skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unlikely to me that someone as technically skilled as Snowden would be carrying physical copies of his data as the article claims. Why not simply upload his encrypted stuff to a few anonymous Gmail accounts, a few VPSes, Dropbox, etc.? Also, I hope he never leaves his laptop(s) as his hardware/software could get backdoored (aka "Evil Maid" attack).
http://yeoman.io/ tries to solve it... (like it mostly for its live reload feature)

Here is another great example - http://remysharp.com/2012/12/21/my-workflow-never-having-to-...

My two cents: find solutions... People who make tools are just like us, some empathy, accept what you cannot change :)
Russia is still very active engaging in espionage in the West, just as we know the reverse is true. In that sense it is very much the way it always was, and that "Cold War" still exists.
Not to go down the wrong rabbithole--the article should be in the Fanciful Speculation section of the paper, not the News section--but handing over a passphrase would mean the the Russian authorities' statement that they "are not working with" Snowden would not be semantically correct.

Not that I believe the Russians wouldn't lie, but the internal logic of the article does rest on the assertion that they are technically telling the truth while leaving themselves a loophole. Since it is safe to assume that Snowden did strong-encrypt the docs on his laptops, this internal logic falls apart.

(As a sidenote, I don't think I've heard the phrase "semantically (in)correct" as much in my life as in the past month. Someone should write a browser extension that automatically replaces it with the phrase "weasel words".)
Still no resizable bookmarks window.
Seriously, coding skills matter less in the real world than you think, those will get better with time anyway.

I wish I could upvote this a hundred times. The thing to remember is that most people don't know the first thing about how stuff works on the internet. So you could have the shittiest spaghetti code in the world, but if the site looks and acts like it's supposed to, 99% of your clients will be satisfied.

Edit: Don't take that to mean "shitty code is okay," it's just that you don't have to set the bar as high as you think when it comes to feeling like you're good enough to charge what you want to charge for the work.
Orbits "nearby" both gravity wells are unstable. Knowing that geostationary orbits are stable enough in the earth-moon system for commercial purposes, I think low earth orbit weather satellites would remain stable in a "small" change like Earth-Mercury. Someone with a lot more spare time on their hands will have to figure out at what point geostationary comsat orbits become unusably unstable. I have a gut feeling, not having run the numbers, that a Earth-Jupiter system might not even have stable low earth orbits for weather satellites, much less high orbit geosync for comsats.

If for example, Mars, eliminated stable enough comsat orbits, you could put transponders on the surface of Mars for Earth use. And vice versa, I guess.

I would imagine this would greatly complicate the design and operation of a usable space tether / elevator. With obvious exceptions like absolutely perfect tidal locking would mean its pretty easy to string a lightly tensioned rope from one planet to the other.

At some point I imagine even "launch loop" technology would get messed up gravitationally. Building a computer stabilized ultra small scale launch loop (like maybe 50 feet?) has always been an "in my infinite spare time" experiment idea. They're very stable under ideal conditions, the hard/fun part is all in the spinup/spindown and in perturbations and active oscillation dampening. You want a launch LOOP aka circle, not a launch LISSAJOUS.

There's more to life than just spacecraft, of course. But it is a kinda interesting topic.
> I find it incredibly arrogant that a mod can come close a topic that has many upvotes. It is basically saying to the community that all their opinions count for nothing

What is the distribution of those upvotes against reputation, though? Anybody can upvote. Only users with significant reputations can issue votes to close a question.

If domain experts think that a question should be closed, but an overwhelming number of beginners, non-participants (eg. people viewing the HN front page) or ill-informed think otherwise, then what should happen?
I was once told that the fastest way to get your skills up to a level that people will pay for is to find freelance work that isn't far beyond your current scope.

