skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9/11? You mean where building 7 "got pulled", uhhh, I mean collapsed because office furniture fires? The one were 3 letter agencies collected and "lost" the tapes of nearby private surveillance cameras? The one were some people who couldn't even fly a sports plane well flew a Boeing, which is so easy to handle and for which incredibly perfect simulators are in every mall, with precision into skyscrapers? The one where fires that turned steel into some kind of explosives curiously didn't burn the passport of one of the attackers? Where explosions where not investigated, and the debris was shipped off to China?

When bad stuff happens to skyscrapers, or any building collapses for not entirely known reasosn, normally every millimeter gets photographed. It's like a murder scene, you don't just pack it up and destroy it. 9/11 didn't even have a pretend investigation.

9/11 was informative indeed, but not about "what would happen if we got rid of the spooks in our country", though the irony of such a conclusion is of course delicious in its own way. No, it's rather a statement about how the sun revolves around the Earth if the party says so, and that's about it. Nothing any scientifically thinking individual should have even one minute for in earnest. Fuck conspiracy theories and Alex Jones, all that was needed was thinking for yourself, watching news footage (as if there was a way to avoid it) with anything resembling an attention span, and listening to politicians while also reading between the lines. That is not too much to ask for a grown up individual in a supposedly democratic society.

So that you throw out that cliche of 9/11 having been an attack that, once and for all, proved that whatever "security measures" anyone could come up with are justified, and would "prevent worse things from happening", while talking about "paying any attention or have a memory" -- I am not sure if I should find that funny or shockingly sad.

I see what you said, and raise you by "9/11 was information about the validity of the process by which the vast majority come to conclusions, and that all votes are not equal." Which is so far from anyone that can be said in polite conversation that I usually keep it to myself, but I genuinely believe it. That year I realized I'm with mostly fools, stuck on this planet in a circus, and that all my previous confusion about "how could something like the Nazis ever happen" was just adorable.
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I would say that the "complete" name is "The Go Programming Language". Go and Golang are both shortened forms of that.
Just another happy FastMail user here. I don't need tags/labels, so you have everything I need.

I have an Enhanced account that is linked to my domain, and an Ad Free account where important mail gets forwarded to. The latter is accessible from my phone, but the former isn't, so if anyone steals my phone they can only see the last few messages I exchanged, and I can just disable an alternative login (similar to revoking an API key) to lock my phone out permanently. I also set up my default personality in the Ad Free account to send all mail through my Enhanced account, so every mail I send from my phone is automatically saved in my Enhanced account and even has the correct DKIM signature.

One question, though, and I'm sure a lot of people are curious about it. You are an Australian subsidiary of a Norwegian company, but your servers are in the US. What happens when an American three-letter agency wants to see the contents of your servers?
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Great idea. I'd even say to try to avoid buying a tv, as this is the most powerful brainwashing machine you can get.

In the same vein, I like to say one's freedom in invert proportional to the number of keys in the pocket.
At the time this talk was given, I was reading Neuromancer as an ebook. I never read it on paper, only as a commercial ebook. It was implemented as a HyperCard stack on a 3.5" floppy published by Voyager. It was packaged in a glossy cardboard jacket quite similar in size to a cardboard CD package and printed with book cover art.

I no longer have any working 3.5" floppy drive nor a copy of HyperCard. I still have the ebook floppy in its original cover, but I can no longer read it.
You already can use official Android APIs with alternative languages as long as they are JVM-hosted, such as Clojure or Scala. Asking for API support from external runtimes would be a tall order and a major undertaking, with probably little benefit. I fail to see what the "charade" is.
Love the "keys in the pocket" line
Um right, hence the original comment I made.
I see a couple of problems here:

1. It's likely he's storing emails on the VPS. This puts us back at square one. A third party has a copy of your emails. And we know email does not garner the same privacy protections as postal mail.

2. You need a domain name. That system (DNS), as it is currently implemented (i.e., everyone setting their root zone to servers they do not control), is highly centralized -- few people maintain their own root zone, despite being easy to do. Domain names are susceptible to false allegations copyright and trademark infringement by private parties, not to mention easy censorship by the US gov't. When you lose your domain you lose email. (Though you shouldn't have to: email works fine with IP addresses in brackets.)

So what's the solution:

1. Get a reachable IP (e.g., through ISP) or get a VPS. But if you get a VPS only use it to pierce NAT (how is left as exercise for reader - hint: supernode), not run a mail server. Don't store sensitive data like email on a VPS, or route sensitive data through it.

