skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually the point. The government attempted to extend the state secrets defense to cover the NSA's covert activities. But, they've been shot down by this court.

Not only do they have to find new cover to justify keeping this in the dark, it also inspires the hope that some of this carte blanche activity granted by the kangaroo FISA Court (and by Chief Roberts to some extent) can be successfully challenged. And, in general, that the need for secrecy (and the activity itself) will someday need to be justified in total.
The same thing they do now, let it potentially damage the restaurant's reputation. I've seen literally the most fucked up reviews drag down an otherwise 5-star restaurant's ratings...shit like: "The chef's tasting menu was a great price, but it was far too much food...how much sushi do they think two people can eat?" and "My waitress just had the ugliest sweater when I went in today, completely ruined my usually delicious burger! 1 star."

I really wish they had a more quantitatively factored upvote/downvote/reputation system.
dhouston has said more than once that he wants dropbox to be the filesystem of the internet.
I'm a cofounder on a competing product (http://my.salesloft.com) and you would be surprised at how much of an uphill battle it is to get email users to engage with a web app. In particular, sales folks (our target market) are hard to convert.

I can understand Roger wanting to shut down JCN rather than invest any more time and money on something that's not earning him anything directly.
You don't seem to understand. Cars can not legally pass bicycles and stay in a single lane. The math does not work out when you take into consideration that bicycles need to keep a greater distance to the right to avoid morons who open doors into traffic and that, having only two wheels, they will naturally swerve left and right, and often do so on purpose to avoid the various pitfalls that are not maintained roads, where a light hit to the suspension on a normal car can dead stop your wheel and send you flying.
That's useful for RPC type protocols, but HTTP isn't RPC based and it has lots of semantics written in English. I think it's better that way because it allows for a greater variety of use cases and implementations. You can still do RPC with websockets, if that's what you want.
It's myopic not to see the differences between the two vehicles, not to insist that they be taken into consideration if relevant.
Yeah, it constantly sends your position while you look at the page. I also wish it worked in the background, but unfortunately I don't think it's possible. It stops updating your position when you exit the browser app, or if you lock the phone (at least on iOS). I might do an app (that goes against the same backend) in the future!
Haven't you ever done an HTTP request through nc or even just telnet to see what responses came back? This is the best way to troubleshoot strange reverse proxies or rewrite rules.
As a father of toddlers, (3 and 5), I despise the attitude of many bicyclists on sidewalks and public paths.

You think you can't seriously hurt somebody on a bike? It depends on the someone you hit. Slow down when you see a pedestrian, as there might be others that you don't see. Don't ring your little bell at them as you whip past at 20mph, just slow down and show some common courtesy like a real human person.
You can actually do really fun (and fast!) things with dates by mapping them to geospatial types.

For an example see: http://explainextended.com/2009/08/11/efficient-date-range-q...

You can easily extend this map into more dimensions depending in your common use cases and the capability of your DB's spatial library.
> True, but how long can Nintendo stay afloat with only the strength of the Mario franchise to lean upon.

Perhaps we can ask Disney the same question about Mickey Mouse.
Plain-text formats have always been slower for things that are not plain text. But even 30 years ago, when computers were even slower, Unix designers decided plain text was still the way to go, because it was easier to debug and easier for humans to work with. No specialized tools required, no poring over hex dumps. HTML won over other document formats. JSON and XML won over other binary formats. Any coder can look at JSON and see what is being transferred, without the aid of anything but a text editor. Plain-text marshalling formats for binary data (e.g., base64) are still useful for pasting data into an email or adding ssh keys to authorized_keys with "cat >>". Tool support is not going to make SPDY any nicer.
> It's explicitly saying the NSA has direct access to these companies

It's explicitly saying that the NSA has access to data that would come directly from the relevant company servers, as opposed to having to intercept that data during transmission across the network. (Edit: an intercept is what 'upstream' collection would imply)

The companies themselves are still the ones who end up providing the data to NSA though, just like the fact that my browser obtained your comment "directly from the servers of Hacker News" does not imply that I have direct access to the server hardware underlying HN.
> You are not allowed to slam on your brakes for no good reason

I never said no good reason...

>hat about if you merge into my lane right in front of me and then slam on your brakes? In that case, you made it impossible for me to maintain a safe distance.

This has been arbitrated in court (at least in my neck of the woods), if you merge and in doing so cause an accident you're a fault. The entire law system is setup to relate to the actions that a "reasonable" person would do. It isn't reasonable to expect the person who you've just merged in front of to immediately be at a safe distance (in fact you, the merger, are responsible for merging in a way that's safe.)
How do you decide how many bits distance should be encoded in? How many bits for mantissas, sign bits?

