skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious how this affects startups (along with overturning Prop 8), given the large population of gay people in tech. Presumably since you still need to get married in a SSM-supporting state, those states continue to win out. But federal benefits for immigration and incidental travel to non-SSM states would apply?

The biggest tech centers are now all in SSM-supporting states; TX, VA, CO, IL, and NC seem like the most important holdouts.

However, they only struck down the federal part, not the requirement that states recognize each other, so there's still a strong incentive to stay in an SSM-ok state even after marriage in an SSM state.
Why is this the top comment for this thread? It's office topic and kind of subjective.
Why is everyone being so critical of Skype? Skype deserves major props here. "They have the constraint of 'the system must be easy to use' and, from what I can tell, did pretty much as much as they could to add strong crypto to the mix at no benefit to themselves."

Which is actually, as far as we know, true for Skype too. The reason is both systems acquired a reputation (one that Apple's PRISM press release courted) that they were three letter agency proof(at least for most TLA's).

That reputation, we now know, at least for Skype was erroneous long before Microsoft bought them and might be for Apple. Yes, Apple deserves major props for deploying end to end crypto , but IChat security reputation is inaccurate.
Not yet, but it is in the ECMAScript 6 draft, so it will most likely be adopted eventually.
From Wikipedia: Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
I agree with your premise but why the footnote? It adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.
The essence of this is you need to decide the answer to two questions:

1. What are your personal ethics?

2. Who do you trust?

To put (1) in context, the content on the Internet is largely provided free but is ad-supported. When it comes to display advertising, it's sold almost entirely on a CPM basis (it may be resold on an eCPC or eCPA basis). It is at best only partially sold on an intent basis (meaning it's enticing you to click on the ad or otherwise take some kind of action).

The relevance is that the most common "defence" of ad-blocking is "I never click on ads anyway". While that might be true (let's just say that the people who claim to have never clicked on an ad is a proper superset of the people who have never clicked on an ad) it's also irrelevant since that may not be the intent and the publisher is getting paid to display the ad, not for you to click on it (unlike, say, search advertising, which is intent based).

So the ethical part here is you need to decide if you're OK with denying publishers income yet still consuming their content. If you are against ads for whatever reason and don't consume the content, that's a position I can respect, otherwise it just strikes me as rationalized freeloading but YMMV.

As for (2), the big players like Google who dominate display advertising are regulated and deeply concerned (believe it or not) about privacy and the user experience. That's why you can opt out of personalized ads [1], for example. I may be biased [2] but I trust Google far more than I trust some fly-by-night operation. Again, YMMV.

Recently there was a story about Ghostery reselling user data to advertisers [3]. How much can you really trust these basically unaccountable groups (in comparison)?

I should point out that there are two issues here that intertwine:

1. Ad-blocking;

2. Privacy.

My personal code of ethics is I don't block ads because honestly I mentally block them out anyway. Going to the Westin site then seeing ads for the Westin everywhere doesn't particularly bother me.

If a site has particularly egregioius ads (I include popups, most interstitials and any ads you need to dismiss in this category) then all bets are off. Block away. Banner ads however? Sure, why not?

But where I draw the line is with uselessly giving away your privacy in a way that doesn't benefit publishers at all. I include all the various "Like" and "Share" buttons here. All of these track for no benefit to the publisher (other than the hope that you might use one).

Those I'll happily block. Likewise if you're Quora and you blur answers because I'm not logged in with Facebook, well you'll get technically circumvented as well and I may just block any ads you have just because you're being offensive.

Anyway, just consider that ad-blockers have access to a wide range of your data as well and ask yourself what they are doing or might do with that data. Is it really worth denying publishers income to not see an ad for shoes? Really?

[1]: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences

[2]: Disclaimer: I am a Google engineer working in display advertising

[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/06/ad-blocking-extension-g...
This is fantastic work. If integrated with an app like http://soundslice.com, it might become the defacto app for musicians. Keep up the good work!
FYI, you can change some settings for google ads[1] so that you're not shown targeted ads at all (for example). You can also block ads to have them and related ads never be shown again.

[1] https://www.google.com/ads/preferences
Communications is a traditional landing spot for powerbrokers who don't want a particularly high-profile ministry, but who want nevertheless want to be in a senior ministry.

In general, given a few years, most ministers will sound pretty competent in any given portfolio. Senior ministers tend be the smarter breed, and if you're surrounded daily by people whose job it is to know everything about something, eventually some of that knowledge will rub off.
Roberts has generally been considered the swing vote in cases where he needs to sort of fall-on-his-sword to preserve the non-partisan appearance of the court. The Obamacare ruling was one such case.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. It's OK for the state to have 120 cameras on each street corner watching your every move (see London), but it's not OK to share your Facebook posts?

