skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also stopped using credit cards, but for also an second reason. Banks has started to view themselves as service providers with the right to dictate if, how and why I can take out cash. First they limited the number of cash I can withdraw to 2k/week, and secondly, the require an "explanation" every time I transfer money from the account. If the "explanation" I tell the teller is not satisfactory, then they will deny the transaction.*

That the purchase history is not mine is truly a large issue. The banks should not have any right to "listen in" on my transaction and use what ever information they fish out to their business advantage. They should be behaving as the bank of old, which was more of a care holder of assets than anything else.

*All based on banks in Sweden, and to a degree, Swedish banking laws
It's certainly easier to be ignorant. Ignorance is bliss, right?
> Conspiring to commit murder is definitely not protected by the First Amendment.

A charge of conspiracy requires at least two conspirants and an overt act.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1117
You could always connect to a Lahana[1] node for emergency situations. It's not as quick as a normal VPN and you shouldn't run a torrent client through it, but it works.

[1] - http://lahana.dreamcats.org/
I wasn't saying it was hard either. I was saying it's idiotic to say "it's awfully noisy in my head when I try to meditate, can you quiet it down for me?" If you really think that, then I suggest you've wasted a lot of time pointing at things and calling them arising objects and wasted very little time meditating.
For me as a scandinavian it still is the museum sign. Even after all these years as a mac user.
How many times do you explain and retell a joke before it stops being funny?
At that point it becomes a question of whether browsers can be uniquely identified so they can be tracked across sites. If the advertiser can place a cookie from site A and a cookie from site B, they don't have a way to link them unless the browser is unique. Users who care about privacy are going to have to defeat browser fingerprinting[1].

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
You didn't develop anything and you are sharing your idea, right ?
Aren't you afraid that someone will steal it ?
How do you feel about it ?
Kind of like Google Docs but less restrained? I like it.
JQuery panelSnap plugin v0.7.0
I'm thinking if this could be easy to replicate by re-purposing an old keyboard.
NSA Spying in Germany: How Much Did the Chancellor Know?
I started with Sublime and moved to Vim. Don't regret it for a moment.
Think about the massive diplomatic fallout the US government risked yesterday with getting all those countries to deny airspace to the President of Bolivia until his jet ran out of fuel and they could stop-and-frisk his sovereignty.

They want Snowden bad, like terrifyingly bad. He will never see the light of day if they get their hands on him. His trial will have even less coverage than Mannings's (zero) and he'll be held naked in an isolated concrete cell somewhere and force fed ensure to "teach all the other analysts a lesson" - you obey or you will become a walking corpse.
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I'd rather tell that to his prosecutors, but if you want me to further his depression and risk another suicide by telling him his Constitutional rights were violated, then hey, that's your prerogative.

I won't, though, because I'm not that much of a dick. And I'd rather allow the First Amendment Center do the talking for me, since I'm not a trained lawyer.
I'm not sure about that. Rails Tutorial uses Rspec extensively and gets some great recognition.
Thanks! Yes this is the most important first fix. Never underestimate the volume of iPad only users. ;)
Hm I dont know if we have pre-paid cards where I live, Nordics, but that is a good idea.

You could save a few bucks by booting into a live-cd on your usual laptop and using a coffe shops wifi I guess.
Are Android apks converted to BlackBerry10 bars still vulnerable?
Cool! Really like the idea. If you play your cards right, you could make Klikaklu a wonderful example of what social integration can do.
> (And you do know that the iPad came before the iPhone, likely from this very inspiration?)

...er, what?
Terrorist is todays communist, or yesteryears fascist, eugenicist, jap, negro, etc. Blanket arbitrary term to apply to dissenters you want to control and treat inhumanely, and society doesn't judge you for it because they are the "enemy" or "other". It incites an emotional response in people that let those holding the pen get away with way more than they should.
That's clever - I hadn't thought of that. But then I suppose we could maintain a list of IP's of known trackers and block on that level.
It just signals other people in his social sphere that they can question his religiosity of he fails to uphold his oath, nothing more.
When will the sheeple wake up and realize that the US is literally Nazi Germany.
@speeder
Wacky musical instruments? Mireia installed a pencil-piano and played the tetris song, for example :)
http://blog.mmontanyola.com/?p=73

Makey Makey is awesome..
Launching today- A service which attempts to solve sales for startups
A nice tool to play with and to make ppl see how easily home-grown crypto can be broken and why those simple hash(secret || data) constructions are not a replacement for a true HMAC implementation.

