skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I published my first article on Medium over the weekend (https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/a27e01e84fac). It got it's first bump from HN, but 17k+ reads following was from Medium's readership. It also got featured on LifeHacker. I don't think they would have found it on my own blog.

Honestly, I didn't see any compelling reasons in that article not to use Medium. My post got it's initial bump from Hacker News, but then everything following has been due to Medium already having a built in readership. If I posted this to my own blog, sure HN would have driven the same amount of traffic. But I don't have a readership like Medium. There's something to be said about Medium's writing tools as well. I found myself enjoying writing again using their system. It's very clean and focused. Maybe I wouldn't have produced as good of an article without it.
For those who don't know Sina (OP), he is an incredibly talented, driven person who has been fighting to uphold our digital rights for a long time, especially regarding the recent NSA leaks. I've had the privilege of helping as much as I could recently, and it's been loads of fun. Since there's a lot of room for improvement in this area - like Sina said, they're currently very understaffed - one person can honestly make a huge difference. I encourage anybody who's passionate about about protecting digital rights to get involved, it's really a great adventure.
This has actually been a debated usage in American English:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-united-stat...
No, that's not the argument at all. Snowden's father said that he anticipated his son would return if he had a guarantee of freedom before trial, no gag order, and a choice of venue. This was widely reported and I am assessing his statements at face value.

Nobody but you has mentioned solitary confinement or Virginia courts; you're entitled to an opinion that that's the risk he's facing, but that has nothing to do with the statement made by Snowden's father. You don't speak for him.
Oh my gosh! You're right! I should have known that from the ample context provided in the post and linked page!
AWS RDS now supports MySQL 5.6 and binary log access
I think this extra information adds quite a bit of context into the sentiment expressed in the original posting.

Context is EVERYTHING.
Could Snowden make use of a 'fantasy passport'?
Oh, I see. A separate cookie makes it easier for you to check for compromised sessions. I suppose you could also do that with regular session cookies if you keep good track of identifier history, but it'd be a lot more hassle.
Ksplice is basically a binary (in ELF format) swap in kernel memory space.

What happens if your binary is faulty?
Yeah, from what I've seen fraudulent advertising, bait and switch, and various other shady tricks are dominant strategies in adwords advertising within some categories, and I haven't seen any obvious effort by Google to curb it. If there was some way for Google to act as a reliable Better Business Bureau replacement, that rating would be a great addition to their ranking algo.
Are there any Glass applications for regular cars?
Nice work Sherlock. Except I must say as a counter example that I am British and I flip-flop between using 'from' and not using 'from' in such sentences.
Keep beating that dead horse. Most reasonable people recognize that the changer are disturbingly high that the charges are trumped up, and to distract attention away from larger, more important issues.
Nice stuff! Definitely beats using Gigya or Janrain which cost quite a bit. This is the only part we were interested in anyway so...
Are you guys planning on adding services and maintaining the services for regular updates across all these services?
27.0.1453.116 on WinXP

No issues.
Because it is an attack on gender. Creepers and harassment are exceedingly rarely discussed in gender neutral ways- it is usually a man doing something to a woman, or sometimes a discussion of the reverse. It is not often both in a neutral way.

Additionally, the behaviour are things that a lot of people still do. Whereas with racism, to use the author's example, might draw the same ire (and it does in certain cases) as it divides people- there is mostly a generally accepted line that we know is publicly agreed on. But with harassment, until men are not so testosterone filled to constantly chase women, there will always be an element of their behaviour that women are going to find "creepy" at some point.

As such, in every post you are condemning behaviour that around 50% of the population will have done at some point. You're asking more than half of your readers to carefully evaluate the proposition and say "I see that my behaviour sometimes can have adverse affects. This doesn't necessarily make me a bad person but we should all actually think about how this affects other people more often, because this is a bad thing". Whereas a good number of people are simply going to see an attack on them, and reply in kind.

Note that talking about racism does make people very angry when you do the same thing- if you're talking about something that is murky and not clearly one way or another- say using a term that some people find offensive but many do not- then you're going to get exactly the same angry responses because now a good % of your readers are feeling targeted.
How much do BART Employees make?
I don't think that's completely unfair to say that the UI is not as responsive as it really should be, I would suggest two things:

1) look around on http://planet.mozilla.org https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance etc. people are working on UI-specific performance issues (commonly called "jank")

2) try the UX branch builds for the latest UI which is coming soon - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/late...

