skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On April 17, Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney had ordered the seizure of thousands of dollars in defense funds, [...]. Although the funds were apparently listed in a still-sealed financial affidavit provided by Brown’s former court-appointed attorney, it remains unclear how the money could be legally seized.­

And it doesnt matter. It doesnt matter HOW; what matters is that the judge is doing it and nobody can stop him. The judge is getting nasty by trying to play this game of time and funds that US government has been guaranteed with unlimited resources of both. You cannot win this one. Not unless you buckle up with year or so of time and strong financial backbone to appeal his decision. But how can you appeal and hire attorneys to do so if ... your funds have been "legally" seized??

Ladies and Gentleman: tyranny, dictatorship and despotism at its best! Welcome to the North American Union -- the U.S.A.
I agree, I'm definitely familiar with 20-something relatives having trouble entering the workforce in Korea, but I've never heard of this particular phenomenon there. I've heard of different issues, like PC bbang/gaming addictions and the occasional shut-ins.

It feels like all the pieces are in place for a Hikikomori-like phenomenon to hit in Korea, but somehow conditions are just different enough it doesn't happen. It might be that the cultural pressures to get a job and get married (and get out of the house) are just ever so slightly stronger. It also doesn't hurt that it seems more socially acceptable to seek employment outside of salarymanship to Chaebol. Sometimes I think it seems like every person in Korea has tried to start their own business at least once.
Localized Challenges - A common myopic view of engineers
Good thing elections are coming soon. Merkel must be freaking out about it, and willing to do anything.
I agree with everything you said :)

Great example with the freeloader/unemployed comparison. I'll put that in a mental drawer so I can use it in the future :)
The Secret to Your Success? Make Others Successful
European watchdogs order Google to rewrite priv acy policy or face legal action
Not really. They have been supporters for "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" / "stock data saving" / data retention for quite some time and now realize that the populace is not amused by the NSA shenanigans.

So in their infinite wisdom, they replaced it with "Mindestspeicherfristen" / "minimum storage limit" / data retention.
Perhaps you should deploy an alternate version, and meassure conversion rates? ;-)

Seriously, I think you make a great point of selling your service. I also think you gloss over things like cyclic variations -- but I'm not sure it's your job to educate people in the subtle art of fact oriented market research (or what one should call it).

For those that don't have the time to learn, changing it probably wouldn't matter. For those that do -- chances are they probably will find it out from a more comprehensive resource (like, say, a good book).
> P. S: Sorry for the long&sad post.

It's not sad since you sought help! Keep it up, you only have great things to look forward to!
Does this need funding? I'd be more than happy to chip in some pennies towards this effort.

In my experience it's surprisingly hard to recruit good quality ops people. Actually it's hard just to get recruiting agencies to filter well for ops jobs but that's another story... Anything that might help this is worthwhile investment.
EU Parliament supports the possible suspension of U.S. data sharing agreements
Orders for Tegra 4 come in at a trickle
@gojomo, this is what I had thought the original poster meant. Shame it was a better, nicer joke that way around.
I was recommended to use alibris once, but never did so can't say one way or the other
http://www.alibris.com/
I personally find it „too much effort“ to scroll down all the way. Nice story, but make it somehow shorter and choose a storyline that is familiar to people so they only have to concentrate on the A/B-aspect because otherwise the story is distracting.
Would be great to get some feedback how the site is doing (compared to previous versions).
I used to be an avid Borders customer; I could physically go to the store and check out their computer section and through serendipity I would find things I liked and buy them.

They were enormously overpriced, like most computing related books outside the U.S. ($100 NZD +), but I would wear that because I liked the experience.

This was in about 2003. By 2008, the section which held the long tail I liked had shrunk to maybe 2 shelves. They no longer kept the kinds of books I liked in inventory, just "Photoshop for dummies" or perhaps the odd "Learning Python".

At the point where everything I might want had to be ordered in and would take longer to arrive than from Amazon, I stopped bothering to go :/
Works fine on iceweasel 21 (Debian ff rebrand).
In Which I Fix My GF’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
We do have statistics that 60% of people scroll till the last slide.
awesome animation :) love this way of explanation compare to a video cast
Exactly. It's pure spin, the content stayed exactly the same, they just replaced some words. Apparently done well enough, to confuse even Spiegel Online.

Here is some reporting on it:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%...

http://netzpolitik.org/2013/spiegel-online-ente-union-gibt-v... (German)
Coming soon to America, except in creepier drone-shape.
As funny as that is, the majority of those are kids. Kids that just had their hopes and dreams shattered ;)
lol. Certainly my two main groups of friends spend most of the time joke insult and threatening each other. One layer of sarcasm is the bare minimum.
Feel free to point out the errors exactly. We went from a collaborative environment to near-zero connectivity as the norm. You could even see the fact that people still swap out .ptt and .doc files via e-mail as direct result of that.

