skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your reply. I'm glad you cleared this up. I'm sorry if I read too much through your statements.

The last feeling you mentioned is totally aligned with I was trying to say: to emphasize if you are an inventor type, you'd want to evaluate the risk of serving at the pleasure of the king carefully; it isn't necessarily a bad value proposition, but it certainly carries the risk of getting derailed or axed. Same goes for people who sell their companies to others; you cannot expect them to move forward with your initial vision.
Fyi, from within the UK I get the following message:

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

Personally I don't understand why the BBC specifically blocks UK users from free BBC Worldwide content, but I'm sure it makes sense to someone.
Sometimes I wonder how big the public outcry would be if all SV software engineers decided to go on strike...
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Yeah, I understand, and my example was bad.

Internet is such a big space (unlike milk) that if an Internet-company wants you to use their Internet-stuff and no-one else's Internet-stuff .. well, I don't know what will happen, but it can't be good.

Capitalism screws people over by the day in America

Finally something we can agree on
Apple mail and Exchange Server already support S/MIME, so that might be a good option, though as you point out certificates are the issue.
What Start Ups Can Teach Big Companies
I think pension entitlements would be an even more interesting file. These seem to be the expenditures that are crippling a lot of municipalities.
It could be the result of an explosion near the engine.
Great Color Game (backbone.js)
So how does the submarine know where the target traffic is going to be routed ? Unless it's greenland there are many ways your traffic could go: http://submarinecablemap.com/
Thats the strategy, divide and conquer, make the private sector hate the public sector, make the nonunion workers hate the union workers, etc. As soon as they have enough haters to form a critical mass, the hated group gets shit on and they repeat the process with the next group.
>You probably need open source/Wikipedia style alternatives to prevent abuse.

Wikipedia is a bad example, as there is plenty of abuse there [1].

[1]
http://www.smoblogger.com/wikipedia-sucks/
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blog/archives/...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100506025259AA...

Many more, but it's hard to find them since putting "wikipedia" in your search now causes google to look up those words on wikipedia itself first...
Ask HN: What are you using as an Angular backend?
Interested in what people who are doing medium to large-ish Angular apps are using on their server side? I'm about to embark on a medium sized project and making the it seems like using Rails or Django (the two frameworks I'm most familiar with) are a bit of an overkill given I don't actually need all the routing/templating/viewing gumph that is built in. What do you find is working well for you?
Yeah, that's basically my argument.

Don't plug shit into the internet you don't understand.

If that's a problem for you, hire someone who does understand it before you do.

I have no problem with complete deregulation of the exchange of information over the internet, as it's impossible to use violence to force anyone to do anything via an ethernet cable.

It's impossible for a packet to be the root cause of harm coming to another.

Negligence or recklessness when attaching not-fully-understood systems to the Internet, on the other hand, should expose people to liability when the personal information stored in those systems is publicized. The fundamental cause is "idiots plugged in a server without suitable authentication", not "somebody across the world sent it some electrons".

It is crystal-clear to me that all packet transmission should be protected speech, including buffer overflows and other so-called "malicious" traffic.

Just because it's obvious to you (because you are willing to make an assumption) what is malicious and what is not, that doesn't mean that it's anything resembling fair to force others to make those assumptions to avoid criminal liability.

The full text of War and Peace could be "malicious" traffic when sent to a machine that stupidly copies it into a fixed-size buffer. This is not a job for the law to decide. It's a blunt instrument.

(There's also the issue of the stupidity of allowing the receiver to retroactively declare "oh, that was not intended, and thus unauthorized".)

The responsibility must always lie with those who interpret the traffic, not those who send it.
Just curious how a service like google alerts can be built. Is it all about crawling ? Any light on this please ?

Thanks
>and seriously, Google got the circles UI spot on, I'm very impressed

I should hope they got circles right as it was the most obvious thing in social networking ever. 30 seconds into my very first usage of facebook and I already realized it was missing what google calls "circles".
Well, it was pretty much a big win for America after the war ended, economically with all that arms trade and diplomatically as the affirmed leader figure of Western bloc.
Additionally, Input sads are displayed on monitors in Mozilla's offices. I would read them all as I ate my lunch.
> "could target a citizen if he was a senior operational leader of Al Qaeda involved in plots against the country and if his capture was not feasible."

They have already assassinated a 16 year old US citizen who was not a senior Al Qaeda leader and who wasn't "collateral damage" either: http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/awlakis.html
> I use it to store my code repository [...] Not using Dropbox is not an option for me as I switch machines several times during the day.

I'd suggest you invest in a hosted git repo.
Interoperability == open standard.

