skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I see now as US is a very different place from the one I imagined only 20 years ago. In this very short time span it went from THE place to go to in terms of Freedom to "are you nuts? - it's communist Russia in disguise".

I've heard there are "no-fly" secret lists which you can't challenge because, you know, they are secret. That can't be true, right? grin
tptacek, I disagree with you that these tech companies are completely free of blame. They're not 100% blameworthy, but they're not 0% blameworthy either. I think burning google effigies is a good PR tactic in renewing, or dramatizing the issue in the public sphere to hopefully instigate needed action as concern zoning laws.
Boston Gets Its First Hardware Startup Accelerator
We've got an entrenched ruling class that's very distinct from the bulk of the county, who are remarkably inept, and who's interests are very much not those of the rest of the country's. This includes the Republican Party establishment, GOPe as some are starting to label it.

For more details, this article is the best initial exposition I've found, "America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution", "The only serious opposition to this arrogant Ruling Party is coming not from feckless Republicans but from what might be called the Country Party — and its vision is revolutionary.": http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-cla...

See also the expanded monograph: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ruling-Class-ebook/dp/B0040JHNZW

And the "revolutionary" bit, of an American nature, not at all in the violent French tradition, explains why the TEA Party et. al. has to be suppressed at all costs, and why the GOPe wasn't and still isn't interested in stopping it per se (e.g. the IRS has not changed its policies). We are existential threats to the GOPe, as e.g. Republican ex-Senator Richard Lugar knows as he's now spending more time with his family.
Not sure what's the current state of ftps deployment, but when I checked mid-200X, it was still a very rare occurrence. Maybe it's a bit better now.

It's hard to find out from google, because they claim I want to look for "ftp" rather than "ftps" and they're the same thing :/
> Is this industrial espionage like China has been doing?

It's rich that you bring this up when it now turns out that the NSA is doing espionage on everyone.
As I said in the same previous thread, it's a smart advertising.
If you use Safari (on OS X), you'll get a much closer rendering to the actual device.
First Assange and now Snowden. One wonders when Ecuador's capacity to act in this role would run out.
> I wonder if anyone is doing something similar for the UK?

Armed raids are comparatively rare in the UK, and when they do take place, they are far less spectacular than in the US.
> It is an embarrassment to Paul T. Crayton and the State of California

Actually, it's completely consistent with the way California behaves and works. Corrupt and anti-freedom.
Mocl – a Common Lisp implementation for mobile platforms
Unfortunately, the paper the map is based on costs ten dollars[1], which seems odd for a paper from a think tank.

Apparently, Cato sells a lot of books/papers[2]. Is that a common practice for think tanks (I have no idea)?

[1] http://store.cato.org/reports/overkill-rise-paramilitary-pol...
[2]http://store.cato.org/books
This is called passive PoE, and you can get a special jack to do this for about $5.
I have not found any virtual with storage cheaper than Amanzon/Google (0.10 $/month/GB).

you can find "backup" VMs for cheap but:

- these are typically OpenVZ (can't pick your kernel options)

- very busy and slow (they meant to be for backup only.

http://ovh.com has physicals at around 40$/month with 2 x 1 GB disks.
Does anyone have enough expertise to tell me in which program this was made?

http://cl.ly/image/1o070d3s2Y0b
You can challenge them, e.g. ask the TSA or whomever to reconsider, but you won't be told why your name was put on it ... which is not at all insane if you think about it. The existence of the list(s), and their many false positives, e.g. the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, is no secret at all, just their contents and methods.
I hope he has plan B, or starts planning it. Ecuador is a tiny country and can easily be influenced by USA once this government falls. In smaller countries when USA needs a favor, it "forgets" a few things their leader does when it comes to human rights, elections and so on.
As a programmer on the EVE team for the last 7 years, I would not recommend it at this point in time.
Stackless is a fork of CPython, maintained by a small number of people. I'd rather look at pypy which has stackless support: http://pypy.org/features.html#stackless and is under active development.

Or look at golang which has the same type of primitives(microthreads, channel based communication and scheduling) built in.
The video doesn't load for me. A similar article with video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927510 (4 points, 5 hours ago, 3 comments)

Extract of comments: ... In case this is not a joke ... It happens only at daytime ... so it's probably dew to the vibrations caused by the public ... because the friction between stone and glass is small.

Note: An important detail is that it's not a "perfect circle", it's really only a half turn, so gravity is a possible explanation.

Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927620 (3 points, 4 ours ago, 4 comments)
JDownloader Court Ruling Worries Open Source Software Developers
Peter, You have time to post on YC but not to notify or provide comment to your members. Now that is leadership.
Advanced Python Scheduler (APScheduler) is a light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions (or any other python callables) to be executed at times of your choosing.

