skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally value my privacy and liberty over a few additional nanoseconds of waiting, or what might be not as refined results.

This article isn't insightful or original, only pathetic. The attitude shows you how many in the US are unwilling to make even the tiniest sacrifice to preserve a human right like not having all you information surveyed, recorded and stored for Big Brother to use against you.

Sad.
Actualy, I love flamewars like this. You always find new tools, new gems, new tricks and features. Moreover, maybe I am weird but I also like when people argue for their way of doing thing, that's fun.
What hurts me is that people are acting surprised that spy agencies are spying on people. Their job is to collect intelligence. If they can read your emails, they will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies
I really like the refactoring done here. Congratulations to the author. He did an excellent job, IMHO.

There's one thing missing that I always wanted to have: put the contents of the README file _above_ the file listing. The truth is, many people in Github don't use the Pages feature and rely instead on the README being the main project page containing the description, instructions, etc. And sometimes you have to scroll a bit to get to that information. If the README was on top, the main project page at github.com would be given the importance many projects give it.

Variations of this idea: let the code be on top but only after a single click to expand the repo contents, unless the project lacks a README file. In that case expand the repo contents directly.
The only frameworks worth a sec of my time are now AngularJS , ExtJS , CanJS and Knockout.

I must admit, if the framework you are building doesnt have 2 way databing , it is not worth my time anymore.

After something like AngularJS i cant go back to wiring templates and data by hand.

Polymer looks great but did not work when i tried it.

ReactJS , i dont like the use of JSX,and if you dont use it things get verbose.

I used to use Backbone , but without 36 plugins it is worthless in a large scale app.

Waiting for the final v1 of EmberJS too.
Is there any other way to share the game state than copying the local storage? Even though I use Chromium with linked Google accounts between Windows and Ubuntu, it does not save local storage data. And that is not even possible on an iPad, for an example.
Ed is the standard text editor![1]

[1] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
Can I suggest mentioning mobile apps which can sync with BazQux on the landing page? I left quickly because it didn't appear there were any options for mobile/device sync, but then I saw this on the feedbin landing page (which has a great App Support section):

> Mr. Reader is a RSS News Reader for your iPad that synchronizes with Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux Reader, FeedHQ, Feed Wrangler and Fever.
Any chance of releasing the theme within a styling framework like Bootstrap? This would be amazing for some of our internal tools and documentation.

Edit: I see the author responded to "Why isn't this open-source?" on the About page, http://devdocs.io/about
Ask HN: How many karma do I need to downvote?
I heard that after you reach 500 karma, you'll be able to downvote comments. I've been looking forward that moment for a long time. Unfortunately, I have 502 karma now but see no downvote buttons :(
Nationalism is a relatively modern phenomenon. The founding of the US was part of the rise of Nationalism. The idea that your nation (I assume you are american?) represents 'higher ideals' than others is rather nationalistic don't you think?

From wikipedia:

With the emergence of a public sphere and integrated economy in the 18th century, a broader sense of identification with one's country began to permeate society. In England, the early emergence of a patriotic nationalism can be traced to the period 1740-1790 and was spurred on by many of the writers and leading intellectuals of the day. Many symbols of national identity became widespread, such as the Union Flag being increasingly adopted as a national flag, the composition of patriotic songs such as Rule, Britannia! and the creation of John Bull as the personification of Britain by John Arbuthnot.

The movement intensified and became overtly political with the late-18th century American Revolution and French Revolution; specifically the ultra-nationalist party in France during the French Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism#History
Does anyone know if this Twitter account is actually his? https://twitter.com/EJosephSnowden

If that's the case, then that is pretty good proof that he's doing ok, and can also connect to the internet :-)

However, scrolling down his Twitter timeline, it seems that there's a lot of auto-generated tweets. Not sure.
Yes, this was annoying enough that I eventually stopped. Two suggestions:

1) Add keyboard shortcuts, make them discoverable via an underlined character

2) increase the amount of space between the buttons so the tooltips appear over whitespace.

That said, I played for hours before giving up! Had tons of fun, thanks for making this!
> Arguing that an editor makes a big difference to productivity

If you don't see a productivity change from one editor to another, I have to assume you're linkspam.
You, as a non-US citizen, are not protected by our constitution. Nor am I, a US citizen, protected from your government.

I have no grounds to "raise outrage" at my government for spying on foreigners, much as I might disapprove. They don't break any laws when they do that. Moral rules, yes; disrespect to our friends and allies, yes; laws, no.

