skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know when G. W. Bush will, but even his own party relegated him to obscurity in the 2008 election, despite the fact that he was still the President at the time. To this day Iraq is an easy punching bag for politicians on both sides of the aisle.

In fact I read part of the HASC's proposed NDAA for FY-14 and despite being Republican-dominated the bill was full of warnings about applying the lessons learned from Iraq when deciding what to do, or not do, about the ongoing war in Syria.

It sounds to me like the U.S. government in all sectors is well-aware of how stupid that mistake was.
Thanks! Good to know. Service worked flawlessly.
> I wonder if you could create a VPN/Tor-like network that automatically picks "exit nodes"

Yes, we do that. We have some internal traffic balancing and mixing, we will probably put more detail to that before the end of the year.

We are looking at the options for VPN-to-Tor as well, however there are some performance challenges to overcome.
But each of these publications won't make enough to pay good reporters to do a good job. Hobby reporting is a nice idea, but as a former journalist I can tell you that it's very hard to do serious reporting in less than full-time.
The truth: Nobody knows [1] [2] [3].

[1] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/apples_imessa...

[2] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130405/01485922590/dea-a...

[3] - http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-government-cant-intercept-imessage-...
Many details of the implementation are different in the individual states of the EU, since the health sector has so far not been harmonized. My experience is from Germany, where there exists a mixed system in which you are not allowed to have no health insurance. If you are self-employed or earn enough, you can switch to a private insurance company.

You brought up one very important thing when you wrote about monetary trouble and self-employment. Because even a mandatory insurance scheme as the one in Germany has holes in it. I recently learned that, if you are self-employed, have private health care and run into financial trouble, you can end up in a state of "inactive health insurance", where you still have basic health insurance, but you always have to go to the emergency ward at the hospital. So far, a few ten thousand people are affected by this (out of 80 Million), but it is a de facto hole in the system.

However, when I point this latter situation out to people around here they usually become quite enraged. In a way, this reinforces my point about the perception of health care as an ethics issue.
Clientelling - How businesses are using your phone's GPS
What are some more examples that are not mushrooms? Genuinely curious.
Ok, but I'm not sure how the quantity of tags determines the value of the content contained.

I can vary a graphic element or photo a near infinite number of ways prior to inserting it via one tag. I wouldn't say that argues in favor of imagery over text, or vice versa, however.
I can't speak for the author,but what I can say what I got out of this.

This article spoke to the idea that we often start our endeavours in the wrong place. We start off trying to find the flashy angle and trying to hit all the write aesthetic notes before we even know what we are trying to communicate.

We should start our process by making a clear and distinct communication and filling our sites with content --the meat-- and then building everything else around that.
Why did they switch from ADA to c++ ?
It's only as useless as the stock market and SWIFT.
Nope, I'm not using Tor or anything like it.
It's a lot more complex then that. Arguably, the single root cause of Concorde being retired was the Flight 4590 crash in 2000, which hurt passenger numbers quite a bit.

Operations were further hamstrung by the very small fleet size. There are certain things that just have to be done to get an aircraft commercially viable (spare parts inventory for instance), and when you have a fleet of only 20, that will cost much more per aircraft than supporting something super-common like a 737.

It's also worth noting that Richard Brason, at least, thought Concorde was still viable, and made offers for the BA Fleet as high as £5m/aircraft, but was refused, at least partially because Airbus was unwilling to offer continued support.
NYC Incubators and Accelerators, Coworking Spaces as of June 2013
Based on some experience with clan gaming back in the day, if you're counting imaginary points on the internet and you're doing really well it's difficult to describe it as disheartening.
The SIMON and SPECK Families of Lightweight Block Ciphers
I think brainteasers were used in PM interviews fairly early on (I want to say 2004-2007, but I'm not sure on the exact dates). I've met people that were familiar with the brainteaser-type interview question, but such questions were banned before I started in 2009.
If you're going to attempt to insult me personally (instead of focusing on the content of my posts), in words, I'd prefer that you put in more effort if we're talking about things that are worthwhile.
Pi Versus Information Theory
This treats the symptoms, not the cause.

You're definitely right. However, it does help those of us who understand that there is a problem push ourselves in the right direction and not only embrace the start of a solution but help us make it part of our lives, which makes it far easier and more honest to advocate the same.
So it's possible different hosts will see different IPs for me depending on where they are in the network relative to your locations?
I don't know if it had a color, really, as the whole building was covered in fake windows so there wasn't much color showing. It could be all white now, I'd have to look next time I go by.
That's not the only choice, but to defend against a war started against you, you need to have people trained in that before the war starts. In other words, you need to identify the need to form up those forces before a war starts, even if you don't intend to ever start one yourself.
Well you probably already know this now since you found the technical paper, but for anyone else:

It looks like 'purple' was a simplification made for the posted article. The actual paper mentions the light as ultraviolet at 375 nm.
It is a remarkably effective buzz-generator, especially considering it does nothing new that isn't being done (better) by other existing companies. It'd be a great relief if it is a marketing gimmick for a movie. Maybe they should give out samples for screenings?

