skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would, perhaps, be enlightening to quote the entire sentence from the US Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

In particular:

...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

In other words, I give MY government the power to arrest, prosecute, employ various armed agents to use against ME if I violate its laws. I've made no such tacit contract with France, or Russia or Singapore or China or anywhere else. Russians spying on me may be violating a treaty, but they've made no implicit social contract with me via a constitution or other set of laws.
An ideal can exist, but take time to be fully realized. It's not as though slavery were universally accepted in America even at the height of its use.
After a nontrivial degree of Googling,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size
It's not ok for the U.S. to hack major Chinese telecoms to spy on it's citizens.
Here are the Massachusetts police department using license plate scanners
You are now obviously being willfully blind. Nothing about the military justice system makes torture or executive-branch verdict prognostication legal.

...and as for "fair", it doesn't even pass the laugh test.

There is zero to indicate they will treat Snowden or Assange or Greenwald fairly in any way.
I do not have such experience, so you can skip my comment, if you wish.

But there is the Dropbox, Github, Bitbucket and many others' model: tolerate the mass of completely free users, have no ads, balancing it with paid accounts with extended functionality, more storage space, etc. From my humble perspective it is a tricky and unstable business model, but it obviously works for many.
I don't believe that the US has any obligation to protect the right to privacy of non-US citizens living in foreign countries. To do so would be to place a burden on it that no other state shares.

It is well-established principle that a country's intelligence agencies, whether human or electronic-focused, are not required to respect the privacy of those in other countries. While you're saying that the NSA should be forbidden from spying on foreign citizens, my own country has no qualms about collecting intelligence on American citizens, which I believe it does regularly, nor does any other state.

The real issue at hand here is why the NSA, an agency ostensibly prevented by law from spying on American citizens, is doing just that.
The tremendous amount of US culture exported by through movies, TV, and sports makes a lot of American people, places, and things household names around the world.
It demonstrated that they had the right ideals but were unable to put them into practice in one fell swoop. As Lincoln pointed out - the framework of the Declaration was an ideal to be pursued. The Founders' wisdom in what they put into motion necessitated the eventual end of slavery.

There's a big difference between moving toward the Declaration as an ideal as we still were in the time from the Founding until the early 1900s vs completely running away from those ideals as we have since.
But nonetheless the vast majority of people using gil aren't intending to use it for anything but entertainment within the game. This is a dramatic qualitative difference between gil and bitcoin, and would expect it to be relevant to how it's treated for tax purposes (though IANAL and certainly don't know all the relevant tax law).
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> if you interact with the repository you probably know which language(s) it is coded in, and if you don't you probably don't care.

I don't care about language per se, but I do care about managing the operational complexity of our stack. The programming language is a relevant factor on that score. A project in a new language may require new staff expertise, a new interpreter, a relatively high number of new dependencies, a relatively high investment in new monitoring systems, etc.

That said, I don't like the language color bar so far, because I'm having trouble confidently identifying which color is which language. For example: the reddish/orangish color space has JavaScript, Ruby, and the various JVM languages. The appearance of these various reds and oranges frequently shifts due to f.lux and differences between the three monitors I commonly use at work and home. Maybe I'll learn the colors better as I get used to the new repository format, but then maybe I won't.

In practice, I look first at the project description and the beginning of the README to see how the project describes its own strengths and weaknesses. Many projects describe their major language choices and runtime requirements as a part of that description, so I never look at the language color bar unless I need to.
The US Constitution is mostly the same. If you're in the United States, regardless of your nationality, you have the right to free speech, the right to remain silent when questioned by police, the right to demand a search warrant before letting the police into your home or automobile, the right to purchase and possess firearms, the right to espouse whatever political opinions you may have, and even the right to refuse to quarter troops in your home. You don't even have all of those rights in Germany!

Spying is a corner case. Every country spies on every other country. Do the Germans wiretap international communications? Absolutely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesnachrichtendienst Have they ever spied on their own people? Even worse: their own journalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesnachrichtendienst#Spying_...

The question is what "spying on other countries" actually looks like, and one of the legal barriers is that, well, if you're spying on Americans in America then you're not really spying on other countries at all, so let's make a rule that US citizens are exempt from NSA or CIA surveillance. Does this mean US citizens are exempt from being spied on? Of course not! That's what the FBI is for!

