skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they have no extradition treaty with the US. That's why George Clooney fled there.
> This situation forces any student interested in maintaining a high GPA to focus more on the grade and not the material.

This also reflects almost every job in the post-university world: the skills required to keep a job are very different to the skills required to do a job.
Wow, I Cannot Beliefe The US A WOuld Do Such A Thing, Unless They Were Defening Our Freedom Of Speech Internet Right
Call me rough, but I still wrap my papers with fold.
The whole point is that it /is/ hard to read. That it isn't just about content, but how that content is presented.

> All these people didn't manage to get the driver compiled and installed, one cause surely was that the readme author didn't care about how to present the content at all. He just cared about functionality.

> If a client wants to get something done, I'd like to challenge you to think about user expierence (UX). If you want to sell products you will have more success with some good designs and layouts.

By taking it to an exteme of just a text file they're demonstrating that to communicate the content you need to present it effectively, and nice fancy layouts help with that.
"Movement is life" - Brad Pitt's character in World War Z :p

Bradley Manning has been tortured and there has not been outrage on the level that would be enough to protect him. When Edward Snowden blew the whistle, he had no reason to think that he would have been more successful. Perhaps you would have done differently, but at this point I think it boils down to personal differences in evaluating a situation, so I wouldn't go as far to claim he is unpatriotic.
Are you kidding? Their xaml implementation is dog-slow except in very-low geometry scenarios.
A quick read-through of the wikipedia page tells me it works as expected. The chain of trust follows the DNS hierarchy which is much saner than trusting all CAs for all domains. If you have yourdomain.com you're already trusting the .com TLD to not redirect your users somewhere else so you might as well also trust them for this.

What you describe is basically a self-signed certificate which is known to be a poor solution. It easily allows someone to consistently MITM the whole web (think great firewall of china) without the users knowing.
While the article does not talk about it, one major difference between pre & post internet social networking is the effort intensity. The internet has trivialized the effort required thereby significantly diminishing the quality of conversations.
This free booklet will tell you how you can become a Computer Programmer [1969]
Looks nice. How do you store the amount of days, is it in cookies or using the HTML5 storage API?
I think I might use it though I don't have any ideas.
His car is #24, Olivier Pla / Alex Brundle / David Heinemeier Hansson.

They started in pole position of their category.
Not when using the petrol pump, but the diesel pumps are dirty enough often enough to make routine use of gloves worthwhile.

Virtually all petrol stations provide disposable gloves near the fuel pumps for this reason.
Did Assata Shakur find a safe haven here in the U.S. in the '70s? Read her autobiography. I don't think "times have changed" so much. There's just a larger number of political dissidents now (as there should be). The Internet and 24/7 sensationalism in the media have made exposing government lies more scandalous, too.
The HK press release is a beautifully crafted example of how to give a giant middle finger without any bad language.
> How do you say 'content-oriented design' with a straight face? What's the alternative?

Many graphic designers who have become 'web designers' will simply colour in wireframes rather than working with actual content. Therefore you end up with a design full of gradients, curved corners and shadows because that's all they have to work with.

Which is odd considering the core of graphic design relies on understanding the content and message, in essence the form follows the function.
I am using localStorage. This allows me to expand to tabbed habits in future, if people find them useful
Maybe, but then their posturing still makes them look stupid.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1577180-venezuela-cuenta-otra-vez...
Nice UI. Looks clean, but why did you limit to only 30 days? Habits take longer to form
I think the point is that anyone with the time and resources to see the clearance process through probably isn't interested in janitorial work. Consider the opportunity cost of all those interviews and forms.

However the point about how there might be national secrets in the wastebasket is moronic - that is want shredders and burnbags are for.
Looks like he walked right through a legal loop hole (for now).
"Over the jungle, the quiet jungle, the drone hunts tonight

...[365/24/7 refrain]...

Over the ice field, the empty ice field, the raptor hunts tonight

...[365/24/7 refrain]...

(sung to The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

If true, this exit is good news! I have worried about his safety for the past two weeks. ES needs a redoubtable safe-house enclave/bunker like a free Assange to repeatedly surgically strike while the iron is hot. Exposing heinous criminal abuse of state entrusted power, founded on self-witnessed righteous indignation- leveraged by gigahertz worldwide public networks- makes for a seriously formidable anti-Borg threat. I hope Assange's crack team are good chess players to be constantly vigilant, and terra-sotto terrified how dangerous this is. Endlessly run gold/blue team attack game/simulations, have seasoned and wounded trade-crafters as loyal and encrazed armed sentinels, handling also, a hyper-alert pack of google-glass augmented Scottish Border Collies:
Why is this trip of Snowden made into a media event?

