skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The question is why?

Well Manning did things your way, and he was discovered and locked away, tortured. Maybe Snowden knew there was no way to hide that it was him that leaked the data.

Rather than just disappear (thereby letting the NSA control the story and write his motives), he chose to make the first move.

In my opinion, he couldn't have done it better.

> Why did he feel he had to attach his personality to the leak?

Don't be obtuse. He chose to speak out, and still the NSA managed to tar him as an enemy spy. Had he simply disappeared, he would have made their work even easier.
What do you mean by "mental cost" here? Cost of initial learning? Then I agree... But learning a language is an O(1) cost that takes a few weeks to a few months. We program with the language for many years.

I never said the Go runtime will crash, but your programs will, because of unsafe nullability, mutability in the concurrently shared state, and various other problems in Go.

Better concurrency in Haskell: In addition to having light-weight threads like Go and channels like Go, Haskell also has software transactional memory which Go lacks. Haskell also has `par` annotations on pure expressions that allow parallelization with guaranteed lack of effect on program semantics. Haskell also has data parallelism.
Not sure why he/she deleted their post, but for an excellent in-depth analysis of App Store pricing I thoroughly recommend Michael Jurewitz' 5 part blog post "Understanding App Store Pricing"

http://jury.me/blog/2013/3/31/understanding-app-store-pricin...
http://jury.me/blog/2013/3/31/understanding-app-store-pricin...
http://jury.me/blog/2013/3/31/understanding-app-store-pricin...
http://jury.me/blog/2013/3/31/understanding-app-store-pricin...
http://jury.me/blog/2013/4/1/understanding-app-store-pricing...

Theres a bit of Economics 101, and some very well explained real world data on app pricing. Essentially Michael's advice boils down to: try doubling your price. If you lose less than half your sales, you're now making more money than you were before.
RideApart is the Top Pre-Series A Company to Watch in L.A.
Not a great outcome for last round's investors. With a 1x liquidation pref, they just get their $10.5M back with some change on top.

Pretty decent for everyone else- especially founders, assuming they've got a significant stake in the remaining money.
While Orkut's fair game, the rest is Google X, which I'd consider a reasonably different ball-game.
Sure, but there's an additional check in "Facebook decides I am bad; Facebook convinces Govt I am bad; Govt attacks me" that is missing in "Govt decides I am bad; Govt attacks me."
>Yahoo is making a new portal

Yahoo already has a portal - that's what their homepage is and it's hugely popular. The nature of a portal though, is to transport the user somewhere - they are taking all their huge number of pageviews and sending those users on to somewhere else. Yahoo's acquisitions seem to be the opposite of making a portal - they're bringing more and more of the content onboard, trying to turn their portal into a destination. or rather, buying up enough actual destinations that the portal can promote their own products instead of lucky third parties.
Apple TV and Time Warner
It's terrifying how far European "leaders" are willing to go to suck up to the US Government.
Anybody read through http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf already? My car-tech knowledge is way to rudimentary to get a better idea on that stuff.
http://rense.com/general96/shockingplanerad.html Who wants to fly when all that radiation is up there from Fukushima? Or is this rense guy way off the mark about this radiation you get when you fly?
Agreed, here's a much better article from 2009 advocating the same thing, and with a code walkthrough even:

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup/
Any editor with ctags support should be able to provide this type of code navigation.

As an example, the Zeus IDE automatically generates ctags information for all files in the current workspace and it has this feature.

The ctags approach offers and additional bonus in that you can also do a wildcard search.

NOTE: I'm the author of the Zeus IDE.
http://blog.sciencelogic.com/netflix-steals-time-in-the-clou...

tl;dr: Netflix kills slow performing AWS machines due to resource contention
Apparently the US government is trying to see just how craven and vindictive it can be.