But, if it's real, maybe they could go a step further? Why bother even drinking it? Why not sell naso-gastric tubes with instructions for fitting? Obviously lack of xray (to make sure it's going to your stomach to feed you, and not to your lungs where you'll aspirate the food and die) is a problem, but they appear to have ignored all the other problems.
James Gandolfini and Napster - The Originals
Some thoughts on this:

1. Surprising to see an article on innovation that mentions Kickstarter only as a footnote. One of the reasons we lack innovation is because we've let one group of people, big name venture capital investors, to decide by themselves what's good and what isn't. It's important to note that the modern "VC" investment model had very little to do with the major innovations of the 20th century. Some of our greatest inventions came from government laboratories, people working on their own without organized investment and corporations who acted like VCs by internally funding good ideas. Modern VCs only appeared around the 80s to give us derivative works that succeeded by added branding to existing ideas. The beauty of Kickstarter et al is that we have a much larger pool of people to tell us what's good or bad, but it does no good if we keep looking down on crowdfunding as venture capital's weaker sibling. We need to focus more on "how much good do they do" than on "how much money did they raise"

2. Another reason we don't have much innovation is because "Inventor" is no longer a job title. Back in the days of (my hero) Thomas Edison you didn't need a VC firm or a trendy office to justify your intentions to make something new. You just did it, with no particular funding or social organization. People decided to dedicate their lives to the pursuit of making new and original things. Now it's so important to be a part of the "startup community", important to have social validation from big name vcs, important to never say no to any amount of money. Until people can declare themselves to be Inventors without all of the other trappings, we shouldn't expect unbounded innovation from them.

3. This line struck me "...one guy saying that they were going to do these crazy things like ship a phone with no keyboard running a real OS and require everyone to buy a data plan."

Another reason we don't innovate any more is because minor changes to an existing product now count as the the most significant innovations of our time. I understand that we need heroes and Steve Jobs is one of them. And a lot of people like the iphone. But Thomas Edison invented recorded sound. Tesla harnessed electricity and energy beams. Freaking Ben Franklin invented the concept of a lending library. And the best our generation has is something about a phone OS and data plan?

We can't expect the next generation to be true innovators when we direct all of our hero worship at people who make small improvements to existing ideas. Yes, this may mean one of your heroes too. But if we can't even make the sacrifice of focusing on those who actually do invent new things, how can we be expected to be so creative ourselves?

Finally, innovation isn't completely dead. People are working on fusion reactors, warp drives and brain interfaces. Their efforts just don't draw as much attention of big VC investments or the work of big name entrepreneurs. The biggest things that innovation is lacking are things that our society can provide.
Narcissus is an excellent name for a meta-circular evaluator
So if paying so sex is made illegal, what happens if you pay your wife for sex? Not sure how this works in other countries, I guess it must be clarified somehow? In the UK it's very common for laws to be vague.
I'd agree -- and do, generally speaking -- due to the very excessive proportion of crap from medium.com that gets upvoted lately, except this is by far one of the best pieces I've seen from that site recently.
The problem with such "pointing out" is that it's often taken as incontrovertible evidence that A means B will happen.

The very essence of Godwin's Law is that invoking Hitler is almost always the most extreme example possible of governmental abuse possible, when more nuanced ones would do the job. Usually it's a symptom of lazy thinking and lazy arguing, used by those who want nothing better than a cheap sound bite for their audience (e.g. "Obama is literally Hitler!" and other such gems).

By making the Hitler comparison, you are more likely than not pointing at an irrelevant extreme and tarring yourself with the brush of "conspiracy nutjob". There are better ways to make the same point which don't involve the same baggage.
Prediksi Skor Japan vs Mexico 23 Juni 2013
Prediksi Skor Japan vs Mexico 23 Juni 2013. Prediksi Japan vs Mexico. Prediksi Pertandingan Japan vs Mexico.
Just a note on the text style: it all seems kind of overemphasized and breathless, due to the heavy use of bold, italic, short sentences, one-sentence paragraphs, and so on.

Less is more with such devices, especially bold text. I'm not a skimmer by nature, but when a post is full of bold text I find myself involuntarily skimming the bolded parts, because they have such a higher visual weight than the rest of the text. It's almost as though those words are shouted, and it becomes harder to hear the rest of the text.

Simply paying close attention to the flow of your writing can usually give a sufficient sense of emphasis without resorting to special formatting.
Same as you, even on disabled cache its about the same, thats why I was surprised.

edit: OK so in Incognito Mode i got 17KB which is a bit more believable, but why doesnt it show that in normal mode with disabled cache?
> I see no great argument in favour of words being the core over any other form of expression.

