skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't follow. The article makes two points:

1. The NSA is allowed to store and analyze encrypted data longer than unencrypted

2. US citizens' encrypted data will be treated the same as non-citizens'

It still seems you have a much better expectation of privacy by encrypting your data and trusting to mathematical proofs that it would take thousands of years to break it; rather than leaving it in the clear, and trusting to five year storage limits and the supposed privileges of American citizenship.
If you're playing with love2d you might as well want to check out Zoetrope, I found it very awesome. http://libzoetrope.org/
Because reading criticism of a group of non-native-English speakers' handwriting is a waste of life.
RubyKaigi: Making a Japanese Conference Accessible to the World
<More Riffs on PG on Philosophy>

Philosophy is wasted on the young. The great tragedy of Socrates death is that the democracy had a point. If it's any consolation, Socrates was not just a man, Socrates was old.

Academic Philosophy is not as interesting as LISP. Don't hold that against them, for millennia philosophers have suffered ignorance of the lambda calculus. The current fascination with Brainfuck is but a passing paradigm.

DSL's show Wittgenstein wrong about private languages. This would prove to Wittgenstein on his own terms that he had misused language and accidentally slipped into philosophy.

C. S. Pierce was a working scientist. He shipped his side project. When the academics got ahold of it, we got psychology. The PHB is a side-effect.

When philosophy gets back to basics and focuses on thinking clearly, a LISP will be part of the curriculum. Arc as a 100 year language is a dip-shit exit.
Well, for one your banner is kind of strange. I don't understand what Secret Escape has to do with Prospect, which without knowing the name of your product is suddenly capitalized in the sentence.

Your billing table is funny, it looks like a product.

Overall, your sales page is weak. I understand it because I'm technical, but it's not something people would immediately swoon and say "I love it." Your current customers -- did you sell personally or did they convert on this webpage? I'm guessing it's the former, and you should think about how you sold them on it.

Just some thoughts:
+ As a HR person, I wouldn't care about it being a SAAS. Just saying "We're improving all the time based on your feedback". Check out what Taleo and Brassring use for their marketing copy. Odds are it works, since you're in a similar space.

+The "features" page sounds good but lacks information. What the heck is "The service makes it easy for applicants to get in touch plus with built-in security, Prospect ensures you don't get submissions you dont want either." Are you hiding email addresses, doing filtering, preventing spam submissions? What about the security of my applicants' personal info?

+Personally, I want to see what features it has before I scroll down and click the page.

+Mentioning support is good, but you don't make the benefit to me clear. Do you have good hours, fast response times? What if I wanted to upgrade to even faster support?
It wasn't a case of establishment late-comers whining. It was a case of establishment late comers not actually coming at all, late or not, because the system was rigged so they couldn't make any money. Since WoTC needed the investment, it was WoTC's problem and so they amended their terms.

If you're in a situation where you need to borrow people's money, it's up to you to offer terms that are acceptable to them. If you don't, then there's no law that says they have to lend to you.
Wyden is effectively invulnerable in Oregon. A rigged election would not go popularly unnoticed.
One way to improve programmers’ productivity that doesn’t involve Red Bull
> I set up a Kickstarter to turn it into open source and release everything I've written and then some

You could also, you know, just release what you have as open source without asking people to pay $30,000 for the privilege?
JavaScript Loop Performance
Your apologia is begs the question of whether Google could make money or find a fit for it when they never even allowed the team to try:

“‘There was so much data we had and so much information about the affinity readers had with certain content that we always felt there was monetization opportunity,’ he said. Dick Costolo (currently CEO of Twitter), who worked for Google at the time (having sold Google his company, Feedburner), came up with many monetization ideas but they fell on deaf ears.”

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/

Had there been interest, revenues were easy to find: a college student trying their first project would at least have slapped some Google text ads on there. Given Google's other projects, they could have just made Reader a service with a $5/year charge, bundled it with Google Drive subscriptions, etc. The Google+ integration was a hopeless botch full of obvious opportunities to make both services more valuable but they simply did not try and succeeded only in making a strong, active, influential community use their services less and distrust their executives‘ vision and competency.
How to make technology choices
Yes, this. I was confused by it too until I uncovered that in a GetSatisfaction thread. If you lock it about 1/4 of the way from the top, the auto mark-read behavior is like GReader.

It should probably default to being locked...

One of my favorite things about Newsblur is how minutely configurable it is, but I think all of that is probably throwing off new users.
Seems unlikely to be the first choice of destination on that basis. By the time the technology exists to reliably transport people (or equivalent amounts of mass) to other planetary systems in a usefully short amount of time, then the technology will also exist to cost-effectively (a) make everything habitable for baseline humans via habitats and other forms of engineering, and (b) engineer sentient entities that can live comfortably in native conditions near anywhere in a star system.

