skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"secret" and "top secret" are specific classification labels that don't necessarily correspond 1 to 1 with colloquial definition of the word secret. (Kind of like maybe the word memory in a computer doesn't quite correspond to human memory even though it is the same word).

Just because a set of documents are leaked, exposed, stolen, published by someone or handed over to people who are not authorized to view it, it does not automatically reset their classification label.

Now you might say "so what this is dumb". And it is and it has nothing to do with you unless you have a clearance. People with a clearance have signed contracts and other documents that say "there are penalties involved if you commit a security violation". One such security violation is "copying or accessing classified information on unclassified systems". That's it. You see where I am going hopefully.

You are a grunt on some army based working with crypto radios. You have a clearance. You hope to work for the CIA or NSA maybe when you go back to civilian life. News about leaks comes out. You browse HN or Reddit at work during lunch. See news about leaks. Click and oops! you have just committed a serious security violation. You are accessing classified information on an unclassified system. This _could_ get you into trouble. If anything at least when you are polygraphed if you apply to work at the 3 letter agencies later.

So think of this filtering as a "courtesy" to help them inadvertently break some serious rules.

Now, does it sound silly and pedantic? Yes. Do I personally agree with this interpretation? No. But that is how it is. And I think this is the reason for filtering not that it tries to prevent oh I don't know an armed rebellion.
In addition to the above methods, you can copy the base folder and paste it into the same folder as reader_archive.py -- that's what I did and it worked fine.
Silicon Valley Visionary Awards celebrate techno-optimists
Idea: If neocities users let you put Google Adsense ads on their pages they'll get upgraded to 30mb for free. At least this way you can have some income.

I love the idea and passion you have for this, your story and purpose, but as soon as I read "I'm paying for the servers out of pocket, which is tough for me because I currently don't have a large income," and "My goal is to pay for the site through donations" I just sighed. I've seen this so many times before. Founders who have a deep seeded fear or hatred of money or rich people. So much so that they've convinced themselves to go on a neurotic journey to "change the world" or "do something good for humanity" while refusing to be profitable or make money like the "evil greedy rich" that they despise. I hope you steer clear of that. I hope you find a way to make neocities profitable, sustainable, and I hope it brings in so much income that you can grow neocities and keep it free for decades while not having to worry about your mortgage or kid's college fund.

BTW, my favorite is http://clock.neocities.org
I don't think he means that it's rarely used so much as it's done rarely by the user. When visiting a project page, users likely won't need to clone as often as they'll need to do various other things on a page.
This is exciting progress on the (regulatory) future of radio systems in the US.

In a nutshell, in the past the FCC assigned exclusive use for a slice of spectrum to a particular user. A while back the FCC established spectrum ghettos (the ISM band) in 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz, and 5Ghz as a sort of power-limited free-for-all. This enabled the explosion of personal connectivity that we've experienced in the past decade.

They are trying a hybrid approach with the TV Whitespace (TVWS) spectrum freed up from the analog to digital TV conversion (~400-700Mhz). Multiple competitive databases were commissioned (Google, Spectrum Bridge, Telcordia, etc). When a TVWS AP powers up it checks for free channels with the database over the internet (each TVWS AP has a embedded GPS for location-awareness)[1]. This allows for APs to slot in between licensed users (TV Stations) and the politically connected illegitimate users, cough, I mean key stakeholders, such as stadiums and churches (wireless microphones).

1: The idea is database operators can charge for access and give you a API key to put in the radio or something.

The super exciting part comes (if this works to the FCC's satisfaction) when you can dynamically allocate spectrum that otherwise would have been reserved for users that rarely use it. E.g. DoD spectrum that is only used during natural disasters or spectrum used for ship to shore (if you are in the midwest).
thank you very much. actually, I am just designing a system a bit like what you suggest, which drives me to ask questions here for advice. but i have not access to Westlaw & Lexis, is it in Berkely?
If you are on the "no fly" list, is it reasonable to live near a US border near an international city like Vancouver or Toronto and simply drive across the border and catch a plane from those cities, or does the no fly list also apply to people flying out of Canada?
I can only imagine that the name is toxic now, and would probably convey negative value to a site like DDG. It was great back in the day, but now it's the butt of jokes if it's lucky.
The main point of AltaVista was that it was fast.

