skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for the "potential" chilling effect of all the spying, you don't need to theorize about whether it will happen or not. It's already happening:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130619-us-seizure-journalist-re...

The 4th amendment is all but obliterated, and now this is how the 1st amendment and the freedom of the press will be destroyed, too, by killing any sort of investigative journalism left, and by prosecuting all leakers.

I used to think that Wikileaks and other such secure leaking is the future of investigative journalism. If you believe the print media will die, and blogging will take its place, then investigative journalism will die, too, because I doubt many bloggers will go out and do that. So in a way Wikileaks would serve as a "disruptive innovation" for investigative journalism. Actually, most investigative journalism is only about finding "sources" that are willing to leak stuff to them, anyway. Wikileaks is kind of a "user-generated" investigative journalism/leaking, or investigative journalism 2.0.

But if the government is trying to kill both at once, then I'm not sure what's left to uncover illegalities inside the government.
Things actually look at lot worse when you consider the level of data collected in certain countries. For instance, in Jordan 12.7 billion datapoints were collected in one month concerning a population of 6.1 million. 2000 datapoints per person. According to my Fermi calc that's pretty much all the digital metadata generated by an average citizen.
Loglevel 0.3.0 released (super-lightweight reliable JavaScript logging library)
Well actually I don't use PHP that much anymore, but I do keep an eye on it; there's been a lot of improvements, mostly on the ecosystem side.
It's definitely not my language of choice, but one still has to eat, and PHP jobs are unfortunately way more common than most other stacks around here, outside of the enterprise stuff which I'm currently doing.
A really nice site for pink noise (and fans, traffic, babbling, airplane cabins, waterfalls, rivers) is http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

The creator is a signal processing engineer.
Webinar: Migrate from MySQL to NuoDB
> If no one died because of information he leaked then why try to claim credit for those uprisings?

Apples and oranges. The Government claimed that the leaked cables were putting informants at the risk of dying. No informant has died because of the leaks. So yes, "there is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information".
The chart supports that assumption to some extent. The smartest are under estimating their percentile.
And a new usable UI, and for some additional features
Interesting side track:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Sweden
In district court, there's one judge and three lay judges appointed by politicians. I've always found this strange.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/students.edu....
Same here, pretty good advanced in-depth content.
Campus computer labs have the software installed. Also, student discounts, (still not cheap). I know that's not ideal.

None of that solves the real problem of lack of competition in the space, and the resultant fact that industry uses Adobe and colleges teach what industry uses. Which makes a nice little positive feedback loop that is hard to overcome.
Fun fact: One way to tell the difference between the people who partied their way through college on someone else's dime and the people who were serious students responsible for their own future is that the former will dismiss $20/mo as "not even one night out" and the latter will think of it in terms of the additional scrimping on basic supplies and the like (or sharing textbooks, or...)

ahem okay, sorry, I just get a little resentful at seeing the resources for serious academic endeavor being measured in leisure units. Seriously though, even if everyone else doesn't party their way through school, $240/yr is a fair little chunk of change to a lot of students, and is certainly well within the price range where piracy makes a lot of financial sense.
If anyone from gov.uk is reading this, do you fancy answering the question I posed when the site was launched but never received an adequate answer to?

Why does gov.uk, a site all about allowing the British public to interact with the British government, use google analytics?

You are shipping all the data about all my interactions with my government off to a third party in another country. Another country that we know has not got the same legal data protection requirements, and one which has now been exposed as having massive internal spying problems.

And no, telling me "google aren't allowed to use the data" and then opening an outsourced helpdesk ticket with another US based company does not cut it.
Is there anything in this article, aside from an overblown metaphor in the title, that hasn't been posted here fifty times in the last couple weeks?
Your first sentence absolutely nails it.

To be clear, Microsoft still can have both the "horse" and the "car" with the Xbox One, just as they can with the Xbox 360. Removing the unnecessary restrictions on physical discs doesn't have to change the digital distribution gaming platform one iota, allowing the Xbox One to have both the Steam model and the classic game cartridge model. If Microsoft provides a compelling case for the Steam model (which can simply be "not having to get up to switch discs"), people will use it.
The guys at Zapier put together a nifty drip based email program last year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714088
The point was that maybe someone who's extremely stinky is harming others, and thus could be legitimately

> deter[ed], filter[ed], screen[ed] [...] from public services.
They do offer cheaper deals for students.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/students.edu....

Besides they are pricing for max revenue rather than max sales.
Better to sell to one professional who will pay $1000 than 10 student/hobbyists who will pay $60.
When you're apparently so dependant on unspecific future favour that you're "forced" in to piracy without it being explicitly directed.
Cancer is unlikely, though some people can come out in a mild rash.

