skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berlin will not migrate to open source but looks to open standards
Disgree.

Do you live somewhere where common sense is common?
I sometimes fret that a nation formed by a revolution, who's founding document even seems to imply that revolutions are periodically necessary, would so thoroughly protect itself from revolution. This database is a revolution-buzz-kill.

Then I get bummed that after the Newtown shooting all the politicians who wanted to enact tighter gun restrictions kept saying that you don't need an assault rifle to hunt. I don't see anything about hunting in the 2nd amendment. I always thought the second amendment was about preventing tyranny, in which case a fully automatic weapon would be very useful.

But, the second amendment is probably more about state organized militias in a time when the feds didn't maintain a standing army. I guess I'm going to have to give up this idle revolution fantasy. It would probably suck anyhow -- there's no way more people will be fed than are now, wealth would be distributed more equally, or due process would be better respected, after an armed revolution.
Hey, author here. I've been using this code for a year now in an ES5-only environment and it's been resulted in a lot less code and has been more understandable by my colleagues than alternatives would have been.

Speaking to other folks, with IE8 as the remaining ES3 browser and due to end official support next year, it becomes reasonable to consider not supporting IE8, especially considering the benefits of .defineProperty() (which cannot be shimmed into ES3).

Just want to kindly ask folks to read: http://agavejs.org/#prefixing and http://agavejs.org/#defineProperty
before considering ranting about Prototype.JS. Much appreciated!
Free divers actually avoid the decompression problem altogether. They breathe in air at surface pressure, it compresses as they dive down, and uncompresses to the same size as they rise up. The air cannot bubble out of their blood.

The problems arise when you breathe in high pressure air down deep and bring that air up with you.
The Rise and Fall of Couchsurfing
I’m trying to work through the book as well! I’ve found a great IRC community over on the Freenode server. The channel is #symbo1ics. It’s been a sweet place for motivation so far. I’m sure you would be welcomed with open arms! Good luck, and hope to see you there!
> Facts: A Game that launches on all 3 platforms: Xbox 360 (disc based, allows used games), PS3 (disc based, allows used games), and Steam (digital DRM based, no used games) all launch at the SAME price.

This is not the case in the EU. I also think this is bullshit for the US territory.
I emphasise, do not rant - my partner worked in an MPs office answering the mail, you don't want to fall into that category, which is still read and responded to, but which is almost never actioned/considered seriously/even read (by the MP themselves) in any way.

bad signs - all caps, more than a page long, written on a typewriter, hand written in illegible writing, etc.
And this is the point at which they no longer represent us but themselves.
Assad calls the Syrian freedom fighters terrorists.

Americans called the IRA freedom fighters. We Brits call them terrorists.

South Africans called the ANC terrorists. Now look at Mandela.
The last sentence in the article, "shows the need for more infrastructure catering to the needs of smaller populations — say, for the European Union" reminds me of a common US-centric misconception. Almost 500 million people live in the European Union, 740 in Europe including non-EU states, vs 314 in the US. A loss of trust in US-centric infrastructure could be an opportunity for providers catering to the needs of larger populations.
Oh My. What a question.
Totally expected this to be about that scammer Susan Wilson http://catfishwebworks.com/WordPress/why-millionaire-susan-w...
SF city attorney files lawsuit against FlightCar
> If necessary, a company executive, known as a “committing officer,” is given documents that guarantee immunity from civil actions resulting from the transfer of data.

Letters of marque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque) of our day
Just a small version of what what happened after 9/11, no?

9/11 was used as an excuse for two invasions, and the loss of many human rights and freedoms.

While I agree that it is indeed vile to use this soldier's death as an excuse, its sadly normal. And in this case, they picked a good target to use. The family are unlikely to oppose the government their lad loyally served. I would like to be wrong about that.
I find it similarly mind boggling that owning the discs for PS2 or PS3 games would not entitle me to the digital version for a PS4 (offering previous gen games as downloads was offered I believe?)
Microsoft rolls out Office Mobile for iPhone
Just to point out, you missed out "Paedophiles".
Wait, why is "written on a typewriter" a bad sign?

There seems nothing particularly suspicious about handwriting either, though as a practical matter, legibility might be a problem...
"liable to costs relating to the individual's detention and removal'' should they allow him to travel. According to the Home Office's website that charge would be £2,000"

Being a little bit cynical, but 2000 GBP seems closer to the cost of shipping him to the US than the cost of detaining him.
I cannot remember the reference either ... but I seem to remember reports that food prices went up precipitously just before the Arab Spring. Anybody got a call option on agricultural commodities right now?
People like you have accepted the fact that they don't own anything they buy. If you are happy to buy a game today, and not being able to play it in a few years because the editor/console manufacturer have decided so, then good for you. On my side, I just want to enjoy what I bought, for as long as I can, and in 2020, I will for sure play 2013 games.
I totally agree with you, and I'll also looking for such a tool. Here is the way I deal with css/js/html animation (here with Firefox): right click, Inspect Element, find the DIV holding the moving elements, and REMOVE :) Repeat if it's still moving, refresh if you removed too much! ;-)
Polish Book Themes - an interactive graph in D3.js
Why worry about these kinds of jokes, just let it happen, it’ll be over soon...