I worked with half floats (FP16) and other weird partial word float formats ... I don't think it's trivial.

I guess the most straightforward way is to convert to fixed point real numbers first, then it's essentially the same as integers.

Or maybe just do it per block of each 128 floats?
How do they do actual conflict resolution? The example they give is address changed on one device and e-mail on another. That isn't a conflict.
I have had somebody follow me aggressively (in a car) with seeming intent to main before and it is a terrifying experience. They pursued me at 70mph in a 30mph zone. It was my second day driving a manual transmission and I accidentally tapped my horn with an old Ford Explorer behind me (no cars in front) as I was trying to shift into first gear to turn left out of a lot. A man exited the SUV at a red light and I ran it, hauled my ass home. And that's the story of how I learned to throw it into first gear quickly.

When it's just you and the other car on the road, there's no way of proving what happened, you just have to hope there were witnesses, or god forbid you do get run off the road, that the accident scene has enough evidence to show criminal intent.
I was also thinking of police (and sadly also mob) violence. I've seen cops just wait for anyone to give them an excuse, or to get the go ahead without one, more often than not. I've seen people behave like shit towards cops, too (the ACAB school of "thought"). And at least for me seeing and knowing about both was and is really important.

Assuming the demonstration is in some form about about abuse of power and the resistance to it, it has a great likelyhood of being instructive, I think. State power has a face, it tends to show it on demonstrations, and having it turned on you is just a "nice" way to keep on your toes I believe. Cancer doesn't really count in that sense, not that I want to belittle it.

But not just state power has a face, being a self-righteous mob also seems to feel empowering to some, and while it gives me goosebumps (not the good kind), I don't regret having seen that either, sad as it is.

I know this is shitty adverising for protests, and that I am probably doing them wrong. But those are my 2 cents anyway, even if they didn't change anything beyond what happened on that day, they were all worth it to me, the shitty ones and the great ones (like walking through narrow streets in Berlin Kreuzberg after fall of night, singing songs, surrounded by cops in black riot gear, being greeted by people on the balconies above us... that one was kinda scary for me, but also perfectly peaceful, surreal and inspiring).
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Bradley Manning has been in prison for 1139 days without a trial.

You keep on thinking Snowden is going to get a fair trial though.
So Dropbox is becoming a more-direct competitor with iCloud. Meh.

I'd rather they work on an end-to-end encryption system with a focus on ease of use.
You're describing the Saver Drop-In: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/saver
Thank you! Happy you like it :)!
This would be counter to their apparent extortion model of being able to "fix reviews" if you're a paying business.
Guess the FAQ answers my question: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/faqs/#Do_you_support...

No.
I'd love to in private. saying things in public seems to bring out the ad-hominem brigade. I would suggest Brian Blum's "Contracts: Examples and Explanations" [1] as a good first step, and start applying the knowledge therein to your local acts/statutes regarding law enforcement. Further, I would advise looking up the rules of conduct for your local BAR, so you understand the motives behind "Don't Talk to Cops".

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Contracts-Examples-Explanations-Series...
I do the same thing. One thing I'm careful about now though is always slowing down in acknowledgement of the stop sign, even if there's no one in the other directions. I started doing that after I noticed bikers bringing cars along with them when pedaling through a stop (presumably because the cars didn't notice the stop).
The actual language differs from state to state, but in general there is no attempt by the states to revoke certain individuals' right of riding a bicycle. (For example, being pulled over for drunk bicycling can get your driver's license suspended, but does not affect bicycling.)

Corollary: When states declare that bicycles on public roads are subject to the same rules and responsibilities as cars (and most/all states do), sanctions on bicycling are not available as penalties.
Given how many times I've read here that the US is now a completely repressive, unconstitutional totalitarian state, I should be surprised that the US court which rejected this defense was not hit by a drone strike. That's what happens to anyone who disagrees with the NSA, right?

Perhaps the rejection of the state-secrets defense is really part of some sinister NSA plot.
I took a look at this a while back (excited to see it's still going), but there is the chance that your ISP might send you a nastygram/suspend service if they notice a lot of activity that looks like port scanning, though that depends on how intrusive/vigilant your ISP is being.
I have an OVH dedi that I pay $60/month for, I can host all of my projects on it. It's fantastic.
OT: you mean flouting traffic laws. "Flaunting" means to show off.
News will morph significantly in the more competitive environment of the web. So called "blogs" (because the old media call everything published online a "blog") like PerezHilton and TechCrunch are one sign of the future. News sites like Reddit and Digg are another. But these are just the beginning.

