skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religious stuff? Do you know the origins of the term "neoconservative"?
Can you elaborate? How do you feel PyCharm removes control? Does it setup your environment in a way which prevents customization?
Isn't Blackberry Messenger secure? It'll be on Android and iOS soon.
Almost as bad as George Lucas in a Han Short First t-shirt with Harrison Ford[1]

[1]http://tshirtwebsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/han-shi...
The process by which the USG selected people for detention in Guantanamo was obviously flawed, but it does not from that follow that the USG has endorsed "indefinite detention at Guantanamo" as a solution to arbitrary political problems.
If the BG is set to entirely white then the text will indeed be black. However, even quite light BG's (which aren't fully white) do not trigger this switch. So hopefully they adjust this threshold. (Edit: they only do this for the background currently, not album artwork. I've seen album art which was white, completely drowning out the time and date.)

Unfortunately, even if they did that, it would not alleviate issues where there is too much detail in the background (as in a photo or perhaps some abstract art design). In that case the text would still be difficult or impossible to read, regardless of color, since it would blend into all that detail.
Unfortunately, the idea that you'd compare Xinhua to CNN says more about your biases than it does about Xinhua or CNN. Xinhua is an instrument of the Chinese state.
I would have preferred a press that wasn't just a damn fan club. Public opinion be damned, the press is supposed to report, not bow down
More (lousy) data is not always better. Facebook's own statement:

These requests run the gamut – from things like a local sheriff trying to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to a police department investigating an assault, to a national security official investigating a terrorist threat.

Can you tell, from this, if it's 5, 50, 500 or 5000 requests coming from security or intelligence services? Facebook is basically washing its hands of the issue. Google is insisting that they be allowed to release data that, albeit aggregate, is at least meaningful. They're, as they have been consistently in this matter, doing the right thing here.
I'm not taking it personally. I'm trying to ask all the clever people here to put their hacking hats on, and think up an analysis of this particular flaw, or ideas for technological ways to mitigate this problem.

I am a little bitter about the situation, I suppose, and maybe this leaked into my comment. My intention was to set the tone of a matter between adult professionals: "Here's a problem I experienced. Let's try to solve it." Maybe I didn't entirely succeed in setting that tone.
I don't see how it can be if you aren't supplying your own keys.
Ask HN: What DRM Free really means?
I've bought several e-books online, and O'Reilly for example claims that my e-books are 100% mine.

Here's my source:

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do

"They're Your Books

Unlike most other retailers, ebooks from shop.oreilly.com are not restricted. You can freely loan, re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device without re-purchasing all of them."

So does that mean that I can share my e-books on my website for free? or will I be breaking the law?

I know that I should ask a lawyer, but I don't know any lawyer specialized in intellectual property and Digital Rights Management.

I also sent an e-mail to O'Reilly, no response.
It's not short-sighted at all. The man is an extremist. It only takes a little bit of investigation to see that. He is not interested in the issue at hand. He only cares as far as he can use it to make his enemies look bad.

Honestly, I cannot believe the number of comments I am seeing here that ignore this fact, as though anyone who agrees with the notion that the NSA programs are bad should be trusted.
Actually there are more than 2^256, as the key doesn't need to have 256 entries and null!=zero ..
Are you sure the NSA indeed had unfiltered access to data? Several tech companies very specifically and loudly refuted that claim and the Washington Post backed away from some of the initial claims about the level of access and complicity the NSA had.
The context here is a Time Magazine piece by Andrew Katz suggesting that the EFF sticker on Snowden's laptop should have been a warning sign to Booz Allen, and should have been recorded in his personnel file.

Nobody at NSA (or anywhere else in the Executive branch) has cast public aspersions on EFF, at least that I know of.
I am betting a little more. I have a ambitious startup that has no middle term, is 0,00001% of chance to make me a multimillionaire or 99,99999% of no revenue at all. But in the meantime I am starting a less ambitious, more solid SaaS business, with more equal chances between small loss and decent profit.
Ok, I had to quit my job because in top of that I had to learn to code. But my savings are in the most conservative investment (treasure bills). But my idea, if this small SaaS doesn't give me enough money until my reserves end, is to come back to a day job, while still pursuing the sustainable business trajectory that patio11 sugests.

This is similar to Taleb investment strategy, simultaniously doing a highly agressive investment and a highly conservative one.
That would certainly be cool. But part of the value of this tool is its ability to customize it yourself.
Never done as OS X install, but I wouldn't say the install/upgrade process is any more difficult than a Windows install.

Flash and Netflix have always worked ok for me, but YMMV I guess.

