skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree Snowden or Greenwald or whoever has the classified stuff needs to tell a compelling story, with a chronology.

Mr. Lee is absolutely spot on when he reminds us that the media and the White House are stealing the narrative. We're now totally focused on a random sysadmin trying to guess what makes him tick. Who cares? What about the criminal activity by the US government he's laid bare for all to see?

I kept hearing all this talk of "free speech" and the 1st Amendment today (thanks Carney), as it is supposed to exist in other countries, even when they lack anything like a US Constitution... good luck with that, and that Snowden's choice of destination is somehow symbolic of his motives. Maybe he's just trying to stay out of jail. Is that so hard to understand?

So I guess we're forgetting all about the 4th Amendment, which is the whole reason he's putting his life on the line in the first place. We need more details from those classified docs, we need a narrative and we need to bring the focus back to mass scale pen registers and warrantless searches. Snowden's case is boring. He's guilty. He committed a felony by disseminating redacted classified material to expose illegality on a much larger scale. Most Americans would be too frightened to do this. He's not the usual. Get over it.

On the other hand, the case of the US government, their conduct and whether it breaks US laws or the spirit of US law, is far more interesting.

Stop worrying about the rights of people in other countries and start worrying about the rights of Americans, who are extremely lucky to have an amazing Constitution, which used to be a model and the envy of the world.
Same here, it bit me quite a few times and was highly irritating each time. Very annoying to choose between copying the loop variable, or passing it off to some other method to gin up an action/func safely.
>>So yeah, far from exploiting her, I'm trying to groom and mentor her to build the kind of career I believe she should have.

Yes, I'm sure this is what you're telling yourself.
I never thought of that. I really like Pocket's simplicity and ubiquity. If they could somehow pull it off I would be so pleased. That would be quite the pivot for them though.
We've been able to build that Internet for years. The people didn't want it. They wanted GMail and Facebook and Flickr and Instagram and all the rest of the magic of the Cloud.

We could possibly start shifting to federated models but honestly I've quite enjoyed being able to easily talk with people from outside the U.S. and I worry it would be that much more difficult in such a scheme. We'd essentially all be going isolationist at the same time, building some digital Berlin Walls.

What I think would be most feasible is bilateral "Internet privacy" treaties that define what requirements are necessary to intercept traffic (which is something that every nation wants to do but none are able to easily ask for). But at the same time I don't think European countries would be happy with the idea that the NSA could even theoretically obtain their citizens' info from cloud providers, and I don't think the USA would ever completely get rid of FISA while they still have the KICK ME target painted on their backs.

I wish I had a good answer for this. :-/
Wow. Definitely not a fan.

I don't know if it's because it's "new", but the readability on documentation pages got worse. It's like I'm better off using (e)links to handle php.net searches.
Interesting. I haven't really used Print Shop in more than 10 years and I see it hasn't changed much. I wonder how big that market is now and how print capabilities on tablets will affect its market size. Thinking of my corporate office: somebody is definitely generating a large number of Print Shop type materials to stick on the cork board for birth announcements, etc.
what kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?
That's why I asked for the units, especially as your example is itself a different form of cherry-picking. Most people aren't concerned about being killed by terrorists on each individual day, they're rather not be killed on any of the days. If you include ten years' worth of days in your cohort then you could conceivably kill all Americans in the nation on one bloody day and still be able to say that it only happens 1 time out of 3650.
I've tried just about all of them and as July 1 approaches I'm definitely getting anxious that I haven't found an RSS aggregator "home" just yet. I set up Tiny Tiny RSS on a Red Hat Openshift gear and it actually seems to work quite well. My main problem with it is that it doesn't seem to work in anything other than Safari.

The mobile options for Tiny Tiny RSS looks like it's going to take some legwork to set up so that will be interesting.

It's such a waste since Google already has a decent app that hooks into their API (on Android at least). All of this work by them that makes me very happy only to be ended. Such a shame. I'm really going to miss it.
Just get John Grisham to rework it a bit first.
Another southerner here... Your comment is pretty narrow-minded, don't you think? Isn't that the same ineptitude you're accusing me of having?
I can assure you that if the only reason I have to live is because I have a supposed duty, I will kill myself. I hope everybody else do to. Nobody should live like a slave.
Unless you do what I do, which is mail a check directly to the artist.

I'm not even kidding. Nothing is stopping you from writing a $50 check and sending it as a donation.
Did the thrift shop pay the charities a portion of the proceeds in exchange for the boxes?

Sort of. It would have been impossible to track that, but corporate did have some idea what the average box (from a particular source) was worth, and paid them that amount. Or maybe the charity set the price. I don't know. I just know it was different for different sources, and well justified.
Not every non-believer is hostile towards religion and/or faith.

