skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. About 3/4 of my searches are purely technical searches done when I'm programming (in what I'd say is a fringe language (Racket)) so I guess I'm just getting lucky with documentation and whatnot.

The very few times I have to depart from ddg I'll just use the bang search and go "!g whatever" and be done with it, honestly. Most of the time, for reference checks I'll just go "!racket library/function" and get what I need instantly.

(This works for a surprising amount of internal site searches, which I think is really impressive.)
Thanks. Just looked over their websites. The learning curve is still a bit too high. I discovered Caspio [1] that seems to be the most like what I am imagining. Microsoft's Lightswitch also looked promising but again did not seem to have all needed parts.

[1] http://www.caspio.com/
I don't think the words are vague, I think they clearly exclude the Bitcoin Foundation, just as they would exclude a company selling software to a bank.

But even if you think they're vague, that would still be the end of the matter as far as criminal law is concerned. Ambiguous statutes are construed in favor of the defendant.
Come to Texas--any of our major cities (Houston, Dallas, Austin, others) are great places to start doing business. We're full of friendly people and fairly permissive state government, our economy is quite strong and full of opportunities for people who want to work (startup or no), and the cost-of-living is actually reasonable compared with the coasts.

I'll personally plug Houston here (my colleague has already done the same for Austin). If you want to do energy, manufacturing, or medicine, you basically can't beat this town. We're a port city, we've got the largest medical center in the world, we've got tons of oil & gas folks, and great schools to pull talent from. Our food is also way better and cheaper than Austin. ;)
A few notes about Aaron: while I agree with his perspective that Money Transmission should be a Federal issue, not a state issue,

A) He's not a lawyer;

B) He's (or at least Think Computer) is cheerfully suing a bunch of Bitcoin and Silicon Valley companies (including one I founded) over these laws, costing many startups litigation defense fees.

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.
Edward Snowden says British spy agency GCHQ 'worse' than NSA
Nowadays, the police shotgun, with a maximum effect range of 100 yards shooting a slug that can be stopped by soft body armor, is largely being replaced by the much more versatile and accurate "police carbine", i.e. an AR-15. Only hard plates will stop the .233/5.56 NATO rounds those shoot, and they're way too heavy to do more than protect some of your torso.

The Hollywood Shootout, as the link notes, had "Several officers also appropriated AR-15 rifles from a nearby firearms dealer." and mentions how this incident propelled the move to patrol carbines.

(Given how obnoxious they were afterwords about returning them, the gun dealer should have insisted they come back after the normally mandatory 2 week waiting period....)
I'm not a fan of SF's bizarre city politics and NIMBYism, but... where can more housing be built?

Much of the western half of the city is single family homes. As are neighborhoods like Glen Park, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, etc. The dense parts of the city like the loin and nob hill are already pretty dense. In semi-dense neighborhoods like SoMa, Hayes Valley and the Mission existing renters have to be given the boot in order for new housing to be built. That actually happens, and the anti gentrification crowd protests being edged out by yuppies, because that is what is actually happening. I'm not sure where the city could put more high density housing.
> Freedom of choice in currencies is probably the most important free speech issue of our time.

That sentence requires some serious mental gymnastics to agree with, which I find beyond me.
> They shouldn't be angry at techies, who, after all, are helping fund the city with their taxes.

That is a specious line of reasoning. What good is funding the city with taxes to the very inhabitants of the city who're forced to pay more for rent, or forced out because they can no longer afford to live in the city?

The way I see it, these techies, and these techy companies have a moral responsibility to use up their resources in trying to effect change on zoning laws, on improving transportation for the general public, etc.
>>His travel itinerary is strong evidence that he was a spy for a foreign power this whole time.

You have very loose standards for what constitutes evidence, much less strong evidence.

In reality, his travel itinerary only shows that he's a very smart man and travels through countries that are least likely to cooperate with the USA due to the very antagonistic relationship they have with the USA.

>>These are not places where someone with an interest in peace or human rights can seek refuge.

Are you suggesting that he should have traveled to some place like Iceland, which is peaceful and has a fairly decent human rights record? Because that was already answered by one of their own:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkvqor
Does anyone think that the governments (Federal, State and Local) won't try to legislate away Bitcoin? Yes, they may be ignorant, but they do have the government behind them. When they realize there's not a person or corporation behind Bitcoin, they'll go after the users.

Do we really want an anonymous currency? How would that benefit most of us who are law-abiding citizens? Is staying anonymous worth the effort when you don't have something to hide?
As a citizen of none of the countries involved in this, I had a good laugh when I read this headline (as I'm sure my Russian friends will too if they're informed of this -- but I'll avoid mentioning it because they might get really upset instead).

