skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I understood from the article:

* the author believes labels are about to go under

* once labels go under, there will be fewer bands, because making music takes a lot of money, and without the labels, the money just won't be there

All which is complete bullshit, of course. The labels will exist — they may be dying, but it'll be a slow death — and, more importantly, musicians don't need them. You don't need to be rich to form a band, tour, and record. Most bands don't form in order to get rich quick.
The first time though? I am pretty sure people have used crypto in the past and thus evaded law enforcement.
Where do you see the policy that professors take a sabbatical every three years? I've looked at the Harvard faculty web pages for several of their departments and they all say a most once every seven years after tenure.
And yet we have armchair critics like yourself declining to get involved and help out, opting instead to bicker and put down the efforts of people trying to actually make a difference.
That's not entirely true from what I see. Look at http://hbk-bs.de/en/studium/studienbewerbung/bachelor-studie... which should be representative of other art schools in Germany. There are no very special requirements which would keep you from applying as a Non-EU citizen.
I think Japan and Taiwan had the same party in power for decades, too.

Both had long periods of same-party rule, but both have had changes in party administration in recent years, back and forth. Taiwan started having changes in party administration not long after press freedom was achieved.
Cache for UK readers: http://web.archive.org/web/20130514033523/http://www.bbc.com...
Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market?
Based on my experience driving a late model VW Golf TDi, it is only a matter of time before rising fuel costs push both manufacturers and consumers towards diesels. They are more efficient and all the problems diesels of the 70's have ben resolved. Plus, they are fun to drive!
YUI gets a bad rap because of YUI2. YUI3 was a ground-up rewrite that addressed all of the overkill from 2 and them built an awesome library that includes things like modules and models/views, as well as things you expect like DOM, really great custom events, animation, etc. It's a really great foundation when you are building a complex JS-driven application UI. Having worked in front-end development since before there were JS libraries, I almost never choose anything else. JQuery has a lot of the same stuff now via 3rd party libraries, but often I've seen the production schedules of those various 3rd parties lead to cases where you need a newer version of one but can't upgrade because it would interfere with another.

YUI3 also forces you to use at least the basics of good coding patterns and practices, where jQuery gives you nothing in that regard. My experience with the average designer/pseudo-developer person who is writing JavaScript is that they can use a bit of handholding when it comes to crafting maintainable code on projects.
That doesn't seem to work for me.

First, typing that in the shell gives me an error:

zsh: no matches found: /(.*)/

So, I tried typing:

cpan upgrade '/(.*)/'

Which at least kept my shell from trying to expand the last argument, but cpan complained:

Warning: Cannot install upgrade, don't know what it is.
Try the command

i /upgrade/

to find objects with matching identifiers.
Sorry, install with a regular expression is only supported when unambiguous.
Rejecting argument '/(.*)/'

So, instead at the shell I just typed:

cpan

Then, at the cpan[1]> prompt, I typed:

upgrade

That seemed to work.
Oil is cheap, so no need for diesels for now. But, beware folks, if oil gets more expensive we will probably see more diesels out there. Have a look at Turkey for example. In Turkey oil prices have gone so high during the last decade that people are now forced to use diesels, and as a result diesel car prices are also getting higher with this higher demand.
And spending $50 on diesel once a month is really nice!
Oh look, a fluffy article about how living in a city makes you more innovative. On a website primarily used by city dwellers that pride themselves on being innovative.
Not only that, but he's also alleging that NSA developed AES.
Awesome. I've been looking for something like this. I know of mut and pine, but I've been looking for something new and shiny.
This sounds really intuitive and simple to use!

I'd love to use this to develop my Rails applications. I would be using Kite as a 100% staging server to test things out before pushing to production. I don't have to worry about setting up different RVM gemsets for different apps.
The question isn't why do Americans not drive diesels, but why aren't they sold here (apart from trucks)? We can't drive cars no one is selling.

From what i've been told, it's partly because they're too efficient and might bring the cost of fuel down too much. No idea if that's accurate.
SaaS - what to focus on during closed beta
Hi guys, I am a co-founder of SaaS+B2B startup http://meevl.com and we are about to conduct beta tests with few companies. What should we focus on during this stage? Do you know any good articles, best practices or advice? We have some ideas but we want to make sure we get the most out of this. Thx
Interestingly though, Diesel popularity, at least in my peer group is going down.

- Modern Diesel engines are very complicated due to their turbos, hence are more brittle and expensive to repair.

- Price advantage of Diesel is practically not there anymore, but the Diesel model is still more expensive.

- Modern Gasoline engines have caught up with Diesels in terms of mpg.

No one bought a Diesel because it's a Diesel. People were buying it cause the price at the pump was way lower and you could offset your initial higher costs after 50-80k kms.