If Facebook or Google provides an API that's not an open standard, you're locked-in because the day they decide to remove the API, or to charge high prices, or deprecate a crucial feature, you can't switch easily to another platform.
There's one here.

It stinks on our 1Mloc C# project to the point you have to disable it or it crashes VS every 5 minutes.
I assume you're referring to the shielding seen here.
http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US4974926-1...

There's no way you're getting through that without it being service affecting. Even once you get through the layers of protective sheathing, and around the copper power lines that provide power to the undersea amps, you're suggesting that they fully remove the reflective sheathing to bend the fiber and tap off light? That is absolutely ludicrous. The process would introduce much more span attenuation than splicing in a 50/50 fiber tap (which is 3db).

Are you doing this to every fiber in the bundle, you'll need at least two tapped to get bi-directional communication. It's simply unfeasible.
Unions are corporations, too.

If unions protect workers from management, who protects workers from unions?
FT.COM?
Ok, so the particular value I'm thinking of is don't kill off tools that a broad spectrum of hackers and non-hackers alike care about unless truly necessary. There are obviously shared values besides that one, and it's unrealistic to paint any organization as all good or all bad.
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The moral of the story is that you should never rely on a service which is given for free.
I am currently interning there, and I know many people with 20% projects so I'd say it definitely still exists.
Cyber dojo - a place to practice programming
don't get. i own mydomain.com,even if i point mx to whatever.wherever.com, if spam comes from mydomain.com, why is it not my problem? i guess some of the parties warned by the likes of spamhaus/spamcop would be postmaster@mydomain.com, the mail hosting provider of whatever.wherever.com, the isp who owns the originating ip of the spams, and finally possibly the dns provider of mydomain.com. i do wonder if they look at the reply to or the from address. both?
They certainly get marks for consistency. I'm willing to bet that 90+% of the regular HN audience would have been able to predict precisely what CL would do in the face of scraping (and yes, that's what the krrb button does) CL content.

It's someone ironic in the face of Marco's post regarding the open web, that CL maintains such a moat around their content through litigation/legal threats.

Don't get me wrong - I absolutely understand why CL does it, and I'm sure most of the business savvy people here realize it's a profit-maximizing strategy given CL's current market position.

But - it might be just a local maxima.

I wonder, if given a different approach, CL might be able to build something more open and visionary; a platform that other developers can build on top of, instead of being prevented from doing anything innovative by CL and their legal team?
I'd wager it's even simpler than that.

At some point the signal must

a) be converted from electrical to optical

b) be boosted down the wire

c) be converted from optical to electrical

Easiest solution? Tap in at A, B or C.

Who's going to notice that your repeater at the bottom of the ocean actually has a NSA listener plugged into its debug socket?
> From a while ago: http://i.imgur.com/62WBzVZ.png

Firefox 22 on GNU/Linux looks a lot better, but still not as good as IE: http://imgur.com/GOCmiN9
Can anyone explain why the "gemini" framework with an ORM outperforms raw servlets/queries in almost all the cases?

What kind of optimizations are done ?
This plan is particularly problematic because Google+ is, relatively, a clear failure so far

An absurd statement on the face of it (even with the weasel-word qualifier), given Google+'s large number of active users. In fact, given the traffic there, I suspect his ridiculous Cupertino fanboism is to blame for not considering Google+ a smashing success.
Flat-UI inspired color schemes for programmers
As an experienced Internet denizen who has seen dozens of conspiracy theories play out, the person I'm responding to is playing a fool's game and will be shouted down and ignored by everyone who wants a neat little conspiratorial story to go with their morning breakfast. Clear, simple explanations are death to conspiracy theories, so they are ignored and the people who make them are vilified at every turn.
There are two undergrad programs in the US that have ABET accreditation: Florida State and Regis University. Unless you're going to a very well known school such as Stanford, I'd consider this important. Especially if you plan to move on to a masters program.
You're being dishonest. That isn't what 'conspiracy theory' means and you know it. Noun phrases aren't defined by taking their words one by one; they have to be understood as a unit.
PRISM Big Picture
A more in depth look at the PRISM model
> Ultimately, we are their employer, and we have a right to know how much we're paying them.

Although I support the general sentiment I don't think this is clear cut. Should shareholders have the right to know the salaries of the employees at the companies they invest in?
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I wonder what percentage of AWS traffic is from Netflix. Single digits?
No, actually in modern systems the light signal is boosted without an intermediate conversion to an electrical signal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier
Is this worth reading? Whenever I see marco.org I think to myself: "Apple love, Google hate as usual" and move on.
Yeah, it's not a new thing, but I wouldn't say always. Like many of us I've been using Google for its entire lifetime. The motto got introduced at around the halfway mark in 2005 or 2006 if I remember correctly. That was also the time the censorship in China scandal erupted. I think before this there was less concern about their motivations, but I may just be misremembering.
This was exactly what I thought when I heard about Google closing down Reader. I'm glad Marco put this into a coherent article.