The Aeroflot flight number was public!
Is this to counter a secret rendition attempt? Did we wake-up in a world with 007 stuff happening to real computer nerds, not just high-paid actors?
Please point me to the company BYD Stole from?

Or Tencent?

Or Alibaba?

The "copying" that you seem to be referring to, is no different to "normal business" in the US: Apple open a retail store, Microsoft open a retail store (or was it vice versa?) Is that "copying"? or is that "competition"?

Is it only copying when the parties are different races? or more controversially when one party is chinese?
Repeated talking points ad nauseum.

Wasn't Manning tortured? Isn't Snowden going from one country to another? What makes you think the case of Assange is any different?

Have we all forgotten how 3 years ago when the revelations first appeared we here on HN were discussing in what manner he will be vanished or smeared? Only a few weeks later the news of some dropped charge re-instated appeared.

He has now been in confinement for almost 3 years. One wonders how much longer. Would he have been given a greater punishment even if he was found guilty by the Swedish court? I doubt it.

If it looks like a duck, it is more probable than anything else that it is a duck.
The NSA's metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse
"Democratic country"? Aeroflot confirmed (in another story) that they have a ticket for Mr Snowden to Cuba. With his most likely destination being Venezuela.

I suppose if we stretch the limits of what 'democratic' means, then I guess Venezuela technically counts as one. I know Venezuelans who has left the country because of how terrible Hugo Chávez was. And I am not sure it has gotten much better under the new guy.

Neither Ecuador nor Venezuela are exactly countries with high ratings when it comes to press freedom. And I doubt either country is protecting these two men (Assange and Snowden, respectively) for some sort of higher moral purpose, but more a simple 'stick it to the US' purpose.

I don't blame either Assange and Snowden for making use of the fact that these countries wants to stick it to the US, but we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves to suggest that either country is the beacon of civil rights.
Aaron Swartz was a whistleblower?
Given that the HK governments press release reads like diplomat speak for "fuck you, we let him leave even though we know exactly where he left from, and btw. fuck you for spying on us in case you wondered why we're not doing your dirty business (ps: fuck you)", while many other governments would have bent over backwards to accommodate the US, it does indeed seem to have been a quite good starting point.
Encipher It
There's enough corporate espionage happening in the US also.

Just 3 days ago, an officer at a certain US software company announced their intention to launder some open source code written 2 years ago by someone else and bundle it in the next version of their product.
The certificate pinning in chrome is not an universal solution to the problem. It just a built-in list from google that hardcode what certificates are "correct" for a short list of domains. The RFC for expanding the concept to a more universal approach is to do as ssh, by remembering certain attributes from the first time a client connect to a server.

ChannelID seems to operate in the same fashion. The first connection from Client->Server is completely without any security, but further connections can be verified.
And you've got your blinkers on if you think that's really the worst it can get, or if you think Putin "really isn't that bad".
Aren't they required to protect their people's interest above all? This guy comes up and screams 'they are spying on all of you day and night', and the right reaction is 'please don't come here.'? I dont think the brits are so apathetic
It's more like they kicked him out and wrote a snotty press release about it to save face.
Careful now. Computers are a similarly mindless arrangement of atoms. The only difference is that humans designed computers, and natural selection designed plants. Under your reasoning, computers are incapable of arithmetic. At that point, how are brains any different?

Perhaps that's right, but such a "pure" definition of computation is hardly useful.

More examples of plants mechanistically doing math: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0
If you're comparing on performance alone, you better get the upgraded Audi to match the Model S...
It's interesting to see how stories like these emerge during times of surveillance and tracking scare. I'm not trying to suggest dishonesty or paranoia anywhere, just pointing out how intriguing the dynamics of media stories are.
Looks very nice and I will definitely be using this for quick encryption of files. Would suggest that you make it into a chrome app so people can automatically encrypt their gmail and hotmail emails.
Not very helpful, as that stops the video playing and necessitates me fiddling around to copy the url of the new tab and close it and restart the video.

Just make the title of the video a link to the youtube page.
These are completely different issues (which you are simply conflating by race).

The exam mentioned in the article is THE exam. If you fail, that's it for you. You can't re-sit and you can't attend a reputable university. Your choices are the equivalent of technical colleges (few which have any reputation), working in low skill jobs, or (if you have A LOT of money) studying abroad.

Given the circumstances, I think cheating is the sensible thing to do, given their are cheaters, by not cheating yourself you put yourself at a disadvantage.
I agree.

