skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Questions will be raised about Snowden’s mental balance. Also propaganda."

Why? Is it not a fair question to ask whether the guy who is the single source of all the revelations might not be playing with a full deck? The guy who said "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent" about Red China? Wouldn't it even be the most Occam-compliant assumption, unless your anti-American prior is so strong you automatically grant credibility to anyone who speaks against the US government?

"Snowden will be called a defector. Also propaganda."

Isn't that technically what he did?

defect 2 |diˈfekt|
verb [ no obj. ]
abandon one's country or cause in favor of an opposing one

(Biases on the table: I'm biased against people who defect from the US to communist countries.)
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I've always felt that no physical controller access was a limiting factor for Apple killing the console.

The next (and IMHO inevitable) step, would be to open up the Apple TV via an SDK.
they could easily have a filter setup to make it more "public-friendly"
We're developers, we are both tool makers and tool users. Limiting ourselves to either Chrome or Firefox (or IE or Opera or...) is - well - stupid.

Use the tools we have. Use all of them. Make sure your code works everywhere (reasonable - I.E. 6 is as far back as I go currently) Anything else is a disservice to your self, your craft, and your users.
Yep. I hate cooking, and honestly I end up eating like the same exact 5 meals every week. Apparently there are $500000 worth of us, so there's a market.
You can use accelerator for worker roles as well. Though it is not updated any more but it is open source.
If they've got to rely on the infrastructure provider to know what I've been looking at, then I assume that they don't have infrastructure in place themselves to arbitrarily do HTTP injection in a push button manner. May be wrong though.
(The iPod touch came out after the iPhone.)
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"if Google cares that much about encryption and their users' privacy, they should show me they are willing to implement OTR, ZRTP and PGP"

That would only make sense if they wouldn't be required to become your key escrow service (=custodians of your private keys). PGP is also a pretty bad choice for private communication, as it offers no forward-secrecy. Something like client-side OTR implementation would be better.
I have been using Digital Ocean as a sandbox for playing with Docker, and it has been great. I can spin up a server in less then 1 minute, install the Docker dependencies, and be up in running in no time. I do what I need to do, and then I spin it down if I don't need it anymore.

I wrote down my notes on how to get Docker running on Digital Ocean, if anyone wants to play with it. There is even a promo code for a $10 credit for new signups.

http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/06/running-docker-on-digita...

I had a couple of issues when I first tried using them, but I was able to get help pretty quickly on a Saturday morning no less. I haven't used them for anything production quality yet, I have most of that stuff on EC2 and Rackspace right now, but I hope to start moving some smaller projects to DO as they come up.

Someone else mentioned this already as well, but the SSD is so nice compared to EC2's EBS, so if you are doing anything with lots of I/O then it is a must have.
I was just randomly clicking the searches to see what could possibly be so interesting about them... turns out it was just a bunch of people wearing clothes... and given the internet, I find that quite difficult to believe.
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I find the HN hate for this guy incredible. The NSA is less loathed. Do you need to be a nutritionist with a PhD to open a restaurant? Why does he need to be one?
Apparently it's updated hourly from: http://hawttrends.appspot.com/api/terms/

If you watch Chrome's network activity, it shows no activity after load, and near the bottom, you find that list of terms. Still a cool visualization. It would be great if it was OpenGL and I could set it as my screensaver, or something.
You would need to do a long run study on the subject to verify it is the case, but from my intuition and the number of gun misfire cases I hear about, it would probably mathematically prove to have a recognizable increase in the rate of injury due to the firearm in public if it is loaded.
Main issue that I can see with this is compliance. As some people commented these free invoicing templates are great, but if you happen to invoice someone in Mexico or anywhere else in the world this template won't really help.

The reason why we are seeing so many startups in this space is because all major companies, such as Ariba that provide e-invoicing tools are charging suppliers for sending e-invoices, which is ridiculous.

Tradeshift (Disclaimer I do work for Tradeshift ), was one of the first startups that emerged in this space because they provide free and fully compliant e-invoicing software for small businesses. Take a look at how they launched, slightly outdated but funny http://www.realsupplierchoice.com/
Do you remember your query?
I just can't get over the name.

If someone tells you, "hey, the cook spit in your food" -- it doesn't matter if the cook actually did, you're going to be grossed out by the food because you're in an icky state of mind.

So, while I know Soylent is not made out of people, it just makes the product less appetizing than it would otherwise be.

However, maybe this is just a problem for people who dig old scifi.
It depends on a lot of things. Try load testing it.

