skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the 'Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden's Hideout' WSJ article was posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853397), one paragraph that leaped out at me and also got some attention in the comments was the following:

"Hong Kong is the worst place in the world for any person to avoid extradition, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom," said one lawyer who’s worked on a dozen extradition cases both in the U.K. and Hong Kong"

I don't know what to make of that or how to put it together with this Home Office alert, but it is all rather interesting.
Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS
We have collected all the previous videos at the "videos-tab" on the web page as well: http://jz13.java.no/videos.html

There are some great talks from last year's conference there as well, many of them in English. The one by Tim Berglund about Git is great!
Biggest as in most spectacular, I expect. ZionEyez raised much more money but I don't think they had quite the level of shilling and aggesssiveness that this Kickstarter did. For instance, from the comments section:

> Might not be related but a Mike Walden just posted on my business's facebook calling me a child predator.(I've never gotten so much as a misdemeanor).

> And this is the funniest part, just a curious thing I found. The Facebook page for Kobe Red Jerky is:
https://www.facebook.com/louis.friend.948
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> "Louis Friend" is an anagram for "Iron Sulfide", or more commonly known as "Fool's Gold". Funny, isn't it?!

> i'm already working on old mans ip address and info, give me 30 minutes and you will be able to give the police his home address.

Also some really spectacular trolling of the comments section in order to make it hard to find critical comments, including someone puporting to be a PETA supporter.
If it gets to the frontpage, it's because it was upvoted by people who hadn't seen it before. If you've already seen it, you don't need to click it.
Yes, but you see that's why I gave you the link, so you could read the words in context and not have to take my word for it that they were intended as positive. If you do read the linked articles, you would see for example that "little that's familiar" is considered a positive, a foil to the over the top skeumorphism of its competitors.
Also, the headline piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3418SeWZfQ#!
Wait.

Wait wait wait.

Is there a chance, however fleeting, that a chunk of the Register's staff could come down with food poisoning, or be hospitalized for malnutrition?

Maybe 2013 isn't so bad after all.
> I believe there is a market for really tiny VPS's assuming the costs can be kept low.

Isn't AWS micro pretty much as low as you can go?
What can I do, as a UK citizen, to stop this from happening?
On the other hand, they have been contacting bloggers and media in exactly such a manner. https://plus.google.com/+JeffJarvis/posts/5X7nHcjijsC
Apparently my dentist has been making rape jokes
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896189
I wonder if this is also why Google has a special "Apps for Government", to not be included on the general public's servers.
I worried a little when I started selling this shirt: http://mrcoles.com/media/img/cool-harold-i-ny-ny-fractal-shi... but I figured it was either different enough or could be applied as a parody? (Or probably just no one cares, since it's not popular enough…)

It also seems like a lot of amateur t-shirt sites have tons of custom i <3 shirts.
That's awesome, congrats on getting something done and out there. One of my New Year's resolutions is to do the same thing. Previously I would jump from project to project, ready to learn something as soon as I figured out the basics of the previous project. It resulted in learning a little bit of a lot of different things, but never anything close to a real project.

Now I have been working for 3-4 months on one project consistently evenings and weekends, and just like you sometimes I let it go for a week or two without a commit. I think the trick is to just keep coming back, even if it's a small commit to get the ball rolling again, and bit by bit you'll be getting closer and closer to a "finished" project.

I haven't checked out Meteor since it was first announced, do you still have to wrap packages in their specific wrapper? Is that a problem or hindrance in any way? I see you're using a lot of other stuff with it, so it must not be that big of an issue if that's how it still works.

As for the product itself, it looks nice. At first glance, I feel like I might use it as more of a blog than a specific CV. Maybe not a "blog", per say, but something where I could put some basic info and tidbits about myself as a personal landing page. Which perhaps is what the new CV is after all...
I find that peoples understanding of this issue is way too simplistic.

It won't help to stop terrorists because they will always use the internet in ways that cannot be monitored (https, VPN, etc.).

It will allow the gathering of everybodies data in one place, which is dangerous as hackers are regularly gaining access to this kind of information.

Another problem is that innocent people are sure to be branded as possible terrorists and refused entry on flights etc.
That cracked me up. Is Assange expected to die in that embassy?
Source Code Guide (getting close to my MVP)
Prism The new way of sharing
Because eccentric presentation implies eccentric ideas, I think. They certainly do get a lot of letters from a lot of very vocal, very extreme people (who want homosexuality banned, hanging brought back, etc.)
Business decisions like that are why Sun went bankrupt. For their $1bn they bought only the domain name mysql.com, and Monty was all over the Intermet slagging them off too.

