skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I created a dummy package and allowed GitHub to create the tag for the release. It looks like it used a lightweight tag, and I don't see any evidence of any extra refs:

$ git ls-remote https://github.com/dlitz/dummy
23ed6e532fb4a3eb1403e0091885ccdb9f09b577 HEAD
23ed6e532fb4a3eb1403e0091885ccdb9f09b577 refs/heads/master
23ed6e532fb4a3eb1403e0091885ccdb9f09b577 refs/tags/v0.0

Pull requests, on the other hand, are stored as refs in the remote git repo:

$ git ls-remote https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto
10abfc8633bac653eda4d346fc051b2f07554dcd HEAD
...
a1bfcc4a20ab0def053df75db0bb12644e55553e refs/heads/cmac-wip
fd398a28e3a227a539b264a9f1e11287b904c7da refs/heads/hash-speedup-wip
10abfc8633bac653eda4d346fc051b2f07554dcd refs/heads/master
606b17789c1869597466c714134f138c51b938f5 refs/pull/1/head
7c3c142321f6aeb3e9ff502876e133d5350018e1 refs/pull/10/head
52fe776815416ce61a516ca060f93405b3cdf7cb refs/pull/10/merge
0c2bb473529795d29ad43ce0d14162d1e2c19027 refs/pull/11/head
...
00d0670bd7dca6bfb1c2dadaa76eaa364930ef78 refs/tags/v1.9a5
aae6caac7874411e311f034e3547a6412fe2f362 refs/tags/v2.0.1
40ae4256452c5cde1e714e3271af5028e96c5e1f refs/tags/v2.0.1^{}
d1ee050420f9a0fdacbf7c9f98c923ddfcc2a39f refs/tags/v2.1.0
033fc936155115b3a541387804e0a94820978498 refs/tags/v2.1.0^{}
812e01736ca936124daa36d15a4159e92a43b9db refs/tags/v2.1.0alpha1
a7748d0e65fe17fbcb20f7b086536c3ccf68de43 refs/tags/v2.1.0alpha2
...
Now that is a reasonable comment.
Why not just declare war? After all, the US and Britain are responsible for all that is bad in the world, and all of Europe other than the UK are innocent.

There is no internal spying or injustice, racism, or political or economic corruption in any of these states, and their economic policies only foster creativity and happiness. Governments in the EU are free of corporate influence, and vice versa. The world would truly be able to step into the 21st Century if only we acknowledged that it's the US that is holding it back.
Sounds like you re-invented the wheel.

Google Cloud Messaging and (to a lesser extent) websockets would have been better solutions.
If you're on Azure anyhow, why not use Windows and skip Mono? I don't have personal experience with either, but I hear that Mono is still quite a bit slower (although still fast enough for most purposes, I suppose).
Nice! Thanks for that tip.
It will just sit there until they have eroded our rights sufficiently that it can be used for any purpose. Storage is cheap, in particular when you print your own money.
I think s/he was simply pointing out that a "$500K bail" does not mean that the kid's parents were extorted for half a mill. That is not how bail works.
This latest release has actually prompted me to check it out. I had been meaning to but hadn't found an exact usecase for it yet, now I'm just going to try to build something with it, though I don't know what yet.

This kind of dedication to it is definitely what makes me want to check it out, you guys are doing some really great work on it.
Should this same approach to literacy also be applied to the machines we drive around every day?

I'm honestly curious. Because while I'm a hacker and know how to do many things with my computer, I'm literate because I fell in love with the machine as a child.