If you have a deadline and a paying customer who is counting on you to produce something, then you'll quickly learn how to learn quickly.
Good points, but still ... how can anyone escape the trap you mention in your first paragraph if our charges of 'sexism!' always reinforce the existing stereotypes?
I've been iterating over sequential seeds looking for one that contains the most downhill terrain, so far the best is: 24427169 - it descends very rapidly in the later part of the track.
I'll keep this running over night and post results.

Edit: 71044092 beats that (declines 47 units in the distance of the track, which is 220 units long).
The rise of private loan originators for education loans is largely to due with 1) reduced availability of assistance programs (esp. state run ones) and 2) federal guarantee to private loan originators of payment if a borrower is unable to repay.

OP is mistaken about publicly originated loans and assistance programs, those have been under constant political attack for some time and haven't changed much outside of payout amounts, interest rates, and number of loans made.
I've been working since I was 15 (I'm 20). In total, I've made around $15k. My first year of school cost roughly twice that figure.

If I wasn't majoring in CS (or my Grandfather hadn't died), I would not be going to the school I am. This isn't how the system should work.
The emails would be personalized and tracked regardless, all that this does is improve the tracking by identifying which recipient opened the message instead of a more general "email was opened" tracking event. It's not exactly trickery, just creative use of SMTP commands. Also, it still relies on a tracking pixel, which as usual won't work if the recipient has images disabled in their email client.
The Purpose and Application of Roofing Flashings
That is funny. I've been told many times that I over think stuff. Turns out a lot of time it is true and it probably is this time.
Iron.io Announces Agent Processing for Powering New Relic Plugins
So if I am reading this right, what you are saying is that RabbitMQ is more 'push' and a DB is more 'pull' or rather 'poll'.

Perhaps they should break the brokers down into those two groups.

I seem to recall Redis having a pubsub style interface, which makes it much more push but still is a bit cloudy in my mind.

Thanks for the reply!
Show HN: Noowit, a personalized Google Reader alternative
Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a staff of 17 officers in the National Domestic Extremism Unit (NDEU) has been scanning the public's tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook profiles, and anything else UK citizens post in the public online sphere.

The HUGE difference here is the last three words of that paragraph, "public online sphere." They are doing no more then analyzing publicly accessible data just like any other company, specifically advertising and marketing companies, do on a daily basis.
"who is hiring" is a poor metric due to how legacy software works. You'll get a very bad picture of what is actually hot if you only look at what jobs are currently open.
Apple's claim is specifically that they don't store those keys.
On that scale(which is cost it seems; you say?) which American university is "great value" in USA then? Considering almost all charge those high fees.
Google Tesla: Could a tech giant buy the electric car company?
"This seems to imply a ballistic trajectory"

To be fair, they are called Copenhagen Suborbitals.

IMHO Whatever they do seems unfeasibly cool to me...
How one startup is trying to bring the 'Hardware Renaissance' to Puerto Rico
First off, I don't necessarily feel apologies is warranted for this discussion.

Yes, I find that defense somewhat questionable in some terms because I do believe the leaks do in fact harm national security. The problem is that it seems that these programs are dangerously close to crossing the line of leading into a surveillance state and that the reason it may have crossed that line is because the people who have the responsibility to reign such things in have apparently failed to do so.

Therefore, yes, national security was harmed but I'm willing to sacrifice that somewhat to make sure our liberties are still intact. I don't feel the need to trade liberties for security if that security is essentially making the populace prisoners to the state for "their own safety".

I also enjoy seeing the contradictions such as you describe. The reports are full of "but" moments that no one seems to be addressing. The media is a big fail on all this.
If we're comparing TSA-like procedures between countries, we should:

1. Keep customs out of the picture. At CDG, automated customs sometimes take me less than 20 seconds; at SFO, the visitor queue is sometimes more than 1 hour long. But TSA has nothing to do with this as far as I know.

2. Keep queuing out of the picture. Multiple things can affect queuing times, such as the terminal having not enough parallel security checkpoints and/or a higher traffic, which TSA has again nothing to do with.

