skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a number of existing projects that have similar or subsets of ngrok's feature set. localtunnel was certainly one of the inspirations for building ngrok.
>... like first letter of each sentence or rot3 of those.

After all these years, that is the first interesting application I have seen of rot13(I think you intended?). ty
Ugly can also mean that you care to do the right thing for customers. I have seen pieces of code that were beautiful at first, but had to be tweaked in horrible ways to accomodate all the quirks of human interaction. Yes, the code is ugly, but if the clients love it, why should you complain?
And what purpose does the web serve?

It's simply that both the man and situation around him are very tense. In that light this web really looks like a cheap attempt to catch attention.
You're right: it is off topic and it is their website.
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No offense but popularity among who exactly, the Silicon Valley crowd? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marr...

Christianity has over 2 billion "members" worldwide and Easter is a major holiday.
I imagine the minority here is aware that Pandora now owns a radio station, and their goal is to use the radio station to get more favorable terms for licensing. (wsj story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732490400457853... ) I interpret these stories and their timings as a prelude to undermine Pandora's bargaining position. It's clearly PR to extract 'higher' payments, even though Pandora already pays among the highest per-listener rates in the US across all mediums. The blog author and parent are spot-on.
Ok Google, now do this using the webRTC data channel instead of a plugin (using Vidyo's H.264/SVC)

webRTC is going to be really exciting in the next year or so. Google is pushing it, but it'd be great to see them actually using it. I was hoping New Hangouts would be on webRTC, but it is still a bit early.
How many Marilyns do you remember from ancient Greece? How many thinkers?
> I have to strongly disagree. Wikileaks has released minutiae about other countries as well.

Doing bad things to other countries (again, because of what they are instead of what they've done) doesn't make me feel better about when it's done to mine.

Here's some other countries I don't hate: Russia, China, the U.K., France, South Africa and in fact the list could go on as long as I have time.

> Just for starters, look at the 2 million emails from Syria - clearly most of those are about trivial matters too, but most people in the US haven't even heard about the release at all.

There's no polite way for me to say this so I'll just spit it out; no one cares about Syrian government emails. That's why no one in the U.S has heard about the release. Gossip is as destructive for international politics as it is for small towns.

If there's big news to release then by all means go and do so, but governments should be able to maintain diaries too.
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A curious thing is that you can also breathe by lifting your shoulders. It's not very effective (or comfortable) but it works.
common, not unique to sift science.
I think Stallman is concerned about surveillance in general, not only government surveillance. Corporate surveillance is much more prevalent on (and more unique to) the internet than government surveillance.
> don't do this.

Your message would probably come across clearer if you add a concrete example the behavior you want avoided and what you think the consequences are for not doing so.
Because searching for current events means someone is a homosexual? I really don't understand how this could possibly risk outing someone.
Yea this is a very common design pattern.
I'd say Stallman has a very extreme set of priorities.

For most people, they just want a computer/games console/cellphone that works, and operates in the way they want it to. Whether the source code is free or not is completely irrelevant, if it fulfils the purpose.

If I buy a plastic toy for my kids, I don't feel the need to have the schematics, plastic moulds, and full assembly details for it. It's enough that it fulfils the purpose for which it was made.

Personally, I think you have to trust other people at some point. You have to trust that a hot wheels toy car won't have a secret hidden camera transmitting back to the government, just like you have to trust closed source software.
It isn't. To both. It's a "real feature" (like everything on the site), and already there's a ton of people doing really cool things with the data. We're pretty stoked to see what new things come out of it.
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It'd be interesting if they can do spaces that convert empty large retail stores into minature malls consisting solely of a couple of popup shops. I think the trick to this is that you would need to find some equivalent of an anchor that can have a consistent presence and can expand/shrink their share of the space so that consumers never show up at a half deserted "mini mall."

Maybe someone like bonobos could do that. All they really need is to stock a couple sizes of each item & then could place the orders online for delivery. This means they could easily scale what is on display & rent out the space whenever a pop-up wants it.

Another idea I've had, and this predates airbnb, is basically an airbnb for kitchens/restaurants so chefs can easily rotate cities. Not really passionate about this idea or feel it would be an amazing business. Would be interested in going to the popup restaurants as a customer though.
Excessiveness in the injection of normative notions to a market seems like a bad idea.

In any case, the content is only an aspect of the value, and without the value add many services would be rather useless. If the cost of content dwarfs the use's value add, something with potential becomes something untenable.

I mean without streaming, multiple platform support, browsing/searching, etc., what would Netflix be? The delivery method and interface themselves have value, and it's not insignificant at all.