But I spend at least an hour a day commuting in my deathbox, and all I know is how to change gears, start/stop, and (more hp + lower weight = faster).
I honestly don't have any knowledge about the Middle East to comment on this, but I think I do remember that there was a tiny difference w.r.t. your Pearl Harbor reference: First, those locked up were US citizens (of Japanese descent); and second, Japan was not a democracy, i.e. the people there had no say and, hence, no responsibility. For the record: I get that the American political system is, uhm, messed up. But doing nothing is not an option anymore. This goes too far.
This is a cool idea :-) You should make a demo with just one object though, so it doesn't lag so much.
Unfortunately, in states like Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, the Dakotas, etc., there's only one protest occurring, and the states are large enough to make short notice travel all the way across the state impossible for many who may otherwise want to participate.
Why is this news? Of course they log mail for law enforcement, that's a no brainer! This has nothing to do with the NSA fallout and the fact that it's being framed as such is just silly.
They still made sure nobody in their own countries could go after them for stepping over international law. That is an important factor, because it shows that even "imperial" power is now aware (and somewhat afraid) of the new legal framework and must take it into consideration.
> I know what is illegal today

That is impressive, even if you are a lawyer.
>Does uncompiled JS count as open source or not?

No, it doesn't. The license indicates if it meets the requirements to be Free Software and/or Open Source Software. Was there a license header in the JS files?
Actually, it would be blackmail not extortion. Extortion is threatening to physically harm someone or their property unless they pay protection money.

Blackmail when someone threatens to reveal information unless a demand is met.

Regardless of whether blackmail is illegal, I'm interested in why you think it's immoral?
It doesn't really matter if the charges stick, does it? If you arrest 100 people you're sending a message to future protesters.

Also, kind of ridiculous that you need a permit to protest.
Can anyone compare/contrast RethinkDB to CouchDB and MongoDB?
Dunno, but if you are a frequent online gamer you probably know that 'minimialism' is a frequently used tag over at Kongregate and that there many other minimalist games that are not text adventures.

Notable examples:

Momiga (http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rogerup/momiga)
- one button, one dot

Midas (http://www.kongregate.com/games/wanderlands/midas)

This is not a minimalist game (http://stormalligator.com/this-is-not/)

Pretentious game (http://www.kongregate.com/games/keybol/pretentious-game)
Boxee is a nice app. As long as you don't mind giving them a list of everthing you watch and when you watch it:

https://grepular.com/Boxee_TV_Helps_Its_Self_To_Your_Viewing...

Use XBMC. It's just as good but doesn't have all the unnescessary social crap.
While this is not necessarily a box service, it will sync across many devices in a very secure way: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync-hero99371.html
I don't feel productive. For example, it's 10:37am and I'm still in bed, tapping this out on my iPhone.

I do launch a lot of stuff though. I think most of it is fairly MVP (Minimum Viable Product, as the kids say...:) and not super complicated. If/when one of my projects becomes popular, then I tack on the complicated stuff.

Also, when I'm building things, I have this irrational fear that some competitor (real or imagined) is building the exact same thing. So I work as fast as I can, as late into the night as I can. So I can beat them to launch.
Cosigned - a post about your processes from taking an idea to shipping it, with anything that helps you do it easier, better, or faster would be an interesting read.
Can you give some points on how you reached these customers? I have a product right now that my target audience (new mothers) love and could use some tips on accessing this audience that I'm probably not thinking of.
You have:

function project_expired(){
//do something to check the validity
if (current_time==time_you_set_to_expire)
return true
else
return false
}

Maybe you just want:

return current_time==time_you_set_to_expire;

O_o

Also note this is really easy to circumvent.
Because Meteor front-end bindings suck terribly. With sails you can use any of the tried and true front end frameworks like angularjs or emberjs etc instead of meteor's crap.

Disclaimer I haven't used Sails so this is not an endorsement for sails, just a reflection of my experience with meteor.
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Here's a case from 1970: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1776184466461190...

You'll notice that early on, it mentions Ex Parte Jackson, an 1878 case which established that the contents of mail are protected by the Fourth Amendment, but that the outward form is not. Mail 'metadata' has always been fair game, just as it would be fair for a police officer to observe your comings and goings on the street without any need for a warrant.

Then there's the Postal Inspection Service, which is the law enforcement agency that specializes in mail fraud (perhaps you've heard of that?) and which predates the founding of the USA.

