skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of things the government does would not be a big deal, if they at least told us about what they are doing and why.

Transparency goes a long long long way to resolve confusion and concern and prevent abuse.
Eh, I didn't feel like I was being accused of anything. I was actually incorrect since I've looked at my profile and apparently I asked two questions (and have answered none).

I would fully admit to not engaging the community in the same way most devs have on SO and I understand that in order for the SO community to be successful it needs just as many people helping others as it does people asking questions.

I've been on there for two years and some change and maybe I'm at fault for not scrutinizing the rules when I first joined (I belong to many forum communities so that I can seek similar assistance and help others and they tend to be very hands off moderation wise), but I think that myself, like others, seek out the community on StackOverflow to answer a one off question from time to time and maybe there should be very clear policies about this kind of interaction (or some considerations given to users who use the system in this way but find it hard to contribute because of lack of expertise or because easier questions have already been answered by others).

Also if my rep could carry over from some of the other networks (ie: I might not be able to answer your Redis questions but I can sure contribute to the Wordpress network) that might help my grievance a bit. That solution does open up other problems, but you get my drift.
I'm a big fan of what you guys have built at Thumbtack. In fact, prior to BuildZoom, I remember looking at Thumbtack and really digging the interface & design. Its a great company with great leadership, heading in the right direction.

I do question the premise of the services market as whole being a "winner-take-all" space. I do believe this becomes more viable in a more narrowly defined segment of the overall local services market.

I think the marketplace examples of a "winner-take-all" (e.g. eBay and Amazon) are a bit questionable (it isn't the first time I've heard this perspective).

When I want to buy something used (for example), I have probably turned to Craigslist just as many times as I've turned to eBay. When it comes to new items, I always look at Amazon but the overall query covers a much broader space, which will include more specialized e-commerce sites.
> If we haven't declared war, then we're clearly not at war in a legal sense.

The Supreme Court has long recognized that acts of Congress that have the effect of declaring war don't have to use any particular language.

It has also recognized that a declaration of war by Congress, whatever its form, is sufficient but not necessary to initiate a state of war, as war can be initiated by the other party attacking, declaring war, or by other means.
But they are willing to use Haskell, :)

http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-...

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/331918309916295168
Absolutely, but you get by like Yen (replied) who think that it's completely readable. Whereas in Javascript you're going to have a much harder time arguing that a triple-nested function that returns an object with other functions inside of it is readable. This exact same code in Javascript would be a laughable offense, but people defend it to the death when it's Coffeescript because the complainers "just don't get it".

http://nodejsreactions.tumblr.com/post/51550250985/discoveri...
Ignoring the dependence on architecture; who's going to pay for the servers that are needed to run Reader? They don't run off love last I checked.
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I actually kind of like the system, but doesn't this involve publicizing other employees' salaries? A possible workaround is to just have classes of bonuses, like 5k a year for entry-level, 15k for senior-level, etc.
Wow, thank you! This is very good feedback. :-)

I agree with everything you've said so far. Also, every once and a while a dupe article slips through (ex: same URL, different title like you saw). We do our best to keep an eye out in case something slips through our dupe-detectors.

Thanks again!
The smart ones never used such unsecured communications in the first place.

I think the OP's point that it may have sent them off the grid with paranoia is valid. The weird thing is many of these folks have semi-normal lives. They might be using secure communications to talk about blowing something up but they also have their day to day lives of sending totally irrelevant e-mails to friends and family that perhaps were not secured. We already knew the CIA has used intercepted e-mail recipient lists to build social graphs of the fringes of these organizations. Identifying who is 2-3 steps removed from these organizations actually does have value especially to identify funding and support networks.
There are companies doing "Android-on-a-USB-stick" too, which I personally believe is a more straightforward option than how Ouya did it - a big part of the "microconsole" concept is that things get deverticalized, so that the processing hardware, the display, and the controllers can all be sourced from different companies.

Ouya has managed to get people a lot more hyped by being an integrated solution, though, so I guess they have that going for them.
What I believe was meant is that the attribute of having an answer is not a sufficient reason to keep a question from being closed.
The article mentions the Xen hypervisor was indeed open source all along, just the full-blown XenServer had proprietary components.
FBI/IC3 warns of growing spear-phishing attacks
meh, I'm not convinced. I've written some very complex APIs and sinatra-contrib covers most ancillary needs. I'm not saying Rails is always the wrong choice for an API, but most of the bullet points listed in this guide are covered or unnecessary. If you have tons of sprawling back-end logic that is exposed through your API, Rails makes sense, but time and time again I've seen first-hand how much more quickly Sinatra gets us up and going and it's always less work for new developers to grok the application flow.
Well, because you need a partner who believe and want to sail in the same ship. Because that partner will suffer the same penalties you can suffer, like working for free for some time, having a low salary at the start, working extra hours, etc. Hiring someone to do the job is simply a problem because you can't afford paying one if you want quality.

