skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't surprise me to see this kind of Valve-apologism on HN. It doesn't help that we're talking about a female who is successful in tech, so we get the nice sexism icing on the cake.

Virtually every single Valve article posted and upvoted here is overwhelmingly positive. The fact that Valve is worshipped in this manner should be sufficient to raise alarm bells, as Mark Twain once said, "Whenever you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." This woman is making some very, very valid remarks about Valve as a company. My hope is that she continues to do so until Gabe himself listens and takes steps to implement the necessary changes.
From my limited understanding, the slides are unlikely to be 'incorrect' as Snowden worked there so he would know what was actually going on.

It's possible Snowden is making the whole thing up but the government haven't denied anything is going on. It should also be possible for at least some of Snowdens claims to be verified. For example he has claimed that the government was hacking Universities it might be possible to see evidence of that. Or he claimed people have been wiretapped, maybe he knows some of the conversations.

It's possible the government won't deny due to a policy of denial and are sticking to it despite the huge PR issues. Or maybe they want people to think they are watching. Or maybe the people in positions to deny stuff want the current government to look bad.

Maybe the government will deny later and it's taken a while due to bureaucracy. But by that time it will be to late since if there was anything they will have had time to clean house.

Only Google have so for made a post saying the whole thing is fake.
not that lowly...
Bug Bounty Programs Extremely Cost-Effective: Study
Crime is at an all-time low yet spending on police is near an all-time high. (Those factors could have a causal relationship, but I doubt it's the primary cause based on reading "The Better Angels of Our Nature".) http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1950_2010...

Having big budgets but less crime means these swollen budgets end up being wasted on a lot of "fun" things like military gear. (Did you know that Wisconsin has two anti-terrorism centers? One in Madison and one in Milwaukee.)

I think this has something to do with politicians being unable to touch the budgets of first responders.

Tangentially, due to stringent building codes, the number and severity of fires has been dropping dramatically over time. Yet spending on fire protection only goes one way: up. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1950_2010...

Today in the US, if you call 911 about an emergency medical condition, they will often send a fire engine along with an ambulance and a cop. It makes me wonder if firemen and firewomen are so underutilized they've ended up with mostly make-work.
SF Weekly: PandoDaily Is Really Very Terrible
If they've publicly provided similar capabilities to the Indian government, it seems naive to think that list isn't longer.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/telecom/news/government-to-take-over...
That's a good point but I personally hate spending 45 mins plus in the grocery store and would love to have someone bring it to my door. I find it to be a huge waste of time. If the ripeness of your avocado is that important to you then you'll still be one of those taking the trip to the store.

One important advantage instacart has over the in-store experience is the filtering and sorting of goods. The amount of toilet paper or cereal to choose from is absurd.

EDIT: After looking at the web app there appears to be no sorting/filtering capabilities but only search. Bummer.
Can you USE MORE CAPITAL LETTERS, please? That would MAKE YOUR POINT MUCH MORE CREDIBLE, you know.
Leaked N.Korean Documentary "Exposes Western Propaganda"
The key to the privacy question -- chilling effects
Surprisingly colorful design for Arduino sensors
So the solution to easily-used systems like BitTorrent which lack Japanese content... is to not start uploading content there, but to invent entirely new networks without any kind of content whatsoever and start uploading there?

Your explanation makes no sense.
OK, good, glad to hear that. I had sort of assumed that that was the case, but wasn't sure. It's a lot of material to slog through, but I find this stuff fascinating for some reason.
It's the same picture, but the Guardian one is compressed horizontally to fit, the Post one is not. It's obvious that whoever made that slide used a larger image but positioned it so that only part of it was shown. Post opened it with PowerPoint and it rendered correctly while Guardian opened it with OpenOffice which mangled it (look at the arrows and circles too). Most likely it's the Guardian that redacted the name of the two programs for whatever reason (they said they are curating the leaks to not cause unnecessary damage and not just dumping everything).
ah. I understand that. thanks for clarifying.
Go with that new design, it is a vast improvement. I think you will attract a more appreciative crowd, who will be seeking something that doesn't look like a short term experiment.
They did give India a backdoor, and it seems naive to think that no one else has it.
Wasn't it a mod for half life 1 (team fortress classic)?
Optimizing e-mail click rates — how to structure a call to action
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but does anyone else think this prism thing was all something made up by PalTalk as a PR stunt?
All three of your links are ridiculous.

What kind of person takes an author's books and beats him over the head with them?
GNU Cim - A Compiler For The Programming Language Simula
That's really misleading.

