skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*"... If you want to thumb your nose at the stupidity of the victim in this case, then fine. But don't pretend that he was in any way responsible for another human being using lethal force..."

Apparently you have never been responsible for an animal which is capable of killing a man.

If you were familiar with the variables related to the ownership of lethal attack dogs you would understand what I am referring to.

The bottom line is that the dog owner failed to properly control his dog.

The evidence is there for all to see.
Its hilarious in a sad and depressing way. Regulation means "to make regular" not "to only let the rich people do" or whatever most people use it as a euphemism for now.
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I've gotten the unicorn several times today, actually.

http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png
I agree that there is a huge market for this functionality. But it seems less like a business and more just a feature of the phone or something that should exist by default.
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So this is where they put the Bulava staff.....
>Gay propaganda is considered to be a crime and it is normal to restrict this crime

You asked about freedom of speech, but can't see a problem with what you've said? By your apparent logic, merely declaring something a crime is all the justification you need to restrict freedom of speech.
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> 12:41 UTC investigating an increased number of unicorns
Is this posted somewhere else too? Or HN had 7k votes in one hour? It's an impressive turnout.
"according to the NSA chief (who is unlikely to straight out lie to congress)"

Have you not been paying attention to the news lately?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/james-clapper-nsa-s...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/james-...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-in...

I suppose if you do enough mental acrobatics you can find a way to distinguish "the least untruthful" statement from a "straight out lie."
Trust Your Gut
What is the license? I don't see any sort of license specified either in the code or the readme, which means it's explicitly copyrighted by you. I'd love to use this at my job, but I can't if you own it.
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Also the server should keep it hmac-ed in case db silently leaked.
Generative languages. See Pattern Language and Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander.
The stages of grief each take time, and the amount of time varies from person to person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
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Right, that works; but it seems different from "Pick one from first 10, pick one from next 100, pick one from next 1000".
what's up with unicorns anyway ? i dont get it. Did i miss a reference to something ?
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"I voted for Obama both times. Going forward, I sure won't vote for anyone who supports this."

In other words, you are waiting for this guy:

"I am major party candidate so-and-so, and I swear to you that I will not allow the government to spy on you!"

Why would you have voted for Obama the second time after seeing what sort of president he was in his first four years? Did those four years not give you a clue that maybe Obama was a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Looks like they're running out of hard drive space.
They appeal to the 'mainstream audience', not techies or even the smarter half of the population.
Brony reference perhaps?
> So a successor language to C was C++ (Like C, but a bit better)

C++ is not a bit better than C. It's a whole lot better (for most situations, that is).
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This changes things quite a bit. I recently started a new project and decided on NUI (https://github.com/tombenner/nui) over Pixate. I have been very impressed by it so far. Does anyone have experience with both? How do they compare?
This is true of all government actions. As an individual, I cannot sentence my neighbor to death because he or she committed a crime, or declare war on the town next door, or wiretap someone I suspect of a crime.

This is one of the major purposes of having a government in society - to delegate tasks to them that the overall group/society does not feel comfortable allowing individuals to take.
Because they are power-tripping jackbooted thugs, with a paramilitary tendency, and a belief that they have ultimate authority and that citizens must comply with everything they say. An official ABC statement on the incident even says as much ("rather than comply with the officers requests...").
Exactly. After Reg NMS and other massive regulatory changes, it's an open question as to whether the post-2007 market system is the same as it was before.

You could ask the same question about many different regulatory changes, but Reg NMS is likely to be the biggest.
Now that I see it, it'd not be "a bit better", but "4 bytes better".
For those who have no idea what Pixate is,
"
Pixate was founded in May 2012 by Paul Colton and Kevin Lindsey with the goal of enabling designers and developers alike to quickly and easily create beautiful, native mobile interfaces. Pixate was a Y-Combinator Summer 2012 participant, and also raised funding through a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012.
"
(soure: their site)

Hope that adds some context.
I use this site for free and have gained way, way more from it than I have put in so I definitely don't care if improvements are made, but if one were to improve anything it would be great to be able to vote more easily with my fingers on a mobile device and to edit text more easily on a mobile device.