This senator must be totally clueless about what Russian people think of the USA's opinion on anything at all.
If there isn't a significant change in the country's direction within the next few years, say, perhaps by the end of the decade or a little after, we'll know the answer is cemented as the former.
Interesting.

The snap! feature is something that could be potentially useful, along with the batch feature.

We currently deal with millions of rows a minute (about 10-16k/second) on our platform and need to store, queue and process hashed data across multiple systems. Redis is our main system for it, but some of the data needs to be archived and doesn't need to remain in memory, but still needs to eventually be processed.

Could be good for that. Thanks for posting!
There is no need to use a server to accept donations via Bitcoin.
Sounds like a case for a group of meddling kids.
It is worth pointing out that the state can put out Cease And Desist orders, and warnings on its website with no:
1) Evidence of wrongdoing
2) Communication with the accused
3) Method of reconciliation

I have my own personal example:

I received a letter ordering us to cease and desist from doing online notarization through California notaries. We were not doing so, so in effect we sent back a letter stating:
"We have not, and never have, conducted the activity you accuse us of." They basically responded saying "ok, we agree that you haven't done anything wrong but if you do anything we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law."

A few weeks later, they posted a "consumer warning" on their website saying that our company was in effect defrauding companies. Then, several other states copied that language without contact. I spoke with the government officials, I told them we were hurt by these baseless accusations, and they admitted that they really had no evidence of any wrongdoing. They basically said "we are too busy to update the website right now but we will do so shortly."

After months of effort, I was able to one by one get most of these ultimately removed or reworded to a reasonable position. California was the last holdout. I basically began the process of suing them for massive damages and that ultimately was the only thing that was able to get them to change the wording.

So overall, my learning is that it genuinely scares me what government agencies can do without any evidence or judicial process. I would guess that the Bitcoin Foundation can respond with "you are wrong, please provide evidence" and get away with it for now.
Yes, this seems likely.
> tldr - champions of human rights don't flee to china & russia. Those places are where defecting spies go.

Why wouldn't he go to a country that is less likely to release him back to the US? Of course he has to go to an country that has conflict with the US.
From the article:

> "If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern."

> —Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.

From the graph they present, I cannot determine a pattern. That has nothing to do with the necessity of the raids.
Build up. The same way every other big city deals with this problem.

http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005...
It is much more expensive to bury your search engine results if your name is plastered on major sites, so you can pretty easily protect yourself in a couple of steps.

Never fight a battle you don’t have to. From now on, pick a middle name, real or imaginary. Use this name on your resume, business social media accounts, Facebook, etc.

Use your new full name on all the obvious social networks (Facebook, Linkedin, Google +). Then you get creative - leave reviews for books in your field on Amazon using your new full name, they always kill. Make a quora account with the name. Make a meet-up account with the full name, etc.

This won't make it impossible to smear your search results, but it changes it from a couple $100 in outsourcing to a multi-thousand dollar a year project. Best advantage of this, it costs you almost nothing to change all of this to a new middle name if your enemy does spend the money. Spam anchor text can't be changed without doing the whole campaign again, even if they can change the smear websites, which many times they can't (since its published elsewhere).
This was common in Eastern Europe and USSR during the purges - they were "Enemies with a Party Ticket".

It is disturbing how easily this rhetoric comes.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll add more links in the readme. In the meanwhile I suggest this reading: http://skipperkongen.dk/2013/02/14/having-a-look-at-leveldb/
Apple - Making a difference. One app at a time. [video]
NSA leaker Snowden's passport revoked
>but no matter how much you weaken zoning protections to get there they somehow never manage to swing prices when demand, like it is now, is just so much greater.

It doesn't make sense that they would, but that's okay because it's not the goal. In oversimplified microeconomic terms, new housing is built for the current price point, and can have the effect of preventing a price rise -- preventing demand from exceeding supply. Prices come down when supply overgrows demand, which doesn't happen by increasing supply, because the people doing so would lose money: demand has to decrease. tl;dr: high prices cause construction, but it's a negative feedback loop.

Concerns about housing quality seem misplaced. In a large majority of cases, new housing tends to be better than old housing, thanks to innovations in construction. High rises were popular in the '70s, which is why low-quality high rises are common: they're old.
I expect ios7 will make that part less intrusive ... will check.
Yeah, but where? That is what I'm asking.
I agree with you that as a reader, often a publication date would be useful information. However, from the point of view of the publisher, it's often better to publish 'evergreen' content, that is always maximally valuable to visitors, and to the publisher (advertising, personal branding, authority-building, etc). So if you're trying to do anything like that, it may be best to leave off dates.

