skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is most feeds do not have all of their historical posts. Google Reader preserved old posts in the feeds. ArchiveTeam is taking our OPMLs and getting a copy of Reader's archive before it is taken down.
I know this is a Ron Paul line, but the logic doesn't clearly follow. Snowden isn't "wanted for giving information to the American people". He didn't only release information to American citizens.

Of course, it is impossible to leak classified information publicly and not leak it to the "enemy", but this particular platitude bugs me. There are many reasons to be upset with the government right now, but the charges against Snowden don't imply the government thinks citizens are the enemy.
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Extending it with Google Apps Scripts you could translate the spreadsheet data into actual calendar events on your Google Calendar.
For most software-based startups it comes down to a few things:

* Ease of hiring (remote workers increase the pool of available talent)

* Infrastructure (including availability of payment solutions, ease of setting up a business, etc)

* Access to finance (which may not be necessary if bootstrapping, or bank loans are available, which is especially promising in the UK with the Enterprise Finance Guarantee)

Unless you're VC-hungry there aren't really that many barriers to creating and running a successful company in the EU. Perhaps the biggest drawback to Europe is the culture, which is less startup friendly and slightly more risk adverse compared to startup-centric locations in the US.
> but we're free to read whatever we want when off-site on our own hardware.

I would be willing to bet that the agreement you signed to get your security clearance didn't have a 9-to-5 provision. You may not be charged for it, but that doesn't mean you aren't violating that agreement by accessing classified information for which you don't have "need to know".
TIL that sup is obsolete HTML, while sub is not.
In Canada, marriage equality started being a major issue in 1995, and things started changing in 1999 when the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are entitled many of the rights of marriage. In 2002-2003 most of the provinces' and territories' courts ruled that they could marry.

And finally, in 2005, same-sex couples gained full marriage equality at the federal level after several drama-filled months in the House of Commons that included one MP (Belinda Stronach) crossing the floor then retiring from politics, attempts to bribe another MP (Chuck Cadman) on his deathbed, and several MPs (including the Prime Minister, Paul Martin, and former Prime Minister, Jean Crétien) being denied communion at their church.

Then it was over. In 2006 the law was upheld in a free vote under a new Conservative Party government, thus cementing the law and ending all serious debate about overturning it.

So really, things changed over the course of 10 years here in Canada (1995-2005), and same-sex couples have had full marriage equality for 8 years now. A whole generation is coming of age now in the time since gay marriage was legalized. People entering adulthood now at at 18 years old were 10 years old when the law was passed -- too young to have been concerned about things like this.

At best, they only vaguely remember that there was once a debate about it. To them it's been legal 'forever'. They hear about the marriage equality debate going on in the states, but even the more conservative teenagers (mostly, ones who have conservative parents) don't understand what all the fuss is about.

Frankly, I don't either.
The simple answer to the question is "yes".

The follow-up question is "why"? The evidence seems to be pointing towards the conclusion that there is such vast institutional corruption in place that they are protecting themselves, through intelligence gathering and militarized police forces, from any threat posed from the general population. Intelligence gathering allows them to keep tabs on any movements which threaten or expose them, e.g. Occupy, WikiLeaks, Snowden. They can then coordinate with law enforcement to disable and neutralize them, and the media is used to discredit them.
Will check this out on my chromebook pixel. I recently stopped using ST2 even though I paid for it because there doesnt seem to be a reliable way to increase the font size in the sidebar, tabs and menus without introducing rendering glitches. Back to emacs with terminus as the font for me.
But wait, if clearances restrict your access to information, then they are not clearances, but restrictors.
I remember the first website I "hacked" (read inspected the html code), I was sure I was onto something...
This looks very promising!

