skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked with Simplify (the MC Stripe clone), and they're cool with firearms and accessories sold online, and firearms sold in-person with card swiped. They're going to get back to me on whether an FFL could sell online MOTO -- I'm pushing them to allow it IFF the FFL ships to another FFL, which is federal law anyway.)
Yeah. I've considered adding a popularity attribute of some sort to use in the filters. E.g., "mainstream," "challenger," and "fringe." But to date, I've not put a whole lot of thought into how exactly I could objectively measure popularity. Perhaps Google search hits for "[name] web application framework."
Your second point isn't correct. The emergency codes are "something you have". You can only generate the codes while logged in, and keep a physical copy separate from your phone. If you lose your phone you pull the paper from your wallet, or get it from a friend or your desk drawer or wherever.
Snowden offered asylum in Venezuela
Critical distinction, people freely choose to install AdBlock Plus. There are already alternatives, and the barrier to entry for new competitors is pretty low. This is unlike the ISP market, which is not meaningfully competitive in a good chunk of the world.

In my area, if Charter and CenturyLink both chose to de-prioritize Netflix traffic, that would be the end of it. I would have no economic alternative. But if AdBlock Plus[1] started showing me ads that annoyed me, I could just go download a different adblocker.

[1] I don't actually use AdBlock Plus. I use AdBlock for Chrome, which is a separate product.
I'm sure it's just automatic. Their sw thinks HN is dead because it stops giving their crawlers pages after a while.
If everyone thought it was harmless, why wasn't it conducted on college students, the usual specimen of choice for harmless experiments? Was it just a coincidence that the researchers decided to experiment on the most powerless and defenseless subjects they could find?
(getting off topic here...) That pdf seems to be missing one crucial piece of information: the total number of turbines installed per year (or I can't find it). A 16x increase in (documented) accidents (not all of which are of equal threat) over 16 years does sound pretty dire and damning, unless the rate of installations has been growing at a larger rate. Do you know of any resource that provides that? I can only find megawatt rate of growth (which is a useful metric too, but not as usefully comparable since the events in this pdf seem to be primarily related to installations, not the output of the installations).

Nothing is going to be completely safe. It's valuable to get accidents and events as close to zero as possible, but I suspect that's being done by increasing the denominator rather than reducing the numerator.
Why angular AND backbone?
It's a free neighborhood, if people want to live there let them. If they don't want to live there, let them leave. Moral superiority is all relative. The frat boys and girls (if that's what they even were) are just as right as anyone else is to live or not live in the Mission district.

I dislike the fraternity culture as much as anyone else who dislikes it, but it's not much worse then any other kind of cultural baggage like-minded groups of people bring.

Sure, I like the image grit and sticktoitedness that might have been associated with immigrant waves of yore --but now not all immigrants are from economically deficient backgrounds --sure, there may be still the dispossessed but we also have those with possessions or inter-city or inter-state migrations to SF people looking to get rich quick -ala Wall Street back a few decades ago.

SF doesn't 'belong' to a time or a people and place, it belongs to its current inhabitants --they shape it, that's it. Stop being possessive about something which is meant to change with time. Paris of today is not the Paris of the 40s, etc.
why? the usa offers asylum to people yet has the largest fraction of the population imprisoned in the world. and guantanamo. and the death penalty.

why raise the standards for other countries?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration

(don't get me wrong - venezuela has serious problems. but cherry picking examples for one country is no argument at all. people in glass houses....

also, wouldn't it make the world a worst place if we required the country offering asylum to be "better" than the country persecuting someone? that seems pointless, except for internet point-scoring)

[edited multiple times btw]
I think you are very confused. I've spent a lot of time with developmentally disabled people and I've yet to see one that didn't have a substantial cognitive impairment. Moreover, children in general cannot consent.
Well, how hard is it to just use their session store to store a guid of some type and use that key to store session data in redis or some other storage?
I have to say that one of the best things I've ever done to my depression is to stop using Facebook, cold turkey. I have less social interactions, but they have much better quality thanks to the filtering, and there is a significant effect in my mood.
A decision than increases metric X is not necessarily a good decision. Consider companies that jack up prices of gasoline and chainsaws after natural disasters. They make a boatload of money doing it, but they also accrue customer bad will.

I'm sure he gets a great sign-up rate from that highly-visible form, but if readers are irritated by it, what negative impact is it having for him?
I suspected the same thing. People found that their favorite popular language was at the bottom of the list, and naturally they're curious about frameworks for the faster languages. Exploration is healthy, but realize C/C++ does not have the friendly, extensive and reliable web developer ecosystem that Ruby/JavaScript/Python/PHP has. If you want an in-between, check out Lua/OpenResty/Lapis.
Why are underground parking garages hot?
To shut down FISC they would have to pass a new law, which they could not do tomorrow because they are not in session tomorrow.