Note to self: Again, never ever implement your own crypto. Ever.
The most likely candidate to me seems some fringe right-wing types flapping their mouths in an internet forum. I've heard plenty of people at that end of the spectrum averring that the Occupy movement was some sort of Marxist 5th column under orders from Obama, or variants on that theme. Right-wing fringe thinkers like to fantasize about putting their guns to patriotic use in much the same way that leftist fringe thinkers like to fantasize about general strikes and establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat.

My guess is that the FBI was monitoring the person(s) floating these ideas but didn't consider them a credible threat.
No worries :)

Would love feedback on the interface if you are able. The interface feels pretty good with mouse, and seems like it would translate well to iPad, but I won't be able to test myself for a few more hours.

I thought about adding separate buttons that could be clicked, but decided that clicking on the map was more intuitive and fit with the game better.
Careful with the Nazi card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

There is a big difference between the US government and Nazis.

Doesn't mean we accept it, but Nazi is really not it.
Does anybody honestly think if this was a government agency doing it that this document would have just been Freedom of Information released?
Despite being an Org Mode lover, I have to add:Trello has a bit better multi user support.
This post in itself an in-depth review of HS,
You can also read
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=Hacker...
You're saying that the US tries its civilians under military law.

That's worse than Nazi Germany.
I found this article by Bret enlightening. The expectation, though, that Engelbart's legacy could be communicated clearly by the New York Times in the obituary is too high.

The headline reads like this:

> Douglas C. Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88

Imagine, then, if the headline read:

> Douglas C. Engelbart, Augmenter of Human Intellect, Dies at 88

The former is much clearer and understandable, especially taking into consideration the audience of the New York Times. Bret's article has the luxury of expounding and explaining to an audience that is sympathetic to his values; I myself was ignorant of Englebart's contributions as well as his personal ideology when it came to this life mission, and so greatly appreciate Bret's writing.

But, while the NYT article might seem untrue or ignorant to those who knew Engelbart and understood him, for most people, the appreciation for Engelbart comes out of the more 'mundane' things that were the side effects of his vision: the mouse, hypertext, etc. Most can appreciate the significance of these inventions, though the value of Engelbart's core works might escape them.
Top Ten Lists of Software Project Risks :  Evidence from the Literature Survey
I have seen a couple of pictures of Eyetap prototypes that look just like regular bi-focal lenses. But you're right, one has to do more work to implement the kind of stuff one would take for granted on Glass - I guess one would have to think of EyeTap as a more personalised "home-brew" Glass.
These types of of writings are often hard to come by, but they always provide a refreshing taste of an often hidden part of entrepreneurship.
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This is similar to node.js versioning, I think.
here is another Wikipedia article for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_terminating_cliche
Are the forums from collegeconfidential.com a good/trust-worthy source of data? I am not very familiar with the site but it seems like anecdata at best. Looking at some of the postings it seems like there is disagreement over the validity of the figures some people have provided.
There's hidden cost associated with offering a paid membership for "privileged" users, in that it affects the overall perception of the product. Many non-paying users would feel negatively about it, and start looking for alternatives. As a result, the membership fee has to cover (1 + lost users) advertisement revenue.
As always, it would come down to marketing. The secret would be to ensure that the sniper(s) appear to be lone wolves, rather than law enforcement agents. Any protests or occupations could then reasonably be split up on "safety" grounds, and at the same time the Occupy leaders would have to stay out of the public limelight for their own "safety".
They do have an export feature, which you can use to backup your data.
Well even military law itself doesn't seem all that right to me and the idea that teenagers or 20-somethings know what the hell they are signing into for any military service - to obey without question any order or face serious consequences, it's a huge problem.

But still, the US is not Nazi Germany. That is an ultimate extreme and to use it as a reference point guarantees you won't be able to have a serious conversation with the "other side".

But we are indeed turning into a very strange, unjust and highly unbalanced society.

The fact the government feels like they've lost control - and NEED to control - all of society with so much spying on EVERYONE, is a very bad sign.

As I keep saying, just wait until there are dozens of drones over every city 24/7. Then it's going to start bothering average people because it's no longer virtual.
See previous comments - the tuition assistance is from outside companies like Etsy. The school itself doesn't charge tuition anyway.
0. throwaway HN id
1. unwarranted extreme historical references
2. use of the word "sheeple" on a superior tone referencing the HN and reddit crowds as some kind of "elite" that knows better than the other sheeple

I'd say "gg, man!", but I don't fully get what's your game. But I'll upvote you just for good humor :)
Who can afford to throw CPUs at parallel compute problems today with GPGPUs available? Oil and Gas industry? Nope, the 3 biggest are nVidia customers in a big way. Finance? Nope, some of the smaller companies here have stepped past even GPGPUs and are now co locating FPGAs in the exchanges. Big pharma? Not that I know of, also onto GPU clusters in the 2 big cases I know there.

