skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that makes finance... Gosplan? =)

The dominant ideology and paradigm of today is pretty brilliant. Partisans of neoliberalism always portray it as somehow the natural order of things, arising anytime people and institutions are free to self organize. In reality, though, the supposed guiding invisible hand is the veiled fist of the State.

Its magic comes from decentralizing and shifting individual and systemic accountability while still allowing for the world to be dominated by a hierarchy of power. The State has created a world where people to effortlessly flow between government and ostensibly private institutions, even when one or the other has failed miserably: free floating MBAs are one manifestation of that tendency. And the resilient network structure of power makes it impossible to effect change by holding any nexus responsible for moral failure.

The current world system is a mirror of the 1970s and 1980s USSR, except done much more efficiently. In a way, there was much more transparency in the Brezhnev era USSR: everyone, foreign and domestic, saw clearly through the thin air of lies and perceived directly the systemic corruption of its government.

In the USA today, far too many of us chase colorful glamours, ignorant that the world we see is just the passed dispersion of a prism.
City of virtue? Wasn't that the premise of Bioshock's Rapture?
It's just around the corner.
I live in new hampshire, but there's an office building downtown called "Wall Street"
> nonetheless, would soon wish their practices and mindset be respected and reflected in laws (and, since they would be able to vote, it would be): from the right to beat their wives or persecute gays, to refusing education to their daughters? And even darker stuff like "honour killings" that would be sure to want to bring to their new country?

What is this bigoted nonsense doing on HN?

Those of you upvoting this should be ashamed of yourselves.

PS. Most Muslims don't want to beat their wives or deny their daughters an education, nor do they want to engage in 'honor killings. If you think they do, you probably also think that the Westboro Baptist Church is an adequate proxy for average Christian beliefs.
Iceland had 0.00021 UNHCR refugees per capita in 2013. same number for sweden was 0.0097 (almost 50x). I think its fair to say that iceland could take a bigger reponsibility internationally. As a small country they cant carry a major reponsibility (and remember that the biggest refugee countries are mostly neighbouring countries of conflicts: pakistan for example) but they could definitely do more.
The Communist party for years discussed ways of turning American high society into Communists, whether they liked it or not, or .. at least Socialists, if but a little more willingly. It didn't matter to the Communists if it was called Communism; what they wanted was to get the actions of American society in alignment with Communist goals, whatever the terminology used to describe it.

This was a very big deal. In the 50's. So, maybe we're seeing the shock-wave of these efforts, in the culture and manners of the current suite of politicians and other cultural leaders promoting the ways of the new Socialist order. Whether they like it or not. (cf: FoxNewSpeak, et al.)
The same that will happen when my little pony characters begin to worship chaos undived and add Abbadon the Despoiler in the crusade against Gandalf who is sitting on the golden throne.

The idea of a successful attack on US with missile is just bad B movie trope. Even USSR strategies were for massive waves of missiles that could overpower the defenses.

Non state actors cannot manufacture nuclear weapons. This thing is hard. They could obtain possibly - but the fact is that US is somewhat defended by geography alone so Israel is much better (and more hated) target.

Now I know that the majority of US ruling class act as if USA is just some territory belonging to Israel and not sovereign country.

But if any credible nuclear threat for the US is to appear - it will be from a country. And there are better ways to contain Iran or Pakistan than to become surveillance state.
Great hack and worth doing just because it is a great hack, but since it was a senior project, wouldn't it have been easier to just grab an old Android phone off Ebay and use standard 2-way communication directly?
I believe you made this claim twice in this thread. Kindly visit your gmail settings, which offers these choices:

When a message is marked as deleted and expunged from the last visible IMAP folder:

* Archive the message (default)

* Move the message to the Trash

* Immediately delete the message forever

Ok then.
That's about as practical as asking people to kindly stop flying planes into buildings or blowing up buildings with day-care centers in them.
I believe its IDE was also the first widely used one to take the "mathematical notebook" approach where you can sort of free-form arrange formulas on a page and link them to each other. Unless I'm mistaken, at the time the other computer-algebra systems (Macsyma, Maple, etc.) all used REPL style sequential interfaces. I mostly prefer the REPL interfaces myself, but a lot of people like the notebook style, and I think Mathematica's approach to that has been influential on some recent open-source interfaces like Sage Notebook and iPython Notebook.
I understand if Steve Jobs dominates the front page when he dies, because he's Steve Jobs. But Edward Snowden has dominated the front page for a week, and little else slips through? I only hope enough people use a script like this that non-Snowden stories can gain traction.
s/Machine/Operating System/
If the end result - filter out every applicant -- I have quicker and more efficient process in mind.
On that note, I'm in LA (hollywood area) and if anyone ever want's to grab a beer or coffee I always love to meet other hackers and entrepeneurs who are passionate about tech and startups
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger

