skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't pick and choose what breakthroughs in technology, science and medicine will result from the Space Program (as has already been demonstrated). Simply developing one solution leads to a plethora of others that will go on to benefit society in numerous unforeseen ways.

NASA puts out a wonderful publication of the branches and side products, services and technologies that has come about as a result of the space program thus far (this is since the moon landing). Hint: It's more than just "Velcro".

Space programs of Mars exploration caliber stimulates all, read that word again please, all branches of sciences. All branches of engineering. All branches of mathematics. All branches of biology and medicine. The benefit to society is nearly incalculable, but if you must put a dollar amount, it's well above a paltry $trillion (the actual cost will be in the billions, far less than the monthly consumption of the pointless war in Iraq).

The tragedy that plagues all of our generations, it seems, is that great feats that suddenly leaps in progress in all areas of our lives have to fight through an insurmountable myopia. Similar to what happened soon after landing on the moon.

Part of me hopes China colonizes Mars first. America is long overdue for a lesson in hubris. Maybe they'll appreciate the new breakthroughs in the above mentioned fields more than the American populace can.
There is no need for that decryption to occur server-side.
The real issue with bundling software is that you can't pull in a security patch. You actually have the same issue with internal packages at large companies. If you can stay on the current release you can drastically reduce the effect of security bugs.
Nice collection. Enough stuff to wander through and be certain I'll find something of interest, or discover something I was previously unaware of altogether.
This is 100% correct. Southwest uses SAAS, which is so old that last year they begrudgingly updated because the Big Iron SABRE was using to host these things was no longer being supported by IBM.

SAAS is mostly a Sabre Product at this point though, Southwest has requested so many modifications at this point that SAAS is basically custom.
I don't know, I think looking at passengers while talking is something you do once and then realise that it is stupid.

I did it once, because it seemed natural to look at the person I was talking to, but I immediately felt endangered and have never done it since.

Whereas with the inaccurate portrayal of drowning response, by the time you've realised that what you're doing is wrong somebody is dead.
Oh yes.

I love the idea of actually just asking for feedback. And then putting a dev in front of the ones who actually have something constructive to say.
That is, in fact, one badass list. Nice work, great resource.
http://timnova.neocities.org
What browser? Middle mouse click works fine on links regardless of target in most browsers I'm used to (certainly in FF, Chrome, IE on Windows).
What if the 'buzz' generated by all of these people inspires a few people to actually do substantive? Kinda like how spam only needs a few clicks per million to generate a profit.

This is just speculation but it helps me cope with the facebook activism.
Big reveal here is that Goolge stores a copy of each message everytime it is auto-saved while composing, and never deletes it.
> The NSA is on a continual war footing. Its job is to help defend the United States from its enemies.

The NSA appears to perceive the people it's tasked with the defending - American citizens - as an enemy. It's the natural result of all centralized surveillance states.
Candidate Obama Debating President Obama On Government Surveillance
I should clarify that I wasn't warning against signing the petition, merely adding a thought to the "well at the very worst it can't do any harm" logic. Make up your own mind on whether signing it is good, bad, or neither :)
Am I the only one who finds it amazing that this is front page news these days?

What's next, news that a state requires a trial before sentencing?
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The "Lady Be Good" Ghost Bomber of WWII
That's why they outsource it in part to wonderful p̶r̶o̶f̶i̶t̶e̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ patriotic corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton and their private equity owners :D
If Route53 ever supports Primary/Secondary DNS Zone Transfers (AXFR/IXFR) it will be a no brainer for us, too. Even with Amazon, we just can't have all our DNS eggs in one basket.
the journalist was obviously trying to say something
They're not orthogonal; they're two directed graphs with the same vertices and different edges.

If the dependency graph G = (V, E) has a vertex for every software project and an edge x -> y iff downstream project y depends on upstream project x, then the change-flow network is the graph C = (V, F), where there is an edge x -> y in F iff there is a downstream path between x and y in G and also y requires an update and re-release when x changes (e.g., because it bundles a copy of x in its releases).

So if there is a change to project x, for it to flow to all affected dependents, you must update all downstream neighbors of x in the change-flow network C.

For example, consider the following dependency graph, in which library L is used by downstream library L2, and L2 by project P:

L -> L2 -> P

If none of the projects bundle their upstream dependencies in their own releases, then the corresponding change-flow network has no edges, and updating any project requires only re-releasing its own package to satisfy all dependencies:

L
L2
P

But if L2 bundles a copy of L, and P bundles a copy of L2, then the corresponding network looks like this:

L -> L2
L -> P

L2 -> P

P

A change to L requires re-releasing not only L but also L2, and P. A change to L2 requires re-releasing L2 and also P.

