skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please note that this is an AP Wire story, and so, not actually written by the Washington Post.

That said, lets do a quick analysis of the subject for GP. It doesn't matter to Snowden what the AP or WaPo thinks of his asylum documents. All he cares about is whether a) his passport will get him through the intermediary countries, and b) whether Ecuador will recognize his asylum document.

He already believes a) or he wouldn't be flying through Europe (although that may have changed if the US has gotten its INTERPOL red notice right finally.

If b) is in question, it would explain why he's still hanging out in the Moscow airport, and not headed on a more direct route for South America.

There are of course many other reasons why Snowden would dally in Moscow, but whether the WaPo or AP thinks of his immigration status in Ecuador doesn't seem like one of them to me.
Really? Zero money?

I think your comment would be better if it were better-substantiated. Or any substance at all.
How so? The alternative is people got a pop-up, then click install without verifying it (how could they?). It's functionally the same thing almost all the time.
Turning Prisoners Into Entrepreneurs
there is a way to confront the fear. just find an activity that involves heights, but with other people and safety equipment. like caving for example, like this (I was there): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ichMz2sCM
I disagree. The US government says "these programs should be secret". Snowden says "these programs should not be secret. I am going to break the law and make them public".

How is that not protesting an unjust law by publicly and openly defying it?
Well I think part of the problem is that most of Go's target audience come from languages where nil/null are used to be meaningful. They recognize it to be "wrong", but the languages in use (e.g. Java) force them into situations where, for example, returning null to mean "this entity wasn't found" is substantially more productive than catching and processing EntityNotFoundException.

I think the Go designers wanted the language to be approachable for people who habitually use null to indicate meaningful state. Multiple return values offer a way out, while still allowing newbies the option to abuse nil. (although, sum types would be nicer)

I think on balance, getting people from the 1970s to the 1980s who otherwise would not have gone there is a positive thing. Even if it's not the ideal thing.

It's not out of the question that Go will make your suggested fixes once it acquires enough mindshare.
I bet it doesn't.
>I knew we were in trouble when the author started listing associates of people. (This is when you see a sentence constructed as so: "John went to work for Company X which uses the same lawyers as the mafia". A sure sign extra spin is trying to be added)

It is quite relevant that all of the players running these governmental departments, companies and quasi-governmental entities (In-Q-tel) all know each other well and seem to be doing each other favors.

>"...government contractors were attempting to undermine Americans’ free speech—with the apparent blessing of the DOJ..."
Slow down a freaking minute. Free speech means just that. I can lie to you, plant disinformation, do all kinds of things. I am free to speak.

Sure, you are free to speak as a private citizen but the government should not be allowed to quell citizen's political speech through their own governmental mechanisms (including intimidation) or through private agents under their employ. That is the heart of the right to free speech. They should also not quell legitimate journalism through these mechanisms as that tramples all of the right to free press.

>Those guys talking about the options to do some kind of crazy op isn't a scandal, it's their job.

Fair enough. But it is troubling that these guys are paid to know what is feasible from an operational standpoint and they are suggesting illegal assassinations. Therefore, they must have reason to believe that illegal assassinations are feasible. That is disturbing.

>In short, the author overreaches with his thesis, asking the audience to give up NSA paranoia for his version of the military-industrial complex paranoia.

I think it is valid to say that the government has been shown to be willing to engage in unsavory activity and, by the way, here is some more.

>You either understand that good people are working in bad systems, or you live in a world where there's good guys and bad guys.

But somebody sets up the system. Systems do not form in a vacuum. And, if the system becomes corrupted over time, it is our duty as citizens in a democracy to suss that out and eliminate it. Beyond that, it is our duty to figure out what allowed the corruption in the first place and at least try to make sure it cannot happen again.
Hey, every sperm is sacred.
How would this be any different if a dialog box popped up asking you to install a new update? I bet most people (including you?) would just click "Continue".
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Agreed - but a better parallel to this situation is if you suspect you will be fired soon, to leave with dignity of your own accord beforehand.
What result do you expect from writing such a letter if he is participating in a war against you?
> In a choice between a 300-foot-fall to water and a 30-foot-fall to concrete the winner is discernable if not immediately clear

I'm guessing the correct choice is the concrete, but for some reason I feel like I would still prefer to go for the water...
I know exactly what you mean. Having kids changes everything.
The US Government's concern is that if Snowden gets off light other whistleblowers will step forward. That's the root logic behind the 'war on whistleblowers'. Which strongly suggests "we ain't seen nothin yet."

That's a big part of why Manning was treated so horribly and without any sense of proportion to what he did. It simply wasn't (all) about him. It was about the people who might be thinking of following in his footsteps.
Ask PG: The Submarine
I was reading a thread yesterday where someone linked to your article entitled "The Submarine" http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.