When they spy on US citizens, they tear up our Constitution in doing so. The outrage is less about the spying - although that is obviously very important - and more about the laws they are breaking.
No way that general encryption of personal, non-financial data would remain legal long after this became the norm. These syping programs are more invasive than outlawing encryption.
What is Ctrl-U? "Copy Under the popup banner"?
Yes, if nothing's there, nothing can be found.
Started by the US? I can't think of a country whos people are more fervently patriotic than the US...
Is the european model better? I will trade my european passport for the US one anytime.

But, sure, I also feel there is two kind of people, and if you are not an US citizen, you are screwed.
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I wonder how many black hats are using fake NSLs.
I have a candid question then: what did drive the mess of wars in Europe before that? Germany, Switzerland and Italy were a mess of little independent territories fighting each other.
I don't think all of those wars where based on religious grounds.
Yes but this is happening in other countries for both citizens and non-citizens, it is naive to think otherwise. Just as it was for Americans after 9/11, and even before. If there is lack of backbone on the people to stop it and they allow giving up rights with no fight or questioning it, it will continue. It is not distinct to the US, this is happening everywhere.

Now we know factually (previously assumed) that it happens in the US as well, I think most people here in the US are just surprised it is also happening to them. That was the last place people assumed privacy, as a citizen. You'd expect intel agencies in every country to gather as much information as possible unless the people of that country object loud enough, I am not for it at all but it is the new game.

I am sure this is also happening at gov't levels all over the world in addition to private companies. Business ideas and data stolen everyday, gov't intelligence agencies sifting right off the lines.

The age of digital privacy just seems to be over sadly, too many technology tools to not abuse out there. Changing it will be difficult, encryption doesn't even help. Personal servers, computers etc are the easiest thing to get into. The only real protection would be at the service/cloud level and having stronger security/monitoring like financial + trading markets have. But then you have the situation where gov't intel agencies just go to them to gain access. Not even sure how to change it. Explicit protections in the Constitution are footnoted away with executive orders and fear based legislation.

The permanent record your teachers used to warn you about, that exists now for real.
"sometimes all the energy and time put into editor discussions dishearten me"

And he wrote a post about it. That's putting a lot of energy, isn't it?

It's interesting how one can feel attached to a sophisticated tool being it just a mean for obtaining something else. It's like these "vim powered" buttons back in the 90s web. Why is that relevant?
I don't understand the psychology behind complaining about "pointless HN discussions" while submitting a link to that complaint, which, coincidentally, is on the submitters website. Maybe someone can enlighten me...
In this job, what really makes our car go faster to its destination (using the metaphorical conceit) is the expressiveness of the language, although that is a hard thing to measure.

Editors all have their own language to them, the set of bindings they provide, which can be combined to do what we have in mind. Programmatically re-formatting text (through the use of macros) is one way for an editor to be really expressive. Then, giving an API and a language to actually statefully program your actions can give you even more expressiveness.

My point: language wars and editor wars are one and the same.
I love to hate the "refactored design". If it's truly just "completely reorganized to emphasize the commonly used features," then it's just a theme. Let the user choose the theme, don't force it on them.
What a shitty article. This is the level of discussion it deserves.
I spent a decent amount of time looking at Lamina, and while I liked the concept, the implementation was, imho, a very complex set of macros and dynamically built Java types and interfaces. It did not feel like the "clojure way" and just following the code of a single message send was painful.

Will core.async be similar in it's implementation complexity?
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Undoubtedly, CSS Designer Tool consisting of several panels has become a major update in Dreamweaver CC.
well, what hitler and stalin did also was didnt break any laws, because they had changed them, just like US
I would say Norway? people don't put a gentle flag at the window or on the porch there, they put an actual pole in the middle of the front yard
> Earlier this week, I searched for “Pride,” expecting to find out more about Pride Weekend in San Francisco. DuckDuckGo seemed to have no understanding of that context, whereas Google’s first results were exactly what I was looking for.

In the meantime, everyone studying philosophy or psychology in the San Francisco area is probably bashing their head against the wall, because they want to find starting points about the moral implications of pride or its psychological cues.

The Google bubble is a good thing in about, what, 1% of the cases. Don't fall in love with it.

> It must be no more than 200-300 ms, but it really makes a difference.

At the risk of being impolite, this has to be the most retarded claim I have ever heard from someone who is doing programming, ever since I heard a colleague of mine revolutionizing virtual memory by thinking how the MMU could instantiate another MMU to avoid stack overflows.

