skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think anyone who thinks Snowden is a traitor actually has considered it at all..."

You're completely dismissing the fact that he took an oath to keep certain secrets, and a few months later decided to take it upon himself that the entire world needed to know what he was working on. There are avenues to report these things, to voice concerns without completely going against your word. Call your government representatives, go up the chain. There are phone numbers to call and people to contact if you're uncomfortable.

It's people like you who make the whole issue a "black-or-white", "for us or against us" situation. Probably shouldn't assume that just because people have a different opinion on an issue are "just" anything.
This is the main topic of Graham Greene's excellent Our Man in Havana. I doubt much has changed in the competency stakes between then and now.
well its not like they could not have innovated as such during the prior release. It is not their schedule that is the problem.
Good stuff!

Thx Gus
> "The day we set foot into the doors of the accelerator, we had a business that DHH would be proud of"

DHH is well known for being against investors in general. Why would he be proud ?

My point of view on this : investors are OK while the funder(s) have more than 51% share, and therefore still making the decisions. You kind of sell your thing to satan here brother, you shouldn't have. You are not in charge of what you put so much work building, from scratch. People with money come here and change your view on the business, on your values ?

Also, I feel you don't talk enough to your co-funder(s). You should not have secrets, work-wise of course.

A bit of advice, if I may : at my startup (in which I'm associate, not funder), we make a scrum retrospective meeting every now and then (2-3 weeks). In these meetings every member of the team explains :
1/ what we should do more
2/ what we should do less
3/ what we should do the same (SAME !)
4/ what they have found frustrating
5/ what they are happy about
6/ any questions
I feel this is really important so that every one is happy. It takes courage to explain all this in front of people, but it builds up the team...

Anyway, good luck brother.
Hard to beat players like lastpass and others who already have so much market share and don't charge for over 25 passwords...
git checkout -b will make the branch and check it out at the same time.

You can always use "show solution" to see what we are using as the benchmark. Command discovery is a bit hard to communicate in this app -- I added the helper bar at the bottom for the most common commands but I only have so many pixels...
Agreed, however, what is the value in spying on activists (assuming you mean the non-extremist type)and everyday citizens?
Putin Confirms Snowden is still in Russia
Per NY Times.
But the users are listening to their own songs.
Doesn't mean we aren't looking at it, we are :)
Also perf can do some interesting dynamic tracing on linux.

This talk (by one of the dtrace guys) discusses methods of linux performance analysis:

https://www.joyent.com/blog/linux-performance-analysis-and-t...
This article unfortunately skims over the "minimization" procedures that were also leaked, with only a brief mention. In reality they seem to actually serve to maximize the amount of citizen data they can keep after collecting it all.
I'll fill out a noscript tag for the non-troll case -- sorry about that, not a user demographic I keep in mind!
I don't see how we conclude that he knew anything about PRISM before Booz Allen. It's entirely possible that he planned to get some documents without knowing what he would get. Or that he was primarily interested in other documents.
Mine bitcoins with raspberry pi
AP: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/putin-snowden-transit-zone-mo...

self plug: http://whereisedward.com/
Clojure is not 'pure'. At least in Haskell's sense of 'pure'.
I've funded 3 kickstarter projects (not OUYA however) and none of them have even delivered yet. One of them was due last Sept and another in Nov. The third one was due this month but got delayed for another two more. These being hw/sw engineering projects from scratch I can somewhat understand the delays but I'm getting a little impatient.
[Startup] Beyond Invoicing -- an online invoicing and payments solution
That is the untrue statement of the decade. In my experience, VC and angels are little more than lucky, but deluded to believe otherwise. Or corrupt, and using you to hide their activities.
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The Lorentz factor doesn't really make an appreciable difference until you get much closer to c. For instance cutting the trip time in half would require .866c.

.99c would cut the trip down to ~30years.
The NSA program is a terrific idea if you want to keep track of criminals or anyone else doing anything remotely suspicious or questionable. Collecting such vast amounts of data simply to find terrorists is overkill.

Also, are these Americans you're talking about supporters of the NSA surveillance, or do they simply oppose Snowden? In my opinion, there's a huge difference between the two groups, namely one is at least slightly informed, and the other is being fed lies by mainstream media.
Reasons I believe Clojure will never be successful:

(1) it's a lisp. This is 2013, compilers can deal with +-*/, I don't need to.

(2) it lacks good documentation. Most functions are documented, but badly. In particular, they lack examples; sometimes they are really tricky to use

(3) it lacks tutorials (on the main page). There is a set of pages that explain the basic concepts of clojure, such as datatypes, variables and multimethods/protocols, but they are really terse. I think Clojure assumes you already know lisp, quote, unquote, syntax trees, defs, vars, etc...

