skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback!

While PageKite definitely offers a great way to expose your local web app to others, we want to get rid of the local setup process altogether, so developers can just spin up an environment using our service and start working from their favorite machine.

Our initial target is newer web developers who may find the setup process daunting, or developers who may manage several projects but don’t want to worry about about the details behind setting up different web frameworks and adding new services. As many can attest, setting up Rails isn’t exactly easy, and it can be even worse if you’re not familiar with the command line, or don’t have xcode installed.

We're definitely working on ways to allow developers to work privately and avoid publishing by default.
Healthcare Innovation, How is it the same and different from digital startups
[jQuery] Vertical Sliding Accordion - Saher Team
Good OCR with a nice API would be very useful.
Wait until your phone call winds up on youtube. Think it can't go that far? Imagine an NSA contractor or employee with a gambling problem who needs cash. Your data is now their ticket out of trouble.
It would seem the effect is to inspire confidence that our national secutiry apparatus is doing everything it can to head off threats before they happen. It seems that 90% of the outrage is container on reddit and HN.
I've mentioned previously here that on my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement. Upon further thinking about the concept in light of the recent NSA stuff, I contemplated the possibility of building a social network on top of such a system that allowed for sharing files with friends. It looks like this project is basically an implementation of this idea. Nice one.
Move (not so) Fast and (don't) Break Things - Facebook's changing Culture
The early history of Ableton Live
Thanks for the clarifications.

Since a lot of PDFs are badly organized (and I wonder if some programs deliberately do that to make text extraction difficult), perhaps you could try to analyze the location of each token on the page and merge the ones that seem to belong together. That would be already 100x better than most of the free PDF->text converters out there.
The French have this stereotype of the Swiss being slow-spoken (some go as far as to claim they are slow-witted). So it's not just newscasters, but the general public as well.
In Finland we don't have stray dogs. No animal control putting them down either.

So what do you have?

(I'm assuming 'unsurvivably cold weather' isn't your answer, either).
Are you alleging the NSA is violating its mandate by deliberately leaving top secret information vulnerable?
oh, the irony of using Google to translate these....
the green background is gonna get annoying, fast :(
Keep in mind that the current minister of justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger already held this position under Helmut Kohl, resigned due to her opposition to electronic eavesdropping and submitted a constitutional complaint[1].

Elections will be held in September, though, so it's anyone's guess who'll hold this position a few months from now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verfassungsbeschwerde
> Do you really think that those behaviors are equivalent ?

It doesn't matter what I think; if someone get's offended then someone gets offended. They're the judge of how much something offended them.

Anyway, I don't really want to get into an argument about -isms.
I'm surprised, and also quite disappointed, that only Germany (that I know of) takes the spying on its citizens so seriously. I wish more governments would inquire the legality of the NSA programs, and would dare to take action in case it is ruled illegal.
Case studies: Making an income while travelling
It's sad when we have to go back 240 years to try to convince people that we are moving in the wrong direction.
Perhaps, although they are not always troll accounts. There are certainly groups who co-ordinate internet message board activity to enhance various agendas.
One thing to note is Americans are taxed on their world-wide income, regardless of residency. A virtual Berlin wall.

So, it's tricky for Americans unless you pull an Eduardo Saverin.
Being in Canada, too, I think people here are just as apathetic as those in the US over things like this, maybe even more so.

I don't trust CSEC to not be spying on me any more than I'd trust NSA.
This looks like it was designed back in the early 2000s.
Don't read the mailing lists, they're public and thus a trollfest. I was also somewhat disillusioned in the recent months, but that is over now. I went out setting up campaign advertisement signs in 2009 and I'm doing it again this year.

This is our only chance. Remember, even though some of the Berlin scene wish to "reboot" the Pirate Party in a way that is more to their liking, it is far too late for that. The Pirate Party has seats in west German state parliaments, which is a lot more valuable as a gauge for the chance of success than what the blogosphere thinks. If we fail now, after having come so far, then the project is eternally burned. We are at 2-3 % and the party is well beyond 10000 members. This is the window of opportunity to make a difference.
Why do Americans not drive diesels?
Morse code is a form of encoding for a low bandwidth serial communication format.