Article was awesome. I was hoping you might reveal the actual PR firm. A lot was disclosed, the $16,000/month budget and Ebay referral, but unless I missed it I did not see the name of the firm. Even if this goes unanswered, I hope some new eyes get to see the insightful and honest article.
"Previous practitioners of civil disobedience clearly thought that submission to punishment was necessary for their actions to be justified."

I never got this sense, let alone thought of it as clear. Can you explain?

"If MLK decided to break a traffic law in order to speak out against segregation, he surely would accepted the punishment for this violation of the law."

Would he? And even so, would he do it because he thought otherwise his actions would be unjustified?
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This plus this [0] point towards the US having given up trying to get Snowden. Maybe Wikileaks has won this one.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/obama-edward-sno...
Or "Perhaps at least one." :-)
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Maybe he's still there.
Automatic.com. Most of my non-tech friends loved it.
google glass.
Pocket (read later service).
Here is a td;lr.

I keep on making the mistake of throwing away what I've got and starting over because I've learned how to do things better. I've just made this mistake again, but it's better because I've learned how to do it better this time, honest.

My response to this.

Don't write the retrospective bragging about what you've learned until after you have demonstrated success in a measurable way. I've encountered the described failure mode in other people, and unwarranted optimism about recent improvement is part of the pattern, not a sign of actual progress.

(Let me throw out a long shot because it is easy to investigate, and if true would potentially let your life be changed for the better. The person that I am most specifically thinking of that fit this pattern later turned out to be manic depressive. This article describes specific events that could fit as well. So..unlikely, but with a big enough potential payoff that it is worth a visit to a competent psychiatrist.)
Please tell me more about this turtleneck he was wearing.
If those pictures make you uneasy then watch Jeb Corliss in action BASE jumping from the Golden Gate :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6FLHSTg5kc
That actually makes sense, though. Fraud is an actual crime, and the action damaged the reputation of the Ecuadorian ministry. It's not like the leaker did some brave or noble thing.
In which case: who needs micro-gravity to fly?
Because Ecuador, in exchange, was working together with the US on the war on drugs - that's what is written in the article.
Obama - "I'm Not Going to Be Scrambling Jets to Get a 29-Year-Old Hacker"
What does Windows 8.1 offer to desktop die-hards?
Isn't this what Dwolla's currently doing?
What you should do during your summer as a Web Development student or beginner
No, but the best way to make bullying a less attractive tool to any government (China's too) is to show that it is not tolerated.
Why thank you! You want a free copy of Without Their Permission? Since your read MSPL you know I can't just give it to you, it must be imbued with some value (beyond the book itself). Show me what ya got in mind!
Well beside reading de doc. and start by creating the "hello world" django app, you should take a look at these django packages:
https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/mobile/

then save the android developers site and read the design patterns section:
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/index.html

and finally follow this tutorial to jump start your mobile app:
http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/build-a-mobile-and-des...
> only one side has taken actual action so far to hurt those civilians... and it was the government charged with protecting those same civilians.

A meaningless technicality. You can't seriously be arguing that the US' continued hegemonic paternalism toward Ecuador isn't a major source of their population's problems.
Yeah, this article doesn't make sense to me.

As I understand double-submit CSRF protection, it works like this:

The CSRF token is included in an HTTPOnly cookie, and it's also included in the page content itself. That can be in an HTML form that gets posted, or in an in-page script tag that sets the cookie on a global JavaScript object, or whatever.

Then the client sends the second, accessible version of cookie in a request parameter or HTTP header, and also (automatically) sends it as one of the cookies. The server just has to check that the token in the param or header matches the token in the cookie. The server doesn't have to remember the token value, so there's no required server-side state here.

I am far from a security expert, though.
Just as deserving? So you view trading with the US as a privilege then? That's extremely arrogant.
Consider: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/color-toggle/
How To Apologize Online
decision trees in the cloud? really?

I guess some smarts are better than none but I didn't think people where still considering decision trees to be a big part of the toolkit.
The KDE Subversion repository had modules with upwards of a million revisions. Most have been moved to git, and had to be split into much more granular git modules (though technical concerns were not the only reason that was done, we wanted more modularity anyways).
Supporting EFF Means You're A Security Risk?
I wonder whether the statute of limitations applies to such things. I hope it does.
Just browsing wikipedia, it seems that the man riding in on his white horse has sent journalists to prison for writing unflattering editorials about him.
Wasn't this one of the original "Chrome Experiments"? I remember there being quite a lot of them, most of which were fun to play with.
And so it goes with ideas.
> he needs some medical help.