It was actually marketing for HP-née-Compaq-née-DEC's Alpha servers.
Should you really expect to be able play a web based game if you don't AT LEAST have javascript enabled?
Foreverjanet.com
Warning to other impatient users:

I didn't read the instructions too well, so the half hour I spent carefully deleting gigantic/uninteresting feeds out of my subscriptions.xml file was all for naught. Because I didn't know I needed to specify the opml_file on the command line, the script just logged into my Reader account (i.e., it walked me through the browser-based authorization process) and downloaded my subscriptions from there -- including all the gigantic/uninteresting subscriptions that I did NOT care to download.

So now I've gone and downloaded 2,592,159 items, consuming 13 GB of space.

I'm NOT complaining -- I actually think it's AWESOME that this is possible -- but if you don't want to download millions of items, be sure to read the instructions and use the opml_file directive.
IANAL, but there's a been a trend in American jurisprudence to raise the standing barriers for effective litigation. Scott Lemiuex, a political scientist has written a bit on this point [1]; see also this balkinization post [2]. In general, the courts show extreme deference to the executive on matters of secrecy and national defense, so I'd expect they'd be disinclined to give anyone standing.

[1] http://prospect.org/article/slow-motion-destruction-establis...

[2] http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/standing-and-executive-po...
GitHub's answer to this is "just copy the URL from your browser." It means using http(s) cloning which may or may not be desired, but from a UX perspective I think that it is neat.
I'm Jevin, the guy referenced at the end of Patrick's email. In my ebook coming out in two weeks, I have a lot of actionable stuff for employees interested in transitioning to freelancing.

Also, for most of the 10 people I interviewed, I asked them for specific advice for people interested in starting to freelance. I hope it will help you!

http://www.nextlevelfreelance.com/
I can't imagine anything more accessible than a simple website these days.
The point is that it's valuable for game developers to realize that some people can't play a game that requires javascript. The comment helped facilitate that.
A Game of RISC: "Warrior" MIPS CPU Targets Android Smartphones, ARM
Open Source Hoverboard Project
I wanted to let everyone know that we just launched a really cool project on IndieGoGo and would love for you to help spread the word! We're trying to build the world's first real working Hoverboard!

Let's face it, the world needs a Hoverboard.. So that's exactly what we're going to try and build. We want to create an open source Hoverboard platform that can be customized for fun or tailored to meet the needs of any industry. This isn't for commercial gain or for profit, this is purely to develop the technology for the open source community. With your help we can raise the funds needed to launch this initiative and bring the Hoverboard to life! If you find this project as exciting as we do, then please lend us a hand by posting it on your blog.. I would really appreciate it!

You can view the project here: http://igg.me/at/hoverboard-project/x/2505260

Thanks!
This is a more serious problem than you think. If someone in any position of power thinks that there are no limits, not even the constitution, on their power then that is very bad. It's even worse if they say it publicly and are not immediately out on their ass and publicly humiliated and shunned.

The fact is that there are individuals abusing their power and often times they are getting away with it, even when it becomes widely known.

P.S. To add to this, it's important to understand the relation of law to society. There is nothing inherently special about law other than that people generally follow it. The more that people, especially people given power through positions in government, start ignoring or misinterpreting the law the less the law actually matters. What is the truth of legality is irrelevant to the facts on the ground. Murder may be illegal but that won't stop you from being murdered. Similarly, "constitution free zones" may not be legal but that doesn't help you if the police think otherwise. For that particular point, for example, consider the many immigration stops the police make in states near the mexican border. Legally they can't force you to stop and submit to a document check but that doesn't stop them from doing so anyway, and from most people complying to a simple request from a police officer.

