skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you've moved to Mars. Through a stunning feat of engineering, humanity has designed a ship that can make the journey, land tons of people and equipment without crashing, and has deployed a habitat of some kind intact.

Well congratulations. You now live in a tube or box in a freezing, unbreathable, radiated, barren desert. The only way you can go outside is by donning a bulky environmental suit and breathing apparatus. You may have brought a dune buggy of some kind along for exploration, but you can't go very far. If something happens to it, your spare parts are numbered and you probably won't survive the night out there, spending your last moments staring at yet more sand and rocks.

You don't have real mining or manufacturing capabilities and a resupply takes years. At best, you might have a high-end industrial 3D printer for parts, but your (specialty!) raw materials will run out very quickly, and you can't 3D print truly complicated things.

The remainder of your life now depends on you maintaining a delicate, miniature artificial ecosystem inside, so you can produce food and oxygen indefinitely. This is a feat which, when we tried it back here on Earth, failed miserably (Biosphere 2). That was with the luxury of Earth-based construction, at atmospheric pressure, without having to ship materials out and in of two enormous gravity wells. Environmental integrity was a question of science, not one of life and death. Besides, there is no reason to believe that Earth's ecosystem itself is stable long-term, never mind an artificially picked subset of it.

Once the honeymoon period is over and you've settled in, you will slowly come to understand what it means to be truly alone. You will never again see the people you left behind. You cannot move away if you get into irreconcilable conflict. Your survival depends on maintaining social cohesion above else, despite none of the usual comforts being available.

If, above all odds, people manage to not go insane on their own, there's always Dunbar's number: a suggested upper limit on the size of stable social groups. In case of ideological rifts, it is impossible for people to move away and start over: unlike on Earth, a new colony can only be started with the full and unconditional cooperation of an existing one.

If you want to try new things, Mars is the last place to do so. Whoever goes there will be clinging to the way things were.

We already have a vague approximation of colonizing Mars anyway: Antarctica. Go read about life on McMurdo base for example, or this:
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/big-stink-brews-in-anta...
https://blog.crypto.cat/2012/12/lebanese-government-asking-f...

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(هذا المقال مترجم إلى اللغة العربية فالأسفل) – Arabic Translation follows

We’d like to talk about today’s news in Lebanon concerning the Lebanese Internal Security Forces demanding access to Facebook passwords from the Minister of Telecommunications. This notion is unacceptable, and the Cryptocat Project is moving forward on proposing solutions for Lebanese people on how to protect themselves against this sort of seizure, should it happen.

What Cryptocat can do for you

We would like to suggest to Lebanese citizens to use Cryptocat instead of Facebook chat to communicate. You can download Cryptocat here (it’s available in Arabic) — to the best of our ability, we have attempted to make Cryptocat a private, useful and open platform for easy to use IM. We want to offer it as an alternative in this time of potential legislative abuse. Cryptocat cannot promise you perfect privacy — at best, we are promising a slightly better alternative to Facebook chat.

What Cryptocat can’t do for you

Here we must repeat the warning from our project website: Cryptocat is not yet ready to be used in extreme situations. Don’t rely on Cryptocat if your life is threatened — it’s experimental software. But that doesn’t mean that Cryptocat can’t provide reliable, useful privacy for many individuals. Use Cryptocat if you are in Lebanon and want to talk with your friends without the notion of a government request for Facebook passwords hanging over your head.

I am in Beirut

I (Nadim, Cryptocat developer) am currently in Beirut. You can reach me at nadim@crypto.cat — send me an email if you have any questions on how you or your community can protect your digital privacy, please come to my workshop at the Lamba Labs hackerspace tomorrow.

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If I may offer a little critique:

I'm on the really-hates-the-footer camp. It's off-putting. See the thing about the footer is that you already broke rule #2, you're trying to close the sale(it's not a gift, I know you're trying to get me to sign up to your newsletter) So putting it out like that is just obnoxious, and no one likes an obnoxious salesman. You should have just put the offer at the very bottom, once I read your article and I'm liking what you're saying, when I'm half-sold, not the large black footer that cuts out 1/3 of my screen, and I'm on an old macbook air, so screen real-estate is important to me at all times. And as was noted by ascimo(sic?) in this thread, on an android device it literally blocks the content!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996040

The other thing is that it kinda doesn't sell you, which sucks because I'm sure you're a great dude, but you're telling me I should sign up because you're awesome, you're smarter, and you have way more fans than me. If you would have told me how it would have made my life easier, or the holy mantra (increase revenue, decrease costs) then it would have had a better shot.