Does that make more sense now?
From the article, "(Metadata describes basic information on who has been contacting whom, without detailing the content.)".

Could someone let the journalists know what metadata really is? I mean, come on. Metadata is a concise, highly valued description of the data, also including identifying information. In other words, keywords!

For this comment, the keywords (metadata) might be:

Journalists
Metadata
Meta
Data
Article
Myself and plenty of other US citizens and residents understand the imperialistic tyrrany of the fed.

The problem is that 90% of the population isn't engaged, is brainwashed by national news networks, and is complacent in their lives eating McDonalds and watching Desperate Housewives. They accept being exploited and the atrocities they vote in with their amazing public service of going to a polling place for 10 minutes every 2 or 4 years (and they never vote for their local mayors or judges).

The only way anything would truly change in the USA is if that massive body that spans 2 deviations of income in both directions of the bell curve lost their ability to keep fattening themselves up or if they tv went out.
How do start-ups justify spending that much when there is not the same amount of profit generated per month? Are the VC's they guessing what the potential revenue will be?
Important to extend your Venn diagram to the "Five Eyes". Canada, US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. A much wider intersection is possible in that context.
> Probably goes without saying, but this is definitely a beta project.

It indeed goes without saying, since you don't mention this on the site.
I can't deny some of the drive for exploration is financially driven, but you'll find no shortage of volunteers just to claim the bragging rights. Then, of course there's an entire legion of folks ready to do anything for God and Country, so plenty of volunteers there too.
"...your defence budget (how large is it again)"

It's about the size of the 10 biggest following countries COMBINED! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.
Good lord, what a list. Thanks for this one.
Seriously awesome list. Book marked and sent to friends/people I work with.

In a way shame this hit HN on a Saturday, this is one of those lists people need to find when sitting at their desk.
Obama threatened to veto CISPA if it landed on his desk without the privacy issues fixed.
UK 'biggest spy' among the Five Eyes 
The Guardian cited British intelligence memos leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to claim that UK spies were tapping into the world's network of fibre optic cables to deliver the "biggest internet access" of any member of the Five Eyes - the name given to the espionage alliance composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Nice catch. It did not occur to me that people would run a program without installing it, use command-not-found and/ignore the suggests list when installing a package. As another commenter pointed out this has nothing to do with splitting packages up. Its a toss up between user error or bug in c-n-f.
I'm surprised that I, as a non-US citizen living in the Netherlands, could sign that.
It's not just drowning. There's actually a whole category[1] on TV Tropes for things portrayed in dangerously misleading ways. The misleading portrayals of heart attacks and first aid in general are some of the things that worry me the most.

[1] (Warning! TV Tropes is the most addictive website I know of. Proceed only if you know how to handle it and/or have nowhere to be for several hours.) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TelevisionIsTryin...
> The reservation system itself runs on old school IBM big iron written in C. The system is so damn old that when you go southwest.com, all the information retrieved is done via screen scraping.

Man, say what you will about old mainframes and critical systems and C and COBOL versus racks of commodity x86 boxes and Java and Ruby and "scaling out" and load balancers and reverse proxies and ..., but those old business apps running on the AS/400s and mainframes?

They just work(TM).

I agree that these old systems need to come into the 21st century but some of the most stable, reliable systems I've seen in my career are 20- or 30-year-old applications running on that old iron.

(mmm, 5150, 3270, CICS, JCL, RJE, IBM printers as big as refrigerators... sigh... sometimes I miss those days.)
Do you agonize over the fact that 90 people died today in car accidents in the US? About a 1/3 are related to drunk driving.

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...

Someday when 90 people die on Mars, people will say we should never have gone. The incredible loss of life...

There are 7 billion people on the planet and we're all going to be dead in about 100 years. Stop being afraid.
The companies are obvious.

BT is one.
Trading Lives For Freedom Is The American Way
So you get hit by a zero-day and then you are compromised. What then?
Data Dealer[game]
Further derail: for those who aren't familiar, datong (大同, "great harmony"), is a idealized state of society in traditional Chinese philosophy that been re-appropriated by just every school of thought or "-ism" from before Confucious to Mao and beyond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_unity

There's some lengthy (English) discussion on the term in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Chinese-Revolution-Historical-Pers...
I humbly disagree. (Unless by America you mean Mexico).

