would consider it to be more of an insight into the quality of their overall architecture.
I've done several approaches:

- homework project

- heavy interviewing with plenty of tests and several (3-6 people) giving written feedback on the candidate in the form of 5 points rating on lots of skills

- hire on gut feeling

mixed in various amounts.

In my case, a diploma/certificate doesn't make me feel better. I've seen plenty of incompetents with a diploma, so I don't take it at face value. Testing worked best for me.
A diploma/certificate also doesn't tell you anything about the candidate's work style/attitude. A hire with a bad attitude is much more toxic than a hire that lacks technical skills.
"But when form meets simplicity, it cannot loose it’s soul."

And when knee-jerk whining meets terrible grammar? What then?
Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates for Java 7
>We’ll also work closely with the vibrant Waze community, who are the DNA of this app, to ensure they have what’s needed to grow and prosper.

"We'll slowly migrate you into Google Maps and then kill Waze while you're not paying attention"
At first I thought this was about https://crypto.cat/

And maybe this is the answer to the NSA's CryptoCat.
I'd also suggest Fahrenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange, which make great reads. All these novels are part of the 'dystopian' genre, but the two you mention are likely the most famous.
The need to print in B&W is more about b&w laser vs color ink jets at the consumer level. Quality and TOC is so much better on a B&W laser than paying so much for color ink tanks if you do mostly info doc print outs.
Haha, yes! This is actually supposed to be a private feedback tool so only the people you invite give you feedback. Just opened up this workspace for public. Thanks for liking it!
Hey Michael, just a quick note to say that we're actually delivering emails to Congress, not just signing a petition. The language could probably be clearer on that.
It's so weird for me to hear from people who were at BaconBizConf and thought the teardowns were "brutal" or "punishing."

None of us panelists ever said "This is terrible" or anything of that sort, or insulted anyone/anything, or discouraged any of the volunteers, etc. We said "This doesn't work" "That won't work" "That's weak" etc.… and then gave lots of supportive suggestions to make it better. The worst possible thing anyone said is when Patrick said [paraphrasing] "Please don't take this personally, but if your target market is designers, you need to have more of a… design."

Genuinely asking "Why would I be interested in this?" is not only not brutal, it's not even a criticism.

I guess more people need to experience actual brutal criticism in order to see how our teardown was anything but!
It's a Slashdot cliche joke to be precise.
It might be a short list, but apparently they're all in the NSA! I think they might be making things too easy for rival intelligence agencies...
How long till we get to the articles about the articles about the smears against Edward Snowden?
Dribbe and behance is for designers. The way I read this, it's a client looking for feedback from work done by designers. One thing: if you are looking for feedback make sure to also post the brief and the budget. Otherwise you'll receive feedback with no context.
Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia.
Google Maps and Waze
Isn't this very similar to mural.ly?
There is a link in the post to the statistics. It's here heycrowd.com/surveys/admin?id=2129 if you didn't see it
That was the first thing I noticed. I guess we should all look a little closer at the news commentary and ask "Cui bono?"
Just to bump this, I was at angelhack and saw the demo for streetcodr, it was awesome! I could totally see this being a useful tool for interviewing.
Congrats on an awesome app guys
Keith @omniscience
Really appreciate the phone call, talking to potential customers is a big thing a lot of startups never do, its just great customer service.
It should add an option to add your own game. Also would be interesting to make it a Firefox OS application.
Well shit, if only I had a $1,000 to drop on this this is definitely an area I'd like to be stronger in.
I wish he hadn't come forward. There was no real reason for him to release his name or tell his story yet. This is going to distract us all from the real issues at hand.
Government Responses to EFF Motion
Skymal's Skyfall
I was too. Now I find the superior formats sound better, but more importantly I find they hurt my ears less. I found mp3 and lower formats really hurt my ears, frequently causing uncomfortable numbness.
Flac is future proof. You can always take losslessly compressed audio and convert it to another lossless or lossy format.