Progress is being made, but it takes a while to hit the beta/release channels.

It's pretty critical that such improvements don't cause stability/security/standards problems too so they're not the simplest of changes!
Maybe FB can help bring some cultures into the modern era where women are treated a little better.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree Jekyll's awesome. At the moment Cloud Cannon works with the output of a Jekyll site (Since it's just normal HTML, CSS and Js) but that's as far as the integration goes.

I can see the power of having full Jekyll integration (Being able to add new posts, client's edits being saved back into the Jekyll templates etc). It's definitely something I'll be looking into.
Very sensationalist title - the post points out a few (fairly minor) flaws in Medium, some of which are based on personal opinion. Are we really expected not to sign up to a site because it's not perfect quite yet?
I always think back to that time when Zuck was on stage a couple of years ago, and he was talking about user-generated content, and he slipped, and referred to it as Facebook's. There you go. Anything you put on their site is their property, to do with as they like. I really think their days are numbered. Not anytime soon, but eventually, they are going to become as obsolete as Friendster, Bebo, and MySpace are now, but first a new social network that is built in that same style must emerge.
A friend of mine was stranded in the same part of the moscow airport, (en route from Armenia back to the US) but she did not see Snowden, so it may not be so easy to find him.
Isolationist? Maybe. Neutrality was, I think, the motivation (historically).
Removed from everything in the post, it has to be said the piece is terribly composed.

Not as terrible as some of the other recent posts (and related comments) I've seen on HN; it is sufficiently terrible. Here's an example of a terribly composed comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5968264

He doesn't sound like a native speaker and I know many who patronize HN aren't, but the terrible form and composition are inexcusable.

Please put some effort into your posts. Have a friend proof it for you. Don't hesitate to edit it post-submission if you find it unreadable, yourself. There's no shame in that.

Stand-alone technical prowess is not an excuse for poor writing skills.

Edit: Proving a point.
Thanks Paul. And thank you again for all your help getting Aaron's email-to-congress script up to date.
Richard Dawkins laid down his own little twist on memes some weeks ago : http://youtu.be/GFn-ixX9edg?t=4m55s

Warning: Weirdness
There is no more certain path to an early retirement from Microsoft than being perceived as a threat to Steve Ballmer for the CEO job.
It does, if what you're discussing is outside the realm of something that is clearly racist. If it's open for discussion, people get angry very quickly.
No, that's what the people who don't understand what "privilege" is (and ironically react vitriolically to it as the headline questions) project onto others because that's all the more they're able to comprehend about this issue because "I've never seen it; must not happen", etc.
I share your concerns, IMHO it would be awesome if we had ten Edward Snowdens from ten countries. But we don't so I don't think it's fair to put it against Wikileaks for not leaking something that was not given to them. Seems like they should be a receptacle not an institution that does investigative journalism.

Perhaps showing support for Snowden will help other content come out, but looking at the huge effort President Obama and Vice Clownshoes Biden have put together to get this guy into the brig, not fucking likely. They have done a good job of isolating Snowden and making future whistle-blowing less likely.
Isn't his real concern that he could be electrocuted for this?
Is the world a different place after 9/11 .. heck yes!

How can the govt. prevent such an event from happening again or at least attempt to prevent it from happening again? Only way I can think is to invade every citizen's privacy of every nation, as they have done.

It seems for us the US there is no win win and with human nature there never is. If another 9/11 happens we'd be crying why didnt the govt. do more though the govt. is doing more and now we are crying what the hell are they doing?

Humans..we're never satisfied!
Ah, thank you. This post was really confusing, having never really used a motorola phone. The post never actually specified how those passwords were being used, just what service they came from and what was being sent. For most of those apps there shouldn't be any (non-exploit) way to get your credentials out to then send them in the clear.
Then why start with this sentence? "One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth" Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "I went to HK because I thought my freedom and safety would be under threat if I revealed the truth in my home country" I agree with you that's he's known it all along. So this feels like he's manipulating his supporters as he's not really being very honest.
For the same reason that people lose their damn minds when the word "privilege" comes out. They don't understand the issue, they don't understand what it's like to be on the other end of it. "She should take it as a compliment", etc. It's a defense mechanism for those that realize they might be creepers.
The IDL is awesome, and FftF, who run it, are good friends and incredible people. But IDL is specifically for spreading messaging across multiple sites around a particular action, not for actually creating the pages that those campaigns point to:

From the IDL website: "When the internet's in danger and we need millions of people to act, the League will ask its members to broadcast an action. (Say, a prominent message asking everyone to call their elected leaders.) With the combined reach of our websites and social networks, we can be massively more effective than any one organization."
It's a simple tradeoff: you want the security that Chrome's sandboxing provides? Then you have to accept the memory overhead.