But also, the few investors I've been talking in the past they want a formal team with a commitment thinking, and by saying you will just hire someone to do something is not enough, at least even on leaning.
Hong Kong says US did not confirm Snowden's full name or passport number
I think people overlook this because it seems too far-fetched. But I don't think it's so outrageous that it shouldn't be considered. And whether the system is being used for these purposes or not, the fact that a system exists that could is a very dangerous situation.
Lisp suffered from the AI Winter and the lack of acceptance of GC based languages on mainstream computers due to their limited capabilities.

Many of the capabilities of modern IDEs were already available in Lisp and Smaltalk environments in the early 80's, but you could buy a house with the price of those systems.
> This would be something other than a non-sequitur if "philosophy" was equivalent to "reason" rather than the latter being a tool used by the former but which is not coextensive with it.

I'm having trouble seeing this as anything other than a purely semantic distinction.
> That's only true if you have a copy of the user's encrypted private key. it doesn't go over the wire.

I know several people who have put all of their (strong) website passwords in a 1password/keepass/truecrypt file covered by a password that they can remember and type; and then put that on dropbox. Over the wire. I am assuming that this is compromised now.

> nobody's accusing the NSA of hacking lots of domestic computers

Except for here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t... and http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how...

> "we didn't know he was in the U.S."

I am sitting in front of a domestic computer that is not in the US. The line about "but only for non-americans" is no reassurance whatsoever to the world.
I'm really hoping this is cloaked sarcasm...
It's tough because I think those bullets in the last link are way too fuzzy to actually be useful guidelines to someone who isn't already very familiar with the all the sites.
I don't know when it was doing that, but the current version of Turbolinks only seems to affect the Asset Pipeline. It doesn't do anything to random link tags on your page. I specifically checked a page with rel="canonical" and Turbolinks only made one request.
Does it even matter if you read or comprehend the material? IANAL. As far as I'm aware knowledge of the law does not preclude it from affecting you. It's not a contract they're giving you, they don't need your consent.

From my understanding they just notify you and it's up to you to make heads or tails of it.
http://www.joyent.com/blog/why-smartos-kvm-dtrace-zones-and-...

SmartOS is something many people overlook. It's an awesome OS. ZFS is IMO enough reason to try it out (no, zfs for linux is not ready). But then zones make it even more awesome (there was a discussion about zones here on HN a few days ago).

This is usually how it is around sysadmins:

Those who know Solaris very well swear by it and implement some awesome very stable running high performance and secure machine setups. Those who don't, hate it because it's not Linux.

It takes a while to become familar with Solaris from a Linux background. But the more you read about it, the more you realize how well designed it actually is.
It's not just the servers. In fact, PRISM was one of 5 programs disclosed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upstream_slide_of_the_PRIS...

FAIRVIEW, BLARNEY, and two whose names were redacted exist in addition to PRISM. They are tapping the pipes and grabbing stuff off of the server.

They can pretty much have whatever they want.
So, you have to use it wisely, as using it actually makes it less effective?
Yup, I agree with you here... I was wondering if the person who made the comment had any educated reason for doing so...
Black navbar time, yeah. This is a sad day.
I really think I would have the most fun just building things in unity. What I really want to do is build tools that let you build worlds from the inside.
I was a big fan of Rdio until I realized they publish a list of your entire music collection publicly under your username. I found that out by googling myself one day, and I closed my Rdio account immediately thereafter.
I am the founder of http://www.feedsapi.org and this might be an option for what you are trying to achieve. It is not a typical rss reader but more a full text RSS to email service, this feature should allow you to read and organize your RSS news from any email client and any device, it syncs with all platforms as well. Like you already said, such a service can't be free but the pricing is fair and comes with a free trial...feedback welcome, please let me know if it fits yous needs
How many people calculate a bonus as part of their base compensation? I tend not to count my chickens before they're hatched and don't see how something like this would negatively affect the morale of anyone who understands the difference between base pay and bonuses.

Additionally, a 10% of annual compensation referral bonus is generous; even if it can only be collected once.
We were using campaignmonitor.com until we found out about sendy.co

Sendy uses SES to send the emails on our behalf - so far so good - we do a weekend update to about 1500 address (so far) and it's worked quite well.

