skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be fair, we in the UK don't have the gun issues the US has. Raiding a property here isn't as much of a risk. Probably the same across Europe. The trick for us is to keep it that way. To try to be kind to US law enforcement, I suspect that part of the reason they like to be so spectacular, is an attempt at a deterrent.
I wonder if with a slightly less thuggish police there would also be less killings of innocent people? Who knows what the bottom line would be.
Thanks for the feedback!

You're absolutely correct - and the reason I did it that way: easier to accomplish for the first version. I have the intention to take a stab at implementing inline comments, but it's not that simple. For comment to be inline, a line index in the GitHub diff has to be specified. More information about that particular API method: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/comments/#create-a-comm...

You can delete these kind of comments by clicking "Show lines notes below" checkbox and proceeding from there.
This is one of the best I have found:

http://www.tentouchapps.com/grafio

It makes good looking diagrams very quickly without hampering creativity. It requires almost no effort on formatting and beautification.

I wish they had an app for the desktop. People have requested the same on their forums a few times.
The guy who sold me this tiger-repelling rock said it also worked on terrorists. So far, it looks like he was right.
Thanks! Hopefully helping me improve it too :)
Inkscape, when I want them to look really nice and am willing to put some time in to making them look the way I want.

I've also used kivio on occasion, and graphviz, and ploticus. Again, all depending on what I'm after.
Is there a difference in using this tool vs. seeing how it looks as I scale my browser down to iPad, Android and iPhone size?
You definitely can use celery with sqlite via the sqlalchemy backend, but since rdbms' aren't very good task queues there are drawbacks: see http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brok...
Just because it's technically not possible for the state of california to shut down bitcoin does not mean that the state (generic, not just cali) could not effectively kill it by outlawing businesses and individuals from dealing in it.

It would certainly end the 'bitcoin everywhere' dreams the fanatics have.

I would expect to see a lot more of this. There are a buttload of laws around money transmission and exchange, anr BTC probably breaks a lot of them.
Is 5 minutes the maximum? Consider extending that option. Bullying and Police abuse situations can last longer than 5 minutes before someone can be safe enough to activate the saving.
From the article you linked, the teaser for LevelDB is really:

"It is an embedded database, i.e. one you use directly in your programming language and it runs in the same process as your program. The interface is a key-value store."
> The existence of the list(s), and their many false positives, e.g. the late Senator Teddy Kennedy

Are you sure they weren't just worried he'd get drunk and fly the plane into the water?
It doesn't have to be a reversible hash, just assign a guid for each ip address.

There are probably subreddits where that information could be potentially harmful (eg upvotes in jailbait way back when) but that can be solved by not enabling it across the board, and it's not an issue here. Digg made their upvotes public from the start, and so do delicious, facebook, stumbleupon etc.
Do you care to reply to the others who have replied to you regarding the Verizon calls or have you lost your voice there?
Haha, I learned something and this thread is funnier for it:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bugger#Verb
Nothing beats pencil and paper. We used to just scan hand-drawn diagrams and insert them into PowerPoint or wherever. Over the time this got accepted as the culture within the group.
Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin
Wow:

"Internet Explorer: In Malaysia (my country), IE is the only choice if I need to perform Online Stock Trading (every brokerage use the same ActiveX app developed by the same company), and the same goes with some Online Banking."
"Sorry, you can't do this until we figure out how to tax it. And it took us 18 years to figure out how to tax Amazon..."
That was incredibly unconvincing. You were physically present for a kidnapping? Yep, I'm moving on with my day...
Why is anybody subscribed to something by default on Reddit is the biggest mystery to me.
I'm normally biased against self-help blog posts, and even more when they quote other self-help blog posts, but this is brilliant:

“Most people spend nearly all their energy trying not to change. This is what the philosopher [sic] William James meant when he wrote the mind’s main function was to be a fortress for protecting your ego from reality. When the mind has to accommodate a new fact, James argued, it doesn’t settle on the change to its model of reality that is most likely to reflect reality. It protects the fortress, calculating the smallest possible modification to its bulwarks that can account for the new fact.

It's not just brilliant, it's astonishingly modern. It's not out of the question for the late 19th century, because Freud and Nietzsche were both working this territory. Still, the formulation sounds contemporary (to us, not William James). Can anybody point me to where James wrote about this?

(It's glib, though, to say "The real key is Self-Awareness with Discipline". This is extraordinarily hard to do and to take it as anything less than a life-long task, let alone treat it as an item on a to-do list, is naive. Even one tiny example where you catch yourself doing what the quote describes is worth more than a grand general statement.)