The only things we should pay attention to are the quality and duration of the experience, from the moment you start unloading your bag into the plastic bin, to the moment you put it back on your shoulder and walk away.

If I keep myself to that honestly I've never seen much of a difference between countries, and it seems that the only reason why Schiphol was better for you is because they didn't let you opt out of the millimeter scanner at all :/ it would have been a more legitimate comparison if you hadn't opted out of the SFO scan either, in which case I suspect it would have gone the exact same way it did in Schiphol. (Not that it makes it ok to treat badly people who chose to opt out.)
When I was robbed they ransacked my apartment. They went through the couch, luggage, kitchen cabinets, took the TV, my change jar, bed sheets(probably to wrap up their loot). It looked the way it does in movies.
I suppose it could be read that way, but to my mind, the headline and the first paragraph imply that Russia have the actual documents.
And fixed:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink/trunk/Source/core/svg/g...
As if I need every single website hooked into Google Ads, all of them reminding me that I'm single, trying to sell me clothes, trying to sell me dating websites, trying to predict what I want in life.

It's invasive, and quite frankly, it's disturbing and creepy that the same advertisements follow me regardless of website. I feel like the guy in Pachebel's Rant, finding Canon in D across modern music, except what I'm finding is invasive Google ads, and I find them on most websites...

So no, I actively refuse the narrow demographic Google placed me into, and chases me around the internet with.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft told to label ads better in search results
While that's my bias, I believe the stats back it up. For example, in all the hand wringing about "recent college grads not being able to get jobs" there's always the implied (and rarely stated) "except for STEM majors."

Since society deems people outside STEM qualified to do basically nothing, we should take that as a warning sign that something is very wrong with the system.

It's like if everyone who worked at a restaurant refused to eat there. You have to start wondering what's going on.

(Also, I never said throw out the whole system, that is your straw man.)
Is it just me or are these things always several years away from clinical trials. (third paragraph)

Key part:

>>The researchers found for the first time that injured nerve cells could re-grow for "remarkably long distances" (about 2cm).

They said that while the rats did not regain the ability to walk, they did recover some bladder function.<<
Wide Teams Ep87 - Kill your laptop, be up and running in 2hrs or less
Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act
I started my career in web development in 2013, and the number of abstractions and dependencies that seemingly every toolset has can be daunting.

Thanks for the fundamentals video & grunt intro, both were helpful to me.
There are an estimated 12-27 million people currently in slavery[1]. With a current world population of 7 billion, this proportion is between .0017 and .0038, a dramatic decline, and probably the lowest in history.

Regarding incarceration in the United States, despite a 10X increase in population from 31.4M to 311.8M and mandatory sentencing policies associated with the War on Drugs, the absolute number of Americans incarcerated in 2011 (2.2 million) was still less than the absolute number of Americans in slavery alone in 1860 (3.9 million).[2][3]

If you wish to move on to economic issues and contend there has been no progress in living conditions, a point the author of this article does not argue, I would challenge you to produce some actual metric and numbers for a similar period of time (after the dawn of philosophical liberalism) showing the average worker to be no better off, keeping in mind the enormous increase in life expectancy and GDP per capita which has occurred.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
AdBlock Plus confirms most points via heise.de (updated half an hour ago): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schwere-Vorwuerfe-geg...

> In einer Stellungnahme bestätigen die Macher von AdBlock Plus die von Pallenberg aufgezeigten Zusammenhänge weitgehend. "Ein Großteil der Informationen zu der Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern ist korrekt recherchiert, einiges nicht", heißt es in einer Stellungnahme von Mitgründer Till Faida, den Pallenberg in seinem Artikel kritisiert hatte. "Im Gegensatz zu Sascha Pallenberg sehen wir in der Vernetzung keinen Gewissenskonflikt."

