skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could apply the same logic to almost any passion that a person can have. Tennis, racing, singing, pick your choice. I was up till 1am last weekend playing tennis under lights. Overdo anything, and you're likely to get messed up.

I think you're reading too much into it. It's just a pitch, effective or not and I think it relates more to deciding to go for the idea and the "Eureka!" moment rather than the weeks and months working on it after doing so.
Like, these Keystone Cops don't know a damn thing about horses or barns, and should never have been trusted to look after them.
I don't think it will ever get more than a 2% share in the software world, but I think it can get the right 2 percent.

There will always be detractors. But then again, you can't teach a dog math.

I spent a tiny amount of time getting to know Clojure. I liked what I saw, but some things confused me due to lack of looking into it/thinking about it. I'll need to spend more time with it to find out if I'm a dog. ;)
> You mean the promises to arrest him for releasing confidential information?

Being arrested and facing a fair trial isn't anyone's fear.

Being arrested, placed in solitary confinment for months on end, subjected to technically-not-torture-torture, threats against your family all the while having your entire character destroyed thread by thread until the day you stand in front of a show room to argue why you should only receive 50 years of prison time instead of 500 is another story.

If we truly lived in a fair and free society I would be championing his arrest, if anything simply for the truth to come out. As it stands it is hard to believe a truly fair trial is something that even exists anymore.
This is already the case, most of our customers will not host on the cloud (even though it makes business sense to do so) because of this exact reason.
I figured that would undermine the whole thing, like how no-one uses the Red Cross or Crescent as cover (well, almost no-one, someone has probably done it, but it is obviously nuts.)
Ouya Provokes Piracy Argument with Retweet Touting Emulation
I agree, and I definitely agree with the privacy sentiments and government overreach fears that people have on hacker news.

All I'm saying is that if there was a significantly flawed system, I didn't see it and I was pretty deep. Take that how you want.
Hahah.. Sorry I had to: http://drpm.me/VNZ3
This train of logic doesn't make any sense.

the primary goal of the government should be preventing foreign powers,
potentially hostile ones, from getting access to the secrets he possesses.

Publicly threatening to arrest and try him for serious and potentially
capital offenses like espionage while he is in territory not subject to
the US or any close ally that would be likely inclined to cooperate given
the circumstances is, from that perspective, quite foolish.

If the government were to take that tack, it would only encourage leakers and 'spies' to grab the most valuable documents possible, in essence blackmailing their way out of prosecution.

If you're the US government, your default assumption must be that Putin has a hard drive with everything that Snowden took. If that's the case, it makes absolute sense to publicly threaten to arrest him and charge him with the most severe of consequences.

Look at it from a game theory perspective; the US government 'lost' the first game to Snowden. The only reason they are still engaging with him is that the US is playing a repeating game. They need to make the penalty for leaking high enough to persuade other potential leakers to stay quiet.
Of course, but does that make the situation any better? I don't know if the laptops are NSA or Booz Allen property but neither unencrypted NSA laptops nor allowing contractors to use unencrypted laptops to access systems with top secret information seems a good idea.
Skype Reverse Engineering: The (long) journey
Yep, you're exactly right on all points.

I'm still not sure of what I want to do with this website, but for now it's part portfolio, part blog, part experimentation.
I've thrown together a little puppet demo if anything is interested. Highlights what puppet is, and how it works.

http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/8-learning-puppet-with-vag...
On the Inspiring Power of Procrastination
How would this be any better than downloading all emails, encrypting them and deleting the original off the server?
Twelve Habits of People Who Don’t Give a Shit About Your Inner Peace
OpenSSL? You mean the open source software with a million eyes on it?

