skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least you're not latching onto some random thing to avoid addressing points raised or anything.
If none of this information was really a leak of actual classified information, then there would be no reason to block the Guardian. Blocking The Guardian implicitly confirms that some of the information that they are released really is classified information.
Isn't Vim moving to Python as a replacement for vimscript? That would appear to solve a lot of the complaints related to Vim's extensibility.
Moldovan is almost the same as Romanian, but written with the Cyrillic instead of the Latin alphabet.
p2p marketplace for 3d printing. http://makermarket.co
This reaffirms my belief that the US chasing Snowden is a bad idea solely because it demonstrates the lack of soft & hard power the US has on the international stage these days.

While people may not notice this small act I feel it's kinda what the US deserves in this instance.
How is the popularity being determined? I can't believe some of these oddities are more popular than Feedly or Feedbin
I don't understand the emphasis on 'global warming' / 'climate change' as a marquee issue to drive action on environmental protection. The science behind it seems complex and because it relies so heavily on modeling leaves significant uncertainty in the mind of any lay person that reads about this stuff. I would think a much better way to promote environmental protection would be from the human health angle. Things like Erin Broncovich, Gas Land, (or whatever the air pollution equivalent is) etc... where there is clear documented proof about how environmental contamination is literally killing people. Seems like those would be more compelling reasons to act than some uncertain doom a century from now.
I wish some European states would have that much courage.

However, at least here in Germany this is unthinkable, given the number of human rights violations we still have to fix here in our own country.
Strangely, it used to be 24 hours on Android. I think one of the worst decisions that Google made with relation to Android was to reduce it to just 15 minutes. I think it was in response to people completing games within 24 hours. Seems a huge overreaction, though.
"the federal government has grown too large. It now seems only interested in crushing opposition"

What opposition? There is no alternative body to the federal government other than state government, and the fed doesn't really have to crush what it already controls and governs.

An alternative opposition is "the people", which would be hilarious as the federal government is for the people, represented and run by the people. I find it fascinating when people basically claim that they, themselves, have grown too large and the people only seem interested in crushing opposition. If you'd ask 'what opposition is there to the people?' that answer is of course that the people oppose themselves.

IMHO, whining about the government becoming too big is like whining that your free beer isn't cold enough. Or a collective of chefs complaining that the food in the cafeteria sucks.

Tyrrany is also not the only negative from a growing central government. It's complacency and capitulation that harm the most.
FTA: "Based on number of tweets & likes of the app page on StartHQ and Alexa reach"
Right. So you instead confirm that leak by blocking the website so that it doesn't cause a lot of paperwork/hassle. If the leak were fake, then there would be no reason to care about it ending up on their machines.

This OpSec doesn't really make sense (to me):

- The documents are already in the public. Just saying, "they are now de-classified," doesn't give more information, other than an explicit confirmation that they were real. But this doesn't matter because:

- Politicians coming out and having a public debate about the classified programs talked about in the leak is further confirmation that the leak is real.

- Chasing after Snowden and charging him with espionage for releasing the documents is a confirmation that the documents are actually real.

There are so many things implicitly confirming that the documents are real that it doesn't make sense to deny them officially anymore. It's like trying to hide the subject of the Mona Lisa by creating an empty space in the shape of her silhouette, and then expecting people to not notice that something is missing.
Imagine if we had to buy software like cars.

"Come visit to Weber Software Emporium. Here you can discuss and look to buy Microsoft 8 for the low low price of $999* (plus shipping fees, dealer installation fee, boxing fee, and a rustproof fee for a total of $1,299)."

shudders
But they're different issues, right? The actions I would take to ensure my drinking water doesn't give me cancer are often different from those I'd take to prevent rising sea levels.
I guess the list wasn't all that complete after all ;) Thanks for helping fix that, go read added: https://starthq.com/apps/go-read
What will Facebook look like on iOS7?
Building a Hackproof Network
I tend to agree.

I think a government organisation with strict oversight who gathers enormous database of content is less worrying than various other groups of people who collect similar data. I'm more worried about employees at my cell phone company, for example. Facebook have a lot of information, but employees tell us that it's just too boring to go looking through people's profiles. (Also, they have audit trails and people do get sacked for unauthorised access.)

While they shouldn't have content data, and they mustn't look at that content data without a warrant, I just don't care.

I care even less about traffic 'meta' data.
Based on WebMCP, "a web application framework written in Lua and C". Includes RocketWiki, "a small parser written in Haskell which translates a wiki dialect to HTML". They use mercurial for version control.