And as Patrick says, the advice in this post would have been useful 5 years ago, and will probably be useful 10-20 years hence. If you're going for evergreen content, you can write in such a way too.

I believe Isaac Asimov mentioned this one time. I think he had mentioned an athlete's name in a story, and said that he regretted it, because in a few years no one would remember the athlete, but otherwise his story would still be relevant.
They don't charge him on espionage. They charge him under the law that is called Espionage Act, which prohibits a number of things, including revealing classified information to somebody not authorized to see it. Unfortunately, most journalists either don't know the difference or can't resist the temptation of a catchy headline.
I would upvote you 10 times if I could for that.
The Series A Crunch Is No Match For Man’s Best Friend
- Mindjet Mindmanager for mind mapping
- Visio for quick and dirty flowcharts
- ARIS for full blown process management exercises
The emerging-brand battle
Wat.

I mean, seriously, WAT.

Most likely there is a logical explanation, but I'm curious how many people from HN read the article and immediately hope that it wasn't a scientific reason at all.
I am curious to know how Snowden is financing his travel, lodgings and meals at this point since, presumably, his access to US financial accounts has been cut off. Does a warrant for arrest enable US authorities to place a hold on his accounts?

Without a residency visa of some kind, it is difficult to open foreign financial accounts abroad. Perhaps he has a bag full of cash although that may create some issues of its own with various immigration authorities.
Tesla Model S does a great job protecting occupants in crashes
Because its government thinks having an enemy or several is the way to mobilize the population.

It unifies people toward a common aim: e.g., beating the "evil empire" (to steal Reagan's label for the Soviet Union), whoever that is chosen to be, by the US government.

It's amusing to watch the US government's selection of "evil empire" as it suits their interests. They will never declare all countries that commit "atrocities" (and there are many) as the evil empires. They will instead carefully select the ones who are not cooperating with the US government to a degree the US government deems satisfactory.

Those countries who defy the bequests of Washington are labelled "evil" and, sadly, a large percetange American population becomes unified against them. Not only the "evil" foreign government, but also to some extent the foreign country as a whole, including its people.

Of course the foreign government turn around and tells its people to distrust the US, and a large percentage listen, and in my humble opinion we're all worse off for it. Because as someone said it another comment on another Snowden article, people of different countries, aside from governments and propaganda, are generally curious about one another, and friendly.
Come, use Tor and join the fun then. If we all do we will all be labeled terrorists, which is so trendy these days.

And lets get all cool EFF stickers for our laptops!

https://supporters.eff.org/shop
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927928
Did you stop reading at the first line of my comment?
Never forget Radley Balko on this topic, and he's got a new book out, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...) as well as an old, hard/$$$ to find one, *Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America (http://www.amazon.com/Overkill-Paramilitary-Police-Raids-Ame...).

Makes for very depressing reading.
>Incidents

You mean there is another one? There is no justification for the widespread militarization of police in this country.
You really think that if we took the time to work out the square mileage of SOMA, The Mission, downtown, Potrero, and Bayview that the population per square mileage of those areas would be competitive with Manhattan? Anything close to it?
I've lived in SF my entire life, and I can guarantee you that a vast majority of the tech community here is not Indian. SV is a different story, but in SF it is mostly a 'middle-class' white demographic. If there's any "indirect racism" that's going on, it's probably best encapsulated by what's happened to the mission, but even that would be stretching it a bit. This is really more of a 'class' issue than a racial issue.
This is exactly the part people should weight heavily -- these patriots used official channels, were punished and support his actions:

> Binney, Drake, Radack, Edmunds, Tice, Manning, Tamm, Leibowitz, every one of these people and more have suffered terrible consequences for whistleblowing. Most used official channels, none fled to adversarial jurisdictions. Most support Snowden's flight, none have condemned him for it.
Bayview. The Mission.
Hmm... I'm not sure I understand what you're asking regarding Manhattan. Do I think SF will ever be like Manhattan? No.

I was just wondering where new high density housing in SF could be built.
Would better public transit systems (clean and fast trains, with power and wifi, at a reasonable cost) help? You ship people in every morning.
I'm in the UK. If I'm a second-class citizen qua my being a software engineer, I'd say being a second-class citizen pays pretty fucking well.

Let's see: good pay, mostly recession-proof work, often interesting work. Crikey, it's like apartheid South Africa or the Deep South during Jim Crow being in engineering...
Snowden has not, in fact, revealed the existence of a global system to capture the digital communications of everyone on the planet. Try again.