As Snowden says, they want to intimidate the next leaker.
Shoot an email to support@github.com with a link to your repository. A 500 isn't an intended feature :)
This might be even more useful as an ipython notebook so that people can modify and execute any of the examples.
The easiest way to host a notebook that users can try from their browser seems to be Wakari (public viewing, free signup needed to modify/run).
Adding on to what other's have said, I'll mention that while Go's concurrency features match Erlang's concurrency primitives pretty closely (`go routine()` compared to `spawn(fun routine/0)`, Go channels compared to `Pids ! {message}` and `receive`), almost nobody who does work in Erlang uses those primitives. Most concurrent/distributed systems in Erlang are built on OTP, the set of libraries built on those primitives, which has it's own set of higher level tools and abstractions (supervisors, gen_servers, FSMs) that provide a lot of the failsafes and profiling built-in. Basic Actor concurrency is simple in principle (but like most things in distributed computing) extremely hairy in practice, and OTP's libraries and templates take care of almost all of it (a reasonable analogy might be naked C++ vs. C++ with the standard libraries and Boost -- you CAN implement your own raw pointer-mungling data structures, but almost nobody does).
Understanding Startup Growth: Play with this Growth Simulator
Where do you get the idea that he has "no fear"?
Absolutely. Was struck with the same sentiment. Felt a bit happy that I am highly certain it's the kind of letter my dad would send were I in a similar situation.
Wow, type in a place as a destination that doesn't have an airport (like Flagstaff, United States) and it will give you a map of the area, showing the lowest price for all the surrounding places.

I had intended to fly into Pheonix and rent a car to drive to Flagstaff, now I can clearly see where it's cheaper to fly into.

Nice.
Python itself will allow you to do that (have an indent by 4 spaces, and a tab character on the next line) as far as I know, IDLE won't run though. Not that anyone should ever use IDLE.
Shutting down a service is understandable. Giving users several months' notice ahead of shutting down is nice. Telling users, "hey, fyi, this service will have stopped by the time you read this email" is a lousy way to do things, but it's the bare minimum.

Shutting down a service without telling anyone that the service is shutting down (unless someone specifically asks about it) is the kind of thing a fly-by-night startup does right around the time they let their domain expire.
Totally, my new homepage is my online RSS reader of choice. I doubt I'm alone there.
And you thought SF cabs were bad? SF Development Problems
We thought the Downloads feature was doing more harm than good in its previous form. Quality-wise it just wasn't up to snuff (failed frequently, flash, lack of design). Bad experiences on the site need to be fixed or killed. No one was willing to dedicate time to fixing it because they felt their time was better spent on other things so that left killing it.

The timing of the Releases feature only entered into the decision a little bit. It's hard to tell when something is going to ship at GitHub because there's no deadlines. Projects are done when they're done. The downside to this approach is that you can't rely on ship dates when making decisions like when to kill a feature something might replace.
Are you a command-line only/mostly person? For instance, if you're going to delete a file - you always do it in a terminal, never a file browser?
Because, sometimes, standards are wrong, purposefully allow implementation-specific choices, or are helplessly vague and everyone can't agree on the interpretation.

However, the right answer is usually to exceed the requirements of the standard in way that best benefits the consumer and meets business goals.
Indeed, but either the DFI knew this, in which case the threat was malicious, or they didn't know this, and the threat was incompetent. Either way, it's not a good position to start from.
Because it's not possible to keep who you are secret from the US government indefinitely. Better to go out into the open before they have the chance to smear you as a terrorist.

The media would write articles about who they thought you were - a chinese spy, etc.
Clearly the US should unilaterally stop all signals intelligence and trust all other nations to do the same.
That's so strange, the FM expressed displeasure towrads the actions of Portugal and France in quotes from the AP. I wonder if it was simply an excuse the pilot used to not make things more complicated at that point.
Don't be a creep.
Show HN: Flat-UI for Mintty/Cygwin Terminal
After having very little success finding color-schemes for Cygwin/Mintty, decided to make one myself. Inspired by flat terminal (https://github.com/ahmetsulek/flat-terminal) and solarized (https://github.com/mavnn/mintty-colors-solarized) decided to upload the flat-UI color-scheme I use at work. Current version uses a dark gray background though as opposed to the blue in most flat-UI themes.
I'm sure Yahoo will become the true market leader of the internet by simply buying a few startups every month


I mean, it reminds me so much of "trophy wives".