Here's a suggestion. My favourite source for Rails docs is apidock.com because it allows people to comment and supply examples. It would be really nice if devdocs could incorporate something like that or perhaps even a wikipedia-like way to update the docs.
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Not a designer here, but this comment reminded me of the movie "Helvetica", which describes the same pendulum effect happening in font design over the years. Couldn't agree more that a swing the other way would be a great development.
An IP on a mobile device is not as same as an IP on desktop. As far as desktop is concerned, unless ISPs are willing to track your exact location for the government, there is no way anyone can pinpoint your exact location through the public IP address.
I would appreciate if they could relax a bit a list of filetypes you can upload there. if you want to use some webfonts for your CSS you will be surprised that it's impossible to upload your own TTF file (freeware of course)
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After trying Fever, Tiny Tiny RSS (both self hosted), and Feedbin (very slow), I've switched to Newsblur and I like it quite a bit. I formerly used Reeder on iOS and my Mac with Google Reader to sync, but I'm using the Newsblur app now and not missing Reeder at all. I like the web interface, it is fast and has less bloat than Google Reader's interface did (a plus for me - I was a big fan of Bloglines way back when and it was very streamlined) and supports everything I want to do (read/organize by folder, save stories). I was confused by the sharing in the app at first - I don't really care about a 'blurblog' and just wanted to share a story on Facebook - so I've switched to just copy/pasting the URL instead of using built in functionality, but I could be missing something. I'd also like to just have a two pane display in the web version - tree view of feeds w/folders, and story content - like Google Reader and Bloglines do, basically - the pane in the middle (the list of stories) doesn't do anything for me and I haven't figured out if it's possible to shut it off.

edit: turns out the story pane can be shut off, a recent addition. Thanks Newsblur :)
Unexpected by whom?)
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I like the idea and think it will be both an adventure and worth while, but it'll never be what it used to be.

Here's why:

My friends never really made there own websites or anything even close, but when myspace came along everyone suddenly became interested in the ability to customize their profile page. This alone created would be programmers out of my friends, figuring out how to manipulate each page to add interesting layouts via HTML, picking music to add to the page and figuring out how to embed pictures, videos, music, links, etc. The point is, that myspace was in many ways better than Facebook, and a transition from webpages to social networking. With myspace essentially gone, my friends have on multiple occasions told me they missed the ability to make themselves unique, but when I suggest them making their own webpage they call claim it too hard, costly, no way to network, etc.

Perhaps neocities can make it, but to hit a larger market it'll need more social networking that allows the qualities of facebook chat (why ALL of my friends switched from myspace). If you could add in the social networking aspect, it would trump the need for facebook and open the door for a whole new realm of people.
The point is not to run more of them, but to run them better.

What good does it do to run identical software ten times? These computer-thingies are pretty deterministic. You're basically guaranteed to get the same result each time, but you have no idea if the result is because of the technique being presented, a quirk of the implementation, or just a bug.
There is nothing new age about Goenka meditation courses, and it's definitely not a resort. It's 10 days of hard work, but it's well worth it. It's also purely donation basis (you donate at the end, and it's optional), which I think really helps.
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“What’s the Most Intellectual Joke You Know?”
ST3 still crashes a lot in Windows. I have at least one crash/day. I have no idea why this is happening.
Or it could be an embedded database (like SQLite) that keeps replication and redundancy out of scope?
As long as you are hero worshiping, Martin Odersky is an amazing guy also who is quite focused on pragmatic Scala. Ya, scala has lots of features and it does attract more academics, but there is nothing really flimsy ivory tower about it.
Blackberry used to be the crown jewel of the Canadian tech sector. There is always a hint of sentimentalism & cheering attached to their coverage by local media.
Without context of what startup / company this actually is, it's getting rather boring to read this.

You can't have sympathy for something just based on words; you need context. This could be any # of startup's right now; why do we care about you without knowing what you have contributed to this world?
Original reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1h1cyg/whats_the_...
Not another VC blog - First Round Review
If you plug in a feed in InoReader, you get thousands of items from the past. It seems they are fetching the historical feeds (I can't tell how far back they go).

But why would ArchiveTeam wants to preserve the historical items in a feed if the feed does not belong to them in the first place (neither did it belong to Google)?
If you want to just test yourself, you get quite a lot of info from openssl's s_servers's status-page, enabled with -www:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 30 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout localhost.key -out localhost.crt
openssl s_server -www -debug -accept 4433 -key localhost.key -cert localhost.crt

Then open https://localhost:4433 in your browser and temporarily ignore the cert-warning.

You'll get a list of ciphers supported by the server, and a list of ciphers common between the server and the client (which, with all ciphers enabled (default) on the server -- should be rather exhaustive).

See also: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299520
In addition, when I see the phrase "climate models", I think of the global simulations that scientists use to try to predict the future effect of climate change. This article seems to instead be about an historical reconstruction of a past climate.

But aren't the two extremely tightly coupled? I know nothing of climatology, but it's hard for me to imagine how you would construct a future model that didn't rely massively on our picture of how the Earth reacted historically to different pressures. It would seem to me that adding a rather large chunk of ice, and changing past sea level measurements would have a large effect on the predicted future response of the system.
> When Yahoo shut down GeoCities, they did much more than delete a bunch of ... Limp Bizkit MIDI files.

