skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which countries would those be? I'm really on the fence at the moment, between becoming active in trying to change politics for the better, or just packing up and going somewhere that doesn't spy on literally everybody and throw you in jail over a stupid joke or rap song on facebook.
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Before country-level identity, you were probably identifying to your clan or tribe or somesuch.
Love this question. It's 5 minutes to start with, but it gradually backs off based on a few things, like average time between the most recent items in the feed.

Also right now due to the HN rush our worker queue's a little backed up, but it'll catch up soon enough.
Yes, just looking at the html page source is what I did, but then at first sight I couldn't tell if those other .js where part of a known modular js framework or not, since as I said I am not familiar with those.
Ouch. Great point. I'll make an attempt here, but understand that you have me on my heels :)

If I look around my office I see lots of things that I could name with that many words, because they're composed of a number of really important properties. The reason they're composed of all of those properties is to serve some purpose, and their name tends to reflect that purpose.

So I guess I'd ask if all of the properties in that part name reflect some holistic idea and suggest a name based on that. But I know I'm probably wrong. The people who make that part may not really know why all those properties are together.. in as much as they have customers that use it for lots of different things. It'll probably end up in things that haven't been invented yet, who knows.

Or maybe we could come up with a holistic name, but because it was unspecific we wouldn't know exactly what it did, and anyone about to purchase that part would have to read the spec-sheet (source code, to briefly exit our analogy).

Let's say we built a device that included that thing. What would we call it when traversing the schematics? We'd probably call it the phototransistor, because everything else is detailed enough to be 'source code'.

You caught me being hyperbolic, though. You're right. Some things deserve complicated names, I still definitely don't think any of those things are classes in Spring though. That shit's cray.
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I dislike the idea of "private contractors" having access to my data, much less government secrets.
These private spies provide a layer of insulation between their actions and the checks & balances which are supposed to protect us from civil rights abuses by the government.

I'm not sure how many "private contractors" the NSA had in the 1970's but I'm sure that the recent revelations would not have gone without public outcry in the 70's, and just as the use of mercenaries in wartime was once frowned upon in the USA, so would the news of "mercenary-spies" operating outside the direct oversight of the US government be frowned upon.
Blog author here. I am sorry you found it difficult to read. Would you mind posting more information about your set up? (OS, Firefox version?) As I've just checked and the fonts should be Lucida Sans, Helvetica Neue or Helvetica depending on what's available in your system throughout.

In terms of the images - they were all from the original interview article (linked in my post).

P.S. I am not sure what gave the impression that the interview was about Ruby, as "Ruby" is not mentioned in the title.
I know from experience that Americans in fact, don't know their geography.

Many couldn't find where they lived if you pointed it to them on a map. I had a neighbor who thought Amsterdam was a city next to Athens, Georgia (US State) and even after explaining where it was, that it was part of Holland, he asked me how the Germany trip was when I returned.

And yesterday, the Indian gas station owner was flabbergasted that I knew about and where his home town was (Goa - relatively well known at least I thought). He actually asked 'how do you know that' and I wanted to say because I'm not a zombie.
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Yep, there are several. Any EU passport makes you an E.U. citizen.
It is not at all clear that "the people" means "people in general". If they had meant people in general, they could have simply omitted the article, and thereby not referred to any specific group of people.
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>[I'm] a journalist who needs keeps very close tabs on hundreds of sites [where news that is more than 5 minutes old is sometimes too old]

Your job would quickly make me crazy. I shudder to imagine my getting so up close and personal with the Great Firehose. Take care of yourself!
I think that's generally a very bad idea if you don't want to live in the US. The USA is one of the very few countries in the world that will tax you even for your gains abroad while being resident abroad.
Sublime Text and Textmate likely wouldn't have existed without many people being willing to pay for them. If we refuse to accept paid for developer tools we are only ever going to get certain types of tools build by certain types of people/ companies.
This is going to be a little inflammatory but it's true.

Why I will never take seriously foreigners' reactions to our wars, surveillance, human rights violations, etc:

You people, and the governments and central banks who represent you, keep buying our debt and financing all of this. The US Government would be incapable of funding these programs and wars at low cost without YOU stepping up to the plate every single auction to buy up our treasuries at ridiculously low yields.

I'll believe your outrage when I see action behind it.
This just seems like wishful thinking to me. You're comparing a $100[...]000 enterprise with a one-man shop and expecting the same features? Get real. DDG is actually very impressive for the amount of resources used.
Interesting article, but the author seems to fall into the trap of the "national-security conservatives" implying that most of the FISC judges being Republican is somehow worse. When Edward Snowden and I voted for Obama in 2008 we would have agreed. Now it's become obvious that's really a distraction and that both parties are in on it. This is not a political issue. It's a human rights issue and should be treated as such.
"And if someone that turned off javascript doesn't expect that a game might need code, well, I'll have more fun laughing as the door hits them on the way out"

Have you ever heard of games that don't run within web browsers?

