skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you said places and not nations, well, you do have some options.

1. Antarctica. South Pole. Parts of Siberia and Alaska. Essentially where it's too much trouble to reach you.

2. On a boat. If you got enough money, go cruising for the rest of your life.

3. International Space Station.

4. Jungle. Desert. Mountains.

5. A key rule to remember is that the nail which sticks out is going to get hammered in. Don't stick out and you'll find you have all of the civil liberties you lost. Be smart about it and you can live in the middle of Washington DC and be freer than any man who has ever lived. The notion that somebody has to give you that freedom is bullshit. You have to fight for it. And you have to do it intelligently, but not sticking out. Get my drift?
Please add plain DOM documentation. I use jQuery, but I also use other libs or none at all, and having access to the DOM API would be wonderful.
Sure, it's alex dot rubinsteyn atop google's excellent email service.
The government most certainly can define what's considered 'treason' in the criminal code and then prosecute accordingly, so I understand where you're coming from. But words can and do have meanings independent of any one entity's attempt to define them, and sometimes it's possible to successfully challenge and change these definitions. For example, consider all the contention in American society around the definition of 'marriage'. The official government definition was not accepted by many, and because of the efforts of those people, the official government definition is changing.
Delicious is down?
Ninety minutes? If all programmers had such short attention spans to evaluate new tools we'd still be using BASIC.
It's simple, Sublime 2 starts after 2 or 3 seconds, sublime 3 starts in less than a half second, 3 seconds don't seem like a lot, but could you imagine every program you have starting in less than a second? It would be a really different experience.
Despite that I agree and that I think that Assange and Snowden didn't have a better course of action than asking for asylum, I still think it's good to expose dirty things that the Ecuadorian Government is doing.

This is the first article that I see on HN front page about surveillance in Ecuador. If we got this everyday, I would agree that it is a misdirection.

Every day I see stories in the front page about the revelations itself. So I don't think we're getting too distracted. Right now:

The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner (foreignpolicy.com)

Lawyers said Bush couldn’t spy on Americans. He did it anyway. (washingtonpost.com)

New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data (arstechnica.com)

Let's keep it healthy.
Can't keep up
Hey look, it's another top-rated comment that adds precisely zero to the actual discussion at hand.
Thanks for the link, I highly recommend people do this for the feeds they care about, since ArchiveTeam cannot guarantee bug-free operation.

Also, it looks like there is another tool mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958188
Several thinks ArchiveTeam have grabbed a lot more historical than what's available at for example InoReader. I personally think so as well.

There's also no telling if InoReader is open for grabbing what they've grabbed already again. Meaning it's potentially behind closed doors.

ArchiveTeam submits the data to Internet Archive, which anyone can upload and download from. This data is continously being uploaded and made public and free. See https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader for example.

Anyone can do anything with that data. Your OPML files are not being submitted though. That's also being said on the linked site for this item.
37Signals wrote a piece on how to instrument your Rails app: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3091-pssst-your-rails-applica...
Forbes never sees anything coming, or even stuff already here. We should stop paying attention to them.
> The government could as easily have said "just focus on .mil and .gov sites when you're using government computers for government work".

This is a great point. They could have given guidance on avoiding exposure to the leaked documents. Instead, they criminalized the consumption of publicly available information. Keep in mind that a soldier does not keep 'work hours'. They are not off-duty at any point. They are subject to UCMJ, as well as uniform and appearance regulations, even on the weekends. This includes using a personal computer to access the Guardian on the weekend from a Starbucks.
> What if we had some sort of SubWeb (have I just invented that word? I really like the sound of it!!!) which you have to use the command line to access? :)

Eventually there will be someone posting on HN about how they built a GUI to make to the SubWeb accessible for everyone. :)

What are you envisioning for the SubWeb? A geek-only web? Just curious.
Snowden said he has told Attorney General Eric Holder through his lawyer that his son will probably return home if the Justice Department promises not to detain him before a trial nor subject him to a gag order.

Lonnie Snowden has not spoken to his son since April, but he fears that Edward may be manipulated by WikiLeaks handlers and would like to get in touch with him.

"[...] probably [...]"

"[...] has not spoken to his son since April [...]"
Poor documentation, closed source and an unresponsive developer? Sorry, while the editor has several really nice features, I'm not willing to risk commitment to such a floosy editor.
But it's perfectly reasonable to think that Google might drop a service like "Sites" if they aren't able to monetize it, or if they think that it competes with another of their services. It isn't currently reasonable to think that of gmail.
Many familiar themes are presented in the article, so not much to add there. However, the comments from the engineer(s) about their skills not being current do provide another useful data point about our new "autodidactism no longer optional if you want to stay relevant" era. The time when you could simply learn a skill/trade/get a degree and be set for life (and just focus on the other stuff you always wanted to do, like hobbies, friends, vacations, whatever) is long gone. Working people need to start adjusting to this new era of hypercompetition (which will necessitate a greater focus on career in general - in addition to the aforementioned constant learning - and that means sacrificing time spent on other things), as distasteful as many find it.

