skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Douglas Adams

http://wso.williams.edu/~rcarson/lizards.html

(robot appears, says) "take me to your Lizard."

Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this... (snip)

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.
Back to a bartering system? I don't know about you but I much rather have a currency than having to trade my homegrown tomatoes for my neighbor's wheat.

I mean, currency is a lot more efficient than bartering, I thought hackers liked efficiency?
Your accurate assertion in the first paragraph does not support your claim in the second.

It's still censorship. It's just censorship with a "reasonable" explanation.
For the vast majority of cases that we deal with, we don't really need much for resources to run this application.

One specific test uses approximately 20k goroutines and averages 15-20MB RAM depending on test load. As for CPU utilization, the impact is minimal; RabbitMQ is the biggest bottleneck, as our peak message throughput for a single RabbitMQ broker is about 50k/messages per second, which our go process is able to handle without much issue. The worst-case scenario that I've been able to test for is one where those 50k messages are evenly spread across different queues; even then, our CPU utilization wasn't any higher than 15%/core on a 12-core server.
It seems like the law enforcement/spy agencies modus operandi: do it illegally for a few years, and during this time lobby Congress and the president to make it "legal".

I guess they are operating under "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission"
I really wish the Guardian would get someone very technical to talk to these sources and then write a technical report of exactly what's happening. These dumbed down articles make it hard for me to understand what is happening.

The specific question I had is how they jump from email meta-data to IP Logs. If they were collecting all of my IP traffic, that would be a lot bigger deal than email headers. The title and most of the content seem to imply it's only email metadata, so I don't know how to interpret the alarming quotes about having a copy of my brain.
Agreed. The biggest problem is funding. I'm working for a startup right now that's (to overuse a phrase) killing it, but I cannot imagine us getting here without a large amount of capital to get off the ground.

We'd have been stuck in garages without the money to really hit the growth curve hard.

I'm a Canadian expat in the US, I cannot imagine starting any sort of capital-intensive venture in Canada just because the investment money does not exist.

If you're building something that doesn't require a lot of funding, by all means do it wherever makes you most happy. If you do need a substantial amount of money though, your options are limited.
The media prefers to attack Snowden (or Greenwald) personally, and not talk about PRISM or the NSA at all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/26/nsa-reve...
I am hooked on Reeder and am thus limited to whatever servies are supported, thus narrowing my choices quite a bit.

FEEDBIN (2/month or 20/year)

+ best of the bunch

+ api on github

+ moved to new servers, better speed ahead

+ export available

+ aesthetic & functional

+ some app support on most platforms

+ feels like designed for heavy RSS user consumption

+ excellent reviews around the web

- 3 day only trial

- single developer and seemingly developed as a side project (not sure if + or -)

- unsubstantiated rumors about speed sync w reeder.app. (worried - where there's smoke theres fire)

FEEDLY (free)

+ integration w/ ifttt (can be amazing, for non-hosted experiments)

+ bigger team behind, slightly reassuring

+ aggresive about recruiting google reader users, made changes to accommodate.

- web client - more magazine-ish than reader-ish, even after their new update

- NO EXPORT, even after the new update. Looks like this may be strategic.

- mostly feedly's own apps only

FEED WRANGLER (paid 20/year)

+ smart streams

+ some decent app support

+ api on github, twitter

+ native phone apps

- AWFUL looking web ui thats hard to get past

- single developer (EDIT: tx for the reply)

4. FEED_A_FEVER (30/forever)

+ innovative

+ well designed

+ long time, so pretty cleaned up regards to bugs etc.

+ excellent reviews

+ trustworthy dev behind this

+ native app

+ good third party apps

+ api

+ self-hosted

- dev claims he is overwhelmed w/ life and other game related projects atm and will not be able to focus on this.

- have to worry about hosting etc.
Impeachment could be a swift and direct remedy also.
Yes VC is less abundant, but if your plan is absolutely dependant on VC, maybe something is wrong.

In Europe, you get other valuable things, like a vibrant place, health coverage, etc. I'd put Canada in the same bag.

IMHO, the ideal plan is a fully owned company (ala O'Reilly) which pays for its own growth. You'll still be able to find outside investment later- except you will make the terms, instead of getting pennies.