Ugh, guilty as charged.
Perhaps a little more complex...The legislature should get to define a traitor (the criminal laws anyway); the legal authorities should get to arrest and charge the suspect (then again under the Constitution police powers were reserved for the State, but we say that Constitutional protection whittle away years ago, and now people accept the Federal police powers without question); finally the court should ensure due process and fair trial to every defendant.

However, like you elude, when the Executive creates a war on terror complete with special powers to identify individuals and non-state organizations as enemy combatants without any standards or review process, which in turn allows the government to circumvent due process to the point of allowing targeting kill lists and indefinite detentions without any due process or review there is a problem. In fact there is a word for people in power who centralize power and circumvent law and judicial review under the notion of necessity or "nation security"...well anyway we can all be thankful for terms limits (so long as terms limits are not circumvented under the notion of necessity...kind of like Bloomberg in NY)
How did you have stuff which relies on a server backend (like guestbooks) without having the server inject HTML somehow?
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Out of the literally hundreds of thousands of other games, those are just outliers. Even if you named another 200 of them, they would not be statistically significant to the whole list.
I would say no. Unless you really want to work somewhere that makes heavy use of Zend.
Show HN: Photoficient (open source Rails 4.0 app)
M-x package-list-packages

That right there is why I built my own Emacs at work.
The most surprising thing about this article was that Idaho actually elected a democrat to the Senate once upon a time.
I have mixed feelings too. But I'm still interested in the story...
Please tell us what you're doing to prevent all the data from being lost if Neocities goes down. I don't want this to turn into another.. well, Geocities.
Added to my todo list. Thanks!
"to build our fashion ecommerce start-up"

Well there's your reason. IMO it's important (or at least a factor) to be close to your domain. London or NYC or Los Angeles are your choices if you want to be part of the fashion community.

This article is applying that generally, when it's just a specific market choice.
http://blog.neocities.org/ points to it (incorrectly, but it tries), at least. I wonder if that's user created or not.
What is going to reshape the world next?
I suppose due to precedent that decision can't be overturned since it was over 60 years ago. But it still blows my mind that the Court ruled that explicitly not engaging in interstate commerce, or commerce of any kind, is in itself, interstate commerce.
This ceased to be when Moldova declared its independence, in early nineties, reverting the official language to the Latin alphabet.

Saying that Moldavian is a dialect of Romanian is sort of an overstatement, because besides a couple of regional words and phrases imported from Russian, it's the same as literary Romanian in writing and when spoken we have the same accent used in the region of Romania that borders Moldova (and that's bigger than Moldova itself, we even call that region Moldova and when we refer to Moldova, the country, we're calling it Basarabia).

Romanians are also the largest population group living in Moldova. This country is basically a part of Romania that was taken from us. Unfortunately they don't want to unite with us, because many Romanians there forgot that they are Romanians or consider themselves to be Moldovans. We also help them whenever we can and we also represent their door to EU, since obtaining Romanian citizenship is easy for Moldovans. Unfortunately having them close to our hearts went without returned favours. But whatever, if they want to be Moldavian-speaking Moldovans, living in Moldova, to each his own.
That reminds me, I've been wondering for quite some time:

Anyone doing startups or tech in Montreal or Vancouver? How's the environment?
Zillabyte (YC W12) is Modelling all the World's Information
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You will be among the first of our engineering hires. You’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats and own large chunks of the stack. A typical Zillabyte project may include:

+ Build a distributed crawler that uses PhantomJS (or similar) to extract features beyond what a simple curl-based crawler can do.

+ Invent a new machine learning algorithm that can identify patterns between our customer’s data and the rest of the world’s information.

+ Develop an intuitive JS visualization that succinctly describes the “DNA” of our customers’ customers.

+ Help develop our graph-processing framework on top of Hadoop.

+ Use a Bloom Filter to capture snapshots of the web, and alert our users when there’s an interesting change.

We strongly prefer senior engineers with at least a few years of experience. You’ll be exposed to a wide range of new technologies, and we’re really looking for people that can learn quickly and iterate.

The following positions are available:

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Strong in Hadoop, especially Cascading, Scalding, and/or PIG.
Experience with AWS EC2. Chef is a plus.
Strong Java and Ruby.
Familiarity with AI and Machine Learning.
Familiarity with compilers is a plus.
BS/MS in Computer Science or similar field.