Technology is not the solution to this problem, it is A solution, among others.
Random question: Is there some way to troll NSA by 42 zip exploits, i.e. a zip file that includes always bigger and bigger emptied zip files, only this time with relatively easy to crack passwords. Would be fun giving these some suspicious sounding names and sending them around in circles.
Cartoon Jobs & Aging
Dropbox: Share with your whole team in one step
Firefox 22 Launches With Built-In Asm.js And WebRTC Support
Any upgrade script that does certain operations will lock tables as it goes. See your database documentation for details. This can include rebuilding indexes, removing columns, modifying existing columns, etc. Furthermore when you've got both stored procedures and tables changing, you have to get the order of operations correct. I'm not aware of any automated tool that can figure out the dependencies and do so correctly. (Mind you I have not looked recently.)
The War of the Closes
1. “On hold” will replace “closed” on newly closed posts

2. New close reasons are nicer and clearer

3. Questions edited by the original poster automatically go to the re-open queue
I just finished Sandy Metz's book, and it is fantastic. Easily one of the best ruby books I've read; I can't recommend it enough.
I'm excited there's going to be an ngAnimate for animations in AngularJS, but I feel compelled to comment mostly to say that this presentation is awesomely done. Good job.
>>The only thing missing is automatic enforcement of the many petty crimes we commit each day

We already have this. Red light cameras.
I have a bad feeling about the future of iPad/OSX Reeder. It's a shame, because they are excellent applications, but I'm actively investigating alternatives. rss2imap, in particular.
I'm a stickler for attr_accessible, but I've never heard of avoiding _id attributes. If a have an Employee model, what is wrong with `attr_accessible :department_id` (assuming I want to permit changing the department)?
The law is a service, not a system. Or at least that is the position that someone making the argument you're responding to probably holds.

No one cares what the law says. Decide whether what he did was good and if so it wasn't a crime. If the law says it was then do what it takes to avoid injustice.

Same goes for your analogy.
> It is an overkill for a small project with a central repository - what we usually have, leading to a large conceptual overhead.

I strongly disagree. All my projects use git and the majority of them are small with a central repository.

As someone who learned Git and SVN at the same time, I think git has an undeservedly bad reputation. There are many workflows where Git is much easier to grasp conceptually (initializing a new repo, branching, how do I work on an airplane?) I think people who are comfortable with SVN tend to forget that, other than the confusion around staging, it's easier for rank beginners to learn the basics of Git than the basics of SVN.
YouTube pulls latest ‘Creepy Cameraman’ video, citing harassment policy
Absolute crap. Denied by an executive order, which is not legislated law and definitely does NOT supersede the law that put the FOIA process into place. This is garbage.
I owe 5 figures and make 4. Any money I make goes to rent and ramen. I would kill for consistaint work programming, which is the only thing I am really good for.
"If I told you right now to get a message to your cousin in Connecticut within an hour without using Skype/email/phone or anything of the other means listed, could you do it?"

That doesn't sound like a situation a reasonably intelligent terrorist cell would find itself in. They know they will have to communicate secretly. The need to exchange messages doesn't just pop up like that.

Why would they not just open a new free web hosting account once every few weeks with some obscure web hoster and upload any messages encrypted and disguised as image files?

To notify each other of new messages they could use "hey, what are you up to tonight?" style SMS messages. They could do all of that using anonymous prepaid phones and use a public VPN paid via bitcoin.
Absolutely.

Which is why I find it works well to have code flow from dev to production, and databases flow the other way. With all changes starting as well-tested patches that are then applied in production and propagated elsewhere.
Comparing Node.js Support on PaaS Hosting Providers
I also have to disagree with this statement and the article in general. It's very difficult to say what terrorists use when they are living in the US, let alone make a general statement that they don't use them because they'd be stupid to use these services. That actually makes the argument for why using these services might be advantageous for them even stronger. If you (the general population) doesn't think they'd use it, that makes it more of a reason for them to use it.