Call me selfish (and that's a compliment to me :-), but I'd prefer the money to be in my pocket than in the VC pocket.
Are you suggesting that the Snowden leak was intentional, and that they are following the 'leak handbook' to make it look like it was unintentional?
I think you're forgetting that when you enter the military you're submitting yourself to being told what to do. That's part of the contract.
Nice! Added: https://starthq.com/apps/alt
The Jaguar C-X75 Prototype
Named in honor of their 75th anniversary, Jaguar's finally giving a glimpse of their super-secret hybrid supercar. The Jaguar C-X75 has been two years in the making, and from the looks of if, that time was put to good use.
First of all that's not a new strategy. :-)

Second, the article doesn't mention Obama at all. I agree with you that he's just as culpable for keeping things going, but that's not really on topic. The point here is that we have been given a glimpse behind the scenes of a particular moment in time. There's no need to put a partisan spin on that.
Love it! It's Angelfire/GeoCities for devs. :D
I recall there were quite a lot of nails in postwar USSR.
Right, and I wholeheartedly reject that notion. A person who orders the crushing of the testicles of a child - on any soil - should be facing criminal charges, and criminal charges cannot happen without the courts. If our reading of our founding documents (and interpretations since then) don't permit that, our reading needs to change or the documents do. To hold that this is the case, and not be loudly advocating for amendment, is fundamentally an attack on basic human dignity and anything resembling rights of those abroad.
Its moving in that direction... Msoft, Apple and Polaroid are all going the way of brick and mortar.
That is an odd conclusion. Vienna is a nice city, but even for European terms it is not exactly a hotbed of innovation and start ups. Try Berlin, London.
Like we aren't used to this too. Textmate and many other good editors were left eating dust and no one died. If Sublime Text dies I'm sure another will take its place.
Congress can prevent the use of nuclear weapons by refusing to fund their production.

They might very well be able to prevent torture by making it a military crime. There's obviously a spectrum here, as Congress almost certainly couldn't make it a crime to take a particular village as an end run around the President's authority as Commander in Chief. This is not a logic puzzle, it's checks and balances.
Tcl seemed to have a lot of the wind taken out of its sails when Ousterhout moved on. The language was - and is - still developed by very competent people, but it seemed to suffer some from the lack of a visible leader.
That denial was about the letter of safe conduct, not about donating $23 million and waiving trade benefits.
> For one the average consumer will miss out on more exclusives for the consoles you don't have.

Exclusives are not good for consumers. If the companies that make them are punished accordingly, maybe they will learn.
I think 4.5 years in office is a little late for scape-goats now. It's not like he can use the "I didn't know, I'll put it right" excuse.
You found lots of bugs reading the plan 9 kernel source, and forgot to report them?
Ahhh, good question. Safari.
Is it like that for motorbikes as well? Here in Australia we pay an extra $3000 for Harley's!
What? When and where has any part of linux been proven correct?
Nice letter.

But you can't "protect and defend" the Constitution by destroying it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office#United_States
this has been a lot of fun to work on. I think it could be really important for letting new (and old) developers have a place to really test out coding and design.
It's so common! Thanks for writing this up; everything was spot on.
A PGP key is generally tied to an email address. So autogenerating PGP keys per-email-address surely doesn't tie anything to a real identity any more than an email address already does?
Was hesitant when I clicked on this article because of what "revolution" the author could be reffering to. Luckily he seems to realize that Bitcoin is an excellent accounting system rather than some miracle way of opting out of the financial system as a whole. Not to discredit other motives for using Bitcoin, but this article seems to be one of the more realistic evaluations of the currency's potential in my opinion.
There are people[1] offering TinyTinyRSS hosting, though they almost hide that fact, which I find a little disagreeable.

[1] http://yanobs.com/reader/
> Why try and wrap it up, and pretend that you are writing Java, when you're still writing SQL?

That's not what query builders (/expression languages) do. They just express the SQL in the host language to allow for compositions and the like.

Because like it or not, expressing SQL as a string is a pain in the ass to compose, you can't easily build a query incrementally.

With a query builder, you can. You're still writing SQL, it's not an object layer/ORM and it has (should have) a fairly direct mapping to SQL. You're just writing SQL in a way which fits better in the host languages.

Oh, it can also provide some measure of database-independence by having database-specific backend take care to handle specific incompatibilities between databases.

For instance for string concatenation[0] the standard is `||` which works in SQLite, Postgres and Oracle, MSSQL uses `+` instead of `||` and in MySQL `||` is the boolean OR unless you've activated a specific sql mode so you've got no choice but to use CONCAT (you could accept a performance hit and use CONCAT everywhere, except Oracle only supports an arity of 2 and SQLite doesn't support this function at all).

