skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you have good intentions, but consider that your response reads as: "I can help you. However, you are lying or incorrect."
I had a question closed on Cooking and was notified. There's a notification area to check (usually gives some signal in the upper-left to look).
Bootstrapping WebFinger decentralized discovery with WebFist
(Assuming you mean the Rift) If you can manage to find one you should; it's great stuff if you like that kind of cutting edge gadgets. I'm replaying HL2 with it and I just find myself standing still often and looking around. I also often almost lose my balance (I play standing mostly) because things move under or above me; it's just that good.
When did the NSA start using Georgia? I always thought Times New Roman was more "official".
> How would you define "rational," then?

Following a consistent internal logic given its factual and aesthetic premises.

> Philosophy, or "love of wisdom", of which law is a branch, is all about trying to apply aesthetic ideals to the real world.

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.
This is more about an internalized understanding of the type of business you are building for the founders than it is about external perceptions. That can be difficult for some, particularly with the prestige we in this community attribute to the word "startup". But understanding the needs of your business and how you want to grow it are key. If you're thinking of your business as a startup, that massive growth is the only way forward, you'll make decisions like taking VC money. If you think of it as a profitable small business, with measured and planned growth, you can recognize that VC money may not be the answer for you.
Start a site documenting them and don't rely on Wikipedia.
Yes, and that's why the software needs to be easier to use. In fact it should be effortless: once installed, it should automatically encrypt on the way out and decrypt on the way in.
Rape and Porn – Will Censorship Make a Difference?
Will censorship, which is seen as a measure by the Indian government make a difference? Does increasing reports of rape cases mean increase in rapes? Check out this scientific exposition of the matter.
Oh sick! Thanks!

Yeah, my camera has gone to shit. I'll take it in next time I'm near a store
It is not just Wyden, there are other senators that are not as secure in their seats. We should just keep this in mind next election cycle.
Sure, there are stupid people in their ranks. That's why you have need-to-know rules for those people. If they get caught then only the things they know can be compromised. Such people are easily replaced. Why do you think such things go on forever? It's because the authorities are in a never-ending battle of dealing with underlings that know very little. It's the same principle with police dealing with organized crime or drug cartels. Most of the time the reason they can break up such a group is by getting someone on the inside that can get the info they need.

I don't believe I said that terrorist organizations were building their own "totally separate, stand-alone communications networks, end-to-end encrypted, one-time pads". I said they are most likely not using an unsecured third party service. I fail to understand why people cannot comprehend the idea that a small group of people need not use fancy technology to communicate to each other. They can simply meet.

I don't agree that it's a ludicrous assertion simply because I was arguing against the point of the top comment; that all the world's terrorists have suddenly dropped off easily compromised communications specifically because of Snowden. My assertion is that the top of the chain in the organizations have not used such communications for years and I fail to see how that is ludicrous.
How to prevent your neighbors from stealing your wifi
Two great books:
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
HK: US extradition request did not specify Snowden's full middle name
Ok, I am lost, but all I see is the definition of .fade CSS class using the transition/transform properties - not sure what this has to do with angularjs.
Mocking ActiveRecord To Test Concerns.
If huge corporations are hiding parts of their operations under a 501c status it SHOULD be looked into. Don't fall into the trap that Tea Party members fell into. This is not a scandal. Don't cry about it.

No big deal.
If funding was at one level, and you decrease it, and the backlog of undone case work increases afterwards, it points to a pretty simple conclusion.

I'm talking very specifically about administrative issues here, philosophical musing about the nature of taxation is besides my point (and more generally completely unhelpful when it comes to actually getting stuff done).

If people want to eliminate IRS case work by eliminating a bunch of these 501(c)(abcdewhatever) categories, that's fine by me. But the work exists and it needs to get done. The way you get it done is by people doing it, for salary.

As far as 'others could do this job better', you're suspicious of taxes and want to hand it off to a private contractor or something? I can't say that that makes sense to me.
Words like these are inherently relative and depend on context.

If the context is protozoa, then a kitten is absolutely "gigantic". There's nothing wrong with that at all.

The local grocery store is "nearby" for me, about 500 meters. I sit "far away from" the window in my office, even though it's still two orders of magnitude (and then some) closer than the store. Context.

"Nearby" is absolutely an appropriate word to use for a distance of 22 light years when discussing exoplanets.
I think that the addition of support for keyframe-based animations in 1.1.5 is really the killer feature.

