skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you do what LinkedIn does with your contacts through some kind of Google universal auth API? Why does LinkedIn actually need my freaking password to view my contacts?
You could become a lifelogger and have a realtime webcam that shows you reading incoming mail.
That's all that they are good for adding security that would otherwise not exist. Outside of that under a PaaS, I don't see what they add.
Correct, but that doesn't change the fact that his definition of "treason" is wrong.
I'm very impressed that you actually managed to close your account. Every time I've tried to do that I was sent into some bizarre redirect hell that seemed downright malicious.

LinkedIn seems like a prime example of what happens when you substitute good product design for a series of A/B tested micro-optimisations. The net effect is a shitty product that gets worse and worse...
Probably a couple months? They very well may have made it work differently by now, but it wouldn't be much in their benefit to do so (other than to stop people complaining).
> [...] meal replacements (like Ensure) are not really balanced for normal, active people. They're meant for people who [...] are unable to eat solid food.

Ensure (etc) are aimed at medical uses. That's because most people find the idea of liquid feeds weird.

But if you want to live on liquid food there's nothing to stop you using Ensure, even if you're a fit healthy active person.
"The only thing preventing an Apache helicopter from firing on schoolchildren under order of the president.... is policy"

A better method of prevention would be to not build Apache helicopters.
Just downloaded it - beautiful app! I also love the intro video - slick and professional, but gets straight to the point and gives an excellent overview of how the app works.
Google Chrome Inbuilt Flash player allows Webcam Hacking - The Hacker News
"An incorrect story is posted"

As far as I see there wasn't anything actually incorrect about the story. At worst it was implied that it was a deliberate move and the rest seems correct including that tor users are actually blocked. Maybe if people understood critical thinking as actually thinking instead of being critical this wouldn't be a problem to begin with.
That is not now and never has been the policy. The "100 mile Constitution free zone" is one of the most outrageously misleading fabrications on the internet. See: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constituti....

You can't leave out the crucial bit that it's all about border searches, for people who have recently crossed the border. All the policy means is that border searches don't literally have to occur at the border (they might be on a major cross-border thoroughfare somewhat inland).

The 4th amendment has never meant that the government or customs needs a warrant to search people at the border.
I hope I'm wrong too :P I live in Uruguay and we'll feel the backlash.

I'm probably being too harsh on the government, they are doing redistributive policies - whether that's the best thing to do with the money I'm not sold, but at least they aren't stealing it all or handling all of it to contractors.

However, while all this helps in the short run, on the outside it looks like it will destroy a lot of things in a not so distant future. Argentina will recover as usual, but the next few years look like a repeat of 2001.
"Back in September 2003, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released a piece of model legislation it called the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act. Like so many bills drafted by the free-market think tank, AETA was handed over, ready made, to legislators with the idea that it could be introduced in statehouses across the country with minimal modification. Under the measure, it would become a felony (if damages exceed $500) to enter "an animal or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means," and, in a flush of Patriot Act-era overreaching, those convicted of making such recordings would also be placed on a permanent "terrorist registry."

Frustrated by unauthorized documentaries of slaughterhouse abuses, the agriculture industry hired corporate lobbyists to hire Congressmen to insert laws that would ban PETA activists from using the US air transportation system.

These have been implemented in a number of states recently, although I'm not sure if any of them included the watchlist provision in the final draft.

* http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/06/ag-gag-laws-m...
Surveillance, including just data collection and storage, without probable cause, is unacceptable, period. Any sort of dragnet surveillance must occur without probable cause, because they're collecting data on everyone.
I've seen it once before. Udacity did it to me a few years ago when I signed up for a course, and I closed that account too.

I'm not surprised that MySpace or Facebook does it, but those sites are so transparently bad that I never considered joining them, so it didn't affect me personally.
So they do use Google's API to do this, and not a direct password authentication.

Then what's the problem? That is certainly not phishing...
Looks great! Considering how the concept of a web + desktop app can confuse some less savvy users of the internet, these animations do a great job of conveying what Dropbox does. They're concise, expressive, and apparently very efficient in terms of performance. (frame data says the animations ran consistently ~60fps)

I haven't got the chance to see how the site looks on mobile, however. Anyone seen this on a phone or tablet?
Facebook is not blocking Tor deliberately
So you don't recognize the difference between one infinitesimal and another? The fact that they may be orders of magnitude difference, thereby implying that the amount of collateral damage may be significantly higher than any benefit to society?
How does it work on the web? You search for sites known to promote games (let's say IGN) and they link you to games.