This can be a far better alternative to externally run cron scripts for long-running applications (e.g. web applications), as it is platform neutral and can directly access your application’s variables and functions.
You named and blamed the "Democratic National Party"[1]. That is the definition of a partisan comment.

[1] Which, isn't even a thing.
Ask HN: How do I validate my idea with US businesses while living overseas?
I currently work at a multi-national entity overseas, and I see them using an internally-developed tool which could be used by bigger businesses in the US. Now how can I validate my idea?
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
They are just trying to keep us safe. ;)

Personally, I'd rather be vulnerable to a few nuts than vulnerable to the system.
This is where saturation flooding of meaningless garbage can play a role in anonymization. In addition to making timing attacks more difficult, bulk garbage data provides a cheap smokescreen for the anonymized traffic and participants, increasing the burden for storage and analysis.

I'm pretty sure even the NSA would have a hard time storing and sorting through the collective output of everyone's /dev/random or /dev/urandom.

It's also a very low-risk thing to do - less so than even routing. If routing, one can just top up a channel with garbage to whatever rate both sides agree upon. It needn't affect speeds for others.
For ASCII diagrams: http://www.asciiflow.com/ or http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
While I could understand why the vast majority of the government is in favor of this, or why the mainstream media is with the government, too, however disappointing that may be, what is most saddening is that there are a lot of people out there who agree with them, too, maybe not the majority but even 40% would be a very scary number.

Even in the most ruthless dictatorships there were a lot of normal people who supported their leaders, the surveillance and police states. That's the scariest part about this. If so many people believe in such ideas, it can take several decades to turn away from that, just like if you would live in a "communist" or "muslim" state, you'd know you're probably not going to see a true democracy in your country in your lifetime, even if there's a revolution.

If US becomes a surveillance state and abuses are common, and people just learn to "live with that", instead of protesting [1] before it's too late, it's going to be very hard to fix that later on, and it's going to have to become a lot worse for every single person, before things even begin to change, and that will take many years.

[1] - http://www.restorethefourth.net/
Looks very nice!
I don't know anything about you, so what you say could be true, but the way you present it makes you sound rather delusional.
When the disclosure of those secrets actively harms the citizens of the United States.

I maintain that Snowden had engaged in activity that is beneficial to the citizens of his country, and to the ideals of the Constitution of his country, and is therefore very deserving of the title of "patriot".
I first use paper and pencil, but then I transcribe and keep it up to date electronically.

http://lucidchart.com has been my favorite service as it is free for simpler projects and can be upgraded if you need more complexity. I've watched the project grow from an idea, to recruiting developers in my CS classes, to a full blown project which has exceeded my expectations. It's exciting to watch!
You can buy adaptor lead sets from ebay and other suppliers that plug onto the data cable ends and give you an Rj45 port and a DC plug/socket pair - this is a much neater and quicker option.

eg: http://linitx.com/product/passive-poe-injectorsplitter-set/1...
I agree that your point about building additional housing was dismissed, but I think the OP is curious as to how that plan would actually benefit the 'original' inhabitants of that area now, after they've moved out. Having lived in SF through both tech waves now, something tells me that if the mission were to implement dense housing, the first batch of people at bay to fill it up aren't going to be the same group of immigrants I remember from the 90's. Thus, is there any hope of friendly coexistence with a dense immigrant community, or are such populations now bound to be pushed into their new densely populated housing in the tenderloin or bayview? Creating more 'ghettos' feels a bit off to propose as a solution to me (not that the city doesn't have a history of it).
That said, some of the anger at SV is starting to remind me of general resentment of nerds, in a very high school way.

Actually, the real enemy of both categories (engineer "nerds" suffering calibration scores and cliffing vs. San Fransicans being priced out by useless, bland people) is the same for each: the executive douchebags who beat those nerds up in high school and are now VPs of BizDev in those supposedly engineer-centric startups.
That is an interesting wikip link I'd never think to branch on, say, in my past personal history interest of Florentine family rivalry. If you are particularly versed of European banking, would you know of what banks have had a long run, or the most durable? I understand Baring's had been around awhile, until their recent demise.

BTW, I read once, the Beretta family, Brescia, Italy, has been making guns, privately owned, for some 500 years, perhaps the most enduring privately held company surviving today.
http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-Statement-On-Edward,253.html?...

The Wikileaks statement has been updated to confirm this.
> Like I said, English isn't ideal, but it could have been worse.

I agree. Of course it could've been more complex. But it could be also so much easy. (BTW, I love English as it is. including sound, grammar and pronunciation).

> Do you have sources for this? I'd be very interested to see the research on this. I would think the chief difficulty in learning a language that is wildly different from your native language is the fact that it's, well, wildly different from your native language, but I am very much open to evidence that learning a language from an entirely different language family than your own becomes easier if that language is rigorously structured and cleaned up instead of being merely an example of a worse is better organic jumble.