Editing text on my android becomes tough because the small box doesn't let me easily navigate around. My new S4 has a setting which allows me to use the volume keys to move the cursor which is a huge improvement, but there has to be a better way.

Editing text in Reddit is also challenging.
That's interesting, I thought SpaceX was cheaper than even the Russian launch vehicles. By the way, are insurance costs taken into consideration? (Although the proper insurance rate might be difficult to estimate for SpaceX since they don't have that many launches behind them).
Pixate (YC S12) nets $3.8M from Accel to make native app development easier
I agree, though other petitions can be effective. If you care about a cause, place your signature on a petition hosted with an organization that will tirelessly advocate for that cause. Organizations in turn live and die by their ability to gather and show support for the causes they fight.

If there's anything techies should've learned from the SOPA battle, it's that it is possible to make political change when enough people speak out. If you haven't watched aaronsw's talk on stopping SOPA, it's well worth your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg
It's very embarrassing that this is the kind of news reporting that accumulates wide viewership in America. Rather than learning anything, we'd prefer to just be wowed with an explosion.

I'm really hoping that Al Jazeera's US campaign is at least a moderate success, but I'm not holding my breath. It'll give some much needed variation in reporting, or so I hope. Likely it will be viewed about as widely as BBC America, or less.

http://america.aljazeera.com/
As long as it's not parallel to the standard economy it's fine. In the Harry Potter setting however, there are people with access to both worlds and can easily exploit it (especially if the magic world keeps producing more gold to replace all the missing galleons)..
Github likely uses it because: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/

Why that project chose the name unicorn is another question though.
Ridiculous might be a tad strong don't you think.

I think most people are well aware and in agreement with the fact that the government not only have but should have a much broader scope to work within.

The question is how far that scope should be stretched.
Had to mute the video to manage to finish watching it. Where do they find this kind of "talent" these days? Sounds like they're breaking into Entertainment Tonight.
Option D: reject society's model and find your own path

Us Queers have been doing this since, well, ever. Even in places and times were people were not open about sexuality, we still found each other and had long lasting relationships. Since we were already working outside of the societal norm, this made other options even easier. I generally find that LGBT+ folk are more openly into kink, and polyamorous relationships are fairly common, in a number of different forms.

Just like in startups, constraints on relationships are a blessing, not a curse. The difficulties and differences are not what will make relationships work, but what in fact will ultimately make them /work/.
Why was I banned from Instagram?
Assuming your case is one that actually goes to trial as opposed to the tons that settle.
> A reworking of C++ became D

Hey, this is pretty offensive! D is a clean and nice language, compared to the comparatively train-wrecky C++.
If that's well known then I wonder if they've actually done an "expected value" of cargo lifted into space by these rockets. For example, 0.9valueofcargolifted - 0.1costofcargoandfallout
yes, like Venezuela. http://www.freedomhouse.org/country/venezuela
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"Why do we keep talking about the legality of what is being done?"

Probably because of the widespread belief that laws are handed down from the heavens. The idea that the law could be wrong is nearly heresy.
For example he got thrown into solitary for tweeting?
This is how law based states work, do you love it or not.

I think appropriate analogy is anti-segragation laws in US.
Wow, that is one spaced out layout. Kind of cool, but it did affected my reading speed.

edit: just noticed there is a text version of the citation URLs at the bottom of the page.
He did more than just 'mention' it, he stoled government property and disseminated classified information to the public. I'm not saying what he did was 'wrong', but it is illegal and not particularly a free speech issue.

I'm not sure how anyone could say Russia's 'way more open' with a straight face[1].

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/world/europe/russia-free-speec...
I've been an Opera user for a long time, mostly because opening new tabs always felt very fast, much faster than Chrome or Firefox, and because keyboard/mouse shortcuts were so configurable.

They've made tabs slower to open and have gotten rid of configurable keyboard/mouse shortcuts -- it's now just Chrome with a different skin.
As the above link (http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png) shows, they display a picture of a unicorn on their error pages.

I wouldn't ready any more into it than I'd read into a rabbit with pancakes on it's head (http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg)
On the topic of Google Reader alternatives: most of the popular alternatives involve a central online storage. I may be unique, but I'd be quite happy for an iOS app that allows me to import my OPML file of feeds and sync it locally.