Remember the purpose of copyright isn't to give creators rights. It's to drag as much out of them for as little cost as possible for the sake of the enrichment of society as a whole.
Stomach breathing is used by musicians, to get enough air to maintain the notes. It is not necessarily easy to start breathing like that, because the natural feeling is that your lungs are more filled with chest breathing. It is wrong, though, you get much more air by playing with your diaphragm.
On music streaming, piracy and sustainability
Why Are So Many College Graduates Driving Taxis?
Why do you think it's important?

Is it important when I buy a wooden table that I'm given full details of how it was made, how the pieces fit together, what glue was used, what size router bits, etc?
Part of it seems to be a play to get more governments, who often have A LOT of geo data on Github. Github is in many ways positioning itself to be a public repository of data, not just code.
If I told you there was an e-commerce company without a profitable year in over a decade of existence despite federally-mandated price ceilings placed on their suppliers, you'd be incredulous. If I then added that the same company was lobbying in Washington to get the price ceiling lowered, the pitchforks would be out.

But then mention it's a company selling music, and people shrug, "Oh, well music should be free anyway... The artists should be happy they get anything."
We use RDP + TS gateway over VPN which you have to auth your remote key before you can connect.

That's 4 factor :)
I don't think that's irony.

From what I've gathered, they've never really "doodled" anything that could remotely resemble a religion in the event that it looks like they endorse or favor it over others. Cesar Chavez was a civil rights activist akin to MLK or Gandhi so it seems pretty apt that they'd honor him in a doodle.

EDIT: Looks like I was wrong about religious-based doodles. But it still stands that they don't have to pander to a certain segment of the population (especially a major one) on an annual basis. Personally, I feel the doodles are more about educating and informing. I often come across doodles that represent some person or thing that I had no idea about before and find myself clicking on the doodle and the subsequent links it pulls up as part of the search. Seems like it's not always about celebrating the most commonly known ideas/people.
You're creating and then trashing a strawman.

He said that he couldn't come up with ANYTHING that a "Tea Party" group could do outside of politics with the 51% of their money, other than launder it by giving it to other groups.

Why don't YOU come up with something OTHER than changing public policy that a Tea Party group would do with that 51%? Any Tea Party group is a political group by definition, and shouldn't qualify as a charitable group. Period. It's just a tax dodge, plain and simple. Heck, that's pretty much the point of the party is they don't like taxes, so it's a blatantly obvious tax dodge.
Just deployed a nodejs app to nitrous.io. Coming from a heroku background, there are some quirks here and there. Wrote up a tutorial about how to deploy nodejs apps on Nitrous if you have never done anything like that before: http://songz.quora.com/Deploying-your-app-on-Nitrous-using-N...
But unless you plan on just using remote powershell to manage that server, you'll need the Remote Server Admin Tools package that supports Server 2012 --and it's only available for Windows 8+.

The 2012 Server Manager gui is very nice. When I have to work on 'legacy' servers running 2008 R2 I miss it.
A number of initial responses to this article seem to acquiesce to the program because it scans technically "public" information. Speaking from the context of the United States, the 4th Amendment to the Constitution is what may be violated by PRISM, which protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. It has been interpreted by the courts that this protects citizens when they have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

At what point with the powerful sensor technologies and analytics techniques that government agencies can employ and are mentioned in the article (semantic analysis, horizon scanning, predictive analytics, facial recognition, geolocation) do we draw a line that a reasonable expectation of privacy has been violated? I am not sure that the users of social networks who are not tech industry workers necessarily expect the extent to which extrapolations can be made and conclusions can be drawn about behavior that is technically "public" and mundane at face value.

Another separate question to consider is whether agencies will distinguish between content that is "public" or "private" in the cloud. It may be reasonable that content put in the cloud publicly is searchable, but will agencies respect cloud providers/users administrative privacy options? If I put physical property in storage I expect a warrant will be required to search it, but if I put intellectual property in the cloud, will the government respect that as protected by the 4th amendment when it is much easier to obtain, especially with the cooperation of tech companies?
I don't think Stallman's agenda stems (only) from paranoia. To me, Stallman represents a reminder to always think about the power structure of everything - even software. For an interesting comparison of Stallman's and Tim O'Reilly's ideologies look here: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler
'cause there's no bubble there, at all.
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No one seemed to be interested here.
Outed as being confused? How is this a problem again?

What if a straight kid googled 'gay marriage' just to see what the link on HN was all about and someone saw it? For shame! The horror!!

What if a velociraptor that's allergic to rainbows happened to walk by at that moment and flew into a rage consuming the entire public library with its violence?

