skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's crazy, although I was 11 when this was going on...so I'm guessing the eyes of a child may not be a great reference here.

What I do remember in 2000 when I was there....WebTV, WebVan, Yahoo Auctions, and having Lycos go fetch a search....that's when I was 12.

I do remember everyone had prejudice against the homeless, and I vaguely remember talk of trying to oust them.
> For me personally, the irony of criticizing the US on unethical activities from the patronage of countries that routinely and violently trample the human rights of their citizens completely destroys and legitimacy of the broader point he's trying to make.

Interesting. For me, it doesn't destroy credibility and legitimacy at all. Nor does it smell of defection. The irony, however, is what is most tangible. If we have, through the actions of our intelligence agencies, reached a point where American citizens must flee the country and take refuge in a traditionally maligned foreign power to effectively protect the Constitution and the People, it is a clarion call for the need to make a full stop, publicly work out these problems, and get ourselves back on the right track. If protecting constitutional and human rights requires one to flee a nation that champions those causes publicly, but prosecutes their defenders privately, we have a serious problem.
Hi, thanks so much for the feedback.

We're not trying to be Pinterest for men. While the frontpage may seem similar to them, our content really centers around future products. In the process, what we're trying to do is to get a good sense of how much others are anticipating the products. (for example, what is the lineup for the next iPhone gonna look like)

I do understand that it is slightly confusing. It's a quiet launch so that we can tweak it and make it as best as possible. What part of the navigation more specifically do you find is a bit confusing?
3. Edward Snowden doesn't really care about government behaving ethically or respecting human rights (as evidenced by accepting largess of such countries).

4. Edward Snowden has crossed the line from being a wistleblower and activist, to basically being little better than a defecting spy. He should not be praised the way he is around here.
I completely agree with everything you said. I strongly oppose drones as well, and I know all about them. I was not defending the US or the CIA. I always thought the DoD runs the drones operation. I did not know however (or just did not make the connection) that the operatives are members of the CIA as well. But now I do know :)
"hipster on hipster hatred"
Forgoing refreshments provided by the airline is not such a sacrifice.
I agree with your sentiments but to not recognize that there are political agendas at work is not only counterproductive but also extremely naive.
This might have worked better if you hadn't made the announcement.
RossH,

That's freaking awesome feedback. It's awesome because we're actually gonna be modifying the hover over the items. (I've realized that I hate it too!)

Feel free to email me personally. I would love to provide you with in-depth insight into Hypejar and would love to hear further feedback from you (if possible). grant(at)hypejar.com.
It is available for Mac! The latest available version is Firefox 21.0 (stable channel).

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
This is Bill Clinton speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative - whose spouse, from all accounts, will most likely be running for the office of President in 2016 - on NSA Security Leaks and Snowden.

"They (NSA) have prevented a very large number of harmful actions"

"I don't see any alternative to trying to track all these groups
around the world who are trying to wreck the ordinary operations
of life in America and probably kill a lot of people. I am not
persuaded that they (NSA) have done more harm than good"

In an increasingly uncertain world, the opinion among most American leaders and figureheads, on either side of the aisle, about the need for increased domestic and international surveillance, has already calcified.

For better or worse, they are overwhelmingly in favor of it. The debate being precipitated here and in mainstream media is largely symbolic.

It is time for privacy advocates to leave their dens and organize formally ( as in politically ) to advance their agendas. Washington only understands political clout whether it is a PAC or a lobby group.

Grassroots organizations will always go the way of Occupy Wall Street without formal leadership and a political consensus - lots of Zuccotti drama and nothing to show for it except for your obligatory iconic pepper spray photo.

You can mobilize politically in formal ways or bask in the warm glow of all the emotional outrage being voiced now and get your iconic photo spread.

Guess what?

The riots in Brazil have one too:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a3b0bc19184f467fb7a70a2df6ee81a5/...

and nothing will come off those riots either. Wanna wager a candy bar?

Let's check back 3 months from now and I bet things will have gone back to where they were without any concrete action taken and the crowds going back to their usual quotidian lives.

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-JdjIxjeUs
That's not true. They DO layer a transparent PNG on the image, but that transparent PNG has no content whatsoever. It's there just to prevent people from hitting right click and "Save Target As."
http://www.louiewatch.com looks different on my iPhone 5 and your site (accessing site using Safari 6.0.5 on OS X 10.8.4).
Maybe not China, but the thought that the US is somehow "free-er" than the rest of the world (yes, including Russia) is false. People in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, UK, Japan are probably as free as people in the US, if not more.
Yes, certainly America is solely to blame for anything bad that should ever happen to it, no matter what the response.
Not really sure what that has to do with anything. That’s just a policy that can be changed.