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

- Benjamin Franklin
The original software was from IBM, if memory serves, although I believe Southwest modified it extensively.
That was a high court injunction.
On the Tenth Anniversary of Quitting
> If those colonists go, it'll because they're dying to get rich.

I'm not sure if awesome puns are allowed on HN, but I upvoted you anyway.
Oh, I thought you were going heroin, instead you went antivax.
They may...or if they've recovered, they may not. The goal is usually to become able to react to things normally again, not become permanently stuck in damaged victim status for forever. People do manage to get over their triggers with counseling, medication, & time.

Honestly, calling an attempted kiss a sexual assault is really insulting to people who have actually been sexually assaulted. I'm really not fond of how pervasively histrionic things have gotten about it, as of late.

You don't get to decide what everyone's boundaries are just because you want to mandate complete and total obedience to gendered ideology.
".exe" and ".com" files are basically two different file formats for executable code. Note that DOS selects the file format not based on file name extension but rather by looking at the first 2 bytes in the file. If the first two bytes are "MZ" it will select "EXE mode" otherwise "COM mode".

COM files contain a single segment of code+data. The DOS authors directly reused the format from CP/M. The loader allocates a single segment of memory, then loads the com file at address 0x100, and transfers control there. So the first byte of the file contains the first instruction.

EXE files in contrast have a header that define multiple segments worth of code + data, and some environment variables. DOS allocates memory for each segment, possibly in a different order and positions on every system, loads the segment's contents from the EXE file, and then modifies each code segment to adapt to the actual locations of the other segments (that process is called relocation).
You still have to trust them and their government when you use the service. They (or their government) could delete or compel the deletion of the files, have or cause outages, etc.

Also, all the crypto in the world doesn't keep a service from logging (ip, timestamp) tuples each time you access them. You can do a lot with metadata.
What do you mean by "naturally feminine"?
I noticed a few small things:

- I found the map moving every time I hovered over a listing very jarring. Would it be better to just zoom out and keep the map static and not force a map re-center? I think it might still work the way you have it if you slow down the map move so it's not jumping around but slides more smoothly.

- The scroll speed when I used my mouse scroller on the list appeared to be slower than what I would expect or see on other sites. You might need to adjust the javascript scroller delay or sensitivity here.

- Friends is misspelled on the homepage
Can we all agree that your point (while well taken)... is really really funny in light of the subject of this article? I'd say this was a pretty spectacular instance of just not working.
I don't get it, if there is malware on your computer you are compromised anyway - it could just keylog to get the passwords... so why bother about how secure is to get the stored passwords for a program running on the same computer?

...if there was a remotely exploitable browser bug that would make the browser leak them it would be a threat, but this post seems meaningless from a security pov.
Black projects are not listed in a public budget. The premise of it being tax money is also suspect. The US government does not get all of the money from taxes despite the popular notion. I agree with your gist however; A modern day human sacrifice.
There are ways of getting around it. Travel to S.E Asia and meet some expats who have retired there. For some countries this is easier to get around than others. Mostly, people just do border runs when their 90 days are up.
If it was about anyone else on any other subject I'd agree.

Yet the select few that were lucky enough to get up there — and not even as far as Aldrin — really have ulterior motives[0] quite different than selling a few printed pages.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
I assume a real attack wouldn't use <input type="hidden" />. Instead, you'd style the input such that the user doesn't see it, but the browser thinks it's visible. Extremely low opacity and/or an incredibly small size could do the trick. To provoke the browser into autocompleting data, you might even be able to use JavaScript to fake keystrokes in the stealth form inputs.

Front-end stuff is well outside my area of expertise, so I'm betting someone already tried these ideas and now browsers protect against them.
The problem is that legalese is specially designed to make meaning today out of decisions made a century ago based on laws written over 2 centuries ago which inherit from a common law framework that came to this continent about 3 centuries ago and dates back to precedents that predate the modern English language.

If we were to make everything be written in normal English, the same problem would eventually re-emerge.
>You boys need a lesson in basic empathy.

Incidentally, not everyone here who disagrees with you is a cismale.

Please save the patronizing condescension for your tumblr blog.

