skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the US Navy has finally decided allow use of lower case in messages.
Ha!

Thanks for the new book fogus, love TJoC 1 and am eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Because counties are administrative units, while countries are sovereign entities. One of the fundamental characteristics of a sovereign is the establishment and policing of a border. What it means to be a "country" is, among other things, some people getting together to use force to keep other people out. This was the framers' understanding of the world, a world of sovereign entities with borders and a right to police them. Within this framework of understanding, you can't say you don't reasonably expect not to be subject to a search when crossing a border. One of the basic purposes of the Constitution was to invest the federal government with primacy with respect to the national border: preserving it (collective defense), regulating the shipment of goods through it, taxing the shipment of goods through it (customs), etc.

Indeed, one of the primary ways the federal government was to be funded was through taxes on imports, which implies the existence of a customs function at the border. Do you think the framers envisioned a customs system that couldn't enforce its tariffs without getting a court order to search incoming ships? They obviously didn't envision that, because one of the first things Congress did was to set up the framework for warrant-less customs searches.
I remember seeing a mockup of this on Dribbble a while back. Is the result?
Laziness, purity, and graph reduction--i.e. it's a completely different execution model.

Funny how you demand specifics here, but "faithfully replicate the mistakes of php/mysql worst practices as interpreted by rails" is left oh so vague.
What must be transparent is the system that uses that data... and I don't mean the code, but people, organizations behind, in general the government. If above that the code is also open and available, the better.
Would love to see Dropbox integration for backup and sharing :)
Would it be okay for me to shoot you if I gave you the design of the gun?
Brian, I understand that its beneficial to you as a competitor to Ghostery to bash Ghostery at this point, but please, refrain from looking stupid.

Ghostery collects tracker information and not individual users info. Ghostery requires an opt-in before any data is shared. Anyone wishing to dig deeper should read the source code since its not obfuscated unlike some of your disconnect's open sourced code. If you do however have ideas on how we should be more transparent, by all means, please share them.
He says pretty explicitly why he deleted his account:

> They should know better than to put their marketing plans ahead of their users' security. They're not going to learn about security until it costs them users. So, scratch one user.

I think this is a reasonable justification, and I imagine the point was to get others to do the same.
Parrot AR Drone 2.0 becomes first ever toy to feature on-board GPS [video]
> for the longest time for loops required a mutating index

Well, at least one mutating index is convenient:

function forEach (a,f) {
for(var i=0;i<a.length;i++) f(a[i],i,a);
}

After that, you generally wouldn't need more indexes.

But does it really require a mutating index?

function forEach (a,f,i) {
var n = i || 0;
f(a[0],n,a);
if(a.length > 1)
forEach(a.slice(1),f,n+1);
}

Array copies aren't particularly efficient, of course, and there are languages with data structures backing arrays for which some similar approach might be efficient, but there it is.
Major Update to Adobe Creative Cloud Now Available
The to-do part is pulling them in from iOS' built in Reminders app. That means you don't have to have yet another to-do app and it syncs via iCloud to your Mac and other devices.

The same goes for the events/calendar panel. They are both using Apple's EventKit API.

The news panel supports RSS feeds and Twitter is a possible option in the future, I'll look into doing it.
Nice app. I find the overall color of UI elements to be a little too dark. Right now with a little room light reflections on my iPad I find it hard to see some parts of the UI.

The biggest issue I have is, unless it supports CoreMIDI that leaves anything I create trapped in the app and makes it much less interesting and useful to me as a music creation tool. It also rules out using it in conjunction with all the other music apps out there. I would really encourage looking into this and it is something I would probably pay for to enable.

Also I don't (and won't) use Facebook so that rules out any sharing, etc... for me. I'm not opposed to sharing features at all, I just won't use Facebook to do so.

edit: a word
What a great idea. Nice looking app
No. From a corporate perspective there would be a ton of IP, potentially.

From a personal prospective, no. I consider who I call and when I call them private and not public.
If it's automatic...

But I believe there's value in keeping the recording, for voice matching, recording of other sounds in the call, etc
Yes it is! Chris and I have been working on this for the past few months since that Dribbble post. http://dribbble.com/shots/780188-Morning
Global communication boosts your business growth with VIR2SIM
oh how the black hats would love this!
Ask HN: Open position for Analyst / Junior Programmer
I'm currently a software analyst with a large corporation, who is looking to make the move into a full fledged programmer / developer role. I currently know some PL/SQL and use the Oracle derived SQL syntax to build custom reports, create database structures, and do database manipulation.