But what do I care about the total shithole reddit.
I have to respectfully disagree with your approach.
I have always thought imgur, quickmeme and other meme site (forgot its name) are owned by Reddit owners or executives. It is impossible to get upvotes if you embedded image on your site/blog.
Thanks! :-) The site is built using a great (and very economical) theme from themeforest:
http://themeforest.net/item/vireo-ultra-responsive-app-landi...
A new way of publishing and reading news
The numbers that were given were contracts that allowed them to purchase up to that amount of ammunition at a given price over 5 years. The actual quantity purchased last year was more than an order of magnitude less than reported.[1]

[1]http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&...
But there will be nothing left! It will now be all fabricated Facebook posts and 4chan content that is intellectually low-brow enough for the Reddit hivemind to understand!
What do you know. I updated Firefox from Firefox itself and it only updated me to 12.
Scale PHP on EC2 to 30k Concurrent Users
that was the exact sentence that caused me to leave and check HN comments. If only someone would think of the poor techies! geesh.
I'm guessing they would take the existing voltages on each line and merely amplify them or similar. So the differential signal would just be using much higher voltage differentials. HVDS[1]?

I'd never thought of it this way, but I suppose networking devices could be built to subtract the excess voltages and noise into a power regulation circuit, which would power the device. In effect, a switch or router like this could be called "unpowered" as it's not using the traditional wallplug powerbrick.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDS
> it can all be accomplished with other tools

Sure it can be accomplished with other tools, but if Git is sufficient
introducing other tools just increases the complexity of your stack,
and the complexity of e.g. validating that a Git tag corresponds to
what claims to be rolled out as that tag.

> and without needing the entire deployment history stored on each
> production machine.

This is a constraint a lot of people seem to think they need but they
don't actually need. If someone gets your current checkout they'll
have current code / passwords (if you accidentally checked in a
password but removed it you should change that password). Getting
the code history will just satisfy historical curiosity. Hardly a
pressing concern for an attacker.

> As for your comment about being "back to comparing files", that's
> all Git is doing internally anyway. You can do the same with
> other deployment tools and sha1 hashes etc.

Yes, but the point is that it just gives you that for free without you
having to hack anything extra on top of your syncing mechanism.

You'd be pleasantly surprised how much checking/validation/syncing
logic that you have to write around e.g. rsync when syncing a Git repo
just disappears entirely if you just use Git to sync the files.
Nice to see that HN is still the kind of place where a post from someone knowledgeable (whatever one may think of the details of their post) will quickly jump to the top.
Just switch to duckduckgo already. You don't need either of the mentioned search engines. I switched completely a couple of weeks ago and I haven't had a problem searching for _anything_.

I have a hard time seeing what people think Google does so magically that they see duckduckgo (or any alternative, really) failing at. You either get what you search for or you don't. On top of that you can get to a result more easily by using !bang stuff on duckduckgo.
It's not like the policy makers do what you vote them in to do anyway.
The Bitcoin Foundation recently organized a large bitcoin conference in California. http://www.bitcoin2013.com/
I've tried repeatedly. For technical searches, I often cannot find what I'm looking for and have to return to Google.
The solution to all these problems is housing density, especially in places like the Mission, which have excellent public transportation.

The anger should be directed at low-rise zoning restrictions, and at the incredible power we provide obstructionists to endlessly delay development projects.
"Meanwhile, the HKSAR Government has formally written to the US Government requesting clarification on earlier reports about the hacking of computer systems in Hong Kong by US government agencies. The HKSAR Government will continue to follow up on the matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong."

That paragraph, included in this very same release, says all they need to say about how he got out of the country. HK knew it couldn't offer safe harbor for him given the economic ties of itself and China to the US, but they obviously offered him safe passage. Snowden's strategy of letting his host country know what we had done to them actually worked.
Nobody said it was 100% effective.
You're really surprised that a concept that has gained worldwide popularity might actually warrant "brand curation"? I hope you hated memes before grumpy cat then.
I fully support the leaks which relate to surveillance of private citizens. I don't support the leaks which relate to activities against foreign enemy powers (or rival powers, if "enemy" is too strong a word).

I don't think that's an inconsistent position.
Okay, and even if I grant that enormous equivocation, it has what to do with #1?
Well in the UK engineers are seen as second class people compare the number of MP's who have a technical background and the average pay in the other professions to engineering.

And outside of SV the same is true to an extent in the USA certainly in DC and the corridors of power people with technical backgrounds are rare.

