skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need for this. The US government purportedly exists to serve its people. What you proposed, while it may seem extreme, is very much what the US government (and others) proposes when they agree to sanctions against various roque states.

The US government is not divorced from the population. It is composed of millions of Americans (and others) who are working to support its various services and programs. Much of the behavior seen recently (especially the NSA/Snowden action) is very understandable if you view it through the lens of someone trying to save their job. The government's actions are the result of these millions of people moving in various directions, mildly shifted with each administration.

It's not feasible to think that an outside agent can directly change the way the US government acts. However, as has been demonstrated in the worst way, asymmetrical warfare will change the way the citizens think. Mass boycotts and sanctions would have an effect just as terrorist attacks have.

If the citizens of the US lose jobs, income, heck, blockbuster movies because the international market dries up, they will change the way they act.

You can't guess how, unfortunately. The largest response will be anger at the rest of the world, which could lead to a Weimar Republic situation.

As a US citizen, I'm embarrassed by my government. We had a brief period of time in Obama's first administration when I didn't feel like an apologist or an impotent victim of the tyranny of democracy.

A citizen's duty is to work to establish leadership that reflects his or her values. We use a lot of excuses (the USA is too big, one vote doesn't count, we're a representative republic, etc.) but at the end of the day, if someone is Proud to be an American™, then they must take responsibility for its excesses as well.
Hmm so a kind of liberal vs. socialist philosophy of technology. You just gave me a new perspective on things. Thanks!
This is true, perhaps, of voluntary collection of data from cooperative partners, which is, to be sure, one of the controversial aspects of the NSAs domestic surveillances that has come out, but hardly the limit of the NSA's spying.

It will continue to require resources to collect information from people who are trying to prevent you from having it.
For my curiosity, where is the insert bottleneck now?
Such an expectation is grossly misplaced. Anyone who has ever watched the sausage being made will attest to that. It probably hasn't been objective since Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, and these days only the journalists in the field, far from the newsroom are able to exercise the free will to be objective. People used to get into the news because they want to tell the truth, or that's the romantic story I've been told. However, I have rarely met anyone that went into journalism that was any more objective than activists and bloggers.
It matters, but not enough for you to worry about at this stage. Do whatever, it really doesn't matter unless you get some traction on your blog, until then you're just over-thinking it.
I do understand about the popularity of Photoshop. I know relatively little about "the design community" and am just a bit skeptical that it is as monlithic as some folks make it out to be.

Again, my point was simply that in our development process, "asset pipeline", or whatever you want to call it, we ought to be a bit flexible to let professionals use the tools they feel they are most productive in.

Obviously, sometimes the workflow calls for HTML output. But if there's a brilliant designer in town who only knows how to generate EPS, PDF, or PSD (we've all met them) maybe it's not the end of the world if someone else does the HTML/CSS/Javascript.

The tools and the processes exist to serve the talent, not the other way around.
He was one of the keynotes at a conference I attended out in the Valley in the early nineties. Tremendously inspiring guy and a much better speaker than a lot of tech people.

What I remember from that day was that he was very, very humble with a great sense of humor.

He was truly one of those Xerox Parc giants upon whose shoulders our entire industry rests upon.
Re: The point of G+.

Because one day, you're going to type into Google's Search engine "what's for dinner?" And it is going to tell you.

How? Because it knows who your wife is, and it knows your wife's phone number, so it texts her saying "what's for dinner."

Example is crude, I know. But I can't think of a better way to explain what I see Google's end game is with G+.
Smart pickup by Samsung, who has struggled to build software matching the quality of their hardware. Smart TV's just aren't that smart. As Samsung is my electronics brand of choice, I'm hoping this results in a better user experience out of the box.
Not sure exactly how it works, but it gave me the thought that making collecting ads into a game could be fun. For example there could be competitions for getting specific ads (the most expensive loan, the weirdest health treatment, and so on...). Maybe this game already does that, not sure.
I know that these and similar cameras are in use at the Postal Service.

http://www.fairchildimaging.com/files/2kand4klvcameramanualr...

I know from experience that you can read at least the outside page of a tri-folded letter through most envelopes on the address side. According to one of the Fairchild applications engineers, it is a problem with mail sorting systems, because they have to reject that noise to read the address properly. The Osprey camera has excellent sensitivity in both UV and Visible wavelengths.
Better yet, put it on every single piece of communication that isn't encrypted end-to-end. It would get people to learn to encrypt things just to eliminate that warning label.
Very cool, but can you implement OTR?
If 99.9% of your data is "just strings", you're probably Doing It Wrong.
I'm curious as well, additionally how would this be enforced. In addition the collection isn't the issue, its what you do with that information after the fact that tends to be the issue at hand.
Demographic data are useless for a startup
You need to designate someone as the tie-breaking authority for disputes, but it doesn't follow from that that you need to give that person more compensation.