The makers of AdBlock Plus largely confirm Pallenberg's connections in a statement. "The bulk of the information about the cooperation with our partners is investigated correctly, some isn't", according to a statement by co-founder Till Faida, who Pallenberg had criticised in his article. "Unlike Sascha, we do not see a moral conflict in this interconnectedness."

>Das Unternehmen ist überzeugt, dass sich Werbeformen wie die "Acceptable Ads" langfristig durchsetzen wird. Das Whitelisting sei für kleine und mittelgroße Webseiten kostenlos. "Dabei haben wir immer transparent geäußert, dass große Unternehmen unsere Initiative finanziell unterstützen." Eine Bevorzugung dieser Firmen gebe es jedoch nicht, die Kriterien seien für alle gleich. Auch die Kriterien der Entscheidungen durch die Community seien "vollkommen transparent".

The company is convinced that advertisement forms like "Acceptable Ads" will prevail in the long run. Whitelisting is free of charge for small and medium-sized websites. "We have always transparently communicated that big companies support our initiative financially." However, preferential treatment of these companies does not exist, the criteria are the same for everybody. The criteria for decisions by the community are also "completely transparent." [1]

[1]: The whole paragraph is difficult to translate since it makes extensive use of indirect speech, which is marked by the German Konjunktiv, without a clear marker of a speaker. The whole paragraph is a mixture of direct quote and paraphrasing of the company's own words and thus represents entirely the company's view and assurance that everything is fair, transparent and openly communicated.

[edit] tense in the first paragraph [had criticised]
Foundershub – a private commercially focussed incubator
This video has been floating around for awhile and based on the same premise Jupiter completely obliterates the sky. I don't know which version is correct though, the video or this series of images. Just a point of comparison.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNlLnaJiGY8

Edit in reply to the below, I was just about to add that same comment... that it may be a field of view thing. This additional video seems to support to that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=usYC_Z36rHw&NR=1
What a bunch of nonsense. A billionaire investing millions has virtually no chance of helping you. The only conceivable way he can help you is by participating in an IPO so that particular company gets an injection of cash to use to hire more people, etc. But virtually all trading that will go on with his/her millions/billions is buying and selling of stock that IPO'ed long ago and no longer bring the issuer any money at all.

The kind of investment the billionaire is doing is zero-sum in nature and doesn't help anyone but them.

It's hilarious that you imagine some billionaire playing the stock market has more value to you than people spending money on products (that you could be making). The 80's called and asked for their misconceptions back.
http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.0L1.1L2.2A1.1A2.4L0.7A0.9...

Ahh! Well you can't say I didn't try. Must have accidentally hit one of the wrong points somewhere in the construction...
Having spoken with the man in person, I think your original post was entirely unfair and based purely on media representation.

You'd be surprised how much worse candidates for the position are out there. I'm no fan of censorship or filters, but can respect the man's work and the effort he put in to understand things.
Why would they get rid of them if they're cheap to provide? I thought the general rule was that the humanities subsidized the sciences, why cut the profitable portion?
Orbvious Interest (aka chromeril) sneaks in adware
The Bizarre Border Between Canada And The US (video)
5 Ideas For FB: Gifting; Recommendations; FB "Buy"; Photo Prints; Politics
Me too! Except that I also got a job that paid that much because my parents lived in the kind of neighborhood where Stanford-educated engineers with connections live and being known as the smart kid got me a job instead of beat up in school.

American individualism is great. There is just enough meritocracy so that people who were born with every possible advantage short of a trust fund can feel comfortable saying that they are totally self-made.
This happened to be about a week ago (that I noticed) - nasty popover 'you might be interested in buying this stuff because you're viewing this page'.

Interesting that the repository has been locked up, too: https://code.google.com/p/chromeril/

Money-grab by the creator, or a hijack?
If you want a smaller HOSTS file (useful with Windows) that only targets advertisement and tracking servers, I've found HP Hosts' ad_servers.asp list to be good.

http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp
Can this syntax be also used with the other browsers? i.e. IE and Chrome?
This is really great. Forever is extremely useful, but this appears to be far more robust, can't wait to try it out.
The author said that he changed his password and then got a new device and accessed recent iMessages on it. So that rules out the password as the encryption key.
Yes, it was a lot of work getting this far, and there's still plenty to be done before it's a full-featured music editor.