I'll make the bold claim that we haven't yet seen this "morph" in media. The blog concept is now staid yet Buzzfeed is the most innovative publisher we have. And they are just re-branding the advertorial as "native advertising."

The only changes I've seen lately are larger and more diverse media to accompany text. Not a substantially new product as far as I can tell.
The tools are "good enough" but just barely, and very good coders have gone to herculean lengths to make them usable. The thing is that these spectacular achievements are available to all, making it into a decent platform.

But naked HTML/CSS/Javascript is a document/hypertext engine perverted into a general-purpose platform.

The thing is that the JS libs and practices used for desktop generally aren't mobile-friendly so even though everything works across all the platforms, it's not necessarily usable.
I'm glad that they put this waste of time to rest.
So long as nobody that needs to speak ASCII deploys a server that doesn't speak HTTP/1.1, I think switching to a more compact binary protocol for HTTP/2.0 is a good thing. Embedded devices will be able to handle more sessions with less CPU power, for example.
> We’ll be rolling out Yelp Platform category by category, beginning today with food delivery and pickup. Starting now, people can order food directly from a select number of restaurants supported by delivery.com and Eat24, like NYC's Harry's Italian Pizza Bar and Layaly Mediterranean Grill in SF. Eventually, consumers will be able to order whatever meal they’re craving for delivery or pickup at thousands of local restaurants across the US, directly from those businesses’ Yelp listings.

So here's a question: will Yelp reviews start to become weighted towards being more positive if they use this service?
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Suggest that his time is much too valuable to be spent doing this, and that your company should hire an intern that knows english/your native language to do it for him.
If you're driving a long and a bike pulls out suddenly in front of you, unless you have the attitude of "fuck it, just run them over" then yes, a bike can still be a massive threat to a car.
I agree that in a dense urban environment, the bicycle could be a much better fit for personal transportation. But as someone who has lived in smaller Midwestern cities, many more lives that some people care to think about depend on the automobile as a livelihood. Even in smaller metro areas, a bicycle would not be a viable option in the least. Cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam precede automobiles by hundreds of years, and are a better fit for bicycles and smaller personal travel mediums. That's where the disparity between the how the US travel system is structured compared to one with a much longer and storied history, like Europe.
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There's a middle ground. In Boulder at least, a bicyclist can be ticketed for running a red light, going the wrong way on one-way etc.
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Such an awesome idea. However, in light of the recent events the first thing to come up in my mind when I see "datastore" and a US corporation is "PRISM integration". I'd like to see proper encryption of Dropbox as the next feature, so that we - innocent users- are not uploading our data to the US government.
I'm a fan of The Innovator's Dilemma but I don't really see it as an essential book for startup founders. Maybe for intrapreneurs...

If I were putting together a list of essential books for startup founders, I'd go with:

1. The Four Steps To The Epiphany

2. The Startup Owner's Manual

3. Business Model Generation

4. The Art Of The Start

5. Blue Ocean Strategy

6. Crossing The Chasm

And yes, I do realize that (1) and (2) are largely the same book. But there is enough difference that I'd actually recommend people read both, especially if they're doing enterprise software startups. For consumer facing webapps or something of that nature, I might drop TFSTTE in favor of just TSOM.
You might find this interesting:

UK figures show that it takes at least 8000 years of
average cycling to produce one clinically severe head
injury and 22,000 years for one death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Health_benefits...
Nice FEAR definitions
I would like to show you two definitions of the word FEAR.
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Author of the blog post here.

My blog is intended for a small local audience, and I never intended it to "break" this story to the Internet.

I wrote my post for a couple of reasons:

- I wanted to add some context for my readers who might not be familiar with Seth's work; in the original WRAL.com article, Seth is mentioned only by name, with no other information about his accomplishments.

- I feel horrible about what happened to Seth, almost physically ill. A man I admired, an experienced cyclist, was killed on a road I have biked on many times myself. I just felt the need to write... something.

I sincerely apologize if my actions have caused grief to the family.
Definitely agree. Also highly recommend setting up a Kali or Backtrack box. It's a lot less time consuming than starting your toolkit from scratch.
Disclaimer: I work for OneLogin, but do not speak for OneLogin.

Microsoft likes to promise to provide things in the future that their current customers are paying someone else for.

Exchange is one of those things like Oracle that people install because they think if you're big, you need it, though in fact it's a bit like driving an SUV. Netflix isn't a company that really follows anyone else's lead and it surprises me that they used [edited use -> used] Exchange, but I bet it harkens back to the days when they were just a DVD-by-mail service.