Exposure therapy is the usual treatment.
Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults
Who should decide what features WordPress gets next?
"Show me the man and I'll find you the crime"

Who hasn't broken some minor law at some time? Selective enforcement and total information awareness on the part of the enforcers are a dangerous combination.
From getting paid for pentesting to phreaking to the nick I've used for fifteen+ years, that movie changed and shaped my life indelibly.
If I understand your solution, what's keeping Person A from restoring from an earlier backup where the access was still valid? Or even sharing the backup with all the games available?
+1 on Pixelmator. I rarely purchase software, but Pixelmator was hands down my favorite purchase. It opens Photoshop files, the color picker is great for web development (it copies the color has a HEX value with the numerical hash sign!), intuitive UI and fast!

Worth the money for me.
Line 11 is "Added simplified password hashing API"
How to use MongoDB ReplicaSets for a Meteor App
If it weren't for submissions like these, how could young developers that visit HN learn how to make ugly comments?
In those cases you are quite correct, plus they are on channels that might not exist if not for cable TV. Surely the content of those shows would not exist on broadcast TV.

And that's just two channels out of three hundred. Yes, there are examples of quality but they are severely drowned out by the noise. I guess I should say the average quality of cable TV has gone down over the years.

I suppose if the majority of the channels on cable offered quality entertainment on the level of HBO's or AMC's offerings then my attitude would be different. But since I can access AMC content now with a agreeable arrangement and possibly get HBO's in the future, I don't feel the need to pay for all those channels I'll never watch. Right now I pay for the shows I want to watch.

Plus, Netflix produced House of Cards of which I'd be happy to compare with any of HBO's or AMC's offerings.
For certain videos in chromium I would get "This video is not currently available" in the flash player but the same url would work if opened in private browsing window. I fixed it by clearing the cache and cookies.
I haven't used Scout but I have the same problems with that as I do with NewRelic. Their plugins is built for their vendor agent. With that said I do like the opensource plugins of Scout.

The issue is that we are now a lot of people that tries to solve the same kind of problems. Everyone seems to be writing collectors that reports information to backends.

On top of my head I can name:

http://opensource.brightcove.com/project/diamond/
http://collectl.sourceforge.net/
http://collectd.org/

They all implement some kind of RRD or Graphite service hooks. It would be nice if all I should do to upgrade was to point my existing collectd collectors to NewRelic or Scout and be good to go.

Instead, I now have to reconfigure my whole stack, install their agent, add their plugins for my software, make sure things are working and then switch.

I am not advocating that everyone should use Graphite, I am just advocating that we should have some consistency between these systems, so we can use the same collectors no matter what the backend is.

I had a feeling that Graphite+Statsd was where the community was heading given that both Etsy and Github are using that.
NeDB, a pure Javascript database for Node.js and Node Webkit
GIMP needs to not look like a program that time warped forward in time from 1993.
What I don't like is how they overly complicated the beating around the bush of digital distribution.

The whole if and or but clauses with "used" games they had only hurt their platform. You are never buying a piece of plastic for $60, you are buying a license for IP and a very long number etched on that polycarbonate. Used games were always at best a legal gray zone because the end user never had an explicit license to redistribute the copy for money and the first sale doctrine is really just an antiquated idea that makes the copyright scene a giant mess.

I would have preferred if MS went straight "here is your xbox account, you can buy games online or in a store, anywhere you buy them they link to your account, you get cloud saves and can download the game whenever you want (tbh they could have had a great API for asset streaming to allow people to play games while they download as a convenience), every xbox needs to be signed in on, and once signed it it doesn't need to sign in again unless you change the accounts or install another game.

Yes, it eliminates the used games market, but you could easily go to a friends house, log in on your account, and play your games there (preferrably streamed) and you aren't wandering in gray IP law territory.
These are amazing, have you considered authoring for something like Lynda.com ?
Or make a site with lots of screencast, as a beginner I would pay to have good Angular JS video tutorials from an expert.
Except there are neither long URLs nor unindexed (no meta tags, no nothing!)
A Term Sheet Written In Plain English
Serious question: have you been brainwashed by your country?
Distributed user permissions management is roughly as small an opportunity as Active Directory.
Are you really saying it's OK that I have to put tape over a brand new piece of $499 equipment I bought? You think that's solid design?

I think that's reason enough to avoid it.
Ask HN: Our government is spying on us. What are we going to do?
Over the past several weeks, HN has been full of articles, comments, and links discussing Edward Snowden's revelations, but I have yet to see any real ideas, suggestions, or action on how we, as citizens, can prevent our government from doing something like this (in secret or openly) again in the future. This community is full of some of the most creative problem solvers in the world who love to disrupt the status quo. What are some of your ideas?
Onboarding is a pain to solve (yay), but offboarding is even worse. If this really does deactivate everyone's account across all services, it's a huge win.
In my experience, some of the smartest, best guys at algorithms and puzzles make some of the worst coders. No one can understand their code, it's brittle and their work eventually gets replaced by code written by somehow with half their IQ but a decent sense of organization.
Under NDA: A Legal view of Apple's NDA
Do I understand you correctly ?

