skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fuck you, Heroku!

I made something similar to this for Diaspora: https://bitbucket.org/tubbo/replicator

Guess it's not needed anymore! :) Incidentally, if you for some reason want to bake this functionality into an existing gem, it may be easier to use Replicator's library than the Heroku API, since I had to read their source to understand how it all worked. That is, if for some reason you don't want to drop down to the command line and run `heroku fork` from Ruby.
Reactive Web Apps: simple example using AngularJS and Play Framework
You make a good point. How can we hold politicians accountable? Perhaps we could vote to shorten terms.
Wasn't there an incident a while ago where he used his position to ban video game guides from Wikibooks, telling people to put them on his for-profit Wikia instead?
Xbox Controversies, Sweat Stains Mar Microsoft’s Big Month
This is the first game we ever released. It is a multiplayer, 4 people free for all. It runs on Android and on PC. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
johnjones, we took inspiration from Quibb whose founder told us that the feature has worked well for her. There's something inherently cool about someone valuing your opinion so much that they ask you to come in and join their conversation, especially if that conversation is about something you're very passionate about, like your favorite sports team.
Stuart Biggs, first Cisco CCIE, dies at age 53
A big difference is that the exploit can't be pushed to every single device in the world that is running the software in question and phoning home for updates.
The "good news" is that they are using web crypto, and knowing how many will try to crack Netflix's streaming now, this means the developers behind web crypto will be getting a lot of feedback and "bugs" to fix, and eventually make web crypto stronger, and maybe some day we can finally use it for e-mail and storage services.
"Graham also released some metrics on Y Combinator: it has 564 startups total. Of the 285 that have valuations, the total valuation of the companies is $11.6 billion."

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I just watched it on my T.V., the ipad also works without forcing you to install Silverlight.
Well, I guess it depends on your definition. When I worked in telcom we called it "dark fiber" if the multiplexers at each end were operated by someone other than the owner of the fiber. This was "dark" in that the network owner didn't know anything about it besides who had access to the server closet in the CO.

The point is that the USA government leases a great deal of network capacity, both directly and indirectly through "cover" entities. Much of that is probably used to build any number of networks that carry "classified" data, including SIPRNet, NSANet, JWICS, and others so "dark" that we don't technically know they exist. Nobody would bother to deny the existence of these, nor the obvious fact that the actual fiber belongs to the same firms that own all other long-distance fiber: ATT, L3, XO, VZN, etc.

I suppose it's possible that some agencies operate the sort of "secret network" you were challenging, but since it costs at least ten times normal prices for spooks to do anything, they probably try to keep that self-built stuff to a minimum.

EDIT: Just so we're clear, the security of a network does not depend on no one knowing it exists or where it is. The NSA knows encryption: no one is going to "tap" their fiber and find out their deep dark secrets. A well-informed goat enthusiast with a backhoe could conduct a denial-of-service attack, but that doesn't scale and as I said these networks have redundancy built in.
You're still going about 80 mph. Just from memory it's roughly 20 mph/second until you hit 4 seconds where it's reduced to 10 mph/second due to air resistance. The greatest chance you'd have is to impact shallow water with mud. This has saved at least three people, of which there are fairly spectacular Youtube videos.
The English translation is way better. :P
we do use forward secrecy for all our client facing services and of course accept https only. we are also looking at upgrading from 128bit to either 256bit or even 512bit to offer a further 'extended runway' against future direct decryption :)
Hopefully the new version of our API would make that kind of thing easier in the future since it's very thoroughly documented: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference
I was also confused.
Show HN: Bulletin, a fast, clean Google Reader replacement
https://www.bulletin.io

My friend and I spent the last 4 months building the fastest, cleanest RSS reader we could. There are a lot of features to come, but for now, I think we have the best experience around.

We'd love for you to check it out and give us your feedback. Tell us what features we should put it next.
New York Auto Dealers Try To Make Registering Tesla Stores Illegal
Given that we seem to have granted the deal in exchange for assistance in the War On Drugs, there would be point (at least, in the minds of those who support said policy, which does seem to be those with power) even if the trade deal itself were of benefit only to Ecuador.
Nice!! I've been holding out on downloading a new version of Silverlight because I heard this was just around the corner. Now I get to uninstall the last MS product on my machine!
I think one of the approaches to encourage this is to rethink ideas about property given our ability to monitor space, time, energy etc. almost instantly. A basic example of this is real time metering which varies the price of electricity over the course of a day. A hypothetical is to do a variable payroll tax adjusted over the course of the day to influence traffic patterns. In the past we couldn't do things like hourly flexing of a payroll tax, nor variable energy prices. However, now that we are able to capture so much more info, we need to think about constructive ways to manipulate those elements.