Regardless of your personal coding preferences (my next project might be in golang, tbh), choosing niche technology for what should be a mass open-source effort is not the most promising start. No wonder in Italy they're having trouble implementing it, knowledge must be thin on the ground.

A software like this must be built on EASY technology so that every organisation can adapt it to their own local needs for cheap; it has to be the web equivalent of VB6/VBA, something everyone can pick up fast, something widespread like PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/.Net.
Please explain to me how a "constitutional amendment creating an explicit right to privacy" would do fuck all if the only body that assesses constitutionality won't allow us to complain when that right is breached.
You were for sure reminded that you where out there giving your with sweat and blood for democracy and free speech.

While others, more important people, told you what to read and explained to you the difference between handling and reading and the meaning of security clearance.

Big brother knows what is best for you.
He misses the point entirely.

As much as I believe governments over-classify massively, and look on most leeks with glee:

Consider that if an audit reveals any documents believed to be classified on an unclassified Army network, they need to deal with it.

That the documents have leaked is relatively immaterial - presumably a lot of auditing is done automatically, and adding exceptions is a lot riskier than simply blanket blocking anything that contains indications that it's marked classified, secret or similar. Even with manual audits, you don't want to give the people doing the audits too much freedom in accepting documents they think have been publicly disseminated, or the extra workload of trying to assess what info is ok.

Even IF all the documents found have already been published, they'd for security reasons still want to track down how the documents ended up on the unclassified network in case the route was via another leak that potentially might have more documents. Or it might even indicate the source of the leaks.

In other words, it's easier and safer for them to just assume that if a document is marked classified in any way, it shouldn't ever be found on unclassified networks - then they don't have to deal with the mess of trying to ensure it's an indication of a security problem.
One of the Culprits Behind PRISM? Design Thinking (Really)
Beginning? You guys do really think you are free lol? Just because you can choose one of gazillion same bubble gums is not freedom! Try to change important things (like your government) and you will see that you already live in tyranny.

P.S. Intended to be brutal, think about it.
Sadly, there are too little VC's and angels in Europe. If you take a look at a startup map of Vienna (or most major cities), you are gonna cry. The biggest "startup" is dict.cc...yeah.

That's why I am considering moving to CA after I get my degree. Though I am not sure yet.
I am liking Digg reader the best. It is the only one to have properly imported all my tags and starred items (which go back to 2008)
It seems to me like the distinction between someone who outright lies to you and one who omits the truth. Neither are a quality I want in a President.
Unexpected how exactly?
I've had several back and forths with him over new features... He responds to twitter and email quite promptly.
Can you share any details about how many resources this program requires to run?
I think it might start to make sense after your explanation especially if all Army employees are also forbidden to access the Internet through civilian channels.
It's nearly a year behind schedule.
A significant number of HN users will eschew privacy and even basic human rights (as you so rightly point out) for convenience and the next shiny object.

Take Google for example. We know they are selling out their users, and yet every time they introduce a service, the story gets voted up and readers ooh and ahh. These services harvest the user's personal communications and information for the NSA.

Google hasn't stopped selling out its users. They are doing it now, but there are people reading this comment who will ignore it until it becomes too late.
The embryo repair technique (1st of the 2 diagrammes) seems to cross a different line than the egg repair technique, in that it doesn't involve fertilising both eggs. I would think some people might object to destroying the two fertilised eggs (which could eventually each become viable lives in theory) to create one new egg.
Please do vote for the reader you're using by liking or tweeting its page - would be great to see which of the alternatives is most popular on HN!

Btw, you can see the underlying Alex reach by clicking the question mark icon.
Hackdays, what have they become?
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952176
> leaves significant uncertainty in the mind of any lay person that reads about this stuff.

Unfortunately that uncertainty is almost entirely created FUD from paid staff - the same people who worked for years to protect tobacco from science.
On a Macbook Air 2012 running Mavericks it sits at 1-2% CPU usage...
An idea i've heard and liked is to allow direct democracy like you've described, but also allow anyone to select any representative that they want (they're brother, someone with a good history, etc). Allow them to override their representitive wherever they want, and change their representitive whenever they want. This gets you direct democracy without as much tedium.
Entrepreneurs need not apply: Companies shun the self employed
But previously, war meant some clear and present enemy like "Japan" or "Germany". Now the president has been given almost carte blanche access to fight a war on "Terror", a term so nebulous as to allow the president the right to do whatever he wants including spy on American citizens. While it's true Congress gave the president the ability to fight a War on Terror (or drugs or unicorns or whatever), it's the Congress who should be reining in that power when it gets out of hand. Instead they sit around and collect their checks.