So yes I would be surprised. Surprise me?

Calling BS on?
Close. I'm not saying 'it's OK' but rather than they have a strong economic incentive to do so. Suppose, for example, that company A has revenues of $50m/year, and launches new product at a cost of $10m each year. Company B is a boutique manufacturer in the same market that pulls in $2m a year and spends $500k to launch a new product every 3 years. If they both spend 5% of their launch budget on advertising, Company A will be buying an awful lot more ads, and probably getting them at a lower price per impression.
"It's an important topic, but like you I preferred when HN was an oasis of tech away from this nonsense."

So you like playing with your tech toys completely indifferent to the actual effect of these toys in people's life.

This is called egoism and onanism, looking for granting yourself pleasure without caring for anything or anybody else.
Probably not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768008.

Still, don't be a tool.
The thing that makes this dangerous is the "system" certificate for core apps. If you hijack traffic to any update to such an app (and OEMs have a ton of such apps), you you can inject code before it's installed under "system" abs that's that.

No, you can't actually go poking into other apps' apks but how many people would press "update" if they see the package manager's "Installing Gallery update, no permissions required" dialog?
International collider specs
It was the CIA.

There is the possibility that they trend towards Mormons due to some belief/statistic that they are more likely to respect authority, or unquestioningly follow orders.

On the other hand, Mormons do a lot of missionary work where they learn the local language, in addition to customs, etc. This is also something extremely valuable to intelligence organizations.
Well I am more concerned about other aspects of this plot than its chances of reaching its goal.
There is no rooting involved
Most ideas containing the word "friend" are not "just business".
I double checked all of the listings myself, and only included scholarships that covered full tuition or more.
Alright, you tell me how you do it then.
Command Query Responsibility Segregation
It is only ironic if one perceives the right to protect personal information as identical to copyright of publicly published information.

To me, I value far more that people has a right to keep private information. People should have a right to not disclose information to the world about their medical history, religious belief, political opinion, or sexual preference. To me, to respect peoples right to privacy is not something that is open for discussion.

To respect copyright is however open to discussion. Is promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts better served with a "limited" life time + 99 years monopoly, or would it work better if we had frictionless creation? What kind of respect should general useful publicly published information get? Should we not consider the usefulness in allowing information to flow to any child and any person in need, regardless of that persons status in society? I would ask what the moral argument is in denying a child culture, just on the basis that their parents happen to be poor.

Thus I see no irony in Dotcom arguing in favor of access rights regarding citizens private information, regardless of any legal disputes he might have with the copyright industry.
I would definitely put that somewhere on the site instead of the link to cc.com that leaves people wondering how legitimate your numbers are.
/usr/local/bin is the first directory in my PATH variable
How can you claim we objectively know that someone is guilty or even that a crime was committed at all? Even the lawyer hearing the confession cannot possibly assert beyond a reasonable doubt that it is true with no other evidence.

So what's the scientific way? Maybe present evidence to an unaligned third decider that the crime happened and that the most likely explanation is that the accused committed the crime?
Zinn's book is worth reading, but shouldn't be your only source. E.g. it just skips over everything that couldn't be considered "A People's History", like pretty much all international politics; even if you like Zinn's (clearly-laid-out) biases just fine, it's rather incomplete as a general history book.

If you want to fill in some gaps, and want to ensure you don't end up as some kind of do-gooder, add Kissinger's Diplomacy. It's very interesting, and the ideas in it probably won't leave you wanted for war crimes in several first-world countries.
I think that what they really want is to send a message to some other potential leaker in the future to "think twice before you leak".

I think we should be careful with speculating about horrifying consequences of leaking illegal activities of the government to the press - we don't want to help them spread fear (assuming we want to know the truth). Who knows... maybe Snowden's act will really help expose and stop unconstitutional activities of US government and Snowden will overcome the bleak reality that he is living right now and live the rest of his life celebrated as a hero.
I started using Trello for this a couple of months ago. My "project" board has 4 lists: Ideas, Queue, Work-in-progress (It was "building" until I read your post), and Launched.

I like "work-in-progress" better than "building" because I use this board for more than just product-type ideas; I also use it for things like "learn about X" or "try Y."
Interestingly, 'thought terminating cliche' is also a thought terminating cliche.
Pretty abysmal list, even with a 4.0 GPA and perfect scores on every exam.
Douglas C. Engelbart, Computer Visionary, Dies at 88.
>The US certainly handled that better than Turkey.