So whether or not the system has habitable zone planets will be irrelevant. Our descendants will go to the closest one first.
I really hope the new companies will start looking at D to use it as the main language. I myself have a lot of plans to used it for many kinds of different projects! "D is a great sward to fight with, and it has a machine gun in it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister#Inspirations

Or, if you dislike comedic form, the Crossman Diaries are insightful in the working of the civil service:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?&field-keywords=Richard+Crossman+di...

We separate "politics" from our bureaucracy. It's quite difficult to, say, fire a civil servant.

Don't get me wrong, I think the spoils system was worse. (Hmm, why do I think that...) But the independence of the civil service is intentional. Elected officials and not very effective oversight.
Personally I thought encrypting stuff was just a temporary middle finger, and denazification the long term solution? After all, you don't get safety by complying with commands from your predators, that just gives them ideas.

So how about simply ignoring all that. Think of vampires; they can't get in without your permission, and sunlight kills them real fucking quick, so quick you will doubt they ever existed. Sure they can be dangerous, but their main tools are lies, and foolishness of their victims.

As Assange pointed out, censorship betrays fear. These people have nothing but a huge house of cards. Even if they ruled forever, they have nothing inside; they are a clenched fist around nothing, around a bluff, around fear. So they already lost anything humans can loose, they already went the way of the dinosaur, at "best" they can take us all with them.

They have my pity, and those who are still able to get out I wish the best, but the rest should simply learn to know their place already.

Regards,
a deluded narcissist, writing from the fortress of his mind, unimpressed by noob stuff such as death.
No, I have very many ideas. I have neither the time nor skill to do anything with them. I write them down and I'll put them on a bit of WWW space sometime.

EDIT: Some of the more sensible are around behaviour modification. They're all a bit UK-centric, but modifiable.

EG

1) drink diaries. People aren't aware of how much they actually drink, so an easy way of keeping track and then converting that into the UK standard "units" would be good.

2) Budgeting for poor people claiming benefits. Benefits might be changing to monthly payments (from fortnightly). People say this is going to be very hard to adjust to. A simple app to help people keep track of money in and out is handy. What makes this "fun" is the need to make it work on not-smart phones and non-data plans.
HTML is for documents, it just sucks for anything native platforms have since the mid-90's.
Malkovich!
Media observers will note that snowden has become the story... Very little is being reported on the actual whistle blowing (or gutless treason, if you listen to the media).

As i watch this massive PR engine start to tear apart Snowden,,,, I'm finding it very hard to post anything critical of the government. It's just a little too easy to flip a binary switch somewhere.

I wonder if this is how it started with those countries we consider repressive?
It is not exactly a history book but Guns, Germs, and Steel should be on the reading list. It starts at the dawn of modern humans and explains a lot about how the world is organized.

It started with a simple question from a New Guinea native to an anthropologist of European descent: "Why do you guys have all the loot?"

Hint -- it's not because of smarts.
[Edit: It seems I was misreading this. See child comments for more details, or just ignore this comment. Sorry for the confusion.]

I don't think they could. I'm no constitutional lawyer (I'm not even American), but someone pointed out on here recently that the clause says "[they] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace [have immunity] for any Speech or Debate in either House" ... and since discussing classified secrets would count as a felony (possibly even Treason, given some of the opinions about this story), they could be prosecuted.

Is that incorrect?

In the UK, MPs could discuss state secrets in Parliament and be protected under Parliamentary Privilege, but not so in the USA, as I understand it.
That's a cool. I like the simple, elegant interface.
After all, you're either with us, or you're with those who want to destroy our freedoms.

That big wheel just keeps on rolling...
Why Facebook Would Want Its Own News Reader
Interesting article and totally agree with it. This problem is however not just a US problem but is much more global, as was shown by a recent string of reports. Their conclusion was that the few systems that could actually help the construction industry get better prices and better manage their process were either too complex or expensive to be properly implemented (Oracle, SAP, IBM...), thus delaying adoption.

Interestingly enough, we had the same problem a few years ago when we were working in Dubai and so came out with an incredibly powerful but easy to use bidding platform for all the professionals in the industry called ProTenders (http://www.protenders.com) and it sold like hotcakes. Within 3 years of operation, we had signed up 700 companies and processed over 12 billions in bids. And we're now opening in the US, so hopefully we'll be able to help companies save and get better prices.
IcCube 4.0 : Redefining Performance
"My interaction with Americans has not been in a professional setting, but my opinion of them is that they're very unknowledgeable about things happening outside their country"

My interaction with my fellow non-American countrymen is that many of them not only are not interested in what happens outside their country, but also what happens INSIDE, unless this somewhat affects them directly (say, taxes rise).