So, the US might just have skipped over Diesel. Happens in other tech as well, see 3g networks, etc.
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Talking to a friend who works as an engineer designing modern diesels he said he wouldn't own a car he helped design outside of the warranty if it was a diesel.
>I’m not sure that these are all truly one-person businesses. In my reporting, I often come across firms with a regular team of 7 or 10 people, but only one or two classified as W2 employees and the rest working as contractors.

I have to agree, since I find it mind boggling that one-man construction firms are making millions.
Visualize your GMail Communications
Note for those skipping the article, the 'important person' is not a Karl Rove or Darth Cheney work-alike, you might in fact be pleasantly surprised.
Superconductor – real-time data visualization using WebCL, WebGL, Web Workers
Quite the opposite - no speculation is required. The NSA has direct access. Any discussion that focuses on how is a discussion of semantics, and as such is of anecdotal interest.
Perhaps Germany could create a program of secret renditions to fetch them...
An English article on these issues. Today from Spiegel Online:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-officials-furi...
To me the most interesting thing about all this will be the level of integration between the systems and their ability to filter and record information, figuring out who is likely to have done/said/thought what (using very agressive machine learning algorithms) and tying that in to an email address as the key. There is no court order needed from an operative I'm certain to get my Internet history from the fibre optic side; why would they even need to bother requesting info from google etc. directly of they can just start filtering on certain cookies in real time. SSL might be difficult to break, but I can see that you could easily proxy SSL connections at the network level... Maybe someone can explain to me how a man in the middle attack against SSL can be prevented?
That has not and will not ever happen. If it were the will of the American people, it would still probably not happen. But it will not be the will of the American people. Foreign surveillance is not something that Americans are united against.
> Imagine an NSA contractor or employee with a gambling problem who needs cash. Your data is now their ticket out of trouble.

Even today there are NSA analysts who have tried to lookup their ex-wives, and been caught and terminated. And that's just leaving it to NSA's own accountability measures, imagine what we could do if we actually added real oversight!
Please stop using Twitter Bootstrap.
That's because they are dead.
I have been wondering this myself. Diesel burns cleans, can be made from vegetables and the engines can also be used with methane. Not to mention the engines are fundamentally more efficient than gasoline. Not only just as a system, but our current use case of low idles and sitting in traffic, a diesel wipes the floor with gasoline. You can get a diesel in the us, but unless you get the vw, you're stuck with a 4 litre truck. I think another important question is why aren't we converting gasoline cars to run on methane? The conversion is less than 1000$ and can be done by anyone. Its a tank some hoses and a regulator and would bring prices down to about 2$ a gallon.
He's talking about a different kind of abuse: when police actually pull you over, they can troll for additional offenses, for instance by having a drug dog false your car.
The technique might have been around for a while, but it's the first time it made the connection in my head between twitter hashtags and bash comments, so +1 to the OP.
If anything, this proves that the US leadership has gone of the rails. Nobody in western Europe considers the US the enemy or even a competitor. We consider them good friends.
If Heidelberg's administration is anything like Darmstadt's, the buildings will be abandoned and empty but well guarded till they fall into a state of dilapidation.
At least by now none of the well maintained and repaired buildings there have been turned into student homes.
I completely agree with you, but for the sake of a title more people will understand "Google Go" than simply "Go" (and while Golang is great for search engines, it's not the actual name of the language).
Where can I grab source code?
> It seems that 90% of the outrage is container on reddit and HN.

Then you seriously need to expand your horizons on information intake, because human rights orgs are pissed off, Ecuador and Hong Kong are pissed off. Germany, and the EU as a whole are considering a wide range of actions, and so on.
When Are the Intelligent Aliens?
Ah the OP. What are my needs with regard to my using Android and why do I need to change to iOS ?
Social AND Anonymous? Now, that's an interesting oxymoron. I can imagine its users paranoically checking all the data they are sharing with people they don't even know to see if there are any traces of something that could identify them... An interesting way to kill time.
Instead of a timid "disclosures and claims", I think you should have gone for the throat and said "conspiracy theories that are unsupported by any evidence". I mean, 9/11 as a false flag operation is somewhat passé now, but Obama being a gay (!) Kenyan citizen... H1N1 as an experiment by the US military... Israel portraited as criminal conspirators, Elders of Zion-style, and the Taliban as just innocent victims of USG-directed false flag operations... I can see a pattern emerge from that. And of course, everything "corroborated" by Anonymous Sources (tm), the best of sources.

Even given my strong Democratic sympathies, I wouldn't trust Madsen to give me the time of the day correctly. Time is probably a Zionist conspiracy, anyway.
I Denmark anybody can be granted citizenship, as long as it is passed as an act of parliament. Application isn't technically necessary.