The less oversight there is, the less punishment there is, the more likely it is that abuses of power will become more common.
>This is worth far more than the $100/month you said you wanted to pay me. ;-)

I'm quite sure Patrick and a host of others would willingly pay you the $100, and shout the name 'Tarsnap' from the roofs. Seriously, you're a world-class mathematician; do the math and raise your prices.

Take. The. Money.

Sincerely,

Someone who wishes he could dream about winning the Putnam ;)
Don't you dare touch yahoo pipes, Yahoo.
oDesk is really tough. You need to find ways to differentiate yourself from all-those-other-guys.

For starters, things like:
- Having a higher rate ($100+) gives perceived value.
- Calling yourself a software consulting vs. developer I've found to be a big deal.
- Being able to nail down the expertise you have (or want to have) and articulating it in a sentence. For example: I specialize in rapid development of web and mobile apps with the first iteration delivered within two weeks.
The guidelines that the CIA operates outside of the USA. Not within.

Even if a document was declassified, when will you believe things and not believe things.

Do you think this could just be a document the government is feeding us compared to actual witnesses? Cops are expected to tell the truth even in court. So I guess this begs the question who is really telling the truth.

Point is, the government overall just can't be trusted to keep a straight answer.
Tweleve tones - math/art/music - vi hart
Apple will support Game Controllers for iOS 7
Yeah I think so. Or maybe a homebrew formula. I don't know how straight-forward that is with Cairo though.

Thank you for graphite and thanks for being so receptive!
Wikileaks Stratfor release confirmed that Stratfor - one hop from, and associated directly by some with the CIA - was simply paying elected politicians within Australia. They of course claim this was for information gathering and had no effect, but since when - with 24 hours in a day - does a second income stream and work commitment not corrupt your capacity to represent your constituents in the most active and honest way possible? It's clear it was a breach of trust on the part of the official in question.

Then you have US manipulation of EU structure and policy...
For websockets, I set the Django framework inside a Tornado thread.

By doing that I lose the wsgi functionality (you get only low level stuff, just like you'll get on java or .net), must synchronize with the normal http server with the DB (what I'll do anyway, since it's the easiest path with Django), and there is some dificulty dealing with signals (the same you'll get with java or .net). And that's all.

Or, TLDR, you lose a few features, that'll make your code resemble a bit more what you'd need to write in java or .net, but preserves most of it.
Although they may not make the commercials directly, in print there is often "co-op" money available to dealers when certain criteria is meet by said ad... I imagine there is a similar system for television adverts.
Laws which may be illegal being so secret they cannot be challenged is incompatible with any form of democracy. They are quite compatible with other forms of government like dictatorships. Maybe that will be the end result.
Am I the only one here was a little surprised to learn that AltaVista was still alive until now? I don't recall coming across it for several years.
[Video] The Hollow (Thermoelectric) Flashlight
I too LOVE sublime text (especially the mini document map, God I love that thing), I just wish there was an addon that turned a tab into a Rich Text Document editor (italic, bold, bullet points, etc...) I tend to write very long posts for my blog and I hate the Wordpress editor.
A more detailed explanation on how those IoC threads work would be awesome too if someone's going to be explaining things to children would be great.
Also cute is the author's bio, in the characteristic style of a Dwarf Fortress dwarf's textual description: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/5119

> "Peter Tyson is a human born in 1975 in New Zealand. He is the oldest son of Ron Tyson and Ann Tyson. In the Summer of 1996 Peter became a student at Auckland University. In the Summer of 1999 Peter became a student at Victoria University. In the Spring of 2000 Peter became an Analyst at Datamonitor. In the Spring of 2002 Peter became a Community Manager at Codemasters. In the Autumn of 2005 Peter became an Administrator in the New Zealand Government. In the Summer of 2008 Peter married Laura. In the Winter of 2009 Peter wrote popular tutorials for Dwarf Fortress on his blog, afteractionreporter.com. In the Winter of 2011 Peter was struck by a Strange Mood.