Written in dot-dash form the length of the symbol represents time.
Without BART, will you still go to work?
I'll bet most people here will telecommute.
Germany has a constitutional court that is more independent than the U.S. Supreme Court is.
Or even go the OCR approach !
I've used Memrise and Duolingo to learn a bit of a couple different languages, and I wouldn't really say they're out of context. Even though memrise is a flash card app at heart, it gives you words and full sentences using those words at the same time. Duolingo does the same, and goes as far as showing you how to conjugate those words.
+1. unfortunately the german pirate party is badly organized, suffers from having no real leadership and thus they don't have a clear road (nor program). i'm gonna vote for them anyhow - just because it's better having them in the bundestag than not.
I'll still go, but only because I work in San Mateo and live in SF. Caltrain will be my friend.
As a front-end dev, you should be getting paid pretty well. Here in Austin, front-end devs make $75K/year or more (more if you have extensive Javascript experience.) Living in a city that allows you to live frugally (like Austin) would enable you to pay off your debt in 5-10 years.
Are there some extended examples? I'm not quite sure whether this is closer to JQuery UI (i.e. some widgets for normal web pages) or ExtJS (desktop-like Intranet apps). Looking at documentation for e.g. the DataTable, it seems it's closer to the former. (Where I wouldn't be looking at YUI3 right now, as compared to e.g. Angular or Ember. I would be "in the market" for a decent enough ExtJS replacement though...)
we are already close to do that but with a really slow parser (this one can even replace some text on the pdf). Our problem now is to understand if developers would rather have better text extraction or some other features like image extractions, etc..
Let us know what you would prefer.
It's pseudonymous/anonymous, but more important, it's encrypted and distributed.
Yes, it does, but only GNU tar. I was using NetBSD when I stumbled over the fact that it couldn't 'tar xvf' my foo.tar.gz.

OTOH, I always have to look up unzip, because I fear that there is some option that I forgot. Well, most of the time I use a GUI for Zip, since they often decompress all over the folder unlike tars which are mostly contained in one single folder.
> Interesting that this is appearing only now, even though it happened in 2012.

2012 was six months ago. This is a report on things that happened in 2012, prepared after 2012 ended. What part of this is surprising?
I don't know about what has happened here, but this story does ring true with what has historically happened after 9/11. We know that EU countries bent over backwards to accommodate US demands with respect to information sharing with regards to travel. This is just what I would expect to be a sort of secret extension of that rational. Don't up set the "Yanks", and betray the citizens, then complain like hell when it turns out the US spies on EU governments and institutions.

UK wise, we are just turn all we have over to the US with out question. I would assume that this has always been the case. Dunno why we dont change our name to USK, and adopt the dollar.
Practicing privacy: Encryption
Very cool; another Clojure project with source available.
Except that most of these nations are willing participants in the spying programs. They may make noises to try and pacify the electorate, but I doubt the governments are interested in changing much.
Dalton Caldwell: Where Will Google Reader Traffic Go?
which screen are you referring to? Could you send me a screenshot to eibrahim at gmail
Simply another form of encoding.
(It should be pointed out that Android is not a tier-1 platform, and so gets broken fairly regularly. The Samsung people are normally pretty quick to debug and submit a fix though.)
It uses I2P:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

So your phone number or real world identity isn't linked to an identity on NightWeb necessarily, and even when you use your real name, everything is encrypted and distributed, so only your contacts (friends) can read what you post.
Check out Google Reader substitutes
"...Your data is now their ticket out of trouble..."

And their ticket into prison.
Yours is the standard post-cynical view of democracy. It's common among very smart people. Think Churchill's "two cheers for democracy". It's what I used to believe. I don't now.

"Power tends to corrupt." If this is true, then democracy may well be the maximin solution. But is it true? The word "autocrat" makes people think of Hitler and Stalin. They don't think of Frederick the Great or Deng Xiaoping.

Power often corrupts, but not always.

1. When power is insecure, it is dangerous, like a cornered wild animal: totalitarian spying against potential conspirators, suppression of dissent, brutal retaliation against political opponents. Secure power has less need for such behaviour. As Bismark said of the press "they can say what they want, and I will do what I want".

2. When power is a "family business", the leader's time preferences change and they want to ensure they pass a prosperous country onto their children. That's why old-school monarchs, for all their faults, were less rapacious than third-world dictators - the dictators knew their time in power was limited, so they made out like bandits while they could.

3. Many people are actually quite nice and will use their power to help their fellow men (or at the very list, fellow countrymen).

Consider that Communist China has transitioned from Maoist schizo-state to pragmatic autocratism and now to some kind of quasi-democracy, all without major revolutions. I see the real danger of technocracy being Brezhnevism, not Stalinism, but the same thing has happened with modern day democracy. (The current "democratic" system is designed to prevent charismatic populist politicians (ie, potential Hitlers and Stalins) from making much significant difference - how much personal impact over government policy did Bush have, for example? Or, for that matter, Obama? - and instead most power rests with hundreds of unelected but government-funded agencies.)