It wasn't aimed at anyone directly, in a personal way.
We are (in most of the world) in a very unbalanced situation. Most of the state of the art technology is run by US companies. Thus the whole world (actually, those using services provided by those companies - i.e. nearly everybody) is being spied. US citizens and companies are also being spied, but here comes the unbalance:

The US government can use that information for bad or good purposes. This applies to information about US citizens and other citizens. It is easy to see why the US government would use that information for good purposes (like say, prevent a terror attack) for US citizens. (proably bad things will happen to US citizens too, like imprisonments for political reasons)

But it is very difficult to see why the US would do anything good for foreign individuals / corporations (unless we accept that the US is the world government, and has the interest of all of us in its heart, which is ludicrous).

So here we are: a government taking advantage of the technology developed by (mostly, but not only) US companies, to further a political agenda.

I expect global boycott of US based cloud providers. It does not make sense anymore. This is a trust which can not regained, since we have seen the tactics involve flat lying - even legislation to force companies to lie.
Exactly, yes.

More over, the US doesn't NOT need to show evidence. It just needs to make the claim and say that it has evidence. No UK court gets to see any evidence at all.

IIRC, it was supposed to be two way, but the US never signed off on it's half of it, while we good little Brits let the legislation sail through.
>>>There are many dissatisfied people on either side of the political spectrum.

Which is the entire point of the American Constitution. It was created by political malcontents for political malcontents.

Having suffered under the brutality of the King, the Colonists drafted a document that would prevent such abuses in the future by enshrining it in law. That millions and millions of people who would "get along" under any regime (see North Korea today) benefited is strictly a collateral effect.

That no one seems to understand the original point of it all is why we're going down this greased slide to hell today. And hell it will be.
lots of other communities are representing 'installing wordpress', 'most useful wordpress plugins', 'top 120 drupal themes' and we consider these communities are more like 'user groups' than 'developer groups' (especially in Turkey). And we want 'php-ist to be a developers group' . So there's a little sarcasm on quoting 'cutting edge'.

But as I'm not a native English speaker I can change/update/remove this, if this lead to a misunderstanding.
Most "normal" people have probably been bored stupid by geeks getting upset over this issue in the last week. It is possible to follow a story passively in the background, and come to a conclusion about it based on faith rather than objective reasoning. However, bad things get; a lot of people will always believe that "the war will be over by, Christmas" because it is easier to just have faith and ignore the nerds.

There is a problem in how hackers/geeks/techies portray themselves. You know that this kind of monitoring is bad because if you had the data you could do bad things (but you wouldn't because of ethics). But every app still expects people to hand over the same data and to trust the developer. Expecting people to know which geeks they can trust and which are creepy is a big ask.
After Assange this is a surprise?
There are no reasonable steps that I can take to maintain anonymity. The most I can do is to counter my inbuilt bias to self-censor; to be as outspoken and uncaring-of-the-consequences as possible. Punk is the only and correct response to surveillance.

(Hence my previous straw-man reactionary paranoid collaboration).
But, what does he have to hide??????????
He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :)

I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name.

You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of the same ideals.

You can't revolt because everyone is too busy staring at Simon Cowel's nefarious trash pumped through our telescreens.

You can't speak up because it's illegal.

Sit, obey, conform.
Or something is very wrong with a government that would perceive so many as threats -- or create such "threats."
Hm, my Antivirus blocks this site, claiming to have found http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/vi...
Surely Snowden knows that there isn't safe harbour in the UK after what happened to Assange?
It wasn't aimed at anyone directly, in a personal way.

Neither are racist jokes, typically. Doesn't make them a bit less repugnant.
I think we'd be better off in the UK with Europe and Russia on our side these days.

In fact we'd probably be better off with the Eastern Bloc states if they existed as well...
is this a paid service? Is this open source? I see no mention of either.

I also see no place to report issues. (right arrow moves you backwards in the presentation instead of forwards, left arrow is similarly reversed. This would only be sensible in right to left reading countries.
It's silly to recommend a program when complaining about a format. But yes it would be better if they used zip, which also happens to be integrated in Windows Explorer.
Hardened-PHP Project - PHP Security - Suhosin
75 years of Superman
1)I'm extremely excited for pi and what it means to education,
2)kids won't do this...sorry
3)this is old news...sorry
4)I upvoted.