Another article that was previously posted on that subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/business/to-stay-relevant-...
Body heat powers flashlight
I dream of a world where kids idolize Elon Musk like they do pop stars and movie stars. Most influential person of our time.
And so my man crush continues.
I don't get it.

Geocities was right at the time, we have Wordpress (and yes MySpace and Tumblr and Google Sites and Apples site builder and Yahoo pages and Wix et cetera) and a million different blogging platforms now that fill most of what Geocities was (I had an account there).

For the rest of it there are better implementations of things like photo sharing (and now video sharing) or sharing guitar tabs or artwork or music or ...

>"It's worth it if it inspires even one kid to start building something." //

You can get a free domain name and run your own server with only a few clicks of the mouse now.

So, like I said, I don't get where "neocities" fits in to the web of today.
Exchange one crappy plugin for another... Way to innovate.
This is also true of Finns and Nokia.
I've had the exact same idea and would be willing to work on open-source technology to make this happen.
In case you don't want to download all three design variations in a zip file you can download the one you want here:

* White http://www.git-tower.com/files/cheatsheet/Git_Cheat_Sheet_wh...

* Grey http://www.git-tower.com/files/cheatsheet/Git_Cheat_Sheet_gr...

* Dark http://www.git-tower.com/files/cheatsheet/Git_Cheat_Sheet_da...
> Meanwhile I see Hungarian, famous for being the hardest language to learn

Source? It's hard to determine which language is hardest to learn since it all depends on what languages you already speak.

People who are familiar with Finnish and Estonian probably won't find Hungarian too hard, because the three languages are related.

Another example: Is English hard to learn? Probably not if your native language is a Germanic one (such as Dutch), but if your native language is Japanese, English might be a serious challenge.
>Syntax / Code folding

I was hesitant to add that comment, but it needs to be said. Pushing people into the pit of success is a good thing. Sucks to read 10,000 line files? Stop writing 10,000 line files. I also really like how fast sublime is. Coming from an IDE for about 6 years, this is one of the features I like the most. Code folding is bloat.

>Whether you think any of these points are valid is your personal opinion

I didn't post this under any other assumption. These are all my opinion, as a full time sublime user.

>If he didnt want to take user feedback seriously, then why bother with a prominent feature tracking system?

I would argue that he is taking user feedback seriously. One of the most difficult things to do with any product is to decide what feedback is valuable and what feedback is not. I think sublime is doing a very good job of this.
This is all well and good, but what happens to Quaker or Mennonite owned businesses (or to Quakers or Mennonites)?

Those sects (at least) have a very, very strong anti-war, pro-peace-making component. For at least 500 years, the Mennonites have been persecuted for not joining armies, etc etc.

Do the Quakers and Mennonites get to object to parts of laws because "their religion is against it"? If not, why not? Why is Hobby Lobby's religion more privileged than the Society of Friends or the Mennonite Church USA?

These questions need to be answered, and quickly.
git config alias.cheet cheat
An Intern's Experience Developing for Windows Phone 8
Cartoon Heatwave
No, a better submission would have been a title that says what it is.

The idea that I have to click to find out is nonsense. It's link-bait.

I would have never clicked if I knew it was docs for HTML/CSS/JQuery, no matter how slick.

I thought it was something more exciting, like a service where developers can submit their own docs and it's a central repository of sorts. Now that would have been interesting.
Sublime Text 2 start-up time increased significantly after I installed Haskell support package.
My understanding is that the key drawback for diesel engines in cars was emissions (at least here in the states). Other than that, they seem to be more efficient and reliable than gasoline engines.

Adding in flywheel regenerative storage seems like this would be a hybrid model pursuing (which VW/Audi is doing, IIRC).
Actually, no. The definition of treason is fixed in the Constitution. Congress can only define the penalties.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted."
Microsoft Needs to Get Coherent for Windows Phone to Survive
The price has nothing to do with it. Sell your calculator app for $20, and some kid in a third world country will gladly sell his for 99cents. His 99cents has the equivalent buying power of your $20. How can you compete with that?

You can't compete on price, you have to compete on being different and value. That way, even if you sold for peanuts, you will have so many users that you can still make a lot of money. I rather sell millions of apps at 99cents each than 100 at $100 each.
A country minus the government is usually more than 'just people' - it's often a group of people with a shared history, culture, and language, what's often referred to as a 'nation'.