Disclaimer: I'm very much against any invasion of privacy, and am only being facetious to point out the obvious, which is that people should stand up for their rights when it becomes obvious, not just when it becomes sensational news
If you're going to build something specifically for this interviewer, you should make it useful to him/her or to his/her company.

Maybe think of some data their company would find useful and give them a good way to consume it / interact with it / take action on it.

Without explaining any details, this may be the best answer you'll get. People won't spend much time commenting when all they can really recommend is another generic list application or something.
Exactly this. Everyone needs to offer the option to pay in some way. If we could pay for a bundle of all sites even better.
So glad asm.js optimisations have been released.

Though sadly it coincides with me having to pull something offline I cross-compiled to asm.js, due to GPL violations. But that's another story.
Ok, that seems reasonable then.
The opinions themselves also tend to be quite readable. I try to at least skim most decisions as they come out, to have an idea of what the Supreme Court is doing and why (at least in its own words) it's doing so.

One plus of reading both sides is that, with admitted exceptions, the reasoning of the side I disagree with is rarely as stupid as news reports make it sound. A lot of cases that get to the Supreme Court really do have plausible arguments on each side (the really obvious cases get decided lower down).
Reddit's API (for voting and messaging) desperately needs HTTPS
For anyone who is interested it is probably worth checking out this - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/24/darwinning-specie...
requestpolicy <- simply blocks all traffic to external webserver
You have to enable the typo option and it happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194
Prop 8 goes down as well. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf
I pay for Arstechnica premium for this reason. I have adblockers turned off on The Verge, and emailed them asking for a subscription option but received no reply.

I don't want advertising in my face, full stop.
That editor evolved over 15 years (Win16, Win32, Win95, Win NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7).

But there was one full re-write in that time.
Order in the Universe and Pattern Recognition (2008)
No. It stills protects against known attacks, like XSS attacks. If you block scripts by default you'll have to configure what scripts to allow every time you visit a new site, or every time the site adds new assets.
Administrative and IT costs are much higher.
"as long as the ads are tasteful"

This is the problem: the ads stopped being tasteful. Remember pop-ups? Remember how, when browsers started having pop-up blockers as a default, the response by the advertising industry was to try to circumvent the blockers, resulting in even more annoying ads? Remember how ad companies did not get the message when people stopped accepting their cookies, and now use dozens of techniques to track people? Remember how they said they thought Do Not Track meant "track but do not show targeted ads?"

Unfortunately, the annoying, intrusive, privacy-invading advertising is not limited to a handful of sites. It is all over the place. That's why ad blocking is important and necessary: we users should not have to suffer because of the advertising industry's greed.
What I find interesting about this (and yes, I am sure I am biased, and showing male privilege), is that this still seems based around the assumption that it is a man's job to chase, and "obey the rules", to get what they want (the woman). Nowhere is it suggested that you should let women make the first move.

Sure, they are trying to adjust the rules, but not adjust the game itself (which I feel is where much of the unhealthyness around male/female interactions comes from)
You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194
Wow, now I will never be able to look the same way at our boring, ringless sky.
Turnbull was done in by his own flaws. He has a short temper and has let hope to overwhelm experience -- as it did during the Godwin Grech affair.
I agree with both of those principals, but I continue to run an ad filtering proxy on my home network.

I don't do this because ads annoy me (of course they do, but for the above reasons, it feels wrong). I do this because a few years ago, certain less technical members of my family received a nasty bit of malware/rootkit combo delivered -- as best I could discern -- via a song lyric look up site. Another laptop picked up malware around the same time, though its source was more difficult to discern. In addition, about this same time, Microsoft and Google's ad networks were found to have some Flash ads that were malicious.

After spending a few hours reloading laptops (with the offending individual being my first experiment with Ubuntu on a non-technical user's PC), I got fed up and installed a proxy.

My computers all have local firewalls and anti-virus, but I'm sure nobody's surprised that they were still infected.

I wonder, is the state of these ad networks improved at all? Are there advertisement blocking tools that just target ads that have the greatest probability of being exploits (flash, java, smaller ad networks)?
Not all of us block ads because they are annoying to look at. They are also a very real threat to privacy because ad companies track us across multiple websites (yes, I block Google Analytics and other trackers as well).

OTOH, I also feel tremendous sympathy towards websites trying to survive on ad revenue. I'm actually the type of person who still buys music to support artists.