I reference property above because this is the area of law thy seems most similar. Property law is not based on absolute principles. Rather, considering the circumstances the requirements for things like first possesion or ownership vary. When deciding these elements the judges look at what facts are available, then decide which ones are relevant for establishing a a certain right based on what factors a judge/society wants to promote.
> (which would have hurt innocent civilians - does the US even care about that anymore?)

No. This is a standard tactic the US has used to economically intimidate Latin/South America for political, but usually economic reasons. After the disaster in Haiti, the government decided to raise taxes on gas/oil exports(forget really) to help recovery, but that would affect our profit margins so we threatened them economically into submission. I believe something similar happened with raising the minimum wage by a few cents for textile workers in Haiti, but there was no way in hell we'd have that.*

Menendez represents me. Not that I'm surprised that he'd protect his monied interests over the welfare of innocents or anything.

*edit: found the source http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/us-haiti-wik...
Am I the only person who uses g-u? It's been notoriously absent from almost all these "revival readers" I've tried, save feedly.
Testing emails in websites
As I said in the last part, if this is just an early leak of a document in the works that will soon be official, it's a bit different than fraud. However, there is surely a difference between releasing templates for official documents during the middle of a tense diplomatic situation and releasing information about a (likely unconstitutional) spying operation that has been going on for years without the knowledge of the public.
This is interesting. Google still hasn't completely converted over to HTML5 video for YouTube. You've been able to opt in to the trial for years now (http://www.youtube.com/html5). But it seems that more than half the videos I watch are still using the crappy old Flash player.

Content wise, YouTube has way more content to convert to be able to take advantage of HTML5. I wonder if Netflix is having to convert video on the backend for this as well. Or if they're just using a base format that allows for delivery over Silverlight and HTML5 without having to re-encode and store. But they wouldn't really be re-encoding on the fly though, would they? That would seem to be hugely resource intensive. Does anyone know more about how they're doing this on the backend?
I'm running iOS7 on my carry phone and all the apps I listed I use day to day and they look fine to me with the rest of the OS. Being styled the same as my home screen is not a strict requirement for me as long as they look good internally.
I'd be very interested in reading a blog post about the data modeling process, especially if you find yourself changing it further as you receive more traffic.
He accomplished it pretty much entirely by accident. Jimmy Wales kept insisting that most of the content was contributed by a tiny clique of core editors, when in fact that wasn't true in the slightest - it was almost entirely reliant on contributions by outsiders who only edited a handful of articles. Not only that, he set policies based on that wrong assertion.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1av8zfzjw5l4-HQSmKE2s3Sud...

If this ^ link works, I excluded the sales portion. My cv is a bit embellished, the courses I barely passed were algorithms, real analysis, graph theory, number theory, and a statistics class. I couldn't follow the teacher's talking and reading was difficult. I have talked with several hedge funds in my area who shot me down, a couple startups who shot me down, and microsoft. The gpa was looked at, algorithms was the most crucial thing I missed.
I think it also matters where you eventually want to be. Is the problem you are solving help a million users? Is it repeatable business?

Not judging on what is wrong approach or right approach. But startups tend to go after ideas which can get a few million users or generate a few million dollars in revenue.
Billionaire Book Club: The Favorite Books of CEOs and Business Moguls
"In our case, we thought we were being paranoid until we saw what they’d gathered and realized we’d been naive..."
I've seen an interesting television program about meth production. It's called "Breaking Bad." If anyone has an interest in the industry I suggest checking it out.
New technology is poised to disrupt America’s schools, and then the world’s
The bridge is classified as a national monument, which would protect it as federal property.
Meanwhile, we're about to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, and we're supplying arms to Al Qaeda loyalists in Syria.
HTTPS safe? Maybe not
Encyclopedia Dramatica is not meant to be taken seriously. Please don't cite it unless you are making an elaborate joke.
I'm not a doctor. But I've been seeing a very talented therapist (in SF if anybody would like a referral). Working with him is like that refreshing feeling of working alongside an entirely competent teammate. It's wonderful.

Channeling him -- from things he's told me about myself -- I think he's say "What you're describing is a case, maybe a mild case, of ADD."

I've always rejected that comment when he made it, sure it was some failing of myself and my own "discipline." But you know what, there's nothing nobile about being hard on yourself and trying to enforce "discipline" through intolerance of your longtime behaviors.

Accept yourself, that a part of you wants to play and not work, accept that there's nothing inherently wrong about that. You're NOT a lazy person I'm sure. You're not a bad person. You're not doing anything bad. But if you feel your life would be better if you changed these behaviors, then try that out.

There are doctors (especially if you're lucky enough to live in a large city) that treat ADD without stimulants. But it's also possible the medication is exactly what you need. I'm a skeptic of remedies in pill form but also you can't argue with results.