You will have a smaller selection of software, but that is more a function of marketshare than the OS being open source.
...that's terrifying. Would that high of a voltage being carried on his body not have killed him when it was discharged?
It also appears the slide deck was part of a marketing/promotional presentation for the project. It would hardly be the first instance in history of a bit of exaggeration taking place in that sort of scenario.
Google's Project Loon explores balloon-powered Internet access
Redis-v8 quick-start is now in English.
How to Optimize GMAIL APP 4.5 for Android OS
Thoughts on the upward trajectory of angel valuations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country

Count the "hate speech" laws and provisions against insulting the government or religion.
Ask HN: What startups are more trustworthy than Google/MS/Yahoo w.r.t. PRISM?
According to a recent report, the NSA has thousands of partner companies.

If there really are thousands of partners, then the NSA has seriously scaled up their ability to process incoming data from heterogeneous sources. They'd clearly like to be able to ask for and integrate data from any company with user data.

So why are startups off the hook in all our discussions? "We can't trust any big company" leads me to "I can't trust any startup, either."

The way I see it:

1. Google, Yahoo, and Twitter especially have demonstrated they have the resources and will to fight some FISA/NSL requests in court, even if they lose. I don't know any startups that have demonstrated either.
2. Google, Microsoft and Facebook are publishing precise numbers on public requests by the world governments and ranges of numbers for FISA and/or NSL requests. I don't know any startups that provide any numbers.
3. All the named companies have issued official denials: denials these companies are all prepared to see used as evidence against them in lawsuits by users all over the world. These companies are putting something on the line by issuing falsifiable statements, statements which if falsified greatly endanger the company's business. Which startups have issued denials of involvement in PRISM?
4. All the named companies have major cloud computing resources in the US, forcing them to contend with requests from the US government. But if a startup uses AWS, GAE, or Heroku, it's just as vulnerable. So which startups don't host in the US at all? That will make them more trustworthy.
5. Google and Facebook have made major privacy blunders in trying to launch new products. We can't ignore this. The startup world makes privacy blunders as well, but they're treated differently when they do. Big companies get more media coverage and stick around to take the heat. Startups can pivot.
Get Your Hands Off My Genes!
You will certainly find a programmer to help you with money, provided you offer enough of it.

I have had situations where people have come to me and asked for modifications to some proprietary software and they are sometimes confused when I explain that this is not possible.

It is certainly true that non technical people have difficulty understanding (or at least explaining) their own requirements when it comes to software.
Systemd’s dependencies and installation footprint
Naa, it's fine. You do have an alignment problem though. See: http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/05/quick-fix-up-redesign-o...
Their site says the following:

---

They're Your Books.
Unlike most other retailers, ebooks from shop.oreilly.com are not restricted. You can freely loan, re-sell or donate them, read them without being tracked, or move them to a new device without re-purchasing all of them.

---

Source: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/ebooks.do

The following link might provide more clarity:
http://support.oreilly.com/oreilly/topics/e_books_and_site_l...

It appears that when you purchase a DRM free book, you are purchasing a single entity. Therefore you can only loan, resell or donate it once. It doesn't give you distribution rights, just the rights to loan, resell or donate your since license.
That's why after DVDs encryption was cracked they stopped making DVDs
I'm no electronics expert, but AFAIK in normal situations static electricity has high voltage but very low capacitance. Basically, with the materials and geometry involved, there isn't enough charge at 40 kV to cause serious damage -- as the article says, the worst that could happen is the spark starts a fire (which may of course cause a lot of damage and loss of life if it's not put out, but at that point it's no longer an electrical phenomenon).
Ask HN: Have You Designed With Gimp?
Have any of you ever designed anything significant with GIMP before? I plan on designing my own android app see here https://github.com/RabbitofCaerbannog/SchoolOfGamification and doing my own graphics. So I need to know if anyone has done that with GIMP before in the event I have questions. Or if in all honesty it is possible.
How is such a large accumulation of charge possible in an open system that is everyday life?!
Yes. This times 100. Prior to (I think) '68, there was no federal prohibition on wiretaps of any sort. Think about that before you say that the USG has never respected the 4th Amendment less than it does today.
Dude, he IS the government.
Android OS Geek News. Take a peak
I have used NV, but switched to Nottingham. Syncs with Simplenote, supports Dropbox, less buggy.
It is not about R$0.20 anymore
No Country for Slow Broadband
My first thought: Firemen are equipped with electrostatic field meters and trained how to use them?!

Second thought: 40 kV isn't THAT much. I've seen such readings on people before. Such people are in for a world of hurt when they discharge, but it's not going to cause any fires.

This story doesn't make sense.
"In 1964, after Hoover called King the most "notorious liar in the country" in a press conference, a package was sent to King in the mail, a package the House select committee ultimately traced back to the FBI. "

What I find most amazing about this story is that the House would actually do something to serve as a check on executive power.
The invitation code "PREMIERE" should work I think!
You mean like they did when they prevented Obama from shutting down Guantanamo?
I would really appreciate an opinion about the website.
He's also wearing a Casio F-91W on that picture ;-)
That's what I thought, I've actually been thinking to allow the e-book to be downloaded only once a day and since it's a digital file, the person who downloaded the file has 24 hours to delete it from their system.

