skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think it is inappropriate? It seems to be a reasonable complain. Online petitions are inherently unreliable (just like online pools). Most of the time, they don't reflect real concerns and are subject to arbitrary popularity. e.g. the death star petition [1].

Now, it doesn't mean that it is all bad, but this is serious debate (and surely not an inappropriate one)

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-a...
these two things (better tab management and synchronization) are what restrain me from updating.

Also the kind of bookmarks "stash" is not searchable in search bar, which is not really handy
This looks like they were trying to imitate SpaceX's Grasshopper but forgotten to land vertically.
The Power of Monads!
I hope this launch doesn't cause Russia a huge setback in their spaceprogram. That is quite the expensive launch failure if it carried a sattelite.
India turns down Snowden asylum request
Having been in the Army, admittedly almost 20 years ago, I can assure you that those in charge will very carefully tell you not to drink, yet will be intentionally incredibly inefficient about enforcement, outside of boot camp, etc.

Note that one huge difference between Army and civilian life is enforcement of drinking might be a touch lax compared to civilian life, but enforcement of drunken-ness is absolutely draconian compared to civilian. You absolutely, positively do not want a blood alcohol level over 0.0000 when on duty or behind the wheel, even off post or in the barracks, etc. At least in that way my .mil experience was extremely European... you want a beer with that pizza, fine, you know its illegal but I'm not going to stop you. On the other hand god help you if you're caught being drunk, you may as well shoot yourself, its very draconian. You're literally better off smoking weed than being drunk, seriously, and yes I know the army is/was nuts about drug use. You'll merely get kicked out for a failed pee test... for being drunk on duty or behind the wheel you'll serve time. My European analogy is I'm told you really don't want to get busted for DWI in Germany... in Wisconsin its just a minor misdemeanor right up there with being 5 mph over speeding (seriously, WI is legendary for being lax)

Like many things in .mil, "good soldiers" get away with quite a bit more than the proverbial platoon F-up can get away with.
Definitely. Free speech stands or falls on the most offensive speech.

It's easy to support free speech when all you say or hear is motherhood and apple pie. It's the things that make people uncomfortable that need protection from censorship.
Well, two launches within a day's time, both carrying navigation satellites.
Not sure if the decision was made due to iOS7, but mine (Paid version) doesn't run on iOS7.

IMHO, this is needed even more in iOS7. Some of the UI design choices on iOS7 are terrible like the removal of button backgrounds/borders. I upgraded an iOS6 app to iOS7 and gave it to a friend and he just stared at it because he didn't realize that there were buttons on the screen for him to click on.
stain my mountaintops
TELL HN: Release user friendly, encrypted communication and cloud tools now
This should be obvious. There is now and will be an increased demand for user friendly software and services which protect us from NSA and co.<p>Personally I would like to replace:<p>- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Docs
- Dropbox<p>I've used Thunderbird+PGP, Trucrpyt+FTP etc. before but I'm likely not in the largest group of potential clients. Regardless, me and, many others would pay hard money for something that is convenient.
It doesn't make any sense. Gay propaganda is considered to be a crime and it is normal to restrict this crime. Meanwhile one could discuss is it correct to consider such a thing as a crime or not.
A teenager in (again) Virginia was shot and killed by an off-duty cop working as a security guard who thought he (the teen) would hit him with a car after the kid stole pancakes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02...
Does Europe think that the robots.txt approach is cumbersome for "content" owners? If someone doesn't want anyone to crawl, they'd put something like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Its for the better.
First step towards a 'news push'[ex. Google currents] rather than a 'news pull'
An interesting case study in modern journalism. This article has an interesting story to tell, but the author seems unaware of it, so he tries really hard to use every trick in the book to extract hyperbolic statements suitable for headlines.

Authors should realize that a good article stands on its own merits, and tabloid-driven drama just lowers its value.
Chapter 2 starts with C style #include statement.
I've been following Pixate for a while (plan to use it on my current project) but I'm really confused by this.

If a product is generating revenue then why switch it to a free model? To encourage buy-in for the upcoming product or something similar?

Just seems like a really odd business decision as I would have gladly paid for the app...
A couple weeks ago, I read 3 books by Lois McMaster Bujold over the span of a week. She writes Hugo winning sf, poignant and thoughtful.

One book a month would be a living nightmare. If that's all I had time for, I would turn my life upside down.

