skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a solution to that. Do not store data from a customer from one country, in another region.
Actually, the biggest european hosting company, OVH, is doing just that in order to launch in North America, and protect its European, Canadian, and USA customers:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
> He never said anything about any jail sentence being reasonable. He just said 13yrs is unreasonable.

1. It sounds like GP thinks jail is reasonable based on "I sure would like them to be arrested and given a good punishment so they won't do it again."

2. He actually didn't say that 13 years was unreasonable, he just said that it was unlikely
What Not To Say When a Friend’s Company is Failing
My point was that it doesn't matter that HE can't come up with anything. The IRS agent can't just be like, "well I don't think there's any way that a tea party group could be doing social welfare. Denied!" They have to use actual facts. They look at where their money was spent. They look at the rules and regulation for what is considered social welfare and what isn't. Then they determine whether or not 51% of that money was spent on social welfare.
Don't get your news from RT.

Hear. Hear. From an earlier comment thread about the unreliability of rt.com as a source:

> The source of the submitted article, rt.com, is not known for careful journalism.

Understatement of the year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247829
I find the web programming model to be very difficult and limiting relative to desktop or mobile UI development. I don't take on any development work in that area because it is so unpleasant to me (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, DOM manipulation, and making that stuff work on multiple browsers reliably). I suspect I am not the only one hoping that someone comes up with an entirely new web development model that is much more like classic desktop UI development, and portable. JavaServer Faces was one attempt I can think of. GWT is another.

The user experience with web apps isn't there yet either, particularly for mobile where you don't have a mouse, keyboard, and screen real estate to burn.

There are of course many other advantages web-based applications. Good application UX is just not one of those advantages and I think it is the main reason that native continues to rule mobile, not anything Apple or any other mobile OS vendor is doing.
Ideally, the artist wants you to come to their concerts. Even better, they want you to come to their concert, go to the merch table, and buy two of everything they have available for sale. In the traditional model, the vast majority of album revenue goes to the record label. The artist makes the most money from band merchandise sales (think KISS), followed closely by concerts.

If you truly want to support the artist, go to every single one of their concerts and buy three t-shirts.
I'm having a hard time understanding your point of view, it seems to have no unifying principle. But if I take your last sentence as what you really believe then the obvious response is that once governments can be relied on to not abuse their ability to keep secrets then they will have earned the privilege to maintain their diaries in secret.
I dunno about the judge or the specifics. It's a RT post so not sure how accurate it is. The guy is in San Diego which is a very uptight republican town, so they are using gang graffiti laws as a hammer. Sucks, but pretty typical of how differences in locale can affect outcomes in the USA. If this happened in SF nobody would care.
Okay, thanks for all the info! It's indeed about my blog, and I host it myself on a fairly recent version of Apache.
Programming is a life long learning process. I'd venture to say most computer programmers don't have computer science degrees in the same way most musicians don't have formal training. If you don't have a passion for it combined with talent, no amount of university training will fix that.
I've noticed there is an often a correlation with article quality and comment-to-upvote ratio. When something has X upvotes and X+ comments I've learned they often tend to descend into low-quality back-and-forths over oft-tread topics and tangents, often because the article itself makes poor or overly confident statements about a topic that lends itself to the low-quality back-and-forth cycle. Meanwhile, a quality article gets hardly any comments because people have fewer "contrarian" things to spit out and others have fewer
"contra-contrarian" things to respond. Wonder if this is already taken into account when ranking articles, or could be.
> If my service runs Apache, MySQL, the source is on github, but NSA has access to all the data, how does being open-source help?

I can host it on my own server and not share the data, or make a fork which respects user privacy and compete with you. Failing that, I can verify any claims you make about the integrity of the data - what is kept and how it is stored - and petition for appropriate change.
Pandora is actually operating at quite a big loss:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=P&ql=1
Try the same experiment in Russia (the place of publication of this story) and let us know how the experiment goes.

AFTER EDIT: I'm fully serious in the suggestion "try the same experiment in Russia." Let's be empirical here. Once we know how a lot of actual cases turn out, we have something to talk about that is more informative than one anecdote.

P.S. The pattern of upvotes and downvotes on this comment is especially interesting in light of the replies it has received.
I have a rugged white wall used by mi nieces to draw using Crayola Chalks to prove otherwise. I don't have a power washer but I did tried washing it using a hose with an attachment. Then scrubbing it with soap and in faded considerably but didn't went away completely.

Still why will someone have to pay/do the work to clean up the mess that this guy was doing (for six months, 13 times!), just because it's a "political message" it's ok to make a mess and have other people clean it up?
Here's a weird case:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=43.047565,-123.758926&...