How standards have eroded. Next time, we'll cling to "the US does better than Egypt"
Command fails without sudo as well.
It's an okay title, but the Mac has a different key called "control" that is unrelated (other than being a modifier key). That's not the key this article is talking about.
Every vision is flawed, because we are fallible. The question is what we do about that. Do we keep the product nailed to the flawed vision until the last user has gone elsewhere, or do we use feedback from reality, from users telling us what they need, to improve the vision?
So it's kinda like unheap.com
Nicely done. It'd be really great if I could link to javascriptoo.com/canvas and get that page with the canvas checkbox pre-selected, so I could link to it in presentations, email to my boss etc.
What have you replaced it with?

I regularly get emails in both Italian and English and it seems to get things right most of the time. And it filters out a ton of spam - I probably get at least 20 an hour, so without a good filter, I'd be "up a creek".
Yes he is. He says advertising is an attempt to undermine markets; there's an implicit corollary that markets operate more efficiently absent any advertising. Perfect competition and monopolistic competition are terms with specific meanings in economics, and Chomsky is asserting that they are isomorphic, which is not the case. I'm simply pointing out the absurdity of his argument by applying it to a market for goods that are not fungible - the work of competing musical artists, whose output is not easily substitutable for that of their competitors.

Being aware of stuff like this is, in my view, even more empowering. The idea that advertising panders to its readers in order to shift their preferences is so obvious as to be trite. In fact, Chomsky's habit of doing this to his own readers is one reason that I dislike him so intensely. I suggest you try Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media as a contrast to Chomsky's brand of polemic.
As an ex-hacker schooler (I was there for two batches), I've been part of countless debates around the whole financial assistance part.

Assuming men are the majority who are interested in programming, and in turn are holding majority of the programming jobs, would you agree with me in hypothesizing that women need a little more security in leaving their jobs, which may not be in the programming field? (I knew quite a few of them who came in from different fields and did programming on the side).

Agreed that the situation in which women are now wrt programming jobs is a chain effect of a whole bunch of other things - with reasons as deep as cultural. But I think the financial assistance is not meant to differentiate, it is only meant to give security to those who need it. A generalisation on that front happened to be in the form of gender. I hope this gives a clearer picture.

Also, I was an international intake and even though I couldn't get a visa to take up a job in the States, HS has only been as helpful as they can be in helping me try.
OK, so NYUD and SIXXS are "tunnels" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol which seems to work similarly as a proxy...
The fact that you see "Pen Music" and for some reason think you know what it's about makes me think you're not really in a position to decide what's a good startup idea or not. Learn to think outside the box and don't presume things. Else you will fail even harder than people trying to create problems.
wow, great work
We are programmable biocomputers shaped by Culture
cjambassador318, you're getting rather repetitive

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cjambassador318
He was not just an inventor of the mouse, but of almost all things we use in development today: collaborative editors, video calls, hypertext, versioning.

A Great Man he was.
Leukippos – Synthetic Biology Lab in the Cloud
And to think that some people were suggesting that Snowden should've just "followed the proper channels" or surrender himself to the US government after that.

What people who say that don't understand is that there is no "fairness" when you anger an authoritarian/abusive government that has little regard for laws, and even the Constitution.

And I agree he'd be treated even worse than Manning. Good thing Obama "reluctantly" kept passing the NDAA's indefinite detention clause for the past 2 years (and he will do it again at the end of this year if he's not stopped - well Congress, too), so they can keep him in prison as long as they want without even a trial for the next few years.
That nick appears solely dedicated to douchebaggery. It's not political raving, it's targeted at making fun of the members posting here.
Web solutions also require specific devices and web browsers, really; I can't think of a single jaw-dropping JS demo around here that didn't meet with several complaints related to it simply not working under certain browsers (and a lot more complaints about performance). Aye, if you put enough time and hacks into it, you get it to run on pretty much any browser. Until the next update, that is.

> require a very high level of competency in all aspects of development

Crude tools, development methods and principles are a surrogate for simplicity, not an actual manifestation of it. Barring the fact that you sacrifice performance, code maintainability and, to a high extent, security, I also think the question of productivity remains open. I find it stunning that young web developers are ecstatic about how their tools allow you to get from idea to result so quickly, when they are pretty much on-par with where Motif was in the mid-'90s. Not to mention the truckload of CSS hacks you need to make something that looks like a button (but without native looks) out of an anchor-that-really-shouldn't-be-a-button-but-it's-the-closest-thing-html-has-got. I don't think that can take us much further than compiled software could have taken us -- and slowly, but surely (with stuff like asm.js), it looks like a lot of people are rediscovering that.
well this is quite upsetting
No, it is not. It's a "code hosting" thing, which is semi-official, but is more like a code dump than a repository used for development.