Someday I'll script something to dumb the current user email list into sendy so I don't have to export it to csv and reimport it every weekend...
There is good money in traffic enforcement. So good that in Texas we had to make it against the law to finance your whole police department with speed-trap revenue.
I think your metrics for concern about potential threats is a little skewed. You seem to be looking at "concern about a potential threat" has having a 1-dimensional score. Yes, there are more instances of death by hammer in the USA in a given year than there are terrorist attacks. But, the terrorist attacks have the potential for much larger impact (see links, below). Consider a 2-dimensional score for threat scenarios where we multiply likelihood of occurrence by potential impact for the following scenarios:

Scenario A:

Bludgeoned to death by a hammer.

Scenario B:

Terrorists recover a missing Cold-war era nuke, and detonate it over Iowa, during the winter. Effects are: nuclear explosion, EMP pulse disrupting power grid and electronics, disruption in home heating and food/medical supplies, downwind radioactive fallout over Chicago, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Philly, Boston, New York, Baltimore, DC, etc..

Scoring (pulling these numbers out of my arse for illustration purposes):

Scenario A: 6000 occurrences per year * 1.2 deaths per occurrence = 12000

Scenario B: 0.2 terrorist occurrences per year * (10 million fatalities + ((0.5 fatality / endangered) * 150 million endangered) = 17 million

As you can see, the terrorism is a lot more serious than hammers (or kittens). And, something like the NSA program could catch these potential large-impact events, because there are a lot of realistic and very scary scenarios:

(A short list from some quick duckduckgo-ing)

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1002/20130325/deadly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ksYDuIuuAE

http://www.cfr.org/weapons-of-terrorism/loose-nukes/p9549

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Los-Alamos-can-t-find-two...

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/usa-lost-tons-nuclea...

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-u...

http://rense.com/general33/mss.htm

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9355413/ns/health-infectious_disea...

P.S. Hello, NSA! I'm guessing this comment has gotten caught in some of your filters. I just want to say, keep up the good work. My brother-in-law works at Fort Mead, too.

-Updated for grammar.
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>Lips has just a really tiny (if any) advantage over other languages in this. I can move code around quite easily in Java.

I don't find it to be the same at all in practice. Lisp has a huge advantage in this because the code is written by manipulating the AST. You see the tree and the branches of executions visually. So, I can say I want to move this node to that position, or extract this node into a separate function.

I find it's like playing with lego. You just stick individual pieces of logic together to produces complex functionality.

You simply can't do this in Java on any practical level in my experience. It also doesn't help that Java code is imperative so even if you selected a block of logic, it doesn't mean you can just move it elsewhere without any side effects.

>Usefulness of macros is overrated. In my experience, the s-exp syntax is too high price for macros. I like Julia's approach to macros much more.

I strongly disagree, I find macros are incredibly useful. Clearly most people agree as some sort of a macro system creeps up into pretty much every language.

However, most languages don't allow you to apply the language to itself when templating code. So you end up with special crufty syntax that eventually becomes a whole separate language that you have to learn.

I'm not sure what price you're talking about either. I actually prefer s-exps to ALGOL style syntax. With s-exps your code is very regular and it follows the principle of least astonishment much better than alternatives.

There are no inherent downsides to the syntax, if anything it makes the interaction between pieces of code more visually apparent. It provides extra visual information about the structure of the code. I personally like that very much.
Sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sympathetic for these LA cabbies when every time I try to use my credit card to pay they act like I just skipped out on the fare.
>pg, mark my words that this Snowden/NSA crap will be the end of HN as a quality forum. It's unreadable lately

The front page currently has 4 articles about the NSA controversy: 13% of the 30 articles. Noone is forced to read, or comment on, every article.
What hierarchies are you talking about?

If you're talking about the food chain pyramid, it's entirely misleading as it doesn't say nothing about survivability/adaptability skills. Hyenas will outlive lions, gray wolves will outlive tigers.
More exact translation:

"Considering possible extradition somewhere, we can extradite people only to the countries which have extradition treaty with us. We don't have such agreement with the USA. Snowden haven't committed any crimes in the territory of Russia, thanks God".

Putin's cynicism?
I heard about this years ago, and thought it was science fiction that would never actually happen. Then I saw in a Facebook feed that my high school physics teacher has one. Funny how these can sneak up on you.
Ask yourself: who did you compete with to hire that developer? Are they still short of somebody?

The one time so far in the history of Shadowcat I've had to cut people for no reason other than lack of money, I talked to managers I knew at other companies who might have an interest in the sort of talent that I was about to force onto the market.