I'm not as worried about an "official declaration of war" since the Constitution isn't clear on that need. I do wish Congress would grow a set of balls and do what's necessary to rein in presidential power regarding a ridiculous war on something we can't even see, much less defeat.
Well, if you expected it, you could have made a bunch of money when it happened. If everyone expected it, that would not have been possible.
The USA regime is becoming more and more like China regarding civil liberties, instead of the other way around.
> If we get people to widely use GPG to encrypt the content of their emails, that is already a huge win.

Sure. Completely agree.

> (and I'm not entirely sure if those key-ID's are sufficiently unique and/or secure, but you can put more then just the ID in such a header to fix that)

Note that a key ID is just the last characters of the fingerprint. If you want a more secure key ID, just use a longer piece of the fingerprint (which is a valid longer form of key ID that gpg will Just Work with).
From an outside view (South American), the U.S. is getting worse and worse, while China is getting steadily better.

The U.S. is a few Dick Cheneys away from getting worse than China.

Not to mention many people over here still HATE the U.S. because of their support to the murderous dictatorships of the 70's - I don't think China is going to get much worse than that. I was born in 1981 so I obviously don't have memories of the time, but the current Uruguayan president was a former guerrilla fighter from that time, so the memories are ever present.
Indeed, its wiki pages should have mentioned ACID properties, I noted the issue down here:

https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot/issues/4

Currently, tiedot's stance on ACID is similar to MongoDB's.

I have not spent enough time on the project to support redundancy in it, sorry. I totally agree that redundancy is a must-have if someone wants to use tiedot in serious scenarios, so I will definitely spend time on making this feature available.

Scalability on symmetric multiprocessing architectures has been seriously considered and implemented - basically, tiedot can demonstrate that more CPUs = more performance. However scaling by replication has not been considered yet.
This seems nice. I wonder if this could be made into a ST2/3 client :)
There is a distinction between how Congress and the courts can check the President's power domestically, and how it can do so internationally. John Woo's point is that the courts cannot tell the President how to treat foreigners on foreign soil during war time. The Constitution continues to apply in war time, of course, but the Constitution is silent on the subject of interrogation methods for foreign soldiers. Moreover, while torture may be in contravention of a treaty, it is not necessarily the case that the courts may supervise every executive or Congressional action for conformance with treaty obligations.

People like John Woo argue that the courts were not designed to be the preeminent branch. That is to say, they were not designed so they could second-guess every single action of the Congress or the Executive, even in domains like foreign policy where the Constitution conspicuously gives the President and Congress certain powers but none to the judiciary.

John Woo thinks it's legal for the President to torture children (non-Americans on non-U.S. soil mind you) not because he thinks torturing children is morally justified in some way, but because he thinks that the voting public is the body that is empowered to impose consequences for such actions, not the un-elected judiciary.
I had a similar thought with Bush. While did and still do despise the man's very existence, something I cant remember now, which is really annoying, made me think that actually the US president doesn't have half the power one would think he does. I ended up thinking that a US president is really caged in. Its like the most powerful position on earth is also like a life prison sentence.
Hah! the funny part is that at first glance, I had almost convinced myself that they had implemented a full fluid dynamics system because I was like, "it's even causing a little localized vortex!" :P
Here's one more to add to the list: http://www.altfeedreader.com/

I made it, but it provides a simpler and prettier interface to a NewsBlur account (and it's open source: https://github.com/davidjohnstone/alt).
Out of curiosity, are there any notable examples of products/projects which have failed upon having their bus factor checked?

Off the top of my head, I was thinking ReiserFS [0] which seemed lose ground quickly after Reiser's murder charge and subsequent conviction [1].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Trial_and_verdict
is anyone wants something similar for c, i am looking for beta users (users that are happy with a beta release, not users less impressive than alpha users...) of c-orm, which includes (a very minimal version of) this - https://bitbucket.org/isti/c-orm/wiki/SQL#markdown-header-co...
I wrote something like this for C# just yesterday as I couldn't find an sql builder with a real fluent interface. I found one which pretended to be fluent by returning itself after each method call, but that completely misses the point, because you want each call to create a mutation but leave the original in tact. That allows me to build a query using all of the WHEREs and then branch it off into two separate queries.. one for COUNT and one to select the actual data.

Just wondering.. did you create this to be used in the read layer of a DDD/CQS based system?