And MP like John Robertson (Glasgow North West) who was a LCM for British Telecom before he entered Parliament is very rare. Any congresmen or senators start as a line man for the phone company?
> Why couldn't he have gone straight to Iceland, Norway, Switzerland... any number of countries for which extradition to US may be difficult but at least have nominal respect for human rights.

Well, there is the recent statement from Birgitta Jónsdóttir that asylum in Iceland would be a difficult achievement. Beyond that, you seem to be having difficulty understanding (and passing judgment on) Snowden choosing to act in a way that you wouldn't. This is hardly a judgment against Snowden. He's not necessarily making moves to maintain a good PR story. One might be justified in the assumption that he is making necessary and strategic choices.

> Perhaps it's also asking too much, but - IMO - if he really wanted to make a statement with full moral authority he could have just pulled a Socrates and stood trial here in the US.

That's a curious judgment of 'full moral authority'. Humans are an imperfect creature. Full moral authority is not derived from actions alone, but also from the intentions behind those actions. Who knows, perhaps Snowden will pull a Socrates when he has completed his current mission of strategically releasing information until his cache is exhausted.
Not true. Chrome definitely supports x-frame-options (I believe the code for that is part of webkit and is shared with safari).
One-liner git based deployment command
Both valid concerns ... it works reasonably well on both counts in my opinion (but others will need to try it to form their own opinions)...

Btw, I dog-fooded it for several months before deciding to release publicly, based on how useful I found it :-)
As Microsoft Restructuring Nears, Top Execs Fret Over Their Fate
As they say "Never trust a hippie"
imgur.com is owned by Alan Schaaf, he's not associated with reddit. The reason images don't get traction if they're embedded on a website or blog is because they're not compatible with the reddit clients people use (mobile) and RES (reddit enhancement suite). Most people that use r/adviceanimals want instant gratification, if your image doesn't load in under a second nobody cares and will move on, it's why imgur is so popular: it's fast and consistent.
Actually the real solution is not focusing on concentrating all technological development in the Bay Area or NYC or Boston but spreading it out across this great wide country (and world) of ours so that everyone can take part in and benefit from the modern economy.
I'm actually imagining it more like running with a constant background - not the Benny Hill music but Harry Belafonte's number 'Matilda'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-DShN82mc

"Matilda, she take me secrets and run Venezuela. "
Ancient relic found in an Egyptian tomb moves 180 deg on its own
What is Histofme - Micro Diary? Twitter for diaries
That's very much living in the cloud. How do you handle your passwords -- out of a dropboxed password manager? Or just try to remember them all?
I'd like to see them try, considering the high-profile nature of this specific case. It would severely harm their position diplomatically.
Well i based my hypothesis on the fact that sites such as google.com and yahoo.com which dont get rendered in Safari as a result of X-Frame-Options do get rendered in Chrome.
I donno.

We are such a peace loving nation we would never do anything like finance a coup in a oil rich nation so we can murder and imprison the democratically elected leaders of a country in order install a tyrant so that we can hand over ex-British petroleum fields to American corporations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Then later on we wouldn't do things like finance and arm both sides of a ethic war in the hope they would keep each other weak and easy for us to control.

http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/rum...

Our government wouldn't do terrible things like sell weapons to a enemy of Israel using the government of Israel in order to finance anti-democratic warlords in Central America, even though Congress specifically said supporting such groups was illegal without them approving it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

When that failed we wouldn't do such things as import cocaine into the intercity and destroy the lifes of tens of thousands of poor black Americans in order to finance the warlords in a less discoverable manner.

And then murder the people we worked with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffic...

We didn't do things like smuggling heroin into the USA to finance the various assassinations, political coup, vote rigging, and terorrist training activities that we didn't secretly engage in from the 1950's through the 2000's.

http://www.corbettreport.com/the-cia-and-the-drug-trade-eyeo...

We would never do things like that. Because drugs are bad, M'Kay?. Because our US soldiers wouldn't being spending their time killing and dying in foreign lands, while protecting the drug trade and the primary source of income for their adversaries. And if they did that it would only be because we care sooo much for the farmers.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/14066.html

Nope. The USA is innocent.

The secret activities that the USA government and their invasions of your privacy, if they even occure, are obviously for your benefit. And if the NSA or CIA or Obama hit squads ever grossly infringe on the constitution they will be very careful to only infringe on it when it's necessary for your own safety. Because, darn it, they just care so much.

So yep.

This must be it:

They hate us because our freedom.
How about at least owning up to the shit we do that is bad?
Well given the proportion of Indian's in the techie community relative to the SF population in general - It is arguably Indirect Racism.
Neat tool, but... Should we be targeting specific devices? Shouldn't things look awesome at any screen size? Like somebody already mentioned [1], this doesn't include Android options, Windows phone, or anything else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928448
The good news is there is http://yacy.net/en/index.html

It's a peer to peer search engine without any of the privacy problems that come with using Google or, god forbid, bing.