That's what I thought this particular game might be.

In fact, there is a slew of standalone, non-browser-based Interactive Fiction game engines like Frotz[1], Zoom[2], and Inform7[3] out there that this particular game might have been written in. And I would have had no problem playing it then.

[1] - http://frotz.sourceforge.net/

[2] - http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/unix/zoom/

[3] - http://inform7.com/
It is just a waste of time and talent. I mean this reader looks great, but why does it exist? Someone with this talent could have built something more useful to actually make a difference in something.

Google reader quits and now everybody runs to make some sort of RSS reader. The times they are a changin', get over it.
To be fair to mathematics, in your example the proper notation is df = (del f/del x) dx + (del f/del y) dy, which does not suggest the possibility of cancelation.
Mass surviellenace is just a symptom of a bigger problem:

"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to." - Edward Snowden

When any government starts granting itself unlimited powers, this kind of thing will keep happening. Whether it's surveillance, suppressing political dissent, chilling free speech or controlling economic interests.

Democratic representation becomes lost and illusionary.
Exactly. When I was younger I kind of admired Americans and their ideals and I automatically perceived them as the 'good guys'. I did not want to get American citizenship or anything but I had spent couple of months in the US, I loved it and Americans were my friends - I used to defend them every time someone was critical about the US.

Now I would not even want to visit again. TSA alone would be enough for it not to be worth it.

US is like that kid in school who used to be popular and when he got beat up by that bully, everybody wanted to help him. But after that beating he never recovered and became so paranoid and creepy that even his friends abandoned him and now he himself is a bully and everybody ignores or hates him - if he is going to need help again nobody is going to give a shit.
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The documentation mentions that "OSX install has become a challenge. With the Enthought transition to Canopy we cannot figure out clean install directions for 3rd party packages and therefore can no longer recommend using EPD for SpacePy." They have other directions including some using MacPorts.

Installation directions for Linux and Windows seem straight-forward.
It's not about being "Amish" or Luddite. It's about trying to keep my system secure and not being tracked.

No thank you to opening my browser up to Javascript exploits and GoogleAPI tracking!
Have you ever heard of games that don't run within web browsers?

That's what I thought this particular game might be.

In fact, there is a slew of standalone, non-browser-based Interactive Fiction game engines like Frotz[1], Zoom[2], and Inform7[3] out there that this particular game might have been written in. And I would have had no problem playing it then.

[1] - http://frotz.sourceforge.net/

[2] - http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/unix/zoom/

[3] - http://inform7.com/
A little risky though, if your test is imperfect. People may work to outsmart the tests rather than actually solve the bugs.
As an Australian this is exactly how I feel. Over the past few weeks I've been moving many of my business systems off the cloud and onto self hosted servers and using less and less American servers because they clearly have no issue with taking foreigners information and with tens of thousands of contractors and employees able to access that information I wonder how long it's going be before big companies are able to effectively spy on competitors through having a 'friend' with access to prism.
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Played, donated. Thanks!
Off topic, but "Help us to keep your albums stay online" is awkwardly phrased in English. Try deleting the word "stay."

Somewhat on topic: do your users who won't upgrade have a simple tool they can use to download all their albums?
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Jesus, this is amazing.
Well, it depends on your political preference. Strong social liberty or strong economic liberty or something in between? It depends on what's important to you.

Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/

Democracy Index: https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton.por_global.open_file?p_d...

Human Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr4press/press/outreach/figures/HDI_Tre...

Gun Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/gunindex.html

Press Freedom: http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html

Drug Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/drugindex.html

Various other stats: http://www.eiu.com/default.aspx

Just notice the trends - which countries are you seeing at the tops of most of the lists?
Thanks!

We are not a big site, but we have loyal fans. Unfortunately the loyal fans are mostly not of the spontaneous paying kind which landed us in making losses for many months trying to find some other way to sustain the growth. Our marketing efforts were also focused on the EU mainly because that market is already large enough.