The other thing is the headline, then copy, then picture layout of the bullet points. This goes against how we scan things, which is picture then headline then body copy. Visual, then bold and big, then small print. When you scroll down, the first thing you see is the picture, and then I have to scan up real fast, and then read down. Watch yourself and you'll do the same thing.

Also, that text is not organized in columns, so it makes it hard to read. Dividing it into two columns (like, say, a book, the epitome of the two column layout) would be so much easier to read and in turn, sell me more on what you're saying.
How to make your website credible
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Still shocks me that people on this site uses those lame extrensions (which are a security risk no less)

someonewhocares.org/hosts_zero/

Save this hosts file in your house's router and be safely free of advertising, shock sites, tracking.... On ALL devices

With no added attack vector as with an extension and not limited to one browser in one device
See, this is a great find, and adds to the case against the sticky footer. It's almost a slap in the face when you come from an Android device.
It's an important distinction - and a mistake that many make - but more than anything, I didn't want some asshat to derail the message of my comment by nitpicking about this to appear smart and insightful.

This sometimes happens, unfortunately.

Even I can't remember the details, but for anyone whose curiosity has been picqued, this explains it well: http://www.aids.org/topics/aids-faqs/difference-between-hiv-....
As an example, Magic Johnson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson#HIV_activism
Am I the only one who thinks he reduced the efficacy of his argument significantly by quoting Kanye West?
This is an incredibly broad, overgeneralized, and unsupported argument.

1) The real US standard of living has declined since the 1960s? What? What is "the real US standard of living?" How is it measured and where is the evidence it has declined? Here's a quick list of vast improvements since the 1960s, all contributing to standard of living: civil rights, medicine, commercial flight, computers/phones/internet, globalization, declining crime rates. Those are just a few.

2)America got rich with manufacturing, poor with consumption? Sorry, this is just not how economics works. There are not simply two types of economies that equally add and subtract from each other. There are more kinds of exports than "manufacturing," and consumption drives manufacturing. Also, explain to me why the Chinese government is making a concerted effort to transition into a consumption economy, if it is so bad?

3) You mak a good point about currency. But understand how much of the world economy, not just the US economy, depends on the dollar. US debt is not only a US issue. Almost every country, especially China, has a vested interest in the success of the dollar. That fact alone will keep it afloat.
Contrast this from recent papers describing the breathtaking molecular capabilities we have these days with the HIV virus (using inactivated/re-engineered HIV to treat T cell lymphomas/leukemias, bone marrow transplants to treat HIV itself), and it's humbling both - how far we've come, and with HIV still a major killer on the global scene, how far we have to go....
Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit
Congress could do a great many things--and yet, here we are. I think you have too much faith in our legislative branch.

(Consider the turnout for the briefings on this nonsense a couple of weeks ago--most skipped out to catch flights home.)
Hadn't even thought of the Halloween bit! That's a good point.
Try again. Hopefully the service is getting slammed today thereby causing a few hiccups. The page worked for me.
I'm finding Three.js with an idiomatic Clojure veneer to be quite enjoyable. I find one of the biggest "wins" of any Lisp is how natural it is to build a DSL for whatever your problem domain happens to be.

For example, right now I'm toying around with a declarative syntax for specifying arbitrarily complex mesh animations in terms of partial functions. To illustrate, instead of having a render loop where conceptually you are modifying something globally in a once per frame, iterative fashion, instead you would feed your rendering context a hash-map that both specifies animatables to be animated, and applies these partial functions onto the specified properties of the animatable object.

Trivial example:
{:animatable some-planet
:animation {:rotation {:y (partial + rotation-speed) } } }

Anyway, I suppose my advice is to not give up on using ClojureScript here because the potential for making the development of your game a thoroughly enjoyable experience is, for one, a huge win. Aren't we supposed to be enjoying this stuff at the end of the day?

Take advantage of the language and be creative. I have never run into a situation where ClojureScript has somehow bottlenecked performance in any way, and I honestly can't really imagine that being a real concern. This is doubly true in a WebGL graphical context where most of the potentially awesome looking stuff (www.shadertoy.com) is being offloaded to the GPU and has absolutely nothing to do with Javascript or ClojureScript.

