skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goddamn right.

Every now and then we have defining moments of global consciousness. This has the potential to be one of those moments and we should never let a good crisis go to waste.

The danger here is that if we do nothing, that will be seen as tacit acceptance of the world's largest spying apparatus. While I acknowledge there's some necessity globally, domestic spying through secret courts is more synonymous with the Gulag than the American dream.

Stand up for what you believe in; this is one time you can.
Long story short, dont trust others with your business. I have seen this dozens of times where a smaller company gets really excited because they are working with the big brute, and they get screwed because the big boy gets to make all the terms, and if/when they break the contract or act like complete assholes, you have really no recourse.
Seriously. They have a neat project, but this is one of those cases where they need to seriously seek out constructive criticism because that is just terrible. The narrator is trying to sound almost carnivalesque but the result is a slurred monotone of barely decipherable words.
>A copyright is a short-term monopoly granted to ensure that authors can recoup expense before the rush comes in. It's not meant as anything more than that.

This is one view, but to say that "it's not meant as anything more than that" is not accurate. Even John Locke believed that authors had fundamental rights to their creation. (source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1983614)

The Continental Congress resolution to pass copyright legislation was inspired by author Joel Barlow who wrote in his 1783 letter to Congress:

"There is certainly no kind of property, in the nature of things, so much his own, as the works which a person originates from his own creative imagination: And when he has spent great part of his life in study, wasted his time, his fortune & perhaps his health in improving his knowledge & correcting his taste, it is a principle of natural justice that he should be entitled to the profits arising from the sale of his works as a compensation for his labor in producing them, & his risque of reputation in offering them to the Public."
I'm not ignoring his entire career. He's one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th Century, and his work in linguistics has positively influenced a range of fields.

But his views on politics and world affairs are extremely eccentric, and have remained on the fringe for a reason.
Same here, I just got a win 8 box a few weeks ago, and rather like it. I rather like the whole screen start menu thing, much better than Win7 or OSX's we know you are looking for something but we are only going to show you two search results in a tiny box because we don't want to cover your giant empty desktop.
As always, the UK merely acts as a vassal to the US.
It really depends on what the prices are. With your example, it's obviously a bad deal. But in this case, Office 365 is $150 a year ($12.50 per month), while the packaged version of Office Professional is $400. So you get a good 2.5 years of use out of it before the curves cross.
Let's be reasonable---the NYC group is not anything like other CS groups.

In Berlin, or Cologne, or Buenos Aires, or Florence (where I've had a LOT of couchsurfing experience) the gender balance / country balance is good, and there are a lot of activities.

In NYC, it was boring creepy skeevy men.

Dunno why.
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Oh, sorry, I just recalled that it was Clojure that I had heard about, so strike my above comment. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Android or Java anywhere near enough to use Scala, as the learning curve would be much higher then.

I will definitely consider it when I know a bit more about it, though, as it seems a much saner language.
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Big entities can afford to be arrogant and are well known to pay with promises instead of money. Silicon Valley is full of skulls and bones of little guys who got too excited too soon.

Business as usual until papers are fully signed and money in the bank.
Some 600 million iOS devices have been sold. Microsoft is ultimately a software company (despite the recent "ape what Apple does" corporate direction. Microsoft would be worth treble if it diverged into self-interested divisions years ago), and this makes complete sense.
Not everyone enjoys preparing food (I don't, for example. And the popularity of restaurants and prepared foods indicate to me that I am not alone) and not every meal is a great joy, especially if you want it to be healthy. If I could reduce the time wasted on cooking/eating 2/3 of my meals, and then truly savor the last 1/3, I would be quite happy.
The static HTML idea is awesome! After all, the same timeline used now was a static template I made for me a while back, so that's how it started :)

This somehow fits into the "Offline exporting options" question from the landing page Quiz. Can't wait to extract stats from it!
From reading the text, was he able to charge $40 again? Seems unclear.

I can see Apple not wanting to introduce a middle man.
Really the second half. It's the money in the bank. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80 :)
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Putting it in a static block is bad advice, there are many other places you could put initialization.

What happens if a static block throws an exception is that the class will not be loaded, and every other time the code refers to the class it will get a ClassDefNotFoundException, which can lead to a 'fun' time tracing the actual issue. Hence why static blocks are not used very much (though it can be convenient).
Pilot on the test flight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrLAktTWBo
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I think alan_cx greatly exaggerates the extent to which anyone claiming that the NSA might be intercepting communications (which is, of couse, their job) was described as a "conspiracy theorist" prior to revelations about how the program actually worked. What exactly did people think the NSA did?

