skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This looks pretty sweet!

Just one question:

Was there any particular reason for the limiting of color schemes? Why not just show the user a color wheel and let them choose whatever they want?
Distinctly preferable to Hot War 3.0 if you ask me.
It doesn't necessarily convert to their property from an intellectual property POV, but it is "Google's data" in the sense that you contractually allowed them to utilize it as described in the ToS and privacy policies, which one is free to reject or accept.

You know the old saying, "If you're not paying for a service, you're the product." Why expect anything else? Google is a for-profit company and it's an expensive thing to run. They deserve something for the services provided, don't they?
Big difference is detection. When somebody launches an ICBM at you, you know it, and can react appropriately (which makes them tend not to launch ICBMs at you). When somebody hacks your computer, if they're good at it, there are often no fingerprints, and so the parties involved can continue conducting offensive warfare with no threat of retaliation.
I've used micro instances extensively for a long time in locations all around the world and never had one go offline.
That's a good point, a lot of people don't. That's why its prudent to use good UX patterns.

Everybody knows that signin is the upper righthand corner.

Breaking the mold to progress a pattern or for a specific project is fine, but the login? There's 0 reasons for this.
The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect.

The words italicized are qualifiers- that is they reduce the scope of the statement. It is uncertain that if you removed any one of those qualifiers the statement would still be true.
Micro instances aren't free. Unless you are on the AWS free tier. But of themselves, they are not free.
Speaking of which, you can now find us on github at https://github.com/ink
As I said, "nothing good can come from it". Wikipedia says in reference to Sadam's threat to wage chemical warfare and underlining it by gassing a number of Kurdish villages "and some larger towns", and this shoot down (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#Iran_acce...):

"The lack of international sympathy disturbed the Iranian leadership, and they came to the conclusion that the United States was on the verge of waging a full-scale war against them, and that Iraq was on the verge of unleashing its entire chemical arsenal upon their major cities."
Impressive interface!

What I would love: When tapping a note for the second time would make it disappear. Currently, when Im trying stuff, I constantly switch between the piano set and the eraser. Thats pretty tiresome.
I'm interested to see how the Tea Party deals with these issues. It could be a huge opportunity for them... As crazy as they are, if they take up the mantle of getting government out of peoples' personal lives, it could propel them into legitimacy. I'm this close to deciding that this is a vote-deciding issue compared to abortion, fiscal policy, or foreign affairs. Democrats, take note.
And by wanting to be left alone they'll give power to the wrong people. It won't be them, so it won't matter.

Seriously. The Holocaust DID happen. Or so I'm told. And under the citizen's tolerance (or blindness, who cares).

What game are you going to play? The game of death. There's no game for you to play. You're just killed or sent to a camp and that's it. You won't stand a chance.

Nazi Germany didn't last too long because the US had too much to lose, but the USSR took 69 years to be dismantled... with how many political deaths?

You're being overly optimistic. I wasn't even talking about a civil war. It's the state and most of the population against some unpopular minorities.

Well, even if it was civil war. Do some research on how the last Spanish Civil War turned out for Republicans.
I knew we could defend ourselves against theft of property with violence in Texas, but I left that out because it's not all that common across the United States - we're a bit more liberal with our rights down here.

What's the deal with the prostitute? Breach of services (especially illegal services) doesn't justify violence. Did the prostitute grab the john's money and then try and run off? If that's what happened, I'm not too surprised by the result, since we're allowed to defend ourselves against theft.
You know the earliest digital computers were developed for the purpose of doing ballistics calculations during WW2, right?

Of course, that doesn't make them weapons, any more than math is a weapon or maps are a weapon, despite their long utility in military contexts.
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The saddest part of the story is that there are two quotes, one from a democrat and one from a republican, and both are falling all over themselves in a rush to brand a whistleblower as a traitor.

The second saddest part of the story is that the person responsible for securing the biggest DWH of all time freely admits that they have no protection against rogue sysadmins, most of whom don't even work for the NSA.
Or to predict elections. I'd recommend anyone running an election against a sitting president to encrypt all their email, probably with an encryption scheme not endorsed by NIST/NSA... or at a sufficiently high encryption level. Imagine preparing for a televised debate when you can access the competition's correspondence?
I made a similar estimate (based on the premise of crude voice recognition of calls, not storage) in Feb 2006.

http://ivymike.blogspot.com/2006/02/could-nsa-wiretap-everyb...

I used a different methodology to come up with call volume; I looked at the Inter- and IntraLATA numbers (in 2004, which was the lastest available when I did this analysis.) My number was 700 billion minutes per year.