Why does Google/Apple need to curate everything?
Reminds me of when Tech Crunch ran with a story - based on unconfirmed anecdotal evidence - that private messages were showing up as public on user's Timelines. Within hours they updated the story to say they could not actually find evidence it was true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565969

One of my favorite HN comments from that thread:
"If I could short FB I would do so immediately. The fallout from this is going to be immense and long-term."
> I'd love to have a great on-the-go shake that's better than meal replacement alternatives,

What are meal replacement alternatives? (Things like Ensure or slimfast? or something else?)

What would make Soylent or OSSoylent better than meal replacement alternatives?
I'm not sure I understand your question.
Oh, and this.getChildren() doesn't look very Opa-ish.
My issues with the default admin are:

1)You can't add text to a page. I want to add information from another model. For example a field of a foreign key model.

What I currently do is put that in the __unicode__ function, but it has no context as to what it is.
Then in the rest of my site(outside of admin) I use the values directly. print (model.name) instead of print (model)

2) You can't put display return values of model methods. You have to create property values. But property values are not query sets so you can't really use them, but don't realize that you need .filter until your site is super slow.

3) Inline form validation is magical. You can't just add validation to an inline form, you have to do this http://pastebin.com/CGjLX2vf

4) You can't search in foreign key form fields. I have a M2M foreign key field and when I select I have to hold ctrl and scroll with this tiny scroll bar the size of my mouse cursor and I have hundreds of items in the field.

Please let me know if I am just doing it wrong.
I'm currently reading it and enjoying it a lot. Congrats!
Wall St. protests (mostly small compared to the others you mentioned) did happen..

People do express their dissatisfaction, though it seems to be dwindling with more acceptance of whatever is being thrusted upon them..

Just wondering how committed are the sports fanatics in US/Latin America/India or movie fanatics in India and then comparing the (missing) outrage when liberties are at stake.
I'm looking forward to writing modern (i.e. web) programs with features stolen from functional languages! And, at the end of the day, more people are more familiar with Java-like syntax, and that's good for adoption.

But can anyone tell me whether the change from ML-like -> Java-like syntax has meant a loss of composability/expressability/any other traditional strengths of FP languages?
OCaml is not similar at all. OCaml for better or worse is much closer to compiled form than Haskell code. Haskell requires much more analysis and transformation than OCaml during compilation in order to achieve the performance of GHC compiled code.
Courts tend to look at results.

If you have been ordered not to communicate X, and you communicate X, then you are in violation of whatever statute or court order was in place.
What about a system that provides a comfortable level of privacy to ALL people.
I'd like to know, why doesn't the 4th amendment mean that? It seems pretty clear, and there's no such exclusion listed.
That doesn't matter. It's not like the software magically obtains data. Data has to be input into it from their intercept points, etc. It's not like they'd be giving out API keys to the database along with this.
"could you imagine a touch-setup that would give you more power than what you have with the keyboard?"

The only way would be if you created a language of touch and gestures, where you could use syntax to build up complex instructions not predetermined by the App maker.
One thing here doesn't make much sense - the compression algorithm technically is a mathematical algorithm. Mathematical algorithms cannot be patented. So why is the patent on something that cannot be patented an impediment in this issue?

That said, I'm sure there are ways to confuse the algorithm part by throwing some mentions of physical servers or what not into the patent application...
Finishing a side project, a big step forward
this is a pretty big personal achievement, after 6 years, i finally got something up.
Possibly orthogonal to this, but in the context of this site I am much less impressed by LinkedIn having interviewed there about six months ago. Though I thought I did pretty well, I didn't get an offer, but having learned the level of detail and expertise they were asking about and requiring of successful candidates, I can now balance that against what I see on the screen and intuit how bad their project designs are.

Call it sour grapes, but in hindsight it probably would have been a maddening place to work. Each section of the screen you see is built by a separate team with their own attendant functionality, so no matter what team you wind up working with, you're going to be faced with stupid decisions. I just deleted a list of UX problems, but I think we can all come up with our own.
We would have to think very very carefully about the criteria that are used. It is worth bearing in mind that the agencies in question are essentially police, investigating past crimes and trying to prevent future ones.
Wow, I hadn't heard about that. 9 points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5834359
The Most Gangsta Yearbook Quote to Ever Exist
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately--unless I'm wildly mistaken--the very sad thing about American culture/politics is a lack of concern for the UNDoHR and everyone else on the planet.

That being said, I specifically did not say 'US citizen' for a reason. I was being inclusive about a general human right as a citizen anywhere to freely move through a society anywhere. It was a conscious choice on my part, and was meant to be more along the lines of the UNDoHR. So, I meant human citizen, as there are very few stateless persons (yes, there are some, but I'm not really bothering to get into that issue).
If the only difference, by your own admission, is how many such awful things there are, then why shouldn't we start comparing it to places like the USSR?
Questionnaire for National Security Positions
Mindmeister sports "No Prism" logo
I think the author is a little confused. The Soylent Corporation (soylent.me) has not said anything about publishing or "open-sourcing" the recipe. I doubt they would.