Also, I'd still like to hear the explanation of how Snowden exposed his NSA co-workers torturing people. I had not heard that one.
Edward Snowden and America’s Moral Complacency
Do you read the news? Parts of Chicago are basically war zones. That is why it is the most violent city in the US. The big gang wars are out of control. Every weekend I see how many new people were killed in the violence here. Really sad that this isn't a solved problem in such an otherwise beautiful city. (Disclaimer: I live in a nicer part of Chicago)
The tenderloin, soma, mission bay, dog patch, bayview. It's not like current buildings were built on empty lots.
Whistleblowing 2.0: From the Pentagon Papers to Bradley Manning to PRISM
Expose them as a hash with a hidden salt. Maintains user privacy while exposing a static data point that can be used for analysis.
I'm curious about something. Please note that I know nothing about urban planning or construction or anything like that.

Why doesn't San Francisco expand onto the ocean?

Many sea-locked cities around the world do that. For example, the Hong Kong International Airport was built on the ocean in its entirety [1]. Probably wasn't cheap, but shows that its doable.

I feel like San Francisco can do the same - or something similar at least.

Again though, I know nothing about this sort of thing, and I'm just asking to learn. :)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_International_Airpor...
Most "sites/blogs" can't handle the traffic that reddit sends when content makes it to a popular page. Users have learned the hard way that imgur (and a few others) are the only reliable links. Personally, I almost never click any image that's not on imgur because they time out or displaying the image is just incidental to displaying ads.
The spanish government did that. We cannot pay more than 1000€ in cash.
"The U.S. official would only discuss the passport on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the matter."

He leaked a private matter between a citizen and his government.
I just use a responsive design framework such as foundation.

http://foundation.zurb.com/
Have a look at the servers that hetzner.de is offering, maybe there's something there for you, also have a look at their auction.
> we voted for the policy makers

most people don't vote
I think the point of zipper merging is that the negotiation has, in fact, been planned a couple miles before the actual merge point, so that the cars are alternating like

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Then it's easy to condense to

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Nissan to Offer Battery Upgrade Option for Leaf
Because your 'proposal' isn't a proposal, it's just silly hand-waving. Explain, in concrete words (as the poster above asked from you but which you side-stepped), how to reach the outcome you propose. Otherwise, you might as well say 'yeah I think all cancer should be eliminated, that would reduce a lot of suffering'. No shit, Sherlock?
Accidental - my wife is obsessed with knitting and a she was discussing it at the time. Never be too snarky, look what happens!
This article is relatively old (2006) and pretty outdated. I can't find the link now, but I remember reading that Stackless is no longer recommended, because modern Python can now provide the same functionality (using generators).

If you can stick with regular Python then I highly recommend it; Stackless requires a different Python binary with is a PITA for deployment/production.
One would think that he would have planned this shit out...
It would help if they wouldn't keep the guy leaking that sort of info in prison for 3 years without a charge, like he was some kind of terrorist.
Close... Ethernet is isolated through magnetic transformers on both sides, so any existing common mode noise or DC voltage is removed leaving only the AC data signal.

PoE (the standard, 802.3af/at) works by injecting DC power after the transformer on one side, and removing the DC before the transformer on the other side and using it to power the device. There is also a signaling mechanism to make sure the end device is PoE-compliant.

Passive PoE as seen in the article simply takes out the two pairs of Cat 5 that are not used for data transmission, and uses them for power.

It works in a pinch, but more caution is required to ensure the voltage injected is compatible with the device, there is not too much voltage drop in the cable, and there is not too much current going into the cable. Also, since these pairs are used for gigabit data, this method cannot be used with 1000baseT.
Can you give us more information? This sounds like bullshit.
> The only thing that separates this generation of whistle blowers, if they were to take after Snowden, from the previous ones would be their insincerity of purpose and a distinct lack of selflessness.

Because the Gov't treated all of the other NSA whistleblowers that used official channels as heroes, by firing them and trying to charge them with crimes? Either no one in the NSA has any character and people today are so different from yesterday, or the way the US treats whistleblowers has changed and people have adapted.

Who cares if Snowden isn't a perfect human being and martyr? It matters more to me that he was concerned with the safety and privacy of all Americans.
A pencil and paper are the superior solution.

When you get to show the results to others - just use whatever you are presenting the rest of the message with - almost all "office" type products have sufficient capacity to manage that part. The clever bit is the bit you do by yourself.
What about earthquakes? How expensive is it to build up in SF when you know that there's a 60% chance, in the next 30 years, of having an earthquake with minimum magnitude of 6.7?

Especially when a buynch of peolpe live on one of the faults, and a bunch of infrastructure goes over one of the faults.

(http://seismo.berkeley.edu/outreach/faq.html)
Title is misleading, when only 3% of requests hits PHP, you don't "scale PHP".
Aaron, You should be an expert on this by now.