This will allow for drop-in animations (like animate.css, mentioned in the deck) in the same sort of way that bootstrap allowed for drop-in styles.
> That, and the fact that public/private key encryption is difficult to understand on a conceptual level, uses poor, inconsistent, or misleading terminology

Consider https. That is very easy to use, because the user doesn't have to do anything to use it. The user doesn't need to know anything about encryption.
Not quite sure what you mean, but for the record, as a general rule CAs do not generate keys. They just sign the public keys coming in as Certificate Signing Requests. Without ever seeing the accompanied private key.
CASH Music and Yorba have been mentioned publicly

http://faif.us/cast/2011/jul/05/0x13/
http://faif.us/cast/2011/nov/11/0x1C/

Link to first broken, see post/comments at http://web.archive.org/web/20110828144502/http://blog.cashmu...
UrbanTxT Non-Profit Turns Urban Teens Into Entrepreneurs
Understanding Agile Design and Why It’s Important
I sincerely wish there were better ways of expressing ideas than memegenerated images that seems to be infecting almost every forum I read. Take a look at http://reddit.com/r/gaming All the posts are image macros or comics. One might think that only images were allowed there, but memes seem to be honey to garner upvotes and have killed all other content on that particular subreddit.
I think we understand that you believe businesses that don't aim for shoot-the-moon growth shouldn't call themselves "startups".

The problem is, not everybody agrees with you. I've done both kinds of companies and don't think growth trajectory is the defining feature of a "startup". I'm also not particularly interested in debating the point, since it has very little to do with the story we're commenting on. (I also understand your rebuttal to that point, that the problem this person had was not understanding the distinction you're making, but I also disagree with that argument and find it a little mean-spirited.)
The irony is that reforming the U.S. so that it turned insular and tore itself apart was the very goal of the terrorists who this system is supposed to defend against. The remedy is becoming the disease itself.
Brown Eyes & Blue Eyes (1970)
I'm afraid you've misunderstood on several levels. My language was careful, your reading was not.

First, my post gives no judgement on Prism or other program positive or negative. I have not "decided what [I will] find at the other end..." I am critical of the programs, but I choose not to take the easy way out by demonizing the NSA or portraying these programs as an Orwellian nightmare.

Second, I point out the "primary" goal is to save lives, but I make no mention of additional goals or side effects. These goals and side effects are part of the larger discussion that can only be productive when we take a deep breath and set aside our preconceived notions of the programs. This is as difficult to me as it is to anyone. My initial reaction to the news of these programs was visceral. I was angry and frustrated. Now my frustration has been rechanneled to the sadly fruitless discussion. In short, there are effects outside the primary goal (of saving lives) that are bad and should be criticized. If you can criticize the bad without losing sight of the good, you can find progress.

I won't respond to what is "often so conveniently implied" since I never implied any such thing.
PVS-Studio: TortoiseSVN check
FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 (PDF)
Instant reveal.js presentations from your Markdown
Ask HN: what are some good companies to work for on the west coast?
Looking to hear about innovative companies that take a keen interest in employee development abd have good employee development programs, well funded and stable. Basically what else is out there besides google amazon and Facebook?
Interesting concept. You should probably add some try/except blocks around parts of it though, specifically around this area:

result, data = mail.search(None,'(NOT BODY "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE")')
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()

There's a chance "result" will indicate a failure and/or "data" will be None, causing the access to data[0] to throw an exception.

I haven't looked into what the API returns for "result" so I can't speculate on a fix, but I'm sure it should be easily handled.
Yes, and about 40,000 people die every year in car accidents in the US. Terrorism is nothing compared to that.
Node server for dynamic, fake JSON
Machine learning classifier gallery
I never claimed the OP lied; nor would I even try to imply it. I've long had issues with the policy that users can't see their own deleted questions ( http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-... ), and I brought that up to say that I can understand if there's confusion there. No one is ever post banned for one post (it's a system imposed ban that takes into account a number of things: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-... ). It's our fault (moderators and members of the Stack Overflow community) if there isn't clear enough feedback regarding that cycle. That was my intention. I'm sorry. I'll try to communicate more clearly on this topic in the future.
Was looking for an email address for the author! And failed. Anyway just wanted to comment - that there's no publish date attached to the article - or one that is at least obvious. I have no idea when it was authored.
A somewhat closer adaptation was, I believe, the Charleton Heston version called 'Omega Man'. Albeit with some pretty overt religious overtones.
Liberation Week
This looks cool. The hardware price is reasonable. Recently I got a GoogleTV stick (MK808) that turns a TV into a computer. It can run most of the Android apps and games. The price is about $45, plus a remote keyboard/mouse about $25. The total price is in the ballpark of Ouya.