That said, we do extradite citizens, so don't come here.
Lets not make the same mistake that most people were making regarding the NSA before these leaks: it makes logical sense that EU governments would spy on everyone they technologically can; ergo we must assume that they are.
Yes, there's plenty of other options such as PR, virality, social media, SEO, etc. However in general if you're not paying for traffic (in addition to your organic traffic) you're probably leaving money on the table.
After two times stoking the fire the room changes from cold to mild. There is also a shivering stranger stumbling into the room. Of course you can still be bored by that, but it is not true, that there is no new development.
>* but the population never does anything about it*

And they won't -- until it begins gravely-affecting their normal life (eg. food, water, shelter, Kim Kardashian baby news). That's how oppressive regimes maintain control (I am not explicitly saying Obama is an oppressive regime).
Absolutely. Unlike computer science topics art does not transfer well onto the internet. While one could learn a number of techniques for drawing and painting online, none of these make students into better artists, only better drawers or painters. Being technically better than your peers has some merit, but will not get you very far in the artistic community if the meaning of a piece is not conveyed well.

I think the primary mistake that the author makes is boiling art down into a collection of techniques. With this view they can easily argue that each of these techniques can be easily learned and replicated through online education. No reasonable artist would go to RISD and pay that much just to learn better techniques. If they wanted to do that they could just stay home and watch Bob Ross. Instead they to work with and be taught by the very good artists and students. And its these connections that make a RISD education worth 245k.

But to come to some kind of conclusion, art is not just a skill, at a very low level stops being about the artists technique and about its meaning, or communicative properties. Art education thrives on peer review, and the community around it. As a form of communication, you need to do and present art to other people, because without review, you can never understand how well you are communicating.
That third option could be that they had a second source confirming things while the article was in process but that source was ruled out (either reversed themselves or was found to be making stuff up) and the editors made a bad last minute call to continue but then were overruled a few minutes after initial publication.
Intelligence agencies are in the business of intelligence; enemy or friend is not a relevant distinction. Why is it a surprise that intelligence agencies would spy on "friends"? Why are people so damn naive?
Nope, my screen name is from a anime, and I've been called all kinds of asian slurs as a result (I'm not asian)
Also for the average person shopping for a new car the extra $7k is hard to swallow, regardless of fuel efficiency over the lifespan of the vehicle. Diesels are built heavier and tougher by necessity thus pricier.
Watching him argue against the Patriot Act in 2001 on C-SPAN is pretty interesting:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/596265765

Essentially every bad thing he hypothesized has come to pass.
> means that there is nothing between the servers and the wiretapping equipment.

There can easily still be no wiretapping equipment upstream of the servers; the companies are already copying the data directly to the collection equipment anyways, so that can be a parallel path. I'm not sure a place like Google or Facebook would ever choose to participate in something like this if their whole business were one misconfigured serial-path wiretap server away from being completely down.

I believe the NYT had mentioned a couple of days after the story broke that 'real-time' collection was possible. Even that is easy technically, you just send a copy of that instant message or video frame to the FBI collection server as it goes out.
Looks like sup is under new leadership with some recent releases, a new homepage, and new github repo: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup
An admirable attempt to slow down the hype train which could derail his work, but weird to see him backpedaling against his own work, in the face of encouragement.

But, good for him, I suppose, that he got to write the inevitable highly-oupvoted contrarian post himself, instead of some random blogger taking a potshot.
One reason is taxes.
>The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. - Wikipedia

In most(?) European countries diesel fuel has a lower tax.
Interview: Mark Klein | Spying on the Home Front | Frontline (2007)
Yes, it only get the feeds when a user need to, it's far more simple and unactives feeds are not refreshed uselessly
I'm curious about why don't you trust anything Assange has to say? What generated this explicit distrust? Media reports? Former acquaintances?

Personally, I'm more inclined to distrust any media reports & criticism of Assange, because their sources tend to have some sort of ulterior motive (fame, smear, counter-intel).

The best smear campaigns happen when you have recruited former insiders. It's more believable and the population likes juicy details.

And to answer your question, Wikileaks has a staff member accompanying Snowden, so they probably have a clear idea of the situation.
Weird... What is the feed's URL ?
It's interesting that technology businesses didn't appear in any of the top grossing slots. I suspect this could be because they get lumped into professional / scientific.
A very nice game!

Another automatic click script, clicking the buttons only when necessary:

var checkAll = setInterval(function() { var bn = ['stoke','gather','traps']; for (var i=0; i<bn.length;i++) $('#'+bn[i]+'Button:not(.disabled)').click(); }, 500);
He's talking about learning art.
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> By long, I mean greater than 16 characters, and perhaps longer than 20.