We have far advanced the time-sharing era systems in terms of connectivity, but the comparison is not such a hyperbole as one might think. A lot of research today is a revitalisation of work developed for time-shared machines.
1. You've proven my own point true: that even after competition from others, yahoo can still continue buying companies. Similarly, I'd argue yahoo can hire great employees for lots of money(but less than aqui hire) even if google etc decide to compete with them in matching salaries.

2. Start ups are hard. But when so many joe schmoe start ups that have created so little value get acquired for 50M, all of a sudden it lowers the barrier for start up success and makes more people want to do it.
Privacy is not even necessarily the issue per se. Data is going to be out there in increasing quantities, and it's naive to think that we can force it all to be private. Obviously some legal controls should be in place to prevent corporate entities from abusing the data they collect, but that's really a secondary issue.

The primary issue is that the government is our representative, and we have never given them the authority to spy on us in this way. Even if all the data were public the government should not be doing mass surveillance to ferret out terrorism. If terrorism were 1000 times worse than it is in the US it would not justify this activity, but given the tiny problem that terrorism actually is in the US, it's shameful how quickly some people are willing to sell out our principles for the false promise of absolute security. These are the stepping stones towards tyranny which are being built in the face of an apathetic public behind the smokescreen of the legend of America's exceptional liberty.

So many people believe "it can't happen here" and just nod along when Obama declares the necessity and level headedness under which this is all occurring, but even if you give them the benefit of the doubt that everyone's intentions are pure and no abuses are occurring at this moment, the apparatus will not be dismantled, and it will only be a matter of time until someone comes into power that does abuse it. It must not be allowed to exist; certainly not in our names and with our tax dollars.
If I have my opinion, I probably have reasons for it.

Taking everything from an emotional perspective is dumb.
We have provided people with easy ways to voice their thoughts and we are now confronted with what everyone should already have known: that people have a lot of 'bad' thoughts.

Every teen has at one occasion thought: I feel like killing [everyone in school, my team, my so-called friends, my brother, my ...]. Writing such a thought down gives it extra power and a screen doesn't confront you with a person and make it easy to misjudge whether you can press 'send'.

Monitoring that speech and acting on it, directly by the government or indirectly via 'concerned citizens': that way lies police state insanity.

So the answer is emphatically, decisively: no. You should not want to report this.
Retailer's purchase price is almost always a percentage of the cover price.
Wow, this is really pretty cool. I'm surprised not more discussion on it. Thanks for sharing.
RFC 6698:

>The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)

> Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698
Care to elaborate? I presume this figure does not assume you have a spouse or children to support.
>Japan that seems to be exported the most is the futuristic, over-populated scenes from Tokyo...

Flashy loving != Flashy itself.

Shiogama, for example, is primarily centered around the fishing industry. You can imagine what my friend was compelled to get into when he had his heart set elsewhere. Since the tsunami cut deep into the family income, he was a little more accepting of their needs and slowly, but surely, he's growing out of it. It may take years for him to fully integrate into society though.

Also, people need to stop thinking of Tokyo as a "city". It's big and varied enough to be a "county" in the Western sense.
"Every nation gets the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre.
Thank you, this quote suddenly really clicked for me. I had interpreted it as an indictment of apathy. It's actually a statement of fact, the government refelects society.
I agree with you that only hiring smart people is not going to fix any problem. But thats not the only thing thats happening. After reading dozens of Quora discussions on Yahoo over the last few months, I am getting the impressions from current employees (and former employees who are in touch base with their former colleges) is that there are also very big changes on how these smart people are being managed. I remember reading about:

- "All hands on deck weekly meetings."

- More emphasis on what the employees want and need to perform better and taking care of those solutions.

- Open door policy, if anyone needs to talk to higher ups.

We don't know other details, but I am guessing these are positive changes.
Spies, Hypocrites, and Fools
http://www.hetzner.de/ quite solid and have great prices too.
> ... the FBI has been asking Verizon for "community of interest" records ... Verizon, though, doesn’t create those records and couldn’t comply.

Ahem.
My opinion is this:

Tech solutions (encryption everywhere, VPNs, etc.) are necessary, but will only help us let people to work on "real" solutions (meaning: without being suppressed by the gov't along the way).

And the only way to make sure this kind of mass surveillance can be kept from happening again, would be to set up a new government structure that guarantees that budgets are kept so low that it's not possible to create it again and keep it running.

Of course, that would imply that this apparatus has to be stopped, first.

As for the kind of government structure required, I'm thinking:

Cut the central government to a strict minimum and give the states back their power: Decentralize as much as you can.