(4) it's full of magic. You can feel it, but you can't really understand it without digging through the source code.

I know OCaml, can read Haskell, and wrote a small library in closure. I still find it very hard do get around and very hard to learn.
This article doesn't cite a source. I'd be interested to see more information.

(The article also claims that you could install Windows on your PS3, which I never tried but I'm reasonably certain would not in any way actually work).
You can't run affirmative action without knowing who to discriminate for or against. Likewise you can't tell which racial groups are being disproportionally attacked by government programs without knowing each person's race.
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Here are some lessons I'm taking away from this article:

> ... our initial desire to not raise a seed round was
> dismissed and we were thoroughly convinced that we had
> to continue on the VC rocket-ship in order to matter to
> anyone. My reluctance to do this was met by scoffs and
> dismissals from many others in the accelerator cohort...
> as well as by the mentors and investors who had offered
> their time, network and resources to help us succeed.

Lesson: VCs want founders to take larger risks with their company for the reward of a larger payoff. If the founders don't want to "bet the farm" like this, then they probably shouldn't be seeking out VC money, or at least wait until they're profitable enough to have a lot more negotiating leverage.

> I didn’t believe the shit I was selling investors. This
> was not the company I put my life on the line to build.

Lesson: Founders have to push back on their investors when the investors don't understand the full ramifications of what they're asking the company to do. First-time founders often fail to push back because the investor/advisor line is blurry.

> When I built this team, I didn’t build it with
> generalists and with people who could jump into any
> area of the business and get shit done. Instead, I built
> it with quality-minded perfectionists who build
> beautiful things.

Lesson: The founding team has to build two things: The product and the company that builds the product. Find people who can do both.
Does Clojure still have a non-trivial impact on performance? And if it doesn't, does it still look as pretty?

I only ask because the whole idea of using it for "Big Data" flies right out the window if it's significantly slower than plain old Java. Especially if it's slower using naive or expected Clojure methodology. And if there's not a speed advantage, than companies can find a lot more people who know and can work Java code than Clojure.
Serious question, who would you blame for that? The government for the high tax rate? Or the companies for not including VAT into the advertized price?
Just a note for anyone interested in what was mentioned in the article but more comfortable with JavaScript.

There is mori http://swannodette.github.io/mori/#mori for persistent data structures.

Callbacks are handled by Promises or say async https://github.com/caolan/async

For heavy compute tasks you can launch child processes under Node.js and communicate with one management process, the Cluster http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html lib is experimental as of now.
I wonder how much money Google could've made if they just said "pay or leave" rather than just "leave" and/or spun off reader into some new startup.
Firefox 22 released with asm.js optimizations
>.. may only be good for gathering information on the stupidest, lowest-ranking of terrorists

Yes, of course. And 99% of them are in stupidest, lowest-ranking part. As for the smartest and highest-ranking ones, there is undercover agents and informators.
The woman who sells the flag hats
Right, because nothing in the technological landscape changes, ever, in any way that could be relevant to the success of a Lisp-like language.

I'm not saying I'm convinced a Lisp-like will explode, much less that it'll be Clojure in particular, and I do think it important to keep the history in mind, but I think you overstated things.
I am the same way. I think it is "version OCD". lol
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The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype
Hey everyone! Author of LGB here, wasn't aware this would go to the front page again, sorry for not responding earlier.

Please check out the demo of the app if you haven't seen it yet:
pcottle.github.com/learnGitBranching/?demo

It explains most of the operatons and gives you a sense of how to start and stop lessons.

I'm also working on getting lessons for origin commands (git push, pull, fetch, etc). You can see a short demo of that functionality here:
http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/?NODEMO&command=g...

But a lot of it is broken still, so it's strictly a WIP
I studied psychology in school, so I know I read this but sorry for not being able to cite it:

If you tell someone the same message over and over, they begin to believe it. I don't mean that in a cliche way, I mean literally and clinically. IIRC, the average you had to pad a message was 60 repetitions before it "sunk in" to someone.

If anyone has a citation or the study, please, supplement this comment :)

I'm not being so brazen as to say the media intends this effect. But I think humans know it exists on some level and have always exploited it.
What is the World Baseball Classic then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

Look, for the Heat, the interesting fact isn't whether or not the NBA acknowledges them as World Champions. It's that they referred to themselves as World Champions. That's what's interesting to me, the fact that this type of attitude can even exist.

Whether or not a team can be called a world champion is probably up to two factors:

1) Is their league the best league in the world?

2) Is there no truly international competition that would be acknowledged as having a similar or higher level of competition?

For example, for soccer and MLS, the answer is no for both questions because the World Cup and the Euro tournament are tops, with the World Cup being number 1. Even the Olympics can't come close precisely because FIFA disallows their best players from competing in the Olympics in order to make the World Cup a more spectacular event. And the MLS certainly isn't up to par with leagues in Europe.

For hockey and the NHL, the answer is yes for both questions because the only other regular competition that comes even close is the IIHF World Championship, and it is a sub-par level of competition. The NHL tried to make their own World Cup a regular event with attendance from multiple nations, but failed to sustain it regularly. If they had succeeded, that World Cup event would probably be able to say that they crowned the real World Champions. The Olympics are the only thing that comes close, and that is heavily contingent on the NHL's willingness to send their players to the Olympics, which the NHL has repeatedly stated is an undesirable burden for them.

For baseball, I think it's clear that the World Baseball Classic trumps MLB on both questions, and it helps a lot that MLB is a big contributor to the tournament so that the best players are sure to be there.

For American football and the NFL, there's no argument. Superbowl = World Champs hands down.

I'd say likewise for whoever wins the NBA championship.

But there's a difference between knowing that you won in the best league in the world and are probably the best team in the world and actually publicly calling yourself the best team in the world when you didn't compete with anyone from other nations. The debate is further confused when teams have international players, so are players representing their cities (as in league championships) or their countries (as in the Olympics, World Baseball Classic, World Cup)? It's a lot of comparing apples to oranges, so the whole debate is very muddied, and sometimes I wonder why we even care about it. But the debate is what it is.

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That's unfortunate. Eloquent Ruby and POODR are two of my dearest Ruby books. Rails Anti-Patterns was another great book. If DHH and Co. don't want to recognize some of the great books you and others have churned out, at least take solace in the fact that many in the community appreciate your hard work.
By "right kind of" I meant to exclude the ones you're referring to.

In general I'd find it hard to believe having more resources available reduces your growth rate.
You can alternatively pick the "indefinitely sustainable" road instead (for instance by mixing bootstrapping with freelancing like I did).

It is much slower but much less stressful too, in my opinion!
Apologies for wording that in a a way that allowed you to avoid the point.

It's because criticising handwriting is a waste of life.
How is that not a one way trip?
Google's Safe Browsing now protects 1 billion people from unsafe websites
Mori: Clojure's persistent datastructures in vanilla JS
Installing an app, via the web
The questions i had in my mind,
Are Apple still involved in the OpenGL / OpenCL development?

It seems OpenGL, didn't move or improve much at all in recent years and OpenCL has had much news.
When access is blocked illegally, it is just totally wrong and this app will certainly help those who just want to enjoy some beach time. It would be nice if the entire coast could have an app like this, on both East and West...oh and South.
No - it was an singer who ran Billboard magazine ads, released a song, and was on the U.S. Grammys all in the same week.
That, and the fact that public/private key encryption is difficult to understand on a conceptual level, uses poor, inconsistent, or misleading terminology, and has a user-hostile interface with GPG or a buggy and error-prone interface with Enigmail. The problem is social in part because we've done such a poor job packaging and marketing the solution.
As an aside, how is the jquery-fileupload thing? I was reading about it, and when I saw there was some weird iframe thing for IE... I closed the page and walked away. That kind of thing looks like it could be a nightmare if something goes wrong.
There are a couple options, but the traditional small business route was a bank loan. These are obviously harder to get now, but still not impossible.

The right private investor/angel is also a good route. This should essentially be someone who wants to join you in the business, not someone who is looking for a specific return timeline on their investment. That's a big differentiator between a good angel and a VC.
I don't agree with this because I don't think all bootstrapped businesses have to stay small. The advantage bootstrapping gives you is you can use revenue to find product/market fit, at which point you can start scaling. The problem many 'startups' make is they run out of money before getting to that point.
Obie says above it has been "fully updated".
Informal economy stats by country
Putin: Snowden still in Moscow airport transit zone, won't be extradited
I agree -- I'd rather come back every ~6 months with big updates rather than have the link submitted constantly. I'm always planning to submit it myself when I reach a big milestone but someone always beats me to it... it gets a fair amount of organic traffic and Github switching to the .io domain for pages probably made it fall through the cracks of the HN submission map.

That being said, I think I'll resubmit when I get the origin lessons in place (WIP here:)
http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/?NODEMO&command=g...

And then hopefully I'll be out of everyone's hair forever.
"That's astounding. This is probably going to be one of our first destinations, when humanity starts building interstellar craft."

Not going to happen for practical physical and economic reasons.

I'd sooner bet on a mass extinction event or singularity than a bunch of greedy superstitious primates actually develop interstellar travel.
Rust Gets a Lot of Things Right
Pit Straight, Mulsanne Straight, and Arnage. Not sure where else to put them makes sense.
What sort of coverage is this getting in the USA?

