skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My instinct is to lash out against this move. General solicitation lowers the amount of social vetting a manager must go through before being able to raise funds. It also makes un-accredited investors more aware of the investment barriers around them, which could loosen resolve for maintaining those walls.

But 2013 isn't 1933. The average sophisticated investor is more versed in finance, more wary of solicitation if they are not, or closer to one of the former.

What this is, is a boost to non-conventional assets and managers. The ones too young or crazy to have made it through the traditional vetting process. There's already plenty of noise if some idiot broker put you on a mailing list...
> One startup idea I've had is a scarce resume system where people are limited to 7 technologies and allocate 10 points in each for skill and interest (3-5 points means you're really good or really interested). It's like building a character sheet. More information in that than a typical resume.

I'm not sure if it's a good startup idea, but I definitely plan on doing something like this one my own resume next time I have to job hunt.
Reading this article it suddenly became clear: FISA is an Executive Branch agency that defends executive actions, much like the DoJ. In other words, it is the DoJ. When it (at least) comes to the 4th Amendment, the executive branch has manipulated Section 215 of the Patriot managed to totally unchain itself from the Constitution and do whatever it wants, in secret, from both the public and the other branches of government.

The magnitude of this is stunning. Historically, the executive has unchained itself for brief periods for specific issues. I do not know of any attempt to unchain itself in perpetuity, and in secret.

The fact that anyone finds it the least defensible is even more stunning. I mean, even if you are for mass surveillance (and there are many who legitimately feel that way) surely you must be concerned that it was done without your knowledge or consent.

There are two paths to solving this problem, both of which result in striking down Section 215 of the Patriot Act: a court challenge (which the EFF is spear-heading) and an act of Congress (which is very unlikely given the lack of public awareness and uproar).

Personally, I would like to see an additional censure on Obama and all other executive, legislative, and judicia officials who abrogated their duty to protect the Constitution of the United States of America. It needs to be our harshest censure, to send a message to future administrations that secret coups will not be tolerated.
Your happens today is very similar to mine. I'd say that I need additional offload of the RAID array (drobo in your case), while little is needed to be changed on my processing laptop
In the interest of playing devil's advocate, couldn't the fact that we have 94 guns per 100 Americans have something to do with it? To be honest, the cops that work in Oakland, Compton, Detroit, Chicago, and many other cities effectively are fighting wars with heavily armed gangs, etc.

I don't know that I buy the notion that police are the way they are today because of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam protests. Seems to me like the rise of inner city violence is a far bigger mover.

Not trying to justify militarized police, just trying to understand the reasons why in order to logically approach alternatives.
That's a description of a magentic tube. They say nothing about pulling a vacuum on that tube.
For those who doesn't want to have their data in the hands of a third party it makes sense having everything in one system, and because it's open source you can easily extend it if need be.
Laws we can't see need to be repealed.
James Bamford also wrote and produced the PBS NOVA documentary "The Spy Factory", which is available for streaming on Netflix.

Edit: It looks like it's been removed from Netflix, but you can still stream it directly from PBS's website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spy-factory.html
Sounds like a wonderful idea.

Because law enforcement (like everyone really) LOVES having their time wasted.
In Korea, almost all keyboard is just plain QWERTY keyboard with additional Hangul Printing.[0]

Right Alt key used as Hangul(Korean)/English toggle, right Ctrl key as Hanja.

When toggled to Hangul, only English characters are overridden by Hangul characters. All numbers, symbols are also same when you are in English typing mode.

Basically no additional key in there compared to QWERTY.

Is that complex and hard learning type in Hangul? Nope. Maybe 'Korean' is complex to learn, but 'Hangul' - I mean, script? character composition system? sort of that - is quite simple.[2]

Actually It's capable of implement more efficient input layout than English especially more restricted environment. Like basic cell phone key layout(E.161).[1]

There was a King, and He was really great hacker. Because he was a King, he grabbed bunch of smart guy all around country. ; ) Then push them working hard. (did I said he was King?) Therefore, invented many good one for country people. Today Korean has own quite good and expressive characters and he deserved quite good place.[3]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/j0Xk6oY.jpg

[1] http://bit.ly/11CF0mS

[2] http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=neraijel&logNo=110...