"So the best government isn't one that is not subject to control by any political interest, because objectivity and neutrality in politics are never going to be anything more than daydream. Rather, I think the best government is one that is open to control by so many conflicting interests in so many different ways that the vectors eventually balance one another out. Politics is meant to be dull, boring, and utterly predictable. Because when politics gets exciting, people die! It's OK when it's your own life, but don't put others' lives and human rights in peril."

I definitely agree with your last 3 sentences. The thing is any kind of true democracy is going to be full of exciting politics. Your ideal of a system where the vectors balance out is savvy (were you a British colonial administrator in a previous life?) and is also quite close to the current system. Designing a government that is ineffective by design is a good way to prevent tyranny. Unfortunately, it also makes it unable to make difficult-but-necessary decisions. Example: who in the USG actually has the power to reduce the deficit? Will this situation change in the next 20 years?
This way laying it out step by step federal government is covering itself in a web of incremental lies, discrediting itself every step forward. All in all looks more like a ginormous clusterfluff.
It's time to stop global US cyberfascism
Black, save energy
i 'm considering btsync on a server somewhere outside the US (or even europe, as it seems)
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync-hero99371.html

It would be great if btsync supported multiple user accounts on the same daemon.
Hahaha. Ask Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, and a whole host of other American bad actors who hesitate to leave the safe confines of the United States nowadays.
Blogger vs Journalist
I'm confused. Is the article talking about learning art or learning design? These are very different activities even if they are often collated on the same campuses or in the same buildings.
Blogger Comment Spam Detection
oops, at least the Gravity certificate expired and Anybeat is not responding.
> open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox

I believe you can get 80% there with git-annex or DVCS-autosync and a git repo in Tor. I believe there is a free but limited git repo hosting in Tor, but don't take my word for it.

I thought once if it would be possible to use Freenet as a replacement for Dropbox. You encrypt your files, put them in Freenet, and they are replicated there, as long as you ping them enough so they don't get automatically deleted.
Here is some useful info to avoid this from happening: Whenever it comes up in conversation that the FDP might be a viable alternative, tell people that an FDP man acted as a mole for the US during the last coalition negotiations[1]. The party leadership made him a lone gunman, but hey had to be pushed by their base to ostracize him.

Also, if, during coalition negotiations, there is a choice between more privacy for everybody or Westerwelle retaining his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs, what will they chose? Bringing up that question is usually sufficient to get people to distance themselves from the thought of voting for the FDP.

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
Yes, you're right that they're officially a democracy. Government control of the media ensures that the same party will remain in power. I think Japan and Taiwan had the same party in power for decades, too. Maybe they only work because of East Asian collectivist/Confucian instincts, but one-party states do seem to work well in that part of the world. Actually having elections, even unlosable ones, probably ensures the government roughly tacks towards the wishes of the populace.

(Moldbug argued that America is transitioning into a one party state, since most government workers and "respectable" media outlets are allied with the Democrats).
I would not have bought that domain name. Instagram is a made up word and any assocation - whether there is or not - by use of your domain name could be misconstrued.
Indeed because addicts never make poor or irrational over the long-term decisions.
If you're doing this local/cli

`pdftext`, from http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

For OCR, `pdfimages` (also from xpdf), combined with ImageMagick's `convert`, and `tesseract` (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) works passably well.
>A mobile app has a far richer interface, and needs to interact with the system in more deep and meaningful ways. Memory is tight and application lifecycles can be hectic.

I'm not clear how this is different than it is for the variety of embedded Linux devices that natively support multiple languages. You can run Debian (sans X-Windows) with under 64MB of RAM.

>Using a different language means all that scaffolding has to be duplicated in each language.

Not really. I would be plenty happy if they would just provide a native C API like GNU/Linux does, which manages to support most of the major languages because almost everything has near-seamless support for calling C API functions.
To be fair to the author, I don't think an article that starts with "A Hacker's..." and/or involves Emacs has a pretension to being a solution for normal people.
I paid $800-$900 per quarter when I was attending UW. Go dawgs. I have no idea how I would do it today, I wasn't rich back then.
I didn't mention Citadel because there hasn't been a release since November 2011; however on further investigation it looks like development is still active. http://code.citadel.org/?p=citadel.git;a=shortlog
Yeah, I'm partial to NetBeans, but I tried IntelliJ, just for Play. Spent a few hours trying to get the integration working, but it just never did fully. For instance, it never picked up the Play libs and the dynamically generated code wasn't dynamically loaded by the debugger, etc. Maybe it was just something I was doing. But, after a while, when you're already unsure if you're going to like the framework, it's like, "nevermind. Back to work".
Know any hosting companies in the travel lounge of a Moscow airport?
Manchester Baby: world's first stored program computer
I feel like if we are building a net to catch people trying to commit suicide, we are "looking after everyone" the complete wrong way, not to mention way too late.
The founders were smart guys and the Constitution is a clever piece of political engineering, but you might as well be saying that the government is doing badly because they stopped following the Bible. As a non-American, I find the idolisation of the Constitution pretty amusing.
Frog Fraction does not relate to things.