You're saying that you would be happy to join 74 other non-terrorists (i.e. law abiding citizens) plus 25 actual terrorists and be taken off to Guantanamo Bay indefinitely ?

You're really sure about that being a Good Thing for law enforcement ?
I don't know about cruft, but Quartz just doesn't work at all for me. The spinner just spins on, forever.
People act like there is some big difference between PS and GIMP. Sure, outclasses the other in quality and features, but the fundamentals of good design are the same. You're talking about differences in workflow. A person with good design skills can adapt their workflow to either software. There is no quantitative difference in the final output of either GIMP or PS. Your portfolio should speak for itself.
The problem is that references to the Nazis or Soviets are very hard to get right without tripping over the slippery slope argument. Hitler was not only a vegetarian, he was a health fanatic, and there's evidence that it informed his obsession with purifying the race. That's doesn't make any number of locavore glutenfree vegan hipsters a step towards nazism. Hitler "militarized" society, and emphasized such organisations as the Hitler Youth where kids learned discipline, healthy living and love of the outdoors. Does that tell us anything meaningful about the boy scouts?

Yes, Hitler and Stalin spied a lot on their own populations for "national security" purposes, but we should be able to oppose surveillance on it's own merits with out resorting to the painting a (fallacious) slippery slope picture where the next frame is a KZ/Gulag camp.
Chrome is a good counter-example, but I agree that it's rare.
Here's how we are launching our payed iPhone app and some early results
>I cut the Adobe cord a long time ago and don't even miss it anymore.

You're clearly not a commercial designer, then. Pixelmator (while it has some interesting features) and GIMP don't even cut the mustard on the most basic level. Non-destructive editing, for instance. I wish it wasn't true, but it is.
The "switch" in a telephone was never designed as a privacy mechanism, and the device itself necessarily requires a live connection to the telephone network at all times.

By contrast, there is no compelling reason the Kinect component(s) must be connected to the xbox when not in use.

I obviously don't know what sort of bus is being used internally, but if it were, for example, USB, then the mechanical switch could easily behave as the equivalent of removing a USB connector from a socket.

The laptop/microphone argument is a red herring. "Everybody else is doing it" is not a valid excuse for doing the wrong thing.
How was Microsoft's plan any better than the status quo. Having to take your physical discs somewhere is not some huge burden that will break the backs of people who want to play games at someone else's house. Fact of the matter is that someone would have to sit there and wait for a multiply gigabyte download to finish in order to play a game at someone else's house without the disc. Forget trying to play more than one game unless you've got a couple of days to burn downloading.

Meanwhile, with MSFT's old plan you couldn't lend a game to anyone, couldn't rent a game from anyone, and it seems like you could only sell your game back to a retailer.

People keep saying, "The games would've been cheaper" but there were no indications that was going to happen. If games were going to be cheaper, don't you think Microsoft would've touted that as a benefit at least ONCE since they unveiled the Xbox One?
What Nail?
The performance differences between all of the major scripting languages -- Ruby, Python, PHP -- are insignificant, unless you are operating at Facebook scale (and Facebook, which still uses PHP, supports the HipHop project). Your web app bottleneck is not going to be PHP. Plus the PHP community is coalescing around Symfony2, which is a best-of-breed framework. Things have never been better in PHP land.
Leading digits and quadmath
>re: ... and only use whitespace to separate the 'words'?

Have a look at Rebol which is a mix of Forth, Logo & Lisp.

Here's an example of Rebol code (typed into the console (REPL))...

>> multiply add 1 2 3
== 9

multiply and add are both functions which take two arguments. If I add parens then above becomes clearer.

>> multiply (add 1 2) 3
== 9

So Rebol evaluates a list of words from left to right with non-variadic functions (ie. they have fixed argument arity).

Here's an example of a conditional:

>> if equal? 1 1 [print "1 is 1!!"]
1 is 1!!

if is a function which takes two arguments (as is equal?). So this is code is evaluated like this:

>> equal? 1 1
== true

>> [print "1 is 1!!"]
== [print "1 is 1!!"]

If the first argument is true (which it is in this case!) then the second argument (which is a block) is evaluated...

>> do [print "1 is 1!!"]
1 is 1!!
The Sorry Saga of Skulls of the Shogun and Windows 8
You can crash the JS if you circle around the inside of the face for a few seconds. It will fail on getting an element so the getOrigin method is not defined.
"Perhaps evidence does exist, but odds are we'd have heard about it by now"

But that depends on how you -- and others -- filter your news sources. Many on one side of the political spectrum have no clue how far the IRS over-reached when investigating political enemies ... and they won't know, because they trust their sources of news and unfortunately don't look for contrarian viewpoints like you do.