What's worse, many citizens have long since adapted that "argument", and do the dirty work for their leaders without even having to be asked, much less ordered.
Because this is a site dedicated to programming and programmers' news. I can understand the NSA spying on its citizens being a relevant topic for this site, but now that the only thing keeping the news 'breaking' is his flight path, this story is no longer relevant. Important, sure. But not relevant to this website.
The Reform of Intellectual Property (2005)
Sure ;)

FWIW you might be interested in going to http://www.meetup.com/nyhacker/events/125131862/ tomorrow.
Explain how it makes the U.S.A. more dangerous, please.
I think the last time there was a Wolfram post, someone also complained that they didn't like his ego. Personally, I don't see the point of reading, or not reading, his post then complaining about him. It accomplishes nothing and it's a bit childish.
This.. This is the problem. Yes of course Americans are not safe and are under threat. When you are an occupying force you are bound to find a few enemies.
I agree. That is why I try to tell people around me exactly this.

US is a terrorizing and terror generating machine.
Could I mail a paper check? Or would that be considered terrorist financing?
Yes, you could represent the score of a tile as the cost of an edge leading into (or out of) that tile. I don't know if it's possible to generalize any of the JPS ideas to this setting (my guess is that it'd be tricky), but basic A* would definitely work.
PRISM - What Happens When We Have Computers On Our Faces?
That's because probably most of their revenue comes not through direct marketing but through site-wide licensing.

This is compounded with the fact that Mathematica's main advantage is in its combinatorial possibilities (just like other more popular programming languages), and not in any specific application.

Think of it as marketing Lego blocks as a business-to-business product.

So your university / company has a licence, and you are naturally sceptical about something that has a definitely weird syntax, they need to tell you "this can help you somehow" and "it's actually better this way".

And if your employee asks you for a licence, and you are naturally sceptical, they need to tell you "this is actually useful in tons of other problems".
>The protections in the bill of rights protect against actions which inherently overreach, because their violation harms people directly.

Do they? Suppose we pass a law that says the police don't need any probable cause to record all your phone calls, bug your home and office and come into your house and read or copy all your personal documents, as long as they don't inconvenience you or deprive you of your papers. Pretty sure that would violate the Fourth Amendment, even though the harm there is substantially identical to the harm here. Which is theoretically none, assuming the police only target evildoers and never do anything nefarious with the information, etc.

Likewise the First Amendment protection for anonymous speech. Having to disclose your identity to the government before you can communicate with anyone will only cause harm if the government does something untoward with the information, right? But the First Amendment doesn't allow them to require it, because the government could be doing something wrong. We even go so far as to say that the government can't demand the information because people may fear the government doing something wrong (chilling effects), and be afraid to say certain things as a result, even if the government never actually does anything with the information.
Not trying to hijack the thread, but I would say the same for the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. My contact info is in my user profile.
This feels like one of the "startups and hustle make me better than you" that show up from time to time.
I'd love to. Interning here for the summer, passionate about startups, and I'm heavily involved in bringing it to Georgia Tech :) Shoot me an email at chintanparikh@gatech.edu
I've searched extensively for years for something python-based which enables actual multi-core concurrency.. and after spending one week with golang, I strongly prefer go compared to anything I've found with python- multiprocess, stackless, pypy, etc. None of them let you reap the benefits of hardware like coroutines with communication channels in golang.
I don't think the solution is trivial. There are cases of terrorism that have nothing to do with foreign wars.
Moving to an entirely different city puts you into a different school system and often a different, disjoint public transportation system.
No you are in a place that is full with people with very good mathematical and statistical skills that can call you out on the bullshit that is the treat of terrorist attacks and can detach themselves from the primal emotional reaction.
If you're still in town on Friday or Saturday then I'd be happy to meet.
> "Nations are, and have always been, in a state of competition for dominance and resources."

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. -- George Orwell, "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
I'm very happy about mocl's release. Great work, and congratulations!
ColorHexa: Wolfram Alpha for Colors
I am not 100% certain but in Slovakia majority of gov. related communication requires Internet Explorer. Not talking about Windows.
You don't know that actually deletes anything, and defaults matter.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929421
It's the difference of one letter. War oN Terror vs. War oF Terror, with the latter being by the gov't, on the people.
https://mega.co.nz/ ?
The "Expert" Dilemma - When Everyone Wants Your Time
That's stupid. Particularly how you list 'plentiful storage' as a drawback, if that's the case then it's plainly an issue of law as it pits privacy against usability.

Also Gmail is the only webmail that offers server-to-server encryption: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57590389-38/how-web-mail-p...

And as mentioned in another comment you can delete messages over IMAP.