I don't mean to be rude, but the fact that you've 'never, ever heard of' something doesn't mean anything special. You don't strike me as terribly well-informed.
Terrific post.

"Yes" to anything not absolutely critical also carries a below-the-sea-part-of-the-glacier opportunity cost to focus on the most compelling part of your offer.
You can check out the technical comparison (http://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparisons/mongodb/), and a more biased comparison overview (http://rethinkdb.com/blog/mongodb-biased-comparison/). Hope this helps!
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anyone feel like making an little web app for collecting all that instances that the ~terrorism-alarm~ is used against the common civilian, or in a way that doesn't have anything to do with the proper definition of the term?

All this shit is really out of hand, even if for some reason he was actually making a threat and really felt like doing that, would he be a terrorist or just someone going through an episode, with a mental instability of sorts? For example, in the latter case, there'd be no political reason so would it be terrorism? although indeed someone that is dangerous should be looked upon, maybe contained even of course, this metaphorical person going through mental issues would also need to be looked after. This is civilian rights destroyed right there in it's embryo form.

Also everything comes with the acceptance that 'terrorism' is the devil and you can do anything about it, then it's also a broad term and in every each and every country this globalized-american-reasoning is tapped for politics.

People can't say anything they want in supposedly private web places, say you're pissed and you just feel like releasing it writing, or talking... Surprised we still haven't got news of Heavy Metal Bands sent to Guantanamo for their lyrics... and when someone comes after them for a banality like this, the context is not clarified. They're instantly jailed and left there even after it's an obvious mistake? Why? As an example for other's that may be 'having too much thoughts'? The dumb sheep around there are already in line with your new authoritarian state and they'll comment "well, he DID said that in his perceived private message exchange with his friend, he should know he can't do that"

Demonstrators are labelled terrorists, pacific manifestations are,
brasilian protesters were, Ocuppy NY was

Moxie Marlinspike was threatened with the label for refusing to work in making surveillance state tools in an authoritarian regime, and in the oppressor regimes people are raising up, dictator calls them terrorists

Some weeks ago a rumor spread in Brasil that some welfare for the poor would be ended, creating a big mess... President said it was a terrorist action, even with no one knowing where this rumor came from, ignoring the possibility of a viral happening(and also that no terrorist organization ever had Brasil as target!!!)
Experts are divided on whether Twitter-controlled stocks will end us all
That would be fun to write. Maybe it should be my first Medium.com post.
Sails is based on top of Express. Like if Rails had Sinatra at the core
I think there where 5 or 6 places Google appeared last time I checked. Also about:config isn't really user friendly.
Excellent post! And great example of how to say no at the end.
thanks awavering ,it's hard to be surrounded by Javascript fanatics when the point is just to be able to read a doc about a framework. A txt file should be sufficient but no, today developers want to get fancy and throw at you every stunt they can pull ...
Vol: volume control and profiles in the shell for your mac
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No, I'm saying the infinite scrolling is annoying. What is the point?
There is also the redefinition of "weapon of mass distruction" that took place. If the the Boston bombing was the use of a WMD,surely Saddam had something that qualified...

At what point does any sovereign nation that we disagree with become a threat because they have traditional munitions that we consider a WMD? At what point does having a 5gal gas can and a road flare in the back of a truck become a WMD... When ever enough of the public can be convinced of the new definition.
I'm not sure "persecution" is the right word for this, but the DOJ unilaterally seized phone records for several Associated Press journalists directly from the telephone company without notifying the AP first.

Needless to say, this is a gross abuse of power; the AP couldn't even challenge the seizure in court because they executed the seizure secretly. It's particularly frightening because it dissuades anyone, particularly government officials potentially privy to corrupt programs & practices, from anonymously talking to journalists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/business/media/head-of-the...

EDIT: here's a Wikipedia article on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_inve...
Grabbing a company that's making some of the best living room hardware makes a lot of sense.