/eyeroll

If we're going down that road, the President has the authority to convene either or both chambers of Congress at any time. This has happened 27 times.

Likewise, the Constitution could be amended to rescind Roberts's Article III privileges. So the situation is exactly analogous.

Of course they are not, because constitutional amendments have to be ratified by 2/3 of the states, while Acts of Congress don't.

What matters is that until the changes are actually made (by whatever process is needed to make them) the situation is what it is.

The situation is that Congress can take away Roberts' FISA powers any time it likes, unlike his Article III powers which could only be revoked by amendment. This is a fundamental difference that Klein completely ignored, and that's why he's wrong.
Which operational nuclear power plants generate electric power without using generators with rare earth magnets?
Ruby · Styleguide
I was actually fearing that Argentina would volunteer for this. I appreciate that they got the jump on us in this case. I dont think we(Argentina) should meddle on this one.
Here the video (in spanish) of the announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLpk1S7nGU
One of the places Go excels is at sharing memory between goroutines. Most web apps are built so that each request is independent of all other requests. Which isn't to say Go's a bad fit for all web apps, I just don't think most will gain anything from it.

We've used it for just another web app, and haven't gotten any value of out it...except learning Go. Then we deployed it as a piece of infrastructure, something that would have been hard to write in Node or Ruby, and it's been a real win.
I live in Venezuela. It is routine here that politicians air private conversations, by telephone, or even recorded inside houses. Until a few weeks there was even a TV program, sponsored by the government, that now and then aired private conversations by opposition leaders, for political benefits of course.

I really don't know if Snowden knows that, but it would be really ironic if he accepted the proposal.
Sure, I'll agree that Guantanamo's a stain on this country.

And while we have entirely too many prisoners in this country, they aren't 'political prisoners'. People aren't thrown into prison for protesting the government. (Or not generally, you did have McCarthyism and such in the past)
Replying to myself--

What bugs me about the subject of exercise is that it's plainly a moral issue masquerading as a scientific issue. There is the Romantic strain to which exercise is natural and pure, and the Puritanical strain that equates exercise with virtuous labor and discipline. People would love to find scientific evidence of its curative powers, as if having evidence mattered.
It is great as a hobby project to try and right a C++ web framework but the reality is that in 2013 it would be laughable at best and outright fireable at worst to write web apps in C++. You might have legacy reasons or have some portions of the code that are very performance sensitive and you can augment your non-C++ app with C++ code for those reasons - that would be understandable. But a full fledged C++ web app - tsk tsk. Let's see -

1) Programmer availability and economics. Ton of RoR/PHP/Java and hopefully soon Go programmers, but good C++ programmers - good luck finding and retaining one.

2) Security - However competent YOU are - it just isn't possible to write a complex web facing system that is also secure. I was part of a failed project to write an IdM system in C++. It was a huge pain when we hired a external org to do Penetration Testing. After they were done we were left with lot of damage. Part of this is language, part is a lack of lot of great framework/best practices/expertise.

3) You reinvent the wheel a lot. Want to talk to LDAP - write your own load balancing and failover aware C++ classes or maintain somebody's unsupported OSS one. Equally headachy. Or pay for RogueWave - a ton of money per platform plus annual support contracts.

4) Cross Platform Pain - Enough said. Take the myriad of compilers, linkers, versioned libraries and try to ship a product that supports plugin based extendibility. Tough job convincing the customers to use the same compiler/linker/libraries to build their plugins.

5) Performance monitoring, debugging and profiling tools. See how well those compare against Java's JMX, HPROF, Heap dumps with OQL, MAT, YourKit etc. Just no match unless you are extremely competent and can manage debugging complex production systems without these tools.

6) Lack of something like a widely used Application Server ala Weblogic, JBoss. The value these provide in terms of ready clustering, db access, thread pooling - that's just not easily doable in C++. Add the lack of various 3rd party frameworks (ORM, Rules engines etc.) and you are ready to give up on C++.

Now I am sure somebody will go clever and come up with solutions for each of the above but the point is when you pull all of them together - it's not hard to realize it won't be worth it.
Looks pretty cool. Too bad about the licensing though:

http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/download
Physician here: maybe you could enlighten us all on studies showing "genetics" are "strongest" determinants of "your risk for acquiring HIV."

Are you actually trying to advance the theory that the "genetics" of a particular minority group is a "determinant", rather than social class?

A lack of socioeconomic resources is linked to the practice of riskier health behaviors, which can lead to the contraction of HIV. These behaviors include earlier initiation of sexual activity and less frequent use of condoms (Adler, 2006).

