skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean "no fear" and "fearlessness?" Yes, he "blabbed" information, and yes he may claim the moral high ground, but he has clearly been quite afraid of what the government could do to him in the US. And with good reason, IMO.

I just don't get this argument, that he's a coward or a traitor for leaving. Are you required to martyr yourself for your cause to be worthy? He wanted to get this information out, and he also felt like he shouldn't have the rest of his life ruined for it (which is a reasonable prediction if he had stayed).

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter whether he was fearless or a troublemaker or anything else, this shouldn't be about him as a person.
"Yeah, let's go shopping"
Ah yeah. I was thinking more of the "preset image"/"seven-segment" style LCDs, but that is even closer to this it seems.
While I'm sure he's discouraged by the American reaction, I assume/hope he realizes the impact he's having on the world stage.
I read -- in another piece, somewhere else, a long time ago -- a speculation that the human brain is a pattern-recognition machine which is hard-wired with a bias toward false positives.

Which can be evolutionarily explained -- if you think you see a large predator moving through tall grass, but it's just the wind, you pay the small cost of excess caution to stay hidden or fleeting exertion to run away as fast as possible -- but a false negative (failing to perceive the moving grass as a predator) is a much more costly mistake (resulting in being killed and eaten). So over time the survival advantage of a false-positive-favoring brain makes it more common.

And this also explains the fact that certain aspects of religion -- attribution of natural phenomena to the action of unseen intelligent being(s) -- occur in most, if not all, human cultures. The attribution to intelligent agency, where no such link actually exists, is a false positive in pattern recognition terms.

I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where I found this idea, as I neglected to note the source at the time.
That gets to where I said management needs to give not only permission, but direction. Most developers have no clue about operational needs, and don't really want one, and they can be very resistance. And vice versa for ops staff. So it's not enough for management to just get out of the way - there will be some pushing to do, and lots of Corncob antipattern issues.

I've spent most of my career as what a colleague called a "one man devops team", basically serving as a sympathetic liaison to both sides. The root cause of the problem is organizational walls between dev and ops, but the industry-wide result is a sort of mutual distrust and even contempt.
Fickle? Insasmuch as the human heart is...

Anyway, let's tackle (for a thought example) your example.
Why should Tor exist? It's a home to real creeps. (Freenet has the same problem).

What precisely do these services offer that is so compelling that it's better to let them exist?

Freedom? Privacy? Are those sufficiently compelling? Why so?

I'm sure there are off the cuff answers out there - but maybe we should look deeper.
That may be true ... but when the AP lawyer sees copies of it elsewhere, the D&C's and DMCA Take-Down notices will fly.

Since the MPAA, RIAA and other media companies claim dramatic damages when people violate copyright, I like to think of false claims to copyright as fraud.
A “bionic eye” renders the world in 6×9 resolution for the blind
I agree with the previous comment; optimization is fun for programmers but in practice, all the modern browsers are more than fast enough already.

The biggest problem I have is with browsers sometimes failing to wordwrap text. That should be trivial to fix, compared to the effort that's being spent on esoterica (wordwrap is already implemented after all, it must be just something in web pages messing it up). I did file a bug report for this with Chrome, a year or two ago, but to no avail thus far. Is there any way to get it into the pipeline for being fixed?
Kayak when in the Western hemisphere, Skyscanner in the Eastern hemisphere.
Just on a sidenote: similar to Chrome, Firefox does have a user-friendly (almost to the point of belittlement) feedback process readily available via Help - Submit feedback... It leads to https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback.

I was a little surprised that the submitted feedback is publicly visible at https://input.mozilla.org
Wonderful. I wish you continued perseverance and a steady hand.
Thanks guys for the tips, I really appreciate it! I didn't know Google had such a feature :)
Interns teach companies too
For a while I was manually checking websites. I used RSSowl for a time, then Thunderbird.