There is a base in Grand Forks, ND that houses several CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) Predator Drones, and they work with local law enforcement when asked to.

So, more than likely, the drone is going to be flying home here anyway, and made a pass over some property.

The facility where these things are flown from isn't some top secret bunker or anything, it's an office building on the air force base, and they give tours to local schools[1]. A local cop probably just stood behind one of the pilots while they flew over the property and spotted the cows.

Also: to somebody who didn't grow up in this area, that probably sounds really silly...but keep in mind that cows are worth a couple of thousand dollars each. So you're talking, low end, about $12,000 worth of property that they won't return. That's like having a stolen car.

--

I think something like this (flying a UAV, since CBP doesn't actually fly drones) should require a search warrant, but this is a totally reasonable use of resources IMHO.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, I guess.

[1]: They'd probably give a tour to anybody that asked, actually. Grand Forks is home to one of the biggest and best Aviation and Aerospace engineering schools in the world[2], and it would surprise me if there wasn't a relationship between the air force base there, and the school. If any HNers are ever up there, I'd suggest asking for a tour.

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Odegard_School_of_Aeros...
The future of business on the web
I'm stealing this from minikites comment above. His characters and the book's message might send the wrong message about acceptance - acceptance of his behavior, not that of "inherently evil" people.

Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat (2005): http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

ender and hitler: sympathy for the superman (20 years later) (2007): http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html

Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality (2004): http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
> Kuklinski was given the codename GULL for his love of the sea.

Well, that's one way to explain it.
Oh, there's a per-item markup as well? How big is that?
I'd say it's closer to subtyping.
I'm not convinced that retrieval time doesn't matter. If you decide you want several photos, wait 4 hours to retrieve them from Glacier, then realize you wanted a few more and have to wait an additional 4 hours, I think that would get old pretty quickly.
> 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.

"This time, it's different."

http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/
Chrome's apps are a proprietary grab at the desktop and keeping people locked into Chrome instead of being able to use open web apps in a browser of their choice. This is by design and not exactly a secret.

This is overstating the case. A "packaged app" is just a web app stored locally, with some additional APIs available. There's nothing to stop any other browser from treating the app in the obvious way, leveraging the html5-standard "manifest". Indeed this is the same way that Chrome OS and the Firefox OS of which you've spoken highly handle installed apps. If you're concerned about the expanded API, keep in mind that useful APIs are often ported from one browser to another: this is why we have XmlHttpRequest.
The homepage has a clever marquee koala: http://beanis.biz/
Police actively lobby for many of the tactics and policies being decried in these articles.

They routinely oppose state level drug decriminalization (with sheriffs and other local police actively coordinating with DEA / Federal officials to undermine local / state policies).

They also oppose and actively hinder investigations into police malfeasance, firing of corrupt / incompetent officers, and many other forms of limited civilian oversight.

The idea that police officers and their ilk (correctional officers, district attorneys, etc) don't have an active hand in the types of laws and policies being practice in America is not at all true.
This is my attempt at a guess:

-- For the user, it's easier than ever to place an order. Internet connection speeds are fast, smartphones have snappy native apps, 3G is everywhere -- so you can order groceries on the ride home. You can quickly download 100 images of products on the bus ride home and pick the ones you want (for example).

-- For Instacart, processing those orders at scale is also easier than ever. EC2 instances are cheap and easily provisioned, payment processing is easier thanks to a bevy of services, and online use of credit cards doesn't have the riskiness and stigma associated with it in the 90s.

-- For the shopper going out to buy groceries, communication is easier than the 90s. With broadband and smartphones, they can send updates back to Instacart servers faster and have them processed automatically (as opposed to the 90s, where a cellphone call would have information transmitted by voice, which would have to be processed by a human). Smartphones alone enable a larger volume of information to be communicated back to Instacart, and have it be as simple as the shopper checking off items purchased or scratching off items not available.

-- For Instacart again, dynamic routing, inventory updates, and scheduling are much easier (in theory) because of the timely updates from shoppers, as well as the enormous amount of computing power available. Couple that with GPS tracking and you enable some sort of accountability for the shoppers, as well as a better customer experience for the user ("your shopper is 3 minutes away, on Van Ness...")

It's similar to how UPS revolutionized package shipping with point-by-point delivery updates.

That said, as a former Instacart patron, I feel Instacart has a long way to go before it's as entrenched as Amazon.
Clapper v. Amnesty International is not precedent for the constitutionality of the recently revealed surveillance. It's irrelevant now because surveillance is proven, not hypothetical. Besides, it was 5-4, hardly ironclad.