What if a bully saw someone looking at a rainbow on the screen and said something stupid and was met with an overwhelming negative response by a large portion of his peers causing him to reconsider previous life decisions?

This game is fun!
The same thing happened to me when I was looking up Starcraft tactics and was outed as a nerd gamer. Worst day of my life.

Kind of ridiculous.
Not "in your sent IMAP folder" ... "in your sent folder, which can be accessed via IMAP"
Wayland doesn't provide meaningful security for that case. It's true that there's no protocol support for arbitrary buffer access, but if you're running as the same user (as is the case here) it's comparatively trivial to dup the drm file descriptor and remap the buffers. You may need to be able to guess (or just probe for) the handles though, I'm not sure.
So what? Islam has 1.5 billion "members" and I don't recall any special Ramadan doodles.

In short: not everything is about Jesus. Hopefully, this trend will continue.
Will children be able to draw rainbows free of political and cultural symbolism? Or will the appropriation become permanent, much like the word "gay" which has lost its original English and French meaning?

"The rainbow flag made its debut in 1978 at San Francisco's Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade... The original flag had eight colors, two more than its customary version, each representing an aspect of gay life: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, blue for harmony, and violet for spirit."

"In 2006, a straight family in Kansas had to defend flying a rainbow flag at their bed and breakfast from some angry townspeople... Understanding the wider symbolism, the owners nevertheless chose to fly the flag because their young son said it reminded him of the movie The Wizard of Oz, evoking the movie's signature song, Over the Rainbow."

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=7007
Really interesting solution to creating an API that doesn't exist yet. Cool project!
The corrected version would probably just lead to more public outrage.
I am amused by your attempt to shame me into agreeing with you, but some complaining about price increases is not a 'blowback'. Dozens of new readers and business starting up and endless bad PR (I have Google Alerts set up, so I see the new articles all the time, and the Reader is still generating bad press especially now that the shutdown is nigh) - that is blowback.
Some devs didn't know this, so since it's relevant...

Firefox 21 and 22 support streaming MP4 in HTML5.
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By "damning", are you referring to the parroting of the silly use of capital letters?
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I would suggest finding an employment opportunity that is in an area that you are passionate about. Figure out the requirements and do some reading and/or small projects that use the skills you will need in the position and apply when you are ready.

There is a huge difference between classroom learning and independent learning. You absorb the information at a lot higher rate when you are passionate about what you are learning about.
Comments here decry pop neuroscience. I will recommend here a new book, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, who are both thoughtful and appropriately skeptical researchers on neuroscience topics.

http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Seductive-Appeal-Mindless-...
Edward Snowden's Country Of Choice Has An Even Worse Surveillance Record
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I think I misread your comment, you wanted the article to be a how-to on how to plagiarize?
Snapchat was really asking for this to happen, with exposing usernames publicly at snapchat.com/<username> and showing subsequent top friends. What was the rationale of doing that vs keeping it all inside the app?
IANAL, but I believe that to have 'standing' you must show that you have been affected or harmed by the law in question.

The petitioners were claiming that they should have standing without demonstrating that they had been affected or harmed by the law in question. To rule in favor of the petitioners would have been to throw out the entire principle of 'standing'.

In a hypothetical future case, where the petitioners did have evidence of harm, they would not be prohibited by today's ruling from making a successful petition despite the State's lack of interest in defending the law.

At least that is how it seems to my amateur and cursory review of today's decision.
Love this. I just ordered a copy.

I've been under the weather for a while, so I took the opportunity to read some. I can't emphasize enough how important regular reading is. If for no other reason than to climb out of your own problems and into an author's head for a bit, especially one with something important to say.

For anybody interested, the books I read over the past 2-3 weeks were War and Peace, Gone Girl, and God's Chinese Son. I've got about 35 more on-deck waiting for me to start on them.
So how long will it take in the tender care of an FSB Q&A setup before Snowden "agrees" to login to his VPS/Dropbox/etc. for them?

Although on the flipside, at least NSA will be able to track the login to that service and possibly be able to figure out where it was stored.

They and/or the FBI are probably already serving NSLs/subpeonas/etc. to determine whether Snowden or his girlfriend have active accounts with any of the major/medium/minor cloud providers.
I was hoping they'd restore the old "split" Inspect Element UI, instead they added the option to dock it on the right side of the browser.

Not what I was looking for, I wanted the Rules on the side in a column, and the inspector along the bottom like it used to be.