Of course an equal number of them are knowledgeble and really concerned about what happens in our country, and the rest of the world.

And probably there are hundreds of variations beetween these two extremes.

My hunch is that it's the same more or less everywhere around the world, US included.

It's just naive to try to condense millions of people in a single (or two, or three) stereotype.
Before I die I want to live until I'm at least 100 years old.
First of all: congrats on shipping!

My biggest concern is your proposition. The information on the website is lacking in clarity, it’s a mystery to me what ‘prospect’ does. Is it a job board? Does it search for candidates? Does it have to do anything with jobs on my website in the first place?
Ah, wait, I have to click on ‘features’. That’s three clicks away from the usehuman.com homepage, and I still haven’t got a clue what it is you’re selling. How do I implement it? Is it an external service, how can I put it on my website, how can I enter jobs, etc.

So that’s my first point. Make it clear what it is you’re selling, and, more importantly, how I will benefit. After that, explain how it works.

Also, $18 a month seems a little steep to me. Besides, as a business owner, I don’t want the hassle of monthly payments. You could offer a yearly subscription with a discount.

My other concern is this: what’s your target audience? Is it small business owners who aren’t very tech savvy? Most likely they won’t need the $18 a month subscription since most small business owners don’t change staff members that much to justify the cost. A soon as a company gets big enough for putting several job openings on their website, they’ll most likely have some sort of CMS to handle this. Or does Prospect offer something that standard CMS’s don’t?
The Direct Project as part of the ARRA stage 2 meaningful use is worth looking at since encrypted emails will be widely adopted by medical professionals. Maybe this project will be useful for the rest of America.

http://wiki.directproject.org/
How the world benefits from Chinese piracy
Well, that’s embarrassing. That’s the site I actually meant to link to! Nick Carr (Scoutingny) is a location scout, Kevin Walsh (Forgotten-ny) is not. I got the two mixed up. Both are good sites, but Scoutingny often shows places that only he can get in.

I’ve even linked to the site before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5262259
We own websites... make them SSL.

We affect the 95%.
> It is unnatural

The irony is, its very much a natural phenomenon i.e. seen in nature. In nature hierarchies are the norm.
HN is just as guilty as everyone else. People are interested in the messenger because it's a genuinely interesting story -- a real life spy thriller!

The fact that the NSA spies on internet communications, on the other hand, has been known (at least in principle) for years.
How is 50 million a large number when refering to Steve Jobs? Last I heard Bill Gates had donated about 37 billion.
>How well would it scale for a musician to personally handle depositing checks from millions of fans?

Many of them do a good job handling fan mail. It sounds like a nice problem to have.

>There is a very good reason that many musicians become involved with labels, promoters, distributors, etc.

There are some good reasons for artists to outsource administrative errands, management. There's also the crappy reason that is the monopolization of the major distribution channels.
So.... interstellar colonisation kickstarter project anyone?
Both the pro-Snowden and pro-NSA sides seem to have this attitude (you're either with us, or you're with those who want to destroy our freedoms).

Apparently it isn't a valid option to not particularly be a fan of either one.
The ones not written in English are clearly not what I'm referring to.

The ones written in English have terrible hand writing by people who clearly speak English as a first language. Pretty much all of the non-native English speaking people are easy to read.
US Persons are protected from surveillance without a warrant. This is a right guaranteed to them by the Constitution. The burden of establishing if someone is a US Person should fall on the government agency performing surveillance.

If they cannot establish if a US Person is party to the conversation, they should assume one is and remove the potential of violating this constitutionally guaranteed right. This could be due to a failure of the service provider (Google, Verizon) to collect this information (they don't), or the fact that the communications are anonymous or encrypted, etc. Proving a negative can be tough, but that burden is the government's to bear.

Of course there is also a moral component… I'm pretty shocked that as patriotic as we are about the sacred rights of the constitution, we somehow feel that it is morally ok to not afford these protections when dealing with foreigners. The Declaration of Independence says:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

With the rights to be enshrined more specifically later in the Constitution. How can anyone passionately agree with these words and not believe that the just treatment afforded to US citizens should somehow not be afforded to non-citizens, or citizens who choose to use a particular software program?
Download me—Saying “yes” to the Web’s most dangerous search terms
If only we could get spammers to encrypt everything they send...
Why would you expect the US government, or ANY government to respect the right of privacy of citizens of other countries? The first duty of government is surely to protect the interests of the country to which it belongs - note that I'm in favour of governments belonging to countries, not the other way around. And that first duty surely indicates that any government should do its upmost to pry into the business of anybody where doing so will offer advantage to its citizens.