I think the article zooms in on text for "shock value", if you will, but there's a deeper point.

I trust you're not on Hacker News because of the aesthetically pleasing orange bar at the top of the page, you're here for the news, and the discussion. And that's what the article is getting at.

We get so wrapped up in the tech stack powering our websites, and oh so elaborate presentation layers, that we sometimes forget that what truly, really matters is the content encased in all that.
RTA, it's about having 15-second ads.
Through careful squinting I determined he's using https://datanitro.com/
> There are no taxes if you spend it all.

Tell that to EDD & the FTB ;)

A 1 or 2 person company can be a "real" company. I would love to co-found a 2 person company that did $30k/month, and I'd be proud of it.

But let's not pretend that trying is enough. Being a "real" company is hard. It takes a lot of planning and effort to be square with EDD/FTB/IRS/insurance, cut paychecks on time, pay your partners/vendors, keep PTO records & pay set aside the right way, and so forth. Doing those things is something to be proud of, and something a lot of startups that call themselves companies and give eachother CxO titles don't do.

I think companies who actually take the time, effort, and expense to run those things right -- and have the scale that makes doing those things make sense -- deserve to be called real companies. Just one man's opinion.
Photoful Improves On iOS 7′s Photo Gallery With A More Open, Gesture-Based App
Call 1-STOP-323-NSA and it will connect you directly with Congress
Same here @ work. Might check again when I got home.
FTA: "Last year's dead zone was smaller than average"

I'm guessing that means that the oil spill isn't a contributing factor, and it's just the excess rain and subsequent runoff this year.
The world was sorely missing tiny videos with filters. I think Instagram+Facebook is a great example of colo-fucking-ssal waste of math and engineering talent.
I think you got a downvote because I can't imagine what your second paragraph has to do with anything.

Also, broadcast radio, broadcast TV are not freely available, so they're poor examples for you to use. (They have licensing terms, prohibit rebroadcast, embed commercials that are not desirable with no legitimate way to remove them, you have to pay to get a DVD or watch on iTunes or Amazon, etc.)
Succeeding and Not Failing
Exactly. Out of "recycle, reduce, reuse", the last two are the most important.
Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub
Someone on your IP is hitting Google enough that Google's temporarily banning your IP.

Take your laptop to your neighborhood coffee shop as a proof of concept.
One reason for the paradox could be that solving a problem on a whiteboard or in a similar interview situation is different from actually writing a program. I could easily see myself failing the fizzbuzz test on a whiteboard. My programming style is highly iterative, even on a micro-level. I don't expect what I write down in the first iteration to be correct. I begin by writing something so I have something to look at and, more importantly, to step through. A full understanding of the problem and its solution evolves in that process of write code - write test - step through code - rinse - repeat. For me, that's more efficient and gives better results than to mull over that first draft and trying to get it right, the way you would on a whiteboard.

P.S. I found an error in this comment after I posted it, so I had to edit it. The iterative method rules.
Great. I assume I'm on some sort of watch list now.
Definitely not. And it's a good example of how useful POD ("plain old data") can be. They ask 6 team members 18 questions about what they think of their boss and give those 108 datapoints to her and it's tremendously valuable.
Attach crowd-funded bounties to feature requests.
No static classes, they are facades.
The Biggest problem I have found with VPN providers is bandwidth. I just installed DD-WRT on my router to use OpenVPN client on the router, the bandwidth speed drops to a level that makes the setup totally useless.

It might be because of consumer grade router[1] have low computing power, but the speed is so low that I highly doubt it. Yes I have tried multiple VPN providers.

I have yet to find a VPN provider that can provide all of the following:

- Guarantee Bandwidth

- Take Privacy Seriously[2]

- Support consumer grade router (with DD-WRT or alternative)

- Do not cost more than my actual internet connection

[1] ASUS RT-N16

[2] http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...
It never got 4 or 5 votes within the first 20 minutes or so. That's what it takes for a story to appear on the front page and get traffic.

Hundreds of stories are posted to HN every day, and most are not even read. If you browse the new stories page instead of the main page, you are doing us all a big favour!
This seems to happen sporadically in the morning at my company and I speculate that it's due to a large number of employees who are querying Google at the same time from the network's IP. Google sees this as bot-like behavior and shows the capthca.
I’m a totally blind individual who graduated high school in the United States in 2004. I was fortunate that I grew up just as assistive technology was becoming widely available and fairly easy to use. In 1955 a translator would have to spend a lot of time learning to read and write braille. They would then have to read a print book and manually retype it in braille. Given this it’s understandable why Braille was not something that was pushed in the public school system. By the time I started school anyone with basic computer literacy could scan in a book, open the file in a translation program and print a braille copy out using a braille embosser. While this technology isn’t cheap I was fortunate enough to go to a school that could afford it as well as having parents who advocated for me.