By alan_cx's logic, we can't call people who think there are frozen aliens at Area 51 "conspiracy theorists" either.
Travis here, I'm the OP and also a co-founder of Fireplug, the service offering retroactive "credit" for your article history on Google Reader.

Our service isn't necessarily a replacement for Google Reader but a way to track what you read and more importantly what you learn online. It's kind of like last.fm's scrobbler except we can go a little more in-depth because it's relatively easier to analyze text over music. Our goal is to help users establish and build their online reputation and what better way to do that then leverage the dozens if not hundreds of articles they read every day.

Love to hear any comments/concerns/feedback you might have, feel free to comment here or email me directly at travis [at] getfireplug [dot] com and I'll be happy to help.
I think the context here is different than the strength of the quote. The context is about the government knowing everyone's petty mistakes in life, or Achilles heal. If they know this for everyone, then they can push or manipulate people as they see fit.
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The interesting question at this point is who is still using MySQL rather than one of the alternatives?

I'm sure there are many that use the distribution default but I wonder if anyone is actively choosing MySQL still.
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What do they have to hide, if they've done nothing wrong? I think we should ask them this question everytime they try to keep something secret from the public.

I don't remember who said it recently, but it's the people who need to know everything their government is doing at all times, not the other way around, with the government knowing everything their citizens do, but keeping everything they do secret. We need to turn this around.
Even engineers need a bit of the Steve Jobs mojo:

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."

Just like in product design, a great software architecture is often defined even more by what you choose /not/ to do than what features you choose to implement.

Awesome article, thanks!
You don't need to leak abstractions on exceptions. Libraries should wrap the exceptions and provide meaningful exceptions, not dependent on the exact implementation. Example:

public String setCache(String key, String value) throws CacheUnavailableException,CacheWriteException {
try {
...
} catch (SocketException e) {
throw new CacheUnavailableException(e);
} catch (SomeMemcacheException e) {
throw new CacheWriteException(e);
}
}

This will allow library clients to catch exceptions that mean something to them, not exceptions that only make sense if you know how the library is using memcache.
> What landed them in Federal Court was bundling a browser (the most advanced at the time) with their OS for free. Over a decade later, we all know that a consumer OS that ships without a browser is an incomplete product (as BillG testified in the case)

no. it was never a problem that Microsoft bundled IE or any other product in with their own software. The problem was leaning on other companies, that Microsoft was in a business relationship with, to encourage those companies to exclude software offered by Microsoft's competitors.
I'm curious how he didn't succumb to hypothermia. Circulating ocean water would conduct heat away from his body pretty quickly. Granted, he's near the equator, not the arctic, but still...
OTOH, companies love to buy them too. A predictable monthly cost that can be budgeted, that is directly tied to the number of employees? Yes, please. Doesn't make as much sense for consumers, but Office 365 isn't aimed at them.
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Specifically, what "domestic spying" are you talking about?

I'm curious where the line is you're trying to draw.
I have several reasons but here's the top:

* It runs on Windows and carries with it all that baggage... An unnecessary GUI is always running. Endless security issues. You'll need to reboot regularly to apply patches. You'll also need to deal with things that are unnecessary on other platforms like antivirus packages and--because it comes with that aforementioned GUI--probably a zillion little background daemons (usually with systray icons) that only keep one particular piece of software up-to-date. If your database server asks you to install the Ask Toolbar you've got a problem (haha, Java how I despise thee).

* Lack of built-in pagination or LIMIT-like mechanism. Grabbing a limited subset of any given query in SQL server is like pulling teeth! Just look at this StackOverflow question/answer on how to do pagination with SQL server: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109232/what-is-the-best-w... If you didn't find that answer by googling you'd be in hell trying to figure it out!

* If your software isn't built on top of Microsoft tools/frameworks working with MS SQL Server is a huge pain in the ass. You'll quickly get into dependency hell just trying to get the necessary modules/libraries working and you'll never get anywhere near as good performance as Microsoft's frameworks. Whenever I'm in this situation I feel like SQL server is a nail and if you're on Windows they give you a hammer but on any other platform they give you a screwdriver and say, "just hit it with the handle really hard. Oh, and use soft wood or plastic."