Two things that would keep me from joining any founding team at this point in my career:

* Not having everyone on a 4-year vesting schedule, founders included

* Not giving equal shares to the partners

I'm with Spolsky: if you think it doesn't make sense to give a "founder" the same share as yourself, that person isn't really a founder.
>The OP and others (me included) are lamenting the fact that the popularist stories about social liberties are replacing the perhaps less popular stories about hardware design or compilers or new research in computer science.

Those kind of stories were not that many to begin with.

Except if by "research in compSci" one means "My impressions after 1 day with Go", "Node.js cured my dog", "Web framework benchmarks 24", "Sexism in Babes-In-Bikinis-Coding conference", "LLVM 3, now with a ho-hum debugger as standard", "Functional concepts in BASIC", "Father of sextuplets,, startup founder, how I manage my time", "iOS 7 icons have colors I don't like".

Everybody has his gripes about this or that content. But it's the community that makes it all relevant. And those stories have huge implications on technology, the intertubes and enterprise.

>Unfortunately it has been demonstrated time and time again that popularity destroys communities.

That makes no sense. Except if you take it to mean: the guys that were there earlier don't get what they like anymore, and more (and newer) people get it. Which is a pretty hipsterish sense ("Oh, that band was cool when only I liked it").
Indeed. It is very important to learn coding. It is the same everywhere, you can't be expected to run a garments business without knowing something about fabrics. People wear clothes, I will make a cloth company wont make sense. Of course you could give it a shot, but its obvious you would feel sort of handicapped and find questioning yourself over your decisions.
I wish I could say I had the same experience with the box. The firmwares were consistently buggy and never quite worked well.

By far the two most frustrating aspects being the forced updates (which were often more buggy or broke features) and the lockups while in sleep. There was nothing more annoying than having to get up and hard reboot the thing every time I wanted to watch something.

Once the Pi and raspbmc became a viable alternative I quickly replaced my boxee boxes because, while not bug free by any means, they're much closer to "just working" than the boxee box ever was.

The one good thing I can say about the boxee box, though, is that its remote was a real treat. That thing worked like a charm.
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I read that more as a "statist (which both republicans and democrats are) vs non-statist (libertarians, anarchists, etc)" shading. The parent mentioned both Bush and Obama, so he's clearly suggesting that BOTH democrats and republicans like bigger government. Both parties have little pet "get the government out" issues but nothing serious.
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> Because one day, you're going to type into Google's Search engine "what's for dinner?" And it is going to tell you.

The idea is really more that you'll go to look at Google Now when you wonder what's for dinner, and there'll be a card telling you that, and you won't even need to ask.

Though the search bit might be an intermediate step on the way there.
As a non-US person I couldn't care less about the US constitution, and this whole thing goes to show that Americans really don't care about us either. How about trying to honor just a little bit the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically the Article 12?
He may know about PyPy, but need to use libraries that only work with CPython. Numpy is an example of this type of library, though there are many others.

Unfortunately, PyPy isn't a viable alternative for most scientific computing problems...
basically it is a great filter - people who have good employment aren't going into startups because numbers just don't work for them as well as being handcuffed for a number of years and a risk of losing a lot, basically all of your sweat equity, just on the whim. This works though for youngsters just out or a few years after college where they need to gather experience and corporate salary is smaller.
> Besides the considerable technical contributions of Doug's project at SRI, theirs was a group that did much to create the open and collaborative tone of the Internet that we've come to consider as automatic and natural, but were unusual in those days.

Sadly, the open and collaborative tone of the Internet that we've come to consider as automatic and natural is becoming less and less automatic and natural as people put things in walled gardens using weird non-standard rapidly-changing protocols and close access to anyone not using The Official Client.
> Using war or the threat of war to apprehend peace is antithetical to pacifism.

I agree, but keep in mind the person-to-person analog: "Using force or the threat of force to apprehend personal safety is antithetical to pacifism." I.e. there is a convincing philosophical argument that once you agree that people have the right to use force in self-defense, that there is a collective right to use military force for collective self-defense.
Since it's already so difficult to make a startup grow and survive in the first place, does the founder truly have time to "learn to code" while maintaining their other duties?
Awesome idea! If you just gotten your first bitcoin, you can immediately put it into good use by purchasing the Humble Bundle now (they accept bitcoins): https://www.humblebundle.com/
A happy fourth of July for Edward Snowden
The canonical playable version is already hosted online on his own site: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
What I need as a job searcher:

1. the ability to filter by geographic area (including some way of grabbing "remote"/"telecommute" jobs).
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So is this a kind of a reverse-Denial-of-Service-by-misinformation attack ? You can bet some people in the Ad industry will insinuate this is a kind of "hacking".
The rather bovine electorate of the UK prefers to leave the apparently over-regulating, wasteful and generally evil EU, which would then would make it far easier to impose restrictions on UK services.