This new estimate is around 1100 billion minutes per year, which seems very plausible to me.
Try to get a US politician to talk about anything that we do wrong with regard to foreign policy. Don't forget that we overthrew their democratically elected government too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat).

Ron Paul is intellectually honest; I regret not voting for him now. It would have been mostly symbolic but you know he would be on the right side of this whole PRISM debacle.
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No, it would not handle the load. But you can use your AWS S3 bucket as a host for your index.html file. In route 53 you can easily point the index of the domain to your S3 bucket. This way you have a huge load capacity for the lowest prices.
> Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed.

I'm not sure how it was done in the source for that news article, but gerrymandering-detection algorithms should ignore natural borders in that regard. See, for example, this paper which measures gerrymandering in terms of convexity: http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Polya/Hodge20...
> “We have to learn from these mistakes when they occur,” Representative Charlies Ruppersberger said to Alexander in the hearing. “What system are you or the director of national intelligence administration putting into place to make sure that if another person were to turn against his or her country we would have an alarm system that would not put us in this position?”

So the lesson is not how to prevent the NSA's domestic spying, but how to prevent getting caught?
I got tired of looking at it in my terminal, so I made this: http://man-ascii.com/

(I had forgotten until now that the Linux and BSD versions of this man page are so differently laid out! I was running Linux at the time.)
This may or may not be true.
A lot of those feeds update infrequently. And there are a number of duplicates (a pain in Google Reader to administer) or the same site that migrated from blog platform to blog platform, but I declined to remove the old feed (primarily for search, though in the past few years, Google Reader search got nerfed to only retrieve from current year and a smattering of older items by an algorithm I ascertain could only be random or happenstance).

But the main gist is that I only read a small percentage of links. It is mostly a river I wade in, though, if I have the time, will go in-depth. It's why search is so important -- it's a "google custom search" method (yes, I know there is a CSE product in Google Labs, but it's even more flawed) that limits my queries to those sites I have pre-declared an interest in.
While the recent IRS disclosures of targeting Tea Party activists is deplorable, I'm still optimistic that it's the exception and not the rule in the US.

Criminals gaining this access is definitely plausible.

Foreign governments using it for oppression/retaliation is also very plausible.
That actually sounds like a low figure to me - there are 7 billion people, so on average only 10 animals per person? Sure, cows are big, but fowl aren't.

But 'slaughtering' misses the point. Nature is constant slaughter. Despite what we think of nature as being a cuddly, friendly thing, the animals in nature are locked in a literally deadly battle. The reasons why herbivores generally startle so easily is because if they don't, they die, and die horribly. We think it's cute, but it's literally there to keep them alive.

The issue isn't 'slaughtering' as far as I can see - since that is an exceptionally natural state for an animal - it's how the animals are treated up until they're slaughtered.

Not to mention that if we're talking about sheer numbers of organisms, the ones that are slaughtered for actual consumptions are a drop in the ocean compared to all the animals that are slaughtered in farming. Mice plague? Hell, just normal mice, no plague? You rarely hear the vegetarian protestors complaining about the huge numbers of rodents killed in farming. It increases in magnitude as you go down, too (snails etc, and increase again for insects). I think it's funny that above we have a complaint about 'not eating the cute rabbit', yet no-one champions the rights of vermin, despite them dying in far greater numbers. Generally no-one cares about them, because they die 'over there' and don't end up in line of sight.

So yeah, treat meat animals humanely, that's a tenable goal, but 'stop the slaughter'? It requires wilfully turning a blind eye.
Will give it another whirl :)
ES6 is very important for them. For example, classes and modules in Typescript are essentially lifted directly from ES6, and they aim to remain compatible with ES6 as it evolves.
One man's data is another man's meta-data.

My receipt is not the items I purchased. It is information about them. E.g.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global
Democratic Uprisings and the New
Challenges to U.S. Empire, $18.75

is not the text itself. It is information about something I did, not something I read or might have read or might read.

Likewise, my purchase of dogfood was not dogfood, nor my dog nor my feeding of it.

It's turtles all the way up.
I think you're right, and I think grey-area's quote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5902353) is probably more indicative of Binney's view. But his tentative way of speaking is for me one of the things that makes him both charming and compelling. I may be naive, but he strikes me as a decent person. (Actually, all four of them did.) I also love how Binney can't help but blurt out what goes through his mind sometimes, and the geeky passion with which he launches into his plan for how to do things better, if anyone expresses the least interest.
It's MAD 2.0
Oracle is killing MySQL. On purpose. This has been going on for a while, and they're not doing it because they're stupid, it's in their best interests.