RSS is a simple, open protocol (heck, they burn two out of three letters in their acronym to say it's "really simple") and there are plenty of alternatives. If they're really unsatisfactory it wouldn't be too hard to roll your own.
The counter is in real realtime, in fact we'll slow it a bit so that you have the time to see the flap going down.

We focused on Facebook for this first launch in order to stay focus on one product well designed for businesses, and to "market" it the simplest way (and as you said, it's still a bit costly for a particular).

And for NFC, we didn't announce it for now cause we have a lot to work on but our goal is to deliver Fliike with NFC tags to our clients.
I don't know what this is, but apparently I'm "enlisted" now... The design on the site looks really cool, though.
Mad scientist sees future where we sell our quantified selves on eBay
Serve DMCA infringement notices on Apple for the offending apps. The apps will certainly be removed. You shouldn't expect their legal department to respond to non-legal correspondence.

edit: not to downplay the egregiousness here. just my advice if you want this "fixed"
I've worn mine every day for three months now. It's fantastic. I can preview mail and read whole text messages without having to take out my phone or stop what I'm doing. Plus I use the Glance app to send quick replies to text messages I receive.
.la seems to have fairly colorful history:

http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2023248

I guess Lao is getting something from the "long-term contractual relationship" they have entered.
> It makes me wonder if Snowden thinks his sacrifice was worth it.

I've always enjoyed Israel Regardie's metaphor that society is like a candle. Only a tiny fraction, the wick, needs to be lit to say that the whole thing is enlightened.

You can't change everything, and not all at once. But even a little bit of light can do a whole lot.
some sort of ingrained attitude against having patience and curiosity

Please. You assume too much.

In an attention economy, our most precious resource is our time.

If someone wants my attention, they have to do the work. If I gave everything the attention it deserved, I'd never get anything done.

I only looked at trext (at all) because another commenter said the demo video was great (and it is).
Laws make things legal or illegal. They don't make things right or wrong. The Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the men who signed it were wanted dead or alive, but it was the right thing to do.
It has changed my life.
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Android and iOS development.
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> I just wish Yahoo's acquisition spree doesn't end badly with employees leaving

Right now it is just short term pump and dump. There is 0 strategy. It will only end up with employees getting fired due to Yahoo executives mistakes.
Yahoo reinvests in fantasy sports with latest mobile acquisition, Bignoggins
Do you have any data / references to support this?
"Thankfully not, as the upper class in Britain at least tended to favour the Confederacy"

Sidebar to a sidebar, but it went a little deeper than that. The British industrialists tended to favor the South -- and supplied weapons to the Confederacy in the lead up to the war -- because they depended on Southern cotton imports. Their industrial interests were heavily tied up with the South's.

There was actually a very real possibility that Britain would have gone further, and a lot of internal political pressure for it to do so.
Runs from left to right* for non-native Englishers
>We encourage you to engage us in regular exchanges of ideas or thoughts about approaches to curing or mitigating the hugely suboptimal political culture of the United States.

This is what I want. Snowden has not acted like he's doing these things for the greater good of the U.S.; on the contrary, he seems determined to demonise the government. I am in no doubt that the government has done some shady shit, but you must have a path forward. If Snowden were willing to engage in "approaches to curing or mitigating the hugely suboptimal political culture" then I would be more willing to be on his side.
Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist
Oh man, how do you stand A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones then?
Uh, doesn't b. preclude your conclusion?
It's also funny to see how many websites embedded RSS search feeds and are now broken: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Google+Alerts+no+longer+s...
James Klapper: Yes I Lied To Congress, But Here's Why
I wanted to pay. There was never a way to do so.
Sangriento Diario.
How to fix America
Andrew Mason's (former Groupon CEO) Music Album
The Theft of Copyright on YouTube
It is really fascinating how humans immediately crash when they break out of the screen while the AI can follow the 0's in system memory fast enough to stand a chance.
That's true, but there's also different behaviour standards expected - a company like Facebook is expected to maximise the amount of money it makes ("generate shareholder value"), where a government has other objectives, hopefully somewhat more aligned with your own.
Not catching that the screenshots do not represent the actual app seems like a pretty big goof.