This book really rips after it gets going. It is not for everyone. There are occasional blobs of 'rationality', but nothing like Ayn Rand's interminable philosophical passages. It's a great meta take on Harry Potter. And it succeeds in its own right as an adventure story. Maybe not emotionally, you could argue about that.
So, when I was 17, I bought some cases of beer. When I came out of the supermarket (with the beer visible in my cart), I walked by some (uniformed and probably armed) police officers. I greeted them and they wished me a nice weekend. Because in Germany, police officers are usually quite polite.
Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead.
the article is more about getting your shit together than what a healthy lifestyle actually is. if you have another 20 minutes, i would highly recommend this, which covers the basics of exercise and nutrition.

http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

the problem today is that there is so much misleading information that even if you're motivated you'll still waste your time and effort taking useless supplements and using dumb products when you can see much better results in your health much more easily.
We seem to have a real problem with police misusing tasers atm. They see them as non-lethal and deploy them without hesitation despite proper training. Several people have been killed by police tasering already subdued suspects multiple (sometimes dozens) of times.
Yes, you're correct. Jack's family had given him $1000 in the early days.
Attn Security Researchers and Hackers. Appeal Computer Fraud Act (RE: WEEV)
If anyone had any doubt about there being voting rings on this site, this story just proved it.
Are you open to extraordinary programmers working remotely from Europe?
Clickable link https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-tesla-motors...
The brief is actually quite readable: https://www.eff.org/file/37297

If you're already familiar with the background of the case, for the meat of the argument on appeal, skip to p. 15 (26th page of the PDF), starting with "Summary of Argument". That section lays out the five objections being raised on appeal, and is then followed by five sections making the detailed arguments.

edit: direct link, https://www.eff.org/file/37297#page/26/mode/1up
Headlights on during daytime in Europe
I'm all for bootstrapping and avoiding VC, but I get annoyed with these proclamations that make all businesses sound the same. (I suspect it is the writing at fault here as Mr. Dangermond probably doesn't think about business so simply. Maybe he just means software businesses when he refers to "young entrepreneurs".)

There are plenty of business models that aren't viable without lots of capital early on. Tesla and SpaceX are good examples of companies that could not be bootstrapped as they need lots of capital to actually build things and to build the factories that build those things.
Ah the ole' get users THEN make money strategy. I paid for Pixate and I think it had value at the $99 price point. This decision to make it free makes me think that their new strategy taking the acqui-hire route.
Congratulations to the NYC BigApps 2013 Winners
A better question is if such a flight would ever arrive considering how close it would come to the US east coast.

Remember it's now magically legal to kill US citizens without a trial.

What makes me ill is that there would be a number of people arguing on both conservative and liberal networks that this is acceptable.
Where is the outrage at the treatment of other whistleblowers?
Snowden needs "world's protection", says Venezuelan President
German government considers residence for Snowden
Salesforce.com still charging like its 1989: $3000 per GB per year.
My First Mac App (from 0 to App Store in a week)
You have no evidence that the petition was put up by auto dealers. This is simply a straw man post and of no value to the discussion.
Yea it really is - I have nothing to do with these fellows but I found it interesting nonetheless so I posted it.
Maybe we can design one using https://www.btproof.com/ ? That system lets us permanently store timestamps with roughly hourly precision along with 160 bits of arbitrary data. This would let us, for example, find the (earliest) time a password was set, so we could know if it is too old. But there's still a lot to be figured out here, and I'm no cryptanalyst. For starters, can the decryption system know it is seeing the "real" Bitcoin blockchain and not that of an interloper?
That's a really solid find! +1
If you have sensitive info at all moving laptop cross border is stupid worldwide.

It is much better to buy something in the home country or use custom build linux on the raspberry pi as a RDP station to connect home.
I'd be interested to know how large the market for that actually is. It's clear within the HN world that some people are upset about the NSA and other organizations being able to easily access their data, but how large is the market for people who are willing to pay to not have that happen? I'm concerned that it's actually pretty small.

There's also a bit of a catch-22: if you start a company that provides secure email (for example) then I'm not going to pay you for it because I don't believe that you can provide me with secure email. The only way for that to happen is if I use GPG or similar myself and take total control.

So, I'd be concerned that the very people who might worry about this stuff are the very people who aren't going to pay you for the service.
SkyDrive facing legal defeat over name in the UK and EU
Yeah, I tend to flip past the extended preachy bits, which are really poorly done. The story itself holds up without all that, though, and it's quite engaging.
No conflict between those two statements.

The civil lawsuit is going to be interesting.
What if doing so killed a person for each ID at showdocument? Ok, that's pretty absurd. What if it wiped out their bank account?

Don't you think that the consequences should depend on what the action actually accomplished, rather than the action itself? Flicking a lighter is generally pretty innocuous, but if done to light a house on fire, it means it's a bit different - right?

Yes, it's their fault too for leaving it open, but you had a choice when you decided to access it N000 times, rather than saying "oops, that does something bad, I think I'll stop".