One does not simply BUY one's way into Mordor.
You're right regarding the security implications. We can't show vulnerabilities to someone who hasn't verified they own the site they've scanned, unfortunately. We're working on ways to message this better (specifically, having a "Step N of M" with titles for what each step is.

We have some one-off checks that are more 'instant gratification' like our Rails YAML vulnerability check (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/railscheck) and we'll be adding more like these in the future.

Sorry you felt it was a bait-and-switch...we'd love to make it up to you. Feel free to email us at support@tinfoilsecurity.com and we'll definitely try to make it right. :)
But Google's will still work. :)

It turns out it's a hell of a job to go through and figure out what to delete. It's far cheaper to just buy more disks and continue expanding the storage system and never delete anything...
In the sense that it is almost uniformly trash.
Heads up - I can't click any of the links in the header to learn about what Streak does.
Yep, and for some reason unknown to me, the Excel function for kurtosis actually calculates excess kurtosis. I guess it's a confusion similar to log and ln. In most maths packages log is the natural log and kurtosis is the by-definition kurtosis. Excel? ln is natural log and kurtosis =KURT() + 3.
The ability of the US government to bend other governments in a certain direction, is like a leak in and of itself, as I surely did not expect so many governments, including mine in germany, to be this intimidated by the US powerhouse.
Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverted
‘Through the Wormhole’ Considers Mind Reading
It's nice to see they defend Bitcoin itself as well as themselves. But then this nice thing might happen that governments can do when they're said to be unjustified in a request: they just change the law and then close you down instead of warn. Might be interesting to try and see them seize Bitcoin itself, but the Bitcoin Foundation is a legal entity that _can_ be shut down.
I am really surprised at how great the gap has become between the US Government's rhetoric and actual policy on human rights, foreign policy and government transparency.

I just hope that Americans realise this and demand change sooner than later.
Of course he's not expected to fix everything, but is it really fair that he leaks this information (which has, in my view, damaged the Government regardless of the legality of their schemes) and then he's not responsible for it any more? It seems, too, that he should be interested and involved in what actions are taken in the US to prevent such abuses of power from continuing or happening again in the future. Are these really unreasonable expectations of Snowden?
Show HN: Shasplit – Efficient backups by SHA-based data splitting
Looks slick.

Would it be a good idea to link this with a service like https://onetimesecret.com/ for transferring passwords?
I was an Opera user for more than a decade. Opera 15 is unusable.
I don't know Todd, but I'm assuming he donated the $3500 and he should state that to get more people interested.
How else are you going to get into the boy's soul?
NB: This is Chrome-only.
I remember hearing on the talk radio shows about one former NSA guy saying that to circumvent US laws, they established centers in England and sent all the data over there to be "interpreted" and "analyzed" - LOL! I now hear that Joe Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir, is now backing Oculus the HMD VR company everyone is excited about. How far do the tentacles of these people like Lonsdale, In Q Tel, and others reach?
What's the suggested method to securely exchange the key?

It feels a bit like this is a step backwards in many ways. Being a non-webmail user, how can I benefit from this? If this were an implementation of SMIME/GPG it would be more widely adoptable since anyone with a compatible GMail plugin, desktop, or mobile client could use this.

Edit: Good read about JS encryption and its downsides: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
I don't mean to offend, but this is what is wrong with the typical tl;dr summary; you've excerpted a core part of the argument, but you haven't explained the assertion made therein. To follow on (in my own words):

As Bitcoin is a separate currency from the USD, the kind of transactions that Bitcoin Foundation members are engaged in are in effect foreign exchange (forex) transactions, and Forex is not considered subject to money transmission regulations by the state of California.