Given those constraints, could anyone suggest an app that would fit the bill? I've been looking, and the only app I could find that fit the criteria so far is RSSRunner by golden-apps.com -- which I'm not quite happy with.
I worked at a wholesale distribution company which implemented OpenERP and I have seen most of these issues this site makes fun of.

Had a nice laugh.
It is not true, of course.

Just once I would like the authors of these "it's just not economically possible for X to have Y" to be referring to themselves in group X.
I used to think he was a pawn.

Now I think he has some sensitive information and he's auctioning it and he has raised his profile to avoid being removed.
> 13:30 UTC We've identified the source of angry unicorns being related to search, and are working to resolve that now.
I wasn't being dismissive of the number of people who care about this issue at least somewhat, or enough to say angry things and click on an internet petition. I was, as an aside, being dismissive of the number of (US-type) libertarians there are. Of the people signing the petition, there are people who think that their team is for a pardon, and people who actually hold an opinion personally and are for a pardon. The former group might well have a different opinion next week if they believe their team does. The latter group are mostly those who were hard-core Obama supporters, whether or not they still are. The largest remaining block of people in the latter group are libertarians, but there are probably few of them. I would guess that right-leaning people who are outraged about the NSA activities would nevertheless feel uncomfortable calling for a pardon for Snowden.
I would guess that half their viewership is in the smarter half. Remember that many people don't watch the news at all. I'll just leave you with that depressing reminder and go back to trying to have hope for the world.
The difference is that 50 Shades of Gray is fanfiction for those who liked Twilight. I didn't like Twilight, and I didn't like 50 Shades.

OTOH, Methods of Rationality is fanfiction for those who were disappointed with Harry Potter.
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> i think it's hilarious that we tell other countries that we're a free market but clearly we're not if you have to ask law makers to allow you to do business.

As a citizen of a backwards, non-free socialist European country, yes, it is.
Nice project ! ;)
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In Kazakhstan the Flight Termination System is the ground. Much cheaper and has never failed.
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Or use something like Thunderbird to copy over your email to a new provider using IMAP.
Maybe it's because I've been watching too much Justified, but I really liked hearing the "Harlan" announcement.
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"The death of Snowden would put them on par with mafia."

Not if they got the mafia to do it. Could the CIA covertly pay the Russian mafia to kill Snowden at the airport? Probably, though the real question is what the US government would gain from that. What would be the point in killing him now?
They can make changes in user space and in application space and not share the source since only the kernel is GPL
Reasons are largely historical. The engines used on the Proton were designed in the late 50's/early 60's for ICBMs.

Ignition! is a great book on the history of rocket propellants: http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
The Simulator wont start but I didn't really look into it. Ever since the first β iOS that Apple developed, they usually do massive changes so I'll wait until β 6+ to re-test it out.
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I like this a lot. Kudos!
Cops shouldn’t have easy access to 220+ days of cell location data, lawyers say
See also http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1307/01proton/ for another account of this mishap.

Spaceflight Now is one of the best sources for news concerning space launches.
It doesn't matter if they accessed one or a million - accessing information published on the web SHOULD NOT BE CRIMINAL.

Whether you agree with his methods or not, there is no stretch of the imagination that makes prison for downloading (even 114k of) them make sense.

It wasn't a hole or bug— it was an expressly implemented feature. ATT decided to do it this way to reduce resubscription friction. The iPad sends the sim serial (ICCID), and ATT sends the HTML form with the email address already filled in, so all the user has to do is enter the password.

As it turns out, ICCIDs are sequential integers.

It should always be perfectly legal to access a remote computer system via a publicly accessible interface. It's up to that remote system to respond appropriately. In this case, it was working exactly as ATT intended.

Weev knew that the greater the number of records he got, the worse it would reflect upon ATT, and rightfully so.
If some agency like NSA etc wants to know about you in great detail, clearly they have the data, and will be able to very quickly put it all together.

The other side of this coin is that commercial parties like Facebook etc have the same potential detail and insight about anyone.

There is also very high probability that similar data is being put together by entities somewhere between the NSA and Facebook, for purposes that are much more starkly not in your best interests eg fraud.