I don't know what the solution is. We are forced to choose between being watched as we browse the web, staying completely offline, or blocking ads but not supporting the websites we visit.
From the notes in youtube: "I created this video in After Effects, and because of certain technical considerations had to keep the field of view at 62 degrees"

I think you'll see that the choice of field of view makes all the difference.

Something to ponder as well. The center of the Moon is 300000km away and Jupiter is 70000km in radius! So Jupiter would bridge almost one quarter of the distance towards us.
A "badly worded and poorly conducted opinion poll" is surely more scientific than a call-in survey triggered by outraged groups.
"DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others. The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment. This opinion and its holding are confined to those lawful marriages."

Direct violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Are they showing some non-public score to companies, or is this just the same public score available to anyone?
.mil program to advance quantum computing techniques for parallel processing
Put your phone inside while it isn't powered off will make it increase the transmission power up to 11, draining the batteries in minutes. That's how it turns off everything - it drains the battery.

God, just turn it off (and remove the battery if you're over-careful)
RequestPolicy suffers of the same problem as NoScript with default settings: it blocks everything and you have to waste time configuring what JS files are allowed in each site you visit. Your browsing becomes 10,000% more inefficient.
Inside YouTube's Master Plan to Kill Lag Dead
Make something that aligns with what your interviewer is doing. If you don't know much about the space that is ok, but it will at least give you an intro to some of the problems they are facing.
It has something to do with their feature called typo corrections, only available for Firefox right now (I have only ABP for Chrome/FireFox). It has to be enabled, if it is enabled by default for all user or not, I'm not sure.

typoRules.js downloads urlfixer.org/download/rules.json?version=2 where the redirect is made if you type for an example: amazon.comm, I get (FireFox only) redirected to their affiliate amazon.com link.

For an example, amazon.co.ukk gets redirected to http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=uf07d-21

Edit:

Some of the lines of that file:

"domainReferrals":{"amazon.co.uk":"tag=uf07d-21","amazon.com":"tag=uf024-20","amazon.de":"tag=uf0e6-21","amazon.es":"tag=uf07-21","amazon.fr":"tag=uf02b-21","amazon.it":"tag=uf08d-21","ozon.ru":"partner=urlfixer"},"
Harvard uses distributed computing and QM to dream up new solar cells
That has nothing to do with the scanners and everything to do with requiring a boarding pass.

The TSA does a lot wrong, but just because the TSA does it doesn't mean it's wrong.
Mozilla updates Firefox Beta once a week, but there is debate about twice weekly (Monday/Thursday) updates.
Ousted it is!
Do some small projects on Elance in your spare time. That's how I learn new technologies - gives you more motivation because have deadline and get paid.
Speedup improvement should be possible by not actually evaluating the clones as we already know their results - or maybe just show one as a placeholder.

At the moment, if you add "elite clones", the camera follows the stack (but all are exactly on top of each other) and it's a bit slow.
>> Having spoken with the man in person, I think your original post was entirely unfair and based purely on media representation.

No it's mostly based on direct quotes.

>> You'd be surprised how much worse candidates for the position are out there.

I'm sure there are far worse candidates out there! Let's hope none of them get a sniff of power either.

>> I'm no fan of censorship or filters, but can respect the man's work and the effort he put in to understand things.

Good for you, I find repressive, censorious measures pretty offensive so I'm sorry if I don't share your viewpoint.
He's pro filtering and censorship, a very dangerous and unpopular policy. To the point where he's willing to go against 90% of the population either because he wants to force his point of view on people or is willing to pander to an incredibly opinionated minority for votes.

No matter what else you do, that characteristic doesn't belong in a representative democracy.

The opposition leader (Abbott) is worse on the matter - see RU486, but two wrongs don't make a right, and it's a great thing that he's gone.
From the ruling:

"The Act’s demonstrated purpose is to ensure that if any State decides to recognize same-sex marriages, those unions will be treated as second-class marriages for purposes of federal law. This raises a most serious question under the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.

...

DOMA seeks to injure the very class New York seeks to protect. By doing so it violates basic due process and equal protection principles applicable to the Federal Government. See U. S. Const., Amdt. 5; Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U. S. 497 (1954). The Constitution’s guarantee of equality “must at the very least mean that a bare con-gressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot” justify disparate treatment of that group. Depart­ment of Agriculture v. Moreno, 413 U. S. 528, 534–535 (1973).

...

The power the Constitution grants it also restrains. And though Congress has great authority to design laws to fit its own conception of sound national policy, it cannot deny the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

...