You can convert lossy formats but there is no way to tell how the artifacts will interact.
Why is it rediculous that I want to be able to program for different plaforms from the same machine? If there were any technical reason for it I would understand, but this is just erecting artificial barriers out of greed.
Isn't mural.ly a whiteboard where you can collect stuff and yes collaborate? Framebench is probably more for online reviews and feedback. Did you notice the voice call feature?
How to Take Your Life Back from Email
Good point about the 'really?', wasn't trying to get that effect.
Pressing online buttons would do more good if it were a submit on a EFF donation button. Probably more then banging on doors too.
Reminds me of the quote, "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state."
A GitHub command line client written in Go
I didn't see it as lighthearted at all, more like a well presented and terrifying idea that obviously came to fruition. This is a bit more "in your face" than the tacky NSA slideshow.
What if the time you stream doesn't suit me? Can I get access to the recorded session?
They have the right to. Is it a good idea for the long-term though? If the issue is that the birthrate is too low and the deficit you need to make up is, say, 300,000 people per year, then the numbers say you need to let in 300,000 people per year, which may be far above what a xenophobic society can assimilate (I feel like we're talking about Master of Orion 2 here btw :P)
At least they still have an RSS reader. It seems more like a valid replacement for most Google Reader alternatives that have passed around here before.
Yes, absolutely. Recorded stream as well as logs of the IRC channel. Missing the live stream isn't a big deal if you keep on top of the course work and ask questions. Participating in the forums will also help you keep on top of things.
Because NSA cares about whether it's a free service or a paid one, or about the company's ad tracking technology?
> I thought they had an English version, but I can't find the link :)

http://www.yandex.com/
I believe it should be noted that federal law requires an FFL for anybody engaged in a "primary business" of selling guns. There's no bright line, here. People who regularly sell guns (at gun shows, or otherwise) but don't hold FFLs are playing with fire, if the ATF decides to take an interest in them.
A New Industrial Revolution in the Making
Show HN: Buttons - A CSS button library built with Sass and Compass
Considering this is an announcement for a new software release, the comments were already negative enough. However, yours is just plain rude. Opera has not self-destructed as anything, and in fact they take the steps they think necessary but others would likely find intimidating (such as throwing out a rendering engine or releasing a standalone client, which they probably knew will be controversial).
Apropos of nothing: One of the classic elements of successful frauds is making the mark believe that they are pulling one over on the fraudster. (Take a look at those loan terms.)
Security by obscurity has always been a bad, unsustainable policy. It also only happens to be the one method of security most idiots can understand.
I like it - does it have keyboard shortcuts? It's a pain to draw a circle, then click comment, then place the comment. I'd like to (d)raw then (c)omment.
The NSA and CIA are both supposed to be for foreign intelligence only. Only the FBI is supposed to directly conduct domestic operations, though frequently they do it with the assistance of the NSA. And the NSA has interpreted "foreign" as anything involving at least one foreign party.

The difference between the CIA and NSA is that the CIA primarily does HUMINT (human intelligence), while the NSA does SIGINT (signal intelligence). HUMINT includes spies directly living in the target countries, mingling with the people they are spying on. SIGINT involves intercepting communications and decrypting them. There is some crossover; in particular, HUMINT can frequently be used to place bugs, keyloggers, rootkits, and the like which can be used for SIGINT, and SIGINT can fill in information that HUMINT is not privy to.
In theory. In practice, they spy on you for a week, and then obtain a warrant because they have "probable cause", taken from all the spying.
Indeed, Politico had ran a story about how Snowden himself essentially came to save Obama's day, or at least grant him a short reprieve.