Edit: typo
Or 'Mongo', for that matter.
Not everyone has to "go" somewhere. Prison release programs have people wear ankle bracelets. For some, house arrest will suffice with a GPS shackle. It will likely depend on your Threat Score. For instance, do you have a cache of weapons or is your "threat" mainly about ideas? People who can actively engage in force will likely have a higher score than someone whose "threat" is persuasion. (Although to a regime like China, the Dalai Lama is perhaps a higher threat than someone with a cache of guns. So your "threat mileage" might vary.)
He might not have, but I sure will.
I didn't know there was any question as to whether or not this was a rape joke.
I'm sure the same questions were in the air in 1930s Germany. (Don't cite Godwin to me.)
Sorry for the ambiguity, but there's a disclaimer at the bottom of the landing page:

> If enough users submit to this, I might eventually seek profit through a side product or feature, in order to create a sustainable environment. That being said, everything that is already offered (and probably more) will always be free. Also, ads will never be an option.

This as well:

> Feel free to reach at contact at aufond.me

The logic behind the navigation was that left means back, so you go back in time. Because the timeline starts with the present and goes in the past. But I can see your point as well, I'll go through this with more people and decide which way is more natural. Thanks
Very cool. I believe there is a market for really tiny VPS's assuming the costs can be kept low. Things like remote monitoring, or VPS come to mind. Also, it would be interesting to see if RPi follows Moore's law, so while currently these instances seem very underpowered, in a few years they would gain some muscle.
Yes, well, he named MySQL after a daughter called My, too.
Hmm, the layout of that site is a bit familiar!

What should really ruffle your feathers then is that at some airports (like Toronto Pearson, but I have seen this at some American airports too) anyone can walk in from the street and wander into the baggage area.
There was FireGPG but it was discontinued http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2010/06/07/firegpg-discontinued/
World's most advanced smart sign
The article isn't clear on the current copyright status for the song. It was first published in 1918. Copyright for songs published prior to 1978 runs out after 95 years. Therefore it should fall into the public domain this year, regardless of any lawsuit.
How to make Blekko default search engine in Firefox : http://chepurnoy.org/blog/2012/11/how-to-make-blekko-your-de...
> In British/International English air quotes are often used to emphasise something.

It's not entirely true that quotation marks used to be used to indicate emphasis outside the US. It's a wrongly practiced habit to have double quotes instead of using italics for phrases that requires bolder emphasis, and usually leads to misunderstandings.
This is cool stuff, I have also been trying to get LXC containers running on the RaspberryPi. I used their guide and it went pretty well. I want to create a downloadable image so that you can skip over all the begining steps, and get into the fun stuff quicker. Just haven't had the time yet.

I'm now trying to get Docker running on the raspberryPi, if you want to help, checkout my notes here: http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/05/running-docker-on-a-rasp...
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It's hard to say what will happen. Milliband will whip his MPs to vote in favour of it, so it can pass without Lib Dem support. That would risk collapsing the coalition though. Fixed terms mean that the Tories would probably limp on as a minority government till 2015, but without much ability to get anything through (and they have little chance of getting reelected in 2015) so they would have to be really committed to this issue to do that.

Lib Dems know they are going to get a hammering in 2015 and they need to start differentiating themselves from the Tories to have any hope at all, but it seems too soon for that at the moment. Thus-far they have proven incapable of taking a stand on anything of significance. Sadly polling probably indicates that this isn't something the public care enough about to make it worth them bringing down the government over, so I can easily see them rolling over in exchange for a few more years sucking on the teat of power. Or perhaps the most cowardly thing of all: making it a free-vote so that enough Lib Dem MPs will vote for it while Lib Dem HQ can claim to oppose it without any risk to the coalition.

It may be decided by UKIP and backbench Tories. If they are against it I can't see Cameron pushing it. Unfortunately a lot of the Tory backbench rebels are also staunch Atlanticists and heavily involved in the defence/security industry (think Liam Fox).

Whatever happens this will be on the books by ~2016 unless there is a significant public backlash.
You had Wagu. Kobe wasn't exported until last year. Any prior "kobe" dishes were actually Kobe style Wagu.
Interesting article...I hadn't thought of Couchsurfing having a particular gender imbalance but I guess it's not surprising.

However, it's strange to see an article about Couchsurfing today without the context of Airbnb. It's not even just that Airbnb has become so popular, but that Airbnb introduces a financial transaction that, theoretically, should mitigate concerns of unspoken "quid pro quo", which purportedly leave women in awkward situations. The free spirit of Couchsurfing may have been noble, but it seemed bound to be exploited for purposes alluded to by the OP. At least with money for services, everyone is on the same page.
I actually had no idea this was rape related, I guess I'm glad someone else brought it to my attention before I thought I was being funny somewhere...
Nick Clegg just said "it's not going to happen with me in the government" - I'm dead worried now. They are going to push this very soon.
Do We Need to Fire the Entire Financial Advice Industry?
Neither did I, but I suspect in the opposite direction to you.