I think some of the issues this person had were caused by having some vision. Because I’m totally blind it’s pretty clear that print won’t do me any good and major accommodations have to be made. When you have some vision it’s difficult for others to understand what you can and can’t do, especially if that changes as your vision gets worse.

I have an issue with the only 10% of legally blind people can read braille statistic because it is not made clear what the population of legally blind people consists of. Often times being blind is in addition to severe mental handicaps. If someone can’t use the bathroom on their own then learning to read books is low on the list of things that are important. In addition braille may not make sense to elderly people who recently lost their vision. If their fingers are no longer sensitive enough to read braille then should they still count in the statistic? Older people who have lost their vision also have prior experience reading print material. This means that with the prevalence of text to speech software it may not be worth learning braille if they already know how words are spelled and how to construct a sentence.
Robots Hallucinate Humans to Aid in Object Recognition
There was an excellent talk on this same topic this week at the Open Source Bridge event in Portland. The topic was "No, I Won't Contribute to Your Open Source Project". Slides are available. http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/957
It doesn't look legit though - shouldn't it be using Google's captcha service? http://www.google.com/recaptcha/captcha
Culture war is inevitable when a country moves from having a single dominant culture to no longer having one. Call it diversification, Balkanization, or personalization depending on your ideological lean.
Here's the act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/part/1/crosshead...)
Here are the things I'd like to see (and if possible, be involved in) during the 21st century:

1. Molecular printing, mainly of food, as the end-state of consumer 3d printing. Print the protein folds and amino acids and make whatever food product you want, and cure world hunger with it.
2. Generational spacecraft running on a mix of fission, fusion, and solar power. Requires a construction facility in at least low Earth orbit.
3. A floating city on Venus in one of the temperate belts near the poles rife with CO2 to enable an oxygen cycle.
4. Embedded cybernetics, including the ability to interface with the brain, by properly decoding the human electrical signaling system the nervous system uses.
5. 3d printed stem cells to regrow any damaged tissue anywhere.
6. The end-state of current computer tech is embedded cybernetics that interpret brain waves. Bionic eyes that provide huds and vision in multiple spectrums, a wireless access point in your head, etc.
7. Elimination of bacterial infection by fabricating antibodies with 3d molecular printing (there is a trend here!)
8. Not really long-term game changing, but the natural evolution of learning systems moves towards self-maintaining infrastructure and transit, so that entire cities and the transportation of people and goods is done entirely by an automated interconnected grid.
9. A space-based solar array to power the planet that has a diminished orbit to stay in direct line of sight of the sun. I'd suggest a solar ring around the Equator, but it is more efficient to keep the entire thing pointing at the sun all the time.
10. Either the commercial fusion of rare earth metals, or asteroid mining, whichever is cheaper (more likely the latter) for scarce elements.
Help HN: How do I stop my start-up from being bullied? 
After 6 months, I launched a startup called Freelancer.fm, which is a freelance aggregator platform, syndicating projects from the top freelancing sites and filtering data based on advanced searches.

After going live, the site built quick momentum. With that came both pros and cons. The CEO of Freelancer.com, Matt Barrie, called me directly and threatened to sue me for breach of trademark infringement if I didn't change my name. Furthermore, he removed the feed from our site, resulting in less projects being posted on the platform. Asshole.

When I first started working on this project, I was under the assumption that dictionary words cannot be trademarked in the industry they serve a purpose for. I then transferred all the files to the new and worse name, Searchfreelancejobs.com. It's pretty lengthy, however the name Freelancer.fm was a gem, and we had all our users trusting the brand.

What do you guys think I should do? Lose users and let them know we had a name transition? Get a trademark attorney to fight the case with Freelancer.fm? Any advice is welcome. I'm sure I'm not the first and certainly not the last.
Without the 'back link', it cannot redirect you to your original search. Your 'from location' is google.com/sorry, so, once you pass the test, it sends you back to google.com/sorry instead of back to your previous activity which triggered the Captcha.
> Are there any examples of crimes that many people have probably committed?

Have you ever ordered anything off Amazon? Did you declare and pay the appropriate use taxes for what you bought? Did you ever discuss with anyone that buying things off Amazon meant there was no tax?

Depending on where you live, that's tax fraud and conspiracy to commit. If you had the discussion over email or on a message board, then it's an inter-state crime...
[Ask HN]How many of you still uses SKYPE?
Im just wondering (with a friend) if all this surveillance over calls and Skype are just method to get stats on "how many people we piss off" if whe tell that we are spying on them. just to end passing a law to make it legal because "not to many people protest on this"

im not from EEUU but this clearly affect me because i sed skype some time ago and now im afraid of just starting it