[3] http://i.imgur.com/69jkSXa.jpg
Hell yeah man, that sounds like a great plan. I only have a few solid hours of focus and productivity in any given 9 hour work day myself (web developer at a startup). This sounds like the way to do it.
A judge does review the request. Whether that judge "makes sure it's not overly broad or based on flimsy reasoning" is far from clear. The judge has been hand-picked by John Roberts and only hears the government's side of the case. The FISA court has rejected 0.03 percent of the government's requests. Now, maybe that's just an indication that 99.97% of the government's requests are reasonable, but here's the problem: we have no way of knowing, because it's all secret. THAT is the problem IMHO, more than the surveillance itself.
When I asked some friends to review this post, one said "everyone already knows what 10X is" and another said "is that 10X really true?!"

The former was an engineer.

Obviously this is really hard to measure. In my experience, it is true, but that is a qualitative assessment.
Gang-related murders are the result of gang activity, and gang-activity is very scary for a community. First, lots of teenagers and young people are gang members, and gangs have major presences in inner-city schools, so even a "gang-related murder" isn't like some mobster getting killed, but something that hits really close to home in the community. Second, this activity is very geographically segregated, which makes particular neighborhoods seem more like war zones. Third, even a few innocent bystanders getting caught in the cross-fire can have a chilling effect on the community. In Chicago this year, a kid who sang at Obama's inauguration was gunned down in gang-related cross-fire. Just one kid in a city of 2.7 million people, but it still had a tremendous effect on the community.

The trend in America is definitely downward--murder counts in LA county and NYC are about a fifth of what they were in the early 1990's, but they are still 4x higher than London's (greater London is roughly similar in population to LA county and NYC). And the militarization of the U.S. police didn't happen overnight. It happened in the 1970's-1990's when crime rates in U.S. cities skyrocketed. That apparatus hasn't demobilized in response to decreased crime rates.
Freelancer/seeking freelancer thread here. I've posted once, and already talked to someone.

Something that has really worked for me is create a wrapper over a popular JS component, and sell it(flexigrid-asp.net). It had brought be a couple of really good clients over time + some extra income.
Yes and yes, but this is not the place to ask for invites.
You're not getting it.

It's not what you say (which frankly everyone here seems to agree with). It's how you say it.
> Everyone job searches, but the bad candidates spend a lot more time doing it.

This sums up what my experience seems to be hiring. I've never really thought of it that way, but there's a clear selection bias. The good ones get snatched up quickly; the bad ones spam out to every damn listing they see.
America has always had that many guns, but the police weren't always militarized. In addition, the amount of crime and number of police killed in the line of duty has steadily decreased over the years.

The devil's advocate in me wonders if the number of police killed is reduced because of the heavy use of SWAT whenever they think there might be any threat to an officer in a raid.
I'm sure Snowden will get his own medal in the mail any day now. After all, he did what he did to advance liberty and peace, too.
It is important to be careful with how you try to use Glacier. I have been looking its pricing; It costs $0.01 per GB per month only if you want to upload your data.

Downloads add significant cost if you want to retrieve more than 0.17% of your data in a day.

Downloading 5% of your data increases your monthly rate to $0.097 per GB.
10% increases to $0.187 per GB
50% increases to $0.907 per GB
100% increases to $1.807 per GB

Downloads are also delayed by 4 hours after you make a request.
This should be mitigated if you're running a service, though. It averages out.
Yeah, who needs that stupid Fourth Amendment anyway?
just when designers had begun to catch on to the fact that numbered pagination links need to be big enough to click easily

You may have dreamed this part.
Yes, it's in the repository (https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle/blob/master/ocelot-0.6.tar...)
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This is a cool visualization, but the data it is working from is pretty poor. A lot of the "influenced"s and "influenced by"s are pretty sketchy, and some are just plain nonsense. Also categorizing the languages is pretty iffy. I can't imagine any possible definition of "functional programming language" that includes lua, python and ruby, but does not include perl.
If clapper was outright lying to congress about the data collection... what makes you think getting Zuck under "oath" is going to do any better. After all, he thinks we're all a bunch of "dumb fucks" and it would appear he happily sold all global user data to the USG without even a second thought.
It's an interesting take, but is still extremely frustrating to interact with. I would like to navigate through the images at my own pace and click forward/back exploring content, which the carousel prevents me from doing. It's also not obvious to me where I can find the same content in a different format- it looks like mostly they're taken from the portfolio section but I didn't know that until I drilled around the site for a while. I'd at least include a "view all" link below the carousel.
As much as there has been lots of trash talking here about Neocities due to it being 'just' HTML and CSS, I teach high school kids on a semi-regular basis (teaching summer camp right now) and that's the thing they're _most_ jazzed about.