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If you’re interested, please send your resume/cv to jobs@zillabyte.com
Yet they make the best non apple laptop out there in the market right now.
The Rosenberg's were convicted of giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets. That is a clearcut case of aiding and abetting our nation's enemies. Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months for outing a covert agent (sentence commuted by Bush). John Kiriakou similarly received a 30 month sentence for leaking classified info as well as outing a covert agent. Snowden leaked a load of classified data, but did so to journalists (as with Libby and Kiriakou) and did not out any agents or put any Americans in harms way. It seems likely that he would not come close to a capital case and would probably receive less than the 30 months imposed on leakers who outed agents.
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Censorship is the opposite of a hacker ideal.
I may have gotten things switched but I seem to recall that Geocities had SSIs before Yahoo took over. But it's stretching my memory to recall it.
I also like Windows Phone 8. I think it is very nearly as good as Android and iOS, it just needs a bit more traction to get devs on board. BB, there is just no reason to jump on that sinking ship.
I agree, I have a philosophical reservation with tacitly granting the White House a power that I don't believe it should have (nor should it feel it has). Nevertheless, when I created my taskforce clone of this petition (ooh, another opportunity to spam my own activism site! [1]), I set the objective as simply hearing a clear message from representatives of the federal government to states. That doesn't solve the problem, but I think state governments need to feel some more pressure to stand up to the lobbying interests of car dealership associations.

[1] https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/383/prevent-states-from...
Thank you, I really missed websites like this: http://maxprafferty.neocities.org/

:D
Isn't that like asking why you should preserve an old book even if you aren't its author?
I’m not sure. I’d say allowing some editorialization in the title would have made a better submission.

Say, title: "DevDocs: An organized, and consistent interface to Web Documentation", with the same URL.
> under the Constitution police powers were reserved for the State

No, they weren't. There is no such provision anywhere in the Constitution. The states are sometimes described as being different than the federal government under the federal Constitution because the former have general police powers while the latter has limited powers, but the key distinction there is "general" vs. "limited"; both have police powers.
HexaGrid - CSS 3D transform witty effect.
"Google has now set its sights on making its own Android-based video game console. The kicker? This is supposed to be in response to Apple doing the very same thing."

Who knew Apple would ever have an Android-based device?
Well Lastpass was just an example. With enough effort any service can be hacked, but if the bar is high enough it means it's more likely that the US gov can't/won't do it en masse. I would note that Lastpass allows you to implement Google Authenticator/Yubikey/One-time-pad/Biometrics to help secure your key against a simple XSS attack. I think that probably qualifies as 'setting the bar high.'

In any case, my question was more towards the _legal_ situation, not the technical. Suppose you have a near-perfect no-knowledge system, how does the US gov view that entity? At least in theory, if they cannot reasonably force the company to give up the keys, what can they legally do? Can they force the company to shutdown? Can they make the company force users off the service in an attempt to get them into a less secure realm? Are such systems even legal in the current climate?

Of course there is always a way to hack it, and the $5 wrench will beat anything (pun intended), but as far as the mass surveillance mandate goes those options are probably out.
Was geocities ever that? It was great for finding these in-depth pages about ridiculously obscure topics (trains on a particular branch line that only ran 1962-1963 or whatever), but IIRC almost all the visual design was decidedly pedestrian.
Keep in mind that ranking is based on quarterly sales, not real market share of phones out there. Regardless, Microsoft assumed 3rd Place in Q1 2013, when the Z10 was launched in Canada Feb. 5th and not in the US until Mar. 26th. The Q10, which has been selling much better than the Z10, didn't launch until May 1st in Canada, and June 5th/6th in the US. So, that market position doesn't really reflect the sales of BB10 phones, and for the most part weren't available yet in Q1 2013. Windows Phone 8 on the other hand was launched Oct. 29th, 2012 and had the benefit of actually being on sale for Q1 2013. Q2 2013 will paint a much better picture of how BB10 is doing, and it won't be until Q3 2013 where there will be a full quarter of where both new BB10 phones have been available for sale.
"It’s hard to imagine Google and Apple not delivering a product with ten thousand percent more refinement, so it may be the case the Ouya won’t be long for this world."

L O fucking L. Especially in Google's case, their MO is to always throw the half-baked product out onto market, call it "beta" for 5 years, and make it good eventually. That's not bad in itself, but the author has no idea what they're talking about. Apple will start with a small, lacking-functionality ("on purpose") product, have it be incredibly closed, and polish it up for the second release (if any). Judging by their history with Apple TV, I wouldn't count on a homerun here either.

Did Forbes hire a 12-year-old fanboy to write this?
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