Great suggestion for moving between measures! I'll definitely have to add that.
is Python more complicated than Lisp or Scheme or Smalltalk or Self? All are dynamically typed and infinitely flexible.
typoRules.js downloads http://urlfixer.org/download/rules.json?version=2, which contains (among others):

"domainReferrals":{"amazon.co.uk":"tag=uf07d-21","amazon.com":"tag=uf024-20","amazon.de":"tag=uf0e6-21","amazon.es":"tag=uf07-21","amazon.fr":"tag=uf02b-21","amazon.it":"tag=uf08d-21","ozon.ru":"partner=urlfixer"},
As someone who did college only several years ago, I have to chime in on this.

> Any dorm built or renevated in the last 10-15 or so years will have semi-private bathrooms.

This is true for new construction, but generally speaking older dorm buildings are kept in use and have the exact same experience as ever. Generally the new construction or alternatively designed dorms are more expensive to rent.

> The dining options today are way better than what we had. I trudged down to the dorm cafeteria and ate whatever slop they were serving, high school cafeteria style. My son (at a small public university) has what amounts to a mall food court at school, and he can choose from burgers, pizza, wraps, vegetarian, Italian, Mexican, etc. every day.

Food court style offerings are common, but like a food court you have to pay for anything offered. Typically corporate food chains try to get their place in the court and will wine and dine school administration for the chance to have a captive audience. The cafeteria style food options are still available and are cheaper (yes this food is really awful slop). Worse is that some universities require purchasing some amount of food ahead of time, whether it be a prepaid card usable anywhere or some kind of meal plan for the cafeteria style dining, milking money out of folks who prefer to live off campus and/or make their own food (esp. if they have special dietary requirements).

> The libraries are more functional, the sports facilities are all updated, etc.

This is generally true. Equipment is usually fairly modern and there is staff available most of the time.
Some people think that embedding a link to your site in a web product/plugin you distribute can lead to bad things, especially if it is not a nofollow link and your plugin is used by nefarious sites. http://www.jitbit.com/news/184-how-google-authorship-and-pen... has a bit about the Penguin algorithm and this effect.
Entrepreneurs Court New Super-Angel Investors
Oh look MSM telling journalists to shut the fuck up or face jail time because the law is murky. If this is not censorship through threats, I don't know what is.
Inside the World’s First Braille Cellphone
A question: Could someone tell me which types of application does Rails 4.0 solve, but the older versions couldn't ? In general, which types of application could not be solved by Rails 4 ? Thank you.
Anyone else turned on by the fancy tables and colors? :)
Supreme Court rules married same-sex couples entitled to equal rights
That's not what's happening with the "load earlier messages" button at all. The long term iMessages history is stored in an unencrypted sqlite database on the phone (which is included, unencrypted, in local iTunes backups).
“There’s this guy walking around with as many as four computers and thumb drives full of classified information and the Russian intelligence services haven’t gotten ahold of it? Whatever was on those devices has been copied.”

^ I doubt he would have 4 laptops, nor would they know if he has a bunch of thumbdrives.
Supreme Court strikes down DOMA
There is NO proof or evidence of tampering with amazon refs.

Still a lot of people are reporting the extension or looking for alternatives in this thread.

Seriously: Not everything you read on the web is true. This smells like a smear campaign, nothing more - until real evidence or proof is shown of the claims.
Because they're small programs that aren't missed by most. And the rule of thumb that humanities and social science programs subsidize sciences seems a bit misleading. There are an enormous amount of other funding sources within the American system (federal government, industry, military) that patronize science programs. There isn't a comparable system on the other pillar of the academy.