Zoom in one and out one. The patchwork brown flops in some of the grid.
Sure, but at least people are sharing information, trying to shut down sketchy drug makers in China putting out adulterated product, teaching basic purification techniques, talking about drugs to stay away from (lots of MXE addiction stories and MCAT horror stories on bluelight). I know a fair amount of people that ingest grey-market research chemicals. I don't think any of them have any illusions that what they are doing is "safe". But then again, alcohol is quite physically dangerous, has a bad addiction profile, and makes people do far more stupid and dangerous things that many more mind-altering drugs. There's lots of people doing unsafe things in the pursuit of hedonism or escape.

As long as quasi-legal analogues and new substances are going to be sold as cheap highs in head shops and adult video stores and the like, which they most certainly are now that more and more designer drugs are being produced everyday, I certainly want knowledgable people sharing their bad, and good experiences with others.

If some people enjoy beta-testing new substances knowing their long-term safety profile is completely unknown, would you rather it be done completely in the dark, or at least with ideas of dosage ranges, knowledge of warning signs of overdose,etc etc.

While it's clear that Shulgin was more responsible than a lot of budding teenage psychonauts, that's not always the case (Lilly's use of ketamine comes to mind), and it's not clear what he was doing was inherently less dangerous. He was often the first person in history to test a substance.
It's not the computation itself, it's the GPU memory bandwidth it takes up. (Assuming you're doing it in real-time of course.)
Seriously, you can SAY a Honda Fit is an advertisement for Honda cars in general. But the car is still the product. Only with music. With no other product than music, do people in our culture so consistently rationalize getting one thing for free as exposure or advertising for some hypothetical other revenue stream that will one day happen down the line.
I have a small child who draws rainbows all the time. There's no symbolism or subtext beside the desire to make use of all of the crayons.

Don't worry, the kids are just fine. As are the trout.
So long as it's a kind of adolescence period, it's not all that much of a 'waste'. Very good tools are being built to do mundane and transient things - but they are still good tools. Good ways to visualize, sort, design and otherwise interact on a gigantic network are being fine-tuned and honed.

Now imagine how, once made easy, pretty, useful and rapidly developable, those 'non-foolish' ideas will be after a decade or two of sustained practice on the 'foolish' ideas. It could be quite possible these foolish ideas are the etudes to the valley's greater works of art.

I'm graduating from a hard science PhD shortly, and I'd love to be able to sic the ease, prettiness, and developmental talent onto some pretty hardcore problems.
iPhone vs Android for this? Good question, although 'meet people nearby' Apps like Highlight launched on iPhone, so I'd say it's an ok choice here.
I tried it with my own - I like to read Batman comics. Frighteningly accurate.
who are these people working frequently with angles, but doing it in degrees?
On a related note, running this against google.com shows that they support Forward Secrecy as well.
It's determined by a cop who has a binder of graffiti photos. Graffiti cases never see a jury. The defendant gets slammed with a potential $500K fine and decade in jail and then they plea bargain it down to a lesser fine, probation and community service, maybe short jail time if it's not the first offense.
That's the first thing that came to mind for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Am I the only one who couldn't recognize the Scala logo till I saw the HTML source?
Don't do it in Waco http://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/theft-of-ribs...
Personally, I think that the real reason why people with degrees are having a hard time getting jobs is that at one time, having a degree meant you came from money. The problem now? this is diluted. More and more poor folk have degrees, and so it's no longer a reliable class indicator. (the positive view is that it's also possible that class indicators are becoming less important.)

The problem was that they confused cause with effect, and decided that we should put a bunch of effort into getting degrees for poor people. This diluted the degree as a class indicator.

Now, I don't have a degree or rich parents, so obviously, I haven't seen the parts of the job market that rely on those class markers. I'm the riff-raff that those filters are designed to keep out.

However, from where I stand? most individual contributor jobs in my industry that I'm actually qualified for are open to me. In the tech sector, the value of a degree is smaller than actual work experience. (I mean, if you actually /learned/ something while getting that degree, that's pretty valuable. But the paper itself is not.) Internships? they are paid. Maybe not paid a lot, but something, and the real companies usually pay substantially.

As far as I can tell, unpaid internships are 'class marker inflation' - "Not only did my parents have enough cash to put me through four years of art history, and the contacts to get me this internship, they could support me while I worked for free!"
Algorithmic Privacy versus Personal Privacy
I used to believe that, but now I am not as sure.

I'm not sure most average people use bit torrent anymore. And the web is an extremely inconvenient way to try to access illegal content.
> Not quite true, I don't think. Around the late 90s, early 00s there was a lot of marketing around the high Mhz of the Mac CPU compared with PCs

Funnily enough that exactly corresponds to Apple's dark period
My god, even when Americans try to protest and demonstrate and have their voices heard, the corporate interests have the law clamp down on them and even takes away their free speech rights.

Americans need to start protesting, big time, right now!