For me, a big part was bad time management skills going back 20 years to grade school. So i sat down each morning and again after lunch and blocked out my next 4 hours in 30-minute increments. And I followed it. And I got a Chrome extension that began tracking time spent not working so I could acknowledge that it was happening with real hard numbers.

Over time, I got better at being productive. I started blocking time into hours. Then 2 hour blocks. I still do that on busy days. 2 hour blocks. It works well for me.

There's too many moral judgments passed about these things. You're a good person even if you manage time poorly. I promise.
It's just nonsense. The actual translation of "football" will be obvious once you see it:

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediludium

Pediludium, literally "foot-game". And ipsum means "itself":

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ipsum

Google really needed to seed their Latin translator with a basic dictionary before letting it pick up crap on the internet.
It is so strange to see a judgment reference a previous case as Re Sealed Case.

It feels like the judge is stating: The authority for this principle can be found in Black Box.

It may be justified for civil cases to be held in secret. After all, civil cases can be resolved by mediation, arbitration, even just negotiation. When the matter concerns a petition against the government however, or against a law, there is no reason for the case to be sealed or secret.

Whats next, the congress voted in a closed secret session a new secret law?
I read something about How The Mapo Bridge In South Korea Has Stopped People Committing Suicide [1]. They basically have illuminated signs that say encouraging things to people who are thinking about jumping. Dropped the suicide rate by 77%.

[1] http://www.sickchirpse.com/mapo-bridge-suicide/
Your Personal Github Mirror and Backup in 3 steps
Here's the EFF's formal objection to including DRM in HTML specs: https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg
Isn't Node a JavaScript framework for webservers?
Looks fantastic! Did you use PhoneGap?
Senator Klobuchar urges FTC to get tougher on abusive patent lawsuits
How do you get that from this? The FBI is basically an intelligence agency. I would be disappointed if they didn't have tendrils everywhere. That's their job.
Second Beta of KDE Software Compilation 4.11 Released
They claim 15 data sources but I wasn't able to figure it out. Anyone know what the sources might be?
Yes, you need to show up tomorrow. Also: in the future, when you have a conversation about when you plan to leave the company and someone asks what date you'd like to go, pick a date 2 weeks into the future. You probably didn't intend to refuse 2 weeks notice, but your reply could have been misinterpreted. If your employer doesn't need/want you to stay for the 2 weeks, they'll tell you.

From this point on: stop spending cycles thinking about how your ex-employer is treating you, and stop feeling sorry for yourself about that treatment. It's over. Companies often have standard policies that kick in when people give notice which include cutting off all your accounts. Those practices will feel rude to you, but it's best not to take them personally.

Your goal at this point is to be as valuable to the team as you can be (regardless of how you're treated by the company). That's because leaving the best possible impression of yourself with the largest number of people at your ex-employer is the only valuable outcome left for you at the job.

Good luck with your next job. You're in a great market, and if you don't like your current employer, moving on is the right decision.
If emotions were water and I was a faucet my first child turned me from a well working plumbing fixture into a slowly leaking one with occasional gushes of H20.

She often drives me crazy now that she's older which in turn leads me to spending most nights chiding myself at my lack of appreciation for her in the moment.
Ever get a diagnosis from a doctor who doesn't exude confidence when she gives it? It is the most unnerving experience I've ever had (in a hospital)...
Every company makes mistakes. Who hasn't fallen behind on site copy? Granted their responsibility to keep documentation up to date is much greater than most of ours but I'd like to think (and I believe) they were not willfully deceiving their entire Rails customer base. I am still a fan.
From the number of conversations I've had with folks, Barrett Brown has never garnered much respect from any party. Anons in particular view him as a hack that is, at best, only semi-informed on the topics he takes on. He's known as a borderline-schizophrenic, self destructive drama queen that was bound to get partyvan'd eventually.

Guy was still fighting for what he believed in, and most certainly doesn't deserve even 1/10th of the sentence he's being threatened with.
Is this really HN worthy? It must be a pretty easy feature to implement with their slug/container workflow. With technologies such as Docker pushing them, Heroku ought to find a way to lower their prices. This at least adds value, but no magic here.
A great friend of mine did a few summers and winters at McMurdo as support staff.

> You can't go see a movie at the cinema

There are tons of DVDs and projectors around, never mind laptops.

> You can't go for a walk, ride a bike, go to the gym, go shopping, etc

My friend would cross-country ski over to some other countries' base (China, I think) a few times a week, snowshoe regularly, and of course there is always body weight exercises for the gym component. She would also go out with people and practice their climbing/rescue skills in crevasses.

> Food is pretty much the same always

She said it was perfectly fine, tons of vegetables.