Have you used a V2 Boxee box? Its honestly almost unusable and underpowered from both a software and hardware perspective, even the remote feels cheap. Their D-Link V1 box was a significantly better but they didn't make it, it cost twice as much as a Roku and was only a hundred bucks less then an Xbox which they couldn't compete with. So they tried to take on Roku on the low end and flubbed it badly.

The one thing boxee has always done better then anyone else is their XBMC overlay for playing back local (or network attached) media. This is also where Samsung lacks, if anything this should be where Boxee's talent can play a part.
Meteor is a full stack (backend and frontend) framework that focuses on live data binding from database up to the dynamic frontend layer. Also it is not a traditional Node stack (does not use NPM).

Sails is more like RoR, it is like a traditional backend framework except that it's API-centric and has websockets built in. Sails is frontend-agnostic, and lets you use any dynamic framework you want (Backbone, Angular, Knockout, etc).
It would cost more, but what if the warehouse were outside the U.S?
It is not at all ridiculous that you need a permit to protest.

Take off the tinfoil for a moment and think rationally. What happens during a protest? Often, huge masses of people gather in a single public area (a street, a park, a government building, etc). While protesters are generally well-intentioned, wherever there are large gatherings of people, there are criminally-minded folk who seek to exploit this via looting, theft, assault, and other wonderful things that the dregs of humanity like to perform. Additionally, it often gums up public works, traffic, etc. It's important that the police (yes, most police officers are just middle class folks like us that are interested in preserving general peace) be aware of these types of things so that they can provide protection for both the protesters and the citizens of the city.
Is it "spying" for the government to remember information that he voluntary told to the government?
6% of Online Adults are reddit Users
I thought the article was well written and interesting but I had the same reaction you did: the first thing I would have tried would have been a force-graph.
I appreciate your optimism, but the reality is we don't have a choice on the issues that matter the most. The issue of NSA surveillance, the War on Terror, the Ware on Drugs, the deterioration of our civil liberties, and a lot more issues that directly affect every person in the USA are supported by both parties and by every major candidate.

Personally I think our best hope is to try to fix the media. If our media was doing what it was intended to do, keep us informed on the goings on of our representatives, the actions of our government might actually reflect the wishes and best interest of its constituents. Unfortunately that's not the case today.
If a tree falls in the forest, but that tree is not mentioned in the documentation – indeed, if the documentation says something like "there's this forest, we used to live there, it's dirty and primitive and stuff, now all the cool kids live in Manhattan"...

The point is, the beginners never find the tree. They get lost, kind of like I've gotten lost in this metaphor, and they go try something else.
Yep. If the government represented the will of its people, we'd have sensible gun control and readily available contraception. The government hasn't represented us for a long time.
I tried as well. It appears that these photons don't exhibit wavelike properties.
Thanks! Keep your eyes out for more news in the coming month.
Just because you're able to see the source, it doesn't mean that it is open source.

An example is the recent release of the Adobe Photoshop 1 source code. You can see it, but it's not released under an OSS license.

To be considerate Open Source, code has to respect those criteria: http://opensource.org/docs/osd
I'm sure with the right light frequency, x-ray or other, they can partially read mail through the envelope.

Not saying they're doing it, just saying it's possible.
Software in smart TVs need drastic changes. I won't go over the problems with the ui right now as I feel they are all pretty obvious, but what I think needs to get pushed is the connection between TVs and phones. Samsung is already starting to do this by having IR blasters on the galaxy phones and having ways to use to use the phone keyboards as a replacement for the on screen ones but it can go so much farther.

For example, parental controls should be available through your phone. You should be able to see what your kid is watching and also force them to watch something else "remotely", even if you're on vacation. or maybe they are staying up too late and you turn the TV off for them.

There are many other ideas but that sounds like one of the more useful ones as opposed to being more gimmicky (like gesture commands).
Might be from Joel Spolsky/Bill Gates:

"...a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f*-count, the better."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
How did you find out that you lost your flagging rights? Did the 'flag' link disappear?
I'm not surprised, and I think this is general knowledge.