If there's a human right of "not being spied upon", it's violated by every country that spies. Germany is factually one of them.
Why not? Do you think other countries are not hacking US telecoms to spy on US citizens?

The main threats in the world are no longer just states, they're also small groups of individuals capable of doing a ton of damage. I see no way for the NSA or CIA to be able to do their jobs without being permitted to spy on foreign citizens.

The protections for American citizens against their government spying on them are intended to preserve political freedom in the US. Security is traded for liberty. That same relationship does not exist between the US government and foreign citizens like me.
Grover's algorithm allows you to search over an unordered data set of size n in O(n^(1/2)) time and O(log(n)) space.
From Industry to Academia, the tale of a young developer
Foundation: Evan Williams on Hatching Big Ideas
Just providing options. Personally, I'm skewed towards economic freedom.
There was a very interesting article[1] recently about the epidemiological link between leaded gasoline and crime.

[1] - http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
I think that's a good sign. It suggests the writers here are not controlled by a corporate bureaucracy.
Very interesting article, but the title of this submission is highly misleading. Of the 53 departments queried, about 1/2 do not use scanners.
> I hardly ever hear the "USA" chant outside of sporting competitions

Watch some of the videos from gatherings and rallies leading up to last years presidential election. Anytime any single heckler tried to make a scene, they were immediately drowned out with the "USA!" chant.

As a US citizen it's embarrassing and frankly, idiotic.
Everyone is so quick to try to assign cause to any phenomenon. I'm going to remind everyone that correlation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for causation, and there is often a significant time difference between the cause and the effect. I'm not saying that the stop and frisk tactics did or didn't work, but saying that stop and frisk wasn't the cause because stop and frisks were lower in this time period isn't valid. Maybe the increased stop and frisks in 2012 got the criminals off the street that were going to commit murders in 2013. Again, I'm not saying that stop and frisk is a good or legal idea, but the argument that some people are using to dismiss it is a flawed argument and needs some more work.
Or he's just trying to make Chrome behave more like the Lisp Machines.
There's also the link between abortion legalization and the subsequent drop in crime, mentioned in Freakonomics.
We, the people, chose leaders and were betrayed

No, we chose leaders who would give us freebies and security vs leaders who would protect our freedoms.

The fact that we have twice elected a President who talks of "fair share" and we don't recognize that language for the trap that it is tells you exactly why we are in this situation today.
Perhaps the founding fathers left their aspirations on words and letters hoping that a braver, future generation will make it happen for real.
To be fair, you don't just apply and you're in. You have to be in an industry the city wants to grow, and even then it's a bit of a lottery, highly dependent on how long you've lived in the City.

The absurdity of it though is that you can stay in the subsidized housing program long after you switch industries and make bank.
This is what my brother did to his startup. Part was free and part was paid, but he changed it to all paid and grandfathered in a set of early users.
Bush and Obama have, by acting in concert against the American people and the constitution, fundamentally and permanently undermined global trust in any American company. (Secret courts indeed!)

The US internet industry will be lucky to recover, if indeed it is even possible at this point.

No foreign business or government or municipality paying attention will ever trust high-value confidential data to Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft ever again.

Remember that all of these companies have substantially more customers outside of the US than they do who are US citizens.

Even if PRISM/MARINA/MAINWAY are provably dismantled (fat chance), we have demonstrated an innate untrustworthiness at the highest levels of government, from both red and blue. Trust is incredibly easy to destroy, and famously difficult to rebuild. We've now got video of them lying under oath - what's to stop them building another in the future and lying about that one, too? We (both US and "foreign entities") would have to be stupid not to expect them to do so, given what we've learned in the last month.

In this case, the regeneration of trust simply won't happen. We'll see tons of national commodity services spring up in dozens of industrialized countries simply because our leaders have destroyed our industry with their reckless, short-sighted, fear-based warmongering.

Indeed, Snowden's disclosures will be the proximate cause of grave and irreparable damage to US interests, industry, and national security. The problem though, is that the root cause of this damage is shitty, warmongering, fear-driven leadership that is willing to shred every last semblance of the enduring values of this country to game the fickle court of public opinion, pretending to pursue security but instead ushering in a totalitarian nightmare that had been previously confined only to fiction.

We passed from the realm of "incompetence" into "malice" territory some time ago— and if you think that's exaggeration, I urge you to review the disgraceful treatment of Bradley Manning at the hands of the US military prior to even being granted a trial.