Two people finished working for me on a friday and started a new job on the following monday. The reduction in stress and guilt and hence increase in my capacity to focus that resulted from knowing that was the outcome for them repaid the time spent finding them new gigs within a handful of days. Maintaining a positive relationship with those people afterwards - and the attitude of people who saw how I'd handled it - was effectively just gravy.

Or: Handling this sort of situation with honour tends to help turn it into a positive sum game.
After seeing the title, I was hoping that McDonald's was promoting HTML5…
"It is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0."

Is this obvious from the screenshots?

Or are they just claiming this without any arguments to back it up?
Seriously, What’s the Point In Blogging?
Devide all numbers by 2 and it starts to look reasonable. 5% per year (with a fuzz factor or something) for 5 years.
Don't wars help the economy?
Pretty sure the Boston Bombers used exactly those services.

And they were/are US citizens.
Its a real app!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fakeblock-virtual-wood-block...

And for the confused, you're missing out:

http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Fakeblock
So what is his full name?

> "The name used in US government diplomatic documents was Edward James Snowden, the US Department of Justice referred to him as Edward J Snowden, and Hong Kong’s Immigration Department had him recorded as Edward Joseph Snowden...

I couldn’t say the three names were consistent, so we needed further clarification. Otherwise, there would have been legal problems with a provisional arrest warrant"
I don't think it's useful to criticise other programming paradigms without substantiation, and it's hard to claim one paradigm is better than another without making some pretty large assumptions.

That said, if you subscribe to the assumption that good software design is about separating a system into discrete elements of functionality, then the functional model is generally preferable over the OO model. In OO languages, unrelated concepts such as polymorphism, encapsulation, namespacing, inheritance and (often) mutable state are combined together to produce classes and objects. In functional languages, these concepts are generally kept separate.
No Webcam? No Problem : Desktop Video Recording w/o A Webcam.
One of the sticking points in our sales process has been that our video recording feature was dependent on the user having a webcam to work (duh). While this may seem like an obvious limitation it didn't stop us from getting the "what about people without webcams" question from marketing folks. Until recently our answer has been that users can record videos on their computer (using desktop software) then upload that file. Unfortunately, this was a bulky process for the end-user and often an attrition point.

Recently we came up with a solution to this "issue" that we think is kinda cool / fun and we wanted to share it with you guys. Using CameraTag users can now record videos using their mobile devices (iOS 6.0+ and Android 2.2+) directly into their desktop browser. The recorder has a "record by phone" option which will SMS them a link to record a new video on their phone. After recording the videos is instantly populated into the desktop form (URLs for h.264, webm, and thumbnails). As we have come to say now: No webcam? No Problem.

It's not groundbreaking technology but we think it's a pretty cool aggregation of existing technologies that produce a "wow" effect for clients and users.

You can check out an example on our homepage http://cameratag.com (click the "record by phone" link in the recorder).

Welcome your thoughts / feedback
-Chris
The chilling effects of surveillance
Nobody (except the ACLU, if you phrase the question carefully) will say that court-authorized Title III wiretaps violate the 4A. The questions involve the process, standards, procedures, and scope. Telcos + CALEA == a lost cause. Not so with going up the protocol stack.
The article stated that taxi activists would be protesting today. I wonder if the protesters are the people that own the medallions? I doubt the drivers making $8 an hour have time to protest. The medallion scheme needs reform or replacement.

Further reading:
http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of...
What population do you think I was sampling from, exactly? And your captiousness is not contributing to the discussion, which was to point out that the subscription/profit variable is only weakly correlated with being shut down, contrary to claims that free services are uniquely vulnerable.
To be fair, in the case of the Tea Party they delayed applications through the election, and there's also evidence the IRS handed donor information to outside groups.
The NSA does a lot more than just fight terrorism and of course the US invests a huge amount of money in mitigating the impact of other risks like natural disasters. They have to look at all these different threats and divvy up the money accordingly.
I'm having trouble finding a source outside of an oblique reference in the Wikipedia article for NSLs, but yes, you can talk to an attorney about the letter. This was not the case originally (or at least in the opinion of the government), but the law was changed to allow consulting with a lawyer (and challenging the letter in court as well). IANAL, but I play one on the Internet.
If for someone Git is too hard then Mercurial is a great choice. Better (safer, more powerful) than SVN and perhaps even - easier.

(Just now I am converting some scientific collaborators to use Mercurial for small projects. Still, for code I use Git... but mainly because of GitHub.)
If you don't have a specific reason not to, I'd highly recommend using the unstable branch today. I've had no problems with it since I switched several months ago, and any breaking changes have been pretty well documented in the release notes.