skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less of a big deal because states spy on other states, even their allies. It has been that way since the beginning and everyone usually turns a blind eye unless it either gets leaked and causes embarrassment or it results in a real security risk as in the case of Pollard.

Every one of the countries currently lodging complaints over the story of the UK's GCHQ hacking G20 delegates possesses a communications intelligence organisation whose mandate is to spy on foreign states and on foreign people. That includes my own country, which has complained loudly while conveniently forgetting about the National Communications Centre whose purpose is to do exactly that sort of thing. They've also forgotten about some surveillance equipment that was discovered outside the German embassy about a decade ago.

So it's the way things are and have always been. You spy on your allies (very discreetly!) because that's how you maintain confidence in them remaining your allies.
Yahoo: stop the BS and give me my Yahoo ID
After many articles that Yahoo is going to recycle unused emails, I've read today that before deleting an account Yahoo will unsubscribe that email from any newsletter and will reply to your emails that your email will be deleted.

Ok, so far so good.

I've sent an email to possible yahoo ID combinations and I got the below reply:

(first - my first name, last - my last name)

Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<first.last@yahoo.com>:
This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (first.last@yahoo.com) [0]

<first_last@yahoo.com>:
Sorry your message to first_last@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#103].

<firstlast@yahoo.com>:
Sorry your message to firstlast@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102].

<lastfirst@yahoo.com>:
Sorry your message to lastfirst@yahoo.com cannot be delivered. This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102].

I felt lucky today. Went straight to yahoo sign-up to get my yahoo ID containing my name. Surprise: This ID is not available.

So...what?
Well, the author changed his name once. He can change it now to Ben Zilling and get the .com.
Dodged a bullet, anyone can see your answers were at least a good as the phone book one. Nothing worse than a managers who relies on authority to backup their flawed decisions just to spare their own ego. Sounds like a toxic org culture
I see such swaps could be useful in next-gen electric aircrafts. It takes quite some time to fill these.
I've left my iPad on iOS 5, because I still assume that I'll lose the Google Maps integration if I upgrade. Is that assumption still correct?
That's just another anecdote, though. Also, a few nose drops seems to be at odds with how much of that stuff that some people seem to quaff prior to turning blue. Who knows... I wish someone would do some actual science. I don't want to randomly ingest stuff, myself, so I'll stick to antibiotics for the time being, but the idea seemed interesting to me.

For that matter, I'm curious why topical delivery of antibiotics via a sinus rinse isn't used either. Maybe it's just not an effective way of delivering them. I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
Considering human nature first, and the assumption that these battery swap sites will probably be unattended, I wonder how long before someone will work out how to steal those batteries?
Show me a good, informative webpage without words.
recording the conversation

This is where I'm really failing to understand your logic. Your activity is very different from what you converse. If I fill out a web form and that data gets logged, fine, I can see how privacy may be an issue. Unless someone can correct me, Google analytics does not have that capability, it only tracks how you navigate.

If I walk around a public library and check out 6 books and someone follows me around watching me look at 6 books, then again I ask "so what?"
Why Having Customer Feedback is as Important as Having a Cofounder
The way you would want it done is as long as you own the car you pay some annual fee for battery swaps but then you can swap whenever you want. You would have to sign up at the point of sale for the service and not be able to situationally opt out whenever you weren't driving long distances with a desire for swaps though, because the idea is that you subsidize the fact you never need to "replace" your battery now and Tesla needs to keep up battery stocks with some fraction of the cost each year.
Beleaguered Samsung continues to steal share from Apple in the "contentless, click-bait headlined, doom predicting articles" market.
Totally agreed, this seems much more sensible than returning the battery to get yours back later...
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This is a site for validating ideas. Unless all of the ideas are geared towards the developer community, Github isn't a good option.

You can hate on Facebook all you like but a lot of people use it as their preferred login method. Google is an ok alternative but doesn't cast as wide of a net.
Curious, do you use any one of the following services:

Amazon

Google (and any service under it)

Facebook

eBay

?
About as easy as stealing gas from a gas station. Slightly higher payoff, but still I don't see that as a huge problem, especially as the batteries probably all have serial numbers.
First why would you make the battery sites unattended anymore than the average petrol (gas) station is unattended? (particularly in the near term where these are essentially prototypes).

Secondly here in the UK we have fully automated petrol stations and they have a low theft rate, high quality CCTV plus the need to put in a credit/debit card before it'll start pumping makes sure of that.