You can literally compensate for the time you need to make 100 queries by getting to your office 30 seconds earlier.
And there went my whole night.
Tesla asks to sign the petition
This is from their email:<p>As you may know, Tesla is under attack from a number of car dealer associations in various states who are challenging Tesla's right to directly serve our customers at Tesla Stores and Service Centers.<p>Their efforts are protectionist in nature and infringe on the right of the consumer to choose how they purchase and service their vehicle.<p>An anonymous Tesla enthusiast created a White House petition to allow direct sales of cars to consumers in all states. We want to thank the tens of thousands of fans who have voiced their support and have already signed the petition.<p>We want this petition to succeed. For that to happen, the petition needs 64,000 more signatures by next Friday, July 5, 2013.<p>Please act now and take a moment to register, sign and forward the petition today!<p>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-tesla-motors-sell-directly-consumers-all-50-states/bFN7NHQR
Doesn't look real. No mentions of his fathers interview and no one in the mainstream media has spoken to him.
That's what Bitbucket does (after a fashion, the default home page is actually called Overview and displays the readme at the repository root and below it a recent activity history for the repo)
Sorry for the late reply :-). Canada is the first that springs to mind, and there is at least one European country (from the ex-Communist block no less -- Romania -- that does the same thing under certain circumstances).
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Greenwald says it's fake.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/344333485550485504
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Silicon Valley can be plenty narcissistic, yes, but it doesn't strike me as more narcissistic than the rest of our society.
> things like language composition, number (or existence) of tags [...] are all very handy

Why? How? I just can't fathom what use they could be outside of pointless wankery.
Outrage generally isn't triggered by breaking laws; rather, "moral rules" and "disrespect".

A certain strand in the US considers the constitution an almost sacred document. Their outrage is less about laws being broken, and more about a perceived violation of sanctity. I'm fairly confident they don't feel the same way about e.g. driving 5mph over the limit.
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Of course you have grounds to "raise outrage", if you disapprove at what they are doing. If you don't, that's a choice. Whether or not they break the law is irrelevant - they are meant to represent you - if their actions are immoral, it reflects badly on you, in particular if you do not speak up against them or otherwise do anything to reign them in.

Personally, I feel outraged when "my" government acts immorally towards foreigners just as much as when they do to citizens and residents. The distinction means nothing to me.

EDIT: I'm Norwegian, but I live in the UK and I've got plenty to be outraged about with respect to UK law and GCHQ etc. I haven't been politically active in about 20 years other than posting stuff online, but this is the first time I've started considering getting politically active again.
I should hope not. If the NYPD has been federalized then there are a whole lot of other problems. Although, given how the NYPD has been sending agents to other states, maybe they THINK they are a federal agency.
This problem has been encountered and studied before: see Appel and Zhao's paper, Efficient and Safe-for-Space Closure Conversion.
Yet, I - a non-US citizen - am subject to all your whims and power grabs. You can't simply hide behind the assertion that the US is just another one of many countries vying for supremacy. For better or worse, the US sets the tone and the precedences for all of the Western countries' policies, and to top it off it is by far the most powerful when it comes to the military and secret services. You - a US citizen - might interpret this to mean that things are going well and that "might makes right" and all that, but the moral bankruptcy of such a view should be obvious to pretty much everybody.

I'm a EU citizen and as such subject to yet more surveillance from my home countries and that's bad enough in of itself. However, the EU does not project its power outward at such a massive scale as the US does. In effect, the sum of US policy, international role, and military action means that I am subject to the US at all times, yet I do not have "real person" status.

Germany is by far not perfect, and has its own share of secret service scandals to look back on, but at least the German constitution grants fundamental rights to every human being, not just citizens. In an era where state and corporate powers are used so abundantly, so disproportionally, and with so much moral corruption, this kind of constitutional scope is clearly the way to go forward. Yes, citizens need special protection, but that doesn't mean everybody else is just a bag of meat. In fact, as a member of the civilized world, I kind of expect the many host countries I travel to to protect me as well.

The US lulls other Westerners into the illusion that you're our friends, yet this is evidently an absolutely one-sided pact. You take for yourselves sweeping rights and powers without oversight (both external and, let's not kid ourselves, internally as well), and you expect other people to bow and be exploited. Your response to this as a US citizen cannot with any ethical justification be along the lines of "well, if you can't make us stop doing this, you are too weak and deserve everything we deem appropriate".