Disappointed.
Um... you got me there. That is in fact 60% of the reason I made this site.
This is correct. I use WordPress, but I use it to accomplish business goals for my clients. That's worth much more to the person signing the checks than someone who knows Rails well, but doesn't bring anything to the table when it comes to what should be built; only how to build.
I wonder how much of that marketing costs are from their own interstitial ads between songs? I would think the cost to them is $0, but I wouldn't be surprised if they valued it at market rates. Perhaps to keep the IRS happy.
Screen sharing is a Skype feature. If having a broadly available free tool with deep-pocketed corporate support was going to kill off that "niche", then it's surely been dead for years already. This is just Google achieving feature parity with the existing players.

I mean, I'm as much a cynic as anyone, but I swear that these days it seems like Google can't catch a break on this site.
No, the entire point is that political contributions shouldn't be tax deductible, no matter the goals.

I make lots of political contributions with the intent of improving social well-being. I just don't expect to also be able to deduct those contributions from my taxes.

The IRS wasn't preventing these groups from collecting money in support of a cause. It was preventing those donations from being deducted from your taxes.

I'm willing to take that tax hit to help people. It's the Tea Party supporters who hate taxes so much that are making a big deal of the fact that they can't get a deduction on their taxes on contributions made to elect people who will then try to reduce their taxes.

They want to double dip. Screw that. Make sure that the rules are fair in preventing any such political organization from being considered a "social welfare" organization, by all means. But don't let political contributions become deductible, no matter the politics.
From the original post: "I am also paid a seperate royalty for being the performer of the song. It’s higher but also what I would regard as unsustainable. I’ll post that later this week."

Footnote from this post: "He does clarify in the footnotes that $16.89 is only for 40% of the songwriting and there is a separate performance royalty, but certainly the headline & coverage could leave many with the impression that $16.89 was everything."

I'm not defending Lowery—he clearly wrote that post in an effort to draw negative attention to Pandora's practices—but he stated that the documents he threw online were outlining songwriting revenue—he made that delineation in the very first line of the post.
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Porn is used in medicine. Reproductive clinics use porn to help their patients reach climax in order to provide seminal fluid samples. This to me suggests, that like most things, porn can be a good thing, or a bad thing. It's much more about moderation or addiction in general than porn in particular.
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I love this type of hacking on undocumented APIs. Does anyone know if it's possible to bend or break the technical rules of SnapChat through this type of direct API access? It would be interesting to try and post a 20 second video... or send someone Lord of the Rings. :-)
The funny thing is that SSLLabs' own site throws an "Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap" when RC4 is disabled in the browser. Apparently they don't support browsers that only accept strong ciphers. This is especially odd because they advise against using RC4.
You are being downvoted unfairly.

I can understand where you are coming from here, people are submitting themselves to this kind of monitoring even though they have options right now to baffle it. It seems people either don't know enough to do so or don't care. That can be frustrating, but it's not grounds to say: "You've done it to yourself, this is what you wanted."
The change is proposed for ECMAScript 6: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proper_tail_c...

GHCJS currently uses a trampoline, but all calls are in tail position, so when this gets implemented we can easily generate code that uses native JS tail calls.

Like GHC, GHCJS uses its own stack for non-tail calls.
> Firefox never supported the old flexbox.

I'm not sure why you're asserting that when you're completely wrong. Not only did Firefox support the old flexbox, it still does as of Firefox 22: [0] still works and uses the old (and prefixed) flexbox syntax, and said old (and prefixed) syntax remains documented on MDN with a note that it's deprecated[1]

[0] http://www.the-haystack.com/2010/01/23/css3-flexbox-part-1/

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-moz-box-fl...
What if you wanted your wooden table to be two inches shorter? Should you be both technologically and legally prevented from sawing two inches off each of the legs?

What if you wanted to build your own wooden table? Maybe you don't need the original schematics, but should you be both technologically and legally prevented from examining your own table to learn how it was constructed?

What if (for whatever perverse reason) your wooden table did in fact come pre-installed with a miniature surveillance camera that sent footage of you back to the manufacturer. Should you be both technologically and legally prevented from removing such a device from your table?
You are right, porn is about control. Control of your own sexual urges and desires instead of relying 100% on your partner, who may have a lower libido and appreciate that you're not badgering them into sex when they don't want it. Control of your desires so that you don't end up in a bad relationship just for sexual gratification.

Unless you're coming at it from a religious moral angle, porn has less potential for destruction than sex. Porn doesn't lead to STDs and unexpected pregnancy.

Erectile dysfunction is a physical dysfunction, not merely the lack of desire for sex. Stop giving men anxiety about their erections simply because they don't want sex all the time.
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And yet, slavery is now frowned upon in much of the world.