skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...But Obama’s Justice Department, like Bush’s, has not been above an opportunistic (and occasionally downright Procrustean) reading of particular statutes to permit whatever it is that the White House wants to do."

"....the Supreme Court has refused to consider the legality of the N.S.A.’s wiretapping programs on the tautological ground that no prospective plaintiff has standing to sue, because the relevant programs are so secret that any one citizen can only “speculate” whether or not he or she has been spied on."

Our now only remaing feeble check: the press, whistleblowers, Congress, don't stand a chance against this new `tripartite' POTUS' SCOTUS, POTUS' Administration, and POTUS' Dept of Justice.
Waving Goodbuy: Facebook’s Big Whiff on Traffic of Commercial Intent
Useful Phrases for the Surveillance State
Not yet. (build 3046)
This is the power of branding. Even if Yahoo came out with better search technology than Google, it would be incredibly difficult to unseat it now - you would need to be at least one order of magnitude better, like Google was compared to Altavista when it stole its crown. And even in that case Yahoo would need to use a different brand anyway (like Microsoft is trying to do with Bing)
Anatomy of a Compiler Bug
Find a local Buddhist meditation group. They'll have at least weekly "sittings", often more frequently. Just recently this searchable list of north american sanghas went up:

http://buddhistinsightnetwork.org/sanghas

If you are in the SF Bay Area, the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City is the home for Gil Fronsdahl, cited above.

http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/
Dear Son...
A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur
Or Boost, maybe.
How do I get leather...? I have a tannery, I guess I need a tanner, but I don't know how to get one...

"Tanner: 0", "Hunter: 0", etc, have little icons next to them, but clicking does nothing...

I've maxed out my village etc (and am accumulating huge quantities of wood I can't use for anything anymore), but can't seem to advance until I get some leather!
> ... they'd probably freak out thinking it was some evil Google scheme to mine data when in fact, all that is simply a byproduct of any reasonable logging or analytics solution that is not special to Google at all.

If that's true -- that an objective reasonable observer would think those things -- perhaps that's indicative of analytics being of questionable ethical standing.

After all, they enable the massive centralization of extremely far reaching user data, voluntarily submitted by both applications and websites to centralized data brokers -- such as Google -- who are not only positioned to build enormous commercial profiles of users, but also to (be compelled to) give or sell those profiles to government(s).
The little diamond to the right is actually an up/down arrow; click the up arrow to reassign gatherers to other jobs.
$('#roomPanel').width(350);

See inside and outside at the same time
> I just can't understand this aversion to js.

Obviously, you didn't live through the age of X11 popup adds or javascript exploits.
> Are there really that many use cases where, with the current market, people who are using MySQL would have Oracle as their next choice or vice versa?

RDS users?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... ><

thank you... :)
Balated response to your Edit:

I think you're still lumping together different actions with different moral qualities. Just because they happen near the same time or are perpetrated by the same person doesn't mean that they should be evaluated together.

If Jean Valjean steals a bread and a watch, but if the watch was completely unnecessary to feed his family, his stealing of the bread might still be justified. If he helps a little girl escape from abuse while he himself is on the run, that doesn't mean that he was wrong to help her, nor that it was okay for him to lie about his identity. He did a good thing and a bad thing at the same time, just like the rest of us do all the time.
Your post screams 'quit now'. Consciously or not, you didn't say anything about why you'd want to stay outside of sunk costs.
Dogpile was pretty awesome for a while in those days..
Making 'Killer Angels'
Sharing a Potluck of Links, Not Food
Yes, they are offered stock options, and it turns out to be of zero worth, much more so than even usual employee options (which are rarely worth anything themselves).

Employees have to be thrown some crumbs so they don't quit en mass and go to the competitor. But who'll watch out for you? At the next equity restructuring (which happens with every investment, loan or liquidity event), your equity will be chipped down, and it will be worth exactly 0 by the time the company is worth anything, if it ever is.

Either take actual shares at a huge discount (though, depending on how far along this guy is with, might be a tax problem for you - unless you plan to put it on your tax return at fair value, you need to speak with a CPA first), or actual cash money.

And, to echo tarr11 below: First, figure out your market rate first; that will give you an idea of the opportunity cost, without which you can't evaluate any offer.
Excellent guide. We (at http://www.hostedgraphite.com) will be pointing new users towards it and I'm sure many will benefit. Thanks!
Wish he was alive for a few more years :(
That depends...