That's the kind of stuff a builder can handle for you under the hood, providing much improved cross-platform compatibility.

[0] http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#functions-concat
One way is to highlight cases with generally good people getting destroyed by overzealous prosecutors. Its unfortunate, but this is one of those issues where optics is huge. If you're black or hispanic or have tattoos, many people will assume "oh, well he probably committed another crime anyway, so its okay to go overboard on this one".
Prior to Wikileaks and an Executive Order addressing the matter of classified information in public domain, the presence of classified information on an unclassified system almost certainly required a deliberate effort to remove the classified information. A soldier would have had to gain access to the classified system and deliberately violate regulation to extract the information. Finding the classified information on an unclassified system would otherwise have exposed gross negligence or criminal intent. This is shifting the focus from the violation that took place to transfer classified information to an unclassified system; it shifts the focus to exposure to classified information on an unclassified system.

Not every soldier is familiar with handling classified information. Their ignorance is bliss. They do not have access to classified systems. Now, though they have no access, they are to be treated as though they mishandled classified information because they visited a public domain website on their personal computer. They had to be told the information was classified because they otherwise could not be certain.

This is new enough. I do understand your position about data at rest. But I believe there is a difference based upon where the classified information was encountered and how it got there. If it is on an unclassified system, and it got there via communication with an unclassified system, I fail to see the soldier's violation. When the soldier's mother expressed outrage over the leak or details of the leak is the soldier supposed to report her and cease contact?

The block is one thing. The bit about leadership and climate is another.
If you like to live under that illusion so be it...
Artificial progress
I keep trying the alpha every now and again but there's some little annoyances that to me make it a step backwards in usability from TextMate 1, let alone Sublime Text. e.g.

* Double clicking a directory will make that directory the top level directory in the project side bar.

* Having to double-click to open a file; you can single click but only if you click the small file icon instead.

* Silly fading animation whenever you open a file.

I know most of the time I use the file search anyways but those first impressions really put me off using it.
I think the major error in this piece is assuming that Clojure is really geared towards any one type of problem. Instead, Clojure is designed to give you a set of tools that you can freely combine for the problem at hand. It achieves this by separating concepts that are commingled in other languages, like identity, value, and type.

By splitting out those concepts, you get a very solid foundation on which you can build pretty much any other paradigm.
Cerny approached the design of the PlayStation 4 with one important mandate above all else: "The biggest thing is we didn't want the hardware to be a puzzle that programmers would be needing to solve in order to make quality titles."
Well first I would argue that we did see this coming: AAA games make money but so do casual and free-to-play games. Wii established the precedent, and follow on devices such as the Ouya expand the market for console devices for casual games. Also, Roku 2 shipped a version with a game remote and Angry Birds.

My concern is that it is too early for Google to introduce an Android gaming console, without establishing a standard for games to be developed against. The first Ouya's have sold out (to the chagrin of the presale buyers), but customers don't need the confusion of multiple incompatible consoles at this stage. Having a different market application is probably fine, but the developers need to be able to publish to multiple markets and still customize the games for the for the console they are targeting.

I believe that actions taken by Google at this stage could prevent Android gaming consoles from becoming established, and they should be willing to defer to the first mover, Ouya, in order to build an economy of compatible Android gaming consoles later.
Oh this is so much nicer to read through than other sites.

Favorited!
> Build 3047 is the fastest, most stable, most polished version of Sublime Text yet.

The sentence loses its meaning because its so often spoken following Apple's marketing speak.
Like how all of our models of the universe were confirmed by probes like Voyager 1, and we learned nothing new. You're right. Models have no uncertainty (and scientists are always expert statisticians, while we're at it ;).

I'll at least say that the politicization of the issue hasn't helped the media to accurately report things about global warming.
You have to understand that it being released does not change its status. People with security clearances are supposed to do the "right thing" by the terms of their clearance and not read material that they're not cleared to read, regardless if it's leaked or not.
Scott actually had some good thoughts about D_Wave at some point. A year or so ago, D-Wave actually gave him a personal tour of the place, and convinced him that they were legitimately doing good research (He wrote about this in his blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 ). But things change over time, and with a lot of the largely unwarranted hype recently, he's opinion of them has changed
Some would say that the lack of a formal structure of declaration of war, capitulation, occupation, and restoration of government is exactly what's been getting us in trouble and is a demonstration of what happens outside the bounds of legitimacy.
On a lighter aside:

People like John Woo argue that audiences like movies with slow-motion doves flying in front of explosions. People like John Yoo are the people we were talking about.
The New Industrial Midwest: Chicago’s South Side Data Centers
Are you sure about that? Would be interesting to see a performance comparison.
In my opinion the political spin is the article's failure to mention Obama at all. I was attempting to draw attention to it.
So you think our current monetary system is the most efficient system possible?
A Javascript noob’s guide to Node + Express + Compound.JS
AFAIK, HTML5 video on a Mac pretty much requires it to be H264, which Apple has optimized their whole stack for.
So does the author want this to be a place for quirky fun by people who aren't web experts, or for srs designers? That My Little Pony page they linked to might scale better than a LAMP stack, but I'll guarantee it took more expertise to create. People who don't know CSS but have interesting things to say are much better served by a service like, well, tumblr - which allows plenty of customization, but also allows you to simply write, and have it look reasonable, with the attention on your actual content. There's certainly value in a site that only serves static files and thus has low expenses, but to attract the geocities demographic I'd want some kind of friendly editing frontend - even github pages is a huge step forward from editing HTML by hand.
Dear HN, what are selfhosted alternatives for google reader outside of tiny-tiny-rss?
Interesting how different the report on the radio (here in Toronto) declared this a "better than expected result".
We work with you to get you set up with a merchant account. Unfortunately, the application process isn't instant yet like it is in the US.
Yeah, I'll maybe go to Berlin in the end. Still, it seems everything is happening in the US. But what do I know :)
Given the industrial spying on, well, the world, I cant see any reason why the likes of the NSA do not have possession of information that would compromise almost every elected politician the US has. Even if its small stuff, anything can be used by an opposition or media to ruin a career. In fact, dunno about the US, but here in the UK even a dodgy association can be enough.

Nothing direct, of course. All that is needed is that politicians know that the likes of the NSA comprehensively spy. These for its is sensible to assume that they could have something, even if one has forgotten it. So that uneasy feeling alone is more than enough for politicians not to rattle cages.

Given my impression that both here in the UK and in the US it seems the response to this entire issue by almost every one in the government, media, and even the comedians and satirists (who, in the UK at least, are often more in tune with reality than any one else), is really muted. It's like every one is trying to make it go away, quickly and quietly. No one wants yo get on the wrong side of the spies.
Sorry those might have been bad examples. It's well documented that air pollution also causes human health issues. I'm saying that might be a better thing to highlight than the fact that that same air pollution might cause the tide to rise some unknown amount at some uncertain date in the future.
I might have been mislead by the use of IP, the handset is what is tracked and it usually is more precise than just what tower the device is associated with. It can include measurements taken from multiple towers, which can be derived from data needed for CDMA to even function, or it can include government mandated E911 information which is usually derived from an internal 4-channel GPS receiver. In theory this is only supposed to be used for E911 functions when the handset is in contact with a PSAP, but we have no way as the public to know what information from these systems are collected and stored or for how long.
Just reviewed the list and found a new thing for me: Feedreader Online. Tried it with my ipad and was surprised with quite a smooth performance, just a basic interface though. No native mobile iOS app? Cannot find it on their site but as a web app it works well for me so far.
There is a white house petition to allow tesla to sell directly to consumers in all 50 states. Please sign.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-tesla-motors...
Integrated connection pooling makes this release a no-brainer upgrade on release day.
A large reason why software prices are so low is because software developers are not legal liable when they push out products that breaks, destroy information, spy/steals information, or might simply not even start up.

In almost any other market, producing such product would land you in jail, or at least sued to the point of bankruptcy. Imagine a car dealer which sells car that are nearly without bugs, but occasionally you loose steering or breaks. Or what about a children toy that crumble to dust once the box is opened because the manufacture process had some "bugs" in them. Cheap or expensive, people expect physical objects to work and not be broken at the point when bought from the store. Apps and software on other hand... is regarded as an risky item. The consumer is liable for the purchase decision when the app is broken, steals information, or simply won't start up. The cheaper the price, and even fewer will try to ask for a refund.

Add some liability risk for the developer, and the market saturation will decrease, prices will go up, and developers who spends actually effort and time into their work will be paid.
Feed Wrangler also has that single developer problem. And while the paid aspect is supposed to be make it self-sustaining, the number of users is critical to whether it is a side-project or something that is a full time job.

I really wish we could see a year into the future, to see which of these services really lasted and were well maintained with new feature updates.