* Growing SQL server is expensive. Not usually my problem but it is always a concern. It's never as simple as "just adding more servers" because you not only have to pay for the SQL Server licensing you also have to pay for the Windows licensing and all the other licenses that are intrinsic to any Windows install in any given enterprise environment.
My experience is that all the ones I've tried freeze up (is eAccelerator even around any more?).

I periodically try again.
I hosted a few times and all my guests basically treated my house like a hotel. No socializing and then going out to do their own thing. The whole reason I signed up was to meet people, but it seems to have been taken over by freeloaders.
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If Microsoft was so big on fucking DLC, then they should make the DLC from the 360 backwards compatible to the new Xbox. Thank you Microsoft for fucking me over and wasting shitloads of money which will not be usable on the new system. Thank you for being fucking arrogant about it as well, and telling me that I better keep my 360. I always have been an Xbox fan. Come end of the year, hello Playstation. Fucking arrogance like this crap cemented the idea of switching, "if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4."
Or insecure nuclear weapons facilities, in that case.
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Just thinking about money can make you more evil, researchers say
"Show me yours and I'll show you mine".

(For big boys)
> The danger here is that if we do nothing, that will be seen as tacit acceptance of the world's largest spying apparatus.

Your acceptance is not required for the spying programs to continue operating. The sooner you realize that is the sooner you'll realize that your choices are currently very limited.
I'm surprised at the nonchalant dismissal.

Everybody gets in a dizzy when some bill may or may not infringe on the 2nd amendment, but the same response is noticeably absent when it comes to photographers' rights.

Even though photographers are legally allowed to photograph a government building from public property, why the dismissal when the government is in contempt of her own laws?

The steady erosion of personal rights and laissez faire attitude towards government behavior is what lead to the PRISM situation to begin with.

More info:

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/you-have-every-right-photogr...
> his free Honda Civic sucks, you'd be way better off stealing a Ferrari.
That's some pretty odd logic.

It is indeed, mainly because your analogy is so awful. You might as well have said:

"This free cake sucks, you'd be way better off beating someone to death with an elephant."

It would be equally stupid but at least it has cake in it.
Though doesn't stop giving it focus and pressing it with the keyboard.
What is to be done? The answer is easy. It has always been easy. Stop saying "not in my name" and start saying "over my dead body". That's what we did. It works. Do it.

--Julian Assange, receiving the Global Exchange Human Rights Award http://wlcentral.org/node/2818
This is starting to sound like Inception. I'll get my Scheme manual to figure out how far down this recursive algorithm can go. (Infinitely?)
Hmm, the video makes me wonder.

What if the button software was written in Java and did, in fact, nothing. Perhaps with a nice 40-something line stack trace in the log file. Meanwhile, a completely new worm targeting the Java platform crashed most of the infrastructure.
I do not like the title, but the central point is good.

The real problem with PRISM is not that you, individually, are going to be targeted. It is that the tools have been put in place to subvert the political process by personally targeting anyone with views that are inconvenient for those of influence. These tools may be being used fairly now, but based on past history, we cannot assume that they will continue to be so.

And the past history to look at is not even that of distant times and places. Take a look at how the FBI under Hoover tried to affect the political process in the USA with COINTELPRO.
Yes...after 40 years in power and needing a revolution to do it, where many people died.

The point is, you should never allow a president or a group of people, to get even close to that much power, if you're going to need a revolution to stop it later.
If you need any help with the static HTML generation with Meteor, I'll gladly lend a hand. It's not rocket science of course, but if you want to save time, I can share code snippets. I hang out in #meteor on IRC as matb33
Be careful on what you wish for.

"The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill.
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Does anyone have any insights on who really uses these kinds of apps on their phone (and how)? Whether it's MSO, iWork or GDocs I can't find any productive use for them other than a quick lookup. Even editing a simple 10 page document is just a huge pain and there's really no piece of mind that it'll look good on a desktop device.
Down for me. :-(
That was the first thing I thought. Isn't beef jerky supposed to be dry? How is dry grizzled fat any good?
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At the top there are crowds of these... :)
I would disagree. Most people get upset if they can't resell a $60 game. Few people get upset if they can't resell a $5 game.
Microsoft is opening up - Linux VMs, SDKs for Android / iOS, Office everywhere. The religion has been cast off (finally) at Microsoft and its going where the developers and users are.
> used to stop an overthrow

I thought we weren't creating lame scenarios where the actual rules don't apply.
We shoo away photographers who are mapping out the gates to our military bases as well. The U.S. Embassay bombing in Lebanon is only one of many, many examples of why there is a valid security interest in not having people map out your physical security vulnerabilities if you can avoid it.
Story of my life!
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"They had 300,000 songs while Rhapsody and Napster had over 2 million songs. (Over 500,000 of those were from CD Baby.)"