The D-Wave processor probably isn't useful for cracking it. However, if you send RSA encrypted data, copies can be made of the encrypted data and cracked at a later date when better facilities or algorithms become available. If you wish to send a message that would make the NSA want to hunt you down and kill you if they decrypt it N years from now (and you plan to live >N years), you should probably be more careful. I don't think we have a good idea of what N is. It's probably pretty big, but it might not be.
Precrime
Surgically implanted headphones are literally 'in-ear'
After 5yrs of Scala usage, I'm sorry to disagree. Martin might be a very clever guy, but Scala is not catered towards developers but language enthusiasts. From my personal point of view, and everyone else might disagree, it's very slow to compile, has complicated error messages, the API is implemented to be powerful not towards easiness of use etc.
Lessons in the Art of Pillow Fort Construction
So when do we start the campaign questioning Peter Thiel's role in this?
Yes please, it looks like amazing software, I just can't figure out how to actually use it.
I absolutely didn't downvote you, I fully agree with your point, and was equally confused by the use those terms in that context.
After 5yrs of Scala usage, "but on the other hand maintaining scala code across compiler updates is a pain in the ass." this is really a pain, especially if you come from Java where probably 15yrs old code still runs. I would no longer go with Scala for a new project but give Clojure a try.
Don't take equity from someone you would not be willing to work for. It is not worth anything. The only thing worth considering (and it is still not a good idea) is convertible debt where you have the option to cash out on the next financing.

Ass full of horseshoes = Lucky, right?
The Middle East Plague Goes Global
refreshing page.. get more stuff..
How to be Minimally Redundant: zfec and Erasure Coding
How were you able to do this without finding the mines?
Clean out your dead RSS and Atom feeds
Lol. You haven't even read the link.

Vipassana meditation is not a resort. You can't even speak with other people. It's just a 10 day, hardcore meditation training.

Plz, don't be a moron. At least look at the facts:
http://scholar.google.com.br/scholar?hl=pt-BR&q=meditation&b...
I detect a nod here to Dwarf Fortress.
The language my RSS reader in written in is not important for me.
Many of the examples in The Pi Manifesto are wrong. See the rebuttal I posted last year:

http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-the_pi_manifesto_a_rebut...

Indeed, the author of The Pi Manifesto essentially rebutted his own work in March of last year:

http://spikedmath.com/fact-005.html
You should read

http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-getting_to_the_bottom_of...

which goes into great detail on surface areas and volumes of hyperspheres. Spoiler alert: it's actually pi/2 = tau/4 that emerges victorious.
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A blog about information and the surrounding of Malaysia
I'm not familiar with ansible so I won't attempt to compare the two but I can offer you a short list of benefits that Vagrant provides over building VMs manually with Virtualbox, VMWare, etc.

1. Single command setup across virtualization platforms

2. Tight integration with provisioning tools (ships local config to VM and runs)

3. Network configuration*

4. Automated shared folders (includes NFS since VBox has really bad shared folders)

5. Generally homogeneous config across host and virtualization platforms

6. Safe cleanup on command cancellation (ie, very safe/sane command line behavior)

There's much more to add but this is nice short list. [UPDATE] Generally speaking it takes the idea of using VMs locally to guarantee a development environment/state and streamlines the process enormously.

* Most people underestimate the number of ways that you can screw up network config on local VMs.
It was an honest question. Thanks for the downvote moron, very helpful.
Can Packer meaningfully work with Docker.io? I gather there is some overlap, but is there a way they can work together? It seems to me:

* Packer abstracts creation of images.

* Vagrant abstracts running images, via a VM, and applying changes to images (via chef/puppet, although that seems to overlap with Packer as well).

* Docker seems to abstract both creation of images (via docker build) and running of images (albeit only on top of LXC).

To complicate things further, it seems like Vagrant has some initial support for running (Linux) images on top of LXC (via Fabio Rehm's plugin) and possibly on top of Docker (although the state of the plugin for this is vague).

All this stuff seems very powerful, but the overlap is confusing. My head hurts...
Biz thoughts: Think today, not tomorrow.
(Also equivalently and more commonly known as the Ising Model). The D-wave chip is just a very fast hardware-based Ising model solver. You can use it to both find the minimum of a problem through cooling, or by controlling the temperature of the system you can also do sampling. And since so many important problems can be reduced to an Ising model, this is interesting.

What I don't fully understand is why is it so important to show that the device takes advantage of Quantum effects functionally? A classical super-efficient Ising Model solver is interesting enough.

Also, the video in the article is really quite terrible. I only half understood it because I know what they were trying to say, but if I didn't I think I'd be very confused at best, and amusingly misinformed at worst.
does anyone know what to do with alien alloy?
I am not sure whether my blog can be submit here or not, it is personal blog that discuss about my place and the surrounding.
If it is prohibited, please remove me. I am using google translator. Thank you everyone.
Why didn't you make the circle constant a circle in your manifesto? I'm not sure but it seems the function composition symbol could be safely reused without confusion or perhaps a larger circle with a drawn radius. Wouldn't a circle have avoided some of the Tau criticisms?
> and if you don't you probably don't care.