Given that the UK already contributes nearly nothing to the EU budget and economy (apart from an oversized banking sector in no small part responsible for the current financial crisis), the remaining countries will not seriously resist the UK leaving.

De Gaulle really was right from the start :)
I am the author of that blog post.

At the time that post was written, their privacy policy never stated that they collect this information. It seems to have been updated since to say that they do in fact collect this information, but they don't offer any insight into how long they store it for. Their privacy policy now states:

"We collect and store information regarding your use of
the Boxee Platform, including (i) the content viewed,
(ii) the time and date of each viewing, (iii) the
application used in viewing the content and (iv) IP
addresses, including internal IP addresses, of devices
accessing the Boxee Platform"

Also, as I wrote in my blog post, they never responded to my questions that I sent to privacy@boxee.tv.

I find this in their privacy policy quite interesting:

While we collect and store IP address information, that
information is not made public. We do at times, however,
share this information with our partners, service
providers and other persons with whom we conduct
business. We may share hashes of your IP address with
other third parties, but these hashes cannot feasibly be
reversed into the IP addresses themselves or linked to
you individually.

I bet they've done this wrong. "Protecting" data by hashing it doesn't work when the number of possible hashed items is small. There are only 4 billion IPv4 addresses.

I just don't trust them.
or a payments gateway that is not rooted in the US.
#snowden4pres2020
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slava @ rethink -- this is exactly right. Sorry for confusion.
Metafilter chat has been using this for a few months: https://chat.metafilter.com/
The specifics of your argument are a little off, but let me correct your question.

"Consider this... how would you feel if he'd said the actions of the Israeli government in regards to their treatment of Palestinians were unconscionable and so all citizens of Israel should be barred from Europe?"

(Keep in mind that you cannot enter the UAE and some other Arab countries on an Israeli passport.)
Oh, I see. I misread the "100wood" one. You're right.
That is still the responsibility of the American people (and nobody else). If you want to be welcome abroad, behave appropriately.
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Yes the initial idea may have started on reddit, but then comedy central, moveon, afl-cio, and other large democratic groups started promoting it and thats when it got big.

If those groups don't hop on, your just not going to have a big in-person protest.

And the eff is the only group I have seen promoting this
NginX can act as a caching proxy with less overhead and faster response times than Apache does, and even more so under heavy load.
This is a great idea! I enforce location per job post so I can do this very thing. It's in the works.
can gold be shipped? Gold in 1/10 oz coins should be fairly anonymous.
U.S. Border Agency Lets Other Units Use Its Drones
We have to investigate to know for sure, but if I had to guess it's probably in the storage engine/disk IO.
Blog d'un condamné - And the condamne has passed away
I somehow interpreted as if the character in the dark room had dreamed everything, and just woke up. And then the cycle start again. Seems fitting for the game.

Comment from the source file in the endGame function :
// Restart everything! Play FOREVER!
An article about it: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/savignac/blogue-dun-condamne...
Because any decent implementation doesn't trust client cookies. Typically the server signs them so the only messing that can be done on the client side is to delete/not send them.
Keep using DDG and give feedback. Make an investment of your time with a slightly worse solution with a longer range goal of having a better solution later.
You'd better maximize your listening skills before hurrying to sharpen your 'saying No' skills. Half the time I've heard people say "our problem is we can't say No", it was simply a rescue blanket for their pride because they couldn't/wouldn't face the real problem.
Brochure (Japanese) (PDF): http://www.sharp.co.jp/lcd-display/corporate/lineup/pdf/c_pn...
I think its worth mentioning that Lolita was first published under a pseudonym, and was controversial when it came out.

In general, old works get much greater leeway in what they are allowed to do because they are old.
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Thanks for the valuable feedback. It's an MVP just to test the idea out. If it sticks the UI will improve significantly.
I would love to see someone familiar with torrents and streaming videos to put together a project that enables decentralized but "bundled video streams" of live video content coming from handheld devices like the GoPro. The reason for bundling the streams is to make sure new streams that have not attracted a swarm can piggyback off the swarm for existing streams. Inclusion in the bundled stream would just require a quorum of the existing streams choosing to update their stream to include the new stream. This would also help discover since you could "flip" through the channels on the same bundled stream.
I'm hoping to take the kids to this one - Union Square in NYC.

On a separate note I have a browser extension that people run on the Facebook sight. It will be reminding people of NSA coverage through the July 4th and long weekend.

Just a simple PSA
Surely your SSD has more than 800 IOPS though. Have you done any profiling?
FWIW, environments should be in the next release.