Thankfully Maria is such a nice clean replacement.
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It could be an interesting point.

Does any investigation which used data from the NSA, especially early in the investigation to obtain warrants and more data suffer from a 'fruit of the poisoned tree' problem, where much of the evidence used later could be declared inadmissible on appeal?

Has 'trying to be helpful' on the part of the NSA and/or FBI poisoned thousands of convictions?
I wonder if there are any ugly things or traps in programming TypeScript.
Hopefully if someone knows how to read, they'll be smart enough to know not to click Download if they want to sign on. What makes them able to get away with the placement is that there are 11 words above the fold on the homepage, instead of thousands like on Yahoo, so it should be fine.
It's a good question. I guess we shall discover if this is true come July 1. But Feedly is actually snappier than Google Reader in many respects -- i.e., popping into individual feed lists, UX responsiveness, etc.
Corporations are people, assassin drones make war, the military has stockpiled cyber weapons… when did the real world turn into Shadowrun? And can we please get dragons and elves out the deal?
beautiful app. Nice job!
Now this is flat design done right!
At what point is it not worth repeating a start up idea on another continent?
With continents being North America and Europe.

The scenario is:

1) You have an idea

2) You do your research and you find it is a valid idea (including researching possible competitors etc.)

3) Only at a somewhat later stage (just before presenting to possible investors for example), you find that your idea has already been implemented on the other continent and it is one year ahead of you, it's doing well and you did not find it because it is just picking up now and / or had a weird name (or other) but already has paying customers, a lot of funding and a growing team.

Worth carrying on? What is the threshold?
I haven't done any really extensive work, but I have replaced it, and it is "drop in" because it's a fork of MySQL. None of my applications had any problems interfacing and the performance is reported to be better, though honestly I don't push it to the limits to say whether that's the case for me.
KAL 007 was also shot down because it was in vicinity of a secret missile launch going on and a actual US AF spy plane was close by
This is a reasonable thesis (and it seems the hits just keep on coming from Snowden), but parts of the exposition ring a bit false. If these people are really capable of total observation of all traffic through a random router in Beijing, how is it that they've missed all the APT stuff? We've been told that we had to basically throw out some components of the new stealth planes and start the design over because Chinese hacking. This seems like an adversary that would be vulnerable to the capabilities described here.

If they simply didn't think stealth fighter designs were worth protecting, then yes I think Schneier is correct that they need to think a bit more defensively.
It may be more far reaching. But the reach is gratuitous and drawing the line at the content of calls doesn't meaningfully curb the invasion of privacy.

If I stop pissing in the ocean, I'm not going to prevent rising sea levels.
As Wouter33 mentioned, put the HTML, CSS, and images in S3 (or CloudFront). I did this for a Top 3 U.S. music superstar client when they launched new stuff, and it held up fine.
>Assuming everyone always follows the rules, which is a pretty stupid assumption.

That's why there's oversight. What's the point of making rules if you assume no one follows them? This is Rule of Law 101.
> How does MariaDB compare with MySQL performance

Slower last time I tested with my app on my HW. But you should test now with your app now on your HW of course to be sure :)

What I have heard is if you have lots of CPUs MariaDB doesn't scale up as well. If you scale out, that might not matter.
12 months working with my spouse
Ask HN: Do You Know of Any Email Startups?
Anybody know of any email startups? Hopefully ones that want to change the paradigm of email as we know it or at least give it a facelift.
Openoffice was transferred to the Apache foundation in 2011.

http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-donates-openoffice-org-to-apache...
GR flaking out when I try to access settings today. Will export and share (nothing private) tonight.
Corporations cannot speak. Only people in them can. Sheesh.

No. Nobody is "forcing" me to concede that. Certainly no logical aspect of this situation.
>No sane person tries to blow up an airplane

You could have stopped there.
Hypothetically, couldn't Google just decide to break the gag order, be charged with a crime, and then argue this issue in front of a jury of their peers, and then be acquitted, establishing a precedent? It would probably be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. I know Google is probably risk-averse enough to not do this, but they'd garner a lot of good will I think. Maybe I'm missing some gotcha that they'd never be granted a trial and the board of Google would end up in secret prisons.
If you're ordinary enough you're probably not triggering any flags, so you'd probably already not really being considered part of the dataset.

One person opting out probably won't help them at all, but it would be interesting to consider a more scaled up "opt out" program whereby you go through a one-time deep check and might be granted less monitoring as a result. They would need to sufficiently automate it to make it feasible, though. I also suspect the people who feel most strongly about opting out would also be against the idea of even a one-time check.
Switch to MariaDB but don't even think you will remove MySQL experience from your CV. As most of the CV is processed automatically you could lost few point simple because lazy HR people don't care about what's happening in the IT world.
Ensure is a complete meal replacement.

