skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cousin is a .01%-er. My father's brother, due to a position of political power he held in the late 1970's, met and married a woman who is an heir to an American old-money family. (if i were to name them, you would know. If you listen to NPR for more than an hour, you will hear their name mentioned as a donor)

The contrast is insane, since my entire family is Appalachian coal mining stock. She NEVER visits, so the only time I see her is by visiting her at one of the many properties she has in the various 'global elite' cities.

She has an apartment which takes up 3 entire floors of a building which overlooks the East River in Manhattan (in the "50's" of the street numbers, but I won't name the street for anonymity purposes). She is almost never there, perhaps once a year. She has an equally large aparment in London. She has a mansion in Greenwich, Connetticutt. She rents out none of these properties. They are all left vacant for her to use at a whim. She isn't very educated (despite the efforts of her mother, her friends and her see little use in education. They have everything already.) and once had a major cocaine problem, along with half of her friends. I've met most of them, and attended parties at THEIR vacant-most-of-the-year apartments too.

I love my cousin, but she and her friends are parasites, sucking off of economic rent, delegating the management of their huge hoards of capital to investment bankers in their social circles. They produce nothing, but buy huge amounts of property on a whim wherever is "hip" and then leave it artfully furnished, beautiful, and vacant 11.5 months out of the year.
>This article [1] says that cockroaches do experience pain, care for their offspring, form social hierarchies. They can suffer from stress and can die from it, even without injury.

Oh, the poor cockroaches.

Of course people raising the ethics issue about stompable insects, have already done whatever they can to help actual PEOPLE and even ANIMALS with their unethical treatment, right?

I mean, they don't just idly bring up an extremely marginal and peripheral issue while ignoring orders of magnitude greater issues...
Printing? In 2013? This is the least relevant part of hardware support for me since about a decade, on any OS. And that goes for pretty much anyone of my friends too, no one owns printers any more these days.
A decade, more or less, is how long I haven't, personally, needed a printer and hence not owned one. So while I can't counter your claims, I couldn't care less. And all the places I worked @ in the last decade, in VFX, ran their printers on queues on CUPS on Linux servers. They always worked, on the utterly rare occasions that I still needed to kill trees to rely information to some entity stuck in the past. ;)

How about sth. just as preposterous an example: I salvaged a +20 years old 9 needle printer (Star NL-10) from a stash of hard rubbish two months ago. I got it to work w/o problems on Linux (trivia: I used turpentine on the ribbon cassette to get the ink 'flowing' again).
I still can't get the thing to do anything sensible when I attach it to my Retina MacBook Pro running the latest and greatest OS X. :P
Zombie-proof tent
This is a non-sequitor. How dense it is relative to other cities is irrelevant with regard to whether it's dense enough to meet the demand for housing in the city.
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Although I appreciate this motivational gesture from the Prime Minister, I have reservations as to how much this would be effective. Better would be to foster an environment where people are motivated by inspiration to find solutions to tough problems. Believe it or not, the U.S. is a good example of how to do it.
I was replying on an iPad, and wanted to give better information than merely what I remembered.
Indeed, the school has no obligation to house someone on a fellowship indefinitely. Let another school pick up the tab for the year, and get the positive PR that comes with it. If he's worth it, someone else will help.
The minstrel who became a laser physicist.
You'd think that, but then, why doesn't it work this way?

It needs a bit more structure on top, a protocol that makes it easy to do certain things in a standard way. Otherwise it's just clay and we're making things that don't fit together real well. We need Legos instead.
What's the point in survey's of people that may or may not be a fair representation of the populace? The point is it is against the constitution and anyone who spends 10 minute reading the document will realize is against the law (likely forming all the disapprovals).

Also the discrepancy in this survey (already pointed out in another post) makes this survey pretty questionable.
"It unlocked a part of my brain I didn't know I had". I've felt this way about games like D&D since I started playing in 8th grade. Yes they involve a game structure but the most fun I've ever had has been telling ridiculous collaborative stories.

It's imperative that we encourage creativity in kids. They're born with this amazing capacity to imagine incredible things, all we as parents have to do is manage not to kill that off. Telling stories together and playing games together are two of the best things.
I wonder if there is a need here for a Luxury AirBnB so that folks who aren't millionaires could spend time in these places that are otherwise going empty. Seems like space could be offered for less than normal rent since anything above $0 would be a gain as long as there was a decent screening process.
Except that's not what I said at all. I said that I am concerned the terms seem overly broad. You haven't addressed this issue in any of your responses.