I don't think the punishment fits the crime in this case, but I don't think he's entirely innocent either. Once you've shown that someone stupidly left their door open, the polite thing is to let them know, rather than walking around in their house looking at all their things to show them the error of their ways. IMO a fine would more than suffice as a punishment, though.
It's not "easier to ignite", it's hypergolic. The two components spontaneously ignite when they come into contact - so you don't need to worry about an ignition system that can reignite the flame in mid-flight, making the whole system safer by eliminating components. All you need is a pair of pumps and two valves: Open valve - burn, close valve - burn stop. (grossly simplified version)
Crashing in uninhabited desert isn't a feasible failure mode for the American program due to its location. The Roscosmos-owned depopulated area around Baikonur, however, is vastly larger than the parkland around Cape Canaveral launchpads.
Since this is free, can you please put an download link up that's not hidden behind the license key registration form?

Thanks.
Gmail's days may be numbered -- you never know..
Already signed it, but thanks for putting it back on the radar; it's an important issue that needs to be addressed.
It answered a question I've been asking myself, so I upvoted it.
...don't use any Microsoft products...

Should be "don't use proprietary software," no? That would apply to Google as well.
Refrigerated fuels like LOX are a pain in the ass. You need pressurized fuel tanks and need to fuel on the launch pad which means your launch pad needs to be more complex and that a lot more steps need to be done as part of the launch countdown. Plus you can't just put your fuel in a rail car and ship it halfway across Russia.
Android already has a great, flexible, style and theme engine. Anything in particular Pixate supports that Android doesn't already do natively you'd like to see?
"The motivation of a source in journalism is not really important, what is important is discovering the truth about what is happening in the world and our true relations with our government."

I agree with the second part, but the motivation of a source can be important to those aims. When we're dealing with an incomplete picture, sometimes a carefully filtered one can be more misleading than a randomly populated one even if the former has fewer dots. Understanding why those dots appear lets us correct somewhat for agenda (but of course, we have to be careful not to be correcting for the wrong agenda or things may only get more distorted...).
http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/bottled-water-purchase-lea...

There's the original article - that hasn't been edited by deleting text and making later references to it nonsensical.
Indeed, and that's quite a difficult question to answer. It obviously depends on a range of criteria: team, team and team and then track record, supporting mentoring team, partnerships already made, investors already on board, marketing and sales rep, etc. Swogo, Fuel Up, Twoodo, Alive Shoes, 7write, Kinems, iLost, Presentain, Teach'n Go?
Everything stated in the petition is true. The site is basically a way to convince people that the president gives a damn about the American People.

They only reply to the useless petitons and not the real issues like the Snowden Pardon Petiton or Aaron Swartz one.
As a practical matter, you won't vote these guys out of office because you and everyone else isn't willing to compromise on all the other issues in play. President Kucinich or Paul never would have let this sort of program keep going. But people won't vote for them because, variously, Kucinich is too pre-Clinton liberal (loves regulation and unions), Paul wants to get rid of the Department of Education and overturn Roe, etc.

Indeed, democrats gravitated to Obama, especially the second time around, because he projected a strong stance on national security. He was the guy who killed Osama and that sold really well. Republicans love strong national security, and democrats either do too (Reagan democrats), or are sick of their candidates being considered weak and soft on communisim/terrorism/etc. Democrats wouldn't vote a President Kucinich because he is perceived as weak and at this point neither party wants to put up a candidate like that. Geez, just look at Carter. That was a guy whose politics mesh really well with the prevailing mood on HN, but look at how the democratic party has swept him under the rug. In the U.S., being perceived as weak is fatal in a leader.

And even at the local level, techies, insistant on ideological purity, won't make the compromises necessary to make this happen. Are you going to vote for a Congressman who wants the 10 commandments hung up in schools, wants to see abortion made illegal, and whose objection to survrillance comes from the same survivalist mistrust of government that makes him a top-rated candidate by the NRA? If techies as a whole are willing to do that, maybe they can get some congresspeople elected. As it is, they support a democratic party that doesn't really care strongly about civil liberties. Its Tipper Gore's party, the one that tried to undermine the 1st amendment by banning violent music lyrics from stores and recently tried to ban violent video games with a law that was struck down by the Supreme Court. You think all the "think of the children!" suburbanite Californians share the distrust of surveillance that people on HN do?
"Thanks for keeping our city safe from the dangerous and out of control 20 year-old college females. They are quite the scourge on our modern surburbias."

I'm sure there's a "girls gone wild" joke in there somewhere.
Honestly the only type of algorithmic trading I would trust is algorithmic trading based at least partially on fundamental data, of which Quantopian has none.

Why fundamental data?
Usually you can own a rifle or shotgun at 18 but you can't own a handgun until you're 21. Might vary based on the state too.
Depends on the judge and how good he is in resisting political pressure.