FWIW the only way MySQL was usable for real work was InnoDB, which was an Oracle product too.
I can't find anywhere what it's actually made of (not on the campaign page either). And none of the people listed in the company has any training regarding food or medicine. #slightlyworried

Other than that, could be awesome. You could just have a cup with you all day and drink some whenever you feel hungry.

Question then remains, why isn't it green?
I learned that you need context locals in web applications or beginners will write themselves into a corner where they have an architectural problem on their hand they can't fix later on.

Yes, it's not the best solution, but passing things around isn't either.
click to http://www.unn.edu.ng for details
Yea true. I'm just saying there are tons of things to be done even if it's not coding. I agree with you on the coding productivity but if you walked into a company the first day and said "Oh I'm just working 11 to 2 every day", they probably wouldn't like that too much.
No More Waste of Time with Magento Slow Backend Re-Index
> News is supposed to be new, correct?

I don't think there is any rule on HN that says that all submitted stuff has to be new.
They are doing it now with legal standing.
(Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000)

Specifically chapter 2: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/part/I/chapter/I...

The new legislation is updating the definition of Communications Data for the age of application specific messaging.
I've tried to download seeks, but it's linux only. This makes it much harder to build a large user community and to develop a decent business model.
To apply for a government job you merely speak slowly and clearly into the nearest light fixture. Please include the job number for which you are applying for.
IE >= 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

is there any overlap with that list and people incarcerated already?
He is the Javatar! ROFL
Not sure whether the tipping point as mentioned should even be used as an argument. That would be the same as assuming specific pixel ranges, not having touch input, or fast internet connection for "large" devices (as I point out in the article).

I think what matters is that it is possible to be responsive/adaptive based on such contextual factors. Responsive web design is basically enabling that for screen size, but there are many more factors in play.

A tipping point based on the feature-richness/robustness of a programmatic solution to go responsive is another story (i.e. it shouldn't prevent from going in that direction).
"Patrol 403 investigating reports of open source activity"
It's better, in my opinion, as it loads the website specified and use the website's search tool directly.

Give it a try, go on DDG and type !w to search on wikipedia.
I have a friend who at one point had to wade through letters to a state legislator. The staff have to sludge through these letters every day, and they end up categorizing quickly. They correlate things like typewritten letters or weird things to the crazy stuff that they get.

Keep in mind, representatives are public people, and they get wacky things. Marriage proposals, insane ramblings, dog droppings, manifestos, abusive letters, frequent fliers who write multiple letters per day, etc.
The too many seems to be 2 death in 60 years with up to 4500 trainee a year during the 60s/70s.

Cf :
http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3787
http://www.subescapetraining.org/History1.html
My mother lives in Germany, and has done the couchsurfing thing a few times. After being a guest, she decided she should reciprocate and opened her couch up to others. She had some good experiences, first, but the last guy that contacted her really skeeved her out. She said something just didn't seem right in his communication with her, so she cancelled a few weeks before he was supposed to come. She had some experiences earlier in her life that have made her hyper aware of small indicators that signal danger. Fast forward a few months later, and the BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) showed up at her door asking about the guy. He was a serial rapist, who used online sites to find his victims. They had, thankfully, captured him and wanted all of her email correspondence for their prosecution. No more couchsurfing for her.
You could say Java is the new COBOL :) </tongue-in-cheek>
They'd be mad not to forbid this, given that there's apparently no legal impediment to the US Government accessing non-citizen non-residents' Google accounts for the purpose of industrial espionage or political dirty tricks.
Oh, darnit! :) Thanks, though.
They seem to be getting along quite well without my wit and charm. :|

This particular category of complaint is very, very common to people that don't understand the technology that they use past the "push shiny buttan on the ui" level. Anybody who has ever touched native code in their life knows that porting applications from different operating system versions--much less processor families!--is non-trivial. But to gamers, oh no, they need to be able to play an old game that technology has passed by--and yet, they specifically went out and bought a goddamned information appliance instead of an engine of computation that they could own and maintain themselves. They brought this on themselves.

Gamers are always "me me me, i want this, wah wah wah". There is not a single customer demographic I can think of that is less interested in understanding their tools and more vocal about the slightest inconvenience, real or otherwise. The worst of them are the ones that have nothing to do but pass of hatred and vitriol online to other gamers, sometimes even passing it off as "games criticism", like they're fucking Ebert or something.

And honestly, we caused this. We catered to gamers, we made their lives so simple and carefree and priced things so low that they are literally the worst customers on earth.