Unstable housing has been linked to risk for HIV infection, including IV drug use and unsafe sexual behaviors (Aidala, Cross, Stall, Harre, & Sumartojo, 2005).

Individuals who are homeless or in unstable housing arrangements are significantly more likely to be infected with HIV compared to individuals in more stable housing environments (Culhane, Gollub, Kuhn, & Shpaner, 2001).

Lack of socioeconomic resources is also associated with risk factors for neuropsychiatric dysfunction, such as exposure to environmental toxins and injuries. These factors can make persons with HIV more vulnerable to the central nervous system effects of the virus, including more rapid cognitive decline and onset of dementia (Satz, 1993).

HIV status often has a negative impact on socioeconomic status by constraining an individual’s ability to work and earn income. Research indicates that up to 45 percent of people living with HIV are unemployed (Rabkin, McElhiney, Ferrando, Van Gorp, & Lin, 2004).

The effects of HIV on physical and mental functioning can make maintaining regular employment difficult. Patients with HIV infection may also find that their work responsibilities compete with their health care needs. Individuals infected with HIV are often discriminated against in the workplace, leading to their termination or forced resignation (Dray-Spira, Lert, Marimoutou, Bouhnik, & Obadia, 2003; Kass et al., 1994).

Children infected with HIV often exhibit cognitive deficits when compared with their uninfected peers (Martin et al., 2006). These deficits can adversely affect learning and earning ability later in life.

SES status often determines access to HIV treatment. Individuals of low SES have delayed treatment initiation relative to more affluent patients, reducing their chances of survival (Joy et al., 2008).

Patients of lower SES with HIV have increased morbidity and mortality rates. Research suggests a correlation between low SES and earlier death from HIV/AIDS (Cunningham et al., 2005).

Accordingly, individuals of higher SES levels experience slower progression of HIV infection (Schechter et al., 1994).

Decreased access to health insurance and preventive services is a major contributor to health disparities between high- and low-SES individuals. Low-income individuals are not likely to have health coverage or receive optimal treatment and care for HIV/AIDS, such as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) (Wood et al., 2002)

Source: http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheet-h...

Psueodoscience and outright bigotry is "rarely PC", that's for damned sure.
With so many wifi hotspots around I dont need ATT Smartphone at all. I use Google Nexus with ATT GoPrepaid without any data connectivity. If I never need on I just go to the nearest Starbucks. :D
Some people like C++. I think it probably has a connection to the techempower benchmarks but I've gone looking around at different C++ frameworks for use in my yet-to-be-made home page. I work day in and day out these days in Perl, C#, JS, and Objective C. Sometimes it's nice to take a step back to my C++ roots.
Tools and Strategies for node.js Development on GitHub
It looked as if a sort of a snowball effect occurred on the HN "new" page this afternoon. I laughed when I saw the third show up (see comment below).

I personally could never stomach doing web development on C or C++. The C++ source code to the CPoll-cppsp test [1] makes me cringe in fear (no offense, xaxaxa!) But if there are those willing to give it an honest go, I'm not going to criticize them. Caution them, as you have, that it may be a frustrating exercise? Sure.

That said, I think modern Java, Go, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, and Lua are all worth considering.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Who cares? Let's go back to the NSA.
In the same way that math is.
This isn't a problem when the primary request is dynamic and served from one server/domain/connection and the remaining requests are for static assets stored on and served from another server/domain/connection.
If only the crazy people hadn't won I would be able to get a Borrellia vaccine, where I live I assume I will get Lyme's Disease before I die of old age.

What really gets me angry is I can vaccinate my dog... I've been looking into vaccine compatibility...
Would he even be able to leave Moscow without a passport?
Assuming he makes it down there, who is up for visiting sometime? I've never been to Venezuela -- Angel Falls is really the only tourist thing which interests me there.
I don't think Snowden has many options.
Lightweight PostgreSQL deployments with Docker
A Real Live Third Amendment Case
> Ellsberg wasn't fighting secret courts and secret interpretations of law.

Indeed, he was fighting something even worse: a secret conspiracy spanning multiple Presidencies to help force a nation's involvement in war.

Nixon took the unprecedented step of suing to stop the publication of the newspapers that were going to print the Pentagon Papers, even though the topics described didn't even occur on his watch.

What Ellsberg was dealing in was far more serious, and yet he turned out OK when he turned himself in.
While the human immune system does a good job with most fungal infections, human medicine is very poor at treating all but the topical ones.
Yes, Venezuela can issue a travel document like the one Snowden used from Ecuador to get to Moscow from Hong Kong.
Let's be clear about this: the median world age is around 28 years.

You are old.
The Ghostery extension tracks you and sells the data to ad companies, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682
I assume Venezuela could give him a passport or some sort of temporary travel document.