It is in Google's best interest to have RSS and individual blogs die. Amusingly enough, it is also what Facebook wants, so the two giants are fully alinged on this one.

About 6 months ago I quit Facebook and Google+, deciding to publish my stuff on my pages and my blog alone, instead of throwing them into closed gardens. I do not regret that decision, even though readership dropped significantly.
This is fucking absurd. Unions are unions OF WORKERS. A unions political power comes from the combined power of its members, who are citizens of the state and can thus be considered an accurate reflection of the citizens wishes. A corporation's political power comes from the top, and does not reflect anyone's wishes but the CEO.
The helicopter in Pakistan was hardly stealthy. Someone tweeted about it as it was flying overhead.
I'm a little skeptical about this process given the other, much easier methods available to the NSA.

The one thing that isn't discussed here is data retention. Quite simply, how do you get the information to shore, where it can be processed, in a timely fashion? We're talking about thousands of TB or PB (or greater). You can't just simply send that up on a radio link, and a recorder device would have to be enormous. Processing and analysis cannot be realistically done on the submarine, and frequent trips back to the site would tie up a tremendous naval asset. I cannot in any sense see the Navy agreeing to the NSA's continued use of its submarines for tapping civilian traffic when its primary focus lies elsewhere (such as performing special operations in the Pacific.)

It's an open secret that the Jimmy Carter was built specifically to tap cables and perform other special missions, but the technical facets of tapping a major transatlantic cable for bulk data collection sounds too unrealistic when better alternatives exist; specifically, the major routing and landing points on US soil where equipment can be installed via cohersion of the owner.
according to this table, most managers make more than an average sr engineer actually when you count the bonuses...

in fact, a police officer makes as much as i do, but he has more bonuses than i do, for example. I find that pretty high.

Or are we all getting $400K a year w/ bonus and I didn't get the memo?

Its only the lower end of the chain that gets shitty salaries at bart as well
> A 99/1 splitter (i.e. 99% one way, 1% the other) would be pretty hard to detect in a fiber optic line that is subject to fluctuating loss caused by bending, temperature change, etc..

Please reference an example of a 99/1 splitter existing and usable on an optical line system. You can't get a usable signal from 1% of the light. The levels you would need to split off would be entirely noticeable.

> So how do you turn a piece of fiber into a beam-splitter without cutting and splicing? Well, that's surprisingly easy. One way to create a fiber beam splitter is to take two fibers and fusion-combine them.

This is not possible to do on a live system without it being service affecting.
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In San Francisco, SFPD can retire with 30% of their average 3 year salary after just 10 years on the job AND 55 years of age. Usually, this is around 100k for a 10 year veteran of the force. So, if one starts at SFPD at age 45, one can retire with about $33k per year at 55. There is also a COLA adjustment per year. Average life span for a male is around 76 years. The pension benefit ALONE is worth about $700k not including the COLA adjustment.

People wonder why this state and municipalities are SCREWED, and they wonder why several cities have filed bankruptcy or have skirted bankruptcy. This is PART, a BIG PART, of the reason.
FlightRadar24 has the recorded track of his flight, FAB1, here: http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/2013-07-02/16:35/FAB1

The odd thing about the claim that Snowden was aboard is that FAB1 took off from Vnukovo but Snowden is apparently in Sheremetyevo.

Here's a picture of plane turning round over Austria and then descending and landing in Vienna: http://i.imgur.com/cuUQkWV.jpg

UPDATE: News reports say that FAB1 is leaving VIE shortly and it is now appearing on FlightRadar24's live view.
It's a wall with electrified spikes on top. And armed guards instructed to shoot on sight. And rabid dogs. And behind the wall there are other walls.

I tried to start the game 5 times. The first 3 I could not even start a game. The 4th one I followed a tutorial and was able to start, and nothing else. The fifth time, I found Captnduck's excellent video tutorials ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZUS2h-Yzc ), and I was finally able to break into the game.

Then they added a whole layer of complexity to the military (with a lot of new UI quirks) and I just stopped playing.
Now we know what will happen to Snowden if he is granted asylum by a country that can only be reached by flight.

The flight permits will be rescinded, the plane forced to land and subjected to a search, and if Snowden is present I suspect he will be arrested and extradited to the USA on the basis that the asylum is invalid on the grounds that it was not granted in the destination country.