I'm not sure I buy this argument, but haven't studied the legal background enough to form a proper opinion yet. the reason I was so pleased to see a link to a document with primary sources is that it makes it a lot easier to research the arguments therein, inviting good-faith attempts at falsification.
After 15 it's going to shrink a whole lot more.
Mitchell Hashimoto (Vargrant/Packer.io/Docker.io) on the Setup
Have they confirmed the body in the car is his?
>You'll use it in the end.

Apt wording.
Another possibility is that he had a nervous breakdown or substance abuse episode, leading to both the paranoid emails and the irrational vehicle operations.

Obviously I'm not saying that's the case, but the extremely irrational driving goes fits a theory of paranoid delusions (brought on by any number of mechanisms), just as the hacked car system goes with about to uncover something big.
I have a working Apple II GS! I'm pretty sure none of my floppies work anymore though :(
Oh, our governments here in Portugal never needed much to suck up to everyone else. The US, Britain, Germany, Angola, Gaddafi's Libya, you name it - they say jump, we ask "how high?"

During the Azores summit, while Bush, Blair and Aznar discussed the Iraq invasion, our PM (Barroso - yeah, the guy from the EU) was more than happy to be their busboy and serve drinks while the Great Leaders talked.
Purely in the spirit of "because I can", I fired up a 244GB EC2 instance:

1MB -- 0.310421895981 seconds

10MB -- 0.317299044132

100MB -- 0.409169948101

1GB -- 1.3299703002

10GB -- 10.8254830956

100GB -- 133.936514747

I noticed during the 100GB loop that the process oscillated between 100GB and 200GB, making me suspect that the 100GB string is actually being copied somewhere, which is inefficient and surely has a significant effect on the timings at larger string sizes. As such, I didn't go for a 200GB string.

And just 'cause most of us don't see 200GB python processes every day:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14571816/python%20200gb....
I have to second this. I hear VS>=2010 uses the compiler infrastructure to generate the intellisense data, rather than doing it (as VS<=2008) by simple text processing, and it's made a huge difference in terms of reliability. As well as improved support for templates, it also does a good job of handling code generated by macros. Newer Visual Studios might prove that the question "OMFG what could POSSIBLY be worse than the VS2008 C++ build system?" isn't actually rhetorical after all, but the code completion is much improved.

(On another note, Xcode. I'm normally pretty negative about Xcode, because it's mostly awful. But I believe its code navigation and code completion is done in a similar way - only using LLVM, of course - and that part does work extremely well. If anything, it's actually slightly better than Visual Studio, because its navigation shortcut is much better about giving you a popup list of all possible reasonable destinations, e.g., if you try to go from a member function call to its definition when that function is virtual.)
According to the AP, yes they have.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/la-coroner-ids-body-journalis...
I think the point is to be a bit more subtle than that.
It's true: you don't say something like "Well, Amazon just sucks." without backing the statement up with something more credible. As someone a little less savvy on the topic I'm glad to know that the test wasn't even close to the final word and why. Thank you.

It's probably also true that your tone is more abrasive than it needs to be.
That's classified!
SQL Server gives you both. They have a UI for everything, and everything you do has an option to script. So you might go through the whole wizards for replication, then when done, save off a T-SQL script. To my knowledge, there's nothing that requires the UI; it's there just to make things easier. Then on top of that, they expose an API you can use for further automation, if T-SQL isn't to your liking.

Your example is particularly odd:
RESTORE DATABASE bla FROM DISK = 'file.bak'
The docs are quite comprehensive, with lots of useful examples[1].

MS deserves some flak for UI-only, but SQL Server isn't one of those products (at least since 2005). MS products in general are also becoming much more scriptable, as Powershell access is becoming a requirement for new products.

I prefer a clicky interface for things I'm not going to do often (like configure a new cluster) or things I don't want to commit to memory or have to look up. Anytime I need to repeat, I either read docs and construct a command, or if it's a complicated thing, I'll use the wizard to generate a base script and modify as needed.