It's in Apple's best interest to project a quality image in the AppStore. Quality over quantity.
I would say that a Lisp64 implementation could attain that. Elegance of original thought leading to elegance to implementation.
Declan McCullagh at CNet.
I think all the search engines do Mozilla too though. From my server logs:

cgore.com:80 218.94.63.53 - - [02/Jul/2013:16:40:57 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3708 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
"""While my staff acknowledged the error to Senator Wyden's staff soon after the hearing, I can now openly correct it because the existence of the metadata program has been declassified," Clapper wrote."""
The primary problem here would be a DoS attack against a web server that accepted that much data in a submission form.

edit: also, merely saying "bcrypt" isn't quite sufficient; we'd have to know what work factor you were testing with. bcrypt with a work factor of 2 is vastly different in performance from bcrypt with a work factor of 12.
For JavaScript or CSS single-file projects it's actually quite simpler to wget the one file from the Raw URL (or copy-paste the contents into a new buffer in your editor), than to clone/download the archive and then move the file from the downloaded directory and then clean up the other downloaded files.

edit For example, `curl https://raw.github.com/documentcloud/backbone/master/backbon... > js/lib/backbone-min.js`
Before they make an offer, they will perform a complete assessment of your company, it is called "due diligence".

They do not easily throw money at you.
I agree with you. One must realize that you didn't just order a Pebble, but a Black Pebble, or a White Pebble, each with their own manufacturing constraints and variations in popularity.

In this case someone is getting a Black Pebble before they get a White Pebble. If they wanted a Black Pebble they could have had that.

The reverse is to say they'll be one of the first with a White Pebble while the plebeians are stuck with black and red.
Shared Command - Ben Horowitz
Have you read "What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know", by Brian Cohen and John Kador? Great book. It should give you a lot more insight into funding than just getting numbers from HN.

Basically, respectable angels don't want to control your company, so they aren't going to take too large a percentage - 25% or less. They want to invest in you, not own you.

From there, figure out how much you think you're going to need for 12-18 months runway, and you can compute the pre-money valuation you'll need as 3-5x that. Then you convince angels to give you the amount you need at the valuation you want (and they want you to have). If you don't have enough product or enough potential or enough hope to justify the valuation, they can just go to one of the other hundred startups clamoring for their money.

So don't worry about valuations or what others have done. Worry about how you're going to impress the hell out of the angels so they can't wait to invest in you. If you can wow them, you'll get what you need. If you can't, they'll pass you over. Simple as that.
Ban all PACs? So, in other words, repeal the First Ammendment. No thanks.
If you want to know whether Facebook is getting revenue from the government, look at their financial returns. I'm sure you will find that most of their revenue comes from advertising, and they are not bidding on federal government contracts.

Given that programs like PRISM are done in secret, perhaps we shouldn't necessarily assume Facebook's public financial returns are sharing the whole story. Ie- money may be changing hands behind closed doors.

This, aside from the blatant invasion of privacy, should be our biggest concern about the recent NSA revaluations. As participants in a free-market economy it's important we know who is cheating. Ie- those who subvert the free-market via secret gov/intel/military deals.
Ok, wat? Ok.
Without being present in the relevant board meetings, it's hard to say this with any realistic certainty... but it certainly does ring true given the hulking, festering mass of anecdotal evidence Yahoo keeps leaving in its wake.
Thanks! First time I've ever heard of it but it sounds awesome!

Can you provide an example of discount you're able to get with this app and not with Kayak or Google Flights?
>you signed up for the service until you cancel it //

Maybe, that would depend on the legal terms under which you signed up. Mostly you sign up and pay for a fixed term. So contractually the expectation is that you don't continue payment.