Edit: actually looking at the source it appears this one is similar to the one i saw in C# where each call just returns the same builder rather than a new version
I assume this implies that, in contrast to Bush's actions as described in the article, Obama has 1) asked his AJ to sign authorizations instead of presidential/vice-presidential counsels, 2) provided the NSA with the complete text of authorizations and legal opinions, and if I've followed your posts correctly, 3) produced authorizations/opinions that are not legal contortions.
So according to these rules if any secret information passes onto a computer system it is somehow tainted? So all the evil terrorists now have to do to shut down the DoD is spam every military email address with secret documents or links thereto? How convenient.

If the rules truly preclude contact with any secret info (even if it has already leaked) without wiping the machines and the machines have internet access, they need to revise the rules as they are absurd. What they should be concerned about is stopping leaks of more information (quite possible), not controlling information that has already leaked (impossible).

The most absurd part of this whole catch 22 'can't look at or talk about past secrets' situation however is that the administration leaks classified information all the time in service of their own aims - for example the Osama Bin Laden raid and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Those leaks are considered good leaks, and the information leaked is just fine (in spite of not being officially declassified) sitting on government computers, in Hollywood propaganda films, and being disseminated widely and quoted unattributed by news anchors and in American media - those websites are not blocked, because those are somehow rightous leaks, but it makes a mockery of any pretension of secrecy hygiene on military computers, plenty of which access plenty of this classified information that the government chose to disseminate without declassifying.

Given the free use of sanctioned leaks, these rules are more about instilling a fear of the taint of suspicion in government employees, and consequently of whistleblowers, than about data security IMHO.
Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Docs About Its Surveillance
To the best of my knowledge mitochondria are inherited exclusively from the mother.

I imagine this is because when the egg is fertalised the mitochondria in the sperm are discarded leaving only the maternal ones.

If you are asking why they don't extract the mitochondria from one of the fathers cells, extract the mitochondria from the egg and then implant the paternal mitochondria: I assume because that would be a lot more difficult and likely to damage/destroy the cells in question.

I am not a biologist so if any of this is wrong please someone correct me.
Well sure - but my point is, who the heck thought BlackBerry was ever going to manage to turn their business around?
Django 1.6 beta 1 released
This whole thing is such a farce. Ecuador doesn't care about human rights, and the US doesn't care that its enemies know that it's spying on them. It's diplomacy in the service of directing embarrassment.
America has spent too much hard power to have that much soft power left.
I don't know if it's the game or not, but I have a headache now.
The frustrating thing that I've picked up on in law school is that the adversarial nature of our law system makes lawyers ask what is instead of what can be.

They have to resolve conflicts as they occur within the existing paradigm & very few seem to have any sort of acknowledgement that those paradigms can change and ask questions / seek answers within the existing framework.
I meant that in a very specific way. A "Constitutional Court" is what some countries have to verify the bills passed by Parliaments before they actually become laws.

Think of it as a filter, that filters out all the "crap"/unconstitutional bills that Congress, either out of stupidity, or intentionally, wants to pass.

But these laws can still be found unconstitutional by normal Courts, or the Supreme Court later. The point is to have this so you don't wait 10 years until you even have a judge say if it's constitutional or not, and to stop an out of control government that thinks it can pass whatever it wants, 2 days before Christmas or in New Year's Eve, when no one is paying attention.

By the time the Supreme Court rules on some of those, a lot of damage has already been done, those people might not even be in Congress anymore (so they don't care what they pass), or they probably passed many more laws such as that by then, too, so the Supreme Court will never keep up.
Well except that you're trying to make it look like a leak, so you're following standard procedure for if it was.
I don't think that's fair. As others have said, ST2 is a great editor and will be for a while.

I'm probably an aberration, but I don't customize my text editors beyond the basics, and I definitely don't write plugins for them. It would probably make me a better developer, but I'm just not motivated to do that.

You didn't mention what you do recommend to peers?
During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Congress authorized the use of force against the Iraqi government, and Al Qaeda and agents of Al Qaeda. I don't see how the latter is any more nebulous than Congress's authorization of force against the Barbary pirates in 1801.
Bitcoin: Are we looking at a revolution?
I think you can use 'super' for cross platform compatibility.
Agreed, although they're not mutually exclusive. Just happens the way America has exercised it's hard power has diminished its soft power. We've been a hammer since World War II but nobody else has even been using nails.
It's a fashion company. Europe probably makes sense for fashion.
Meanwhile, on another HN thread, you have developers baulking at paying $70 for a very good text editor.
I thought it was a tad expensive when I purchased last year, but another $30 on top doesn't appeal to me.