Like I say, if you are fine with sweeping rights to your material in legally binding contracts, more power to you I guess. I'm a little uncomfortable with them, I'm not a lawyer, though. Indeed, I don't know why they need those rights, neither do you. They are so broad, they could allow for a lot of undesirable things. I saw a lot of responses from others along the lines of "perhaps they need those rights for x and y", but actually nobody clearly knows the limits of the rights Atlassian grant themselves. If they chose to rewrite your source code or your history (hypothetical here...) then they could do that with legal impunity. Of course, it would be a PR disaster, and unlikely to happen, but I don't see how the points I raise aren't valid in any way.

If you can tell me, that's fine. If you don't have a counter argument, then I'm not going to engage any more. I don't feel like listening to your assumptions against my character - I don't know who you are, you don't know who I am, you don't know my motivations, and I don't know yours. I'm not sure I even really care, to be somewhat blunt.

Incidentally, I probably could have made myself more clear, what I was saying was that I felt that perhaps they were overreaching to grant themselves rights they probably never intended to have, but through their agreement they are so granted.

There was probably no need for you to use insulting language though. But if that's the way you want to conduct yourself, I suppose that's your prerogative.
>You either grant other living entities dignity, or you don't.

Who said it's a blanket grant? You grant SOME other entities dignity.
I've used Django Registration on at least 5 projects, and despite having built a good set of templates with the first project, haven't ever been able to reuse them completely.

Registration is (or at least, probably ought to be) a very personal set of decisions for any app/project. I agree that there could be some easily packaged, cookie-cutter defaults, but having experienced all the reasons James Bennett cited for not packaging any templates, I have to say that he's not crazy for their omission.
Samsung: "Apple couldn't have sold a single iPhone without us"
China has built the most powerful supercomputer
It took me a little while to even get what this is. I understand the public votes on "the biggest problem" and then whoever "solves it" (or, I assume, makes significant progress on it) receives £1 million.

The best case is a carefully constructed short list for voting and the whole thing being essentially an orchestrated PR stunt with a winner (probably a known strong candidate even at this announcement stage). The worst case is this quietly fading out until no-one remembers it and there aren't even many real records of it ever having been a thing.

Or perhaps I've got "best" and "worst" the wrong way around there.
This is the best article on it. If you want to fish for an earlier version of it, go to the story of reduced choice in soft drinks in the Dilbert Principle.

Cost cutting like this is a sign of either a general focus on margins (moving from early stage to later stage) or outright financial trouble. In either case, a lot depends on your temperament. If you like stable companies (first case) or believe in going down with the ship because of a connection to the founders (latter case) it's worth staying. Then again, if the place is becoming boring, you don't want to be the only free thinker in Mayberry.
According to the FAQ they are encrypted client side

http://www.jottacloud.com/faq/

"Yes, all datatraffic between your computer and Jottacloud is encrypted with 256 bits AES high grade encryption, which makes it virtually impossible for unauthorized persons to use the information being sent."
I wanted to link to the changelog, but James (Ubernostrum), understandably, hasn't updated it yet.
I took his statement about "supplying exploits" as turning over information about new discovered exploits before they release a patch. Which we recently learned that microsoft is doing this.
We tried integrating with TOSDR and similar services via their APIs at https://starthq.com, but it quickly became clear that the number of services they cover is too low for it to be useful. I do appreciate the effort though!
> In other words, you have to do more work to get it to work.

Last I checked, making a Hackintosh was a lot of work (when it's even possible). And that's what happens when installing OS X on 95% of hardware.
I love the finger-pointing image, it's very "Boy, I'ma tell ya' what..."
Encrypt all you like. It boils down to this: Will a government make you prove a negative, and if you don't, will it lock you up?

If you have encrypted files, there must have been or still be a key to decrypt it. You will be asked for the key. You will either given them the key, say no, or say you don't have it. The first two are no good, so all you have is the denial that you have the key. If government cant find the key, you will be asked to hand it over.

And that's the crux.

What then does the government do? All it can then do is make it an offence to withhold a key. How do they prove you have the key, if they themselves can't find it? You then have to prove the impossible, that you do not have the key, a negative. Which, even if you are telling the complete god's truth, you can never, ever, prove.

So, having an encrypted file, that you cannot or will not decrypt on demand is or will become a criminal offence. All encryption does, in the eyes of government, act as evidence of guilt. The suspect has an encrypted file, we can verify its contents, she wont give us the key, there for she has "something to hide", and there for must be guilty.

I can well imagine encrypted files being stored like athletes blood samples, waiting to be tested or decrypted by future methods.