Honestly, I have used this term, with friends for years. I just checked with a couple on facebook, and we all visualised in terms of something like (if we imagine the real-world situation it references) putting a pillow over an ill/unconscious person's face to smoother them.

Now, I'm not saying other people can't have a different interpretation, or there isn't a common one, but me and my friends have certainly held a different one for many years.
Hi michaelxia, this project has been in the works for awhile but, the updated post from today shows some really interesting potential on the Management layer as well as the project's current status. Really cool stuff!!
It was originally proposed a couple of years back and dropped. Then following the murder of a soldier on the streets of London it's back on the agenda. They are probably cursing the timing of the NSA revelations.
So how do we get out of this mess?
So we just found out, our government has been lying straight to our faces all this time. And all the big tech giants too (Mark Zuckerberg, Sergej Brin, etc.).

And so now, we're all thinking: "Ok, let's just have them promise us or 'commit' to the dismantling of this huge surveillance apparatus. And we're good."

But then we understand that we will never ever again be able to trust them (neither the government nor the tech giants). Why?

1. They all have no problem continuously lying straight to our faces, this is now proven.
2. The blueprints for such surveillance systems are now there, the tech is now there, the know-how is now there, and even experience is now there. How can you get rid of all this so there won't be any more abuse? You just can't.

So what's the solution to prevent our "representatives" from destroying democracy?

I don't know if there IS one, but I'm asking myself these days if all this not "simply" tells us that a central government in this form is logically just not responsible anymore. That it will allways become corrupted, sooner or later.

I remember one political analyst suggesting quite some time ago that the US will subdivide itself into several smaller zones. What do you think?
I envy you guys from the 1st world - an Aeron costs exactly my monthly salary around here, if you can find one. The less famous models like Steelcase, you would have to import. (I've got an Aeron knockoff a few months ago)
As one of the commenters on the BBC website points out, it's more likely this is about retrospectively legalizing what's already being done rather than anything new. After it was exposed that GCHQ "may" have been using Prism data (ie. of course they were) GCHQ employees are now open to being sued for contravening RIPA unless they can get something on the statute books pronto.
Or hn needs to get over its sudden decision to become a mashup of /r/politics and /r/conspiracy.

Really, this is first rate nutty stuff. Did you know the U.S. government has a database containing records on hundreds of millions of its citizens (and even some non-citizens!)? It contains records of where you live, which causes you support and how much money you make. Some people in this database are flagged for "special attention" by government agents who conduct an even more thorough trawl through personal lives.

Of course, that's the IRS. Maybe some of us would prefer a taxation scheme that didn't require all this infrastructure, but there's nothing deeply nefarious about it.

It's one thing to be unhappy or disturbed by the alleged degree of NSA data collection on U.S. citizens, but when you start speculating about FEMA prison camps you've gone over the edge.
I'm sure he's very disappointed. That's a big loss for him.
Raspberry Pi bird box
When to use “join,” “register,” or “sign up”?
Do most other languages allow you to change the language you program in or do most just force you to use english?
isn't that the whole point? In gaming, you'd hear this phrase when a team is dominating the other team to the point where they are forcing whatever mechanic against the will of the other team.

rape (rāp)
n. The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
n. The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
n. Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.

There are plenty of gamer scenarios that fall into n. #2 and 3.

Sure, it's an extreme example to use, but gamers are full of those. Isn't this even more neutral than any typical partisan newscaster comparing new legislature or economical movement as rape? "They are raping the economy.." , "They are raping the constitution.". In those examples, the anchor is literally comparing an action to rape, whereas in the phrase "Just let it happen, it'll be over soon" is rather ambiguous, and if not aware of the origin you could contribute it to murder or bleeding out, as well.

Next on the list : "Teabagging is not funny guys, it's a real life rape tactic" or other such malarky.
What do you think Kobe means? It specifically refers to a region of Japan. The breed of cattle is actually called "Wagu." If you want "kobe beef" that's fed and raised in a different manner, you can get Wagu and not pay the exorbitant prices.
Chrome (or Chromium, if you prefer to have someone else run your builds) is open source. It's subject to inspection. It's got some known privacy issues (e.g., safe-browsing mode sends a file URL and hash which is stored with your IP for two weeks, then your IP is stripped).

But if there's anything really untoward going on and people learn about it, it's going to look extremely bad for Google.

While I wouldn't say that's impossible, it's not a high-likelihood event in my book.

Of course, you're free to use alternative browsers.

Just ... keep in mind that if you're using a WebKit browser you're trusting Apple, and if it's WebCore, you're still trusting Google.

Mozilla's Gecko is still independent, however.