As a bonus, this also leads us away from the single-point-of-corruption-and-failure which a powerful central government is (just like with the Internet).
But who called Einstein a crackpot at the time?

He had a lot of weight behind his claims.
Node.js can replace wordpress?
I completely agree.
This really bothered my during my AI course.
More then half of the course were just search algorithms, calling that intelligence is stretching the term.

What i actually have been thinking about is that ai researchers should instead look at having several databases of knowledge in one agents with maybe one "neutral" base database.

This is because of my recent interest in MBTI and Socionics systems based on carl jungs work. Here every human has four main functions and each function has two positions (attitudes) giving a total of 8 real functions and a total of 16 human types. Each real function vies and models the world differently and each human has a priority of their function chain, every human has all the functions just in varying strengthen.

So i have concluded that for an ai to actually be more like humans it needes multiple databses of knowledge, or at least one neutral database with views on it. Example could be a physical database but were the things could be label and valued according to function in the real world or emotional attachment based on the memory of the agent.

The important thing is the coexistent of multiple worlds instead of the singularity focus that our ai focus has. Most of the ai debate is between choosing of multiple instead of seeing the solution to have both (all) models.

Here i am finished i will just give an overview of the functions for anyone interested:
Thinking
Feeling
Sensing
Intution

Thinking and feeling are judging functions and sesning and intution are perception functions. Each function has a subjective (intravert) and an objective (extraverted) attitude (position).
For example intraverted feeling is paying attention to your own feelings and value system and being true to them. Extraverted feeling is knowing the groups values and taking care of your fellow humans.

Well i will end with coffe makes wonders.
Your remark "I recommend the chihuahua is male and great dane is female" is interesting, but how true is it? Has anyone experience? Is it harder for a small female dog to bear puppies from a big male dog?
> And the people writing to him are clearly not doing their own due diligence either.

The people writing to him are eight years old. And he is making fun of their inability to spell.
> (like, say, a good book).

Can you suggest one?
Culture is set by the execs, and their senior managers, not the developers. Buying up new companies won't change the culture unless they are integrated into a new management structure. Sure, a good junior or mid-level manager can maintain a strong culture in their team/organization. BUT only with senior exec support - otherwise they will fall under corporate oversight for everything - from facilities policies (free snacks, beer, soft drinks, breakfasts? huge desks? breakout rooms?), HR processes (hiring, performance, salary increases, role changes), IT processes (hardware/software freedom), etc. There are talented managers who can present a view of full cooperation, but still do their own things - though again, to pull that off, they usually have some senior exec support. The more contact with the rest of the org. the more its culture seeps in.

Just think about it in terms of code - you write some code as a standalone demo - to bring it into your main application, you end up having to integrate into most of the existing framework, and that influences the original demo code - often for the better, but that depends on the quality of the existing code base - and how well it was architected (by the code equivalent of the execs).

Very few companies do acquisitions where they carefully protect the acquired company. The assumption is that the buying companies culture is better! One company that does do this quite well is Conde Naste. (Wired, Reddit, etc. all have quite separate identities, and from the outside appear to have autonomy.)

When you start to see an exodus of long term Yahoo! execs, then she's probably doing something right. Whether Wall Street would reward her for that, is a totally different question!!!
East Asian alternatives would be helpful to some of us, too, if any commenters want to mention those. Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, or anyplace else that has reliable connections would be excellent.
Not everyone lives in the USA. Your amendments are utterly irrelevant to Europeans, for example.
Here's the official directive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
Good point. We are heading into a direction of a new society which put a lot less trust on institutions, a p2p society, sort of. Nothing which isn't independently and technically verifiable will be trusted, and government will encircle itself, being put out of the loop in most transactions, personal and business (which includes paying taxes, too).

Except PRISM, other point were the banks - this isn't visible from the U.S. much, but when Greek bonds were defaulted it was done in a way which avoided the technical default - so, credit-default swaps were not triggered, and people and banks who bought them lost everything. After that, Cyprus banks bankrupted but also in a way avoiding the legal bankruptcy - instead, government instituded a 'tax' on their deposits. All lies! Which means banks also cannot be trusted any longer.

With the banks and governments out, what remains?
I understand RSS and I have written programs that parse RSS feeds. I was just wondering why was Google's aggregation better. It seems it has to do with the management of feeds and read/unread items, but that is just a basic interface.

I would have loved to see auto classification, user defined topics and content recommendation. That would have made a much smarter RSS tool.
Stars of David coming out of the "A/B-Testing" explosion - I bet it's some sort of clever innuendo, but it just seems to escape me :)
http://edis.at has some great european options, and they are based in Austria it seems. I have been using them before, only for a little while but they do have some cheap options. I have not done any benchmark so I cannot say anything about the performance. Worth looking at though!
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Hey all, great discussion. Apologies for not chiming in earlier, I posted this to HN in the morning and left for 4th of July activities, certainly not expecting it to make the front page. Here're some thoughts and clarifications:

* No, I am not a cryptography expert. I've had a nascent interest in the field for awhile and this was my way of getting my feet wet while scratching an itch. I thought I'd post it on HN to get feedback and see where I might have screwed up.