We can not win unless we accept so risk and stop expecting our governments to do everything to stop the bad people. If a bomb goes off in Whatevercity, we must not be angry if it happened because the NSA were NOT collecting mass data, or something similar. We must make it clear to government that we are prepared to trade the risk of being blown up for our privacy and freedom, and that if that freedom contributed to the attack, we MUST accept that, and not suddenly switch and blame government. And the NSA, and the likes, must be allowed to say, "look we could have acted, here is the evidence, but we had to respect freedom and privacy", and not be lambasted for it. We have to reply, "OK, fair enough, we understand and accept that." Equally, of course, we need to know they did everything else legally and morally possible.

Question is, are we as a people able to do that? Or do we expect zero risk lives?

And all that is assuming there is zero risk from the powers government wants. Such laws and thinking creates a whole new avenue of risk.

Which is why I for one am quite prepared to say to government, cool it down, back off, set some limits, respect those limits, and if you fail because of that, I both accept it and forgive you, because I want to be free.

BTW, one of the few countries I have been to is Norway. Beautiful, stunning, country and fantastic people. If I wanted to or had to leave the UK, it would be one of the first places I would consider. I'd love Norway to be the savior of privacy and freedom, but I sadly cant see it.
The link should be updated to point to their own English version

http://www.jottacloud.com/its-your-stuff-guaranteed/
Isn't the documentation actually for 0.8?
The problem from an urban community building perspective is that the owners of the properties are so rich they don't care if the property is used.

It's actually illegal to rent out a pied a terre in Paris.
I rent a two bed flat with two other people in a nice part of Zone 3, paying ~£500pcm for rent and council tax (together we're paying about ~£1300pcm total).

I could quite happily rent a two bedroom cottage in the lake district and pay all my bills out of that £500.
The frequency of such events exist on a much larger scale of time than booms and busts. Dangerous solar events seem to happen every 50-100 years, while more catastrophic asteroid events happen every hundreds of thousands of years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event#Sizes_and_frequenc...
They provide an English version here: http://www.jottacloud.com/its-your-stuff-guaranteed/
This was one of the reasons why I did not switch to Linux, but switched to OS X. The factor of "just buy it and it works" is really appealing, especially from my Windows system-builder past. (I reinstalled Windows XP 6x in about a month to find what I was installing that broke OLE, and totally broke my only school computer's ability to launch word processors.)

But then again, OS X has good hardware support because it only supports the kind of hardware that Apple sells. They can afford to do the work to fully support each piece of hardware they add, rather than the full breadth of the computer spectrum.
As usual in matters of politics, Yes, Minister (specifically, Yes, Prime Minister) got in there and explained it all decades ago:

http://youtu.be/G0ZZJXw4MTA?t=22s
I'm an American ruby/python developer living in Paris. The cost of living in Paris is comparable to living in New York City or San Francisco. In some ways it can be cheaper. You can find affordable places to live and work all over Paris, and you can find all kinds of ways to spend or save money in any city.
Data point: I bought a System 76 Ubuntu netbook 2-3 years ago and it was garbage. Bad power management, finicky trackpad, sticky keys on the tiny keyboard. I hated using it (so I didn't).
Just thinking about money can corrupt you
Yep, its another vapor-policy.
No. Job #1 for a national government is national security, and governments inherently have the power to intrude upon privately operated companies.

I think that in the long run, the U.S. is still a good place to keep data.

U.S. citizens have an instinctual distrust of government that Europeans often mock, but in this case I think is an advantage.

In addition the U.S. has some of the strongest protections for freedom of expression in the world, which means that everyone can learn and argue openly about intel programs and other sub-topic of freedom vs. security.
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Interesting tangent! Any refs on the tax situation?
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Compare that to the £500m the UK councils have spent on mass-surevilance with CCTVs, to understand the UK government's priorities.
That! sir, is insightful.
Barbican is great. It's beautifully designed - a real icon.
You're very fond of that "more legislation" metric, but it continues to overlook that this is a very poor metric. And it's inflated by the introduction of very many new tax laws and amendments to tax laws, which the Constitution requires all be introduced in standalone bills.
At first, I figured this could be used as a case against Randall Munroe's password generation algorithm [1]. But it looks like the problem is with Apple's implementation, not with the method. The abstract claims that "the process of selecting words from that word list is not random at all". I wondered how not-random the selection was. The paper says: "words from this Top 10 list are ten times more likely to be selected as a default password". The word frequency distribution graph [2] is pretty damning.