I told them all to sign up. They were super pumped.
Infrastructure costs. We had too many users on the free tier (5 users for free) and our server costs went through the roof. We didn't know how to find investment and my business partner needed cash so took a contract job.
But these companies do more than what is required by law. They do not by law have to provide API access, only to provide the data in some form. None of the smaller webmail hosts cooperate in PRISM.

And as for warrants, no they do not always need a warrant. They only need that if both parties in the communication are US citizens. If none of them are no warrant is needed at all and if just one party is US then they (according to the Wikipedia article on PRISM) can wiretap for up to a week without getting a warrant.
Doesn't it concern anyone that this is a computer on which absolutely nothing is private?
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The comparison to an air hockey table indicates the opposite to a vacuum. Air hockey tables elevate the puck by blasting streams of air up from the table surface creating a cushion of air for the puck to glide on. Perhaps by saying it is not a "vacuum tunnel" he meant it is an "air tube". :)
Sure. But "Hey guys, just to let you know, we moved our relay back a couple meters for reorganization" would also introduce detectable delay -- I doubt anyone actually cares about the delay.
On the US-map one, the ellipses line up correctly with the cable landings, and the PRISM-partner logos are over the US, not floating in the ocean. Also, the arrowheads on the cable-bundle ellipses aren't all distorted, and the drop shadow on the "You Should Use Both" text displays correctly.

I'm marking this one down to PowerPoint-specific rendering (vs, say, OpenOffice).
Yes. I agree with the outrage, but exactly because of that, please, take my parent comment to heart.
I've been a big follower of your entire team, specifically on their talents in machine learning and NLP (e.g. http://nlp.stanford.edu/jrfinkel/papers/jrfinkel-thesis.pdf). The fact that you also use Clojure and give back so much is icing on the cake. Thank you!
Has anyone used Lightroom 5's new Smart Preview feature? It generates lossy DNGs from your full-sized files that you can still work with while your original sits on an external drive. Once you plug your external drive back in it, it syncs the non-destructive changes back to the RAW file.
Then why did the practice only catch on and spread like wild-fire after crime had already begun its plunge?

And why, after crime has continued to drop dramatically, has SWAT-ification continued to increase (if not accelerated) rather than plateau or even drop in response?
It sounds a lot when put like that, but it's not 512 pages of dense text, but in terms of typical presentation, perhaps four hex character address, a three character instruction and an operand of <10 characters or so - he could've fit the entire thing on 64 double sided pages easily, maybe less.

Lots of people printed out games and other programs in the 32K-64K size range all the time and studied them for months. It's what we did to work with "large" code bases. I've written perhaps a dozen pretty printing programs for asm (including ones that would painstakingly download narrower fonts to our dot matrix printer to fit more columns....) exactly because I wore out large number of printer cartridges, printing out code and kept trying to get things printed faster and on less paper, and that was a pretty common pursuit.

Again, it's a lot of effort, and some of what he did shows a quite impressive level of dedication (such as dumping the eproms, building his own clone of the game, and fixing bugs the designers hadn't found), but actually printing out a code base that size and studying it to learn was quite normal.

I'm all for recognizing this guys effort, but not for the most mundane part of what he did.
The fact that this could very well prove to be a Pyrrhic victory I think is actually extremely relevant to this case, since the fundamental guiding principle here is "is this in consumer's best interest."
Are you sure about it? I think that before the industrialization people had only very vague concepts of work efficiency. Before the pocket watch was introduced, people could have had only a very vague idea of the time, especially when not in hearing-range of the church bells. Units produced per worker per minute? Not happening on a farm.

You literally worked for the MAN, a servant, and lived much more in a collective as we could stomach today. Individually going out and "making it"? Not realistic.

Things were slow. Harvest would happen in a few months, your market was local and expanding a business unrealistic in many cases. Travel was super slow and dangerous. Society was restricted in many ways. Wars, fires, famines could happen anytime and destroy everything you had.

Work was usually physically hard, and food might be scarce, and you better not get ill or injured, right? Are you sure putting in 150% would be wise under these circumstances?

But I'm curious if you've some other aspects I am missing, particularly anything authentic from literature describing the ambitious, hard working people you have in mind.
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If you get to rate yourself from 1-10 isn't the standard approach just to make yourself a 9 in whatever you are most familiar with and weigh everything else relative to that.