I don't think there is any for what he might have. Specifically, I was struck reading the article and your list how perfectly this dude matches Cleckley's _Mask of Sanity_ profiles of psychopaths - no long-term plan, continuous lying and deception of others without any remorse, confabulated explanations, impulse-driven actions, big risks taken for trivial gains, grandiosity, self-inflicted financial problems... The problem being that for personality disorders, there are no cures or treatments (and for psychopathy there's some troubling results that attempts to treat it just made them more dangerous).

> The fact that Assange let this guy into his inner circle doesn't give one a lot of confidence in WikiLeaks.

If it's psychopathy, well, I would note that they are famous for fooling even people who have read detailed accounts of their personal history. Cleckley is not the only person writing on the topic who notes personal astonishment at how they were manipulated by a patient even after having read the patient's file. If forewarned is not forearmed, I cannot blame Assange or the other Wikileakers too much.
Especially given that the US government has made it extremely clear that such spying was targeting foreigners, including, most likely, Ecuadorian people.
This is how learning works. Don't beat yourself up about it. Very few people successfully build perfect software products their first time out. A person should start out by aiming for the stars and failing -- that's how you figure out how reality works.
I really hate this style of writing.
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For me the point is that inserting the word “just” is diminishing or belittling the person's contribution, even as you are asking them to make that contribution.
The first game on HN which I actually competed. Great fun.

Had a rather fantastic come back from 1 - 9 down to win 12 - 10 against the computer. Fairly beatable once you get the technique down.

My heart stopped at 8 - 9 when I dropped a point and thought I had lost. The shot was a horizontal slow shot from left to right and for some reason I moved out the way..

Never found pong so thrilling. Must play it more often.
This sentence caught me off guard:

> I’ve cried more than a few times since they’ve left, I’m sure I will a few more. The truth is that I don’t cry because I miss them, I cry because I never fully appreciated what they added to my life each day in the first place.

I've been away from my wife and kids for a 3 week stretch and never once did I feel like crying because I missed them. I did miss them, just not to the point of breaking down into tears:)

I'm not sure what that says about me and the poster. Is crying due to being away from your family a common reaction?
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As of 2011: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/09/03/why-the-music-industry...

By placing advertisements on their site, Rap Genius could generate significant revenue, with Web traffic that would make almost any content-driven site green with envy. Lots of other avenues are open for turning the site into a business. A premium version of the site is one possibility. Creating sponsored pages, where musicians or labels generate activity around new album releases and other content. There have been discussions with an agent to pitch network Comedy Central the idea of a Rap Genius television show, which could be similar to Mystery Science Theater 3000.

So no monetization strategy has (had?) actually been deployed yet.
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In same way you can be arrested for "going equipped" or banned from near sports stadiums for football hooliganism, it is rarely held up in court but a tool for the police to preempt people who are positioned to commit a crime. There must be reasonable grounds otherwise one has a case for false imprisonment, I am guessing The Met took all reasonable steps to make sure they were targeting the right people using precious resources on what was one of the biggest police operations of the decade.
That's actually good. But the issue I was highlighting was about making calls. Not that Hangouts cannot make a phone call - it's just that I don't want to remember all the numbers of my contacts.
How does it go from

"The problem was that even if every warm lead invested the maximum plausible amount we’d still barely make it to $1M."

on to: "PG advised us to dream up some way of lowering our cap for our existing investors to get more takers, which would have been a hella-beta conversation to have and who knows whether it would even work because showing that kind of weakness is a major turnoff."

then: "And yet it ended up totally fine!"

-- all this fluff about sockless bearded russians, and apartments with track lighting but they left out the most important part?

BTW.. does track lighting in apartments state some level of wealth that I'm unaware of?
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This is why I love the TV show Mythbusters: they routinely demonstrate how our intuition on these matters is wrong.

(A 30-foot fall onto concrete might still kill you, but a 300-foot fall into water will definitely kill you. And if the fall onto concrete doesn't kill you, it will be much easier to get you the medical attention you need if you're not floating in San Francisco Bay).
You're not afraid of heights, you're afraid of falling. To me, NOT being afraid of heights is irrational.
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Tip: Prompt magic
Nagare | quite clean full stack python web fmk using continuation
You're right of course, but it bears mentioning that the way the Python web server is implemented, it cannot handle any significant load. It's not a "real" web server in the sense that it'd generally be a bad idea to try to use it for real work.
If I believed for a second that Ecuador's government had genuine friendship-based concern for the U.S. and its actions I think I'd agree with you. But that's not what this is.
"Is it important when I buy a wooden table that I'm given full details of how it was made"

A perfect demonstration of why "open source" is problematic. Stallman doesn't care especially about open source as the way things are made. He cares about freedom. If you can use your table freely how you like, great. Software happens to require access to source to preserve that freedom. Whether it was written using open-source methods is irrelevant to Free Software.
I explain more in http://news.rapgenius.com/1901085 (Click the green lines FOR ANNOTATIONS)
My former told me they used DataArt financial application development, and it was by far the worst product I have ever managed. Totally half-baked, bloated code, completely shoddy development work, no QA whatsoever, et al. I cannot warn people enough about staying as FAR AWAY from DataArt as possible.
Yeah. I'm reminded of Schopenhauer's On Thinking for Oneself.