When people talk about their love of country as distinct from their love of their country's government, they're generally expressing appreciation for a set of national characteristics that'll likely endure for a lot longer than their current government.
Password complexity rules more annoying, less effective than length ones
I use a statsd compatible alternative called statsite.[1]

It's written in pure c and behaves like you would expect statsd to, with some additional improvements. I'm definitely more comfortable deploying it as opposed to installing and managing a node.js application.

[1] https://github.com/armon/statsite
Certainly, and the reasons those standards were put in place were good ones. There where devices with less than usable touchscreens (including resistive) and in some cases no touchscreens. These are the myriad of devices from Shenzen, one after another, running Android derived from AOSP.

At the same time, these devices were only one of the problems. Google was fighting against companies putting the Market on devices that could barely run Android, couldn't run 3D games that were available in the market, didn't support playback of video formats that were commonly used in the games and other applications, and had other limitations.

The availability of the devices contributed to Android's popular image as a low-end platform, with Apple's iPhone being the premium device. Remember, this was during the Android 1.0 and early 2.0 days.

At the same time, it was clear that Android needed to support multiple platforms. I asked one of the developers in IRC at the time when we would see a "set-back box" running Android, or systems for vehicles. The response was along the lines of "let's concentrate on phones first."

Now we are seeing a perfectly reasonable restriction in the Market (now Play Store) license being used to exclude a new product category from the officially supported application store where Google collects a healthy cut.

Also, doesn't the Ouya controller have a touchscreen, and even run Android on it's own internal CPU/GPU? It's not clear to me from the Kickstarter description but it would make sense.

The trade-off here for Ouya is either collecting the share of the revenues for themselves, including possibly through their own free-to-play credits system, or having a large number of partially supported games which were not designed to use a controller. I can see that whether it was the original plan or not, having their own application store makes sense for Ouya if they can get the developer attention they need.

That's really what I'm talking about here, Google's careless implications of creating a competing console may have the effect of confusing potential buyers at Target or GameStop as to which Android console to buy. The result being they buy neither.
How to launch anything
django-rest-framework looks good, been years since I used Django in any seriousness, so will have to give it another run. As an aside, what's the scoop on Python 2.7.X and 3.0 never likely to meet? It makes me uneasy...
CGI-based images or pages. I don't believe GeoCities let users upload their own CGI scripts, but I believe they had a set of pre-defined CGI tools you could call. You could also set up things like guestbooks using an external service. It wasn't unusual to see "Guestbook provided by $FOO" at the bottom of guestbook pages. Kind of like Disqus, but before JavaScript.
Have you found a version of this that isn't at all preachy or "strong-arm-y?"

I feel like a huge benefit to meditation is that it allows people to arrive at their own conclusions. But what I worry about is that the "guidance" you'd receive in situations like this is more guidance to a set of predetermined ideals or conclusions, rather than guidance into how best to find your own. It's incredibly hard to do anything so deeply introspective without bumping up against existential issues. I feel like having someone guide you through this process requires a ridiculous amount of trust in how they value your individualism.

As an anecdote, my wife just competed her 200 hour yoga teacher certification which included a two day retreat to an ashram. Like you said about being told that the chanting is not rite or ritual, they constantly said that yoga isn't spiritual or religious. But in surveying the whole of yoga there are definitely parts of it that are at least "mystical" if not religious. For some of it you can just say "they're not being literal, this is metaphorical" but other parts, such as the chakras, are hard to see through that lens [Edit: as another lesser-known example, see mudras, hand [1] or otherwise]. And then even where there isn't any mysticism there is plenty of "holistic" discipline or rigor being taught.

When I went to her graduation ceremony one of the fellow students told me that the biggest thing that she got out of the training was the knowledge that when we die, our energy lives on. While this is literally true, she clearly meant it in a very spiritual sense.

As a complete outsider it's hard not to see this in a religious light. To the issue of trust in those who are guiding your introspective thoughts, I see this situation as a huge barrier.

1: http://www.eyogaforbeginners.com/hand-mudra-meanings-explana...
I have to wonder at what point these repetitive ads diminish in value. How many times do you need to see a truck hauling a heavy load, slogging through mud to a husky voice over?

GM had a $3.1B ad budget last year, 2nd only to P&G.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-35-companies-that-spent-1...
Yep, I agree with almost all of your comment -- especially around the expectation of owning a space and how that's a totally wrong-headed idea.

My disappointment with MasterCard isn't at all that they're entering the space (hey, that should be good for the world). It just feels lame that they gratuitously copied every single minute detail, far beyond what you'd have to copy to build "a MasterCard version of Stripe". They even copied our code sample gists.