So if your main programming experience is a couple of semesters of Java at university you are a "9" at Java and a "7" at PHP because you built a website for the knitting society.
Correct for now, but soon unaccredited investors will be able to invest as well....just waiting on the SEC rules on how it will work. There will be a limit per year based on income from what I understand.
"We don’t know what we’ll find. The surveillance court may be strictly adhering to the limits of the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Or not. And that’s the problem: This court has morphed into an odd hybrid that seems to exist outside the justice system, even as its power grows in ways that we can’t see."

Don't forget the argument from the other day, though. The Fourth Amendment specifically outlines the use of a "reasonableness" test. If it seems reasonable to the average man, it's probably okay.

Without anybody knowing what's going on, however, there is no common man to check with to see if the government is acting in a reasonable way. Therefore for all intents and purposes there are no limits, aside from precedent, which is wonderfully flexible given the right semantic nudging.
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Yes. Mobile and crowdsourcing: a freelancer with a smart phone removes the need for a warehouse.
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It is safe to say that a pull request could happen at any time, which it did. This project has now been dormant for 22 minutes. https://github.com/treeio/treeio/commit/32319c82ca45ff653ca2...
CALEA does not apply to Google, so this isn't correct. The reason they are required "by law" is that they get FISAs, which can be served on anyone and is unrelated to those specific laws.
How does the "majority of torrent cases" relate to subtitles question?
Pretty much. I can think of several languages that have don't be C++ as core design tenets, like D.
I suggested that on a forum 10 years ago (though about unencrypted emails) to see if the spooks were really monitoring email, and no one seems to want to take up that offer.
It's not a theory, it's part of the successfully utilized scientific method.

If you'd like the credentials for the scientific method as used over the past 150+ years, let me know. Might even be a fun article to write.
I've updated the README to include this.
Virtual Terminal 3. If you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 (forward arrow), you'll get to VT2. You can install crouton and run xinit, which will start a window manager in VT3 (Ctrl-Alt-F3/Reload).

I've got my setup scripted here:

https://github.com/appsforartists/pixel_webdev
You must be new to HN. Reddit is probably better suited for you.
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Soon to follow: more drugs. But seriously, this is great to finally know that there's a structural difference that explains these disorders.
I believe the correct play for this scenario is to automate the work and never tell anyone. Though I can imagine that not revealing it could be just a little bit tricky to pull off.
What evidence is there of bullying though ? It sounds like you're just making this up.
You are correct. This is quite stunning. My reaction when thinking about what we've created is "awestruck" -- and I mean that in the initial meaning of the word. It's an amazingly giant cluster fuck.

I don't see a way out, and I believe it's only a matter of time, perhaps only a few years, before the executive starts using this power for political gain.

And then we are well and truly screwed.

ADD: One counter-argument might be that the president can't use this for direct political gain because of all the other laws and structures we've put in place to prevent direct meddling. Believing that is true, which I don't, we're left with an even worse calamity: mid-level managers who will effectively have the power of kings while making 100K per year. As we've seen in many other mid-level management scandals, including the IRS, for the guy getting screwed it doesn't make much difference whether it's the president or some nameless bureaucrat being paid off by the mob who's doing it. Hurts just the same. Still just as bad. In fact, the president directly abusing this power is probably the best of all possible bad outcomes. Gives us one person to blame.
Just adding another open-source (Android only, for now) competitor from WhisperSystems (Moxie Marlinspike), including a secure-voice app:

https://whispersystems.org/

https://github.com/WhisperSystems

Moxie is supposedly working on an iOS version. The Android version is fairly seamless and can still contact users not using the app -- wire insecure. The local storage is encrypted, regardless of your contact -- again, you run the risk of wiretapping, if the other end does not share the use of the app.
No, a judge does not see an individual request in a 702 order. This is the entire point of the 702 and PRISM -- NSA analysts no longer have to fill out paperwork to get data from Google/Facebook/Etc, so long as they are 51% sure the target is a foreigner. There is one court order per company per year. After that, it's "direct access" - e.g. analyst sends request directly to the company.
"But I don't subtract 5 minutes from my "time spent working" when I check Hacker News while my code is compiling. Am I being productive? No. Am I working? Yes."

I would count reading HN as inspirational and thus inclined to lead to better/more productivity/idea's etc. I can count numerous things on HN that lead me to being a better dev. I also used at a lot of interesting tools/tech that came up on HN and that would later fit/solve certain business requirements. So this surely did make me more productive.
I would say though this depends on your ability to filter, scan and retain information derived from articles that are often tl;dr.

Also this article in itself is misleading, so reading an article posted on HN on how to be more productive is not considered productive?