Let me big clear that this is not an argument for NSA-type surveillance, however, I don't think we should be arguing against the surveillance using general statements or more accurately opinions like these. Argue against surveillance with more factual/strong cases.
Don't they use snailmail, tin cans with strings, chalk marks on objects, and sign language? Lowbie tech.
I received pretty much the exact same response in the mail yesterday.

http://i.imgur.com/CFgQ0eM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yVEvptE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/inUUStL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qVGtdTj.jpg
Self-fulfilling stereotype.

PG doesn't exclusively define the startup world.

Is there really any point in Github's development that anyone would've doubted it was a startup?
Its right wing in the context of the Muslim world.
What happens if the FBI hands you a National Security Letter but you tell them "I'm not good with legal matters at all so I won't even look at this until my legal team has had a chance to go over it in detail"? Can they verbally coerce you to read and comprehend the material?
That I guess would depend on the algo for the PGP key in question. The default these days is RSA 2048 for gpg, which as far as I know is not vulnerable to known plaintext attacks.
I should have prefaced it as "accelerated" growth.

But I stand by that.
That's very true, we do have a lot of rules in the UK and the EU about things being "fit for purpose" and "reasonable expectations" of how long they should last. There was some muttering recently about that being a very long time indeed (10 years?) for some appliances. And a standard 90 day electronics warranty would not fly here.

I think Apple got into trouble with this recently too, when selling Apple Care it was pointed out to them that people already had a legal right to longer/stronger warranty conditions than Apple were selling them, in some countries.

I would be interested to read a proper evaluation/analysis of the effect this has on pricing levels and profitability of hardware businesses in the EU.
That's exactly what this does, except it puts them back, too.
Well, Bazaar approaches that, in my opinion. But frankly, I'd rather be using git.
Do people actually do A/B testing on iOS apps? I feel like the two-week development cycle really hinders your ability to conduct valuable A/B tests with your users in time to actually make any change.
He also introduced Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which essentially makes ISPs and services not liable for content posted or transmitted. It seems obvious now, but was a watershed event in early Internet case law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
Seems it's time for the HN memorial black navbar to make its appearance.

Dr. Martin will be missed.
> "If I told you right now to get a message to your cousin in Connecticut within an hour without using Skype/email/phone or anything of the other means listed, could you do it?"

Where does this arbitrary 1 hour deadline come from?

> "How are you going to communicate to your cousin where to look for the message and how to break it down?"

In person, long before it's needed. Even better, if cousin A isn't reachable for some reason, cousins B, C, D, E and F are perfectly fine substitutes.

> "is it more likely that the 4+ million security clearance holders are in on some large conspiracy to take away our freedoms"

No conspiracy needed, just everybody looking out for themselves within the framework of rationalizations they bought into. And when it comes to that, 4 million are nothing. Even 4 billion are nothing.

"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist." -- Erich Fromm

Were tens of millions of Germans really involved in a conspiracy to industrially murder millions? Of course. They just weren't aware of it. All their individual little steps and reactions were somewhat rational, the bigger picture decidedly wasn't. Do you really honestly believe worse things than this haven't happened to more and better people than 4 million NSA peeps? Such hybris in itself is a ticking bomb.

> "Having worked in every facet of the NSA as a linguist/intelligence analyst/programmer/many other things, and CIA contractor for a year, I tend to think the latter, and I'm very vocal about my thoughts on the intelligence community."

How can working with people who aren't Snowden tell you that he wants to see the world burn? Or do you think that follows from your proposed dichotomy between "it's either all a deliberate conspiracy by everyone involved in it, even as janitor or secretary - or Snowden is a disgruntled worker"?

> "Read my previous comments if you want to see my thoughts on how the media has been getting it wrong, and what the deal is from the perspective of someone who worked in this community."

I did, but I just saw you criticizing specific claims of Snowden, probably correctly so -- that doesn't mean "the media get it wrong" wholesale, it just refutes those claims. The only other thing that seemed relevant was this: Working with the FBI folks at the TSC (Terrorist Screening Center), being dumb and incompetent doesn't even begin to describe what I saw. That can't be what you meant, so did I miss it, do I have to go further back, or was that bit about Snowden actually all?
So we're agreed that we can throw (4) out right? You're wrong about Clojure being "full of magic." As to your example, you don't understand Clojure macros so you don't understand that simple Clojure macro. That's not magic.