There are other issues with this technology but theft I can't see becoming a major one.
Mailvelope: PGP Encryption for Webmail
A similar application exists for Gnome, called Referencer (https://launchpad.net/referencer). It keeps a library of PDF files and can extract metadata such as title and DOI.
Sony make a bunch of colourful phones - and as far as the physical design, the Lumias seem to be even more fragile than the double-glass iPhones. Perhaps we just get dud ones in my neck of the woods.
I don't know about the over-reliance on words, I think images and videos are just fine on the web, but I do agree with the sentiment that pages have become way too bloated around the web. When a single news site that should be telling you about a story has dozens of external scripts, hundreds of assets and takes way too long to display, things have gotten too far.
It's impossible to see how the swap is actually being accomplished.
I'm surprised this post has so many votes.
Simple is good, but the thing you really want is orthogonality - the ability to change one thing without affecting another. Generally, you get that by moving toward small, focused abstractions.
It seems to be free if you come back and get the battery you dropped off - which seems to makes it possible to drive across the country with no more than 90-second battery stops, and drop them all back off taking the same route back.

Don't know if they'll be okay with that, but it's an awesome possibility. That's thousands of miles with free (renewable) energy and fast.
Pretty much describes J Edgar Hoover's career. And why, once the Mob got dirt on him, they were free to do as they pleased with no FBI interference.
They may have patented it, but that doesn't prevent others from innovating along a similar path. I am pretty disappointed with non-Apple power adapters across the board, and while magnetic adapters may seem great, there must be something that is between standard DC cylindrical male->female or chunky rubberized proprietary plug and MagSafe and I just don't see that from anyone else.

Granted, I am not looking very much, but when I see a new hot system, I do consider it, and I haven't seen anything that caught my eye :/
Most of the batteries already have it. They keep a profile of the battery on a chip, this helps in factor in memory effect in batteries.
GitHubs biggest problem is BitBucket.

Unlimited repo's for teams of less than 5 compared to GitHubs pricing model for private repositories is a strong challenge.

Throw in that BitBucket is Atlassian backed and they can afford to subsidise BitBucket to sell their other tools (though I would observe that BitBucket does not do heavy sales tactics at all).

I actually prefer bitbucket to github day to day (I have about a dozen repo's with them) and they have excellent support for mercurial as well.
Hypercritical T-Shirts 2.0
What is “cache-friendly” code?
Your product managers need to understand enough about the quality of the different areas of your system to know what you are talking about when you say that something is easy or hard. It's best to make that a part of your regular discussions rather than something you pull out when there's a problem.

Draw them a picture and have the discussion - frequently.
So wait, the application doesn't have a settings tab, but rather an old-fashioned config file instead? When presented with anachronistic interactions, I think you are completely justified in demanding anachronistic interactions.

Don't use high-level word processors to edit your config files, problem solved. But don't demand that our word processors to behave like your text editor that you use to edit config files.
I think this puts it more succinctly: http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/18/no-aaron-swartz-was-not-cha...
I personally still code HTML 4.01 instead of 5 by habit. I also use <font> and other things that HTML5 is trying to get rid of. But I cling to older things. I also write all my code in Notepad++.
I am totally in, if I get $10, _and_ UPS or USPS picks up the packed box!
Half as slow as native IS a large step forward. It isn't twice the processing power to get the same result, it is twice the processing power to be able to deploy the same app across vastly more platforms than you would be likely to target without it, and using languages that means you can easily target your main platforms with native builds should you choose to.

That's what you are missing. Nobody has the resources to build native versions for every available platform, and it means a lot of useful tools and fun stuff is entirely unavailable to large groups of users.

The accomplishment is that we're now close to having a platform that makes most code usable in a much more portable environment. And it's twice as slow now; performance will continue to improve.

By your argument, are you writing everything in assembler? Because modern compilers still leave a lot to be desired and are nowhere near achieving maximal performance.

For starters, they create a ton of stack frames that are unnecessary if you hand-tune an assembly program.

Yet most of us don't program assembly anymore for a reason: It is rarely worth the time.
Once you have two providers, you are forced to only use the features offered by each of them and use an abstract layer (API agnostic dev).

Abstraction layers don't necessarily need to produce lowest common denominator results.

Plus, AWS offers a wide range of strategies to ensure the availability of its infrastructure (Availability Zone, Regions, CDN etc.)