I guarantee you by the time attention shifts to Obama again he'll have some better defense and counter-attack for the media narrative prepared (though it will remain to be seen how effective it ends up, I don't see how the extra time can be worse for him).
If you are going to include the safety equipment people willingly pay for in their cars, you need to include the billions of dollars people spend on guns to protect themselves as well.
William Cowper, "On Keeping Secrets"
Every man’s experience must have furnished him with instances of confidants who are not to be relied on, and friends who are not to be trusted; but few perhaps have thought it a character so well worth their attention, as to have marked out the different degrees into which it may be divided, and the different methods by which secrets are communicated.
I imagine he did so out of fear for his life. If the government had learned who he was before he announced it publicly, he would have been disappeared before anybody heard anything. being a public figure means that whatever happens to him will also be public.
> All of these things seem rather unlikely

More generally, anything that nobody has ever seen happen is unlikely.

I have heard of many occurrences of a government profiling, targeting or even suing their citizens over national security. I have never heard of anyone having their identity stolen by a criminal organization who got it from a foreign nation's government.

If you are in danger from a foreign government reading your email, you are an employee of your own government.
Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (2008)
Indeed .. although if this is the best that they can come up with, they had better start making stuff up.
Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee
One big question I don't see answered- why are they providing this service?
Don't you think you're being a tad bit dramatic?
ALSO OW MY EARS
You need to add a queue system, filling in a captcha to just get "No servers available right now :(" is pretty annoying.
What qualities are shared by most successful startup home pages?
exactly. The argument this guy is making is structurally equivalent to if the courts told Korematsu, "the conversation about internment should have happened in 1941, when congress gave the military broad powers to prosecute the war. If you didn't want the military to intern civilians, you would have written a prohibition against the power of internment into the declaration of war."
VMware introduces log analytics tool - vCenter Log Insight
Because you can pay to get longer sessions?
Seedrs: UK can 'lead the world' in crowdfunding
Nothing to hide indeed.
I dont really mean this as a criticism..

but it seems like a good opportunity to really send a message.
I had a feeling that would show up in this discussion! What a classic scene.

"No, that's the CIA."

Talking about movies, I think I'm going to propose a "movie night" sometime soon at Splatspace (the hackerspace in Durham, NC) to watch Sneakers and Nineteen Eighty Four.
This is happening in all the news media now. I listen to NPR every day and it's almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak. Very little of the debate is about the actual NSA monitoring program itself, most of of the time they talk about why this leak happened and why Edward Snowden is a "strange" guy. It's completely unbelievable.
You'd be surprised how many pro editors are using FCPX now. With the updates it's got it's better than FCP 7 was.
This is brilliant. I'm flabbergasted why every single virtual server I've ever tried has had some gotcha that made it agonizing. Why is it so hard to have one-click templates that give you a server that can run 90% of what a user needs, say apache/php/ruby/node/mysql/postgresql/ssh with cpanel (or equivalent), already installed and set up "the right way" so you can easily add domains? I know the reasons why this hasn't happened, but I don't care. I want to know the real reason it hasn't happened, and I think it has a lot to do with every problem looking like a nail. I laugh at hosting providers, for failing so spectacularly at giving customers what they want. Good on this site for finally pointing out the obvious.
I know people like to accuse the media of having ADHD, but do you really think that people would just forget that the leak had to come from somewhere?
Don't forget the songs on his soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/jewel-in-the-night

https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/danny-boy

https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/eleanors-song

https://soundcloud.com/colchrishadfield/big-smoke

and of course this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE

(He wrote or helped write all of the above except for Danny Boy obviously.)
You don't like "lighthearted jabs", but you call yourself waffle_ss!?
Tips on Overcoming Learning Plateaus from David Foster Wallace
The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence. I know people with graduate degrees from Harvard that made less than that at the same company.
That's not the only reason. With drones strikes we all can essentially see when they've been carried out. With wiretapping there is no such evidence.
These sorts of secrets - especially ones that could be called "racist" - could be exploited very easily if "leaked" as part of a smear campaign against any inconvenient public figures.
I have been an engineer on the Log Insight team since prior to VMware acquisition (which happened 10 months ago -- see http://cto.vmware.com/vmware-acquires-log-insight-technology...).