2. Use IP addresses not domain names. Alternatively, set up your own DNS that is available as a peer-to-peer service, or have your email contacts use a DNS server and root zone you collectively maintain: free domain names that you control. No one can censor your DNS (phonebook), except you.
something nobody under 18 should be told about.

But hey, what do I know?
Wow.. This is poetic.. It didn't feel like a game but a story I was part of. I'm still stroking the fire, gathering wood, and the checking the traps. Just beautiful. Thank you! :)
And once the Empire was gone, I believe a great many people missed it.

We've seen the people voluntarily subject themselves to cataloging and surveillance on an unprecedented scale--Facebook, Twitter, Google, and so forth.

So, honestly, to hell with "the people". You claim that this information gathering is an outrage, that this invasion of privacy is an affront to all things decent.

Fact is, amigo, that fully a sixth of the human race has voluntarily given up their privacy to Facebook and the like in exchange for a cute little garden to play in and communicate with. Sadly, we seem to have forfeited the right that we otherwise would've claimed.

The people have spoken.
the purest form of meritocracy.
Why must this be pointed out every time? There's enough of us weirdos out there.
an attitude
I disagree... I use a large LCD television for my laptop's main display. I don't have a subscription to cable or satellite service, but when I want to watch Hulu or Netflix, it works very well.
Creating Value and then Propagating Value exponentially and finally Capturing the Value as Wealth by starting a company.
You're abusing ellipses. Are those supposed to be periods?
It has been going that way for quite a few years, maybe it is only natural.
Also "Tiny Wings" (for iOS) and there was one called "fishy fishy" or something like that for PC.
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Abusing those ellipses again buddy.
That said, even with a dedicated server, I still use gmail, because https://github.com/etherael/phoneme
Solving the problems of humanity in a sustainable way.
RE: TV

Cut cable, save the money, buy a projector after a year, hook it up to your computer, subscribe to Hulu/Netflix and enjoy some media when you want without TV. I hate TV anymore, mostly because when I do watch media, I watch comedies and commercials diminish my enjoyment.
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Agreed. I used Exim4 for a while, but after too many issues, I eventually switched to Postfix, which have been run smooth ever since.
Finding a market demand that is inefficiently addressed by suppliers and exploiting it, preferably in a profitable and/or defensible manner.
Directories and .txt files sound like a no-brainer, but the 10MB limit might actually be very useful, and I hope they don't raise it anytime soon.

Remember when everyone bitched about the fact that Twitter only allows 140 characters? But that little inconvenience helped spawn an entire industry of URL shorteners and very simple image hosting solutions. Not necessarily a desirable development (especially URL shorteners), but we can't deny that the 140-char limit triggered a great deal of innovation.

Think of the 10MB limit as a challenge. Try to cram as much as possible into it, and make liberal use of CDNs and third-party storage services like S3. You'd be amazed at what you can do with 10MB of disk space if you concentrate on text and minified scripts.
I may be in the minority, but I don't think all code should be open. The people behind Sublime have made a great product and continue to improve it. Do you think they'd receive even half of their income if they made the code available?

Step 1. Remove nag message.
Step 2. Release to the world.
Day 3. Tonnes of people jump to non-nag version and never pay.

The plugin system and API is available for those that wish to complement or extend the editor. Making the code available directly harms their ability to make money and their ability to continue to invest time and money building the product.
There is an internet generation gap here. It's more important to be a citizen of the world than any particular place, and more important to think about the influence of multinationals on government than to think about the influence of one country on foreign policy.
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Hard to beat $8 dollar Netflix.
Re: apple vs microsoft. Almost certainly Microsoft was added early because of MSN messenger and Hotmail. MSN Messenger was pretty big internationally, notably in China. It would be interesting to know if all Chinese messages were routed through US based servers. Apple wasn't as significant a player in the email and instant messaging space until more recently.
Great response - thanks.

Another question - have you done the thinking or got some advice about whether marginally trusting a potentially subvert-able hosting company in a jurisdiction you don't particularly trust (US, UK, and unfortunately for me, Australia) is likely to be a better or worse bet than trying to source a server/vps in a more trusted jurisdiction? (perhaps Iceland? Or am I fooling myself assuming there's anywhere "trustworthy"?)
I self-censored my comment earlier, but fuck you. If you deny reality there is no discussion to be had. I want to sit in Washington square park and dance without smelling acrid smoke.
Snowden has been releasing documents steadily & feeding stories to other outlets(1) and has stated he has quite a few more stashed with people who will decrypt and distribute the full set immediately if anything happens to him. Given that what we've seen has been cherry-picked from what appears to be a much larger collection and he's stated he has more, the odds are pretty high. He's probably passing some to Wikileaks, but I'd be surprised if they have the full dump.