You still wind up vulnerable to quirks of the single provider though! For example, account freeze for whatever reason (financial quirks, legal issues, regulatory change) any multi-site failures (eg. financial, operational, legal, security) at that provider.
"You don't need to go to a library to do your research.
You don't need to go to the opera to listen to your favorite arias."

This is true, but it doesn't mean that i won't go to the opera/library anymore because of the internet...

I'm not sure I get what point you're trying to make.
Unicode-aware string reverser written in JavaScript
I think the problem with software industry is inertia. Someone well respected says everything is an object (or use dynamic typing everywhere, or functional programming, or node.js) and majority will blindly follow without ever thinking about more suitable alternatives.
I'd say you need an attorney now to help you, mistakes made at this stage can be costly later. I don't think it should cost you all that much to have an attorney help you review or adjust it if needed.

And the terms also depend on the size of the deal. Not asking you to tell me, just that a deal worth $100k is different than a deal worth $5M. Also, it would depend on if their intent is to purchase your company through an asset sale or a stock sale as to some of the terms you should pursue.

Consult with an attorney to protect you and your company. And consult with an accountant to make sure you don't get smacked hard on taxes based on the type of deal they want to setup.
Investment banks are scum. They do basically nothing themselves and eat millions in profit. Simply because of their position and nothing else.
An Interview with Alessandro Ranellucci father of Slic3r
Maybe consider yourself lucky that you'll be prevented from ludicrously associating your business with the word Zen although said business is, as a provider of rationalist technology, almost by definition completely at odds with the school of Buddhism by that name.

In any case, the victimized tone of the article is about as un-Zen as it gets.
Please check your brightness and contrast settings. I think there is something very wrong and it'S not good for your eyes. You should balance the brightness to the light in the room.
BitBucket killed any inclination in me to pay github a penny. And I will stick with them when my team grows because everything is there anyway and the pricing is better. Github tools are really not there to justify the huge sticker price.
Dashing is a great thing to play around with in the evening. I've got a bunch of custom data sources I should really open source for other people, like Heroku dyno counts etc.
Two important things for Americans to note:

1) FAA702 is supposed not to target "US persons" at all. But FAA703 and 704 are intended to target US persons outside the United States. They are more restrictive, and surely less often used, but they're still there.

2) Have you actually read the ruling http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fiscr082208.pdf in the Yahoo! FISA case which was http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ru... recently reported? It's all about 703-like surveillance on US persons. And it contains this:

"2 . The Foreign Intelligence Exception . The recurrent
theme permeating the petitioner's arguments is the notion that
there is no foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth
Amendment's Warrant Clause. 6 The FISC rejected this notion,
positing that our decision in In re Sealed Case confirmed the
existence of a foreign intelligence exception to the warrant
requirement. "

You may want to read that again. IANAL, but as best as I can understand this is the FISC appeals court (the secret intelligence court's appeals court) affirming its belief that while law - the FISA - prevents (some) no-warrant searches for "foreign intelligence information" on US persons, this is not actually necessary to comply with the US constitution, because the Constitution does not prevent such searches at all. As soon as a foreign intelligence justification exists, open Sesame! the Warrant Clause goes away and the US government can search US citizens without any warrant. It is (according to this theory) only out of the goodness of Congress' heart that this isn't permitted already.
Some social data about the startups in the last Extreme Startups Demo Day 2013
Do you have any interest in my domain name, boip.com? Send me an email: elijah@elijahchancey.com
I feel sorry for people who seem to live in a world where enthusiasm is alien and unfamiliar.
WigWag and the future of controlling the connected home
I don't believe batteries are solid units - I think they are made up of thousands of individual smaller batteries. So Tesla can probably swap out the smaller pieces in chunks to keep any one battery from getting too bad.
Agreed.

However, cloud does have benefits that you lose with physical, eg. speed of initial deployment, speed of scale-out (no ordering/assembly/wiring/burn-in test/etc. lead times), maintenance and data center proximity issues (often translating to increased costs), masking of some of the legal/financial issues of multi-site presence (eg. if you want multi-jurisdictional points of presence), etc.

There are of course ways to use mixed strategies to combine cloud/third party services/CDN with physical infrastructure.