My feeling is that flat works for small touch screens, but not so well on big screen computers. I think you need the simplicity on a small screen so that navigation is clear in a small space, but it looks just dumb and silly on a big screen. Might be why people hate Windows 8.
It's very cool for someone who really wants that extra push to convince themselves that Common Lisp is awesome and is used by awesome people ;)
There's a whole chapter on traffic jams in the book Critical Mass. From what I remember, innocuous things like a single driver slowing down can cause massive jams due to the natural 'physics' of traffic.
We are all sick of the US acting like the big boss around the world. +1 to Hong Kong, Russia and the rest giving it the big middle finger.
Lol. By 'computer' I mean any device capable of accessing the Internet, though I will change it now.
You have sort of defined "fad".
They are listed officially as a 'Federal presidential constitutional republic' which would be a democratic country.
> If anybody looks stupid, it's clearly the US Government.

Not really. What can they really do? Usually, they'd bully countries into submission. Hong Kong proved it does not bow down to the US. They also cannot really kidnap him or anything like that. It's way too public at this point, and as "terrible" the CIA sometimes is, they're not a bunch of murdering assholes like the Mossad.
Publicity is, or can be, protection.
The term "Chinese" doesn't describe a race; it is descriptive of a nationality. And I don't see how the two issues aren't related at least at some basic level. Cheating at this scale seems to be a cultural phenomenon moreso than a racial one.
Ah, I do see your point!
Some clicky links.

ECUADOR:

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)

(http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/ecuado...)

(https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/ecuador)

VENEZUELA:

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)

(http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/venezu...)
A New Equation Reveals Our Exact Odds of Finding Alien Life
Perfect ending for my summer conf tour
Are you a designer? Find colors on the go
Officially listed where? I know that both countries have elections, but I don't believe neither election system is entirely open and free. Don't get me wrong, we are not talking North Korean elections, not even Iranian elections, but still... it seems easy to predict the winner of an election in either country.
First of all, we're talking about a design alteration to a framework! If you're tired of everything looking the same, cry foul on the use of frameworks not mods to frameworks.

I know your criticism is about flat design but really, I think the widespread use of of any boilerplate/framework contributes more to stale design than concepts like "flat".
This is a Hacker News post
Seriously stop labouring this point. We get it.
Anecdotal data point: My brother taught pure math in both Australia, and the U.S (in ivy league institutions). His view is that the quality of students in Australia (largely classless given the govt subsidies education so much) is leagues above the undergrads at top ivy leagues (who are there because of $$$).
Which US enemy did he stand up for?
You could write it in plain text and only have line breaks when fitting a new paragraph, leaving it up to the user's software to wrap the lines.
But this isn't data theft. It is more like suing someone for sexual harassment because they looked at you while you were parading naked in front of everyone.

We currently don't have a Wi-Fi signal or setting that says "Do Not Take" like the "Do Not Track" browser header so the matter of theft is an open case.
>The Aeroflot flight number was public

url?
Love it. Really interesting content, have bookmarked.

One thing I would say, is that hovering over the items to show the voting buttons covers to much of the image, can get a bit annoying as your scroll down, maybe it should be more transparant? or the voting buttons appear without the black background?

Anyway, love this site design, logo and content. Nice work. I've also just signed up ;)
The cheering for HK in this thread is interesting, when the end result was not that positive. Snowden had to leave the place that I believe he hoped to be a safe haven for him, and now he is quite literally on the run again.
Humanity takes millions of photos every day. Why are most so forgettable?
Edward Snowden, Leaves Hong Kong For Third Country, Charged By U.S
Since the article says:

Google had previously pledged to destroy all data collected in this manner - but admitted last year that it had "accidentally" retained the additional discs

Then Google will likely just delete the data since it only needs MAC addresses and SSIDs.
OMG!? What have we done?!
China specifically, by providing examples of US hacking against Chinese targets.
I must say, that is really expensive. This is way beyond my max price as a student.
This feels like a massive over generalisation (given the size of china)... Any kind of evidence of this?
The max Model S range is 265 miles. That's tremendously larger than 100.
Tragically that would be the US's own fault for creating such a hostile environment for whistleblowers.
Man vs. Machine; Wall Street cuts trading staff for algorithms
For that, you could place the cursor above the ASCII art; press (ma) to set marker 'a'; (gg) to go to the top; (gq`a) to wrap until marker a. ;)
Please stop these kind of submissions.
Text and now email?. We have had enough of these
Thanks for the citation. It's a shame; this implies a lot of companies do this just because they're allowed to procrastinate by law.
When that FBI WML came on, I burst out laughing; the execution here is awesome.
Ask HN: Need help in orchestrating a move to the west coast?
I am based out of the North East (not Boston or NYC) and have decided to move to the west coast, ideally to SF (but other places up and down the coast are an option as well.)

I need help from people in this community who have done something like this successfully to share their experiences and perhaps give some pointers.