> In the Summer of 2012 Peter wrote "Pasubabo Thrathdad Teme", "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress", a legendary wood-pulp paper bound book. The written portion consists of 180 page guide to the game Dwarf Fortress entitled "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress". The writing is lighthearted with moments of humor.

> In Summer 2012 "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" was stored in O'Reilly by the human administrator, Peter Tyson."
iceweasel 10.0.12: not working for me...
Tell them to send me one. I'll print it in my blog. If everyone did that there'd be no more NSLs.
The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. - Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang.
Glenn Greenwald on Livestream
It's wildly taken out of context.

He said it when he was 19 (!!) in regards to a web form he made where people submitted their emails, phone numbers, and social security numbers with nothing else besides that form. The users were indeed stupid as shit in that situation.

I'd also like to remind you that he's 29 now and running one of the most successful companies in the world. If you think he hasn't learned something in the span of 10 years, you're delusional and your comments as well as that article is sensationalist.
The facebook design changes all tend to feel pointless and annoying, don't they?

I've only used github for a week or so, so I'm not really attached to its interface, and I tend to only interact with it through the github client. On a bit of a tangent, the github client feels awkward and strange. For one thing, it doesn't follow the normal conventions of the OS I'm on. It doesn't even have a menu strip. I'd much rather make a new repo with file -> new repo, have push pull commit etc be in appropriate submenus on the menu strip, and so on, but this thing just throws stuff all over the place willy-nilly, sometimes I don't know if I'm even able to do something and it turns out I have to double-click, things like that. Committing and pushing with gitextensions from inside VS feels nicer.

I really think interface design for desktop apps hit its peak a while ago before everyone was obsessed with stripping things down to the bone. Every update I see menu options and configurability widdled away from applications like Firefox, which is on the track to becoming the one-size-fits-all Chrome. If you want some evidence for that, hang around some channels on irc.mozilla.org.

Another thing is that when I look at screenshots of youtube from a few years ago, it's astounding how much they got right back then that's gone now. The tracking bar has no place hovering over the video obscuring it, the five star system was great but had to be replaced with a binary yes/no, there was a button to start over instead of having to click on the start of the tracker bar, it goes on.

I've used applications from the late 90s or around that period before. They were great. Menu strips were chuck full of stuff, buttons everywhere, just great design to me.

Too many applications are being stripped of any useful feature that's not absolutely essential (or made to have the feature available only through obscure shortcuts / ini files / etc) and it's a development that I greatly disapprove of. I'd rather not have my Microsoft Word replaced with Google Docs.
FTA:

Do you encrypt all your own e-mail, as a result of this stuff?

No, that’s really hard.
Seems to use the psychological technique of intermittent rewards to encourage continued clicking of "stoke the fire." Unfortunately after about 4 stokings with no new developments in the game, I got bored and quit.
I've had similar thoughts. But then you think about how would your family get by, and then you (I) chicken out. But if _everyone_ really did...?
Everyone can plan a game that requires javascript. A vanishingly small number of people actually wont. Reading anything more into this single comment is silly.
Large-scale quantum chip validated
In case anyone wants to accelerate the game slightly, but still play it as intended, set this in the Chrome console.

window.Engine._incomeTimeout = setTimeout(Engine.collectIncome, 500) // default 1000

IMO it's not a cheat, because it just shortens somewhat tedious waiting early in the game, but doesn't alter it otherwise.
It takes a while to get warmer, and then more interesting things happen ;)
HN comment trolls are probably not a representative selection of your future audience.
I care slightly, because it's such a very strange stance to have. I just can't understand this aversion to js. Do they want the browser to just display html forever? Go back to the way things were? Do they actually think that will happen? When the browser is _the_ application platform, what will they do?
I was about to do that. But then the stranger awakened, and then, the game becomes far more interesting.
I got eaten by a grue.
Can I just downvote you for whining and confusing anecdotes for data?
I like the Relevance podcast. It focuses less on tech stuff and more on craft/SE/culture, but its always nice to listen to.
I don't think podcasts alone will make you a better software engineer.