Now, of (1)-(3), the only one which has the hope of backing up your point is (1). Why should Clojure not having good documentation right now be a reason Clojure will never be successful? Why should Clojure not having tutorials right now be a reason Clojure will never be successful? It doesn't make sense. What if those "facts" change?
songkick
I'm glad you changed your mind. Maybe you could make an amendment to your first post, if you really mean this. bootstrapped != not built to grow
Ask HN: Tips for Aid plattform startup
We are a startup/organisation/plattform working for a better world, helping Aid organisations. (We are not aim to make profit)

We are a storytelling organisation working with people in need and now need your help. We are deadicated to build a strong brand associated to Aid organisation.

We have a quite ambigus roadmap ahead of us (which startup dosent).

First project is a subscription service where you have ability to choose witch organisations getting the Aid money, in just one transaction. Ex 20% Cancer, 30% Médecins Sans Frontières, 50% Red Cross.

We are searching for all kinds of partners/collaborations. We need hosting, grafic design, project-tools, Paymentsoloutions (ping stripe.com, Paymill) , github-account, etc. Do you have something interesting for us or want to contribute in some way? Not for profit, for a better world!

As a founder i'm in a need of a person to get feedback from on the things we are doing, please drop a line if you know think you are the person.

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Through a domainbrooker we are tryin to buy our brand .com domain but they are asking for $2000-$3000. We got the brand dot org, you think we should try to raise the money for the .com domain or go with .org and don't waste energy on that?
Make sure to read the maintenance policy [1]: starting from today:

- the bug fixes will only be included in 4.0.z releases

- the security issues will only be fixed in 4.0.z and 3.2.z

- the severe security issues will only be fixed in 4.0.z, 3.2.z

So you will want at least to upgrade to 3.2.z, or use Rails LTS ([2])

[1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/24/maintenance-policy-f...

[2] http://railslts.com/
"It wouldn't surprise me if, on paper at least, being compelled by the government to pass out of the area not requiring a visa was not an immigration offense."

So I'm not entirely sure how this squares up with my anecdote, but flying from Sydney, Australia to Vancouver, Canada (did, at some point) require stopping in Honolulu to refuel and take on passengers.

At that point in the journey, passengers were (are?) required to get off the plane and pass through US immigration to continue their flight on to Canada. I know of at least one passenger that was refused passage through US immigration at that point (even though she was forced to go through it and her final destination was not the US) and so she was not allowed to continue.

Like I say, I don't really know how that quite squares up with your comment, but I thought it was "interestingly similar", maybe?
That's true, but without the backers (or some kind of funding) the project wouldn't come to fruition at all. It may feel like preordering, but it's not and that's important to remember.
Same goes why goto the moon when we are not colonizing the sea. We will go there simply to proof our technology advancement.
They used to, until a pedestrian was killed during an accident and it occurred to them that it might not be the best idea. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/may-16-1977-hel...
Seriously? How do you feel about A/B testing on websites?
Funny … I've been writing a python script that uses IMAP IDLE to monitor your inbox and encrypt incoming email (while retaining from/subject/date) and delete the plaintext version.

Unfortunately sometimes the IDLE errors and I haven't been able to figure out why. And I've yet to get Gmail to actually delete the email (vs just moving it to the trash)
I agree with you 100%. What it ultimately boils down to is the need for feedback.

Publishing an app is a conversation with your users instead of throwing a message in a bottle into the ocean. You need all kinds of data and metrics not only to see how well your business is doing, but also how you can help users have a better experience with your app. For better or worse, until telepathic feedback is invented, phone-home is all we have.
What you mean is that you and your friends think they are bullshit.

And?