I modified bees with machine guns to run on DigitalOcean instead of AWS, so you can load test to your heart's desire. it's here: https://github.com/rozap/minnowswithmachineguns
I'm running GitLab (which is a rails app) with postgres (small database, so it's not using a lot of memory) on a $5 droplet. It's using about 50-75% of my memory. Here's what free says:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 503516 488644 14872 0 9036 203300
-/+ buffers/cache: 276308 227208
Swap: 1048572 153704 894868

Depending on your apps' memory usage, you might be able to put two apps on a $5 droplet (I'd recommend adding a swapfile so you don't run out of memory at some point - since they're using SSDs, swapping is not that bad.)
a few, and they'll be in London so your living costs can be truly massive.

Sometimes the rates you see advertised are also 3 month contract jobs where someone is looking for attention by stating the contract amount as if the job was 12 months salaried.
Snowden and reporters have been saying there will be more leaks over the next few weeks to months.
I had some experience with LabVIEW for FIRST Robotics, and I honestly hated it. I could fit so much fewer code on a screen, making it harder to debug/understand, and the compile times were absolutely horrific. (2 hours for the robot equivalent of "Hello, World!" is really unacceptable)

The following year we switched to C++, which compiled in <10s on the same machine. Supposedly LabVIEW got some performance tweaks, but we didn't bother to check back with it.

So while I never used the multithreading aspects of it (And I can see how they would work, variables are passed in such a way to explicitly lay out what modifies them), I can easily see people having issues with LabVIEW.
And this is exactly what your body needs - no more, no less.
Another recent benchmark:

Cloud Server Performance: A Comparative Analysis of 5 Large Cloud IaaS Providers

http://www.cloudspectator.com/cloud-server-performance-a-com...
Please add a link here:

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/wiki/Community-contri...

Every time I see an announcement from RethinkDB I get excited to try it, and then I see there is no driver for Java/Scala.
They were always shipping to the US. They are adding international locations.
>it is worth it for the chance that

Whats the value here? This is just another proprietary nutrient slurry. We already have those.
Google already made it... but only the NSA has access to it.
When I worked at Google there were projectors in the lobby which projected a sampling of queries coming through in "real time." And like you I noticed that there weren't any queries for things I knew people were querying for, so like any curious Googler I went out and found the source code for the program that did that, and yes, as you would expect, it filters out the naughty bits. (and various other searches that are attempted and of dubious moral value).

At Blekko (where I currently work) I wrote a similar application so that we could watch searches, live, on our display monitors.

It has been invaluable in identifying robotic searches and amusing to watch how some folks mangle the english language in their quest for porn, but most interestingly for me is that it is a great way to train your urban dictionary app since the OED doesn't define 'underass' but if you look at the pages that contain the term you can compute what folks take it to mean ;-), and then you can add it to the filter list.
I see Microsoft in a position similar to RIM 5 - 8 years back. They have tons of revenue from big business that are kinda locked in to their stack. There is no need for large innovation in those very mature markets and they innovate by pushing more of the same. I may not be an office power use, but I see very little significant changes in Office since 2003, only small features tweaked.
It's interesting that you just assume the OP would take your side on those issues. If literally everyone agreed, they would not be an issue. :)

Completely orthogonally, sometimes people judge someone based on the intention behind their actions.
I'm kind of flabbergasted that there is no Java driver listed as either a primarily supported driver or a community one. I personally do most of my work in Scala now but it would make the most sense to have a well supported driver written in Java so any other JVM based language can take advantage of it. Why is there no love for the JVM?
And you need money to do that. Or is crowdfunding now not cool?
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Not sure how anybody could actually survive without a balanced diet of hot dogs and pretzels.
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Well yes, you are destroying their property. You harm others by destroying their things, both physically (it consumes time to replace them, it inconveniences them if the target of vandalism, theft, or other defamation becomes unusable, etc).

It is why I brought up pets as property, to cover animal cruelty. If someone else recognizably owns something in the legal system (via valid transaction recognized as voluntary exchange on the part of both parties) than someone else misusing that possession in any ways is grounds to cause harm to the owning party, given that the violence against property was not agreed upon (ie, the owner didn't say demolish my house in a contract).
So all US government agencies are in effect one? What am I to make of the GAO constantly finding fraud and waste? A clever subterfuge?
The AWS medium tested is a single core. The Azure is dual core. Context switching could account for the difference in preformance.

Just because they are both labeled medium doesn't mean they're comparable. The Azure is also about %50 more the AWS last time I looked..

Edit: I was wrong about the pricing. They are similarly priced.
Which they often do, hence the proverb.
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Hi Slava, this is a bit tangential to the topic at hand -- but I was wondering how RethinkDB plans to support itself...