* I'm here to learn. *

We all have to somehow right? A disclaimer is a good idea, I'll add it to the README.

* The project was originally motivated because I couldn't find a group chat service that provided an IRC-like experience with end-to-end encryption. The closest I could find was FiSH-irssi, an irc client plugin:

https://github.com/falsovsky/FiSH-irssi

I wanted to try implementing something that was easer to use. I ruled out IRC over SSL because the conversation is cleartext at the server.

* I should have mentioned this in the README and will update it -- The design goal for this system is to enable a group of trusted friends to communicate with each other over an insecure channel without fear of eavesdropping. It is assumed that a member of the trusted group operates the server. Forward secrecy was an additional goal facilitated by changing the room key. It sounds like my implementation did not achieve the design goal. What can I do to make it right?

* My intention was for the secret room key to be securely shared following the RSA key exchange protocol (encrypt secret with requestor's public key and sign with sender's private key, decrypt with requestor's private key and verify with sender's public key). The problem then lies in how to properly exchange users' public keys. If I trust the server but don't want the server operator to read my conversations, is it not okay to facilitate public key exchange through the server?
Nice... references would be much, much appreciated!
Twitter, Facebook and similar services have provided people with easy ways to voice their thoughts at whim. We are now confronted with what everyone should already have known: that people have a lot of irrelevant, illogical, uninteresting, confusing and reprehensible thoughts. I sure do.

Every teen has at one occasion thought: I feel like killing [everyone in school, my team, my so-called friends, my brother, the neighbour dog, ...]. Writing such a thought down gives it extra power. A screen doesn't confront you with people, which would make your brain stop and think, so it is easy to misjudge whether you can and should press 'send'.

Monitoring that speech and acting on it, directly by the government or indirectly via 'concerned citizens': that way lies police state insanity. It means the system, and many of the people in it, is in denial of the complex, inconsistent nature of humans. They want clear rules, easy judgments, binary divisions between right and wrong. They lose sight of what 'being human' means: a huge variety of things, not all of them pretty, but all of them human.
http://brightbox.com/ is quite good. Based in England as par as I know..
¿ Do you know that Linode has London based servers ?

I rent some of their London servers happily

( aside from cancelling my credit card the other day due to a breach, no-one's perfect )

Edit: I see you're concerned about data-privacy... so latency is not your issue

--

In that case I also use:

* Hetzner.de

and in the past I have used

* FlexiScale ( based uin Reading, UK )

This is more akin to Amazon EC2

http://www.flexiscale.com/products/flexiscale/pricing/
DigitalOcean also have servers in Amsterdam, but they don't fit the OP requirement as they're run by a US-owned corp
>P. S: Sorry for the long&sad post.

I think it's good for us, whether we've been blessed to have never had to deal with such demons or we've recovered from our own dark times, to be reminded of the fact that there are people out there who are quite like us in most ways who are having a very hard time living from one day to the next.

I'm of the "since recovered" camp and even then, sometimes I forget about the struggles I have had and fail to be as empathetic and understanding as I could be.

I'm always grateful when others are willing to share their not so proudest moments and let us have a peek into their struggles and troubles. It sets me straight again.

So thanks.
Tim from Bytemark here - if you've got any questions or anything - feel free to ask them here - or email 'support at bigv.io' and put it to my attention.

With regards to privacy from warrants etc, we're currently considering a warrant canary - https://twitter.com/matthewbloch/status/348354514081951744
Thank you, that's so great to hear.
KLM is celebrating Comic Sans day today (NL only)
Fails when Ad Block Plus is running. Don't have time to figure out which bit Ad Block is blocking though I'm afraid.
Good piece. But why no attribution on the blatant paraphrase of another Madison quote? "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
Ask HN: Group Chat client that works behind a proxy
I'd love to be able to use the Hipchat desktop client with my team, but our corporate network requires a proxy server to access the Internet.

Is there an app that meets these requirements:

- Linux Desktop Client
- Proxy support
- Persistent Rooms
- Image and file sharing
- Desktop notifications
- Firewall friendly (optional)
- Commercial apps not a problem
- No browser-only solutions!

I've tried a few of the Campfire desktop clients on Linux (such as Snakefire), but some messages seem to go missing or don't show up until the client has been restarted.

I've also come across another product called OneTeam (http://oneteam.im/), but there is almost no mention of it outside of their own website. So I'm a bit sceptical...