skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is methodologically misguided on a key point:

> The history of the word 'relevant' is key to understanding that passage. The Supreme Court in 1991 said things are 'relevant' if there is a 'reasonable possibility' that they will produce information related to the subject of the investigation. In criminal cases, courts previously have found that very large sets of information didn't meet the relevance standard because significant portions—innocent people's information—wouldn't be pertinent.

As a general rule, words have to be interpreted in the context of the laws that use them, because the same word can have different connotations in different laws. To use a programming analogy, talking about what "relevant" means in the law is like talking about what "num_files" means in programming. You can get a very general idea from the text, but you don't really know what the term means without looking at the rest of the source.

"Relevant" means different things in the law. The article cites the narrow definition used in criminal search cases, but the Patriot Act is about foreign intelligence, not criminal prosecutions. In the law of evidence, for example, "relevant" is extremely broad: anything that could change whether some material fact is more or less likely to be true. You can't take the Supreme Court's interpretation of "relevant" in one case and apply it to the interpretation of the Patriot Act, just as you can't take a variable name in one program and assume it means the same thing in another program.
The Lives of Others (2006)
Sortable windows are there in Xfce taskbar, but maybe you meant they are not in recent Windows version (I do not use them often enough to remember).
If you have thoughts of suicide you should talk to a doctor as soon as you can. Depression is horrible, and things probably feel hopeless at the moment, but depression lies and things can be changed.

There are some excellent, evidence based, modern talking therapies. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is probably the most well known. You may need some medication and support until you're ready to get started on CBT.

Discussion about depression treatments can be frustrating. People sometimes try to make a distinction between types of depression - "My depression can't be treated by a talking therapy because it's not just in my head. It's real, it must have an organic cause, it must be a weird balance of brain chemicals". This is not true. While we don't know a huge amount about depression or about medication to treat it we do know enough to do a good job for many people.

Obviously I'm not a doctor and this isn't medical advice. But you really should go and talk to a doctor as soon as you can. It'd be great if you could make the appointment today.

May I ask what country you're in? Feel free to not answer this question.
Also, the fact that Wii games emulated on Dolphin in 1080p look pretty fantastic makes this seem a bit hard to believe.
What if you're reading netnews in your term? What if you're browsing the web in your term?
Those poor souls must not have heard of this news:

"U.S. and Switzerland Reach Deal on Sharing of Financial Account Data"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/business/global/22iht-tax2...

This is also interesting:

> "Switzerland’s cooperation comes after the Justice Department prosecuted 11 Swiss banks on suspicion of aiding Americans in evading taxes, creating deep uncertainty for the country’s financial sector."

How many US banks has the Justice Department prosecuted yet?
Hi.

I can empathise with your position.

Just this morning I came up and out of a bout of depression that had been holding me under for the past 4-6 (ish?) weeks - possibly the worst bout that I have had for the past few years.

The feelings of loneliness were certainly there - as were the feelings of anxiety and uncertainty and chaos - there was a lot of cynicism and hatred also, almost entirely turned against myself, again, to the point where I too was starting to worry about my capacity for self harm.

As a person who (at least nominally) values rationality, I found (and still find) the irrational and unpredictable ups and downs of my emotional brain to be immensely irritating and frustrating. Perhaps the most frustrating part of it all is that - even knowing perfectly well that the depression has no rational basis - we are unable to do anything meaningful about it.

Indeed, it was not until this weekend just gone that I felt able to reach out to my family and ask for help - I needed to recover from the depression in order to ask for help recovering from the depression! fking stupid-a*s brain! Who designed this stupid thing, anyway!

Funnily enough, reaching out to strangers is often easier than reaching out to those we know and love - particularly when the issues are as emotionally loaded as these. Personally, I found the Samaritans to be particularly helpful (email jo@samaritans.org for help).

The usual advice that people give is pretty good: "don't suffer in silence", "reach out to your doctor to get help", "diet", "exercise" and so on, but you and I both know how difficult (impossible, more like) following that advice is in practice, and how mind-blowingly irritating it is to receive it when you are down in the dumps (so apologies for repeating the bleedin' obvious).

Anyway, posting here was a good start, so kudos for that, anyhow.

-Will
Trayer too (if you use it). I'll have to take a look when I get home to see how it all adds up.
This takes "super-quick installation" to a new level...