It looks like an open source project with an enormous amount of amazing talent behind it, and YC backing; but considering that it's FOSS now; how do you plan on generating revenue?
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Interesting comment and explanation, I was wondering why shares were rising in Myriad and the industry:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/myriad-genetics-share...

The high court ruled that genes naturally found in the body cannot be patented, but that synthetically created genetic material, called cDNA, can be patented. That leaves an opening for Myriad to continue making money, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court’s majority decision.

The Supreme Court's move triggered a rally in genetic companies, while none as powerful as Myriad's gains. Industry giant Amgen rose 75 cents, or 0.8%, to $97.12. Smaller genetic companies such as Vermillion, Enzo Biochem and Qiagen rose 1%, 0.9% and 0.7% respectively.
Expensive phone bills?
When huge numbers of people take intense interest in your hobby and keep shouting "shut up and take my money!", to the tune of millions of dollars, it kinda motivates you to go worldwide with it as soon as possible.

You know, what ycombinator is all about.
This isn't hacker school.
Isn't the Netherlands under even worse surveillance than the US? There were many top posts on HN over the last week suggesting this.
That's still 5 meals worth of variety. Also, what about breakfast and lunch? Are you having the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner on each day?
I wonder how the creator of Ensure (or Soylent) would feel knowing that they're products were being used in this way..
Thanks for the suggestions. Have you used any of them?
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pg,

Would you consider adding "Consumer-friendly security and anti-surveillance startups" to ideas that YC would like to fund.
Care to cite how the body makes one feel sick for eating the same again and again granted that the food delivers required nutrients with no deficiencies?

I have no personal experience nor have I ever heard of this occuring, although I have never heard of someone actually following such a diet either.
It might be just because the OP linked to "launchsky.com/#" but if I follow that link, then click your logo ("launchsky.com"), then I can no longer come back to Hacker News via the back button -- it just endlessly cycles between those two pages.
I suspect such data wouldn't be that useful even if it included model names because by the time you have good data on a model it's old enough that it's no longer price competitive.

Speaking of SSDs, I noticed that Netflix is already deploying the brand new Crucial m500, although their monkeys probably care more about cost than reliability.
Single-page apps hurt the web; they break navigation. It's a good thing that Google penalizes them.
I really encourage everyone to just give this DB a spin, with homebrew or their Ubuntu PPA it is a dead simple install process. I guarantee that the first touch experience will be among the best DB experiences you've had. Their built-in web UI is so incredibly polished and handy.

Also, a nice +1 for RethinkDB is when I was importing way too much data for the (accidentally) way too small EC2 instance, the OOM killer kept knocking off RethinkDB but not a single doc had been corrupted. I've done similar stupid things with other DB's and... well, data was lost.

We're still working through it for analytics, I hope to do a write up sometime soon.
this is unlike heroku because you are given a server you have root access to. meaning you can actually setup unlimited* rails apps.
Can this be a vision that is totally disruptive, not now but but 5 (or 10) years in the future?

It looks like GitHub is looking at allowing collaborations between knowledge domains. Within their blog post, it said "People are already using GitHub to store everything from Chicago zipcodes to community radio stations to historic hurricane paths, and we can't wait to see what the community will begin to collaborate on next."

So I am guessing that GitHub is putting a few small services that folks could use with the collaborations. Mapping services is one of them, another could be public transport information services. I think it all depends on what kind of data are being held in GitHub.

Now, if this collaboration idea is spun off to someone like to DropBox where there are truck loads of data in there, we could see some interesting things.
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Agreed, but I still think it bears some relevance in this situation. Is any security added by making these programs and processes secret? What would the security issues be if everyone knew exactly what was being collected, when it could be accessed, and the requisite processes needed to access it?
More precisely, at 2:00:35, "...and are deleted after a period of five years."
This is better suited for thebotnet.com
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>Someday, Google will know what I'm going to Google before I Google it.

You raise a good point that very few people understand. What information you receive determines, to a large extent, what you think. The relationship between inputs and thoughts is somewhat messy, especially for those people who can take apart ideas and put them back together in novel ways. However, people of below average intelligence, who only think in analogies to concepts they are familiar with, have behaviour and thought patterns that are very regular.
They both cost $0.12/hour unreserved, so it's a fair comparison if you are thinking performance per dollar.
Because this guy is making a fortune on a very simple and ancient idea brought into practice after some self studying.