As far as I can see, they are for the most part quite reflective of what American voters want (or is at least consistent with a compromise position of the wants of the various voting demographics).

Yeah, well, majority rule is bullshit too, so what's your point? The "system" we have in place tries to avoid the "tyranny of the majority" but no political system can ever really avoid some element of that. There's no point pretending that the system we have in place doesn't have flaws, and that individuals are not sometimes justified in stepping outside of that system.

Now, I don't always agree with the voter consensus, but, frankly, I'd rather have the laws I disagree with than a system where we ask mindcrime and his friends what transcendent principles should govern the country.

Then I suppose you should hope that I'm never on a jury. :-)

I don't see corruption

You must not be looking very hard. But, being part of "the system", I guess that should be expected. What we all see is influenced by our fundamental worldview, and you clearly have a fundamentally different worldview than I do. So we'll probably always disagree on this.
I deleted my account six months ago or so and just tried to log in, which failed. Is it possible you just deactivated your account rather than scheduled it for deletion? Could another app have authenticated as you and reset your countdown?
In this day and age, a million bucks is not even close to an economic freedom. @webwright has a good post on what he calls "Fuck you money", the amount you'd need to retire rich. Well worth the read.

http://www.tonywright.com/2010/no-you-cant-retire-rich-at-30...
If you can show you can deliver, a small company is more likely to be able to take an intern. But finding small companies is somewhat tricky. Go to talks, hackathons, user groups, stuff like that to meet people, but try to filter out blowhards from people who might actually employ you.

Remember that companies find recruiting good developers hard, so if you can ship, someone will employ you.

Oh, and cold e-mailing is fine, but try to not sound desperate. Say something vague that an opportunity fell through or whatever and that you are interested in doing an internship with them. You can start now, and you are skilled in X/Y/Z, as shown by A/B/C.
Why would it? I guess I don't know a lot about SEO.
Check out GitHub's 'Git From the Bits Up' talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP56QJpDr4

"This talk is not for the Git beginner, but a more advanced look at "weird internals stuff" and obscure commands that will reveal a sort of internal API that is there for you to use and help expose you to certain intrinsic software design insights that can be had from looking at Git at this level."
I do believe if you (or an app you've linked) logs in to facebook during those two weeks, the timer resets. Make sure none of your mobile devices, browser plugins, and link-apps are doing so
Why the IRS is Targeting Open Source Software Groups
Why i am not fond of traditional interviews
Any proof this is real?
I think I've run into this exact same problem with the delete, it reports that the flag has been set, but post expunge, nothing has happened to the message in question.

I'm still looking into it.
Richard Matheson was the Donald Knuth of horror and SF TV tropes. A giant has fallen.

As for _I am Legend_, _The Last Man on Earth_ was debatably the closest adaptation.
This has good intentions but misses the main point of encryption : no third entity should ever have a copy of the unencrypted message at any given time.

Once your emails get into google servers, the NSA has made a copy of them. NSA copies your emails before you even read them.

You are protecting yourself from someone who has access to your gmail account, not from someone who has a BACKUP of your gmail account.
Would you mind telling me why you think it's dead on arrival?
True but unfortunately MI6 and MI5 where tiny pre ww2 and the few MI6 and MI5 officers who knew very well what Hitler was like where sidelined.

I am sure both organizations would admit that the scaling up just pre ww2 wasn't handled very well.

Ironically Moscow center thought at one point that the famous 5 where some super devious plan by the security services.
According to another whistleblower, it also means people who control budgets and power
"...including senior Congressional leaders, the former White House Press Secretary, high-ranking military generals, the entire Supreme Court, and even then-Senator from Illinois and future President, Barack Obama."

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/24/bfp-report-whistl...
Indeed. Pebble did test shipments beforehand and AFAIK the fulfillment process has been relatively smooth (the manufacturing process less so).
I'm surprised they actually replied to you. A reply is admitting they exist, which they can not confirm nor deny.