Things are going down hill, fast.
Why does something have to be wrong with the system for that to be happening?
convicted?
> I don't see much difference between it and GTalk utility-wise.

You see online/idle/offline/mobile/mobile-idle icons and status messages in hangouts?
Before using HTM, I encourage the OP to use lockfree structures and atomics.

Transactional memory is absolutely not free and certainly not a silver bullet.

Additionally, without proper compiler support it's going to be very hard to use it properly.
Exactly. Someone should have told him, and he should not have committed suicide.

But probably someone did tell him, and his suicide was because of other things.
Of COURSE if there is to be an Internet Hall of Fame, RMS has to be in it.

But they were between a rock and a hard place last year, given that the FSF was itself founded by RMS. They probably waited a year to avoid immediate whining of "RMS created an award to give to himself".
Not everyone supports gay marriage and not all opinions are deserving of the same amount of respect. It's OK for companies like Google to have the courage to have an opinion.
Fun fact about Russia: while we were striking down DOMA today, Saint Petersburg was working to criminalize same-sex couples.
In San Diego, property owners are responsible for fixing normal wear and tear on sidewalks. I don't know if this would cover cleaning up graffiti or not.

http://www.sandiego.gov/street-div/services/roadways/sidewal...
I really dislike the idea of /usr/local. Users should install everything through the package manager, otherwise stuff just collects in /usr/local and there's no easy way to remove it (if 3 different users install 5 different programs in /usr/local, how do you remove one of those programs?).

Also, one thing I think is needed right now is an easy way for users to install programs in $HOME, only for themselves (not system-wide) and without root access. On most distros (AFAIK), you can only do "sudo apt-get install PKG" (or something similar) which installs the package system-wide for everyone, or you can go through the whole configure&&make fun to install a program in your home directory. I'd like to see something like $HOME/bin and $HOME/lib where users can auto-install binaries that only they use.
Ask HN: Alerts on Mobile/Tablet Application
What are the current trends when it comes to displaying alerts or messages to the user within a phone or tablet application?
We've seen prosecutorial overreach over and over again on protest activities (and whistleblowing and computer crimes). This is more of that.

Whether he ends up being sentenced this harshly doesn't alter the fact that it is absurd, and immoral, that it's possible and at the discretion of a prosecutor who has a vested interest in putting people in jail for a long time.

That the state is taking the bank's word that washable children's chalk caused $6000 worth of damage is also absurd. There's a lot of absurdity and unethical behavior in this story, and I think outrage is justified.
I think judges usually do escalated punishment.

I don't any prison time would be fair time at this point. Maybe paying for cleaning all the damage and doing some community service (he did it 13 times in a lapse of 6months).

Then if he goes and does it again, maybe prison time will discourage him for doing it again?

I don't see him as a political protester, but as equal to someone painting gang signs.
"They are killing Jingle and XMPP by depreciating Talk..."

As of two or three weeks ago, the Hangouts videoconferencing code used WebRTC, Jingle, and a variety of video and audio codecs (among which one could find Opus.).

If you run the software on a *nix system, you can verify my claims by checking the contents of /tmp/gtalkplugin.log while you're in a video call with someone. Note that that file seems to be flushed to disk at irregular intervals, and that it is removed after the call is terminated.
How do we know what consumers are willing to pay? How do we know this is a fixed number and can't be altered by other factors?
To prove him pissing off the bank. The Huffington Post [0] says that he was instructed to stop by law enforcement, which he did. He pissed off Darell Freeman, vice president of Bank of America's Global Corporate Security whom aggressively pressured city attorneys to bring charges against Olson until they announced that they would do so in April.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jeff-olson-californ...
Installing the Windows 8.1 Preview on Microsoft Surface RT (Video)
CoreAnimation is another great example: it was first made public in the summer of '06. It's easier to see why they were working on such a thing now.
> Less accessible. Objective C is a strange, low-level, difficult-to-learn, niche language used only for mac development.

I don't think you know what a low level language is. Also, Obj-C is quite a breeze to learn.
I sent you an email with a workaround and instructions on how to capture the logs I would need to debug it. I'll also try to reproduce this myself shortly.
To quote you: "Citation"?

What iOS features have been present for three years that Android is just now getting?

Let's be clear too, three years ago, iOS was at version 3.1.3.