The bad news is that it requires some effort and dedication from its users. Hopefully recent events will convince more people to give it a try.
Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to render pages the same as Apple devices.
It's disappointing to see you write this, codex. I thought you were a pretty smart guy.

You seem sure that a trial in the US would be a mega-press event. You mean, like the Manning military trial? Are you reading the press coverage of Snowden? The TV press coverage? How do you think he would be portrayed by the US media? Surely you're not that naive. Indeed it might be better for the cause of domestic surveillance to have him tried in the US press and a federal court in Virginia, right outside Washington. Most Americans, the ones who get their news passively from TV or who do not watch the news much, would never even know what happened; his fate would be decided quickly and without fanfare, except announcement of the severe punishment he receives, to show that "leakers" are some sort of "insider threat": scare tactics (and maybe a high profile prosecution as part of some US Attorney's political aspirations to one day run for office). The more he evades this (expected) fate, the more he embarasses Washington, and the more otherwise ignorant Americans will learn who he is and what his principles are.

His principles seem pretty clear so far: Do you want every packet that travels over the Internet to be clear text, captured and analyzed by governments? Or do you want reasonably secure communications, free from prying eyes, similar the US postal mail? Do you want the government to decide this for you, in secret? Snowdon thinks you should be entitled to decide for yourself.

Your comment about the democratic ratings of other countries and getting help from authoritarian regimes if "it suits his interests" could easily be applied to the US government as well. They will deal with regimes as it suits their interests, regardless of the form of government of those regimes, so long as it suits their interests (e.g. oil). The government does what it has to do to acquire oil so you can run your car, applicances, devices, etc. And Snowden is doing what he has to do to enable his country (and maybe others) to debate the question of spying on what travels over the Internet.
> More over, why so many perceived enemies who are US citizens? Why is the US government treating its own citizens as enemies of the state?

My guess is because we are told that we live in a Democracy and our vote and our taxes going to aid and abetting the people that are responsible for massive amounts of random acts of violence all over the planet.
I've never been to SF, but I'd imagine that the tag's popularity lies in its irony, not the fact that it's a hard hitting sociopolitical statement.
Good point. But if one wanted his site to look awesome on any screen size, he could use this tool to confirm that it does.
It's because yuppies/techies don't like their poor and disadvantaged in their faces, they want them in clean well-lit community centers preferably located in minority areas far away from their adult playgrounds.
This is going to be handy for code reviews - thanks!

edit: My thoughts after using it.

- vim-github-commit doesn't use inline comments, the comment goes at the end of the file on GitHub, although it does say which line it refers to. I prefer GitHub's inline comments via the web interface.

- Your comment is added to whatever commit the current line was introduced in. This isn't bad, but it can be confusing if you go to GitHub and realize you wanted to comment on that line in the current version, not some version from 6 months ago.

- The comment cannot be edited or deleted (as far as I can tell), whereas you can do both if you make a comment via the web interface.

Here's how it compares to a regular comment on GitHub: http://i.imgur.com/QsDNOSu.png
Could you express that in concrete terms? For example, my suggestions would be:

* Remove height restrictions near public transit

* Make the building permit process more similar to that of a typical American city. Specifically, reform CEQA and the SF Discretionary Review process.
It's tough, I've long empathized with complaints about SV taking over San Francisco and the soaring rents. Largely because I believe SV culture is intentionally blind to or intellectually dishonest about the fact that it is first and foremost a business sector that generates revenue, not a community that innovates for the betterment of humanity (and I think we should be okay with being a business sector! it's creepy to try and avoid that obvious truth). And the claims you occasionally hear about SV being a "true meritocracy" are deeply concerning. Being a "true meritocracy" of people with elite educations is a joke. I do include the self educated people in that comment, once again, great work but a huge percentage of America and the world grow up in places where the idea that they could learn Python and make 100k is unfathomable. And quite frankly, do not have easy access to the educational and cultural environments that aid in developing the soft skills that are necessary to be a self educated success in SV. In short, there are a lot of ways the SV is full of itself, so I empathize with people feeling they are being shoved around by privileged elites.

That said, some of the anger at SV is starting to remind me of general resentment of nerds, in a very high school way. My guess is both of these things are going on and they are getting conflated and that's causing real discussion to halt. Which is a shame because both are real problems, some SV people are clueless elites and blanket anger towards geeks is unreasonable. Any intelligent conversation about the culture of San Francisco should keep those things in mind and be very careful not to conflate them.