This is probably a sign that Netflix increasingly doesn't want to deal with IT. It's widely known that they don't care about the costs of EC2 because they spend so disproportionately to license video content there's no way to make it an x-factor.
I saw this story on HN about 15 mins ago and I'm now eating my Butternut Risotto (I work in Emeryville). It tastes great, it's about as expensive as Subway (the cheapest thing near me) and I did get it in about 10 mins. The presentation wasn't the best but I'll definitely be ordering again. Small suggestion: It would be great to get some basic nutritional info on each meal.
You're actually still arguing for my point instead of against it.

If no one writes HTML manually anymore, then we have no need for it to look like English when the computer interprets it! We can compile the HTML down to bytecode and have it be interpreted much quicker by the computer, which won't have to do the job of lexing, compiling, assembling, etc. Here, two steps would be eliminated immediately, resulting in increased speed and more efficient storage and transmission: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers...

For that matter, if it's generated by tools, and we use programs designed to interpret and decipher and color-code it, all of that can happen without it being in English!

On top of that, you missed when I said HTTP is a communications protocol. Ever seen the movie The Matrix? Know how the sentinels would sometimes look at each other and make scuttling noises, then shovel off somewhere? They weren't speaking English ASCII. They were speaking a binary communications protocol. Know how I know? BECAUSE MACHINES AREN'T HUMANS! It would be absolutely moronic for them to speak English to each other. It would be like dogs saying the English word "bark" instead of just barking. Completely unnecessary and crazy. But that's what an ASCII communications protocol for machines is.

On top of that, there is no benefit, not one at all, to humans being able to read it when tools already exist to interpret and display it even more human-readable than its natural state. We squish and compress and strip HTML and JS already just to make it more efficient, and then undo the whole process just to read it. It's insane.
"and the contractors in question weren't obligated to praise CMS"

If you are a government contractor and some reporter asks you about a government project, the response is going to be positive (or at least obfuscated) unless you would like to have no more government contracts.
Unpredictable cyclists endanger other cyclists and drivers - not because they are likely to hit them, but because they train drivers to react inappropriately. Drivers that don't respect cyclists (or pedestrians, or other drivers, of course) should be ticketed; so should cyclists that behave inappropriately - legally they can be, by the way.
Hacker News is a tiny audience. I don't see any business sense in focusing on features that 0.1% of users want.
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It's all the functionality of memcache, plus persistence and data types like lists or sorted sets. You have much more control of your data.

It's the swiss army knife of in-memory data stores.
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I combine dropbox with TrueCrypt for sensitive stuff. For me, that's just digital copies of important documents.
First of all, those guys are terrorists. That's extraordinarily rude to lump me in with them.

Second, Your comment is an ad-hominem [1], unless you can provide evidence that I believe what they believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
If you've read it, why do I need to re-show it to you? There is no evidence that TDD provides any benefit. There is evidence that testing provides benefits. TDD salesmen offer studies showing the benefits of testing as proof that TDD works: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/01/22/research-supports-the-...
Per another branch of the conversation, they set up the servers, you just control them, so the entire conflict happens in a relatively sandboxed environment.
Downshifting
If there's anyone out there watching, I would love it if there were a similar AWS service just for audio transcoding (mp3, flac, etc.). Obviously I don't know what all is happening behind the scenes, but it seems to me that a lot of the infrastructure would be reusable.
I'm really excited to see how this pans out. I'm finishing my BS in Computer Science this spring and am considering this for a Masters degree.
Be negligent on a bicycle and a vast majority of the life and limb you are risking is your own. Be negligent in a car and you're putting in mortal danger every other driver and cyclist on the road as well as every pedestrian in the vicinity. The difference between 25lb of metal powered by glutes and quads and 1.5 tons of metal with a tank of flammable liquid and a 200 hp engine is important.
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Exactly my point, in online shopping pricing it .99 has any affect globally?
I am very curious.
Can't you just encrypt the data before storing it in your app? Why does Dropbox need to do this for you? Would you even trust Dropbox if they did add it themselves?
I understand, and I suspected that.

But still, I think the cyclist simply got lucky that he happened to catch the license plate on his camera. I mean, when you're falling off your bike, the last thing you're thinking about is to get a recording of the car.
I'm quite glad when good links get a second chance, whomever ends up posting it. Shame there's not a proper way to revitalize content that, for whatever reason, fails to get attention.

No doubt that's a slippery slope, though.