My friends in the web business? Look at this. Look at what these people have become, and expect the same sort of shitty behavior from your users in five-ten years.
Agree - I joined couchsurfing but never used it, however I hosted for years on airbnb at the start. My wife and I hosted many females, and the little verification parts, the fact a CC was on file and could be referenced to identify the person in the event of any issues, was more reassurance than couchsurfing provided, and I can understand some similar reassurances from the guest side: with money being exchanged, I felt more obligated to uphold reservations, even if I ended up being out of town and had to make complicated arrangements to get them in!
Interestingly, he was also a close mentor to Larry Page and Sergey Brin :)
So, if I posted a kickstarter project to launch a social, cloud-based app that allowed you to organize photos along with dooing big data about kobe beef mashups, I'd get traction?
Not only that, they went a step forward and made downloads even more appealing by allowing you to download the minimum possible to play the game, and just do the rest while you play.
The Genuus of Uber
GitHub repo of the leaked PRISM documents
Airbus A350 successfully completes maiden test flight
It's highly probable that someone saw it while checking out the aufond.me demo a few points down the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879071)

http://aufond.me/sivers/got-dissed-by-steve-jobs
I've been on CS for several years but only got active around 2009 (up until the end of 2012). I've hosted and been hosted once, both being slightly odd experiences due to being 10-day stays each.

In my mind, the meetings are what make it appealing, though after a while I started to see they were all about the same thing: drinking with instant friends. Almost every event has alcohol involved as well as "instant friends", seemingly good people with whom I could be friendly but never really connect. As a foreigner living in a large city, I could never be as interesting as a foreigner who was just visiting, even though I personally only found myself enjoying (to a certain extent) the local CSers because at least I could try to build an on-going friendship with them.

The seedy underbelly of CS is that it's a hook-up enabler. Many local CSers have had sexual relations with other local CSers as well as with the foreign CSers. The idea of "if it happens, it happens" is fine with me but I found that the main draw for the locals in several large foreign cities was finding a hook-up. In fact, I'll admit that my girlfriend is someone I met on CS (though we maintained a couple-year friendship before meeting). Now that we live in the same city, sometimes we have contact with the same CSers and in few instances we both get messaged by the same user. In one case, a male user who I met at a local meeting sent me a very brief, basic email saying we should hang out some time. My gf, who he hadn't met, got a message from him that was longer, funnier, and which specifically asked about going out on a certain date, and where he left his cell number at the bottom.

For this reasons above, the "instant friend" CSers (even the most "hardcore" or well-known of them) never became real friends, despite my attempts to make friendships. Also, any CS event had to be an "event" for anyone to really care, meaning it had to be sizable. In my new city, in a new country, the local group is chock-full of "let's go out tonight (drink & party)" posts. No substance, no spirit.
You have to filter that sort of thing out. Everyone on dating sites likes photography and taking long walks on the beach.
Animate.css is great. But magic.css is very simple and small that means editable.
Javapocalypse - Return of the Javatar
That's exactly what happened.

The only reason why I submitted it is that it was news to me.
Seeing Turrell's work in-person is unlike any other art you've ever experienced. Make it a point to see his exhibitions this summer. You will never forget how it makes you feel and see at the same time. Fifteen years later, it left a deep groove in my psyche.
Oh certainly, it just struck me as ironic when I read this in the article:

> When you met someone who said they were a Couchsurfer, it meant they had a different viewpoint on life, that they knew how to share, and were culturally open-minded.

Because I think "different" is a bit of a misnomer if there's such a specific couchsurfing stereotype.
So, which one did you pick, and why?

EC2 and Rackspace have a greater range of service than all the other guys (storage on demand, snapshots, private networks etc...), but at a very significant price difference.
Yup, Steve Jobs was an arsehole.
Speaking as European (non-UK), I do find this bizarre because it makes the UK look weak. It loses face.

You would expect the UK to have enough going for it that it can stand up to the USA, yet here they seem to be so scared of some diplomatic conflict with the US that they preemptively ban someone who is not at all a criminal (under UK/EU law). It's not something you would expect a proud nation to do.
Silver or Lithium
Is it a tougher choice than silver or lead?
You are right, but the newly revealed indices suggests that your personal data are not collected primarily from the cloud providers after they arrived to the destination (like the spy agency would enter the Gmail repository through a backdoor and vacuum out all the data), rather, the whole (or most of) Internet traffic is monitored on the main routers and everything collected. Only thing which is not yet clear (at least to my knowledge), how much is this being done outside of U.S.