How they're going to actually get him to Venezuela without the plane being forced down and searched is another thing entirely.
His Hacker News query give me https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs back as first result. Just for fun I tried the same query on DDG and the 27th result was the first ycombinator domain I got back.
Vegetables employ fungi to carry messages between them
Nicaragua is thinking about that as well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/edward-snowden-v...
Reminds me of "There are two major products that came from Berkeley: LSD and BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." Jeremy S. Anderson

EDIT: Seems there's some confusion about the source and accuracy of the quote [0]. Still funny, though.

[0] http://www.lemoda.net/people/jeremy-s-anderson/
Facebook suspended a prominent citizen journalist community page in Turkey
Recently (just past midnight (EEST) on July 6) a community page on Facebook belonging to "Ötekilerin Postası"
https://facebook.com/OtekilerinPostasi
was suspended. The reason given according to their tweet
https://twitter.com/RadikalAktivist/status/353264179123200000
was "content including nudity, pornography or sexual solicitation" (my translation).

This community was founded to act as citizen journalists and did so superbly. In particular, this Facebook page was extremely useful for disseminating information during the events that unfolded in Turkey over the past month or so. The events that developed around Gezi Park protests are not over (e.g. there were multiple detentions today, the construction of the underway passage in Taksim Square is being continued despite a court order for stopping it, a demonstration is planned on Saturday at Gezi Park etc.), so this suspension will cut off a very valuable news source for many people. Does anyone here know how to go about to reinstate this page?
I don't understand why people are trying to hold him to some kind of saintly standard.

He wanted to do what he could to expose what he believed to be wrongdoing. And now he simply wants to avoid prison if possible, like pretty much anyone else would. There's no nobility in throwing away his lifetime in an American jail -- he's already exposed the NSA's programs, and prison accomplishes nothing more.

Sure, it's easy to call him a hypocrite for applying for asylum in countries "less free" than the US. But as long as "free" countries allow themselves to be pressured by the US, what choice does he have? Would you do anything different in his shoes?
Originally Snowden went to Hong Kong because of their supposed freedoms but right now I think he's mainly concerned about finding a place where he won't end up in an American dungeon for the rest of his life.
I'm a little shocked that even here on Hacker News, most of the top-level comments fell for the headline, rather than focusing the attention back where it belongs: the reason why Snowden needs asylum in the first place.

Enough of this drama. Snowden has served his purpose in revealing the extend of the NSA shenanigans, but we really shouldn't have to read about his every move.

This Reuters news release does not even mention the nature of the leaks that put Mr. Snowden in this situation. It's truly a sad state of reporting and public discourse.

Edit: taking a bit of my own advice:

We need to stop the NSA snooping all of our communications and restore due process for searches and seizures!
Or seem? That's very polite (and smart) of you to say. I'll be the dumb one that comes out and says they are pedantic. Period. We have some great ones and a lot of "I'm smarter than this guy, look at me, [commence pedantry]" comments. If they appear pedantic they are.
Link? Was there any disclosure about this from Dropbox?
Why we're building assistant.io
Assuming Venezuela provides Snowden with some sort of travel document to leave Russia, the next big question is, how far is the US willing to go to apprehend him? How exactly is Snowden going to get a flight plan that allows him safe passage to Venezuela.

Obama previously said 'he's not scrambling jets' to catch him, but given this week's events I don't believe him. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the US went after his flight somehow. It seems like this administration is willing to be the international villain in their attempts to catch Snowden.

And maybe the CIA wouldn't dare forcibly take Snowden out of Russia or China, but who's to say they wouldn't do so to a smaller, less powerful country?
The author compares parking structures to holes in bare soil, caves and/or house basements which have very little concrete between the house foundation and the soil. Is it appropriate to compare these underground environments with a underground parking structure which has much more concrete insulation?

I also think most of the heat the cars bring into the garage comes from heat radiating off the engine block and not heat that was absorbed from a hot road.
People are commenting on the linked article. That's how it works, no?
Wait a minute...plutonium is a waste product? I thought the supply of plutonium (that is not used in weapons) was running so low there would not be enough to fuel deep space missions.
Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users
By that metric, I am 'living as a computer' right now.
At Tech-Free Camps, People Pay Hundreds To Unplug
Did you actualy even look at the framework, or just immediately drew conclusions and wrote this as soon as you saw the combination "C++" and "Web Toolkit"?
Depends on how much money Venezuela is willing to spend on it, and how much Russia is willing to cooperate.

I just plotted a path from Moscow to Venezuela that avoids non-Russian/Venezuelan airspace. It's less than 12,000km. Several modern Boeing and Airbus planes can do that non-stop.
Venezuela's Maduro offers asylum to Snowden