I dislike the pledge because every time I hear it I'm reminded that Americans were once stupid enough to believe that modifying the words to it would be enough to thwart communist spies. It's like they forgot that athiests don't really acknowledge the concept of blasphemy.
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Israel (a much tinier country with much less resources for this sort of thing) quite handily kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina in 1960. Why do you think that it would be so impossible for the US to do the same?
> Most of the high-end programmers do prefer FP

I'd really like to hear an argument for this that doesn't beg the question.
> AFAIK, people skilled in prior art are often called into courts in order to arrive at the decision.

Well, yes, but they're typically experts from both sides whose goal is to promote their side's case, not accurately inform the jury. That's different from a jury having a direct understanding of the practitioners point-of-view.

> While I am still trying to understand what you mean, I do not yet see a connection of this to the anti-software patents view.

I'm saying that actual practitioners are likely (and, in my view, correctly) to see more things as obvious, fewer things as novel and so on than a layperson or a patent lawyer. The impact on patent lawsuits should be obvious.
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Legacy is a bitch, specially if it is 60 years old imperative programming with object oriented makeup.
Nice! PivotTables are underrated.
The 'Begin Tutorial' button looks like something out of Windows 3.1.
[Stack Overflow]Design a function f, such that f(f(n)) == -n
UK: big push to get 'open government' going and my local council has a big advertising campaign getting people to use their web pages. Not always online, some services mainly call centre based.

I imagine this will vary widely by country
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Not to be too wet of a noodle (and I'd certainly like Outlook to go away), but replacing Outlook at places where it is currently entrenched will require an absolutely Herculean effort. Not so much because Outlook the mail client or mail server is so great, but because of everything it ties into: calendaring, sharepoint, lync, custom LOB apps programmed to the Outlook APIs, etc.

When trying to talk people away from Outlook that entire secondary ecosystem has always been a much bigger roadblock than the lack of a native client or even the idea of storing corporate data in "the cloud" in my experience.
I didn't say I don't use RSS; I just don't use it for news (or any kind of reading). I plumb it into automation quite often, though.
Hold them accountable for what? They just gave their customers what they asked for, inexpensive housing. :)
That depends entirely on the people involved. Some people find they need to be physically co-located with their teammates, but some of us find it's easier to work with other people when relieved of the distracting noise of physical presence and granted the clarity and time for thought of text communication. If you fall into the former category, fair enough, by all means you should organize your situation accordingly, but don't assume what's true for you is true for everyone.
Please name five species that have left their homeworld permanently.
This is one of the reasons why I like HN, because nothing in my lower-to-middle-class upbringing prepared me for the notion of stock as anything other than shares of IBM which you held at the brokerage until you needed to retire. Pretty much everything I learned about the mechanics of tech investing I learned as a direct consequence of this site, in many cases to material effect.

One would hope that investors, on dealing with unsophisticated entrepreneurs, would tell them "Hey, it seems like you don't know the ropes of this yet, let me explain it to you" but the overwhelming number of anecdotes where I hear that have that sentence followed by advice so bad it shocks the conscience.
It seems that Feedly's Cloud API may be the best replacement for the Reader backend (really an ATOM PUB feed source). It may not however turn out to be the best frontend for our use case. I would like to see if it is possible to rebuild the Reader UI/UX on top of the Feedly Cloud API, using an ATOM feedreader core implemented in javascript.

Personally, I want a centralized solution, not a standalone daemon running on a private server. I switched to reader from a Gnome feed reader after losing all of my subscriptions due to losing access to a home directory. From there (in 2004 I think) I've built a massive collection of diverse sources covering every position, philosophy, point of view, etc. I can. I have so many feeds that I cannot possible read all of them, and so many that the Feedly mobile UI on Android won't even display the entire list.

Feedly appears to have imported everything I want from Reader, including the tags that I have created over the years, and the folder structure. None of this appears to be in a simple OPML export. (But thanks Dave for standardizing that.)

I think everything is preserved in Feedly, and now that the pressure of Normandy is off I hope that they will work to address those people that brought them all of these new accounts, and all of the press surrounding this mass migration. The Reader theme is a start but doesn't go far enough.
> Melt them with thermite after the retention period is up. Done.

I get the feeling you've never done this before.

It's not possible to both leave data "on a given set of drives" and do anything useful with it too. If the data is going to be used for anything, ever, it's going to get copied all over the place.

Highly-connected graph data (such as this) is particularly impossible to handle in isolation. For example: http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-pro...