Furthermore, to the extent that Congress hid actual violations of the constitution behind secrecy laws, the judicial branch has failed in its duty to uphold the constitution. SCOTUS was wrong to deny standing. Protecting our constitutional rights shouldn't require breaking the law just to prove standing first. You seem incapable of expressing a position or opinion about what the courts should do, rather than what they will do or have done, so you'll undoubtedly disagree.
After-Shock: Snowden Revelations Echo Into Actions
They may not offer anything at the TB-level, who knows. But something is coming:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html#storage...

and I still think it will be hard to convince people to "put these files on Adobe's cloud and these files on this other cloud using X software"
I like this article. My viewpoint is that it sucks that even if you finish all of your work on Friday at noon, you still have to, due to corporate culture, sit at your desk until 5 or 6pm, regardless of if you are producing or able to produce anything.
The other (more) popular name for it is "slider", the word Americans also use for hamburgers.

...even the name for these things is a complete fail :)
BitTorrent visualization
The drive is that I've had serious bouts of depression in my life and this is the advice that got me out of it. it's far from the worst possible advice! validating depression as important is often more harmful than helpful. Think it through a bit - what's more likely to make you more depressed? A) being told you're so screwed up you need professional help so jot down the number of a suicide hotline and a qualified therapist or B) being treated as an equal that doesn't need coddling and given real world advice that might actually help yourself and others and maybe even be fun? Think about that and related ideas... how many people do you think jumped off the golden gate bridge because some guy wasn't sufficiently sensitive on some internet forum? how many people end up with gradually increasing symptoms of depression because of this cultural inclination to distance ourselves and focus on the negativity until we've had enough "therapy", when often the best solution is to get out of bed, break the cycle and let ourselves heal in peace? That can be the hardest thing in the world, but engaging in life is really the best solution. Do you really think that IF OP needs therapy or an emergency hotline, that the best solution is to get that advice from some random strange on HN?

OP is obviously collected and intelligent enough to write a coherent post on HN about this. I gave direct, actionable advice and I'm saying that OP is a smart, capable person with the ability to do good in the world who doesn't need to be coddled like a 12 year old. How likely is it that when one is asking HN for advice, one hasn't heard this same boilerplate drivel? I took time out of my day to think out both of these posts and try to find something original. OP has probably been trying to deal with this many different ways and maybe my way isn't his way, but it's more likely to be helpful than some crap you can find by googling depression for 5 minutes. I chose to get involved for that reason and I'm here participating in the thread for followup if it resonated with OP. The therapy and emergency hotline approach is obnoxiously bad - great advice if your employee comes to you and you want to avoid legal entanglement, not particularly good in reality... if you're at the point of posting on HN, you probably have thought about going to a therapist right? So are you really helping or hurting by giving that advice, probably for the 100th time?

"man up" means acting according to typical masculine values of practicality and altruism : get out of bed, go find someone with real life and death problems and help them. It means just think about the next hour or the next minute and do something helpful for other human beings. This builds a support network, fires the social parts of the brain, level sets how bad things can get in the world and how much one smart guy can actually matter and gives a direct resource (boys and girls club) to follow up.

... also I explicitly discussed the intellectual, emotional and physical aspects of depression in there... it's a self reinforcing loop.
>Amazon sells ebooks for the sake of selling ebooks - to make a profit.

No, Amazon sells ebooks for the sake of selling Kindles first and foremost (or did, before the launch of the iPad). Before the switch to the agency model, Amazon sold many ebooks at a loss. They sold ebooks at $9.99, less than what they paid publishers per copy for popular books.
I'd rather be as much as a ghost as possible in the environment lest I get more shit-work to do. Nothing, I set a world record in Temple Run from all the training I've received at these meetings.
Windows RT: Nokia Flushes Tablet Project Wile Microsoft Releases Anti-iPad Ad
Would you be willing to open source your code? I am running out of hard disk space as well for my photos and have been thinking of writing coding up something very similar to this idea _when I get time_.
But I would be willing to contribute to an open source project that does this for self-hosting my photos etc. Contact me if interested, email's in my profile.
hell yeah, carousels/sliders are harmless in comparison with these UX abominations...
Well of course there is no chance that any 5 year old in an ordinary school will learn anything about programming. Just think who will be teaching them - that's right - the normal teachers. How much do they know about programming? - I frankly doubt that many of them know for sure how to spell it (the ms are tricky).

So we take a bunch of people who have proven pretty bad at teaching basics like reading and ask them to teach something like programming - what comes next? Junior school moon shots?

Completely silly!
Here is another one that I'm working on: web apps for building sites https://starthq.com/apps/?q=Web%20development
You could probably use a similar argument.