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3356
That depends on how you install your node/npm. For nvm installs the default is ~/.npm which doesn't require root privileges but is user specific.
Unless you are doing it all on the same server... having less load from one part of the server means more available for other parts, which can lead to a better overall user experience. It's not quite a drop in replacement, but could be well worth considering... trying to get under 300ms page loads shouldn't be just for the big boys.
To be clear, it allows UPS/FedEx to open it, not the government. Although UPS/FedEx can then voluntarily give it to the government should they open it...
The US does not have a policy of caring that much about internal support, unfortunately.
it usually helps to turn the question around - "what if we don't do this?"

end of the world?
end of the customer?
etc.

same triage as in medicine. once customers get silent, it gets dangerous. as long as they are screaming, they are using your stuff and want more.
see http://goldsilver.com/international/

Obviously this is a dealer, but I suppose it would be possible.
The criminal justice system deals with fraud in more complicated settings than computer hacking. For instance, it convicted ADM executives for price-fixing lysine. I don't recall anyone being up in arms at the time about how the prosecutors didn't fully understand the lysine industry.
dkhenry, still looking forward to the day I see it on Github and get to play with it! Can't wait to try it out.
Yes. RethinkDB is really well set up to do this due to the underlying parallelized map/reduce infrastructure. This feature is a matter of scheduling priorities. I don't have an ETA yet, but it will almost certainly get done in the medium-term.
1) what is the point of OTR in a multi-user chatroom?

2) how would you implement that without relying on a central server?
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Can I ask why you chose GPL for Ansible? This makes it more challenging to integrate or embed Ansible in many types of commercial or non-GPL projects.

Chef [1] and Puppet [2] both chose the Apache license. Salt did as well.

If you were worried about competitors offering hosted versions of Ansible, I could understand going AGPL, but not GPL3.

Thanks!

[1]: http://www.opscode.com/blog/2009/08/11/why-we-chose-the-apac...
[2]: https://puppetlabs.com/apache/
I understand that people may have legitimate needs for a VPN, but as someone who has to deal with credit card fraud almost daily, I can understand their reasoning.

Sure it sucks if you need a VPN, but if you're someone trying to catch people trying to defraud you it makes a lot of sense. VISA and MasterCard has rather high demands from businesses when it comes to preventing fraud, so naturally we have high demands to them. Restricting access to VPNs is a simple way of blocking a large number of low ranking fraudsters.
> I call it unconstitutional by reason of scale.

Which is actually the kind of argument which justices on the Supreme Court might be comfortable with. "Yes, this program somehow squeezes into the letter of the law, but not anywhere close to the intent of the law or the Constitution".
> As it stands what you're suggesting is at least already illegal, FWIW.

Unless a secret presidential order established a secret law (declared legal by a secret court) that made it legal (but illegal to disclose to the public), that is.
Don't mix store of value and medium of exchange. Cash has always been very good medium of exchange except in few rare cases.
The answer to spam is to charge a nominal fee for each e-mail, whether in digital currency (Bitcoin, Ripple) or proof-of-work (SHA, Bcrypt, etc.).

Bitmessage integrates the latter (proof-of-work) and is working nicely at this stage, although I believe it may have some structural issues that will make scaling it up to many thousands of nodes difficult.
Man, and here I am, just an almost-true-scotsman.
It just seemed like an elaborate troll and an unsubstantiated rumor at first because that link didn't mention his death, and as you said, there was nothing else mentioned about his death anywhere!

Your link makes a lot more sense now, but I'm still confused why so many people upvoted it before it was corrected to a better link that corroborated the title!

> first time, too

Welcome! :-)
I really don't see the point of this. Who is the target audience for this? Do they really think enough people will use this to the point that it will "kill digital ad targeting"?
In this century, we certainly can: do not have license plates at all, use radio beacons instead, which send encrypted copies of the plate. The police would be allowed to request decryption from the DMV (e.g., "running the plates"), and a few other authorized people, but the general public could not. The secret keys would be the weak point, and would have to be held only in a limited number of DMV data centers (which would help in establishing an audit trail when plates are accessed).

I'm not saying it is necessarily something that should be done, but it certainly can be done.
The other option is simply not linking it with HN. Later on, I'm going to allow for filtering by karma if you're looking for potential employees.

Another thought I had was putting a token in your profile which I can scan for. What do you think?
TLS is not possible over zeromq by design. There is work to build encryption directly into zeromq, but it isn't there

(Disclaimer: I used to contribute a lot of code to salt and still do when I have the time)
Does anybody want touchscreen monitors? It just seems like 3D -- a pointless feature pile-on from commodity electronics firms desperate to dodge the grinding down of previously high margins.