The languages used are often one of the first things I am interested in when investigating a new project.
Kudos to the excellently talented Meteor team. A great product from a genuine customer (of a free product), who feels great that there is such attention to detail.
Maxed out -> leather armor. It was the maximum available attribute at the time.
My impression is that the IOC threads spare you from needing to write continuation-passing-style code by hand and let you program in a more idiomatic style instead. This would be specially useful if you have lots of jumps in your control flow such as loops, return and break statements.
I would love to hear more about your Ur/Web experience (if you are the author Rickasaurus?).
It saves, but, especially early on, there's a sense that you might get eaten if you walk away from the computer.
Navigating Vim and Tmux Splits
I clone repos very often to browse the files in my editor so I didn't like the change initially (and I still don't like it very much) but then after getting used to it I felt that the clone-download section could be positioned above the right side menu which would also allow the menu to be aligned with the box that lists files and dirs.

Anyway, I liked the article even though I am not a UI person
I've been thinking this for a while and have really come to believe it recently, but I'd be amazed if the NSA didn't have quantum computing down, either at scale or about to get there. Historically they've been, and similar organizations are perceived to be, 5-10 years ahead of public technology, so I'm going to go ahead and assume that all PKE is broken as far as the USG is concerned.

I've heard from someone who'd know that a big driver of Google's purchase of the D-Wave was that, "if there's going to be a crypto breakthrough, [Google] would like to know about it early."
Same argument people make over record stores and piracy. It is a business model whos time has come and gone.
One of these 'counterintuitive claims' is about resurrection. I don't want to give you 'spoilers', but one thing they 'preach' is that Vipassana is a way to get out of the cycle of endless 'rebirth'.

I'm an Atheist myself. And on the 7/8th day I had what I would call a strange dream. I was practicing Vipassana on the bed as I could not get to sleep. Suddenly I've fallen asleep and dreamt of being someone else on a distant past. After some time I woke up not knowing where I was and what was happening.

For anyone 'spiritual' enough that would be a 'past life experience'. But the thing is. I don't know why, but while there, every dream seems a lot more "real".

I think it has something to do with all the silence involved. You can't speak, and the center itself is very quiet (far from any urban center).

On the 11th day (when you are allowed to talk with other students) I've found out that it was very common indeed.

So I think, yes, with enough practice every one will have similar experiences. But these experiences will mean different things for different people.
Feed Reader Written with Haskell and Ur/Web
Appropriate comic: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110522180205/vsrecom...

Not XKCD though.
An Overview of ECMAScript 6 | Axel Rauschmayer
i like education, but for some reason this just seems like "hey two people are using coursera," which isn't really saying much. i guess i applaud the students for being in 8th grade and wanting more. it does not matter that they are twins. and "einstein" course? really? this hurts me inside as this is something in my area of study. please just call it what it really is: physics.
In fact, most shells (e.g. bash and zsh) have the option to switch from Emacs to vi mode.
anyone try it?
I'm having a serious problem later on in the game when I have four different options on the screen during a fight. The hover resource-display obscures the action button and reduces the clickable area to a tiny sliver. I'm losing battles that I should be winning, a lot.
maybe the "excellent" part would interest you then?
There no 'good reason'. It's just a cultural bias.
Not only setInterval though. This sort of leak can also show up if the closure is a DOM event handler or is otherwise exposed.
You can also click on the lollipop to lower the prices.
I can just hope English language'll get some more importance in your life. :)
It is taken on faith by the media because these statements ARE TRUE until proven otherwise in the courts! You think these sorts of attitudes are confined to management? If the guy on the ground thinks it is true, it is true. And especially as they are guys that are highly unlikely to be investigated and with whom the courts can be extremely lenient.

I fully understand that this is case of little boys playing cops and robbers and making the rules up as they go.. but they are playing with real guns.
TWiT had a decent show on how to encrypt your e-mail with Mailvelope (Chrome/FF extension) and also with Thunderbird/Enigmail:

http://twit.tv/show/know-how/50
Also don't forget there would be laws preventing anyone else from selling Microsoft products in the area, and Microsoft wouldn't be able to sell to you.
And this shows how cool it is to have languages with minimal builtin constructs and powerful abstractions for library writers.
Killed it and allowed Microsoft to boss them around another couple of decades thanks to office monopoly. Google is now getting close to end this.
If you never heard of the term extraction tool or yql during that time you don't know what you missed.
Vim-textobj-user - Create your own text objects
Microsoft goes after Google with ad-free, filtered Bing search for schools
"Start your free trial today!"

and no pricing info...
How to Make Money with a Blog
Hehe. Now you have to elaborate on the naming...
i guess the headline and sub-headline will have to do, since i can't read this article without an account :(

"Bitcoin Exchange Makes Apparent Move to Play by U.S. Money-Laundering Rules
Company Listed as Mt. Gox Registers With Treasury Department"
Google ending Microsoft Office's monopoly.