My question becomes, Are there any shops out there looking to take on someone with this little experience? I would like my focus to be older languages and/or older database structuring, mainly because of the analogy I can build in my head between it and maths. COBOL would be the easiest to pick up from what I've worked on before. Would anyone be willing to offer an entry level COBOL positions, or something in the same vein?

Education: Mathematics BS

Location: United States (Midwest)
Radio Silence Is Not a Leadership Strategy
No one asked the USA to systematically collect data about every citizen on this little blue planet.
So would we! No promises on feature release date, but we would love to get it into our user's hands ASAP!
I've seen air vests for horseback riding as well. I wonder how horseback riding helmets compare to bicycle helmets.
I believe this password box is something you only see if they don't recognize your email address as something that they can interact with via OAuth (i.e. Gmail).
They are all garnish because there is no culture around bicycles as everyday transportation. So it's become an enthusiast market with flashy inventions but little improvement in the core categories like reliability or safety.

It's a market where all you can buy is the kids plastic version of a Porsche or a literal Porsche.
AMO process too sluggish or does Disconnect have something to hide? I personally really enjoy this "open source" code: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...
I'm a long term vegan and I've never had to supplement. Plus 80g is on the high end, though obviously it depends on activity level.

The CDC recommends 56g daily for males 19 and up. Out of your daily calories somewhere between 10-35% should be from protein. http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/protein.html

That being said, you're correct that it isn't good to rely on one source of protein.
Maybe you should try to make better sense than just being overly critical and insulting?
Dude Yamaha Admits He Doesn't Do Social Media
http://cvdazzle.com/
Powershell script collects Microsoft ASP.NET app perf metrics
Powershell script to collect Microsoft ASP.NET application performance metrics desgined for cloud monitoring - private or public.
If you like this kind of thing and have a slightly competitive mindset, you might also like:

http://www.codeforces.com
http://www.topcoder.com/tc
We're definitely planning MIDI export and possible CoreMIDI support, stay tuned! The new Inter-App Audio in iOS7 also looks interesting...

In terms of sharing, Facebook definitely isn't required - you can email the song to your friends or you can upload it to our Discover service and share the link.
The government is constrained in what it can do

I'm wondering if you consider the existence of Guantanamo, rendition, etc. to be within or outside these constraints.
Awesome, great work. I was hoping this would become a reality.
Although the appearance has not changed much, the mechanics have. Helmets built in the mid 1970's were too hard. As a result, during certain accidents, they would enhance the likelihood of breaking one's neck. Later designs would absorb much more of the impact, providing greater protection.
I'm old enough to remember the cold war. One of the big criticisms of Eastern block countries was that the courts were subservient to the government, that the government was not constrained by the law and that trials were secret.

Have we forgotten this already?

Given that our current President wasn't alive for half of it (exclusive of petering out, 1947-1961), that seems pretty likely.
Yes, but JavaScript is flexible enough to allow persistent data structures, and a value-semantics API for working with them, to be implemented in terms of a library:

http://swannodette.github.io/mori/

Just to avoid confusion: mori the library, as distributed by npm, is already compiled. Building the library itself requires a compile step, but an end-user just needs to load it with a script tag or require("mori").
Inside the Military’s Secret Tagging Tech [2009]
Its amazing what a good video can do to sell an app.
> To me, the value of Godwin's Law is to remind us that comparisons to Nazi Germany usually carry more emotional weight than actual insight, and when we encounter them, we need to ask ourselves whether the aspect of Nazi Germany being called out was integral to its evil or just incidental

While it is important to keep this in mind, one must also always keep in mind that many valid comparisons to emotionally charged events will be made. Nearly everything in recent memory that is worth making comparisons to will have emotional baggage. Forcing people to tread lightly around issues that could have an emotional impact has a chilling effect on discussion, particularly when there is no similar weighting against comparisons to events with positive emotions.

Compare someone to MLK or Churchhill and few eyebrows will be raised; compare someone to the relatively mild Khrushchev and you will have half a dozen objections within seconds.

It is almost as if the meme of anti-bullying made the jump from schoolchildren to world leaders.
Who Is the Target of NSA Surveillance?
Ai Weiwei who was disappeared for three months and reportedly subject to psychological torture? And he's the one who should be protected most by his international fame.

Edit: You may be right that it's not "easy": I'm sure it costs billions and billions of RMB a year. But they've had a lot of success at it.
I've long suspected 90% of the budgets and bills they are trying to pass is to help them offensively against other countries. And yet, 100% of their arguments in public were that they are needed for defense.