But I'm pretty sure the premise that you're allowed to play a song by someone else 'as often as you want' is incorrect.
Google hosts fundraising lunch for climate denier Inhofe. Pretty damn evil.
In English, sure. Not so for Chinese.
Discussion of why you should aspire to be a security guard:

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/why-you-shou...
If Amazon was selling $12 wholesale ebooks at a loss of $2 a piece for a retail price of $9.99, it seems Apple would also have to sell them at a loss, to prevent book prices from increasing. Even if Apple had sold them at cost, with 0% margin, prices would have inescapably gone up, anyway. It seems that this standard for antitrust is reliant upon predominant pricing already being sustainable.
As a fellow urban non-car-owner, groceries or other situations where I need to lug a bunch of stuff are the only remaining obvious situation for me where car ownership offers clear advantages over a bike, transit, or Uber. So to your question, yes, but I don't think that's an unreasonable assumption for a lot of city-dwellers.
How Dropbox Could Rule a Multi-platform World
Are you sure? The comment was very focused on the download method, even though that should be basically irrelevant.
You're right. I'm still pretty sure Dartium isn't supposed to end up in the hands of end-users, but is more of a benchmark to see how much dart2js can be improved. But since this is HN and there are always the conspiracy theorists around, I really have no idea what the plan is.

(Remember that you can write server-side software with Dart, too, so the VM can exist for that purpose without being some evil scheme to eliminate Javascript. Not that I would mourn the passing of Javascript :)
Nonsense. Barring semantic games played by fools, we know the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around. We know that matter is composed of atoms. Etc.
What would your explanation be?
One spot when it's very useful is in making objects that are proxies for external resources (file data, executable utlities, etc.). Particularly when those resources can be inspected, it can be much better from a DRY perspective to let the interface of your proxy object automatically adapt even as the underlying resource changes.
Yeah, they might join PRISM any day.
> For this experience, we spent less than $1,000. Compared to an entrepreneurship class at any college, that's quite cheap!

My undergrad was in USC's entrepreneurship program. One of the points they always hyped on was whether or not you were "selling vitamins or vicodin", so to speak. As you learned through Snaposit, most people when making chit-chat will be supportive of your venture, but you won't know how they really feel until they vote with their wallets.

Most of the professors were older guys who didn't get online startup culture, but one of their favorite tricks was to put up a landing page detailing a concept they were interested in, with a buy button. They'd spend some AdWords to get people to the landing page and measure the conversion rate. If enough people tried to buy to justify the service, they'd go out and build it.
It's all about beanis. http://theanticraft.com/archive/imbolc07/beanis.htm
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Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos.

It looks like your product targeted consumers, but professionals seem like they'd be a better market. And it should have been priced way, way higher; the more it cost, the more secure it looks. I'd have a hard time trusting my money-making business assets to a $9/month service.

Of course, I'm not a professional photographer nor do I have your experience in trying to build this business, so who knows what my opinion is worth. :-)
Do people usually send you cover letters? No one I know of (in my tiny personal bubble of EECS majors) ever writes a cover letter.
how is CFML (ColdFusion) not linked to Java? CFML runs on top of the JVM.
Corporates Back Away From Self-Employed/Entrepreneurial.
In Ender's game, it's all about accepting the differences between humans and the buggers. They think and behave in completely different ways, and you must love them and understand them. Later with the Piggies, there are those who wanted to quarantine and destroy the planet, but the "heroes" risked life and limb to save them.

Even in the Homecoming Saga, which was a very biblical work from the start, there's quite a bit of effort to soothe the differences between the bats/rats and get them to live in peace with their differences.

Honestly, I've read a ton of his works and time after time his characters are great people and their goals are often agreeable and reasonable.
Swedish Copyright industry gets fee for consoles sold since they MIGHT infringe
The BBC have now reported on this also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23252523
A refresher course in empathy
Do what you feel is best. If it was up to half the commenters with negative feedback, Neocities would've never even existed. You have the vision, you have the product, do what feels right.
Oliver Stone on NSA: The government's surveillance machine is eating our freedom
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Have the weak defaults that caused 91% data loss when recovering from network partitioning been fixed yet? http://aphyr.com/posts/285-call-me-maybe-riak
How Apple led an e-book price conspiracy—in the judge’s words
Exactly. Just need 2-5 close friends and thats all.
Well, it's quoting from the ACLU feature. The headline does take a certain stance, but 10 years ago it would sound like some joke headline from Robocop.

I'm not a US citizen but if I was I'd love to take that tour.