If Soylent delivers and can be capitalized on, this guy saves the world. On an ancient idea, simplest of them all, which everyone said was impossible.
It's more organic than you think. Employees want to see something, so they sell others on and work on it themselves if they can. If they can sell others to help, eventually it can ship. If not, then it atrophies and gets killed before it makes it out to the public.
I wonder about priorities when I read this. For example, how do I diff two commits via Github? There is a blog post describing this feature:

https://github.com/blog/612-introducing-github-compare-view

However it seems the UI has changed, and the only way I could find to use it was to manually construct the URL.

I'd love for someone to show me some obvious UI I've missed. Diffing is really fundamental for a VCS. I'd much rather Github cleaned up the UI for existing features than added these little flourishes that I can't imagine even 1% of users use.
Cases before FISC present details of specific sources and methods and specific targets of foreign surveillance that don't know NSA is "on to them". Those proceedings were never going to be public. Similar things happen in domestic cases, which are often sealed.
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If there is strong public interest in changing systems, then there will be strong political pressure on those in office to work towards alternate systems. With this, is is reasonable to think that, after a process of debate, we will converge enough to one solution that we can pass it, both with the direct supporters and people who support it because it is better than nothing.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

Azure is listed at $0.18/hour.

Edit: My mistake. Windows is $0.18/hour, Linux is $0.12.

Edit2: Now that's interesting, Microsoft charges more for a Windows VM.
Apologies, physicists are often off by an order of magnitude ;)
If it works like their current 'family' accounts do, then everybody is basically sharing the same gold membership. So you all pay for xbox live gold on the same billing information.
>Scrambled eggs are pushing it, preparation takes like 15 minutes and there’s the dirty pan left afterwards. But sometimes I still enjoy them.

How the hell does it take 15mins to prep scrambled eggs? It should take less than 5 and your cleanup should take all of a minute

1. Put Small/medium saucepan on stove

2. Add 1/2 Tbsp butter

3. Crack 2 eggs into pan (Do no beat beforehand)

4. Put pan on mid-low flame and stir briskly for 2-3mins or until eggs are at a runny-curds texture (soft but "together").

5. Plate
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How come no one ever posts sbout web2py?
I like it but everyone here only talks about flask or dango.
I'm increasingly thinking that the biggest competitor we have isn't other forum software (who aren't innovating), but Github.

Our startup ( http://microco.sm/ ) is working on improving communities, which most people read as vBulletin, phpBB, Discourse... but my view is simply that if you have a group of people together around some interest (topic, locality, project) that they want to communicate, share, transact at every level.

And that, the fragmented experience of going to Google Maps, Facebook Events or Eventbrite, Wikipedia, review sites, eBay, etc... just to bring the last 5% into a community... well that's frustrating and a poor user experience.

Instead the first 60-80% of the functionality elsewhere should just be in the tool. Where the community already is.

And we're starting with forums and going outward, in every direction (it feels). And here is github, starting with the code, and also heading outward, in every direction.

I've a great deal of love for Github (as a dev, how could I not)... so I wish them well. They're solving things from a dev/work perspective, and we're aiming at consumers/users/hobbies/interests... but still, I've no doubt that we've a lot to learn from them, and when we're up to speed perhaps we can teach them a thing or two.
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I ask because several FFLs have reported having their local ATF agent bring printouts of their NICS check histories to check against the bound book.

If true, clearly someone would have to be holding NICS records and the ATF would have to have access to them.
I'm still a bit astonished by the number of times I've seen searches in the United States for "weather.com". Searches for "National Weather Service" I can understand, but "weather.com"?!
Github is becoming, in addition to a place to share code/data, the commandline program between "cat data |" and someone else's eyes.

cat gps_data.txt | github --pretty-maps > the world
You can say goodbye to it if that will be patentable. Someone will patent all combinations - and goodbye.
That's a great question. While we only have the bandwidth to officially support three client drivers (we've internally developed the Python, Ruby, and JavaScript drivers), an enormous number of projects have sprung up to build drivers for everything from Go to C# / .NET, PHP, Haskell, Erlang, and more.

As far as a JVM-based client driver, kclay in this thread mentioned that he's been building a Scala driver that is compatible with 1.5, and will update it for 1.6. There's also a thread on Google Groups (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rethinkdb...) detailing some efforts on a Java driver to date.

If you're interested in contributing, shoot me an email at mike [at] rethinkdb.com. I'd love to see a Java driver happen, and we'll do everything we can to support such a project.
This reminds me of trying to determine the scope of your company.

I remember reading somewhere (probably here) that part of the reason the railroads failed to adapt to cars was because they thought of themselves as railroad companies instead of transportation companies. Maybe github is thinking of themselves as a collaborative work company rather than a collaborative coding company and trying to adapt to that.