Russia really is his best chance.

Edit: Which makes me wonder, did Bolivia help spread this rumour (on behalf of Ecuador or Venezuela) to test what would happen
Personally, I think it will cost you more to settle in the long run because settling makes patent trolling profitable, which means more companies will do it and you'll get hit more often.
I store a lot more than just a git repo in Dropbox. I also use it to share files, etc. But yes, I'm starting to look at alternatives. Maybe I'll develop a small utility to push/pull/share files from my home NAS upon request rather than having a continuous process running in the background.
> ... when its primary focus lies elsewhere (such as performing special operations in the Pacific.)

But this is its primary focus, and is performing special operations in the Pacific.
I was just about to point out that learning styles had been fairly thouroughly debunked, but I see your own link says that too:

"While the idea that students have fixed, specific learning styles is not supported by scientific research, providing students with multiple ways to learn content has been shown to improve student learning".

Your link also seems to conflate the topics of "multiple intelligences" and "learning styles", the self-diagnostic quiz seems aimed more at the former.
I see this problem happening only to me when it's used as code repository. Which is what he is doing. I had that for one project because the client didn't want to use git, but it's horrible. So, logically, when you have a lot of files changing all the time (compiling (xcode, eclipse), adding libraries (node, RoR)) you'll see dropbox taking over your computer. For all other uses it seems fine.

Note also that when you have the issue with a lot of small files, during/after dropbox is done, Finder / mds will jump to the top of your top indexing the files. I disabled mds in my projects directory and will never place active source directories in dropbox again.
If you want to dive straight into the results here comes the link to this project's first publication http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4711/36...
This is actually public and non-private on purpose.

If you hide a document and show the other one publicly it doesn't protects anyone privacy... wtf is this logic?
Not working for me (in the uk). I get "Sorry. We can't retrieve all the files we need to display that page. Please try again later."
Skype on steroids - HD video + work on 40+ file types in the browser
"It was just running, quietly serving a vital role for a lot of people."

Yes, but it wasn't in Google's commercial interest. Running Reader as a "side project" is not just distracting to senior management, but also creates legal, technical, and reputation risks which can bite back on their much larger businesses.

It's hard for most of us to comprehend, but ready-made revenues of a few million bucks, even if it was $100M (unlikely), is not of interest to Google unless it's growing fast. Which RSS, isn't.

Welcome to Extremistan. Black Swans like Google do things that aren't intuitive.

"The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperability. RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability"

Yes. This is indeed the direction Google has been moving, and it's a problem for those of us who enjoyed an open web, as users and developers.

Google tried to combat Facebook with open standards and it didn't work. OpenSocial, if anyone remembers, was a huge effort by Google which would have the effect of commoditising Facebook's functionality. They put themselves on the line by partnering with many other companies, and it failed to slow Facebook down.

They tried with other standards too, e.g. PubSubHubbub, WebFinger. Most people have never heard of them.

There's no conspiracy theory needed here. Google tried with Reader too, for 8 years. It just didn't take off. Most people found it too hard and found Facebook + Twitter way easier. Not the kind of people who read HN, but the kind of people who are too busy to figure out what seem like trivial technologies to early adopter types.

So yes, Marco is absolutely correct that Google's becoming a company that, like Facebook, is more interested in bringing developers in after their products have gained traction with users. This is also how Apple has acquired so much interest from developers; they didn't open source their OS, they didn't spend years constructing open standards for mobile apps. They just built a hugely popular OS and developers came running.

All of this is related to Google Reader, all of this is true. BUT there's no causation here, as much as some people want to believe it. Reader didn't take off because most people didn't use it. For a giant company focused on growth, that's all the reason you need to turn it off.
I like Captain Duck who has a bunch of tutorials and Lets Plays along with a soothing Dutch accent.
http://www.youtube.com/user/captnduck

To get a great flavour of dwarf fortress in a longer written form. You can't go wrong with boatmurdered, which is a game where each player took a year (I think) of playing the fortress and then handed on to the next player to pick up the pieces and carry on.
http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
I've been around for the whole lifetime as well and what I remember was technical people gushing all over google for every little thing. I don't remember when the motto came out but I remember that being the point where I knew I didn't like google anymore: to me that sort of thing is just blatant manipulation, which is intelligence-insulting.
So iTunes changes colour for every album you click on? This sounds awful..
You can also, what I did, switch dropbox off and switch it on only when you are connected to power for a sync. It's not ideal, but it works. I don't see how dropbox could do better though. If you do it manually to your NAS, you basically do the same as switching dropbox on/off or dropbox in a cronjob. Anything monitoring your file system and synching up with many small files will incur load like this.