I would love to be enlightened, as an iPhone 5/iPad 4/rMBP owner.
I agree with everything except "forced the Chinese and Irish to work under horrific conditions building the nation's railways." The conditions were terrible, but I don't think the laborers were forced. They were paid, voluntary labor. Perhaps you would say that they were exploited by their employers, but they weren't "forced" in quite the same way as, say, African laborers prior to 1864.
Then why not just say that? Surely there are sales people in the world who care about consumer metrics and analytics.
Talent, curiosity, interest and practice will find a way. I think what you are saying applied pre-Google, but now it's easy to see the path ahead.
Why should society foot the bill to jail this guy for any amount of time when a far lower sum of money could be used to rent a pressure washer to make him use to clean it up?
Starbucks Tip Debate: Who Is Really Getting Your Cash?
Hangouts currently seems to use WebRTC behind the scenes. See my comment here for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5949188
Sure, he almost certainly will not face the full 13 year sentence if convicted. Sure, the bar against first amendment arguments seem likely to be struck down on appeal. Sure, it probably won't turn out as bad as the worst case scenario.

These are all true.

There is something terribly wrong here, anyway. The fact that he's facing up to 13 years in prison for what amounts to graffiti or very-low-level harassment (the article made no mention of threats, e.g.) is a very bad sign.

When the government, or private interests directing the government, can threaten a dissenter with a decade or more in squalid[1], overcrowded[2], deadly[3] prisons for minor nuisances, we are all endangered.

[1]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/29/cali-m29.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_California#Prison_g...

[3]: http://solitarywatch.com/2013/03/15/california-prison-condit...
Are you suggesting, that it is plausible, that -- sitting at MIT, like RMS -- he is naive enough not to be aware? (The first sentence is a fact.)
Is that logging, maybe? It looks like the more zoomed out was actually a picture taken later, as the areas that were cleared in the closer zoom become brownish-green, and there's all new areas that are all brown that were before all green.
The San Diego Reader has a little more background, it's also clearer that he was writing with chalk on city sidewalk:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/jun/2...
> and some of the established practices are weird (radio paying only songwriters, not performers), and now it's all being disrupted.

Might as well pay royalties to sound engineers and producers, for that matter. To me it is a question of whether or not someone was a dedicated member to the group or simply someone who was hired to do a set job. I mean, some musicians do all the songwriting and playing, some are hired to play a given sheet music verbatim, etc. The latter is not very different from a sound engineer who is hired to work on one album for a fixed hourly pay.

It's kind of interesting how the musicians are the heroes of the music world and always the one that are focused on when it comes to "fair pay" etc, but the world of music isn't simply divided into the working musicians and the record label suits. Some people have suggested donating to the musicians directly instead of buying their albums (opting to pirate them instead), and that works of course the band was behind financing the whole album. If they weren't, though, then it glosses over some of the other players...
Apple doesn't need to introduce delicious eye-candy to its interfaces that nobody needs to hamper web developers...they can just keep neutering the shit out of WebView by keeping it several generations behind the Safari javascript engine.
Mystery meat navigation! I couldn't identify Python or Scala.
Food items are often dealt with in dozens - eggs and doughnuts, for example. Presumably, most people will end up dealing in dozens of eggs at some point.
Nice. Quite a well written article.
I am especially interested in how Tweetbot is going to adapt to the iOS 7 interface. I love to use it on iOS 6 but as the OP points out the interface is very "heavy" -- full of bevels, shadows, and gradients -- when compared to iOS 7.
And for JS. Whoops :P
Tracking pixels in emails have been around for many years and are used by almost everybody. That's why many email clients block images by default.
There are many things people might generalize about the brand from having experience with one instance of that brand. By driving a bmw, for example, you might get to experience the luxury offered by bmw-built cars.

You can keep asserting what you like, but I don't think what I just said is unreasonable at all.
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OK, I don't know anything about US laws, but I really don't understand it. How can a judge forbid mentioning constitution or amendments in court? I thought constitution is the most important part of US law system and it seems this judge overruled it just like that. How could he do this?
ATM XMPP federation is still up and running. If enough people approach the Messaging folks at Google with coherent, well-reasoned reasons for leaving it up (and perhaps securing it with TLS!), then it might get left up for good.
I agree. If I lived in San Diego, I'd donate money to get rid of that City Attorney, who is flagrantly wasting taxpayer dollars on frivolous prosecutions that are trashing the city's image. I would have grave concerns about the judgement of a City Attorney who thought that 13 counts of vandalism for chalking a building --- a charge that practically demands a vigorous and expensive defense --- was the right way to get this guy to stop chalking buildings.

The RT story is still ridiculous.
[citation needed]

I'm pretty sure they made the money from selling the music people heard on the radio.
Yup i've been using localtunnel.. but this looks interesting. Bookmarked!
Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer 11 is coming to Windows 7
He's not correct. In fact the post is full of goobledock he only partly understands.
"So deal with it and find a way to make money or quit. That's really all there is to say IMO."

I listen to music, I don't create it[1]. This is not the choice that I face, and there's plenty else to say in terms of how I want to direct my attention and my dollars.

[1] at least, not for other people [2]

[2] or at least, they don't appreciate it when it is...
It's also mentioned in the OP.