1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186858.aspx
For us another AWS benefit is the have a datacentre in Australia which is essential for us - storing our data overseas would require all sorts of extra legal hassle. Any performance boost from a different provider would be lost due to the extra network latency getting to the US.
There's a third possibility, which is that the BF argument is flawed and the DFI is actually correct.

I'm not at all sure about this and have yet to check, but I have my doubts about whether BTC/$ exchange can truly be called a Foreign Exchange transaction as BTW are not issued by a sovereign entity and thus may not be considered a Foreign Currency for the purposes of this law.
So.... what? Is the implication here that he was assassinated?

The email doesn't really seem all that panicked to me - I didn't know the guy, so maybe is he being panicked, but it just sounds like a guy who's writing to let people he works with know about possible legal problems.
I like how the hours, minutes and seconds are multiplied by something like (21.3, 4.25, 4.25) before hex conversion to cover the full RGB range, a cute touch.
I also couldn't find a link to the source to sort-of audit it, so, caveat user.
Can anyone think of another time this has ever happened? Two countries denying airspace to an official transport from a third country with no existing war or conflict involved? Bonus points if the head of state is onboard, but I'll accept other examples with only lesser officials involved.

It's absolutely shocking.
Make people sign up to G+ to use android. Bam! millions of users
Why are politicians and the government seemingly so incompetent when it comes to the value of digital products and services? This puts me in mind of politicians who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign website that has nothing unique or difficult to make it worth so much more than any other website.
It was great to read your post, I helped a kid called Palmer Luckey 4 years ago with VR HMD ideas. He took my help and others and has now took funding from Joe Lonsdale, coufounder of Palantir, and I lay awake at nights at how has this happened? This cool open source kid that we all liked selling out to the darkside of people like lonsdale and In Q tel, why couldn't he be MORE like YOU? When he realized it was Palantir Types throwing the money at him, I wish he could have been a cool jedi like you and said no thanks, I don't want your money, you may have good objectives at heart Palantir, but there is just too much negativity about stuff like you guys do and I don't want any part of it. That you had ethical and moral character that I see lacking in Palmer Luckey makes me still have hope in mankind.
Nah. The employees at the local Tractor Supply or Fleet Farm coulda told us the same thing ;-)
Why do all of these "Learn X in Y minutes" tutorials need to be spammed to HN? Please stop.
Just curious, but how can we be sure that GMail doesn't continue to do voodoo like uploading a copy of draft without complete transparency?

i.e. will this also disable any scripts that would send data to GMail while drafting is in progress, because if not I could see that as a potential hole for a future breach. Something like "while typing a draft, block all upward data triggered by this page" seems appropriate, rather than targeted draft-saving
You mean this? https://github.com/StreakYC/StreakSecureGmail

It's right there under "Open Source"
Yeah, we really don't know. But I'm extremely uncomfortable by the fact that foul play is a real possibility. We already know that the federal government is operating largely in secret and without regard to the law (their insistence that are indeed following their own secret set of laws doesn't provide me much solace). We already know that various press organizations have been wiretapped. I feel like I've woken up into a country I no longer recognize. How long will it be before people no longer feel safe expressing opinions online?
Water should be free, according to this H2O startup
Retail stores could hold "Be the Nth person to WIN!" contests all the time.
I think that you're mistaken. Almost always when you see a rocket explode in mid air that is due to the range safety officer detonating its onboard explosives.

Lets face it, any large structural breakup that breeches the tanks of a hypergolic fuel is going to cause a huge explosion regardless.
Remind me of some classic RATM Bullet In The Head lyrics:

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkIXPSWjmsk
Edward Snowden asylum: Bolivian president's plane diverted - live coverage
Don't count on it. Xyz show or game is on...
Long article, but worth reading. Interesting take as well. I never thought of the marshmallow test in terms of trusting the reward (more marshmallows) will come, but that makes a lot of sense.

I trust they'll bring more, that's why I wait and work hard.
he teaches javascript at hack reactor