All-in-all she absolutely loved it, and I'm still trying to find a way to get there.
You could be a better ambassador of our industry by explaining the misconception instead of being condescending. And we wonder why developers think we are just arrogant jerks.
I think that'd be worth the bribe money :)
A choice quote:

Even Schmidt, 73, who headed one of the more infamous departments in the infamous Stasi, called himself appalled. The dark side to gathering such a broad, seemingly untargeted, amount of information is obvious, he said.

“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used,” he said. “This is the nature of secret government organizations. The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the government to collect their information in the first place.”
I believe you are looking for this: http://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/
Ecuador's Snowden Asylum Cost? Ecuador Breaks US Trade Pact
I just tried going to Amazon.com and searching for "Ecuador crafts". I have several birthday presents to buy over the next few months, and I am thinking that craft items from Ecuador might be things people will enjoy.

I consider myself a patriotic USA citizen, but our government's cracking down on whistle blowers in the last 4 or 5 years has really gone too far. Our laws + punishments for whistle blowers is way out of whack with the rest of the world (I think the crimes Snowden is accused of carry a maximum sentence of 2 years in the UK, and less in most other European countries).
There's two approaches here:

1) Traditional, have Django serve mobile optimized HTML via it's templates.

2) Use django to create an API, there's several tools to help with this, like piston, django-rest-framework, and tastypie.
Show HN: Send snail mail to your government
Bitcoin: The next rewards-based economy? - CoinDesk
Quite a simple yet innovative idea. Now if it has some essential features like tabs for quick switching between different current directories, command history, and a beautiful interface, it could actually replace my default terminal app. Great start though!
The purpose of classified information is not to hide human rights abuses.
PayPal, SETI Institiute, Buzz Aldrin and Space Leaders Launch PayPal Galactic
I wish I could double-upvote this post. There are a lot of resonant topics for women in technology.
Sometimes research is closed source due to where the funding comes from, I'm working a project that's been funded by two different entities over the years - one of which won't even release the dataset we've been using - so when trying to open source my code I get stuck.
Google implemented DRM in Chrome before IE did.
I appreciate what you're saying. That's great advice. Sometimes it's helpful to look at yourself from the outside.
My mind looks at this statement:

""Alexander also noted that the NSA, under this part of the law, cannot intentionally target Americans in or outside the United States.""

.. and makes the conclusion that the NSA thinks it has the right to manage any relationship an American may have, by keeping data on all foreigners. In other words, the NSA thinks it has the right to know how your foreign friends are, American, and formulate a shadow around you consisting of a hole in the matrix.

What is it about American culture that allows itself to produce an entire body of citizens who truly believe they can operate as members of the broader conscious body of humans, existing as they do quite literally, gazing at navels?

I propose that Americans are fine being watched, because they want to be watched, primally. I think there is a deep-seated desire to actually have someone big, strong and brave, standing there watching every single thing you do. It can be seen as a reflection through the broader spectra of how we 'know these cultures'.

Perhaps the most criminal device in the world that has ever been used to attempt to cure cannibalism is indeed, the mirror ..
I have no idea how to sort by date in Flickr' idiotic new design but Charlie Loyd (vruba) has been posting images about the project for >8 months, probably talking about it even longer.
Awesome, great link, wasn't aware of that. I've just been following Greenwald's twitter account directly. But my comment was referring to the public's/media's reaction to the story, rather than your and my increasing knowledge of the situation.
(http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43240059/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/m...)

> Mining data from 35 million Flickr photos, scientists at Cornell University made some surprising discoveries: Not only did the world's most photographed cities (and the most captured landmark in each) emerge, but also so did the most common angles for shooting each place.

There are some American cities in the top twenty-five; and some Californian cities there; and San Francisco is listed at number 3, but for Union Square, not the Golden Gate Bridge.

This[1] AOL page has another list of US sights. (http://news.travel.aol.com/2009/08/27/must-snaps-americas-mo...) - they say it's the Coit Tower.

[1] A bafflingly bad page! Here's the tiny text-reading box on my display. (http://imgur.com/aRPqWr5)
Bruce fairly regularly gets articles published in mainstream news sources. I'd say he brings more of that to the table than the EFF has already.
Yes, but they investigate only specific things. Having tendrils literally everywhere (including places outside its jurisdiction) is clearly a very intrusive interpretation of their mandate.
Netflix was and remains DRMed, which is enough of a reason to avoid them.
Interesting. However, the elephants in the room are, as usual, trusted root CAs - why bother with breaking the encryption when you can just MITM the connection?
Maybe I use these tools differently than Zapier does, but using Trello AND Github issues AND iDoneThis seems a bit redundant. There's nothing worse than keeping up with different tools to do basically the same thing.
The paper documents their approach pretty thoroughly, and honestly, if it were me (and I'm a damn-the-torpedos-full-disclosure-open-access-everything kind of guy), I'd think twice about publishing a program that would give the kiddies something to do on a wet, wet, wet, day.
Are those graphs coming from real data or anecdotal evidence?