Sadly, I am vividly reminded of George C Scott's incredible performance as General Turgidson in Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove", explaining excitedly to those assembled in the Pentagon's War Room why it'd simply be best for the USA to launch a nuclear first strike, immediately killing hundreds of millions of people (including dozens of millions in the US)—to preserve American values. The mind reels at the scale of the irresponsibility of these decisions undertaken in our name and on our behalf. There's a damn good reason why they teach the system of fallible humans and interlocking governmental checks and balances to every ten-year-old child in social studies class.

(A corollary to these conclusions: the corporate rulers of this country, should they wish to continue existing, must dismantle the Nash equilibrium formed by the MSM/GOP/Democrats, lest continued destructive collusion between the only two currently viable parties in the US completely destroy the nation's remaining competitive advantage in the global marketplace.)
I wonder how easy it is to just zap cameras with lasers or the like without being noticed. This was something that occurred to me in connection with glass, but I don't see why it wouldn't become more generally applicable: As hardware and software costs come down I can see people using better tools to attack surveillance infrastructure than the old-fashioned spray-paint the speed camera approach.
It's also worth searching youtube for "Ben Bernanke was wrong" to see how utterly clueless some of our 'leading' economists can be.
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Fuck single pixel hairlines and 3d accelerometer effects
419 murders in 2012 in NYC, 154 in 2013 already.

London had 99 murders in 2012.
Ruby brought me back into programming. Thank you Matz.

I hope that the future of Ruby will include better support for concurrency.
I know that anyone in the know wouldn't know, but how can you know what you don't know when normally what you know is that you do have an expectation of privacy when you are by yourself.
Some of the Founders more than others. While many of them came from the North, where there were no slaves and slavery was generally unpopular, and some of the others like Washington and Jefferson held slaves but felt bad about it, there was a large enough contingent of Southern politicians who just plain favored slavery and had to be politically negotiated with. If you define "the Founders" as "everyone who attended the Continental Congresses or the Constitutional Convention", many of them were idealists, many of them had a vision, but many others were just ordinary politicians with their own agendas.

This also holds true for all American political history from the founding of the country to the Civil War.
Nationalism is a relatively modern phenomenon.

How do the ancient Spartans not count as a prime example of nationalism? They had a very clear self-identity aligning with their nation.
How Clay Christensen predicted Android's ascendence (in 2003)
I don't know what your goals for this product are, but at €0.99/month, you're going to need thousands of paying customers to make any noticeable amount of revenue (not even profit).

You might want to try selling sponsorships directly to relevant companies or raise the prices significantly and serve a smaller market. There is no dearth of free photo sharing apps, so maybe it's better to sell some premium services which the free apps don't.
I was very upfront in the review notes about how the feature worked, its limitations and the fact that it was designed for live editing over a local network.

Though I developed it under the expectation that it would not be approved — purely so I could use it. Because I find myself using Codea more and more these days, and using an iPad to code at my desk next to a 30 inch monitor felt a bit redundant.
With the growing use of LLVM to compile numeric Python down to code nearly as fast as C there should be a lot of new opportunities to replace old Fortran code. Albeit this will probably happen over the next 5 years or so.
Two things:

First off, having multiple login systems doesn't necessarily enable you to honeypot credentials off of people that wouldn't otherwise give them. The people using Facebook credentials to try to log into a site with Facebook Connect is probably going to reuse the same username and password when they register for your site. People who don't understand security are completely terrible at password reuse discipline.

Second, the solution to this requires a collaborative effort from both the auth provider and consumer. If I sign into Facebook and check "This is a public computer", then Facebook should remember that. Then, Facebook should provide a "finishSession" API call or whatnot, which a site calls when the user logs out. This lets Facebook determine what to do with the user's facebook.com cookies - if it's a transient session, wipe them. If it's a persistent session, don't do anything with them. OAuth clients shouldn't have to care about the semantics of the Facebook login - just like authentication is delegated, so should management of the user's session be delegated.

This would preserve user expectations in both cases.
I guess I don't watch enough political rallies. Ugh.
That makes a lot of sense. This company should get their programmers on this so they can post a quick followup to respond to any backlash. It's clear from this Ask HN the founders really do care and want to make people happy, so they could issue a blog post to that effect if it's needed.
Nah, it's too late. The USA is no longer what it was relative to the rest of the world. It still has the same flag, but the understanding of the importance of Liberty is largely gone.