So in the future make sure you do some research as to avoid spreading false information.
Perhaps, but what if those billions were spend on safer cars or medical advancement? Surely those billions could save a whole lot more lives than by terrorizing the rest of the world.
What about spending the anti-terror money to make the US "look good" to the people that could be terrorists? That would lower the probability of terrorist attacks.

I know this sounds cheesy but I think repression is just making things worse.
Hacker News is the one place I've consistently found good information related to this extremely important case (that and Greenwald's twitter account itself). It's important to the HN community because we're typically technology-minded and libertarian-leaning, and these topics strike at the core of the privacy debate and "big data" issues. Therefore it seems to me to be a great place for Snowden-related news.

Of course if you want to use this plugin go right ahead. But don't start grandstanding with philosophical statements about how "HN is only for startups" and "this site must stay away from politics" because 1) that's false and 2) you're probably not a moderator.
You could have applications that talk with your smartphone without a network and just a browser providing you can access your microphone in Android and iOS.
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A while ago, r/askscience was briefly listed as a default subreddit, until the moderators (and probably users) asked for the subreddit to be delisted.
Favorite quote: "Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists maybe in history."

"Suppose you are walking down the street and you don't know whether two minutes from now the guy across the street and everything around him is going to be blown away by a sudden explosion run by somebody a couple thousand miles away. You're terrorized. And in fact villages, regions, countries are terrorized by these [drone] operations."
wow some people have way too much time on their hands. I could get a lot of stuff done in the time that guy took to write that.
If you don't believe that they delete it when you tell them to delete it, then using Gmail is already a non-starter. Also, yes, defaults do matter: the outcry from users from not being able to undelete an email would be much louder than those wanting instant deletion.
One thing that virtually every Reddit power user (e.g., the type of person who would want to go around down-voting everything you comment) has is an extension called Reddit Enhancement Suite[1]. One of its features is the ability to tag usernames with custom messages. It's plausible that during your various disagreements, you were tagged by various users with something that indicated why they disliked you.

So if you continued to haunt the same places those people frequented, it wouldn't matter how long you waited to comment: as soon as you did, they'd see the tag, remember whatever it is they disliked about you, and down-vote.

That's all to say I think the problem you describe is less about coordinated vote rings against individuals and more about a community with individuals who hold grudges and have the tools available to enable them. I'm not sure it's systemic at Reddit, but just from what I've seen, people flying off the handle at the slightest provocation seems to happen far more frequently on Reddit than anywhere else.

[1]: http://redditenhancementsuite.com/
>I do not consider him to be anything like a balanced commentator on these issues, and I also do not believe his approach to be one that is, on balance, helping California technology companies who wish to deal with payments.

Why not argue against the argument rather than the man? Or at least if we're arguing against men, follow up with "a few notes about Peter" so I can get a decent comparison of the men.
I'm not singling you out, daturkel, but these kinds of comments are becoming almost as irritating as his self-congratulatory prose (which I'll grant you is pretty grating at times).

Thing is, if the creator of any piece of software has earned their arrogance, it's Stephen Wolfram. Mathematica is really, properly amazing stuff. It's the closest thing I've ever seen to that Star Trek vision of a computer you can ask anything of. It's orders of magnitude more impressive than, say, a glorified address book, but Stephen Wolfram never put the word 'bitch' on his business cards. He just talks about the stuff his company has built and doesn't bother with humility. There are worse faults.
It is worse in the sense that the have no shame to hide it, at least in the US was a secret. On the other hand, it is ironic to do what he did and then escape to a country where freedom conditions are way worse.
I'm not trying to make any philosophical statements. My problem is the HN coverage right now is not insightful, it's a paparazzi-level tracking of everything he says and does. In a couple months when the details have been filtered from the blogspam, maybe we can have an insightful discussion. Right now it is nothing of the sort.
These Countries are out of question for Snowden
I beg to differ, and that's a criticism I also have for the OP:

From my humble observations, traffic jams are caused because too much traffic (x cars/sec) flows into a bottleneck, i.e. something that can't allow x cars/sec to pass through. Whenever I get into a traffic jam, I play "spot the bottleneck" to ease my boredom, and so far I haven't found a case where there was none.

Transient traffic jams like the OP described seem to get solved by people accelerating as much as they can once they're past the jam. If there's no bottleneck ahead, they're indeed transient.
NSA Whistleblower: I Saw The Order To Wiretap Barack Obama In 2004
Hulu, Seeking a Buyer, May Shift Course
So the way to deal with those outlying cases is to start wars and cause widespread violence that will generate 1000x more terrorism?
Technology is a tool, how you use that tool is an expression of politics, whether or not you consciously think it is.