But here is the thing. Producing the content is self incrimination according to the defense (and reasonable people worldwide). So the situation becomes - admit you are guilty and hope higher court lets you off the hook while your name is trashed anyway.
A Retrospective About Retrospectives
Users who may be alienated from this new version will probably not ever hear of it.
It's kind of a beta, you can play with it but it's not ready, I mean what did you expect so fast?

I think it shows the Opera team is motivated and tackles the engine switch fiercely.
It is their right to choose to discontinue a product, I would have appreciated them more anyway if they would have chosen to give back to the community and put in the limited amount of work needed to opensource it though.

Goodbye Reader.
A few thousand? The petition to pardon Snowden (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...) has over 124 thousand signatures, and that's hardly going to represent everyone who cares about the issue.
Creating a Startup Marketing Plan With No Marketing Background
What I don't get is that in the USA, figuring out a password to an email account is a crime punishable with years of jailtime (think of the Sarah Palin case) [1], but somehow, when the NSA does it to everyone in the world it's just "yesterday's news"?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack
Github: Investigating an increased number of unicorns
Boiler Plate Response for Recruiters
I sell Inventory Management software, and I priced the three plan levels by guessing. I went for $29/$59/$129 across three different plan levels.

Many trial users have told me that my pricing is way too high. I imagine these people actually want the product for free[1] and will probably never "buy" it until it is.

On the opposite side of this spectrum, I've been told by potential customers that my pricing is so low that they wouldn't consider buying it because it isn't a serious price.

I've just started rebuilding[2] this product because it failed for a variety of reasons, and once I get to pricing it won't be hard to figure out which side of the argument I'm going to favor.

[1] https://twitter.com/Rakathos/status/350615055223644160/photo...

[2] http://www.ironconversions.com/blog/post/Breathing-Life-Into...
What3words - Anywhere in the world in just 3 words.
Show HN : My week-end application, MovieWall.org (Angular.js stack)
Once Sold for $850 Million, Bebo Founders Buy the Company Back for $1 Million
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

It's simple folks. If you still trust FB with anything at this point you're going to get hurt. If you do trust them with something and they burn you then it's your fault.
Presumably they're working on getting Currents onto the Web, instead of having one product for the Web and one product for mobile.
Yeah, I've written some nasty bug reports to Apple about some of those horrible UI changes and have had many unproductive discussions on the developer forums (as that isn't the place anyway).

I hadn't tested Pixate under iOS yet. So, it does't work eh? What's happening?
Funny: I read this as Tesla: almost at 100000 volts.
He's also had his US passport revoked - if he does fly, it'll have to be accompanied by diplomats or similar with special dispensations
It is good analogy - nobody prevents them from bruteforcing the AES-Twofish-Serpent volume. That is equivalent to breaking the front door.
Photo Tips from Nat Geo
Data Dealer: play God other with other peoples data, like Zuckerberg or Snowden
This game is basically SimCity for the NSA. There's a playable demo online, and the team is running a kickstarter to make it even cooler.
"Someone on one of Team Macro Man's chats recently described this ETF as a Rorschach test of what people think of digital currencies. That is utterly wrong: it's an IQ test. Bitcoin is anonymous, untaxed (for now) and quite liquid in and of its own right despite all the complexities of a cryptocurrency. A bitcoin ETF is taxed, has fees, may or may not be liquid at all. So, this is really a test: do you want to facilitate the exit of the Winkelvii from an investment at inflated levels which they will soon be taxed upon or do you want to sit this hand out? "

Macro-man gets it.
It was carrying three GLONASS (Russian GPS, sometimes combined with traditional GPS for improved accuracy, fix time etc - e.g. iPhone 4S/5) satellites. The loss of another three in 2010 was estimated to cost up to $160 million[1]. Expensive, but presumably nothing crippling in the scheme of things ($4.6 billion spent on the program from 2001-2011 [1])

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS#Finishing_the_constella...
The original is full of Dastardly-and-Muttley villains who are evil because it says "evil" on their character sheet; what motivations they have are shallow and their plots are made by Acme.
Happens all the time… You are the product not the customer… Thats why we built Pixter - http://pixter.in
How do you make this a speech issue?
Bebo social network sold back to founder for $1m
That's just bs. If the cops could say anything in their defense there would have been an "anonymous source without permission to speak to the media" who would have delivered the excuse.
Conferência Internacional de Estudantes de Engenharia Civil na Croácia
Is Copyright the New Black?
Copyright is the new black.
It carried three satellites.
"I’ve always dreamed of having a little house, a really small little house" the thing is that it's not economically possible for everyone to have those.
I wonder if it's as simple as the old rule of the streets being at play here? That is, if the USA and Russia are rival gang members, they would each look poorly on "snitches" even if they are from the other side.