The government seems to be lying about a lot of things it's doing in your name. You may be okay with it, but just don't act surprised when the retaliation begins, which of course the US government will make it seem like they started it, and now they need even more money and you having fewer liberties to help in the "cyberwar" that they started.

And just like that the "cyberwarfare industry complex" will keep expanding just like the "military industry complex" for decades to come, if nobody wants to do anything to stop it before it can't be stopped anymore, and its budgets will keep increasing year after year, with no one daring to touch them.
This reminds me a lot of windows live tiles, but in an app. I think the concept is great, but it would be better if this could somehow integrated into the lock screen.
If that's what you think, you are welcome to your opinion, but I don't believe you'll find a lot of popular support for the idea that unlicensed drivers and fake surgeons are things we should embrace.
great post. communication is definitely one of the keys to success!
The wide net that they wish to cast isn't necessary. They didn't have agents investigating every person in the US, looking for spies prior to the Internet.
Turns out there's a reason for their placement:

- "The digits 0–9 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward."

- "The letter "A" was placed in position 0x41 to match the draft of the corresponding British standard."

(Source: wikipedia.)
How ironic is it that his SSL cert just expired today?
Maybe my question was a little indirect. I was wondering if there was a criteria we could agree upon and publicly uphold to make data collection OK. For example, immediately throwing out any piece of data collected unless the public agrees that that piece of data is likely to help counter-terrorism. Of course the NSA would then lose the history of data that would be useful after a known terrorist was found, but the system would greatly help with privacy concerns.
I don't know what rock you've been hiding under, but that's not even close to accurate. Inspections, vague public statements, IRS audits, being followed everywhere, having all your friends "interviewed", being stopped and having your car searched, all your cash confiscated; these things have been used before by the government. As have being killed by a drone.

The Church of Scientology has quite a record of effective harassment, too. They're worth studying for an excellent example of what an NGO can do.
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/harass2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_%28Scientology%29
Try bitsync for arbitrary directory syncing.
Great work guys! Have a timeline for iPhone support?
http://blog.opalang.org/2012/04/one-web-app-one-language.htm...

As far as I understand, Opa has 2 killer features over Meteor: Type inference and "location inference".
Don't work on your live website
I'm still pretty much a noob, but I learn fast and this is one valuable lesson I wanted to share with all the other noobs!
> No email, though (yet).

Actually, it does do e-mail. :) https://github.com/mflatt/sirmail

Or if you want SMTP/IMAP libraries, you can look here: http://docs.racket-lang.org/net/
As someone who cycles thousands of miles every year and who has smashed a helmet on the pavement in the past, I happily paid over $200 for a MIPS helmet -- the only one I could manage to find for sale in the U.S.
Obama Invokes Cold-War Security Powers to Unmask Chinese Telecom Spyware (2011)
Typed Racket, I believe?
> How can one know not to get burned without getting burned?

Maybe, someone, let's say, a parent or guardian, telling you that touching a hot stove will burn you, and you taking this seriously.

The tone of his post seemed to me to indicate that he was generally insensitive, and only the death of a loved one could snap him out of it. If he had enough empathy, he would have learned more early on that he should be more aware and respectful of others' feelings.
And your point is?

Nowhere am I advocating that. I'm only suggesting "Am I free to leave?" and silence in response to anything but an unequivocal "Yes" to the question. And noting their leaving is also an implicit Yes.

Now, depending on your reading of the situation and the cop(s), you could play games with an equivocal answer, i.e. follow with "OK, you are detaining me", and if they object, go back to the free to leave theme, then press them on deciding one or the other. But that's not what I think one should generally do.
The terrible bargain we have regretfully struck (2009)
To this American, you are only half right. I fully embrace the same natural rights for all people, regardless of nationality. I think my government is ethically constrained from violating the rights of all individuals, U.S. citizen or not. And yes, I support state sovereignty over the federal government.

Recognition of and respect for human rights need not be bound to sovereign freedom of action, as you put it. Freedom of action does not have to imply freedom to coerce.
Show HN: I made a replacement newsycombinator
Skybox Imaging website [1] has lots of other articles [2].

[1] http://www.skyboximaging.com/

[2] http://skyboximaging.com/news/press
I really like the idea and I will be checking this out, particularly since I have a long-ish commute to the office.