Thank you both for the long term storage advice; we will probably use Glacier. We'll try to see if we can use a combi between Glacier, S3 and our local caching to keep the images downloadable for a few months. But not for live showing as that + hotlinking is where the cost comes from.
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from what I see 4chan is not a social network :)
One of the most incredible things released in visual studio 2013 is a thing called Browser Link. In the keynote they used it only for live refreshing the page. However the way it is architected adding extensions is easy. There's going to be some awesome things being built for it.
Sure, but the whole Constitution begins with "We the People of the United States". You can argue that it should include non-citizens, but the constitution itself and subsequent applications are very clear that it does not. It is a somewhat odd proposition to claim the constitution of one country apply to all. Should the rest of the world have stopped drinking in 1919?

(Not a Republican mythmaker who loves torture, just stating the facts)
> assuming a byte as defined in ISO/IEC 80000-13

C uses a different definition of byte. The C standard defines the size of a char as 1 byte.
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Read my comment again. I said even though the article is not about ruby, Matz unfailingly starts from 1993. The headings in your article before every question makes it hard to read. The font size of the question is 3x smaller than the answer font size. Top that up with the images in between the answers.

My OS is Centos 6.1(32 bit) and the browser is Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1 .

I am sorry if this sounds aggressive. But very rarely do we get the chance to interview some amazing men. When you do(or even translate), please don't mess up.

Few days ago, a Donald Knuth interview appeared. It was a good read. May be I got carried away.

Sorry anyway.
Thanks for the off topic; fixed that typo.

And yes they have; you can download all your albums very easily. I'm writing some more text so it is clear. But that has always been possible anyway.
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While he doesn't have as strong a name as Putin, Rafael Correa is not a nice guy and Ecuador's political situation is ugly. We recently saw HN posts about the surveillance equipment they are buying.

I think its irresponsible for Correa to hurt the lives of his citizens by hurting US-Ecaduaror ties just to make fun of the USA.
Now I see what you mean: unreadable because of psychology, not technology. I think I'm the opposite, maybe because I've been reading academic papers for so long: the websites with no or very little styling catch my eye, and part of my brain suspects that the content might be interesting. If it's too shiny, it's in my blind spot.
Why do you think it's appropriate to post this to a public forum? It's off-topic and completely insensitive -- send him an email next time.
Needs the j/k shortcuts of GR!
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Yes you are protected in civilized countries nobody can read your letters without your consent, no matter your citizenship. It's criminal offence if they do.
Some kind of peer to peer encrypted data storage system (think bitcoin for data) would go a long way towards solving this. You could give sub keys to sites that want to access some of this data and because it's encrypted, distributed and peer to peer no one owns it and you control your data.

Yes this would be crazy with todays infrastructure but in 10 - 20 years when internet is as previlent as electricity and everyone has many terabytes of space it's definitely viable.

I really hope some smart minds are working on something like this in light of these revelations.
This seems to me to be an issue that there is some disagreement on between devs and ops people - most devs are happy to distribute software with a Gemfile and see it as a solved problem. Ops packages tend to go the omnibus route like Chef has, or use Jruby and package as a Jar file like http://logstash.net/

I wonder if there is anything developers can do as a community to help solve the problems these distributors feel they have?
Ok, I understand this is a difficult decision, but I think you handled it well, giving the chance of them taking their photos from the site is good and fair.

Some alternatives I would have considered:

- Keeping a free plan with limited space / limited quality (and no hotlinking - not sure you allow this)

- Separating albums between regular/+18 pictures (so if in +18 no google ads/outside of robots.txt permissions, etc)
I agree completely with you on all counts. He didn't made a wrong choice with bstrlib by far. I just felt there was a strong movement in recent years to move towards utf in general, so why not expose beginners to it as well, just as a part of overall strategy. It's not a trivial issue to tackle though for sure.
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OK, now who's working on the chrome extension? Should be fairly simple to inject this to every page, I guess? (I need this. I don't know why but I know I do.)
Take a look at https://www.fpcomplete.com/. They're trying to push the edge of Haskell web dev commercialization.
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It's a bit silly. I think my IP has been banned on HN.

I haven't done any scraping, etc. Please help, HN is my only news source. Thank you!
It's both parties, in the US we basically live in a one party system, where sub parties argue about how they are different in public but in secret act the same to further their power. In the end we the people both inside and outside the country become less and less important.
As I understand, the problem is comparing a relatively advanced technology (classical computing) to a relatively immature technology (quantum computing). So, classical computing is fast enough to simulate quantum annealing at the speed that the quantum chip itself is able to process (because the technology is so new). This has lead people to doubt whether the chip is actually doing the quantum process or simply simulating it. Or at least that is my grasp of the situation.
> Did we make the right decision?