Frankly the memory usage isn't as infuriating as the "tabs extend past the right edge of the window" bug, which has been open for forever -- I'd link to a bug report but it's a nightmare to find with a search engine because of how hard it is to describe. Firefox has a simple fix for this -- they let you scroll the "row" of tabs -- but for some reason Google refuses to fix it this way. It's probably too rare of a use case; you have to have a relatively small resolution monitor and at least ~70-80+ tabs open in a single window, IIRC.
> It's fine for Reddit to make a decision to ban a subreddit because it might garner some bad press. However, it is ironic that Reddit call, or even consider itself a bastion free speech. They have banned other politically incorrect subreddits before (jailbait).

A lot of people saw this coming when jailbait was banned. As abhorrent as it was, they were the tip of the iceberg in the Great Purification of Reddit. Once that door is open, the admins at Reddit HQ have to meet and defend the content of subreddits instead of merely evaluating the legality of their existence. Which is why I'm not surprised /r/nrs was banned this week. There's plenty more subreddits that will be equally difficult to defend in a corporate meeting.
1992 Deleuze: production, enclosure toward control [pdf]
How might we be effected by this perspective/view and (if interested) how might it change the work we choose to participate within?

https://files.nyu.edu/dnm232/public/deleuze_postcript.pdf
Not sure I understand the question but, a new image is generated every time you run packer build.
the board == mark pincus

This was his decision. With a lot of outside pressure, certainly, but it was up to him.
Sure it was. While being more abhorrent to most people's moral sensibilities than the hard drug forums, the activity going on there was no more or less illegal.
Was he not driving well? Was it the Glass device that is the cause of poor driving, if it was in fact poor driving?
You do realize "Why do you hate freedom" sounds just like something a mad neocon would say to justify some strange actions in a faraway land.
Best practices for Automatic login via notification emails?
I'm developing a web app that sends the user an email notification to complete a lesson/tutorial. I've added the ability to automatically login the user via the link in that email. This featured has been added to several services around the internet, most notable, OKcupid.

Here's how I've set up my table:
http://cl.ly/Q1K2

When a user visits a link via the email, something like: http://example.com/go/IbQlQW8Dn8PNXJFFwHQxwh/hdC4dXQJUPA0pU7I6eUiXawbnobYv0iThA [http:/example.com/go/`key`/`secret`]

The server first checks that the url isn't expired based on the date in the table. If it isn't expired, the user is automatically logged in using the `user_id` and then redirected to the given url in the `action` column. I used two separate values (`key` & `secret`) for the url just for added security (prevent fusking).

Now because of the nature of the site (video lessons), security isn't a huge concern, but I'd still like to know what best practices to consider.

• Should I limit the number of times a link can be used?
• Currently I have the link expire 60 hours (3 days) from when the email is sent. Should this be lowered?
• Obvious two risks for unauthorized access include someone forwarding the email or someone gaining access to the user's email account. Anything else to consider?
California Police Arrest Man for Video Recording, then Kill his Dog
From the front page earlier today: http://blog.kloudless.com/2013/07/01/automating-development-...

Not terribly in depth, but covers Vagrant and Puppet.
This entire essay is about how other people perceive a certain thing in a more extreme matter than would be warranted by logic, but the author makes the mistake of using the same extremities in his essay, thus nullifying his own argument. (Did that make sense? If not, it basically means: he is saying "there are a lot of nutters who are angrily responding to discussions about creepers and harrassment", but he doesn't really define what a nutter is, and by calling them a random pejorative term since they are disagreeing with him, he is making a similarly extreme statement.)

Let us examine some of his statements to illustrate what I'm talking about:

"What I'm doing is questioning the disproportionate and, to be blunt, disturbed anger that arises over this particular subject." ← What do you mean by disproportionate? Disproportionate compared to what? Plus, 'disturbed anger' s kind of a tautology, people are usually disturbed when they are angry. I have a hard time visualising 'undisturbed anger'.