They will be required publish the nutrition facts and ingredients, but that's not the same as a recipe.

Also, "Soylent" at this point refers to their product, so using their name for your DIY version risks serious trademark infringement.

EDIT: They do plan on publishing the "formula" (http://discourse.soylent.me/t/will-the-official-soylent-reci...)
Javascript is inherently functional on its own! I can't speak for the author, but I suspect he titled it this way because of how few javascript users there are that actually understand this fact.
You and I are educated enough about web security that we know not to type one site's password into another site.

Many people aren't. Phishing is a real problem.

When "legitimate" sites start doing slimy, insecure things like asking for third-party passwords, three things happen. One, those "legitimate" sites have the power to do things that most users don't really want them to, like spam their entire contact list as them. Two, it becomes harder for unsophisticated users to distinguish legitimate sites from phishing sites. Three, it means that if a criminal breaks into a "legitimate" site, there's more valuable information there for him to steal.
PicWaan.com relaunch as a fully featured web app, turning off the iOS app
Note that the original Law wasn't even a criticism of anything, simply an observation that comparisons with Hitler became inevitable if a discussion went on long enough.
Bradley Manning: Truth on trial? With Julian Assange
HN always contained a healthy dosage of politics, anti-big-companies rants and gossip. I distinctively remember a really popular link at one point showing a picture of Steve Jobs on a meeting with Eric Schmidt over coffee and people were considering it some kind of historic event and also commented on Steve's choice for shoes, not to mention all the stupid speculation about what this meeting was about. It made me sick.

What really happened is that some noise threshold was reached, while the website's implementation hasn't changed much and so links about engineering, programming, startups, weekend projects and so on have a much harder time reaching the front-page and managing to stay there for a couple of hours.

HN is still the best place on the web if you crave for rants. I swear, if you want confirmation bias or to read funny and informative rants of smart and educated people, you can hardly beat HN.
Kickstarter: Impossibly Light Paper Shoes
"They do not know how they got on the list. They cannot get off the list."

The default description of the Surveillance State is "Orwellian". But in a recent post for the Atlantic, Rebecca Rosen argues that "Kafkaesque" is much closer to the mark. The arbitrary, inscrutable, and inescapable nature of the No Fly List encapsulates this character perfectly.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/why-sh...
It may not be illegal to fail a driving exam, but it is illegal to drive without a license. You acquire said license by passing the exam.
That was the largest gathering of nervous looking politicians and military brass I have ever witnessed. I don't think a lot of them were comfortable talking about information that became declassified immediately before they were to discuss them with the public.
I think you should try to come up with a url convention that other sites can adopt similar to /favicon.ico

This is too deep to be followed:
/resources/notices/canary.txt

What about something like /warrant-canary.txt ?
Don't trust the geeks! They can use those computery-thingamajigs to do stuff!
Only if increaseInOriginalCost - increaseInResaleValue <= valueDerivedFromBetterSpecs.
Been playing with this for 10 mins now...awesome concept. Instant fan!
It doesn't observe a win and for now you have to play against yourself, but:

http://xoxo.gl/ultimate
The OCaml syntax is still available:

opa --parser classic

Indeed, most of the stdlib is implemented using the "classic syntax".
Regarding those particular operators, + is conventionally reserved for commutative operations (e.g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs#Plus_sign).
I wouldn't trust any code they published to be real.
There are tones of online tutorials (just google it) and she might like some more than others so my best advice is just to try a few.

Personally, I like interactive tutorials, like the one codecademy offers:
http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-HZA3b?curr...
True, though I think it is fair to say that it was formulated as a criticism.
"You guys should actually follow that Constitution you swore to uphold" is a perfectly valid justification coming from a non-libertarian.
Good to know! BTW, this one worth also trying. http://djangosuit.com/ (it's not my project)
It's a shame that a company with an already bad track record in user security would do something so careless yet again.
I get on average about 5 hours of sleep per night. I would very much like a NO_SLEEP_PILL that made that (or even less) sleep enough for my body. I would not wish to be laying in bed for 8 hours a night if not required to function. I would be using that time to do other things. I also believe my wife is in the same mind set. I know that I'm speaking of a sample of just 1 (or 2 if you count my wife) so that isn't enough to go against your "most people" idea.
Can you support that? Isn't it more probable that furious marketing of government positions that show futility in any action against it, is causing people not to react?
"You can sheer a sheep many times but you can only skin it once."
Slugg - Make strings url safe
Unfortunately you need a fairly new Android phone to be able to pull something like this off. I wish Android didn't take so long to fix the audio latency issue.
Javascript is inherently dis-functional (hehe) as it relies heavily on mutation and side-effects, rather than immutability and functional purity. First-class functions do not mean the language is functional.
It's one thing to access Contacts via oAuth, where LinkedIn gets no credentials. It's another thing altogether for them to request credentials and login on your behalf.
Riloadr - Javascript Responsive image loader
This is awesome! I wonder if the algorithm is going to be open source as I could see it being very useful to budget-constrained organizations such as http://publiclaboratory.org.