Bottom line: anyone is an open book on the internet.
I'm currently designing a Hardware Description Language. I'm probably going to call it Vee, because it's main competitors are VHDL and Verilog HDL, which have the same acronym. So mine will be VeeHDL. I'll HN it when it get nearer to completion.

PS I am aware no one says Verilog HDL...
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There's certainly a fairly well culturally established method of dealing with holes in corporate internet security which Weev did not follow in this case.

However as a third person it's also useful for me to know the scope of this hole and how liable my own information was. Weev here is guilty of exactly the same reasoning that AT&T realised in court which is that a message is irrelevant without impact. And which has more impact: an article about how a vulnerability in AT&T security could have resulted in some leaked emails or an article about 114 000 potentially leaked email addresses?
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The demands are:

1. Senate committee to investigate unconstitutional programs, ala Church committee

2. Amend statutes to prohibit blanket surveillance

3. DNI Clapper's resignation for lying to Congress and the American people at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Glad to see you've done your research, and breathlessly awaiting the nationwide campaign you're organizing that will be "implementing meaningful change."
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I feel like the political parties both tend to focus on federal regulations as a source of harm or vehicle for change.

The state and local regulations, those are where all the heavy lifting is done. There's some utter nonsense there, all brought to you by the parties' respective farm teams.

EDIT: Put another way, I'm a left-leaning moderate, but shit like this makes me want to beatify John Galt.
"What if doing so killed a person for each ID at showdocument? Ok, that's pretty absurd. What if it wiped out their bank account?"

Shouldn't you hold the people who created that system responsible, rather than the person who used it? If I rig up my cell phone to a gun, so that every time someone calls it it shoots at a crowd of people, should the people who call it go to prison while I walk free?
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For the users who valued it, google reader had the ability to keep them hooked into the google website for long periods of time, dozens of visits per day per person.

I would think those characteristics would allow some kind of monetization via ads etc. I assume google looked at the numbers and saw that is not the case, and not simply at user growth. Cash cow vs growth vehicle kind of thing.

If i had to guess, it seems likely that RSS reader users are more likely to have ad-blocking enabled and less likely to click on ads if they see them. perhaps google wants to skew towards the more easily misguided.
Ah, it's not just america, although us subjects of the Queen may like to pretend it is.

What all the good news programs have in common is that their natures are dictated by an authority, not by the free market.

Make of that what you will.
Just because they have elections does not mean it's a democratic country.

I remember seeing anti-government graffiti late at night one night, and the following afternoon it had been replaced with a portrait of Chavez. The people who I talked to who were members of the opposition party were uncomfortable talking about voting against Chavez. Admittedly this was way back in 2006, but it still points to Venezuela not being the most free country.
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You might like the Matasano Crypto Challenge [1], or maybe just a coursera course on crypto [2].

1: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
2: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
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So, you've had a brilliant idea that you can't wait to develop!

You've setup your code repos, development environments and all the infrastructure you need to write your software.

What's the very first thing you tackle when you start to write code? User Stories? Use Cases? Database Design? API?

I am beginning to write a new web application that am extremely excited about and was curious to know the thought process people use to approach an idea.
It made the front page of Reddit shortly after that. I'd imagine several tech news outlets followed with reports, drawing more attention.
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The UI of Opera 12.5 on Linux is way faster than the UI of Chrome, Firefox. Tab opening for example is significantly faster. Back, Forward buttons also provide faster results. See it for yourself.
Question - Can I trust cyanogenmod binary?
Compile the rom from source.
Question - Can I trust cyanogenmod source?
????, no idea, have to trust some one. (Remembering an argument from GEB about uncertainty).
Is there a reason that I'm missing as to why this one is voted down? It seems (from what I can see at least) legitish.
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This clearly falls under the interstate commerce clause, much more so than 99.9% of the laws passed under it.
I hope your "realistic" world view turns out to be wrong.
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Yeah I thought that was just disrespectful. Thousands of hours were put into those satellites by scientists and the only thing they can say is that there's a neat explosion...
FileHippo is DOWN. Time for a break.
Yes, because organizations that use simple password-based authentication to secure important things (bank accounts, private messages, etc.) should be held responsible for the outcomes of such attacks. In such a world the state of computer security would not be so pitiful.