Maybe you can have procedures in place to let approved accounts stay on a free plan. If you have a user with a long track record of acceptable use, and they really want their free account, why not give it to them? You could limit this to a small user pool, say, accounts open for > 1 year and exclude all new users. It might be a fun way to reward your longtime users and develop some loyalty.
Incisive, well-written.
Thanks for the comments. To give some insight:

> - Keeping a free plan with limited space / limited quality (and no hotlinking - not sure you allow this)

We did this already; it pissed off the fans and the freeloaders came in any way. Double loss. This is already less than they had.

> - Separating albums between regular/+18 pictures (so if in +18 no google ads/outside of robots.txt permissions, etc)

Well we don't allow adult at all and we don't want to. People just upload them anyway and because of the thousands of pictures coming in all day and night, we cannot screen them. Well we can manually, but then it would be even less feasible to run this.
I don't think the content of the article was particularly good.

The advice on how to protect yourself from being spied on is essentially:

"stop using the internet; or use HTTPS - which is probably compromised anyway; or encrypt - which is probably compromised anyway; or use a VPN - which I will say next to nothing about"

It's just a rehash of points and opinions already better expressed elsewhere.
Email info@ycombinator.com with your question, that's the official way to ask for account help.
We in the US are going to pay for this in the long run big time. Sadly most of us seem to not care.
It's because of HN front-page I learned about and subscribed to your mailing list.
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Given how non-trival search is and the relative resources and histories of the two providers in question, it's sort of amazing these are the worst comparison points the author could come up with.
Can anyone clarify what does this means:
'License Agreement based on Python Software Foundation License'?
> It's recently replaced mysql in redhat builds, so it's definitely on the up.

"Red Hat's Director of Product Marketing, Mark Coggin, told various media outlets that the company has not made any decision or made an announcement about which database technology will be in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7."

-- "Red Hat Says No MariaDB/MySQL Decision Made." The H Online, 18 June 2013
(http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Red-Hat-says-no-Maria...)
I have no family and at my age (55) it's not a big deal. But then again I don't do anything that NSLs target.
Language is an important factor in how hard the project will be to run/build, modify or otherwise actually work with. If it's a library for a language I don't use, I'd like to know that pretty quickly.
Really well done.

I think I was one of the few (perhaps?) who did not like the new redesign of github. I did not like the content above that red/color bar at all. It is that much real estate taken away from me to see the code/commits/documentation of the page. I often use last commit and all commits to compare and see what is going on. I also quickly switch branches on the UI to compare stuff. The current github just feels its a always one extra click or I am searching for something. Somehow it doesn't feel minimalistic at all.

Ian's redesign makes it elegantly simple and minimalistic.
Fortunately Python is becoming the new programming language for science and engineering, replacing FORTRAN and Matlab.
Unfortunately I do not see many opportunities for growth in other sectors
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No. While I believe Snowden did the right thing by releasing information on the NSA's domestic spying, he lost my support by going on to release information detailing how the NSA spied on foreign states. He crossed a line when doing that and as such he ought to face the US legal system.

Plus, as others have said, Ecuador is hardly a paragon of freedom. It spies on its citizens in ways just as blatant and intrusive as that of the US, if not more, and political dissent and media freedom is only barely tolerated.

Let's not allow the rightful anger over the NSA's domestic activities blind us into giving Snowden a free pass to leak whatever he has (in his own words he regards all surveillance as wrong) or into believing that Rafael Correa is on the side of those of us who don't like pervasive state surveillance.
While you've shared some pretty good articles, this one just seems like inflammatory linkbait.
Not sure I see how this is germane. Are you saying your geography is good, but your statistics are absolute shite?
Why is it that so many people are so in love with America, anyway? I guess I was too, when I was a teenager, which I can attribute to the prevalence of American pop-culture (how many Western countries show more native movies than American movies? France, maybe, and..?). What do people expect would happen if they moved to the US, from another first world country? That their life is magically going to be better, freer, etc? I have never been, so I don't know, but it seems that that doesn't stop many people who hasn't been there either from assuming that life there would be fantastic.

For that matter, how would the NSA spying interfere with this romantized life? I'd if you were unaware of it to begin it, most likely not at all (not that that is an excuse for the spying).
Generally I use ddg.gg for "I want <specific thing>" and google for "I want a brute force grep of the internet".

My usage split is about "best tool for the job" rather than privacy though, since I don't really mind google knowing what error messages I'm pasting from a console.
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> There are two types of problems in science, the attrition kind where if you throw enough people and enough money at it you'll get it to work and the breakthrough kind where nothing will happen until some a-ha moment.

Thats interesting. What camp would you say flight fell under?
TLDR:

A guy brainwashed by American propaganda as a child realizes America has problems too. Then writes a self-important article about it.