Cheaper than indoor LIDAR?
I understand your point, but http://beta.dawn.com/news/772409/no-obama-tears-for-children...

To be fair, it wasn't apache helicopters.
Not everyone uses Gmail. The fallback is to ask for your email password. Really.
The people that live there probably do. There is an entire country outside of SF, NYC, and Cambridge and their suburbs. I could just be as glib and ask who really cares about Tesla and their battle with dealerships.
What if it was audited by 1 or more third party organizations you did trust?
Containers are zones are great if you're building your own platform that you control.

However I'm not sure building a multi-tenancy hosting environment based on containers or zones is the best idea.

Suppose the tun driver has a bug in it which can cause a kernel panic under some circumstances and that someone running OpenVPN in a container or zone hits this condition. You can now wave bye bye to all the zones running on that host.

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-extra/commit/9412039a18f2f...
Bicycle helmets haven't changed since their introduction
Who would discard this kind of precious info?
Good work. Nice to see developers sorting out PHP.
Who Made “You Made That”?
I tried NewsBlur. It seems a little bit heavy and over-designed to me. But my main problem with it is that any news items more than 2 weeks old are automatically marked as "read".
The same could be said for PGP/GPG but that doesn't mean it couldn't be made useful for purposes like this.
They hopefully don't store it. If they do, hopefully it would be in a reversible hash.

But the answer to your question is "we have no idea."
Not only do you get dinged when you exchange Bitcoins peer to peer, but you get hit again when you go to cash out through a broker.

It's an interesting experiment, but don't think there aren't any fees. The nominal amount a credit card company collects is lower.
I'm curious what purpose you see for protests in a representative democracy? It is not intended that our government make law to suit small groups of very vocal people, but rather that the will of the people be expressed, through equal representation, by elected members of government.

Obviously our system does not quite work as intended, but I'm not sure I see how protesting in the street could be effective, or if it was effective how that could be a feature rather than a bug?
This is commonplace in other business situations as well, including law firms. Partners at many large law firms can make $1.5M a year in profits (not salaries, because they're part-owners). You need to bring in far more than that to cover your take.
The 4th amendment says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

It doesn't read: "all searches require a warrant except those specifically listed." The text plainly allows searches that are not "unreasonable."

As a matter of historical practice, borders searches, for customs purposes and otherwise, are considered reasonable. Warrant-less border searches were authorized by the First Congress in 1789.
It would be much better, but it would be terrible.
I have cancelled two out of two accounts that have tried to phish my email password. (Udacity and now LinkedIn.) "Everyone" certainly does not do it. (I know Facebook does it, but just because the slimiest big company on the web does something doesn't mean it's okay.)
Sure an audit could confirm that there is no "malicious" data collected, but it still won't prevent the use of that data in a malicious manner.
Opa has Postgres support.

It requires almost no code change from MongoDB to Postgres, as explained in this blog post:
http://www.josetteorama.com/to-sql-from-nosql/
Can These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code
The role of leadership in software development (Mary Poppendieck)
On my S3 http://dropbox.com redirects to https://www.dropbox.com/login?display=desktop -- https://www.dropbox.com/?display=desktop, however, does display this new lander and it works just fine. Animations and everything. Looks great to me.
It's probably a coincidence, since they'd have to have started the redesign a while back, but I wonder if we'll start seeing a bunch of "super-sparse" design now that iOS7 is out.
That is what I was thinking. I'm not sure who even owns the "Soylent" mark since it comes from a book that was also made into a movie.
The implications of having a giant mass of data that includes everything done by everyone is just too awful.

Will the phone metadata ever do anything other than provide guilt by association? I doubt it, because only the communication itself can prove that "it was a wrong number!" versus the old "Can I speak to Mr E. Plot?/Sorry Wrong Number!" code communications.

Will the phone metadata ever get dragged out to help prove innocence? Again, probably not, it will only get dragged out to help "law enforcement".

You might start by trying to define "terrorist" in a way that's independent of referring to authority. When you've got something that, say, I can use to determine who is and who is not a "terrorist", then see if you think you can identify those folks with phone data.
The California Public Records Act is threatened by stealth amendments