Edit: after thinking about this for a bit, the quote seems understated. Even as much as "the smallest possible modification to its bulwarks that can account for the new fact" is atypical. Far more often than that, the new fact is either elided from consciousness or ejected by the mental equivalent of antibodies, and the "bulwarks" remain as they were.
Either way, he's evaded capture by thugs ^H^H^H^H our Glorious Freedom Loving Homeland.
The aspect ratio of the browser's viewport and of the device's display IS NOT the same. (That applies to portrait and landscape too.) The interface elements at the top and bottom skew that quite a bit.
Even if I agree in your labeling of HK and Russia, I don't think Snowden had a better choice.

Can you suggest something different Snowden could have done?
Well, laptops. But we never heard of prism before now, which doesn't make it not a thing.

I'm completely building this into a paranoid delusion, but then this whole thread is a demonstration that we lack / are denied the knowledge to dispel paranoid delusions, and sometimes they're right.
This whole situation is of extreme importance though, especially to the long term future of pretty much all technology companies.

I am actually extraordinarily happy that this has been all over HN and especially that there has been some amazing dialogue from HNers on this.
I didn't know ~ meant sarcasm.
But it will go off the top news.

The US government has all the time in the world and in months/years from now when nobody remembers his name there will be an opportunity for a extradition to be done quietly.
So, I haven't written ARM assembly since I owned an Archimedes computer many years ago, but isn't there a mistake describing the very first assembly language instruction in lesson 1?

ldr r0,=0x20200000

Shouldn't the LDR be a MOV?
I have a different theory on why people jump into gaps: they're bored. Traffic jams are really dull, and the illusion of progress is much more entertaining. So not really greed.

And it's more ignorance/self-centeredness than short-sightedness; they haven't thought of the jam as a systemic problem to which they're contributing.
Thee embedded DB model can be great for smaller websites. I've run Tokyo Cabinet as the sole DB for a Sinatra webapp for several years now and it's been hassle-free. It also made it easy to migrate servers.
+1 for uWSGI. The Spooler is awesome and also, if you need lower-level stuff, have a look at its SharedArea and Queue[1] frameworks, as well as Mules[2].

[1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Queue.html
[2] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Mules.html
It's called "Passive PoE" and some devices support it out-of-the-box (e.g. WRAP board)
Can anyone explain why the Leaf looks the way it does? I really don't understand why its designers made the styling choices they did.
The same applies to a lot of software. If you just speed up a few hours then the ROI is very high.

BUT from the commercial perspective you must follow some "commercial software standards". You can even lose customers because the commercial proposal is far from the standard and
"against" the customer.

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do you know why a html file in my dropbox public folder would not display on your site? dropbox public links work well in browsers. i use it a lot for dev stuff
I think the first is a result of the NSA leaks. HN I think is already extremely inclined to US politics and an issue that hits so close to home is bound be the spark that blows the powder keg.

According to the abstract of the paper, estimates are at 40k paramilitarized police raids PER YEAR. I agree that statistically the data is insignificant but looking at the number of innocent deaths (1-5 per year generally), I have an uneasy feeling that this increase in force may have hit diminishing returns as far as safety goes and are now into the zone of increasing false positives.
Anywhere that I have a say in the matter, FTP is disabled. I've been a fan of rsync for years and have a bunch of scripts that can make the whole process seamless. That said, I'm starting to be won over by git deploys.

The reason I've started to like git is deletes. You can handle them with rsync:

rsync --delete

The problem is that some projects have content uploaded in the same file tree (simple CMS installs). This might not be an issue if it was structured differently (symlink to another directory), but sometimes it's what I have. Using "rsync --delete" would remove newly uploaded user content. Yeah, I could use the "--exclude" option as well.

With git, I can just "git rm ..." and the file will be removed on deploy. Content can be mixed in the same tree and hidden with a .gitignore file. File content can be managed separately with rsync, if that's the best way. Just not FTP. Please.
I'm curious why you dislike LinkedIn so much?
You can also go into Chrome devtools, Settings, Overrides. Then you can set the User Agent, which will also update the screen resolution. You can emulate touch events there as well.
When you were 17-18, you were allowed the naivety of youth. Now, not so much.

Those of us who noticed where he came from (the Chicago political machine), or his 2008 campaign's signature thuggishness (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732465940457850...) are not in the least surprised.