200+ years ago, a large portion of the population would rather die than be dictated to by an implacable and uncaring confiscatory government. Today the population doesn't even realize what they're missing because they have really good cable television, video games, and reality shows.
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I avoid implementing OpenID because "auth anything" OpenID servers are a massive spam vector. Very annoying.
I've used StartPage for years, and it doesn't seem to have been affected by the recent NSA leaks. It is also as powerful as Google without the ads, since it's based on Google (I'm surprised Google hasn't successfully blocked it). I had seen DDG, but never took it as seriously as StartPage, whose PR director Katherine Albrecht is a privacy expert and long-time advocate against loyalty cards and RFIDs.
Considering that it only took two guys to research,design, and build it I would say the latter with a lot of grunt work.
Also, especially in the EU, do not forget it's summer, hence a vacation period so some user could only find out after their vacations that their pictures are gone !
You really should give it a shot.

What surprised me was this.

After using a quickstart toturial or two and diving right in, I was all happy that my dwarves had started doing, well, something, and I was getting used to it. I started collecting some materials, as the tutorial said, and I dug some stuff, as the tutorial said.
Then I noticed the water in the map seemed ot have changed colour, and the ground, in all it's pixellated ascii glory, appeared whiter than it used to. "could it be winter, are there seasons?"
I googled, letting the dwarves work.
Yes, there was winter. Water froze.
When I eventually got back to my game, there was a food shortage, and much worse, we ran out of liqour. We also had no water. The dwarves stopped working. Investigating their stats, they were rather angry about the situation. Eventually one, then two, went berzerk and killed their fellow dwarves in a rampage. I tried my best to guide them to gather some foliage so we could make some booze and get things back on track.. but I was too late. By spring, everyone was dead.

The next time.. I made it through winter, but not the next... overpopulation got me. With the immigrants that keep showing up, I had more and more dwarves, and I didn't know how to manage it. Hilarity ensued.. from a kobold thief stealing babies to animals mating in the bedroom to checking on the dining area to find a horse sitting at the table with a bunch of partying dwarves.

Eventually I made it a few seasons... only to be raided by goblins. I had no militia, I hadn't figured that part out yet. I hadn't needed it. Everyone died.

And so it goes...

The awesome part, and I think a critical thing most players who like the game clue in to, is that it's always like this. You won't get to a feeling of mastery where you can just hone your skills like most games. You'll always be analyzing what you see, looking stuff up, talking with others, and resolving yourself to try a new strategy next time - imagination really pays off here.
There are always hippos in the sewers, or cats breeding out of control, or ant-people that want to eat you, or a berzerk dwarf baby killing his family, or some monster from down deep getting up your stairwell and terrorizing your fortress, or a magma accident, or a dwarf who decides to lock himself in a workshop, depriving you of that shop abilities while he spends his sweet time making stuff. There's dwarves that promte themselves to nobles and demand stuff, and they generally need to be dealt with. Usually by death.
Dwarves must be sacrificed on on occasion for the good of the fortress.

My point, I guess, is that the funny/sad/epic stories you read about aren't really embellished much - the game actually provides you with that level of detail... even early-on. Your imagination fills in the blanks.. but there aren't many blanks.
what you're missing (are you american?) is that most countries generally don't make the distinction between their own people and others. laws typically apply to everyone.
So he understands the reasons why people use proprietary software. Is that what you say?
I can't ever recall seeing 'buy US debt' pitched as an election issue, though it's nice of you to shift the blame to people who generally wouldn't understand what you're even talking about, let alone be aware of it going on.
Sometimes I like to reach for my toes, so to speak. There are times when I try to reach for the stars, stretch myself while reinventing a wheel (maybe write a Fibonacci heap in Python, a hash table in C.. ). There's the other end of the spectrum, though: real simple stuff. Project Euler is okay, but I like simple file i/o. It's more about getting comfortable with your tools than writing algorithmic novelties. Simple puzzles are often good as they exercise parsing + simple data transforms. Stay away from the brain busters, though, for fear of wasting your time.

Here's a real simple one, from a book I cannot recall: I've got a file with names, years-of-birth, and years-of-death; in what year were the most people alive?
How is this any different than hosting your own federated OpenID service? Hell, I'm basically doing this already with XMPP, Email and a blog, but not OpenID because it's not as prevalent as it could be. This is already a solved problem that doesn't take terabytes of storage space. Though, like any common service or protocol, it could be more secure.