[1]: http://xkcd.com/936/
[2]: http://imgur.com/nAKkPe3
Studios have never made so much money. Every trash superhero film is clearing a billion dollars in foreign box office. Chinese had zero interest in Hollywood until recently now they are the #1 film market.
I suspect it's worth another try. My friend has had similar complaints but ultimately has made good money and gotten good reviews from it. I believe one of the clients turned into a more permanent thing recently so he doesn't use it so much now. I'll see if I can get him to post his comments on here later, perhaps.
I agree with all your points absolutely. The best reporting and photojournalism in the New York Times and other real newspapers is worthy of tremendous admiration; fortunately they still have the resources to put correspondents all over the world. My comment was not meant to suggest that we can dispense with the MSM, and I don't agree with the replies below that seem to advocate this.
If you want to have data storage that's secure from the NSA then you are going to need to do client side encryption

Better not use an encryption with ties to the US government then ;)
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There is!

http://www.onefinestay.com

A friend of mine used it for some visiting extended family, that he wanted to keep at a slightly extended distance. Spoke highly of it.

However, I'm not sure I've got 3 friends or couples who would be willing to split a house and still pay £150 per person a night.
This looks brilliant :) As a lead generation tool this should work perfectly! Having a minimum barrier to entry weed out all the undecided, and acts as a forcing function to prepare the brief for your project as well as possible, since there's money involved. A+ guys!
Biomedical and nuclear research potentially yields boons for the public good. Constantly recording your existence for the benefit of an online marketer does not.
I live in Paris and I don't think that's the solution.

All forms of transportation in Paris are saturated. Adding more housing capability would make moving inside (and around) Paris even more terrible than it is today. The boulevard périphérique circling the city is one of the busiest highways in Europe [1]. The RER A train line is also one of the busiest in the world[2]. Trust me, we don't want more people in Paris.

What we need to do is decentralize, spread the population, services and work farther around the city.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_P%C3%A9riph%C3%A9riqu...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RER_A
I ran as a small party candidate.

Based on coverage, there are three major parties. The only microparty that gets any coverage is the Australian Sex Party and that's only because of the undergraduate boorishness of their name.

Katter and Palmer will get coverage this time in the "lighter side" columns and then we'll go back to having the majors take turns at the Treasury benches while the Greens get to pretend they are a genuine alternative because nobody actually reads their policies.

I miss the Democrats. They were boring centrists and it was wonderful.
We already know what the biggest problem is. Finding a non-polluting energy source.

...and a million pounds isn't going to solve it.
Trust in government declines - who cares?
Are you certain the email is actually from stubhub? I can't find any other news reporting this, thus the most logical conclusions are either that (a) this is phishing, or (b) somehow you have a problem on your computer that led to your password being compromised. At this point, with no publicly available stubhub comment, I don't know that this email is proof that "Stubhub has been hacked" is it?
The timing of this particular news couldn't be better. The Govt. Of India needs to really think this through in light of the latest PRISM NSA leaks. The infrastructure to set up something of the scale of the CMS would be quite a challenge considering the number of cell phone users per square kilometer. NATGRID which has been in news for some time , however not known by many does come at the intersection of the civil liberties / privacy versus national security debate. The CMS like the NATGRID would need to have a well defined access control mechanism to ensure who has access to sensitive info on citizens. I am not sure where does NATGRID stand in terms of its completion which was supposed to be done in multiple phases. NATGRID would integrate and consolidate info n data from multiple central , state databases which would include banks , credit card transactions , Indian Railways , Airline Reservation records , income tax , hotel bookings etc. CMS is in my opinion probably a subset of NATGRID. Neverthless even if its in interest of National Security, the level of breach of individal privacy needs to be thought through by the govt. From a tech and economic devleopment perspective govt initiatives like these are good for India. However , I do hope the govt takes into consideration the critical concerns and issues that arise with systems such as CMS and NATGRID else we could see an another " Snowden" rise in India and widespread dissent among the citizens who are seemingly losing patience with the govt more than ever in the recent times.
Or a Modern Hausmanian :)
Can I just point out that the examples you gave are invalid?

I won't advocate the destruction of ant colonies in forests because for ecological reasons, not because of individual ant suffering.

Video footage released from the drone/missile strikes are already being used for entertainment purposes. When I go onto reddit for videos titled "Hellfire missile blows up terrorist". I'm actually enjoying a video of a man being blown up by a Hellfire missile.

I don't think motivations factor into it at all. A death is a death. At the risk of invoking Freduian psycholoanalysis, it's your cognitive dissonance that making you feel one is more justified than the other.

> "I can't be the one killing animals, I'm a good person"
> You will either given them the key, say no, or say you don't have it.

There's a 4th option: give them a key that decrypts innocuous material.

http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume