skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, since it is not a legally binding document. There is however the list of countries that voted for it, and the US is among those countries.

I wonder if this is still a country that would vote for such a document. We plainly have no respect for the ideas that it represents.
What about Binney and Drake? Sometimes I wonder if people get caught up so much in the current generation "heroes" and skip over that pretty much everyone else in that generation is still behind their desk greasing the gears in the machine…
I was surprised by the number of widowed women (31000), they out number grandparents, divorced men, and divorced women.
NSA Leaks Present a Business and Ethics Crisis for Silicon Valley
Lovely execution. This is the type of app that I feel Bret Victor is talking about, allowing you to explorer and create in new ways with immediate feedback.

The disappointing part is seeing that this is an iPad only app.
I'm sure there IS open source software being used. (Responding to question as written - was "data" rather than "code" intended?)

Of course, that means that as an open source author it's possible your code is used in what you might consider to be horrible ways. I guess this is true no matter what - say you come up with the world's next great web framework. You're a staunch atheist, but a Baptist church uses your code to launch a website to evangelize. Your code is changing the world in a way you oppose.

So... is there a place for a license with idealogical restrictions on use? Would this promote censorship, or would it restrict attacks on it?
While I agree with your last statement, I don't think the author made a mistake. His point here is that privacy is about more than protecting the individual for the individual's sake.

In context of the preceding paragraphs:

Etzioni viewed privacy as a battle between the interests of individuals and society.

Dewey proposed that privacy is also a social interest, not just an individual interest.

The author is agreeing with the latter: "the value of protecting the individual is a social one."

Really, this means both of your interpretations. A society with privacy values protecting individuals from some of its other norms and values.

I've never heard of these people before reading this, and I'm not trying to be pedantic. Just my textual interpretation.

[edit - for clarity, but I may have made it worse.]
They're checking everyone, and do not take well to anyone who questions their authority with "you have no reason to detain me, so I'll be going now."
Exactly. The no fly list is one step away from becoming like China's Hukou System [0], which was eerily similar to parole restrictions on movement, but without due process (trial and conviction of a crime).

I can't even begin to imagine the burden of being an American living in Alaska or Hawaii and being on the no fly list.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement#China
According to a staff reply[0] on the forums, your assignments will only submit the output of your programs so you can use any language you'd like in the course. Did anyone do the Scala course that ended last month? This course seems like the perfect place to try out your newly developed functional programming skills.

I've watched the preliminary videos and I've got to say this seems like some really good stuff. If you like programming challenges, you should definitely sign up for this course. All the assignments and video lecturers are available from the start so you can study at your own pace but you need to submit your assignments on time to receive credit.

Also look out for:

- Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1[1]

- Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Computer Science Applications[2]

They're both starting in 12 days on July 1st.

[0, You may need to be enrolled and logged in to view this thread] https://class.coursera.org/optimization-001/forum/thread?thr...

[1]https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

[2]https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix
So it's like PHP for JS?
I think he meant propx rather than ink mobility.
Your comment must be entirely about Containers for Windows (by Parallels), which is not what the article and most of the discussions are about.
Containers for Linux on the contrary are not prone to host "corruption"
I can appreciate someone who took the time to figure out what my experience adds up to and then share a relevant position they're trying to fill. I've had a few companies first find me on LinkedIn, then they contacted me through email with a more personal message, possibly meaning that they looked around the web to find my email address. This I'm cool with. Depending on how the contact goes, they might follow up on LinkedIn to add to my network.

However, the other 90+% of contact I've received I can't appreciate. I've been involved with the CPython project for a while, and I'm on the Python Software Foundation's board. Seeing that sends some of the shotgun recruiters through the roof, trying to "network" with me by sending me bullshit jobs and asking me to share my local contacts. I used to get plenty of messages like, "hey I have this great Django job that you're a perfect fit for." How is this possible when I've never done more than read the Django tutorial, and nowhere on my profile does it mention Django or any other web frameworks? This is a waste of time.
> Unfortunately--unless I'm wildly mistaken--the very sad thing about American culture/politics is a lack of concern for the UNDoHR and everyone else on the planet.

It's not that Americans don't care about anyone else on the planet (I doubt they care less than people in Western European countries). It's that Americans aren't willing to bind their sovereign freedom of action. The idea of "human citizen[ship]" is anathama to American thought, because citizenship implies reciprocal rights and obligations, and Americans viscerally hate the idea of being obligated or beholden to anyone else. Hell, a lot of Americans think that the arrow should be pointed in the opposite direction: more state sovereignty (i.e. people within states should be less obligated to rules made by the federal government).
Would it be ok for the NSA to put cameras in everyone's home if the schematics were freely available?
I'm sometimes a skeptic of flat design, but the flattened Dropbox icon looks awesome on the new site.
Nice app! Can't wait for the iPhone version :)

It looks like you're using Paperfold (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/paperfold). Mind adding it to the list of apps that use it on Cocoa Controls?

Also, I'd love to know if you use any other OSS components. I'm always looking for apps to highlight as my 'app of the week'.
Ask HN: Hacker News stopped twitting?
I really don't like the time shifted on the right.

Since time is a small field, before I was able to read

file__time_comment__________ without any problem

now I see

file__comment________________time

I'm disoriented :(
Now all we need is someone like Edward Snowden to step forward from the IRS.
I'm sorry that we're iPad only, but you won't believe how large SoundBrush is, and how small our dev team is (just the two founders). We're right now strained for resources, but hopefully that won't be so later on.
Thanks. I have to wonder just how you can say that a search which would be unreasonable if performed at e.g. a county border becomes reasonable at a country border.
This is just no true - if I buy a used car and then call somebody to tell him that I just bought a black Audi A6 there is no (easy) way you can figure out these details from metadata alone.
We think of lists of every phone call ever as lot of big data but consider that your web browser produces many more requests per browsing session than the total number of phone calls, texts, and tweets you produced all day.
The question seems to totally miss the point.

Whether the code is open or not is irrelevant. They shouldn't be spying in the first place.
Dropbox is very well aware of this idea. They have made the explicit decision not to go this route. If you want this feature you can implement it for yourself without much trouble:

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Sync_Other_Folders

But you're not who dropbox cares about.
You can do (1) and (2) using readonly_fields (see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#dja... ). For (4) use raw_id_fields (https://github.com/lincolnloop/django-salmonella app could be also helpful).
Sure I'll add it to the list.
There's a World Game of Sprouts Association that organizes a yearly tournament by email. The same Russian dude always wins. http://www.wgosa.org/champions.htm
He mentioned that you may need to invest about 12 hours a week on the assignments but that figure is more accurate regarding the latter assignments as they get harder as you go along.

The first week's assignment does not seem that hard after having watched the lecture but I've yet to submit my assignment.

It's a free course and there's no harm in enrolling and giving it a shot. At very least, you'll be exposed to some new and interesting stuff. At best, you'll master some new and interesting stuff.

To me, this seems like the kind of stuff that'll make me "level-up" as a programmer so I'm pretty excited and enthusiastic right now.
I think that's reasonable. Another thing to watch out for is Django's support for older versions of Python. While I personally know the pain of "hey this feature/syntax isn't supported in 2.6 yet", Django's team is pretty strict about that.

In either case, good luck. The project looks great.
> But there are hacks to get around this, and it's mostly an issue with POS rube goldberg machine web stacks like Apache/mod_php.

It's a common technique used by a lot of virtual machines and memory management code to get a large contiguous region of address space to work with (most JVMs work this way, SBCL does too). I'm not exactly sure why Xen can handle overcommit fine and Virtuozzo can't, the latter does need a custom kernel so in principle they have access to all the low-level virtual memory stuff.
I think in the current iteration the login link is slightly more visible, at least closer to the sign-up button, then it was in the past.
Or someone gets bored.
This is missing the point that the meta-data is often less, not more, information. Now, if you have enough it can still be useful. But we are specifically talking about less, here. Giving someone more information is giving them more information. Period.

Consider, knowing that someone went to Walmart around noon doesn't say much. They could have done a lot. Knowing they specifically bought ____, is a different matter.

Hell, that is the entire point to this. You are having to aggregate lots of meta-data to determine the data of the call itself. How is this even an argument?
Judging from this photoset, it's biting them hard.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/protests-spread-a...
Wow. What a complicated and scary situation. This outcome could set precedent for multiple legal matters. Lostutter had great intentions yet acknowledges wrong-doing. What an unfortunate situation on multiple levels.
The best way to describe Racket is as an ecosystem. The analogy I would make:

EMACS : text editor
Racket : programming language

This is to say that Racket comes with enough batteries to make it a platform...or at least Racket is striving to achieve cradle-to-grave coverage. It doesn't just come with tutorials, but a complete programming course - How to Design Programs.

It comes with tools for building languages, creating presentations, and writing documents. No email, though (yet).

Racketeers are eating their own dog food. The Racket Way video gives a good introduction:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Racket
Interesting that no one seems to be talking about what a treasure-trove such a storage system would be for organized crime and foreign intelligence services (such as China). Imagine if someone could compromise it and get to the same data. Doesn't seem all that far-fetched.
I completely understand, best of luck to you guys!
Do you happen to work on an android version, or is that simply too much work?
The problems start when they say fuck it, and start driving motorcycles to and from work.
Cube Slam - Chrome Experiment
The history of programming languages (infographic)
5 things any startup can learn from Kanye West
Completely agree, the confusing bit then is the call to action, instead of "Help me educate LinkedIn" its "I'm deleting my account."

Does the author want to fix LinkedIn? Do they want a different service (or the same service done differently?) or a nearly the same service? It is easy to be dismissive of this form of rant, and sometimes that is actually the best response. But if there is something to learn here[1] that would be good too.

I suspect I'm overthinking it and the author was just venting.

[1] I get the 'here is another exemplar of stupid design' thought as well.
No, They lie, and it's been proven. They say they only spy on foreigners, but they only have to be 51% sure of that. So, 49% of the people they spy on are potentially americans... yet they still claim that we only spy on foreigners!
There are container technologies (openvz, LXC) that offer lot more than "fairshared" to manage resources between containers. Plus the efficiencies of lower "virtualization overhead", because you don't have full OS in containers compared to VMs (consider full VM kernel, VM HW drivers, etc)
>another company trying to make money and be a thriving business

>evil organisation trying to take over your life and destroy your liberties

This is a false dichotomy. I'm not sure why you think that it's impossible for Facebook to be both of these things.
Yeah, I tried to edit the "completely" out of my phrasing almost immediately but comments had already been left so I couldn't.

To clarify, soy is a complete protein. What I meant was that the levels of BCAAs in soy are relatively low - especially when only taking in ~80g of total protein / day as the recipe suggests. This is why many longterm vegetarians/vegans often still have to supplement, dispite a high-soy diet. Soy protein is composed of about 18% BCAAs and is fast to metabolise, especially when isolated and diluted in liquid. Furthermore, without solid food in your stomach, certain enzymes are never released by your body's GI so metabolism is left almost entirely to your kidneys.
I would not think that is much of a threat here in this scenario. The threat is really that Schneier is no longer who he said he is, since it has not been validated recently. That is, his certificate, purchased and verified through an authority, has reached the age where that authority no longer guarantees that he is the one holding it. As such, someone else could have taken over his person and began acting maliciously.

Right?

Edit: So, my question "Right?" was a legitimate question. If I am wrong, I'd like to know how. Note that this is an expired, non revoked certificate scenario we are talking about. Meaning the identity was established before, and to nobody's knowledge has it been stolen. Simply now that identity has not been established for a long time.
I did exactly what you describe for years: skimming the headlines of my few high-volume subscriptions and marking everything as read. Even doing that was a waste of time because of those feed's very low signal-to-noise ratio. Besides those few high-volume feeds, I subscribed to dozens of low-volume feeds which all added to the chore/bore.

Skimming and picking my daily feeds usually took close to 2 freaking hours to which I added the time required to read and act upon the very few interesting items (following a couchdb tutorial takes time).

Back in 2007, IIRC, I even started work on my own feed reader (progrss.net, never went live) designed around a cool algorhythm that would filter items according to keyword frequency and manual tagging. It looked good and was an interesting change of direction UX-wise (it was less "app-y" and more "publish-y", whatever that means) but I burned out on RSS in the middle of my project's 3rd iteration.

Seriously, opening my reader (even my own prototype) in the morning and being greated by 1200 or so items was just incredibly tiring. Even with working filters.

Really, following RSS feeds was a colossal time-sink for me and switching back to the old way (consulting a few key sites daily) allowed me to focus a lot more on both my work and my familly.
Just because the US wasn't the first doesn't mean it's not "different than most countries throughout history" unless most countries have been like the US with well defined constitutions. Bear in mind, "most countries" doesn't only include "most Western countries" or "most modern countries". Even that Wikipedia article only lists a handful throughout history.
It doesn't deal with the UI, but for the back end game logic, you might find "How to Play Sprouts With Playing Cards" useful. http://www.takingthefun.com/2013/06/how-to-play-sprouts-with...
A perfect example, which has become so normalized that it has lost all meaning as an example to most people.
Thanks! Its just a free tool my team created and we want others to use it if its valuable.
- We filter questions based on most voted by audience
- Not sure why you lost the link. Maybe we should email it to event organizers in the future!
- Yes, new questions should refresh automatically after a min
- Emails are for us to notify you when someone asks a question, etc.
- Thats a great idea! Thank you
It's not "budget", it's a computer scientist's idea of minimal markup. Like the first google search page. See story here:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/17/london-bitcoi...
Not sure why. Checking into that
Have you tried BitTorrent Sync? It doesn't have an always available web interface but does syncing between two (or more) online machine's directories quite well.. as long as they both have connectivity at the same time.
(Re-read my comment.) The fact that the customer was happy does not confirm it's the best business decision in general which takes many things into account. I also acknowledged that some people would like that this was done.

Going a step further (with my same argument) what if the man was visiting the store with his wife and his wife already thought he was spending to much money "on this stuff". Now the salesman sticks in his nose and confirms her thoughts. Think he will be happy then? Would you? Would most guys or flip sexes and example girls?
Congrats, I have been waiting a while for this!
I've used Filepicker.io and it's great. So is the team. Always eager to answer questions and throw ideas around on Github. I do wish there was a little more developer resources on the Framework libraries that integrate with Filepicker (rails, ruby, etc...) Hopefully this seed round can send a developer in that direction.
Clip-Air reimagines travel with modular mass transit aircraft
We are mainly Mac and iOS guys and probably wouldn't be able to do an Android tablet version as well, since we don't use the platform. And yeah, making the iOS version was enough work as is.
You are going to have to be detailed and specific if you want that statement to be taken seriously. Ocaml is very obviously quite similar to haskell. What specifically is so much more work about compiling haskell? And why does only GHC suffer from this extra work while other compilers were able to compile haskell code in reasonable time and space?
Data is the valuable thing here. Code is not.
Not entirely flat design on the new homepage (the buttons have form), but the new wiki design[0] does seem almost entirely flat without bandwagoning. Confusingly, the old logo is still present in the new wiki.

[0]http://new.dropboxwiki.com/
The Human Side of Scala
Those screenshots look good. Try installing it, its even uglier than the default skin.
Waze for weather
This line of thinking predates Godwin's Law, as a misunderstanding of comparisons in general. If there is any difference between the things being compared, even if it is not relevant to the aspects in the comparison, people of this philosophy will declare the whole matter to be "apples and oranges." Of course, this makes the entire practice of comparing things pointless, because under that thinking, things can only be compared to themselves.

On the other hand, I think people have an anti-Godwin reaction where they assume this is happening even when the comparison really is bad. To me, the value of Godwin's Law is to remind us that comparisons to Nazi Germany usually carry more emotional weight than actual insight, and when we encounter them, we need to ask ourselves whether the aspect of Nazi Germany being called out was integral to its evil or just incidental. A lot of so-called comparisons are just thinly disguised slander of the form, "Our government officials are drinking a lot of water these days. Do you know who else drank water? Hitler!"
A lot of Bitcoin holders bought/mined them at much lower prices than current $100. Compare this 7% premium when buying things to a potential 20-30% capital gains tax you'd have give up when cashing out via exchange.
Nick, this isn't something new that Ghostery started doing this has been in the addon since day 1, even before Evidon purchased Ghostery. There are multiple articles "exposing" this find, and its not something we've been hiding. The feature is opt in

As far as the use of data, some of the products Evidon is now making are so new that the GhostRank information panel has not needed an update. We'll be modifying the wording to be clearer, but just to make sure, we never collect or use PII info, just the trackers information to use in products such as this: http://www.evidon.com/trackermap

In any case, here is a good post we've just put up on our blog that answers these concerns: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438
Here's an implementation that pretty much does exactly that. If someone can beat this bot, lemme know: https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec...

And here's James Irwin's original implementation, auto-set to a Monte-Carlo AI and with a rules variation that (to my knowledge) prevents Perfect Bot from winning. Play with the config variables at the top for some other AIs and 2-player games and whatnot. https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/in-tic-tac-toe-ception/167633...
The 9 Characteristics that Make Bitcoin Money
We made this into an Android application about a year ago: http://superttt.com
Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus
Google director: Early adoption is for rich chumps
There needs to be a way to have a foot in each world. Total online privacy and anonymity when you want it, and ability to use facebook, twitter, hacker news, and other sites where you know and expect to be tracked.

Like Chrome's "incognito mode" that extends beyond cookies to an anonymous network identity. Like using Tor through a VPN tunnel, I guess.
Because that's not the primary access point. You normally log in through the app. For cases where you want to use the website, the app provides you a link to it that automatically logs you in.

It's de-valued because the majority of people that see this page are looking to sign up, learn more about Dropbox, or download the app. This page is optimized for those common use cases.
Obama: I've Set Up A "Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board"
How many people on news.yc are familiar with IPcluster?

Note:
I work for Continuum Analytics.
Those ones. But what I meant was that it is idiomatic to use for loops vs recursion.
Very nice comment. I've worked with HIPAA a bit, and although I'm far from an expert, what you've said is a good summary of what I've done. Secure in flight, secure on disk, secure physical access and hope for the best. We're encrypting our health data in the database as well, for what it's worth.
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Salmonella is awesome but doesn't play well with multiple admin sites.