If legally the payment is due, then that's still doesn't mean you can have authorised it on a card beyond the expiry date. Moreover you haven't authorised the payment with the new card (in the circumstances we're considering).

So the payment may be due, but it's been fraudulently acquired. There are procedures for collecting overdue amounts. Of course the companies don't want to follow those procedures and air their unfair [attempted] retention practices in court.
They do this even on games purchased directly through Steam. It's obviously not about cutting out Steam, because they still facilitate their sales via Steam and presumably are still obliged to render commissions. As Ubisoft says in their own announcement, UPlay did not accept payments directly; distribution channels like Steam or physical retail were still required to obtain the games.
I was just looking at Revel too. But from the homepage:

Development Status: Early adopters only. Pull requests welcome.
Development is closing in on the "final" 1.0 design, but the rate of change is still high. Expect to get your hands dirty.

Wouldn't quite appeal for people looking for a Go based Rails yet, but I would have to agree.. it does look very promising.
For anyone feeling disappointed, take a look at Flight Explorer. It quickly became my first step when searching for flights or inspiration.

https://www.google.com/flights/explore/
Reflections from a visit to Iraq: The entrepreneurial spirit is alive in Baghdad
Best Buy may be Pebble's first brick-and-mortar retailer, leaked image suggests
Well AWS is slow is not surprise, there was an article on HN in last couple of weeks that pitted Azure against AWS and AWS was faster hands down. So this is no surprise at least to me.
It's been awesome for me while I've been skiing.

I feel it go off on my wrist even if I'm blasting down a hill and can't hear the ringer, nor feel the vibration within my thick jacket.
Unless you were there with him and his dad's friend, you'd have no way of confirming that he wasn't lying. Or that he hadn't hallucinated. Or that you hadn't imagined or dreamed being there with him. Or that the universe wasn't created moments ago, and all of these memories are false.
Just a heads-up on the latest development for anyone interested:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/352190291882676226
If it doesn't, then LOPSA will rapidly become irrelevant IMO. Times are changing, and just like the move to x86 servers, and virtualization, the DevOps culture and it's resulting tools are an inevitable shift.
IE11: please bring "real script preloading" back
Yahoo is building a content engine. In a play on the 'chicken returning to the egg' strategy, Yahoo recognizes the negative regression of the Internet towards portal sites driven by Facebook. This is the original trend that got Yahoo going in the first place, and what is the thing that always wins in Yahoo land? Content.

Content is king in that land of Yahoo and summarization of a neverending stream of content is a faster way to get more people to see more content and thus more ads.

Yahoo is making a new portal, one built around summarization of personalized content.
I never thought about it like that. I bought Textual because I wanted to support the developers.

The benefit of it being open-source was that I could try it, use it, and hack it, before deciding they'd done a damn good job.
We support a lot of that on Hipmunk (e.g. http://www.hipmunk.com/flights#;kind=flight&locations=sfo,ve...) including the routing language
Remember that it's not a good idea to equate "didn't have thousands of times the taxable income [in the 1950s]" with "didn't make thousands of times more" except for the purpose of misleading people. Comparing taxable income then to taxable income now is a mistake, because it was a time of 90% tax rates and not coincidentally a time of people moving heaven and earth to get their compensation in any form other than taxable income.
Hail Mary's work sometimes. I hope it works for Yahoo; I like good competition in all spaces.
the men who signed it were wanted dead or alive
and
it was the right thing to do