Even if you're not interested in ethics, and you really should be because it has everything to do with protecting groups of people you are not a part of, you could at least view it from a practical perspective: this attitude is incredibly damaging to the Western civilization as a whole. Whether you like it or not, we're going to need each other moving forward.
I'm not the author but have written a couple of production web applications using Ur/Web and have found it pretty nice. The enforced purity took a little getting used too. If an error occurs during a request all side effecting changes during that request are rolled back. This is nice for the database side of things but dealing with other interfaces with the world (eg. payments, sending mail) required some work arounds. Nothing impossible to deal with though.

The FFI of Ur/Web is low level and easy to use. This made interfacing with existing C routines easy. When I couldn't work out how to do something in Ur, I just wrote it in C (well, actually I wrote it in ATS which compiles to C) and called it from Ur.

I did have some interesting issues in an application that had fairly heavy load. If one transaction is in process and it relies on data that gets changed in another transaction then one of them is rolled back and retried once the other has succeeded. Under very heavy load, where transactions required some semi-global state in the database, and all those transactions modified that state then these rollbacks would happen a lot and cause performance issues. Fixed with better data design in the app of course to avoid the contention on the global state.

All in all though Ur/Web has held up very well for me and makes it pretty quick to put things together.
Wish I could upvote this more. Thanks for sharing!
Currently the word "vim" appears 78 times in this post's comments. when in fact it's talking about "Sublime Text 3 Beta".

How is vim relate to this topic (except the fat it's another text editor)?
How about the fact Sublime Text 3 is a major version with just minor additions and fixes? this is strange ...

Why people tend to make a flamewar of everything related to programming languages and their editors? use wtf you like most, what fits your current needs best, and if you find something you like more or your usage change, switch.
These are full of actionable advice if you are planning to do or doing consultancy/product business.

Anecdote: reading [0] in Patrick's last Friday email was a light bulb moment for me. The timing was perfect as I was about to throw pre-launch page for http://www.ASPSecurityKit.net . Though the product’s target market is primarily software developers, still the copy should address what kind of systems they can build with the product I’m proposing rather than listing the raw technical features “activity-based, resource-aware authorization … Blah blah” and expect them to think what they can build with it.

[0]: a consultant hired to build an in-house CRM wouldn't pitch "Our CRM is going to be easy to use", they'd pitch "Your sales team will close more deals in less time when using our tool."

Edit: As a consequence, made it to HN home page, and collected a lot of interested folks' emails (in 3 digits).
There is an european passport?
Great analysis, indeed. I miss one thing though: what was causing the incomplete printing of 'Testing' in the loop?
Wow, this article is just dripping with cynical bile. Probably Sean Parker is a bit narcissistic (I don't really know because I don't pay attention to him), and 10k words does seem a bit excessive, however I read the opening paragraphs and Parker comes off pretty well, certainly nothing he's saying seems to justify this boiling rage. I also don't see how a wedding in a campground is some kind of environmental travesty.

I'm sure someone will pop in to correct me, but just based on these two articles the blogger comes off way worse. He seems to have some deep seated bitterness and envy about Parker's wealth and fame that he feels is unearned and the symbol of some great Silicon Valley decadence.

But it's important to remember that fame is a product of society, individuals don't choose what types of activities are eligible for fame. We have an entire industry of reality TV shows where people literally become famous by wanting to be famous and seeing who can make a bigger jackass of themselves to get people talking about them, so I'm hard-pressed to get my knickers twisted over the banality of startup culture.
"Cloning a repository happens rarely, but in the old interface it was one of the first things on the page."

No. It does not happen rarely. I do it all the time.

(I realize that other commenters have expressed the same sentiment among other things, but for me this is the key element to emphasize.)
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Ever since the publication of the NSA leaks I've been wondering if any of the NSA intel has been used to disrupt Occupy. With the well established lack of actual terrorists, it doesn't take much to imagine a bit of scope creep / budget justification for Occupy to have been classified as potential terrorists and thus in need of monitoring.

Once they started going over the collected data, how much further to specifically target key organizers? It could have been through blackmail (ala FBI's threatening letter to MLK) or just simply hyper-vigilant enforcement of all laws made so much easier thanks to the constant surveillance the NSA can provide.
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The combo of point 2 and 4 is what makes the real difference IMO. Since it's easy to provision a new box with a single command and you don't maintain state on them, you get disposable VMs.

No more going trough a list of VMs and asking yourself if you left any work on that or if you can scrap it. Just `vagrant destroy` and `vagrant up` when you need it again. Plus the provisioning bits gets tested a lot more.
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I really want to read the docs, but the contrast is too low and hurts my eyes. Please make your text darker. Refer to http://contrastrebellion.com/
`set -o vi` on bash command line to enter vim mode. life changing.
Frog Fractions is worth checking out, full stop.