I'm curious on how its controller handles touch and mouse-related actions in games.
Another part of the problem is the faster you want to go, the more fuel you need, which makes your ship more massive.
I don't care what anyone thinks of Snowden or of his motives. I care about the illegality he has revealed. Weigh it against the fact that there was vanishingly little chance for this information to have been revealed without breaking someone's rules.
I'm getting an occasional "TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable." Added try/except, and it works like a dream on 99% of the emails. I'll just run it twice :)
We are all "fair game" in every country in the World, except sometimes our own.
shouldn't you give employees 30 days notice? or is the plan to just fire them when the money runs out? before they've had time to look for another job...
The git model seems to not try to abstract away the details of the backend but rather give you tools and shortcuts to do common operations on it. As a result, the answer to "can I do this with git" is most often yes. But that comes at the added cost of having to know what's going on.
XenServer open sourced
Yup, CSS animations are easier to both write and use, and are super fast. Except on iOS6+ where a long-standing bug has made them nearly unusably slow.
Let me try this again. When I said "Wow, you ..." I was really saying: "If all you're contributing is rephrased sections of wikipedia, perhaps you shouldn't be trying to sound like an authority"
Sony unveils higher-res, NFC-enabled SmartWatch 2
If you mean physically how it handles it, iirc the black space in between the left and right hand controls on the Ouya pad is a touchpad. It's meant as a fallback controller for cases when an app doesn't support gamepads, so I doubt it's actually comfortable or practical to use.
Fakeer: I know you said this, but you're hellbanned.

It's probably easier to head to https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications and revoke all the permissions, so they can't authenticate as you.
Clojure is the language I find easiest to read because of it's minimal syntax.

I guess while I'm here, my feelings on the other points:
2) good, it's a functional language
3) Clojure's state management is excellent, discouraging mutable state is a good thing.
4) the reply highlights the matching parens when you close them, it hasn't been much of a problem for me
Also notice the opacity property that actually changes the opacity of the content.
You are advocating for arrest first, charge second. You seem to think that keeping the desire to arrest and prosecute Snowden a secret would somehow help the government's position. What kind of precedent would it set if this information was kept secret and folks could then seek asylum citing a presumed yet not stated threat from their government. When asked about it, how should the government respond?

Plus assuming that anyone would actually think that there is no desire to prosecute Snowden is foolish, as would be your suggestion for the government to keep its intentions a secret, especially given the nature of this case.
You know I always figured that this was just open source to begin with.... I guess I was wrong.
Just because you don't understand doesn't make it wrong. I agree that dumb terrorists are capable of killing and injuring innocents, in fact I would say the dumb ones are the most dangerous because they are rather difficult to identify beforehand; regardless of spying capabilities our government has.

But none of this has anything to do with my disagreement with the top comment in that all of the world's terrorists suddenly stopped using Verizon to discuss their dastardly plans just because of Snowden.
I think this is a smart move. Microsoft has a lot of cash and doesn't seem to know where/how to spend it. I mean their latest product launches have met pretty cold receptions. Curious to see how this will play out.
That's how I view some rss feeds via thunderbird:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

Edit: Also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939742
The changes are a step in the right direction, however I see no mention of the situation where questions with many upvotes are closed. 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, which is pretty disrespectful to a community that prides itself (rightly so) on its high number of domain experts.

The other truly irritating thing about SO/SE is their propensity for closing opinion based questions. I am sure that I am not the only one that finds domain experts arguing about for example, the merits of 1 library over another, or language A over Language B, rather useful (I often use their answers as a basis for further research to see if I agree or can find supporting evidence). Allow the community to vote up the opinion based answers they like and downvote the trolling/flaming answers.
I know your comment is well intentioned but it still rubs me the wrong way so I apologize if I offend you in any way since that is not really my point.

It feels wrong to tell the web master that he should modify the website to pay tribute to somebody you think is important (whether true or not I'm not sure it is really relevant). Especially considering that I myself do not know who the guy is and yet I've been in the field for 10 years (call me stupid).

The whole comment feels quite presumptuous. Honoring Aaron Swartz seemed like a no brainer but other than that is it really OK to put PG on the spot. What happens if he decides not to do it, will you think of him badly?
Awesome work! Would be neat to adapt this idea to show a realtime visual 'map' of a project as you're working on it. Watching your commits/merges as well as others' while they're happening could even be useful.

I'm noticing that the Merging in Git level (level 3?) gives you 6 steps to complete, but then complains that you didn't do it in 5. Is this a bug?
> Once your emails get into google servers, the NSA has made a copy of them. NSA copies your emails before you even read them.