Another's hatred does not condemn us.
What you say is true. Another, related fact is that no matter how far from zero the process has strayed, eventually, with probability 1, it will return to zero.
While I would tend to dismiss comments on a more public forum like WP, I don't think comments disparaging Snowden are necessarily something to be worried about. Despite the fact some people appear to be completely inept with regard to wanton data collection and trust in the government, it's far worse that people be apathetic and uncaring toward the subject. Glass half full... at least people are talking about it.
Why not call them "built-in" then?
I hadn't read about that artificial heart design before. I'm guessing it's going to turn out badly though. There's probably some unrecognized dependency on the pumping behavior in some part of the circulatory system. Like, maybe arteries will harden much more quickly if they aren't regularly stretched, or cells won't dump their waste as efficiently without the changes in pressure in the capillaries around them.
No, this is the perfect point that shows Face Book is over. Retro 1970's style physical counters, with a plug lead only 2' foot long, for "I LIKE THIS". This is satire so perfect, I suspect this is a viral insert for the FB replacement[1].

If this team isn't the newest, hottest AdBusters viral team, I'll be disappointed. This crew is pitch perfect.

[1]http://www.tech.sc/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Doomsday-Clock... (Please note, this is no longer correct: we are currently at 5 minutes to midnight, not 7)
In some ways - it breaks my heart. For a moment, I imagined myself in Lon Snowden's shoes and though I am not a parent; it took me some time to sink in the emotion. After reading this, I do miss my father.
This is a javascript based demo which teaches you something. Think about it.
How are certain languages so much faster even when pulling from the database? Surely the database would be the bottleneck here? Surely if it's something cool the driver is doing, that could be implemented in other drivers?

Also, why are some frameworks on there a bunch of times (e.g. ASP MVC)?
Russian Rocket Crashes Seconds After Launch, Toxic Fuel Alight
ServerBear does everything the OP is already trying to do:

http://serverbear.com/237-small-amazon-web-services#benchmar...

http://serverbear.com/10-linode-1gb-linode

http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean
Kid Hackers
He shouldn't be.

The real reaction of the American public isn't the talking that happens now. Or the next month. Or the next year.

It's that people like me, who are young and have decades of time we're going to put in to society - working on infrastructure, working in the military, working in civil service jobs, etc - have this information and have someone like that as a counter point to the obvious corruption happening in government.

I'd wager the biggest effect of Snowden - because anyone watching suspected much of this anyway - is going to be the legacy of someone who stood up and said something about it, screw the cost.

Rolemodels like that are important, especially amid a context of massive social and governmental breakdown.
Do you have an example of this handy? We almost all get our data from the same sources
But did he really do that?

> "This is unbelievable on a variety of levels. First off, as Wyden made clear, his office had sent Clapper the question a day before the hearing so that he knew the question was coming. To argue that he was confused about the question is quite unbelievable. Furthermore, Senator Wyden claimed that: "after the hearing was over my staff and I gave his office a chance to amend his answer." Clapper now says that his staff "acknowledged the error to Senator Wyden soon after the hearing," but if that's the case, it doesn't appear that anyone else seems to know about this. Furthermore, if this were true, then wouldn't Clapper have said this back in early June when people first started asking about those statements? But he did not. This sounds like after-the-fact rationalizations for lying to Congress and being called on it. "

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130701/12494623683/james...
Please, elucidate:

Is this project serious, or satire? If it's the former, we have no interest ($450? Who do you expect to use this, no major Brand Retailer will green light this, for both cost, practical application (a plug? Just how do you think retail space is planned out?), non-focus group aesthetics (97% of your market will not enjoy the '70s retro look) and the idea / concept cannot be protected at all legally - in fact, it probably breaks at least two patents I can think of); if it's the latter, you might be the top viral PR company of 2013.

No-one in 2013 can produce retro-1970's SF Geek-chique like this and not being framing a viral hit, especially with Face Book as its target. And yes, we do mean "hit" in a dual sense.

If you've not even seen the latter, I'd strongly suggest quickly (ahem not going to use the usual buzz word, but you should know it) your start-up, mulling over your skills, and seeing how much money you could make in an alternative market.
Try

pwgen 20
"Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"
What did it say?
I've been waiting on this day for some time..now maybe I can finish that project I started at Startup Weekend