Personal data is like highly radioactive toxic waste. It's prone to spills, lives forever, and is much harder to destroy than it is to create.
Breath of fresh air.
I get the nature of your comment, but you have to acknowledge that this does nothing to address any of the actual issues that many devs have with PHP. It's not just a problem of perception.
The US has a 95 year copyright term because of Mickey Mouse and entertainment industry lobbying.

Good luck asking the spying industrial complex to hold on to your data "for a limited time only".
> The Coinbase team have been very responsive and worked over the weekend to fix the OAuth account takeover vulnerability, having it patched a few hours after I disclosed it to them.

This is a great example of the RIGHT way to do things. While its never fun to discover you have a vulnerability, building up a reputation for fixing problems is better than the alternative.

Go Coinbase!
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I agree. It's hard to say exactly what they should improve, but I feel that it takes more time to find what I need. Perhaps they should add some colour to give better contrast.
4 mistakes that broke my spirit.
Absolutely! But many of the target audience may have very little experience of installing software and may need a screen cam / leaflet along the lines of your instructions. Last time I tried Lubuntu, I had to manually install the appropriate spell checker for my language (en-gb). Many will want ms core fonts as well. I agree the whole thing is one side of A4 with a few scren shots.

PS: Atom based netbooks with 1Gb are much more capable than P3/256Mb, people with such netbooks will have no issues at all with Lubuntu.

I'm running ubuntustudio fine on this Samsung NC10.
No maybe about it. You can't trust someone you're paying either. See:

- Sparrow and all the other companies who were acquired and saw products killed

- the countless other companies that just went out of business

- the problems you run into when hiring people to develop custom software

- and so on

There is no substitute for individually (and regularly) assessing the risks and benefits associated with all the software and services you use. And even then, you will make mistakes.
Jake Davis released, but banned from deleting his internet history
No, that's exactly what cherry-picking means, because you select the most significant data out of a small, irrelevant sample.

If you want units you should compare risks at least on a yearly basis per person, or on a lifetime basis per person. Then you will see how ridiculously low are the figures for terrorism. But we all know terrorism is not about killing many, it's about generating fear and inducing political effects. And it's used precisely for that by both parties (the aggressor and the victim).
When Google makes the decision that I'm not worth much, I'm tempted to reciprocate.

DuckDuckGo is already becoming habit, and I'm pretty close to convincing others in my company that we need to switch off of Google Apps, because Google hides important messages from me and doesn't provide support [1]. What else does Google do? Drive? Dropbox is better. Plus? Haha. Google is putting all their effort behind things they're only mediocre at, chasing after the fashionable new kids on the block, and dropping the ball on their core competencies. Maps will keep me around for a while though. However, a maps app that cared about my privacy would win me over...

Every giant sees their peak and gradual decline. Google's just came very quickly. I hope they see a renaissance.

[1] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/aU4UUye3...
I would like to see an argument for not releasing the Google Reader Android app source code, I can't imagine what in there exposes a critical Google service. If that was the concern they could leave that component out. (I'm talking about the internal Android component that provides the Reader login facility and sync option.)
And in your view, the US army hasn't already been asked, and complied, to shit all over those things, repeatedly? Some soldiers speak out, a whole lot kill themselves, but where is the resistance you speak of?

> it completely goes against everything they believe so strongly enough as to take up arms to protect

Of course this is true for many people. But for all? How many people go to the army because it's a job, or paid for education? How many people could make more in another way, but chose to join the army because they, as you say, so strongly believe in defending their countrymen and the constitution?

I don't mean to say there aren't many brave people who joined the army for all the right reasons. It doesn't even matter what the army is used for, I still respect those people even when they're misled. But exactly because of that I also have to acknowledge the sadists in their ranks, the people who want to be with the invincible team etc. Those exist, and with good enough indoctrination and good enough technology, those are all you need.

Also, the conscience can be routed around by deception just fine; yeah, there's all these idealistic people signing up for the army... and then they get drilled, and some of them start considering civilians as something else entirely pretty fucking soon.

And then there is the not minor fact of increased automatization and focus on robotics. In my worst expectations, the job of the American soldier of today is mostly to keep "the establishment" afloat for long enough until it can kick out the ladder under itself for good.
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The thing is, most of the stories are not him coming off as a a hero, but as a dropout, a weirdo, and generally someone who didnt fit in. They are not positive biographies but more subtle character assassinations.
Can someone explain to me how this is even possible? I mean, when a corporation is created, before it takes any investment, someone has to own it, right? How is it possible for the founders to not start out owning 100%?
The new github.com homepage
In comparison the old one: http://web.archive.org/web/20130622142625/https://github.com
I wish them luck, but they really should have a public beta version by now. Do they expect to flip the switch on Digg Reader the day Google Reader goes dark and have everything work? In contrast, Feedly has been iterating quickly and publicly, which inspires user confidence. Feedly's UX and performance has improved (and they finally have a real web version that doesn't require a browser extension).
* who then got pissy at coming second.*
While another guy died during the race.
Reminds me of the challenges Half Moon Bay is having with Vihnod Kholsa and beach access. At least, when they sue, the Malibu residents own up to it -- see Streisand vs Adelman. Vihnod is hiding behind things. sad.