I haven't followed the NSA Prism story as closely as maybe I should have, but I'm curious: is this TRUE? Like, is it indisputable fact that the NSA has all your email, or, is it more like, we can't be sure what they do and don't have access to, therefore, it's better to assume the worst?
Well, cPanel and Plesk are mainly centered around Apache, so my first though is make one for nginx. Include a 1-click installer for Nginx + PHP-FPM + WordPress [1] and I think you'd already be onto something.

Next, look at some way to do simple, static site/blog hosting (again using nginx). Give them a choice of Jekyll or Middleman (I do Ruby so that's what I know) and let them update via (S)FTP, a rich-text editor, or email. I started something like this with http://www.utterson.me but also check out http://neocities.org that was posted on HN recently. Basically, slap a nice hosting account on either of those and go from there.

Think about all the freelance designers/developers out there. They build a site or a WP theme for a customer. That customer then needs to host it. So give them the ability to make money without all the bloat of Plesk/cPanel's reseller/sub-account BS. Stripe integration could come into play here.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta...
The link to the live page with stats/graphs is here: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/
So awesome.

It's not appropriate to post to Hacker News, but if anyone's interested in reading a funny, lay-person friendly commentary on the economics and ethics of cognition enhancing surgery and technology, I've got a really interesting paper lying around called Wireheading Rawls. I'd be happy to send it to anyone interested.
Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if “Anything Happens” To Him
vim/emacs autoindent clojure just fine

I love that s-exps are totally unambiguous and find them easy to read personally.
I don't really understand why it went down like that either. It was the lead/PMs first job with the company and mine too. He may have been concerned with losing face or he wanted to finish the whole project super early and possibly get a bonus because it was fixed bid.

The requirements doc was extremely clear and robust. We felt confident that we were on the right track. Regardless I pestered him to schedule a meeting right away. After two weeks he relented but it took us another two weeks just to get in there due to people leaving at the state, general confusion over there and I assume them spending time rewriting the second deliverable.

There are a number of things we could have done to avoid the grief on our end.

1) We definitely should have made a greater effort to get in there as soon as we were done with the first deliverable.

2) we could have not burned ourselves out working 12s in the first place on salary and finished about at the right time when they were ready for us.

3) After finishing early we could have taken the equivalent time off instead of trying to power through the second deliverable. (not getting ahead of ourselves or burning us out)

We ultimately delivered the project within the time constraints of the estimate (a miracle considering we lost almost a month). although not including the OT we spent initially. So the client was happy but our team's morale never quite recovered.
Social Coding Experiment
I don't think most people are capable of engaging with you with the level of self-awareness needed not to penalize you for being open with them about your history of suicidal thoughts. So you may be better to simply come up with something to paper over the gap: plenty of people travel the world and take a few years off teaching english or trying to start a business.

I think you'll be penalized for not fitting people's ideals of what they are looking for (recent college grad, cs degree, etc.), but if you're open about the fact that you're switching focus to more technical work, I don't think you'll be penalized EXTRA simply because your work history is not easily traceable for the past two or three years.
thank you for your ongoing, awesome work :)
And the question in the lawsuit had nothing to do with concern about Sen. Gravel's immunity, the concern was about immunity for his staffers.
"without any IRS for its first hundred plus years"

And rivers caught on fire, slavery was rampant, women couldn't vote, children died in factories. Don't romanticize history.

The idea may work, it may not. It's certainly my favorite libertarian idea after ending the drug war. But don't "look back to the good old days" like they were better. They weren't.
I haven't turned off Javascript. The site is broken.
We've had the technology of the cyberpunk future for a while, and now we have the dystopia as well.
Couldn't browsers be juiced up to support client side encryption via local private key of a text area before form submission? That coupled with automatic public key decryption would enable gmail, for instance, to actually be secure(-ish-at-least-more-so). I think. Yes?

The general facility of client side private key encryption before form submission of both text fields, areas, and files seems like it would be very useful. Not sure why that's not planned for, say, html5. Odds are I'm sprinkling my own ignorance all over this :)
This is a fair point. But what's that saying about talent hitting the target in front of you, but genius hitting the target no one knew was there?
Want to have dinner with Anil Dash?
Screw you dude. For someone with over 1k karma and an almost 3 year old account, you should know better than this.

This is a community meant for us, hackers and entrepreneurs, to help and support each other out. Posting shit like this when a guy is exposing his deepest anxieties to the world and reaching out for help should make you ashamed.
I wonder if rounds A, B and C would cover the licencing cost of a SQL Server cluster? But in all seriousness I hope this would result in more interesting .NET based apps and will give Microsoft more reason to support Mono, new open source frameworks and middleware and better integrations/bindings with existing ones.