My last piece of advice: figure out how often you want to deal with native javascript objects instead of Clojure data structures early on, and stick to it as a convention. The little differences in how the language treats the two (in a collection/sequence sense) will drive you (or me) crazy. I personally prefer to take any JS object I'm going to make considerable use of and turn it into a full fledged Clojure object until I'm finished with it. Obviously this advice doesn't apply to short lived objects, or simple method calls.
No. Congress can recall any FISC judge, revoke Roberts authority over FISC at any time or abolish the FISC court entirely.
Why web development in C? Seems like a headache.
The problem we have right now is a complacent and ineffectual congress. Most of them don't use the internet and don't really care about it because it doesn't directly affect them. Unless their constituents start complaining (More than just people in their 20's and 30's), they don't have any reason to do anything either. A number of Democrats won't do anything unless Obama starts going against the NSA, and the Republicans that are against it are having trouble convincing others that it is a real issue. Add in a lack of news stations and journalists that are actually willing to investigate and push the Federal Government on the issues and you get a very, very frustrating situation.
See my other post. Text ads on Yahoo and Bing are not whitelisted because they don't pay. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5995895
Has there been any work done from an information-theoretic perspective on the effect of sponsored information added to a page of search results? There's gotta be an academic paper on this somewhere...

I'm particularly interested in the implicit information conveyed by the mere position of a search result on the page, and how that compares to the implicit information contained by the presence of sponsored content. I would think that sponsored content would on average contain maybe half the amount of information as an organic result, since the presence of the ad is partially a function of its relevance but also a function of the amount paid for its placement, whereas organic result position is a purely a function of relevance.

Then again, perhaps the amount paid could also be considered an implicit source of information on the content being offered, but that seems less reliable.
Do Bigger Desks Make People Dishonest?
Colorbrewer is so great. If you haven't clicked through: it generates sequential, diverging (contrasty) and quantitative color schemes, of the sort you'd use in map coloring. It's one of those Tufte-y sorts of design resources, like _Cartographic Relief Presentations_, and it's extremely simple to use when building stuff.
Come on, get her a real server, vps at least. If you look hard enough you can find one for $10 a month, less if you pay for a year. Do you really want her to waste her time struggling with all the crap that comes with 'free'?

Plus there is the added experience of server administration, which she should know at least a little about, if she wants to learn development.
I am certain that federal agencies have all sorts of whacked out "secret" interpretations of the laws of Congress.

And because John Roberts apoints FISC judges, he chooses those who secretly interpret the law.

That's pretty much like deciding how to interpret the law. And in secret. What it's actually deciding the law itself. And, again, secretly.

Your latest comment contradicts your OP "No, he doesn't. This is a directly, overtly inaccurate claim."
I suspect you're thinking it's a concession to conspiracy theorists who think that AIDS is caused by something other than HIV. At least, that was my initial reaction. But it's true that they are not the same, because AIDS is the syndrome you develop due to having HIV, but they don't happen at the same time, and AIDS can be put off indefinitely in a person with HIV using modern treatment.
Agreed. Also, when you choose options over salary then their cost is greater than $0 because thats money you otherwise would have received had you chosen salary. When the options cannot be exercised because they have little to no value (which, in my experience, is nearly always the case) then you actually lose money.
On the other hand, I'm really pleased to find that they're whitelisting some ads by default, although I'm disappointed that money factors into it.

I use ad blockers, because so much of the web is a hideous mess without them. But I'm somewhat conflicted about it, because I know that a lot of sites depend on ad revenue. I see this as a kind of collective agreement with advertisers: I don't mind adverts, but I don't want them flashing all over my screen when I'm trying to get stuff done.
Screen readers can read text in Flash movies if it's bade available as text.

and with JavaScript, if it's injected after page load, rather than during, the screen reader may not get notified that the page has changed, so it doesn't know to read it.

This is what WAI-ARIA and other things are about.

Thankfully JAWS and WindowEyes have free trials, and NVDA is free, so we can actually test things instead of talking about them on HN.
Here is a hackish way to show d3-creator Mike Bostock's samples that use Colorbrewer: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abl.ocks.o....

These don't require Flash - "obviously", I'm tempted to say.
I have very little faith in Congress, but I don't need to in order to make the point I'm making.
Cool! I have a similar project, based on lift's CssSel's (which are sort of based on the jquery syntax): https://github.com/tych0/hquery

I've been playing around with making a DSL vs. using string based selectors, and I've had little success coming up with something sensible. Have you thought about this at all?
Let's try to remember that Roberts is appointing individuals from the existing set of federal judges -- i.e., people who have already been appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate as judges.
The Story of Time and Surreal Numbers
Good to hear something good from the EU !
I liked the post (especially as I am a self trained programmer), but I think it's a little simplistic, and a few areas are missing and the order could use a little tweaking. Here are my suggestions:

1: HTML and CSS. I think this should be the first step. Simple static web pages. Even if you write good code in python, how can you get it to show in a web browser. Also a simple static page can be viewed from your hard drive in a browser. But that is no good so it leads into the next point...