* compile Vim from source

* install and understand Vundle

* depending on some library issues maybe recompile ycm

* Install development tools and CMake

* Make sure you have Python headers installed

How is the usual "unzip it to ~/.vim" installation called these days?
Windows Phone is the new BlackBerry (but in a really, really good way)
New programming language makes turning GPUs into supercomputers a snap
Most of the bits you’ve ever crunched were run through a CPU, but your computer’s graphic processing unit (GPU) is increasingly being used for general computing tasks. The problem has always been designing applications that can take advantage of the raw computing power of a GPU. A computer science Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University by the name Eric Holk has created a new programming language called Harlan to make the process easier.
Saying "their goals overlap" is a fundamental misunderstanding of the anarchist position. Ancaps are not "the enemy of my enemy," they are my (in my anarchist days...) enemy: capitalists.

If you radically reduce the state without protecting the poor, you end up doing more harm to the poor. That's why anarchists are, for example, anti-austerity, even though it could be construed as "making the state smaller." Anarchists are for _the liberation of the working class_, (and all people...) and happen to believe that the state is one of the largest obstacles in achieving that goal. But removing the state without protections is just going to do far more harm than good.

You can also see this in their histories: anarchism comes from the First International, and is primarily about a means dispute with Marxists. ancap/voluntaryism comes from Rothbard, (who incidentally said that ancaps aren't anarchists...) who is... just a bit different than Marx. To understate it.

Ancaps and anarchists have almost nothing in common.
Thanks everyone for such varied and elaborate responses. This is exactly what I was looking for :)
There is a huge body of experience out there that does state this is insane and generally crashes and burns and fails horribly. Good on ya to go against the odds and win.
To me, the main take-away from the article is that there's more to life than KDE/GNOME, especially given the number of comments showing that the alternatives do have real users. If we apply that logic to browsers, we find that there's more to life than Firefox/Chromium. For example, I'm writing this from w3m running in XMonad at the moment :)
I like the idea, but adding post-commit hooks to my repos is a big barrier to entry for me.
As I understand, modern cryptography is distinguishable from "random". Onion and garlic routing provide more useful and productive ways of reaching the same goal.
The bad new is, that many of the laws we deem evil are very popular with the general public.
Finding your iPhone in the couch with Tile Tracking Tags
Baloney! Releasing dysfunctional crap is giving your users crap that they have to do the grunt work to maintain.

It's entirely one thing to release functional and ugly code, it's entirely another to simply code dump broken crap and think that's a good thing.
Consider the Big Ball of Mud: http://www.laputan.org/mud/

This can be either a pattern or an antipattern, depending on your perspective. I tend to think of it as an antipattern. Rewrites are often driven by difficulty in refactoring more than fundamental flaws, but the refactoring problems are caused by coupling between layers/systems.

The problem with rewriting to avoid a refactoring is that you're most likely going to wind up with a shiny new Ball of Mud.
Ireland's High Court refuses to grant arrest warrant for Snowden
I love that there are multiple ways to complete this!
Wiki Link for Intelligent softwares
Our talented intern tried to explain the technology and what it took for him to create that page. The post was never intended to be a tutorial, but feel free to comment - what you want to know :)
How your clients pay you? Do you get checks (pieces of paper in an envelope) mailed to you?
The good news is, we can actually do something about it. So let's get to work.

EDIT: As an example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007688
Yep , the story is vague but specific enough that a real client would know that it was written about them and probably find it quite unprofessional.
Explore Additive Printing with Monster Sculpting
Certainly the middle class isn't being shackled by paying ordinary income tax rates of as much as 39% while VCs pay much lower taxes (previously 15%) as capital gains via the carried interest loophole.

Certainly that isn't an advantage worth mentioning at all when comparing the struggles of the middle class to the opportunities available to VCs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/why-taxing-carried-interest-...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/19/145449117/carried-...
Search is great when you already know what to look for -- but we don't always know what we should be looking for.
I think all your three points apply to me. I'm wanting to focus on AI because I find it very exciting. I've done some basic intro courses online related to it on Coursera but now I would like to really get into it. So I think pursuing a Masters would be a good start.
Yes, and? Those were the limits of the hardware. Mobile phones have better GPUs now.

Doesn't change the simple fact that you could run the most advanced games of the time at high resolutions. Everyone was saying the Wii was outdated at launch, and they were right.
the war will fade Afghanistan is now and has ever been a war zone. Why would that change just because the Americans declared victory and went home?
Yeah I like PuTTY.