When people hit on me, and/or won't leave me alone, I'm perfectly capable of telling them to piss off if I'm not interested. This goes for a gay guy, straight guy, straight girl, gay girl--whatever.
Gmail - Because stupidity will always be punished.
Wiretaps almost never involve active MITM. This is a red herring.
Was the fuel shortage due to bombing or Russians taking the oil fields? I had thought it was nearly entirely due to Russian advance, but the below article makes it seem otherwise. It quotes Speer saying how effective allies bombings were, but it is dated May 1944, which is quite late in the piece given that the tide turned, although this may have been less clear as it was still pre Normandy (just). Interesting fact from that article - the treaty with Russia gained Germany 4m barrels a year, and the subsequent invasion only gained them about the same. Are the numbers misleading? Did Germany still need to process the oil it imported, making relatively small domestic production less relevant and the processing facilities critical?
http://vanrcook.tripod.com/Germanfuelshortage.htm
The list is too massive and lacks projects' details to be useful.

I'd better use github's search.
My using encryption doesn't suddenly make all of the hundred people I regularly communicate with on gmail suddenly have PGP keys or smartphones that support encrypted messages.
The Rule of Law here pretty clearly says Snowdon should be charged, and convicted if guilty. The prosecutors are doing their jobs by arresting him.

Pardoning him would be the Rule of Man.

Just sayin' ..
so from a VC's pov, a company that could create a new market has more potential upside than one that could take over an existing market? ...seems a bit counter-intuitive because for an existing big market you know exactly how big it is, so there's no "market size related risk", whereas for a new market, there's a big risk that it will turn out to be a very small niche market. Isn't the optimization being made for something like [upside]/[risk], even if it's an intuitive estimate of course, with an important component of the [risk] being market related?
That's how it works now. It would be foolish to assume that your emails are stored on disk unencrypted.
Is there anyplace I can buy a print of the Voynich manuscript? I have long been fascinated by it but I've never seen it for sale. Amazon has some books about it, but not the manuscript itself.
Yes, once it was clear in polling that the bill was a political nonstarter nation-wide, Obama took that position. At the same time, as http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/ among others pointed out at that point, his administration was already violating privacy in all the ways that his rhetoric would say were bad.

Of course that was before the NSA revelations revealed the true extent of the spying going on.
I don't know if there are reproductions, but meanwhile, you can get page-by-page scans of it here :

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_manusc...

Edit: Better source at the Yale library you can download the whole thing as one PDF :

http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519597
Three very nice feed readers
Fully Open Hardware+Software Toolchain "Datenkrake"
There already is a distributed, encrypted email protocol. That's what gmail uses.

Trusting "someone" on a distributed network to store information for you long term isn't a good idea. They disappear and your data is gone too.

Also, if you can find them to request the data, a search warrant can find them to request it, too.

Also, crypto doesn't help. It would be foolish to assume gmail messages aren't encrypted on disk. The keys have to be stored somewhere. End users can't and won't securely store key material. Store them on the server, and it's subject to the warrant.
>To state plainly what I see in this topic: white men talking about feminism presumptuously. White knighting; "as a man, I..."; mansplaining.

But how do you know the person you're talking to is male? Or white? The person might be womansplaining instead of mansplaining for all you know.

Are you assuming they must be white and/or male because they disagree with you?

If so, is this because you consider opinions held by people of a certain skin color or biological sex to be innately inferior to others?

Something to think about.
Why, so that all the emails you send and receive can go right back to american PRISM partners? There's little point to that when everyone you email uses gmail.
There's a crowdsourced list of shops selling N95 masks on Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AuLloIXRvoaOdGxJ...
Feature request for beautiful Google+
Google+ getting beautiful by the day- One feature missing- "People"
The author only mentioned emails written in the last week (from the date of the article).

From the Gmail help site: "Please be aware, residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems for an additional period of time." [1]

I assume that previous versions (auto-saved) of emails are treated as deleted emails and are removed after 60 days, but I can't find any documentation for this.

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7401?hl=en
Great list! Thanks
Git Tutorials by Atlassian
It doesn't apply to federal law enforcement or other federal employees acting in Montana, afaik.
Sure, but in practice, starting each sentence on a new line isn't difficult and works great with standard 'diff'.
I actually quite like it for proofreading, since fragments and run-on sentences jump out at you.
Don't use this for anything you view as important. Hosting that doesn't use a domain name that you control means that when the donation bucket is empty and the service goes under, your traffic and pagerank and brand is now lost forever.
Tic-Tac-Toe-ception
>> hey, non-US citizen here.

> That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.

The guy you're yelling at is a non-US citizen who's point is "for the love of god, you ignorant american, how did you not see what's been happening until now?"

It's completely stupid that this is even a topic on HN, but the worst part is the amount of mindless shitposting going on. I mean, you just replied to a person who starts off with a disclaimer about being a not-american, and your response culimates in righteous but misplaced indignation.

Fooey.