If you're still using the same media sources that didn't report the above back then, perhaps you should broaden them. Of course, who knows when the government will start telling your friends that you're reading unapproved sources, right now that sort of thing is limited to donors of money but "If This Goes On—"
Or because "having the disadvantaged in their face" gives them problem to solve. I don't think you understand the difference between getting rid of homeless people, and trying to solve homelessness.
Its easier to match the aspect ratio using this tool vs scaling down a browser (how do you know the dimensions of your browser?)
Let's see.

http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/escalatin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unlawfully_killed_tran...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

Ah, but that pales into comparison because someone scrawled "Fuck your startup" in SF.
Ive tried to stop myself from forming opinions of the residents of other countries by the actions and rhetoric of their political leaders, whether elected or otherwise. I would hope others do the same and don't believe the actions of DC to be anything more than an exaggerated and often inaccurate caricature of the American people.
Free-er is not the only metric I care about, but in fact in terms of individual liberties the US is hard to beat. Can you buy assault rifles in any of those countries? Do you elect judges and vote on how national parks control predator populations? It's "free" and democratic in ways that seem pathological. (The fact that the exercise of some of these liberties is a disaster for the majority who would happily surrender them is another story entirely.)
There is a very real difference between living a well-paid life with some social stigma attached, than having your equal rights denied. Lets not forget that gay marriage is still technically up in limbo right now, and that a large portion of the immigrant community in SF is 'illegal' (whether we like that or not). Quite frankly, being stigmatized for being a techie is not much of a marginalization in comparison. This is largely a privilege/status/class issue, so when talking about marginalization it is important to keep those factors in mind.
I use paper. derp.
Astroturfing your own site is a longstanding tradition in media. A long time ago in a career far, far away I wrote classified advertising software for desktop publishers, typically small outfits like trade magazines or penny-savers.

When launching a new feature like classifieds, it does you no good to put out a blank page. So absolutely every customer that didn't already have classified ads would astroturf with fake ads.

The ethics of their profession was to discard any mail-in replies unread. For example, one customer used my software for personals. They had a strict rule that any reply to one of the "fake" mailboxes was to be shredded immediately upon receipt, unopened. They didn't even want them laying around lest someone write down a name or return address.

One there are enough "real" ads, the fake ones are phased out. I can't really say whether it is right or wrong, but I can say it seems to be a standard practice predating the world wide web.
If wine-tasting were anything else, we'd recognize it as quackery immediately. The made-up vocabulary, un-testable results, self-motivated promotion of certain wines, corporate sponsorship and exaggerated claims wouldn't pass if it were a car, or a drug, or even a detergent.
You may not like Clinton but tons of people do. Ignore that at the peril of the political goals you try to advance.

But either way, the point is that Clinton's opinion is going to be a decent bellwether as to the general opinion. I think spitx is right on target on how to advance change (or at least, what to avoid).
This is exactly what I am looking for and I would probably buy it if I had some reassurance that it would actually work. Where is the docs? The sample code? Proof of concept apps that can be downloaded from app stores? Fine print for what is allowed in the different licenses?
I am an engineer, and I am a driver. What else do I need to be?
GraphViz:
http://www.graphviz.org/
The number of people shot by the police at all
In the UK is tiny each year, even in Northern Ireland and they tend to make the news.

Sending armed police officers to raid a building here is very rare. The vast majority of warrants and searches, even dealing with folk with previous for assaulting police offices are carried out by a handful of normal, unarmed, beat cops.
Oh absolutely both can be right. Just because one thing is easier than the other doesn't mean it's wrong. It might take 1,000hrs to write some code, ten minutes to point out a flaw, and four hours to fix it. All three tasks have value :-)
It's hard for me to reconcile how much I like living in California with how much I dislike the state and local governments here.
I find it (a bit) ironic that the WikiLeaks lawyer that is giving legal advice to Snowden is Baltasar Garzon, who was suspended for improper eavesdropping.

*As a clarification, this suspension was mostly political, being Spain one of the most corrupt countries in Europe and with a dark and terrible past due the dictatorship that ended 37 years ago. Garzon tried to investigate the crimes committed by Franco (related to the right wind in Spain) and a few years later he was judging a corruption case (called Gürtel), which lead to his suspension.
By stopping to commit them. Oh wait, that's not what you meant, you meant terror attacks by Americans or foreigners against American officials, not terror attacks against foreigners by American officials, or terror attacks by american officals against American civilians, right? My bad.

For that I would hop into a time machine, not train Al-Quaeda, not mess with Iran, and let Saudi Arabia find someone else to buy their oil with which they sponsor what they sponsor.

Some might claim then I would have been utterly usurped by the USSR, and without a time machine, who knows. There's really only one way to find out what acting like a decent person, and in extension like a decent nation, would have lead to. Or what it might lead to starting from today.
Gliffy. It's not perfect but it is quick and easy to get something decent looking. It also has reasonable integration with Confluence if you're using that internally.
Clearly you are a sock puppet account.
My apologies. I can't always fish nuance out of text, and in your case, it looks like a fished some out that wasn't there.

Maybe sham is too strong of a word. How about eroded?
Or use Heroku.
That's why the surveillance state will exist. Cause the answers are non-obvious.