I had a quick look at nytimes.com and didn't see anything. I realize that HN is kind of an echo chamber, especially about these events, so it would be nice to know as a non US resident how this is all panning out in major news centres.
Small nitpick: I don't agree with media focusing exclusively on the man and not the story.

That being said - it's not ad hominem to open debate about credibility based on a person's history, intelligence, knowledge or expertise.

For example, questioning if Snowden understood the documents he leaked because he does not have a high school diploma or certifiable, checkable expertise (aside from landing the access) in mass surveillance is not ad hominem. It's a reasonable way to express doubt and question someone's ability to be capable as a whistleblower. It's also reasonable because whistleblowers should be both accountable and rigorous.

Character defamation on the other hand is bad. I'm not against Snowden, I just wanted to make it clear that it's not unreasonable to question him.
I think you misunderstand - after applying the current exchange rate ($99->£64) and 20% VAT (£64->£76.80) we are left with £22.20 difference between the US and UK prices - a 29% hike after taking taxes into account.

This is most definitely down to the seller setting prices higher in the UK, and significantly so. It makes me feel ripped off, so I won't buy one.
Just remember being in a "habitable zone" is but one, small necessary (and by itself absolutely insufficient) condition for actually being "habitable" or sustaining life.

Recall that the earth is gifted with an active planetary core inducing a strong magnetic shield around the planet, has a single moon of sufficient mass and distance to throttle earth's rotation back to just the right speed to have a stable atmosphere, as well as the proper chemical composition...
Darn. I bought Crafting Rails Applications in paperback three months ago :(

On another note, I've been using Rails4 beta and RCs at home for the past couple months and it has been a joy. At work I've also been working on a Rails 3.2 app and incorporating routing_concerns and strong_parameter gems. I think upgrading from Rails 3 to 4 apps won't be as drastic as upgrading from Rails 2.x to 3 apps was (curse you asset pipeline!)
Performance and scalability are two different things. My favorite example is to think of performance as being like the speed limit, and scalability as the ability to easily add more lanes to the road. Once there are enough vehicles on the road, it doesn't matter how high you set the speed limit, they'll still slow to a crawl. Now imagine if there was a trivial way to add more lanes to the road.

Clojure has very nice concurrency mechanisms baked right into the language.
Oh really? Nice! Was it an academic setting or a professional one?

I am working on origin lessons right now (see link above) but I could actually make a file staging version if necessary. What other gaps of knowledge do you think it could fill?
Is it weird that my first observation is that their navigation requires Javascript to function? Because it does: clicking Documentation, Community or Help doesn't get you anywhere, and there's no other way to get to those pages. Also, the website can't seem to decide if its URLs should look like php.net/conferences or php.net/downloads.php.

With the negativity out of the way: MUCH nicer looking site. I look forward to using it the next time I find myself having to write PHP :)
You contradicted yourself from one sentence to the next.

The population overwhelmingly supported oppressing the black minority. But the legal system disregarded what the large majority thought and did the right thing anyways.
Some clearly terrorist elements have used all three of the services in the headline. It still doesn't make NSA's domestic surveillance, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, right.
Then what reason do we have to believe anything Snowden/Greenwald say?
Perhaps I'm missing it but I can't seem to find any cryptographers working for them.

That's a bit scary.
Patent Lawsuits Target Eight Banks
Considering we're on "Hacker News", is the OP trying to insinuate that we're all amateurs?

...

This is the only definition of "hacker" that should be accepted IMO:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

And, for further reference:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html
For me it's cycling not running (arthritis runs in my family and one knee is pretty fucked from a football injury).

It's literally the only thing that keeps me going some days I reward sustained effort with a ride and a ride wakes me up, clears out the cobwebs and I get some of my best work done after a ride.

It also helps that I've lost more than a stone (14lbs) in just over a month by switching diet and cycling 200 miles a week :).
Doesn't mean much. How can anyone be sure? Is Snowden even real?
From my perspective, there has long been indisputable evidence connecting the Chinese government to hacks in the US, and the media has long portrayed them as the bad guys. I think now that there's indisputable evidence that the US has been doing the same, the public is aware of both sides of the international dispute and can have a well developed opinion of the matter. I don't see this as "taking China's side" as much as liberating people from bias on an international issue.
Bootstrapping is often the first phase of a vc powered company. Facebook was bootstrapped...
You've simultaneously managed to misinterpret both the way encryption works and Moore's Law.
Ikea isn't always the right answer.
C++ free ICE implementations:

C: http://nice.freedesktop.org/wiki/ (glib-based so wrapping friendly to other gnome-supported languages)

Java: https://java.net/projects/siptools/pages/IcedJava
Right, but you can be lazy and link to others. The absence of argument or links makes it hard to evaluate the substance of your POV. :)