Obviously there's no way to know that the file has been deleted, just as there's no way to know if a real book has been photocopied.

But I'm just sharing an e-book once per day, just as if I were lending a real book to thousands of people once at a time.
"Why wouldn't they charge for the lost equipment?"

Because they care more about happy customers and good PR than a measly $400?

Seriously, the PR hit they're going to take for this far exceeds the value of the equipment.
To make that sort of money, you always go for a B2B market, pref targeting small business. Forget social sites, consumer apps, etc. When your product makes more money for the customer that what s/he is investing, your conversions are faster.

Unfortunately, even with a shortcut you have to take at least a 2 to 3 year perspective. So think about what a small business can use. Like a software for eBayer sellers, or some really useful site insight tool that increases website conversions, or maybe some cost cutting tool for traders, etc. Something which actually makes or saves money for the customer.

In my experience i have seen the more specific niche you go after the better. Like if you are making a tool (or even say a theme template as in your example) for eBay sellers, it is better to go after sellers in eBay motors than targeting everyone in the market.

Also if you are in to make money, then instead of honing your programming skills you will have to teach yourself marketing, specially the part of getting traffic to your site and networking with people in your niche (they are the ones that make your launch day a million dollar payday).

You will have to write tonnes of content and create a lot of buzz about it everyday. You will have to create an email list of interested prospects right from the get go and mail them regularly with good quality practical stuff for which they have subscribed. Creating the product is always the simple part; marketing it successfully over and over is what creates the difference between $1 mil in sales or $1000 in sales.

You can probably spend one day / week adding features, but the rest of the week you will hang around forums (dedicated to your niche) to help people while building your reputation as an expert in that field, write blog posts, make guest posts on sites related to your niche, follow the market leaders on twitter and hopefully make them your affiliates.

As you do this you will start getting more and more traffic to your site every day (it happens slowly and steadily). The blog posts and guess post also help you in Google. It may be sounding very simplistic (or maybe even confusing) but this is definitely one of the ways to making a million dollars.
Don't Like The Look Of iOS 7? Consider These Alternative Designs
Startup hockey-stick success explosion? Or:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=nsa#q=Snowden&cmpt=q
I understand that many classical statues were originally brightly painted.
And indeed Wikipedia suggests that's the maximum possible. Any more would dissipate into the air.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_electricity#Energies_inv...
No, he's an employee.
Chief of Army message regarding unacceptable behaviour
Why don't you charge for your iOS app? Is it because you expect that somebody would recompile the sources and charge less? You still have to worry about fraudsters.
I'm 99% sure I have the same blue pants as the first guy.
Being technically/legally in the right and doing the right thing for a customer (particularly one that's suffered a tragedy) aren't always the same thing, not morally (which I doubt DirectTV cares about) and not from the standpoint of customer relations.
Instagram Information
I'm not an overly technical person but I would hugely appreciate an answer. I made a bad decision by logging into an Instagram account someone made about another person and posted a picture. If I did not create the account but just logged on using my phone and posted one picture; how long does Instagram keep the metadata which from what I know is what tells them who posted the picture (what device). The person who made this account has since deleted it but Instagram might look to see who made it (at someones bidding if that is legal) Would they look closely as to see who posted each picture or who made the account? And how long will the metadata saty for that picture (that should've been deleted since the account was) will be around. Thanks.
This story sounds.... untrue. While it's certainly plausible to have 40,000 volts of static electricity, the amount of energy involved is extremely small. Way too small to burn holes in a carpet. (Also, it's from 2005.)

Edit: "Several unanswered objections mark the story as a possible hoax" http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_man_allegedly_ignites...
Oh, I think it's going to be more than one customer.
Yes indeed; it's particularly odd to see in the eyes, where the milky blankness we're used to seeing in marble statues actually used to have a painted iris and pupil on them.

It's hard to know whether it's just a bias from a life spent associating unpainted statues with high culture, but I much prefer them unpainted.
I would never trust Sony's release of hardware with official open-source software support, after they removed the official Linux support for old-model PlayStation 3's [1]. (The support was removed through a firmware update for hardware in the wild. This firmware update was non-optional if you want to use subsequently produced official games, or use the console's online service. I never did either, and Sony and its developers have probably lost hundreds of my dollars over the past few years as a result.)

This is also the company that put rootkits on CD's [2].

I no longer do business with Sony if I can avoid it.