Talk about going overboard... furthermore this in combination with "Don't use words or "clever" variations on words" make it all but likely that you're going to forget your own password and write it down.
How to use the Internet in a post-prism world
Yes, I think I will switch it to a simple white, I'm not a very good web designer but I need to improve the global UI / UX
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The SoundWorks Collection head to Skywalker Sound to get an inside listen behind the monstrous sounds in the Pixar prequel.
Is there any hope that something tangible is going to come out of that? Given its history it seems more than unlikely that Germany has any abilities of severe actions. Oh well, I am sure they are going to send a detailed list of issues that need to be addressed through "diplomatic channels"...
> I'm completely mystified how anyone could see this tiny minority as a threat...

Paul Weston - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG77qpLi4oc

There are a lot of people in the UK (near or in the parts that are "diverse", or "multicultural") that will disagree with you about the disproportionate amount of crime (murder, rape, mugging, etc) and destruction that is committed by the non-"White British", and the effects this has on the stability and prosperity of the country (and more than likely so will basic crime statistics).

Just a few months ago there was a couple of non-"White British" guys trying to cut off a guy's head with a knife, hands covered in blood, while proclaiming something about their religion, god, and kin, on camera and in front of witnesses.

> Also worth noting is that across the UK the Muslims only make up 2.7% of the population

Yes. The fastest growing demographic in the country that will blow up in just a decade or two...

It's not the 2 year olds you have to worry about, nor the 80 year olds, it's the 16-2x age group.
I've started defining 'hacker' as someone who's willing to 'eat their own dogfood' as it were. Someone that is willing to spend time working on the nuts and bolts that lead to some kind of productivity rather than just being productive with the tool / service to begin with.

I used to classify myself as a 'Hacker' and still do when it's something I want to learn more about. Most of the time, however, I'm more interested in just getting the benefits rather than tinkering with the internals. Sometimes, I'm a Hacker, sometimes I'm a consumer.
Most people cannot put two and two together.
The problems of 1970s-era American diesels may have been resolved, but Americans have long memories when it comes to cars. A car is a major purchase and when you're burned by a certain manufacturer or model, you don't quickly forget it.

It's also one of the reasons American manufacturers like GM and Ford have lower perceptions of build quality even though these companies are now passing the Japanese manufacturers in quality surveys.
Google Reader open source alternative and Feature list
Thanks, yes I'm relying on Google Tranlsate at the moment, but eventually I'd like it to recognize word families and verb conjugations. I use it for Spanish and regularly edit the generated verb flashcards to indicate the correct conjugation.
I've been thinking about switching to sup a few times, but the inability to sync changes back to the IMAP server is a deal breaker to me.

If I mark an email as read in sup, I don't want it to show up as unread on my phone. If I delete an email on the phone, I don't want it to stay in sup.

I know there's been a branch of sup that synced IMAP flags from the local repo to the server, solving at least the read status problem. But it seems the version linked here does not include that branch.
I found doging the ascii asteroids really cool.
I've never quite understood that reaction, but I get it a lot. Maybe I'm getting old (I'm 26), but as a teenager, I spent most of my time on message boards and yahoo groups. That was "social networking" to me, and in a crude way, it was anonymous. Younger people may associate the term with things like Facebook and Google+, so I can understand the seeming contradiction.

I believe that anonymity is not a binary; different people have different levels of "paranoia". So while some may constantly check the data they're sharing, others may be like my teenage self and simply want a pseudonymous place to interact with others. Some may even share their actual face and name. It's up to you.
So many of these are coming out right now. It will be interesting to see which one bubbles to the top.
I didn't forget it. That is pmake my friend =)
I'm sorry this has devolved into a back and forth. I was trying to offer the perspective of someone who believes passionately about this issue and is looking for ways to get more active, but who cannot get excited about these protests in my area. I do hope there are bigger protests in other cities and they make some impact.

I believe we are both frustrated that more is not happening, and unfortunately that frustration is being directed at each other instead of the real issue. I do applaud your enthusiasm and stepping forward to help advertise this.
The mirrored language in Page and Zuckerberg denials, focusing on denying direct access to servers and not on denying access to user information made it clear user information was being shared.

Nobody really cares about the how, yet that's what all the technical denials focused on. What matters is the what.

WaPo and The Guardian have played their hands well to let companies and government entities themselves reveal who is being straight with the public and who is tap dancing.
Because then the oil companies would lose money. Lobbying is the reason.
I think there have been long standing arrest warrants for Donald Rumsfeld and (maybe) Dick Cheney in Germany for Iraq war crimes, but no extradition. Is this correct, or were some countries just talking about war crimes trials?
Even the cheapest managed switches have a traffic mirroring port setting, no "prism" required.