I will say, though, that I think for the way my morning routine tends to go, it would be more useful to me as a Mac app. I almost always look at my MBP in the mornings before leaving for work, but rarely make a point of checking my iPad, so I could see this being really useful for me as a full-screen Mac app, where I can just leave it running on a space. Any plans in that direction? :)
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Many laws are formed around the basis of "just in case," for example marijuana prohibition exists because there's a threat that criminal organizations might be beneficiaries from marijuana sales. What if we knew which sellers were contributing to crime and, more importantly, which weren't?

If we have the opportunity to reduce friction in society, then why not?

Insurance -- of all kinds -- is another area dominated by "just in case" policies. What if we really knew which insurance claims were fraudulent?
NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden
It is a restriction from operating a particular piece of machinery on (essentially) public land, isnt it? You can still travel by the same mechanism as long as you are not the one operating it.

That seems fairly different from restricting travel by air.
I am not familiar with IPcluster. But I have used pyro and execnet. I think I will continue to use execnet, since it seems more lightweight than IPcluster. But the web interface provided by ipython notebook is really attractive..
Humble Bundle with Android 6 is available now
They shouldn't be spying on American citizens in the first place. That protection could possibly be extended to civilians in other countries as well, but there's nothing in the Constitution about the rights of non-citizens.

However, spying on foriegn governments and militaries is okay. Non-governmental terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda are also fair game for spying. However, if the Al-Qaeda members that you are spying on are American citizens, then you need a warrant, preferrably one granted by a reputable court and not a secret rubber-stamp court.
Tesla to demo battery-swapping later this week
SugarSync - https://www.SugarSync.com allows you to sync any folder you want
We plan to make it a universal app sometime in the near future. We just wanted to focus on making it great on the iPad first, where we thought the concept worked best.
Hey guys,

would you be OK if we use the image at the top of that notebook in the official IPython docs/tutorials/talks? We haven't made one that nice yet :)

If you have the svg sources, that would be awesome...
Its also interesting there are two new OCaml books of recent: http://ocaml-book.com/
Should the U.S. spy agency (one of them, anyway) stop spying?

No

Should the U.S. disband its spy agencies?

No

Is there a role for "spying" in this age?

Absolutely

----

The questions are: "Should a U.S. spy agency be allowed to violate our constitution?"

No

"Should a US Spy agency destroy the future competitive nature of US internet companies abroad to save a few lives via stopped terrorist attacks?"

Probably not, but the implications of such a discussion are extremely complex and definitely not black and white.

"If this technology was preventing terrorist attacks, how do we replace it with something less invasive which follows the constitution?"

I have no idea.

The reality is, for those of us on HN who are American Citizens, we probably benefit from our nation having global power. For those who are not American citizens, it is almost definite that you do not benefit from the US government from having global power.

How the US exercises its power could potentially lead to negative butterfly effects. I don't agree with the NSA spy program, but I also have no idea how to stop people from coming here and causing terrorist attacks.

Those that say we can stop them via being nice to other countries have no way of truly knowing that, and those that say we can stop them with the NSA spy program are just as clueless.
I haven't tried your app, but from the video it seems you have those discrete notes. Have you though about having a sort of continuous time/frequency domain? I guess you could do that with an Inverse Wavelet transform or Inverse Short Time FT with logarithmic frequency scaling. I'm assuming your sounds are synthesized, not recorded.

Another idea - how about making a part of the app sort of "real time" (or short delay), like an instrument? Seems it would take the intuitiveness and freshness of gesturing to a whole new level.
It sounds like you think there could not possibly be any big changes that would open the doors to tyranny. In other words, you are naive.
Maker of 'Candy Crush Saga' plans IPO
My kneejerk reaction was that his site was being MitM'd.
I hate not having any other comment to make but I think you would benefit from trying to optimise the size of the main banner image [1]. It's currently clocking in at just under 800KB, and loading it was like downloading an image on dial-up on my very reasonable 30Mbps. Even after reloading a few times it took me 16.8 seconds to download.

Good luck with your app and congratulations on shipping.

[1] http://images.tamper.io/morning/img/largebg.png
Nice!

I wake up every day around 5:30am and try to get up and going as quickly as I can.

You nailed some of the key things I already do in the morning:
- check the weather
- figure out what meetings I have for the day

The other thing I look for is if there was anything interesting for me that happened while I was sleeping. The best example is how I check to see if there are emails from specific people or internal monitoring services.

I could give you about 10 email addresses that I care about and get a digest of emails just from those email address.
Might be worth noting that the motorcyle ones were developed in MotoGP and have been crash tested several times now. Here's an example from a couple weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv88fiB3v6w

They both walked away from that.

These are a godsend for the motorcycle racing community. Now they just need to come down in price.