When I move, I tell the post office my new address. They are able to reroute my mail to me (while the new tenant gets their mail successfully). The post office reads the outsides of envelopes, and understands that mail to the same address can be treated differently.

So the fact that they send digital records of all mail sent to the FBI shouldn't be a surprise. But still is, somehow.
Very cool and beneficial for indy musicians. Takes an actual need and provides an easy, inexpensive solution. I wish your venture much success!
Dwarf Fortress is probably a textbook example of anti-minimalism.
> If you are a hard-core Liberal it is time you wake up and realize the monster your party has created.

Pardon, but this is not a partisan issue. I do not mean to derail this discussion, but these programs have been in place since the 1970's (with mail covers before that) and both sides of the aisle are equally culpable. The programs themselves are now just receiving their proper public reveal and the fact that they have existed for so long suggests that the Pandora's Box has been opened and the only way to shut is to bring the programs to the forefront of the national conversation and demand, as a people, that it come to a halt.

Splitting it into a partisan bickering match is exactly what the politicians want because it confuses the real issue at hand. Do not play into their hand.
More interesting if you could make a mechanical one that would remove one envelope and forward the letter.

Then each data facility could reasonably process a few thousand letters a day, batching them for the postal service. After a few rounds of mixing, if there was significant facility-to-facility traffic, it would become impractical to find any specific letter's path.

Time for real world implementations of our high-latency packet routing algorithms?
While we're at it, we should also stand up for the second amendment just for shits and giggles. Invite all the NRA guys over and we'll have a "protect the two hundred year old amendments that were created with no knowledge of future advances/changes in technology/society while keeping to a paranoid delusion that the government not only cares, but is obsessed with and watches the small unimportant happenings of our day-to-day lives" party. I'll bring the aluminum caps.
Or current_time >= time_you_set_to_expire...
How Human Brains Could Be Hacked
An example of provisioning and deployment with Ansible
Does the gov't need a second warrant to open a letter-in-a-letter?

Interesting question; I'm guessing no, unless the interior letter contained obviously privileged material (eg 'Dear Father, I hope you are well; enclosed is a letter I received from your lawyer after you departed, which I forward to you unopened. Your Loving Son.'), in which case a warrant would probably not issue for the contents.
What about those of us who aren't "trust fund kids"?
For number 1: A contract review can be done for around $200. Other than bottom of the barrel, rentacoder projects, it won't add a significant cost to the project. If a client doesn't pay, having a lawyer write a letter will take a few hours and cost a few hundred dollars. It doesn't need to be a top of the line lawyer - just being from a lawyer will scare most companies enough to pay the bill. It can probably even be added to the contract that the cost of such a letter is tacked onto the rest of the bill if it needs to be written. This kind of thing is a regular cost of business, and the companies that are likely to cry about the tiny extra costs are often the same companies who won't pay on time. In other words, having the contract done correctly helps preemptively solve the problem of clients not paying.

For number 2: This seems like a reasonable assumption to make for the majority of people reading HN. It's ridiculous to promote a weird, probably illegal, blackmail scheme because a dozen people on HN can't use their court systems.
Rather than incompetent, it looks brazen to me. They don't do this unless they know they can get away with it, and that makes it scary.
Thank goodness the US is the only country that spies!
So you can see all your old commits? You mentioned something about it looping I thought. For me it just goes back all the way until the beginning of time.
I think the whoishiring threads are enough, if you did it just for fun as a side project then its pretty cool.
Just in case, I've set my DVR to record this. This is very interesting! You might not want to miss it!
>where you try to force mate

There is a word for that.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

Millions is probably overstating it though.

FTA:

"An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances."

Which might place a rough estimate of tens to hundreds of thousands (depending on how many would be in the Military, work directly for the Govt, or work on other programmes)