My background: I have a wife and a small baby. I own my house. I have 10+ years experience in different areas of technology -earlier experience mostly related to software development (Web / Business Applications) and more recently doing various different things that are not necessarily hands sw dev but 'businessy' things that require a technical background. I have been part of a startup and have a learned a lot of things about doing more with less. In general, Today I would say I am more of generalist now that can be very hands on when it comes to software and technology.

1. Given my background what is the best way to make this move ?
2. How did you plan your move ?
3. Did you just land and then find a job or went with a job in hand ?
4. What kind of time frame is reasonable for such a project ?
5. Point out anything else that I should keep in mind while I take on this project.

Thank you very much for helping a fellow community member. Please let me know if you want more details on my situation.
Would you accept an audit conducted behind closed doors, which for unknown reasons did not include the electoral notebooks uniquely identifying each voter, for an election that had more than 3,200 irregularities[1] including instances of individuals attempting to vote multiple times? I wouldn't, and I'm not sure Jimmy Carter would either.

[1] http://rt.com/news/venezuela-presidential-election-results-8...
It's not evident that this is a more effective use of roadway, as the article hints at.

The problem is the bottleneck point, where people are obligated to move into one lane. This is what causes delay - the faster you can get cars moving through the bottleneck point, the less delays there will be behind. So it doesn't matter so much where the cars behind are positioned to wait.

Zipper merge likely causes more delay - in practice - as there has to be a late negotiation over whose 'turn' it is to merge. If this negotiation is planned earlier, it doesn't need to have such an effect (in fact, I imagine it could eliminate all the delay) at the bottleneck point.
Thanks for the inside look. This correlates with my findings - the smaller companies seem to reliably have instant, automated email subscriptions, while the larger ones see fit to take their take with the whole charade. But it's excusable (maybe) if it's due to your second point about pre-scheduling with vendors.
Uh, here you go: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ...
ActiveRecord overdose
Analogies suck, and this analogy is particularly poor.

The UK has laws, in statute and case. Google operates in the UK. Google should ensure that they obey the laws of the land that they operate in.

It does not matter that you think the law is stupid or wrong. Obey it; campaign to change it; or just don't operate here.

IT's a pretty weird case, but Google isn't particularly bad here. A few people had a dumb idea and followed through; there wasn't suitable oversight to say "this idea is dumb and probably illegal. Don't do it". They appear to be trying to do the right thing, even if it's tricky. (Finding hard discs at google is possible like finding a needle in a big bucket of needles.)

I agree that "data theft" is a stupid term. But that's what happens when people link to god-awful UK "news"papers like the mail, mirror, sun, express, etc.
Well sure, technically, blacks aren't a race either, nor are whites or indians... technically we are All "human" but these semantics don't progress the discussion.

I agree that right now, given China's recent history and current state of affairs their is widespread corruption and exploitation. If that qualifies as "cultural phenomenon" then I agree, but I don't agree it was always there, and think it is more to do with the mao/deng transition and the massive injection of wealth into china since.
While I don't think that's the case I was asking about in question, that's horrible. I can't imagine assigning an intern to something as important, yet technically trivial as mailing list management. It could be very easily automated.
don't you realize that the european governments are very much under US influence still?

US = good, China and Russia etc. = bad
For secretive surveillance court, rare scrutiny in wake of NSA leaks
This thing is that they have added tons of other conditions not related to the Due Diligence and the acquiring process itself.

They already set some constraints for the afterwards.

I would like them not to use the knowledge they will acquire during the assessment of my assets. :)
Agreed, I worked in PRC for several years and HK for a few months. I am well aware that HK has some degree of autonomy from China. I chose to write Chinese government for emphasis on the irony. Had I confused Taiwan and China, I could see the need for a correction. I hope it does not lead to a nuanced off-topic discussion.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. The case that prompted this question is a large enough company (multinational) that I could see them outsourcing mailing list subscriptions to a third party.
Late merging makes more effective use of the car waiting area, at the expense of a faster flow.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1267261/snowden-l...
A bit of self-promotion but we started a reputation management SaaS firm aimed at small/medium businesses.

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We've been in the SMB space for a few years offering digital PR services for businesses who really don't have the tools or manpower to deal with the Web. I can't tell you how many clients we have that are pissed at Yelp or some blogger and have threaten legal action. We saw this as an opportunity because the "pain point" is real.
I am a native Chinese and I must say this is something considered very abnormal in China.

The college entrance examination is one of the most important exam hold in the whole country level. If anything happen in this exam, the governor whom in charge of the area will lose a lot of score in their KPI performance.
Many German motorways use that system and have dynamic speed limits based on the current traffic situation. The downside is that most people think »Why the hell should I drive 100 now when I can still drive 120?«, so depending on the mindset of the drivers this may or may not work. I rarely see those speed limits followed or enforced.