Ok, now I see your point! Regarding evidence, first let me assure you that whoever has been learning second language and spent just a week looking into Esperanto will need no evidence of the mentioned fact. You don't need much evidence that it's more easy to add Arabic numerals than Roman. After my introduction to English I tried study German, and then Esperanto. When I read the latter's grammar rules and word formation rules I just thought "wtf, can a language be so straightforward?!".

Maybe because it's so obvious for anyone spending week of learning Esperanto I haven't heard of experiments trying to prove it.
But were experiments to confirm interesting effect that "studying Esperanto for one year and then, say, French for three results in greater proficiency in French than studying French for four years" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...

Here is interesting video regarding simplicity of Eo by credited expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU

Here's just how Chinese Monk speaks Eo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZcwpCgzMUk
I use mini-dinstall for repos. Multiple versions would complicate things however; I'd probably do it by combining multiple suites.
1. I assume you mean bay, and historically it has. All of the pink areas on this map: http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/ontheblock/2011/0... are landfill (The blue were marshes)

2. Why not more expansion? Huge environmental costs. A lot of the Bay has already been filled so many locals don't want to continue that route. Additionally, landfill is very expensive AND produces the least safe land for a building to be on during an earthquake (meaning building costs also increase).
Most cities look at large-scale, high-salary employers as a good thing; they go out of their way to solicit them, because high-income employees consume fewer services while paying more into the system, and because those employees are extremely valuable to the local retail economy. Most cities would see techies as a good thing: they ride bikes, they buy expensive local coffee, they eat out all the time, they're statistically very unlikely to mug people or steal cars.

Why does San Francisco not see things that way?

I think I answered that question upthread, but you don't sound convinced.

A friend of mine who lives in San Francisco, when asked what he likes about living there, says "it's a postcard city". I agree, but allege that San Francisco is more interested in remaining a postcard than in being a city.
Show HN: A new approach to find a job / Experts-Go-Europe
That's way too binary of a wish, there hasn't been a "non-corrupt" America pretty much ever. I mean, go back and look at the Hamilton-Burr feud, or the etymology of gerrymander: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering#Etymology. The guy signed the Deceleration of Independence....

It's more a matter of degree, and pervasiveness. By many measures we're still a largely uncorrupt nation, but I find it difficult to believe that if what's happening at the top isn't stopped that it won't filter down a whole lot. Although e.g. the Japanese are an example of a largely uncorrupt people with eternally "corrupt" rulers, going back many centuries.
> where can more housing be built?

>Much of the western half of the city is single family homes. As are neighborhoods like Glen Park, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, etc.

You've answered your own question.
This isn't 1996. The douchey executives who invented the calibration scores also have EECS degrees from Stanford.
I'm glad someone can finally get up on their high horse and say this. I'm sure Anya Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko appreciate it.
Yes, exactly. Some of us still have compilers! Or more than one git repo.
Two weeks ago everything Snowden said would have sounded like bullshit. There are plenty of things we are not aware of. This kidnapping that I mentioned just happens to be something I was physically present to witness. However, I'm not going to provide further details. Feel free to move on with your day and ignore my comment.
definitely http://www.websequencediagrams.com/, it produces clear results for management and clients
OP, I've been using leveldb-ruby[1] for some time. Is yours just an alternative implementation or are there any other improvements I'm missing?

[1] https://github.com/wmorgan/leveldb-ruby
How long until it is available for android? With regard to the usefulness against bullying, you don't know what I would have given to have this app a year or two ago...
The Perfect Place To Work
Also: http://www.igvita.com/2012/02/06/sstable-and-log-structured-...
You see the problem here? These are tactics of a police state. In a free world there is no secret police doing secret stuff that I have to jump through hoops to challenge.

The moment people get used to this shit - they have won.
I had good hopes when I saw `core.worktree`, but that was just cargo-culting. The right way to do it is to set the worktree to an outside location.
i have to say that this preview thing is bullshit. For example, your web-based iPad viewing size is only 582px wide, when in all reality, the iPad is 1536px wide. Sorry, but this little test is an epic fail.
You are correct, but you can splice DC power onto one end of an Ethernet cable exactly like this to power PoE devices. It is quite effective, but is more dangerous than using an injector because it will supply power to non-PoE devices.
I have little patience for hipster leftism. Liberal politics, for hipsters, is just a way of saying, "I'm nonreligious, so you can assume I put out". As a nonreligious leftist with more restraint than that, I'm offended by their use of those stereotypes.