It is inevitable that on a technology site, politics relating to technology will come in.
The definition of "anyone who does anything that might piss off a government" includes a lot of people. What if I become a political activist in 20 years time, I might well piss of a future government, should I stop using gmail now in case that happens?
If you push via git or via rsync, you're typically going over SSH in both cases. As far as the .git directory, my post-receive hook also does a "cp -R" of the files to the actual web-served directory (there's a build step in between anyway), so there's no .git exposed. As far as security, as long as one knows to handle the .git directory, there's no difference.
One thing's for sure, it'll be interesting to follow the blockchain and see what eventually happens to that BTC. Does the government leave it in a wallet, or cash it out with Coinbase, or what?
The Dreyfus affair
That reminds me of a question I've pondered - what will the impact of Snowden's NSA leaks be on a. the perception of Google Glass and b. on sales?
Wow, awesome response, thanks everyone :)

I'll have a better idea of my schedule tomorrow afternoon, so I'll get back to everyone then. Looking forward to meeting some fellow HNers
I'd like to point out there are just 3 stories on the front page that this will remove - this being one of them.
Cheers, this looks awesome, I'll be sure to check it out
I took this screenshot earlier (posted it earlier, apologies to anyone that's seen it before):

http://i.imgur.com/sjNd5Z7.png

Out of 24 stories, only two are about something other than Snowden and/or the NSA.

I absolutely do think that Snowden coverage should be on HN. But that much? At a certain level you're just duplicating the same information, and repeating all the same talking points in different threads. If we could just stick to one or two articles at once it would be fine.
I can't wait until the NSA releases all the details on it. I'm curios to see if they discover they themselves did anything wrong.
Please donate, but keep in mind by using Visa you're opting in to a special NSA watch list.
I read for different reasons, sometimes to learn, sometimes to relax. I'm reading a book on Peter the Great, growing up as a Caucasian kid in Hong Kong, some fast search algorithm papers, and am working my way through the X-Men and New Mutant comic books. I'm getting something out of all of them, even if what I'm getting is to clear my mind so I can sleep better.
No answers? Please HN, I need your help on this one!
Wonder why they went Free instead of Open - you'd imagine securing the system would be a reasonably high concern for them.
From the perspective of people who peddle weapons and fear to those who have to pay for the weapons and act on the fear, yes. That is exactly the correct response.
The coins appear to have moved a few times since the "seizure":

https://blockchain.info/tx/ec3c6440a5302eade99c3be3dbe475243...
You can't be serious. If a 9/11 were to happen every year, then the police state you dream of would obtain.
I am not saying that and don't want to enter into an infinite discussion about terrorism.

Just saying that the problem is complex. I don't live in US and my country was attacked twice, a hundred people killed, in the last 20 years.
Respectfully, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. The people who are saying that HN "isn't for politics" aren't making that up; it's right there in the site guidelines.

The cognitive dissonance you have here comes from three things, I think:

* The moderators on HN take an extremely light touch with moderation; most of the stories that get "dead'd" on HN are killed by user flags, not directly by moderators. I think this is even more the case now that the "flamewar detector" is in place; stories that might have earned a moderator intervention 3 years ago are now left to be auto-buried by the flamewar detector. Buried != dead.

* The "no politics" guideline on HN takes a back seat to the politics of the people who run HN. All signs point to Paul Graham being on your side of the Snowden and Manning cases; for instance, if you follow him on Twitter, he has posted supportive links. Similarly, Graham chimed in on a gun control thread in (IIRC) favor of gun control.

* Many of the NSA stories that have appeared in the last few weeks have also been highly technical. There's a "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game that gets played to try to connect the dots from any political story to hacking and startups, such that Ron Paul supporters have ready arguments for why their stories are germane to HN, but those stories tend to get flagged off anyways. Here, we're talking in large part about the internal retention policies of Google, and it's hard to make an argument that those stories aren't at least somewhat germane to HN.

I've given up on the idea of flagging political NSA stories, but I would have a big problem with anyone drawing the conclusion that HN now encourages political stories. It doesn't, and it shouldn't, and it won't if it expects to maintain a civil community. Political discussions on HN spark enmity; people who could discuss eloquently and at length the details of programming languages or linguistics or literature instead follow each other around from threat to thread downvoting out of spite.
No Problem. I was really impress by the ease of use and output quality.
If that is case expect the 3d printer industry to bloom there like mad. Business opportunity.
The online "territory" will shift away from America eventually, especially for non Americans who are still stuck under the USA's influence.

This is exactly the kind of thing, along with recent events, that will eventually deal a major blow to US based tech.
Thank you for your opinion, I'll take that into consideration.
Linux kernel features for high-speed networking
Yeah.. sadly I had to temporarily turn turn off the script to read the comments.
that's interesting, but they sure do seem the same. I'm thinking the only difference here is cultural. Like how we don't view reporting a price as $4.99 instead of $5 as unethical.