To make it interesting to the Hacker News crowd, I can provide some insights into how our acquisition went -- from a small startup to launching the product at a huge company with a large sales team.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, etc.
Glory. The man has already been canonized and deified. For some people that is irresistible.

Alternatively, if he is really smart, this would be excellent chaff to throw up in front of espionage and come up smelling like roses
Interesting. I see a government largely doing what the people of the US voted them into office to do: allocating resources to pursuing organizations (or, really, if we're honest, entire ideologies) that "we" perceive as threats to our security; moreover, from what I can tell, they're doing it within the bounds of the law.

I feel the same way about NSA surveillance at this point, on Tuesday June 11, as I do about airport security: it's ineffective and offensive, but not the start of the decline of the Republic.
Right, there are 25 total (I think), but only 4 have been disclosed to the general public.
So that's happened when, in American history?
Given the evident political power granted by technology, I can see (a somewhat sinister) argument for restricting access to technical knowledge and capabilities. Perhaps a government license required to use a compiler or interpreter? A professional body to restrict access to the profession and bump up salaries for programmers? (And also control them at the same time). Programmers would become a lot like lawyers - privileged, but essentially trapped and under the control of the state (similar personality types & skill-sets required anyway).
Ad hominem much? This is inevitable, from what I've seen there aren't any substantial claims being made against him. Conduct in his personal life really sets him apart from Assange.
The Worst Mistake Is To Think That You Are Alive
Lost on our phones
How naive are people with lots of money.

They got fax of the shares supposedly worth $25mln
and they got some pieces of paper with ink on them.

And that was all they needed to irreversibly transfer $10mln to unknown individual.
Oh I'm sure it's not meant to be taken completely serious. But the question is whether it was designed to be so bad that it goes viral. ie is it accidentally badly designed but meant to be lighthearted, or badly designed with the intention of becoming it's own publicity stunt?

The ASCII art is actually pretty impressive - which now has me wondering if I was wrong to dismiss her.

I guess this site is proof that there's often a fine line between genius and insanity.

edit: though there's always the 3rd option; she could just be a successful troll.
Not stoked on pricing on any of these. not gonna pay that If one pays say $15 / month for flexible hosting products, these kinds of services are comparatively overpriced. Does the realtime feedback matter? My experience is its better to wait for your stakeholders to complete their round of feedback to weed out redundancy. Realtime is just a distraction

There is a stand-out feature which is video, not all these services have that.

Cant wait for the self-hosted version of these to be created for a onetime price. makes way more sense to me.
It's corrupted on Safari on iPad too. Works really well in Firefox nightly.
I'm thinking hard about what the next steps should be on driving policy change.

The basic mechanism needs to stripping policy makers of legitimacy because they have undermined democratic norms.

One approach might a recall campaign against Diane Feinstein.
Well, this is definitely "Embrace." Anyone still remembers the 3 "E"s, or is that only for when Microsoft does it?
Is that how it happens in practice? Interesting. Where can I read more about how data from FISA warrants are used to build probable cause for domestic criminal cases?
I'm not sure whether you've had a look at the API diffs from 6.0 to 7.0 (or for that matter, 5.0 to 6.0) but they introduce a lot of incredible functionality with each release.

I code on competing platforms and the only one I truly enjoy creating on is iOS — I can make things move, manipulate video and audio, images and typography in ways that are simply not possible on other platforms.

If you play with the scrolling in the new messages app, for example, you will notice discrete physics and collision for each UI element within each table cell. It feels fantastic to scroll through. The new UIDynamics APIs are innovative and so simple to use.

Irrespective of how you feel about the consumer facing side of the OS, the developer facing side is really a thing of beauty (with the occasional warts like Core Data over iCloud, and Core Data migration models).