This requires the Court to hold, as it now does, that DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation of the liberty of the person protected by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution."
I'm sorry but there is a very obvious and clear distinction between these two forms of surveillance. The first monitors public space, the second does not.

To me it is not obvious that "my rights" have been affected by the monitoring of public spaces.
We should live in a world where people who want this need to opt-in.
Seriously. Why show a feature comparison chart that looks all amazing and then just leave off one thing... CoffeeScript? There isn't even discussion about why that is missing. Is there some bias by the OP for it?
> I feel a sorry regarding how the media is almost universally anti-NBN (National Broadband Network)

The media (especially Murdoch's group, which part owns FoxTel) is threatened by fast broadband.
Ask HN: Load Images with JavaScript
Does anyone know of a JavaScript library that loads images after the entire webpage has been loaded and show a spinner? Similar to how the images on Medium.com load, and Roon.io as well.
Theres not really any standard qualifications for us, plus, if an electrician or plumber screws up, its much more serious than if we do.
Indirectly: the court held that ProtectMarriage.com, as a private group intervening in the case, didn't have standing to appeal a ruling striking down a state law, even if it's one that had been adopted through an initiative they had proposed.

The sequence of events was: a federal court struck down a California law (passed via Proposition 8), and California, rather than appealing the decision, said "ok" and accepted the ruling. That leaves no remaining live controversy between the State and the federal court system, so nothing for an appeals court to hear (says today's decision).

The decision was 5-4 but not strictly on ideological lines: 2 conservatives and 3 liberals in the majority, 3 conservatives and 1 liberal dissenting.
Don't get me wrong, I love Muckrock! Wasn't trying to say you guys aren't necessary.
I file FOI requests for a living, and I'd love to be in touch with you guys about a number of things - best practices for turning government records into structured data, the importance of reforming records retention on the government side to reduce the burden on public records officers, fixing FOI on the local level, etc.

Feel free to get in touch with me on Twitter: twitter.com/patdennis
Learning From a Superhuman: The Incredible Life and Fitness of Jack LaLanne
Darn! Foiled again by not keeping my mouth shut. Ho well, time to create a new account.
David - Already subscribed :)

I will reach out to the non-tech guys on my team and potentially be in touch for involvement in the customer development interview phase.

Good luck!
I was going for clarity. The linked article quotes several non inflation adjusted numbers just look at:
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/archive/TS-winte.... Which show 229 for instate tuition a quarter 229 * 3 = 687 which was quoted and thus clearly not an inflation adjusted number.
Eye-surgery by magnetically-guided microrobots moves toward clinical trials
We'll have same-sex marriage in Illinois by next year (we have civil unions now).

Texas has a state constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage. Virginia has a constitutional amendment banning both same-sex marriage and civil unions.

The Illinois constitution, sanely, is silent on the issue; every year we get closer to passing a same-sex marriage law; it's a foregone conclusion.
My advice, is just tackle one problem at a time and move through them pretty quickly. Accepting that as they begin to use it new use cases will emerge and you'll have to make adjustments. This doesn't mean just don't care what you select, it is just that in my experience this user base will have a hard time articulating their needs. And even if you have a ton of experience they will still change requirements as they start using it. So it is the start fast, adapt as needed methodology. And I would just communicate it to the client that you are going to solve one need at a time, and expect that you will need to revisit them over 2-3 months as people begin using each solution. The advantage to this, is some of that is really low hanging fruit that you could show him immediate benefits from, and have low risk to change. Like moving all email/calendar to Google Apps, or pick your cloud solution there.

Also, I personally feel this approach is being realistic and respectful to the staff that it is hard to articulate all the needs until a user gets their hands dirty with the solution. I also try not to use the word requirements with non-technical clients, instead opting for "Needs", "Wants", "Dreams" or something along those lines.

None of the project sounds hard technically, but it will take time and have some frustrations I imagine.

But I could easily see a Salesforce + Google (email, gdrive, calendar) + FreeConferenceCall (or something similar) + Skype. Most of that is low hanging. If they don't want to use the Cloud providers though, then you have a much larger and tougher task, not to mention way more expensive.
I tried with typo corrections on, but did not see any differences.
NSA fact sheet pulled after being challenged by Sen. Mark Udall
You mention the privacy implications of "Like" buttons but neglect to mention the privacy implications of the ad networks.

Remember when Double Click started building a database of every Internet user and their preferences (and were foolish enough to mention it publicly)? Your employer now owns that database.
It would be cool if you could share it!
I happen to be working on the technology to make this possible.