From this perspective, boycotting US based cloud providers is probably a reasonable thing to do, but it is not clear if this will results in less of your personal data being collected, if you just switch the provider. For example, I noticed it is now popular to switch from Gmail to other providers like fastmail.fm - I'm really not sure if this would be helpful at all.
Node v0.10.11 (Stable)
I've written CSS for years and only recently started implementing some animations in my designs. I was worried at first when browsers started implementing it, fearing useless and insipid animations would sprawl around the web (like some jQuery ones). But like anything, if used sparingly, animations can improve an interface. Apart from adding life and being "cool" (probably the reason why designers implement them in the first place), animations add interactivity and affordance. Plus, they're less prone to bugs because the code is easier to read and write than jQuery alternatives, and the browsers' rendering engine usually prevents unwanted fluttering and infinite loops from happening.
"Mongo only pawn in game of life"
RhodeCode 1.7 release. Gist support
For Jenkins - they took almost all the users. I doubt we'll hear much about Hudson in 5 years time, unless something major happens. I think only Oracle, Sonatype and a handful of other companies are using Hudson these days. All the companies I know have migrated to Jenkins.
Sorry. Forgot to mention, I have an offer from one of them. Would it be a bad idea to try to negotiate the "non-negotiable" starting salary since the stocks and signing bonus wouldn't be much use to me? (I need to be there for probably 4 or 5 years for all the bonus and stock stuff to be dispersed. I'd say about 25% of it would be dispersed before I went off to grad school without needing to be repaid.)
The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses
I'm pretty sure CS has an element where you can be verified by making a small donation (with a valid cc). Plus, references seem to go a long way and personally, I advise looking for CS stays while at meetings in the city you want to stay in. Book a night or two in a hostel then go to the meetings and ask around. It's a good way to get a feel for who'd be a good fit.
It wouldn't make any difference though - as long as Google is running the service, it can be reached by a FAA 702 request.
I wonder how the performance (absolute and per watt) would compare to equivalently cheapish x86 server. Quick look at dell/hp shows a basic 16-thread server with 32G ram costing about $3000, which places it in the same performance and price-range (vs. 56x$35=$1960 just for the rpis).

edit: I realize that this is an educational project and as such the performance does not matter that much compared to the educational value provided by running largish number of nodes.
At the moment, yes. His only other options are:

1. Get from the building to a diplomatically immune car and out of the EU. Not going to happen: the fuzz will snag him the moment he steps out of the door.

2. Wait for a politically sympathetic party is voted in and the extradition rules are changed. Not going to happen: people are too stupid to vote for anything other than "the big two" and if they did, they won't change policy or America will go all "Fuck Yeah" on our arses.

3. Wait for the whole thing to be uncovered publicly as a fucking massive international political scam and he is pardoned.

4. Hope that Kurzweil was right, upload his conscious mind to a machine with OpenSSH and SCP himself overseas.

I reckon (3) is most likely.
"And his packages help users even more if he can get his changes into Debian or (even better) upstream."

Some of his packages (AFAICT) are built from upstream sources, but configured to include capabilities that the debian folk won't or can't build into theirs, like mplayer.

Others are packages excluded from debian entirely for these reasons, like libdvdcss.

The maintainer is providing the user who doesn't care about, or who is not in a jurisdiction where they have to care about it, a whole bunch of codecs and capabilities that the base distro doesn't and will not include.
Do the current 3rd party tools work with MariaDB - SqlYog, etc.?
I still don't buy into this being a real product. Everything about it is far too generic and uniformed. "It comes in a large unmarked baggy". Really? No. This can't be true.
How could you get that same education while being paid market value? Don't these companies require a post-grad degree in order to be considered for research positions?
I can see where you're coming from but Couchsurfing is more than a free place to sleep. They actually specifically say that if it's what you're looking for, you're probably best off elsewhere. I hardly ever saved money using CS (dinners, gifts, etc) but I have experienced amazing kindness all around the world and made lasting friendships. Once you experience something like that, you feel obligated to give back, to pay forward.

Yes, there will always be bad people in every community, especially as it grows. You get better at spotting them quickly. If you're a girl, don't get greedy, spend time chatting with the potential male host, stay with a girl or at a hostel. Couchsurfing is not for everybody, though, which suits me just fine.
No. I have spent hours searching for a cloud provider with decent disk space at a "decent" price, and it basically does not exist.

The only thing I have been able to find are physical hosts, with all the issues associated with them (40$ for 2 x 1 TB disk at http://ovh.com).
Is it me or does this design make your head spin in circles, too? Not really a relevant discussion of the topic at hand, but damn... This is one of the worst designs I've experienced in a while, in a brain-is-so-confused-my-eyes-are-crossing, kind of way.
unfortunatley, CS:GO is not a AAA, high production value game (think far cry 3). It is a multiplayer only game, and i m certain its production costs are vastly lower.
> (unless we accept that the US is the world government, and has the interest of all of us in its heart, which is ludicrous).

Only one of those statements is ludicrous.
I don't see this (if it really exists) as being a product of government, per-se, but of bureaucracy. If you come across someone who is vaguely dissatisfied, and a list of malcontents exists, then you're going to shrug your shoulders and add them to the list. Because leaving them off the list would be risky, and no one ever got fired for doing the safe thing.
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I came up with a crazy idea this morning for an internet based political party that allows its members to vote on all ideas and actions the party will take. I think now is the time for something like this. We need to make it happen.