Most software engineer spend countless hours perfecting their craft, and forget about soft skills that will make you more "likeable" and will help you advance further your career.
I use YQL and Pipes for this Twitter analyzer. I'd be sad to see it go. It's great technology for what it does, but I'm not sure enough people know how to take advantage of it or trust its stability or longevity.

http://xefer.com/twitter
That's an interesting question. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it, but I'd hope it would be regulated either by mutual agreements between allied countries, or avoided due to potential adverse effects on the alliance.
RIP Altavista and babelfish.
One of them showed me a wider world, the other was the key to open it.

Long before google did become in that huge titan.
IOS 7 app redesigns
Hmm, it would nice to know what the items from the workshop do. WTB leather.
Why not offer both options? Either take it at a predefined pace in line with academic semesters or at your own pace. Seems like it would be the best of both worlds.
Too bad. I am now headman of a large village because I kept stoking. Series A financing can't be far behind!
Watched for 5 min, Greenwald is still butthurt over David Gregory
What does the 3rd one do?
Simply not true; Busk dropped the ball, 9/11 happened, and he was re-elected.
Altavista had this great feature of only searching within a set of results. To date I still can't find an easy way to do this.
Final Question:

"Draw five circles that one intersecting part."

The person who wrote this test should not be allowed to vote.
Principles of MathBox
This is a very cool use of html as a medium to tell a story and keep the player involved. Defiantly want to see more games in a similar style!
It's a US-only list, so I believe that alternative would work.
Because procrastination is the inability to deal with self-set deadlines. By definition, even: "the action of delaying or postponing something." Which means that a self-imposed deadline gets set back indefinitely, forever.

I'm of the same mind as markdown—simple Udacity and iTunes U classes were ignored, but Jeff Leek's much, much harder Biostatistics class was something I completed relatively easily (the deadlines at least. And I did pass.)

The sad truth is the majority of people (and I am one) are not suited for autodidactical learning. The motivation may or may not be there, but the ability to push forward as per Socrates' mythical student was told is not. Those deadlines, in light of human nature, are the killer feature.

http://www.joyfulministry.org/socratt.htm
This seems like it could make for a fairly successful mobile game.
WSJ startup of the year
I do that, but some of the archives expire...
I've taken to downloading the lectures as well.
You should really make the effort to take a look at it, it's well worth it! If you have a 'c' background it should be relatively easy to pick it up.

This should be an easy weekend read http://www.golang-book.com/
Core i5 CPU update sweetens MintBox mini-PC
I don't feel like "45 million dollars is too much to spend on a device to save the lives of people who are doing everything in their power to die" is a lame excuse, but whatever.
These are interesting to look at, but I really think we will see more variation than people are expecting. Maybe it will take some time, just like with the original iPhone OS, but devs and designers are going to find a way to make unique UIs while still conforming to the overall design cues.
I think that would make it a bit unmanageable in the later stages, though.
Honestly, I think it comes down to a trust issue. It's so easy for a company to get burned by a remote worker. Then again, I worked remotely for a very small company for about 6 months and didn't get paid for the last three months until about two months after I quit. I guess it goes both ways.
Truthfully I don't remember for sure, but I used external services just as @Lexarius mentioned. I didn't write it myself at the time.
I just bought a compass, and entered "A barren world" on my iPad... And I'm stuck. What are the controls for this part of the game?
Sounds like you ought to try surfing the web using netcat. It isn't so bad, except for typing out all these damn cookies.
The making of medium.com
MacroPy (Macros for Python) 1.0.0 Released