But I definitely didn't mean to imply more than that -- some idea that MasterCard shouldn't compete with us, or even that they shouldn't compete with a functionally similar product. On that front, I'm totally cool with it, and may the best product win :-).
I cycle but I find myself actively put off by the "community". It seems devoted to douchery, and I couldn't ask for a clearer example than the "rules" linked to.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/06/...

This group lived outside of governance for 2 millennia and don't seem to have what you call "human nature". The fact is, our nature is partially "human nature" and partially a product of our environment. No one knows how much those two things contribute so you can't say "X is human nature". We don't really know and it's not easy to test. But capitalism doesn't exist everywhere and doesn't spontaneously pop up everywhere. What is true, however, is that capitalism seems to rely on continuous growth so they eventually encroach on non-capitalists and "convert" them.
It's really odd that Nokia is the main promoter of Windows Phone. There's no other option for them, so as there's no other option for Microsoft. Get your act together, Redmond people, or you will become the next IBM in 10 years.
Awesome article that goes into great detail as to the specifics or assumptions behind the statement "eval() is evil".
I have to admit I learned something here: getting investors can be just as bad for the business itself as many acquisitions, and it's much worse for the founders.

In my opinion, if you're sitting on a profitable company, with a sustainable lifestyle, in a market that really can continue to expand, keep others out unless they let you put 10 years' profits in your own pocket first.
relevant xkcd : http://xkcd.com/977/
I'm currently working with Django for a client's project I'm developing. Coming off a LAMP stack binge, the technology itself has been an absolute delight. I've been given the directive to use South to manage the data model, but for future projects I was hoping somebody with more experience can give some insights as to what you've found works and what doesn't work. I'm not the biggest fan of South, but maybe it's just a lack of experience/patience.
" you just don't want anyone to connect the list of blogs to you?"

That's exactly my point.
Interesting, 37signals released their own Golang based version of statsd: https://github.com/noahhl/go-batsd Probably for the same reasons you rewrote it in pure C.
You're right, I misunderstood the complaint.
> I do disagree with the conclusions you draw

Can you tell me which conclusions I've drawn? I'm just stating fact here. Accessing secret information via public channels is still breaking the law. Is it right? That's a very difficult question to answer since the people whom this affects (people without need-to-know) have entered into that world willingly and presumably know what they've signed up for.

> The common soldier does not possess a
> security clearance.

I'm not sure I follow this. Laws against reading privileged information apply to everyone no? Again, I'm not saying that's right or wrong, only that's the condition that we live in.

> This makes reading certain public domain
> a criminal act.

No one has been charged with anything. The have Internet filters set up to block that site from certain government machines. I'm not sure that this extends to being prosecuted for reading the Guardian recipes section at home.

> want to strip them of something

They are not stripped of anything. They were never allowed to read classified information that they were not given explicit access to. That the entire Guardian site is blocked is more likely a matter of laziness than evil.

> you volunteered and signed your life away

That's a bit dramatic and I never said that. My only point is that they signed up knowing that they are barred from accessing information not meant for them.

> I charge this is unlawful

My point is that I don't think that it is. It sucks for sure.

> what would you suggest is done by the soldier?

I've never been a soldier, so I don't know what their channels of recourse happen to be.
Shiny future for network performance on Xen
I rather sell millions of apps at 99cents each than 100 at $100 each.

Talk about a false dichotomy.
I'd be contempt with just EFF being one of the 3rd parties to observe and cover in detail congressional investigation of the issue, in some official account of transparency.

That's also more realistic goal.
Anyone have a repo of the old gifs that were most common? I'm thinking of things like the under construction stickman or the rotating wordart welcome sign.

I am a little sad that security of web browsers has gotten better. I remember offering people free cup holders by opening up their disk trays :-)
Wtf??? I'm ranting about my personal experiences... not parroting others'. Can you say the same?
> Does Django have a bright future in a world that's moving heavily client side

Where are you getting the data for the client from? Django-Rest-Framework is a very convenient way to get data down into the browser layer from a DB.
JavaScript and its many ways of making functions. Part I
At a plain reading this seems worthy science but not that newsworthy. Scientists do more (presumably good) work and adjust estimate of ice last ice-age by 10%, climate models may need minor tweak (direction not stated).

Did I miss something?
Introducing multilang-hstore gem
multilang-hstore - Multilang is a small library for translating database values for Rails 4 and Postgresql hstore
I like the idea of a command line only web. Like Zork, but for the whole internet.
What I mean is that they try to achieve stability by eliminating bugs, not by doing damage control. Proactive vs reactive.
This is also what F1 has done. Toyota I believe is using capacitors not a flywheel in Le Mans.