(1) The South China Morning Post out of Hong Kong broke the PacNet story: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266875/exclusive...
There seem to be ways around this. Portal 2 had a completely rigid plotline, but the gameplay didn't suffer much from it. Maybe a few moments.
Cluster, I can understand, but why shard?

I've run forums even on rickety DIY PHP + Postgres that's held up very nicely to several hundred logins and even more sessions per day on very modest hardware (1.5Ghz Core 2 duo, 2Gb memory).

It doesn't take a boatload of resources for a simple login and static content if it's just static content. Sites can be separated (or "sharded" if you like that term) on Nginx with very little effort for static content.

E.G. https://gist.github.com/perusio/2154289

There are more elegant solutions for that which still don't require blob objects.
I suppose Wyden/Paul 2016 isn't really feasible, but it would be a good way to solve issues of governmental overreach.
I suspect people would have a different opinion about the surveillance programs if scenario two came to pass

Which is funny, because those folks will probably be the same ones who keep butchering the quote and declaring "Those who would give up freedom for safety deserve neither"
Is there really a place for a simplified Java web framework, when there's plenty of options that run atop the JVM with full access to JVM libs? (Grails, ColdFusion + several MVC frameworks, etc)
This stuff is really interesting but is a million miles away from child-like.

We've know for years washing your hands in hospitals saves lives.

And we've know for years people are not doing it. Even just putting up signs helps an amazing amount, but even this isn't done.

Cause it's a really hard problem.

How does one improve the issue? Some hospitals are trying cameras, ranking deaths in hospitals, rfid tags tracking people making sure they wash.

I'm willing to bet even though the checklist above is pretty close to proven most hospitals don't use it.

[edit] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044462010457800...
Interestingly there have actually been a few nuclear reactors in space. Used primarily for radar satellites iirc that need power that RTGs and solar panels cannot provide.
For PHP, there's PHP_CodeSniffer, though it's not quite the same thing.
In a world where Python and Ruby have a huge chunk of mindshare, I'm thinking a typed language would probably look more like Go.
people who've come together, as if by karma, to work on an idea whose time has come and the rest of the world conspires to make it happen.
The OTR plugin for Pidgin does a better job of userfriendliness and gives more useful privacy guarantees (like plausible deniability).
Volume reduction works great until you get to the kids Legos and Pillow Pets... Isabella the purple unicorn is not for sale.
spending time doing shit, not thinking/talking about doing shit.
Then, buy the same thing.
Meanwhile this is still open with no changes since November 2012,

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39482

If the Android team wanted to give proper support for Go, I think it would have done it already, instead of changing tooling between IDEs.

The same goes for disabling the Objective-C support on gcc and clang toolchains.
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I don't buy into that. These guys have spent their time and money building something that provides real value. Opening the source will directly compromise their ability to make that money.

Nothing is stopping YOU from building an editor in your own time and making the source available.
That's why I just use cpan2deb. There's a few modules that won't package properly with it, I should file some bugs.

I also use cpanm when I have a need to be separate from vendor, but generally in the worst-case admins prefer to only maintain one set of perl/cpan rather than two.
Palantir is tool for doing link analysis and importing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It has a great UI for exploring data and a great UI for manual tagging of data. It has excellent logging capabilities, but I'd argue "data has been used precisely as the government says it's supposed to be used" this is impossible since once a person knows a piece of information they can use it in anyway that they'd like.
"entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it" - Richard Branson
Another happy Fastmail user!

I just wish it had an address book and calendar that I could sync.

Those are the things I miss the most from Gmail.
She should be using blue LEDs. I swear those things can send light through a wall.
The Python installation tool utilized to install different versions of Anaconda and component packages is called [conda](http://docs.continuum.io/conda/intro.html). [pythonbrew]( https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew) in combination with [virtualenvwrapper](http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) is also great.
That's why one keeps a pickset?
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I disagree about nostalgia for Empire - that tends to be connected with apologies for contemporary empire building, while ignoring the constant warfare, massive slavery, brutal subjugation of conquered peoples, venality and corruption of Ancient Rome. It's a fascinating period, but hardly one to feel nostalgia for.

I agree that frequent and public sharing of information via twitter etc will in future be considered dangerous, and some people are sharing far too much, much of it out in public. That has no bearing on my individual right to privacy though - just because lots of people engage in public sharing of trivia, news, and opinions doesn't mean they are abdicating the right to privacy on more substantial matters - not many would agree to sharing all their email publicly for example.