(http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure)

> For interim sole-source nutrition.

If you're tube-feeding someone you might want one of the more medical versions such as Jevity (http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/jevity-1-cal)
Why did they buy MySQL engine providers Innobase and Sleepycat a few years earlier?
They were well within their right to shoot at the Americans, who were only in the area to provide aid for Saddam, who was gassing Kurds and threatening to gas Tehran. Expecting the Iranians not so shoot back was foolish, and shooting down that airliner in retaliation was plainly barbaric.

The aftermath of the incident has no bearing on whether the Iranian reaction to the intrusion was rational or justified. The order of events does not support such a line of reasoning. What you are basically saying is that nobody should ever shoot at Americans no matter where they are or what they are doing, no matter the current military or political circumstance. Ridiculous.
Or alternately, give me an account and I shall attempt importing and using…
Codeacademy.com you cannot go wrong there. It is a great starting place with lessons that teach you by making you code. Best way to learn anything IMO.
It's completely unrelated to CoffeeScript, as CS does practically no static analysis and generally CS does almost nothing more than pure JS. What it does is it translates some keywords to a chunks of JavaScript code. If JS had macros - sweet.js! - Coffee would be completely unneeded.

TypeScript is entirely different thing. It adds a layer of static analysis to the language, which does not end in the code that actually runs. Generally everything you type in Coffee has an equivalent in compiled JS; it is not so with TypeScript, where you can write pages of code which won't be visible in the compiled JS.

CS and TS have different goals and are different things, and the only thing they have in common is that they both "transpile"/compile some language to another. Hardly a similarity that makes them very close.

Actually I would appreciate TypeScript implementation on top of Coffee (or the other way around, whichever would be simpler). There is a dialect of CS that supports contracts (you really, really should start using contracts anyway), but that's yet another thing that cannot hope to replace static verification of certain things in programs.
I'll freely admit I'm no expert; I wasn't arguing that I am. I was merely pointing out the fact that four is not a statistically relevant sample size when the population is potentially in the thousands. If you're an expert in the area, I'd like to hear your answer to your question, or a more relevant sample size.

What I'm pointing out is that "most" has a definition, and less than 1% doesn't meet that critera.
Hi, is the book suited for people with no functional programming experience?
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"...and we will pay handsomely for this requirement."
Please let me know if you have any product management hacks of your own.
Microsoft didn't kill Silverlight, the iPad killed Silverlight. As for VB6, I think many here would agree that it was better off killed. You can still run VB6 apps on even Windows 8 though.
Fair enough! Good luck with it, it looks neat.
>I really dont like the idea that because some people may have been saved from death that trampling on peoples rights is ok.

Isn't that exactly the argument inherent in gun control legislation?
Yup it is, that sheds some lights on the huge gap of performance.
It seems kind of impractical to do it any other way.

If the maintainer (whether an individual, for-profit company or a not-for-profit foundation like the ASF or FSF) doesn't hold a copyright to all of the contributed code and documentation, they couldn't release it under an updated license (like the ASL2 or GPL3) or dual-license it for compatibility with other projects without getting clearance from each and every contributor.

If this seems "dodgy", bear in mind a couple of points:

1. You're not "giving up" the rights to your contribution, you are sharing the copyright with the organization. That is, your work is your work and you're still free to do whatever you want with it. You're just giving the organization the same rights, so that work that was once "copyright andyroid" is now (independently) "copyright andyroid" and "copyright whatever-project-you-contributed-to". You don't give up any rights, you're just giving some rights to others.

2. Re-licensing a project doesn't change the license for the already released work. I.e., if Oracle decides to only use a proprietary license for all future MySQL releases, that doesn't post-facto change the license on the previous releases. You (or anyone else) remain free to take the last GPL'ed version and run with it (under the terms of the license under which it was released). As crappy as that re-licensing decision might be, it really only impacts the stuff you use from them or contribute to them after the re-licensing occurs.
A person can revoke Facebook's and Google's access. A person at least gets to read the TOS of fb and Google, we both know that rarely happens, but the possibility exists where it is completely absent in the case of the gov't.

>The 4th Amendment covers the relationship between you and the government.

Yes, of course it does. And it's because the gov't cannot scan and fish facebook for crimes to solve that people feel comfortable enough to share such information.
also... would the attacks would have been discovered and foiled even if these programs did not exist?