Furthermore, it would be weird if this didn't happen. And if your country, whichever one it is, isn't doing this, and some horrible thing happens which might have been avoided by this kind of spying, then your co-citizens will be rightly outraged and demand to know what the hell your government thinks it is doing.

But, equally, your government might [ought?] to consider what it can do to protect its citizens from foreign spying.

Most wicked in all of this is not that the spying takes place, but that it does so within the most diaphanous of legal frameworks. I understand that my government might want to spy on me if it thinks I'm involved in something illegal, but I damn well want a clear, unambiguous, legal framework that says who gets to authorise that spying, for how long, and on what grounds. Oh, and the person who does that authorisation had better be a judge, or an elected official that I can un-elect.

All this we're-so-clever-because-we-found-a-way-to-subvert-the-law-by-cleve-interpretation nonsense needs to be stopped in a career ending way for those doing it. Oh, and the politicians who gave it a wink and a nod need to be named so we can decide what to do with them at the next election.

In summary, countries spy on foreigners. Always have. Always will. But that doesn't excuse them spying on their own. That kind of behaviour has a bad reputation, for a bunch of historically valid reasons.
Edward Snowden is a traitor to the United States: he must be brought to justice
Do a Duck Duck Go search for it and you'll find it.
I'll definitely be spinning this up in the near future to pull together some web service data. Might even be a good excuse to begin working more with coffeescript. Thanks!
Show HN: Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website crawlable by Google
http://www.BromBone.com

I posted “Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users” 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386966). Over time, it grew to 150 (free) users, but retention was pretty much zero. I was trying to cast a wide net and offer a generic “headless browser as a service”. It turned out I had make a service that was a little helpful to many people, but didn't really solve anyone's problem completely.

I finally took the advise offered in that thread. I focused on a problem I understood, and solved it completely instead of just offering a helpful tool. Instead of a “hosted headless browser” BromBone is now a complete solution for people who want their javascript websites indexed by Google.

BromBone.com - The javascript SEO problem has been solved.

Google can't index javascript driven webpages. The accepted solutions have been:
1. Run your own PhantomJS server to render snapshots and serve the snapshots to Google (a real pain).
2. Accept that your pages won't be listed on Google.

With BromBone you don't have to either. You just have to make a small change to your .htaccess file.

BromBone crawls your websites, runs your javascript in a web browser, and saves the rendered page. When Google crawls your site, proxy the requests to BromBone, and we'll send the rendered snapshot to Google.

Smile. Your javascript driven website is on Google.
1.29326996 × 10 to the 14th miles = Nearby
Anyone have the link to the 15 talking points mentioned.
Maybe camel case is not appropriate as the title, from wikipedia:-

"The term pivot table is a generic phrase used by multiple vendors. In the United States, Microsoft Corporation has trademarked the specific form PivotTable."[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_table
> Before I Die I want To... Service Temporarily Unavailable.

That made me laugh :P
Node.js. Yawn.
Speaking of which -- for those of you who haven't ever seen or used DTrace, I stumbled across a fantastic little tutorial yesterday which really opened my eyes as to just how useful DTrace can be for developers:

http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/933/531/

I also found a well-written quick-start guide for DTrace:

http://www.tablespace.net/quicksheet/dtrace-quickstart.html

Remember, DTrace also ships as part of OS X (and Solaris) too, so it's worth learning if you're doing any serious development on those platforms.
That's... wildly incorrect. It's not even a tortured reading, it's a "we made it up" reading.

The actual text is:

They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

The Speech or Debate clause has never been doubted to extend to anything a member may say on the floor of their house.
That's an unproven assertion which the torrent of people saying “I'd have paid for Reader” calls seriously into question.
If Snowden isn't charged with treason, then I doubt a US senator will be charged with that. I think if they did the outrage and Wyden's support would be even bigger than it is for the "random NSA analyst" Snowden.

I for one hope he will be running for president soon.
It seems like the root of the problem here is using intelligence sources to target all civilians. As the senators point out, there's no way the NSA is going to automatically be able to tell from an email address or random internet packet the citizenship status of the person sending it. This should have been pointed out and addressed years ago, but instead they deliberately lied to Congress and then forbade Congress from coming clean with the public. What a mess.

But there might be an even deeper problem, if you can believe it. I really don't see the purpose of electing people as representatives to serve on a committee if the committee is not given all of the relevant details, is sometimes lied to, and is forbidden from releasing any of the details to the public. I think the executive branch and specifically the president is taking on waaaaaay too much power here. In times of war, this might be understandable, but a democracy cannot endure a never-ending state of war. I hope that many are beginning to see this.