It is just worth mentioning from time to time.
I agree your approach has a different set of advantages. It's just the end goal is similar and the name is so similar. That's more the point I was trying to make.
The whole Internet is like a social network for online personas.
If you're in the Bay Area, the live drawing workshop at UC Berkeley is just $4 and runs Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Best deal in art education I've ever seen.
Some games do show the players nationality (at least to the extent that is represented geolocating their IP address).
This is similar to what we do at http://searchtower.com , where you can store, view, index and search the data.
Assume that Eve posses the public key torrents of Alice and Bob. Can Eve then determine if they are friends or not?
I really liked SecuShare site http://secushare.org/ , it also explains many related issues. Does Nightweb allow 'free' multiple identities? It's really essential feature for any service.
I'm going to be WFH since I need to go from Berkeley -> San Mateo and the drive will be heinous with all the additional cars.
Yeah, that's true. It seems a must when you are accustomed to having it. But code completion is just one example. There's refactoring, debugging, and other support that a text editor can't give you which has real impact on your productivity. Even organizing your various config files and providing a UI for modifying them is a convenience.

I remember some years ago doing a contract for a large company. I insisted that I was cool with just a text editor. But the client's dev lead insisted that I get with the IDE program because they were paying me hourly and wanted max productivity.

In the end, after making the switch, I had to agree.
Yes, it allows multiple identities that you can switch between. It's the button on the far right.
The shuttering of Reader and Gmail's new and awful Compose have convinced me - more than years of Stallman rants and NSA snooping - that relying on closed-source SaaS is a terrible idea. It is a question of if, not when, your SaaS provider does something you intensely dislike, and which you have no power to change.

With SaaS, you don't even have the power to say - Damn your improved version, blast your hip new design, I will stick with the old one, thankyouverymuch. You are always on Version Now.

The more intertwined your relationship and dependence on integration with related products, the messier the ensuing divorce.

This, to my mind, represents a far more inevitable reason to figure a way out of GMail.
Can you recommend a particular site?
Yes, everyone's metadata (profile, posts, and favorites) are publicly visible. In this sense, Nightweb is anonymous, but not private. I may add private sharing in the future, but it's a complicated thing to implement.
I think this does clean up some of the language of Googles prism statement. [1]

First, we have not joined any program that would give
the U.S. government—or any other government—direct
access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does
not have direct access or a “back door” to the
information stored in our data centers. We had not
heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.

So they did not hear of the NSA codename for FBI operated equipment. ( And note that they do not deny wiretapping, just 'direct access' and 'back door.')

Second, we provide user data to governments only in
accordance with the law. [...] Press reports that
suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to
our users’ data are false, period.

That seems to indicate that here Google defines 'provide user data' as a specific database access. Which seems to be reinforced by

Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad
type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears
to have required them to hand over millions of users’
call records.

Note they talk about records, not about live interception. ( And the order against Verizon seems than to indicate that Verizon did not participate in live wire tapping.)

IMHO, this points in the direction, that there is FBI equipment in the Google datacenters. This equipment is tapping into the network connections and pipes them to the NSA. So the Guardians allegations [2] that

"Collection directly from the servers of these US service
providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL,
Skype, YouTube, Apple."

means that there is nothing between the servers and the wiretapping equipment. While the companies take the view, that only a account on a database server constitutes 'direct access.'

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5841228

[2]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/google-facebook-...
Worth mentioning that the author smeared WikiLeaks in the past:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/351121777742716928
The company I currently work for started with zero marketing in the mid 2000s (2004/2005). We grew into a multi-million dollar company. We're in the home and garden e-commerce category.

We didn't really start doing any marketing until 2010 (Google TV, at that!). Now, though, competition is a mess (tiny sites rank above established brands) so we're almost forced to do some form of PPC. In some ways now, you're completely at the mercy of Google and their latest algorithm update, regardless of whether or not you follow the SEO rules.

To answer your question though, if competition is low it can definitely be done, just do everything with SEO in mind, but design and write for users.
Being unable to have a decent living space and being unable to start a family are not specific French problems, but they are quite prevalent in France.

It's pretty bad that it's becoming the new normality for a lot of people. And I think a lot of people will have to continue lowering their expectations until they get close to mere subsistence + a few trendy gadgets to keep them busy.