Reading an email or Twitter forces others' thoughts upon the mind, but when a man stares at a blank wall and thinks for himself, he follows the impulse of his own mind. A blank wall does not, as reading a tweet does, impress a single definite thought upon the mind.
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It sounds more like his family took a break from him.
DuckDuckGo launches Search & Stories app
Ruby has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEBrick
I've actually wondered about this a bit before. You're kind of the "Marketing Engineer" around here so I'll ask you.

Do you do what you described in option 1 or 2? I know you use WP for your blog but what do you do for the marketing/landing pages of your apps? Do the marketing pages live in the same code base as the app? I'm inclined to do it this way personally so that integration of something like ABingo! is easier.
Wales must not own very much of Wikia, if his holdings in it are worth less than a million dollars. It's now one of the top web sites in the world. If it is the case that he doesn't own much of it, he made a terrible financial mistake in letting go of so much equity (or he simply didn't care).

Quantcast has it ranked #33 in the US market based on directly quantified data, with nearly 2 million uniques a day and growing at a healthy clip. It appears very likely to end up as a top 10 to 15 US site. That's worth a substantial amount of money no matter how you cut it.
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<Grumpy Cat Meme>
Good!
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Correct. More sales to Canada.
Or speculative even. This would only constitute an implicit threat if there was some realistic expectation that the message would be somehow communicated to the target, imo.
Since when did we worry about whether the government was embarrassed when deciding whether a leak was brave/noble or not?
> or (b) really does view this as a war against the American people

I think CWuestefeld meant that the senator thinks that Ecuador's snub to the US regarding Edward Snowden is the 'war' - not that he and the US government is waging war against the American people.
NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
why not? decision trees can work well for some datasets.
I like and use Flask, but as to how to structure it, I always end up mirroring a classic Django structure: views, models, forms, utils, static, templates etc. About the only thing missing is urls and admin.

It works, and it's easier for me to organize projects according to a common standard.
Alas, that wide usage barely shows up in stats. Desktop version has significant market share in some USSR countries (Belarus, Ukraine, Russia), but in others is a couple percents at best. They do brag about the large install base on the mobile, but let's face it: Opera may be the best way to browse the web on your feature-phone, but the experience is still terrible, and Opera does not really show on the mobile traffice map.
So while the deleted comment was unfair Opera's fans shouldn't overdo the effort to portray it as something it was not.
The same thing happened with Julian Assange. Thanks to the media, the only thing the average person knows about him is not what he helped uncover but instead that he is either a "villian" or "hero." Snowden is the new Assange.
And yet GVoice probably still won't support MMS, it'll be forced to the hangouts protocol and you'd be screwed if you want to send an MMS to a non-Android phone.
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> "She also threatened legal action against whoever had leaked the document."

I posted elsewhere, but is more appropriate here: The document itself struck me as checking for leaks. (Misspelled "hight"? No stamp?)
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You basically just said "No, you" and then posted some links to logical fallacies. Care to address my argument more directly? The key problem here is that while this bug that may have a workaround (and that workaround is questionable to even work in all cases), it's that the bug does not manifest itself in a development environment, and occurs when you write code naturally. So, you are likely to introduce the bug, but you don't get to know you have crash issues all over your app until you ship it to a lot of users. This, combined with the App Store review delay process, results in a situation where this platform is not tenable for professional software developers to use.

edit: Laurent (RubyMotion lead) has chimed in and raised the priority of this issue, this is great news
Specially if they tend to ignore most Go features were already available in the Pascal/Modula/Oberon language family.

They might be new features for all script kids seeing a strong typed compiled language for the first time, but for us old timers, it is a repeating deja-vu.
MLK and Ghandi had to convince others to follow their path. They had millions of people who could break the law with them.

Snowden has a much smaller pool because 99.9% of Americans can't break these unjust laws. We simply don't have information to leak.

MLK and Ghandi made a political decision to accept punishment, so did Snowden. I don't believe any made a moral decision that punishment was just.