As always, "right tool for the job". I just felt it was worth mentioning there are limitations with single-provider cloud infrastructures as it's possible to get excited about the benefits of a particular approach without considering the full picture.
WigWag
If anything, I found the cheering contagious: I broke out with a big smile and laughed that there were others who thought this was as welcome and significant a demonstration of technology as I.
> I challenge one to read the screenplay for Shawshank and feel half as much.

It is adapted from a Stephen King novel, having read it I can tell you you feel just as much.
this seems like the only reasonable solution that would get people to use this. When people buy these cars they should get the option to sign up for this service that includes a yearly cost that covers the maintenance and replacement of batteries. This way they can just let people swap batteries without worrying about getting different batteries and it also alleviates the worries about having to eventually replace all the batteries in the car. If this way is not economically feasible than Tesla is dead already, this is the only option that will make sense to consumers and Tesla needs to make it happen.
You left out the other part, which I think is significant:

... though they can also choose to keep the battery and pony up the
difference between the price between of the old and new batteries.

It's hard to say how much of an issue that is going to be without knowing the typical prices. Also, it needs to be balanced against the fact that a typical supercharger recharge is free.
Ask HN: Need a non-technical co-founder
A year ago I started a startup with only 19 euros, and now it's growing with enormous speed that I can't handle the scaling process. We have thousands of costumers and 8 employees and hiring now. Startup started as a international startups, having offices in some countries. I'm a medical student in Germany and I think my managerial skills and power isn't enough anymore. So I decided to find a co-founder. I live in Germany so I prefer a german citizen, or european, because startup is about Germany. You can find contact information on my profile.
Because google is a business that exists to make money and nothing else. Fighting the government is counter to that goal.
Five Years of Stackoverflow.com
steam has offline mode in which it doesn't even tries to go online.
And never will be, more to the point. Trying to restrict your customers in how they can use the product is never a good thing.
If the developer were the best I could hope for I wouldn't take someone worse because of his sad, but ultimately irrelevant beliefs. I would hope I could build on his work enough to get someone better later. I would certainly never shoot myself in the foot by picking someone (or allowing someone to be picked) who had more solid beliefs but was dangerous to the project.
If you have a criticism, try to expand on it and produce something others might find interesting as a counterpoint. Constructive criticism can be very useful, but just choosing an epithet as you have done here adds nothing and is not valuable criticism.
That is ridiculous. I was considering using zendesk for a product of mine but not any more. anythingdesk is a naming convention I've seen many times. Because it's a helpdesk hence the name. To claim that anybody using that little play on words is ripping them off is shameful. Maybe zendesk should look at who they 'ripped-off' http://www.helpdesk.com/
I wonder if technology from Better Place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place) was in any way an inspiration? They had developed a battery swapping system in 2007.
it's not about your individual preferences, it's about where the open source community is
So I use almost exactly the same approach except in the VPN configuration options (I use Ubuntu 12.04) I just set the search domain to my-internal-name.blah, as well as, making sure the VPN connection is only used for resources on its own network.

Then as part of my bootstrapping I register the VPC instance's internal-ip address on route53 under the my-internal-name.blah zone.

Then I can simply do ssh staging01, etc.
I'm pretty sure any professional paranoid would have been thinking I was dodgy for decades now, for things like using the internet (back when that was suspicious) or encrypting my logins with ssh (back when that was suspicious) or my websites with SSL (back when that was suspicious) or running weirdo commie unix-derivatives on my machines instead of honest commercial OSes (back when that was... well, unusual). This putative paranoid gaze has not affected my actual life in the least. I'm sure the paranoids are well aware that most opportunistic encryptors are, like me, random geeks with a slight antiauthoritarian streak and nothing whatsoever of interest to national security. I'm happy to help move the Overton window in the direction of greater privacy and ensure that the people who do actually need anonymity and security can get it.
>Because that's what it means to deny evolution, for anyone whose job is even remotely connected to biological science.

That's absolutely not true. Do you somehow not realize that the process that evolution describes takes millions of years to work? There is no possible way that disbelieving evolution can effect the effectiveness as a doctor.

That's like saying you can't develop a PHP app unless you understand Turing theory. The bulk of the internet proves such an assertion wrong.
My Courageous Niece Pamela battle with cancer
I second this magical de-duping technology called "corin_".

If there's a better way to keep dups from the front page, someone please tell me . . .
The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) is a three-letter agency...
If you are a big Tor user, I hope you consider donating bandwidth to help offset your usage. Recently they made an announcement that they were short on relay nodes.

Here's some info on how to help:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/support-tor-network-donate-...