Something about this does not compute.
He does say in the comments that after the refund- most of the artists told him to keep the $40.
This is exactly the same as the often repeated in F1: 'anything can happen'.

It is meaningless out of context.
Checked exceptions seem like a great idea, but I can see how the execution of them is irritating. If I were to do Android I would go directly to Scala, which looks pretty awesome.
With the huge R&D investments of DAPRA&Co they need fewer and fewer people to operate. It's not a problem to find a few dozens of loyal people ready to kill kids and whoever else tries to disobey the orders.
That would be reasonable, except that on all my searches that DDG fails on, Google works perfectly fine in private browsing from a different IP.
This is all nice and good. Unfortunately, it means absolutely nothing. Since we know that lying is (by law) part of what corporations are forced to do when addressing questions of "national security", no amount of denies, press releases, public outrage or congressional talk will restore trust. Even new legislation specifically forbidding snooping will not help, since we can never be sure that there is no "secret legislation" specifically allowing it - and forcing companies to comply.

I am sure lots of people want to genuinely change the situation in the US. Unfortunately, we can not believe it. For all the talk that the reddit co-founder will, as a private person, make, the simple question to reddit-the-company: "are you snooping on me" has no meaning whatsoever. Either the answer will be a "no comment", or it will always be perceived to be lie.
I don't understand where stealing the better service comes into the flow of thought.

Free service is bad. Solution, buy better service? Why is the solution steal better service? It's immediately convenient and cheaper, but the long term seems disadvantageous to multiple parties.
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I think a key feature of privacy is empowerment or control. People generally want to feel that they are in control of their lives. By being selective about what information you make available to others or even generally available to all, is a very important way to express your sense of control over your own life. Even if you like to broadcast as many of your thoughts, photographs, likes, and geolocations as possible, you do that with a sense of control. You decided what to release. When the NSA sifts through your data, they decide what to collect, what to use, who to share it with. And they never tell you any of it. I think that loss of control is one of the factors that makes people uncomfortable with loss of privacy.
Triple is used more than Treble in British English as well, but both are completely correct here.
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How is this different / better than any other shake-based diet powder?

Edt: As my wife just put it, "It sounds like guys are too insecure to drink Slim-Fast, so the idea is being re-branded to be more manly. Like the Axe of diet shakes."
Buy Buffett's shares.
People pay $1M to have a meal with the guy, he might be up to something :)
Unfortunately, mediocre developers are perfectly capable of learning to either catch and silently ignore checked exceptions (checked exceptions actually promote this habit, which can be successfully used in other languages with exceptions) or rethrow them as runtime exceptions.

The good thing is - newer java libraries use unchecked exceptions in the vast majority of their APIs.
You forgot to mention there are a high proportion of whiners in the UK.
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The crazy thing is they're trying to claim Nick Clegg is shielding companies rather than the people.

I just can't understand the slightest bit why anyone thinks that snooping and storing everyone's data is a necessary thing to do. They don't even make the wild claim that it'll stop terrorist attacks, they want it to find out who people were talking to after the attacks.

Madness.

And to top it off, you can't easily find a copy of the letter because it's behind the Times' pay wall! Not a single story has a link to the actual letter.
But keep in mind that the NSA stores everything, just to be able to go "back in time", whenever it pleases them.

So, when you encrypt with today's algos, and it gets stored by the NSA, it will become cheaper for them to decrypt it with every month that passes, because they will be able to decrypt today's encryption with tomorrow's technology and financial means.

So in my eyes, that means we're pretty much f*cked without fundamental change.
Then you would likely be surprised about how many nationalists we have that think the USA and its agencies can do no wrong. I know many business owners who would likely provide that information just because it would give them a sense of being special and helping the cause.

Frankly I would still assume that anyone who didn't do it out of some stupid patriotic pride definitely got paid, and they likely got paid through a shell company giving special contracts, or help with some government issues (environmental regulation, building approval, etc). Tax breaks or other direct cash methods don't really hide much for publicly traded companies.
Corporate types like to be able to read documents sent to them via email on the train or in the pub. I have seen an impressive number of edits done to documents and long emails typed on blackberrys by people in the pub in the past.

The process will be much more reliable on an official MS set of apps, and for many companies that's worth a lot of money.