What I find most annoying about the comments on hacker news over the last couple weeks, is the amount of people crying about the problems or potential problems and hardly anyone talking solutions. The lack of solutions itself is a sign that no one has anything better to offer than what the NSA is currently upto.
Not to sound rude, but I'd rather lose 10,000 American souls then lose the freedoms that make America.
For the rare moment when I need create a diagram in a computer, I'll use PowerPoint. However, mostly it's just the whiteboard or pen+paper. I like the chance to not look at the screen and, for the former, getting out of my chair.
Hey, mocl creator here. I apologize for the minimal website. We are building it out as quickly as we can. Bit hectic with a fixed release date we were trying to meet (and did meet).

It is real, though. I gave a talk about it at ECLM 2013 http://weitz.de/eclm2013/.
We're Americans, I assure you however much we're "used to it" there's a smoldering anger that is getting hotter and hotter as this goes on. The TEA Party et. al. are part of that, which is of course why it was imperative to suppress them.

As the organs of the state continue in this ... well, it isn't going to end well.
"Venezuela OTOH seems quite reasonable."

Venezuelan here, and I can tell you that there is nothing reasonable about Venezuela these days. The big scandal here is that USA citizens had been monitored without a warrant but in Venezuela government agencies had been doing that for years and without any shame.

They had shown in national TV, audio recordings of phone conversations just to embarrass people that are no pro-government (nothing relating to felonies or crimes, just to make fun of them). So it is ironic indeed.
Shouldn't the burden of proof be on party A?
Seriously!? Did you really thought you can send and receive untraceable money without lovely U.S. putting an end to it?
Because the alternative default, a blank page, would be a really boring user experience.
This is because the goal of a out-of-control government is always the same - to keep and extend its reach. No matter which slogan they write on their banners, once they feel they are no longer under the strictest and most vigilant control of those they purport to represent - they will behave the same. Once the relationship between citizens and the government changes from owner/hired manager to subject/ruler, there's no other way it can go. Unfortunately, current US government is approaching the citizens as subjects and not owners way too often.
Solutions please. Rhetoric is easy.
If there was a more technology & freedom enlightened state I would emigrate there. I wonder if there is enough political will for Silicon Valley to secede from California?
Wrote about it:
http://blog.weinberg.me/2013/06/21/direction-aware-hover-pur...
What's your process/toolchain for transcription and storage?
I'm going to assume a few things here...

- No one has ever used this.
- It is filled with bugs and has no full time developers supporting it.
- It is extremely limited.
- The benchmarks are completely false.

I'd buy something like this if it didn't look like a good rich scheme.
Back in the days of the Great Cultural Revolution, students who handed in blank answer sheets were praised as 'white paper heroes'. Now, at least they are trying to write something rather than nothing.
> What exactly is being "done" to Julian Assange? The only reason he's stuck in the embassy is because of rape accusations.

Conveniently-timed rape accusations.
Is a fantastic product, as are the rest of the Omni stable
Hey. No. Stop pretending. The people hitting the Google bus pinatas are mad at you. They're not mad at the "douchebags" in "bizdev". The difference between someone who makes 140k+benefits and someone who makes 200k+benefits is immaterial to a family of four bringing in 60k. Both groups are pricing that family out of their apartment.

The difference is material to you, because you're upset that they're making more than you without justification. But guess what? Factory workers generally think you make much more than you're worth too, and, more importantly, they're a lot more afraid of you displacing them than the VP/Bizdev who doesn't want to live in their neighborhood to begin with.
mocl creator here. Trial version will be coming in the weeks ahead. Didn't have time to put it together yet. Sorry about that. We do accept returns though.
I feel this comment is missing "think of the children". Practically any government excess can be justified once it is claimed it is to combat terrorism or protect children.
It also needs a way to tell the user what it is doing, pypy has a jit viewer, cython has c code, how do you know what optimizations have been done in numba which AFAIK writes directly to llvm ir?
1 to 5 deaths for 40k raids is not at all in the realms of statistical significance. In terms of innocent people killed by the police it strikes me as being so far down the list as not a problem with "paramilitary" "raids".

Both of course are loaded terms. Another way to play it would be to say that better trained and experienced officers are conducting these operations with a very low rate of adverse outcomes. Would they be higher if the cops who weren't on these teams were carrying out these "raids".

How many people are year are killed by emergency services vehicles? How many are killed following other police interactions?
It should be the State's responsibility to finance the finding-out process. If you place the burden on the innovator to educate the state (which will typically be staffed with idiots), then this is a huge tax on innovation. If the state really wants to bring its massively asymmetric power to bear against potentially wrong-doing innovators, then it should do the research itself and only involve the innovator when it has enough information to get probable cause.

Using underhanded tactics, like publishing defamatory statements (like mchusma related in a separate comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928751

) or threatening expense-incurring legal action unless the innovator provides free education, is just as bad even if it's legal.
Pretty sure they understand it. They just don't like it.