The more important point for me is that there is a big difference between me sharing some info publicly, some info semi-anonymously, and then separately private financial info with my bank, numbers called with my phone company, email with google etc, and intel agencies of my country demanding access to all this information in aggregate for everyone, in perpetuity, and sharing it with other agencies and countries, with no effective oversight or even permission.

I see no justifiable excuse for that, not the mirage of a Pax Americana, Islamist terrorists, or any future threat.
I used to be Australian, too.

I think of it like trusting gangs in the thieves guild, there might be some gangs that are ethically more admirable than others, but at the end of the day if it comes down to it, the administrative board of the thieves guild is able to compel any of it's member organisations to act in accordance with its edicts.

So if you're going to take any action that might cause the administrative guild of that thieves board to attack you, it should be a foregone conclusion that the trust of intermediary parties beholden to that central authority is irrelevant.

Arrange your affairs accordingly. If you must deal with gangs of thieves, deal with the better ones, and if you can avoid it, don't. And if, heaven help you, you decide to take action that will paint crosshairs on your back from the central thieves guild committee, your opsec should take into account the full powers that committee is able to bring to bear upon you.
How about selling everything and NOT buying it back? Because halfway through the article he goes:

In Victoria, I bought all new furniture — TV, couches, bed, kitchenware, etc — and still had cash left over from the sale of my old stuff. That’s right, I made money.

This can only work if you're filthy rich. The article ignores 90%+ of the world's population who can't sell everything because they own pretty much nothing. And yeah, these people can be hackers or founders as well. It's hard to think that somebody just learned today what is the default for most of the people and he feels like everyone should profit from this amazing discovery.

A better title for this article would be: How to have more fun with your money by selling expensive stuff and buy more expensive stuff
Previous discussion (different article) here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955833
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He might be understanding programming, but from an academic background not from managing large business development projects with issues like compilers, tool chains, on-boarding of new team members, turn over, business pressure to cut corners etc. Scala has very different priorities. The top priority of Scala is "power", language features and the holy grail of marrying FP and OO. The priority of Clojure is solve problems.

Case in point: The lacking Scala API with a high percentage of method calls not described, not explained and rarely any descriptions of classes. Second case in point: In 2013 Scala is still abysmal slow (several seconds for some classes) when compiling (with SBT compile/JRebel reload or with Play compile/reload).

PS: Side note: Not to sound arrogant, but for the perception and spread of the language it is not important what Martin thinks, but in customer development style what my perception as the CTO of a company thinks that might decide between Scala and Clojure.
Thanks! I've taken your feedback on board and shall start implementing it all :)
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It works really well with children. Having too much crap is thoroughly depressing for them. They don't like the idea of volume reduction to start with but they appreciate it afterwards.

I've brought mine (3 girls aged 1, 6 and 9) up without strong attachments to brands, advertising and materialism. Isabella the purple unicorn has never been an issue for me.

In fact, they're rather more attached to their rain coats as that means we're going out somewhere interesting or their pencil cases as they can create something.
While I support this protest, in my opinion, this is a non-media savvy day to have it. "Regular folks" use the day off for family, friends, and bbqs. It's a holiday so no one will be working at the government buildings, and it's typically a lousy news day since the skeleton crews are on.

But hopefully this event will start getting people together to keep the pressure on as new revelations come out. Protesting matters, phone calls matter, emails matter---I've seen it. Generally the rule is for every one constituent (that's key) call there's 100 more who think that. Right now you can start to see the official line fraying a bit with various actors attempting to cover their own asses. Maybe they don't care about the big picture, but they care about legacy, career, and ego. And no one wants to be on the wrong side of history.
A new book will be released soon:

How to sell what you don't have. Ponzi edition. ^_^
Doesn't Django/Python have its own version headaches? (Python 3 came out 5 years ago, but Django didn't officially support until February of this year)

Phasing out old version of the underlying language isn't uncommon. For example, Oracle doesn't even support Java 6 anymore, which was released in 2007.
Why did you choose Java over Python (imo the only two practical alternatives for a textbook since you want to target the biggest possible audience)? Are the Java AI/ML libraries better or easier to use than Python's?
I appreciate stories like this more when the author just tells their story. When you like something I guess it's natural to want other people to follow. But writing that uses this mode of "you should" seems to assume too much about the audience. We might be in a totally different situation. For example I'm just settling into my new apartment after living in dorms and collectives all my life -- it's my first time even owning a couch.
being different
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life