2: Webserver/stack. Now this could be as easy as installing something like XAMPP or equivalents, or even installing apache, PHP, mysql etc. but here the learner can start to see the problems even with moving their simple static HTML pages to an actual server environment. And now they can start to make their boring static pageeager interesting by looking into the next step...

3: Python/Databases. As you say, start programming, but I would link it with databases. Again, a lot of ins and outs, and these can all be made easier by...

4: Frameworks. Now jump into Django and maybe bootstrap too. By now they will appreciate what the framework offers, and maybe have enough of a foundation to be able to make smart decisions about each.

Just my input, and I think it's great you're putting together this idea.
>The majority of US citizens are more concerned about {the Soviets,Terrorism} than they are about NSA "accidentally" reading their emails.

As somebody that's been on the ground passing out fliers for my town's restore the 4th rally that I helped organize yesterday, I've seen this apathy manifest itself not only in terms of disinterest, but also in outright anger that I would be so reckless and dangerous as to try and put pressure on our leaders to abide by the rule of law. I've been cussed out, called a communist by a military veteran, told to "get a job" (I actually have a great job), etc.

It seems that if an issue does not directly affect the lives of the masses negatively, such as the food shortage and economic instability that catalyzed the popular military coup in Egypt, the docile public will support whatever it is the powers that be tell them to. Here's to hoping some of the remaining leaked documents provide evidence of just that...
Ah, got it. At first I thought you were one of those crazy people saying AIDS isn't caused by HIV.
To be fair, it was a pretty weak apology.
Legally speaking, the workers are paid as contractors rather than employees. They set their own hours and are not under any obligation to accept work they don't want to do. As such, they don't have to pay payroll taxes and are not subject to laws such as minimum wage.
It's not doublespeak, it's actually a fairly widely accepted solution to externalities amongst economists.

The basic idea is that some actions you could perform impose costs on people who aren't consenting parties to the transaction. E.g., if Widgets, Inc. dumps the waste from producing widgets into a river, this imposes a cost on everyone downstream.

This would make their widgets cheaper—they're only paying part of the cost of the widget (the folks downstream are paying the rest). With a lower price, they'll sell more widgets.

Markets thus tend to overproduce (vs. what is socially optimal) things with externalities.

There are a couple of ways we take to solve this problem. When the externality is high enough, we prohibit it. E.g., we prohibit murder.

When the externality effects few enough people, and is of a suitable size, they can actually negotiate and resolve it themselves. E.g., if Widgets, Inc. wanted to take water from that river instead of polluting it, thus depriving the downstream farmers of some irrigation, maybe they'd be OK with that for a payment of $X/mo. By making them consenting parties to the transaction, it is no longer an externality, and Widgets, Inc. is now paying the full cost of producing widgets.

Of course, when the externality hits a lot of people, each for a small amount (e.g., air pollution), negotiation is impossible. That leads to the final option:

Do your best to calculate the size of that externality. Then impose that cost as a tax. This is called a Pigovian tax, and also has the effect of making Widgets, Inc. pay the full cost of producing its widgets.

Externalities do not have to be negative; they can be positive as well (e.g., you could clean up a public park). Markets tend to under-produce these, and a similar argument suggests offering a Pigovian subsidy.

Obviously, administering and complying with taxes is not free, and that limits the applicability of Pigovian taxes and subsidies.

Wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Seems perfectly accurate to me. You seem to be quibbling over "lifetime" and "power to shape" while at the same time getting bogged down with legal issues. I find this strange since you have a reputation for being good at security, so it seems odd that you are missing what is effectively a social engineering attack on our legal code base. Everything you said makes sense from a legal point of view, and yet, this shit is clearly 100% unconstitutional. How can that happen? Because one pro-police-state judge and his hegemony have everyone buying into the narrative.

"Hello sir, this is the IT dept, can you confirm your password please?" .. "Oh sure, I believe you..."

"Hello senator, this is the FISC, can you keep this secret please because its all legal?" ... "Oh sure, I believe you..."

The icing on the cake is we don't have standing to sue because we can't prove we've been directly affected, but we can't prove it because we can't sue. As soon as a judge held this to be a lawful argument, we got rooted. The People are no longer in control.
FISC is an instrument of Congress. It was a way of punting on finicky rulemaking for foreign surveillance by appointing an independent review board. No matter what NSA's "interpretations" of the law are, that discretion is enabled --- deliberately --- by Congress, and can be eliminated by Congress.
Yes, honestly, because lots of times I just don't have headphones and don't want to disturb folks around me. But other times I can read faster than I can watch the video.

If you made the video with care, then you probably already have a script you used.

If you didn't, https://castingwords.com/ is really, really cheap and does a good job.