(btw: I'm not blaming you of the above; you've proven you seek diverse sources of information)
JDK8 is Feature Complete
Automatically updating someone else's code is more difficult than it seems. Any Python project of significant complexity will need manual adjustment before or after passing it through 2to3, and even then you'll need to perform a lot of tests to make sure that everything behaves as expected. Similarly, the upgrade wizard in .NET always breaks a thing or two. I would expect a PHP upgrade wizard to fare no better.

For example, PHP allows you to keep the name of a function in a variable and call it as if it were an anonymous function. So you can do something like:

$h = 'htmlspecialchars';
echo $h('<script>'); // &lt;script&gt;

Of course, it's probably a bad idea to do this unless you really have no other option. (By the way, the above example is not how Lithium uses $h. But we can easily imagine a lame imitator doing the above.) But given that some programs do rely on features like this, how would you update them automatically if you decided to change the way htmlspecialchars() works?

Things get even more complicated when functions change in more subtle ways. If a function that used to return FALSE on failure is updated to throw an exception instead, an automated tool would have to wrap every function call with a try-catch block, with potentially unexpected side effects. If a function that used to take strings in the system charset by default is updated to take UTF-8 all the time, you'll have to throw in some code for charset conversion before every occurrence of that function, but some servers might not have mbstring/iconv installed and turn that into a fatal error.

A better solution is actually what PHP has been doing for the last few minor versions: deprecating stupid functions like mysql_real_escape_string() and encouraging people to migrate to modern alternatives. Once a function is marked as deprecated, it will be removed in a few years. This process takes longer, but it gives everyone enough time to update their own programs.
It does not do the same thing, does it ?

http://benramsey.com/blog/2013/03/introducing-array-column-i...
Any theories how this will fair for the market cost of Bitcoin?
Awesome, thanks for the info. How long is the free Standard account free for?
This is refreshing. I love economic arguments.

Does software like Adobe's typically show increasing returns to scale though?
I was about to say "this puts the Swedish IT investigators in a very good light." Maybe that's what made me so skeptical in the first place. Thanks for answering my questions. :)
There's a lot of focus on marketing, especially app reviews. Perhaps he means you need a hook for journalists to work with? For example, the first X, champion team, X meets Y, stunning screenshots, or something. You need a headline a journalist can use.
I couldn't help biting.

1 - Viewing it in Android Chrome just doesn't work. See this comment and its responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907648

2 - On some pages (with full-screen window), some or all of the thumb of the scroll bar is hidden on my browser under the black bar.

3 - As I drag the scrollbar down the size of the page jumps so my mouse pointer is no longer on the thumb.

4 - Sometimes I use the space bar to scroll because my hands are on the keyboard, not on the mouse. It doesn't work unless I click first.

5 - I often tile windows on my machine. This window is exactly width of the left-hand half of my screen (2011 MBP). Because of the responsive design I get a ToC when I visit the home page, which is annoying. It feels like the developers said "all users will have maximised windows".

Other frustrations I've had in the past but can't remember now, perhaps it was changed since last time I tried to use it on the desktop. I just get the feeling that (and Quartz isn't alone in this) the developers tried to re-implement functionality and didn't do it well enough to be worth it.
On the other hand, AMA's declaration could help increase funding for future obesity research. It could also lead to payment for doctors who want to simply talk to patients about nutrition or exercise -- time that's not currently reimbursed by insurance plans.

I don't know enough about medicine to discriminate well between a disease, condition, syndrome etc., but some of the points made in the article make it sound like this new designation of obesity as a disease is mainly to do with appearances.
What's the point of hiring a super-amazingly competent genius engineer if he's going to sit in a corner and think he's wrong all the time? If you don't offer your genius to the team, you might as well not have it.

And no, parceling out work for you to go and excel at on your own is likely not a good use of your skill.
They might do better to open a GIMP shop, and hire other students who do GIMP.

Why do graphic designers need to only be employees?
This seems very unlikely.
Introducing Aaron's Law, a Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act
I don't think this generation of consoles will survive without a refresh in the next 7 or 8 years. Tech is moving too fast.
This Isn’t Just About The Fourth Amendment
Consultants Making Games
If I remember correctly, you can be ordered to decrypt any suspected illegal data on or travelling from your computer. Even ignoring the fact that the only difference between a 2GB file of random noise and a 2GB AES-TwoFish file is that the latter decrypts with the right password, (and thus if ordered to decrypt the first you're kinda SOL) this law includes SSL connections, for which the key is not known to you. There were some articles about the law on HN a couple months back after it was proposed, and I think it managed to pass. Again, AFAIK.