They turn into New York's limousine liberals 15 years later. They gripe about "capitalism" but run nonprofits that are even more authoritarian and exploitative of the low-ranking people than most companies. Bitch, please. You just hate capitalism because you couldn't make it in that world.
When you have the property values San Francisco has, even after all the earthquake protection needed, you'll still end up with positive ROI. If it is cost-effective to build 10 story complexes in Mission Bay - on landfull - I can't imagine it not being cost-effective to do the same on Potrero Hill - bedrock.
Isn't high-density earthquake-safe construction a solved problem? It's not like SF has no high-density properties.
I understand that generators allow concurrency, but not parallelism (you can't have more than one generator actually running at the same time, on different cores).

If Stackless doesn't support parallelism either (I have no clue), then yeah, it doesn't make much sense to use it.
The aspect ratio is consistent - which, in my opinion, is what's important.
Curious. I'm not a native speaker, but I thought "bugger" could be used in that way. Not so?
Well what I meant by that is that they are already privately owned on small lots.

Even if zoning permitted it, it wouldn't work to build a 20 unit apartment building in between two of these:
http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/go8f670...

In order to build a denser apartment building, a developer would have to buy up whole blocks of these homes. Which means that clusters of home owners all have to agree to sell their property. Which seems unlikely to ever happen.
Amen.

Especially when the system is itself nuts and many of those who prop it up are nuts.

"Freedom", by my definition, is thinking from a place of 1. personal responsibility and 2. let's fix the problem, not from one of 1. "I am a victim, or a potential one. Protect me." or 2. "There has been an accident. Who is to blame? Find who is guilty and make them pay."

But I guess many Americans continue to believe they are the most free of all the world's citizens.
w... WOW. REALLY?

I refuse to believe quickmeme became popular because reddit liked it. That is very very anti-user.

Edit: theeeey sure do!

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3uwwk8/#by=ad

right click, view image, go here: http://static.quickmeme.com/media/social/qm.gif

delete that element and do it again, go here: http://i.qkme.me/3uwwk8.jpg
Osama Nasr was abducted by the US from Milan, Italy in 2003 without permission or cooperation from the Italian government and tortured in Egypt. Illegal abduction can happen anywhere. I agree publicity would make it harder, but the US has shown willingness to act extra-legally and ignore the fallout even from allies (Pakistan, Italy etc), so Snowden is probably not safe anywhere, just a bit safer for longer in a country which opposes the US. In his words:

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they'll get you in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr
Seconding Lucid Chart. It's great.
Not being told why your name is on a secret no-fly list is insane if you think about it. Either sufficient evidence of criminal activity exists--at which point the accused has protected rights to know the charges and confront the accusers thanks to the 6th Amendment--or sufficient evidence of criminal activity does not exist and the person should not be on a no-fly list.

That is not even including the insanity or illegality of having a no-fly list to begin with.
It doesn't necessarily mean that he has to go to Ecuador, he can stay in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Moscow (if there is one). But, can he? He doesn't have a visa to exit the airport.
If the executives who invented calibration scores have EE/CS degrees from Stanford, that's because they either threatened to beat nerds up, or paid them, to get their homework done.

That's how people stupid enough to bloviate about "synergizing our disruptive verticals" manage to get through elite colleges. I wish I were kidding, but something like 60% of MBA students cheat.

Shit doesn't change much, and VC-istan is Corporate America, not some more enlightened successor.
Presently I use LibreOffice Draw, but I've wondered what HN readers use. I'm glad you submitted this thread.
My point is that the areas where high-density residential construction would be least "damaging" to the feel of the city are not already very dense; the "dense" areas of San Francisco are sparse compared to other cities.
And remember, insider trading basically doesn't apply to Congress...
I wouldn't have guessed that Marissa Mayer ever threatened to beat nerds up, but I guess I've never met her.
Sounds like a cool project. But really, no documentation, no sample code, not even a whitepaper? Just a Buy Now button?

It probably isn't, but it sounds like a scam. Better put out some actual code to show that this is for real.
Pfft. I feel like I could teach pointers to someone who had a firm grasp of any iterative language in less than 15 minutes.

Heck, I'm pretty sure I could teach pointers to someone who has only worked in matlab occasionally by cut-and-pasting others code in less than 30.

And teaching someone something new during an interview and seeing if they can understand it and then turn around and use it is far more valuable for interviewing the types of people I want to hire than asking them random questions they could find the answer to on google in less than a minute.
Hmm right, that's certainly a catch! But if you consider the situation: why would an enemy acquiring such information would want to come in public domain and shroud it as "a revelation"? It's a useless escape route if the acquiring party is true enemy.

No one would want to lose the advantage of having secretive information by blowing it in the open, right?

Secondly, from what I see from comments above the law makers are using Espionage Act of 1917 to frame/indict all whistleblowers. 1917. Framework of 1917 being applied in the year 2013 :-) That seems bit of a joke in itself.