http://www.pehub.com/2013/03/15/the-surfrider-foundation-tak...
I didn't notice that until you mentioned it, darn now I am scarred
Looks very nice but isn't that responsive.
It looks a little messed up on my iPad.
And in Pitfall, David Crane basically used a random number generator with a predefined seed to generate the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU starting at the 22:12 mark).
'Right to roam' in Nordic countries comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
The closest replacement is The Old Reader - unfortunately they seem to having problems with feed update speed (probably due to load)
It actually makes some sense - this is not a language primitive but syntactic sugar for a common task baked into the language. It's the same for using, foreach, events and link query expressions. In all cases you have to map the language construct to methods and properties.

Now you can argue whether it is better to just map to the methods Add<T>(T item), GetEnumerator<T>() and Dispose() or if you require an interface like IInitializable<T>, IEnumerable<T> and IDisposable. On one hand requiring an interface just adds some overhead, on the other hand it makes the intention much more explicit. They came up with different solutions for different cases - using requires the interface, foreach supports both ways and there is no interface for collection initializers.

I don't understand why foreach supports both ways - if I implement GetEnumerator() adding IEnumerable to the interface list seems no unreasonable requirement just like in the IDisposable case. I can understand that there is no interface for collection initializers because this feature was added in C# 3.0 and would have required adding an new interface to all existing collection classes, or changing interfaces or starting with an inconsistent implementation. Would be interesting to hear about the details of the decisions.
Heh. In all fairness, it's arguable the UK does even more spying that the US. But your point is well taken. The US is supposed to be a model for a free society. Mass surveillance could be imagined as "un-American". But the president thinks it's an acceptable practice. Obama followers: You've been had.
I need a Reader replacement that lets me export the feeds data later if I want to. I could not find that in Feedly. I don't want to get locked in a service for the same reason.
Any suggestions ?
Me.

I have never watched much TV, skip most movies, and am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Plus I think that I should respect copyrights.

Let me turn it around. What true nerd would consider consumption of mass market media a defining characteristic of nerdom? As opposed to, say, burying your nose in a math text for fun?
emm,
Private chef also use zeromq to implement the pub job feature.

Puppet has MCollective (with ActiveMQ) to implement the similar feature.
If you use autocomplete and press down->enter, it goes to the function page.
Thank you for repeating the 4th Amendment to me. What program broke it? Because the courts have held quite consistently that information shared with a third-party is no longer private. Even the "reasonable expectation of privacy" phone booth case is quite different from "Hi Facebook, here's private message for you to send to my friend, oh and all of your advertiser networks and data mining algorithms"

Congress has normally patched that up as new technologies have been introduced by making privacy a legislative requirement (but still not a Constitutional right). But they haven't done that for the Internet yet.

ECPA is the closest thing, but it specifically exempts FISA surveillance (though it does still require a court order if I'm reading 18 USC 119 correctly). While I do agree that Internet usage should probably be considered as de facto reasonable expectation of privacy on the wires I'm not sure that the law is at that point yet.

"Reasonable expectation of privacy" itself was essentially invented by the Supreme Court, so it's not as if there's no precedent for adding restrictions on government surveillance, but I'm not seeing the shortcut around the Constitution here except for 641A types of activities (assuming those are not being done under FISA auspices).
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Thanks for the reply. Do you have a Github repository or some other URL for this code?

Sorry for the confusion, but by "stewardship" I meant that you maintain or manipulate the data but do not control the place that is stored. I could have chosen a better word.

This new model needs clearly defined terms for these roles.
NASA's Map of Apollo 11 landing site, tracking astronauts' movements
Looks nice and light weight.

Also check out Saiku:

http://demo.analytical-labs.com/

Talks to OLAP server over XMLA (like Mondrian)
There are problems with php? It's not the prettiest language, but people have been building insanely successful businesses on top of it for years. Think Facebook.

It's coyote ugly, but it works. At least most PHP devs don't have the attitude associated with other popular web frameworks. They focus on getting things done.

As a disclaimer, PHP is not my go to language, but I've done some ugly scaling experiments with it. I'm just tired of the PHP isn't cool, let's mock it with no actual valid arguments that is common.