I'm questioning why the — pardon me — hysterical terms like "lynch mob" are so quickly brought to bear when this is the subject. ← Hysterical itself is an extreme term. Why is he using it without clearly illustrating what he means? Maybe some of the people who are angrily commenting have suffered through accusations of sexism that they felt were completely unwarranted. Or they could have psychological problems. We don't really know.

"I'm questioning why on some issues — say, race — incoherent basement-stinking fury is relegated to places like Stormfront, but when it comes to sex it's alarmingly close to the mainstream." ← Alternately, it might just you who thinks that the largely mainstream thought is basement-stinking, another unnecessarily pejorative term, probably relating to the basement-dwelling unwashed nerd stereotype

"I'm asking why is it that if I write about racism, truly nutty and racist response are fairly rare, but if I talk about sexual harassment or sexism, I can count on being classified as a "white knight" or "mangina" or "pink shirt" or homosexual or something." ← Well, but you are similarly accusing those who disagree with your views as having "basement-stinking" fury, right?

In general, I this article provides little logical meat to chew on and more of the same extreme-termed language that it claims to be against.

(H'm, not sure why I was downvoted on this. Can the downvoter comment?)
We would say "self-imposed exile". Or colloquially, that he was "on the lam". Exile is where someone else imposes it on you.
I think the implication is that the aggregation is done server-side, so it needs your credentials there (not that that is a good idea or that sending credentials in the clear is not complete and utter incompetence).

Edit: upon closer reading, credentials were sent over a secure connection, but aggregated content was sent in the clear.
Anytime someone uses the word "Creeper" it quickly identifies the person as a Millenial. It sounds passive-aggressive.

The word is "Stalker" kids. A creeper is someone who creeps around at night.
Agreed.

But I think underlying this is the thought that it would be good if there was an equitable justice system as opposed to an inequitable one.
Worse than threatening to expose MLK's private life, they wrote to him as if someone from his religious community found out about it and shamed him and suggested he kill himself.[1] So not just blackmail, but psyops.

As I wrote in another comment, it's not just surveillance for state purposes, it's also surveillance for the corporate interests of the state (pharmaceuticals, agribusiness/GMOs, oil lobby, etc.). What if the big 3 auto makers were so powerful that they tried to crush Tesla by subtly targeting its customers and employees with fake bad news (oh wait, maybe they're already doing it). I'm convinced that some of the spying on the EU was over agricultural policies such as their strong anti-GMO stance--US companies would love to have advance knowledge to maneuver around them. I'm not sure it's happening yet, then again, how would we know?

[1] http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/king-like-all-frauds-yo...
I fail to see what is "extralegal" about trying to make sure you can get custody and try the person you've charged with a crime.

Every country in the world that has extradition treaties with other states does the same exact thing every day.
Neutrality was the excuse, and a natural side-effect of isolationist principles.
I arrived here simply because the name you gave your vision is similar to the name of my side project [1]. It's not what you're describing, but it may be interesting to build out the necessary pieces, augmenting what the site already does.

[1] https://www.brianstaskforce.com/
Sounds like you are a Facebook leech! Community involves active participation!

You just have to learn to ignore some posts - gloss over them.

If you swapped Facebook out for say a private email list - would you be more inclined to participate? And if that is the case - why don't people just use mailing lists?
The problem is that Sweden has thousands, or tens of thousands outstanding rape cases, but has only pursued Assange with this level of detail. If they vigorously extradited every accused rapist who had fled Sweden, that would be highly respected, and Assange would have had far fewer sympathizers for holing up in an embassy.
His confusion over being denied a nonexistent "right to asylum".
Is this common? This is the first I've ever heard of such a feature, ever. Considering that we're talking about the OS being completely shut down, I'm skeptical of this existing in smartphones.
So it is a little bit shocking when you see those numbers. Most of us immediately think of people who work on the subway or in public transit as meaningless low wage jobs. It seems to make sense.

But what if you look at it from a slightly different angle. First, these workers work in one of the highest cost of living areas in the country. Second, they work for a critical piece of infrastructure. You only have to look at the havoc one day of them being off has caused. Third, public transportation is generally valued more highly here than in other places for a variety of reasons.

Oh, and I overheard on KQED this morning that the base pay is $71,000, which is high, but not astronomical.
Why Snowden is unlikely to be able to use a World Passport
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