EDIT: This was downvoted within two minutes? Why?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS#History

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit
3% is fairly conservative: According to the calculator here:

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm

...over the last 40 years an S&P 500 index fund had annualized returns of 10% before inflation adjustment, 5.5% adjusted for inflation. That's, like, twice as good as my guess! And no need to invest in real estate for that: That's a Vanguard index fund.

Of course, over the last ten years the equivalent annualized return is only 1.5%, which goes to show you that (a) depressed global economies are no fun and (b) there is some rationale behind my choosing to use a more conservative number.

As for "how does one manage to save 50k per year?", the sad answer is that I don't, and most of us probably don't. But many tech workers could, in theory. The median income in San Francisco is "only" $42k:

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2011/03/07/bay-area-tops-s...

More than half the people in SF are staying alive somehow on less than $50k per year. Figure out how to live like them and it might not be hard to save $50k per year... if you have a Bay Area developer's salary. Which, obviously, is not the case for everyone.

Also, making an additional $50k per year is a reachable goal, relative to most get-rich-quick schemes. It's $4200 per month. The OP is halfway there, with one $2k/mo product.
It doesn't. It doesn't do anything to your project.

It does offer awesome VCS integration features. It does offer a powerful debugger. And it gives you an JavaScript IDE that doesn't suck. VIM just cant handle modern JS code.

PyCharm also gives you PEP8 and JSLint support. And its intelligent autocomplete is awesome and makes programming in dynamically typed languages a breeze.

OP just couldn't be bothered to give the product a chance. While he is smugly juggling dozens of shell instances I let the IDE do the work for me.

Jetbrains is making the best IDE around.
The EFF's "HTTPS Everywhere" extension is a great place to start.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Where have you been for the past week?

The answer is being a conscientious high school dropout with a keyboard.
"But I downloaded the free trial and got out of there after about 5 minutes"

Well, at least you could quit it easily. New user of vim would be a perfect random generator at this moment. I don't believe one can judge a tool one didn't use for longer period of time.
About a year ago, I applied as an app developer and received a free Sony Smartwatch to develop apps on. I tried wearing the watch for a couple days before I planned to start programming my app. The user experience was pretty horrible. The watch wasn't that responsive, had connectivity issues, and had a pretty poor looking UI.
Mobile Phone Troubleshooting | SAMSUNG
RubyMine and PyCharm are both handicapped IntelliJ IDEA spin offs.

You could buy IDEA and run RubyMine and Pycharm as plugins. ;)
I sense a slight conflict of interest.
Dry air is a very good insulator, and 40kV is not a huge potential for statical charges, artifical charges get in hundreds of kV easily and in the MV with just a bit of planning.
Who cares how long it’s been going on, you need to take severe umbrage that at multiple points in our nation’s history the Government has taken the 4th amendment out back and beat it with a lead pipe. The difference is now, a court is allowing them to get away with it. That’s a scary proposition, because before you know it, it’ll be you going outside for some love taps from the FBI. And after that, it’ll be your kids. You don’t trade Constitutionality for antiquity. It’s wrong now, just as much as it was wrong then because if you found out about it then, you'd have been just as mad about it as you are now.
Elected officials have at least some accountability to the voters. If they do anything sufficiently bad then they don't get reelected, and at any given time there are a majority of elected officials who don't intend to immediately retire and therefore care about being reelected. If you select Congress at random then there is absolutely no accountability whatsoever. They can come in and collude with a majority of the other randomly selected people to each put as much of the country's wealth into their own pockets and the pockets of their friends and family as they can and then retire rich to the south of France. The only thing preventing that would be their own consciences, which may work once or twice but is guaranteed not to work forever.

The existing system isn't one with no accountability, it's one with accountability to the people who can drive election outcomes. The problem is that in a functioning system that is only the citizens, but in the current system it's also the campaign donors. That is a problem, but you can't solve it by eliminating all accountability whatsoever.
Honduras moving forward with special economic zones
It's not that it makes things impossible, it's that it inserts a complex layer between me and the stuff I'm working with. That means the set of possible explanations for something not working correctly is expanded. With pycharm, in addition to the inevitable reasons one always has to consider, I additionally have to consider:

- I used the pycharm UI incorrectly -- I didn't tell it to do what I intended to tell it to do.

- pycharm is not configured for my project correctly

- there is a bug in pycharm

Testing and debugging software is hard enough; it's best to choose a work environment that minimizes the number of possible explanations for what has gone wrong and that means running `manage.py whatever` directly from a shell. I can see that for certain classes of problems one would be confident that the IDE was working correctly, and you could debug in pycharm with perhaps greater power than using pdb in a shell. But if there's a possibility that the problem is infrastructural -- e.g. with your test runner, or the test invocation -- and not actually in the application code, then you'd want to work with python/django directly, not with a complex GUI application. In the projects I work on, that possibility is always there :)
What high-profile journalist would ignore a chance to look at or publish Top Secret documents?