That's funny.
I'm almost sure AltaVista was just the first one to have porn... Mean, image search.
Do you mind or mine?  I do.
I know the content of the video itself is very interesting, but I have to make this tangential comment:

Is it me or do people who were born in Brooklyn in the 50s and 60s have cool accents? Richard Stallman for example has a very similar accent.
New Research Shows Success Doesn't Make Women Less Likable
Well this is hacker news, and not consumer news.
But I do agree with one of the commenters, who said that "women have to work to maintain likeability by walking the tightrope of the double bind. Women who are too masculine (which they must be to succeed) often are NOT liked. Those who are must be good at tightropes."
Google got in on this early:

> On February 13, 2007, D-Wave demonstrated the Orion system, running three different applications at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This marked the first public demonstration of, supposedly, a quantum computer and associated service.

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, a Google research team led by Hartmut Neven used D-Wave's processor to train a binary image classifier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems

We can only hope quantum computers become commercially available as soon as possible, and many companies use them to encrypt the data and with perfect forward secrecy, that can at least provide some kind of protection against too many government abuses.

Because we're not going to be able to buy these ourselves in the next few decades, while the governments will be able to get as many as they want. So our only "hope" is that many companies can get them early, too, to protect their services against any type of "attacker".
Yeah. I almost throw up a little when i read that.

Knowledgeable users should not be punished because of dumb users.

If your system sucks, make it suck less. Don't remove options. Add friking paragraphs of well written short copy explaining the issue and create a better world. with less dumb.

I'm afraid people like this is working for Mozilla... Afraid Mozilla 30 will be gnome 3.
Does GitHub use Aura? I think they were using it as an example of the kind of page that would use widgets, but the positioning and wording made me wonder if GitHub is using Aura. If not, borders on misleading (even if unintentional)
Just spent an hour before I hit this wall. So frustrating.

Even though it was surprisingly mostly playable on mobile (except: small buttons, tooltips)
I just signed up and this is the best Reader replacement I've seen so far.

Someone actually thought through what an evolution of Reader should be. It can subscribe to non-RSS pages like Facebook public pages or Google+ pages. If the feed only contains teasers it scrapes the pages to get at the the full text and displays that inline. This seems to be a Reader replacement by an actual former Reader user.
Steve Jobs certainly had a keen eye for business. You can tell from interviews. Probably one of the greatest businessmen in tech. To me, it's his greatest legacy.
From the FAQ: You can choose any price you want from $9 to $29 annually.
The realization is that there were no good guys.
Another piece of advise would be to never collect data you don't want to give out later.
Is there anything cool after getting the spaceship? I can't keep playing, but I will if I can get more of a fix....
I would be just as interested in an experience report. Hopefully we can coax the author into giving a talk on it at some point.
How does it end. I have the spaceship, but I need to go to bed.
Toosell blog | How to Connect Two Apple Laptops to a Firewire
Snowden should agree to go back to america and go on trial on the condition the NSA and all those related get to go on trial in a publicized court of Showden's choosing with full, live, and uncensored media coverage.
This does look excellent. I look forward to seeing how well it works on mobile. I wonder if there is any native ios / android implementation in the works? I would happily pay for both!

But the name? How am I supposed to pronounce it? I'm sorry to say this, but a name like this could be a serious impediment to getting widespread adoption. It's not as bad as calling it something like "flaming purple penis of death" but it's not that far off.
I hope to lighten the mood:

I learned something vital about democracy from videogames. In Civilization II and Alpha Centauri, democracy and technological progress were modeled as being inherently "insecure." Your democratic, free and high-tech government was more susceptible to espionage and you could not effectively conduct espionage.

It amazes me how this simple model reflects the real world nature of free governments.

Leaks happen. The Obama administration's response should not be proactive prosecution. It should be to dismantle unjust, invasive security programs. They are plainly incompatible with free government, and they will be rendered ineffective—either by capitalism, politics, or in this case, whistleblowers.

Edward Snowden is but one of many ways our security apparatus is nullified by genuine freedom.
5 Tips on How to Stop Being a Digital Slave
Don't trust a government that has something to hide.
Cube Slam, play face-to-face with your friend in this Chrome experiment
The search results were not great, but the times were great.
Seriously... I just completed the spaceship sequence and I'm too mad to even react properly (per HN standards). I knew this was gonna happen and it did happen. Shame on me.
Also, it would be really nice if there were arrows that increased/decreased allocations by ten as well as just one.