Have you tried MinGW? It's a fork of Cygwin and (in my opinion at least) fixes a lot of problems with Cygwin's install process.
How to know when YOU are ready to manage OTHERS
Agreed.

It just feels like these structures were built to last a lifetime and then some. Most of the stuff being built nowadays appears as though it already has a due date of "the not to distant future" to be torn down and replaced.

At least here in the US, the architecture just feels like everything else around me - it's disposable.
Literally bought Infinity Blade II 2 days ago for $6.99. Kind of annoying.
> 9. Launch vim, which immediately crashes with error: Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT

Had the same problem. There's something about this in the FAQ: One should delete and re-install python if it was installed through brew. (Doing this and recompiling YCM worked for me.)

The other gripe was: "Add YCM to vundle" ... without any mention of what exactly to add.

Then the thing started complaining about the missing .extra_ycm_something.py ...
FYI: Namecoin is not a currency clone.
Except that, you know, this effectively removes any citizen oversight, which is core to democratic societies.
I didn't realize Thomas Friedman was on HN.
July 2013 Mattermark Startup Index – Top 20 Startups by Stage of Investment
That's just Nintendo being Nintendo. They (seemingly) don't ever watch their competitors or consider the lessons their competitors are learning.

It's not so different than their being dragged kicking-and-screaming into connected services and then introducing initial offerings that look and function as if none of them had ever even seen the Internet before, let alone used any connected services that had been on offer from the industry.

Also: their games are always slow to materialize. Despite SD resolutions, the Wii was a similar-scale software-wasteland for at least its first year. (or longer - depending on how generous you're feeling)

The only real difference is that its launch titles retained novelty and popularity as more and more people were being first-introduced to waggle-gaming. Now that it's old hat, and every visitor isn't demanding to try it out, no-one's logging a hundred hours on a launch title and the lack of software is more glaring.
I don't think lack of hardware or standards here is the issue. It's still an open question as to whether those same people who buy mobile games would walk around with a controller+phone in their pocket/purse.
So your point is not that police actually do have a duty to protect you, but the legal precedent cited to show this did not do so?
I have to wonder why even bother to argue that point? It strikes me as debating whether the link currently hitting you with a 10gbps DDOS uses optic or electric signal transfer, it doesn't change the facts of the issue at all.

Politics and law are sideshows to the material facts of physical reality, watching people constantly debate the edicts of hopelessly out of touch political figureheads and their bureaucratic lackeys as if it had an effect on fixing the problems they cause constantly mystifies me.
Looks good. I wouldn't mind giving it a spin on osx to be honest :)
Yep, the commoditization (I somewhat hate the term but it fits) of games much like mp3 players before is in full tilt with both ios/android.

I predict mobile gaming is going to get very crowded for them if they stick to just their own hardware and don't go down the path that Sega did.
www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
>We shouldn't engage in wishful thinking either.

Of course not. That's why I refer to staying in school as a "first step" as opposed to a solution.

>But since the unemployment rate for whites with no high school diploma hoovers around 12%... it's actually MUCH better just to be white, than it is to graduate high school.

I'd expect it's even better to be born rich and well-connected. Equality and the distribution of wealth and influence are important topics, but they're the last thing anyone who's actively struggling should be concerned with.

>For blacks, especially males, I think the only way education really helps them in a material fashion, is if they can manage to graduate college.

Both the statistics you provided and my experience disagree with this notion.
Simple stuff need not be
complicated.
If I spent my time on a term like that I'd probably go for copyleft too.
An Unstoppable Climb in C.E.O. Pay
Objc.io Issue 2: Concurrent Programming
Correction: It was an airborne near-360 after the flip up. If the jet had done a 360 on the ground, it wouldn't have stayed together. Still surprising that most passengers survived with minor or no injuries. Sad two young girls died and some received critical or possibly permanent spinal/or and head injuries.
Is there a single major study involving a randomized controlled trial that strongly suggests that long term meditation indubitably aids in a certain function of humans?

For the sake of clarity, a major study is designed like this:

Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of colorectal cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:

The Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, a randomized controlled trial conducted in 48,835 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years recruited between 1993 and 1998 from 40 clinical centers throughout the United States.

Source:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16467233
I always download all of these apps when they are free. Even if I immediately delete the app after downloading, it will always be free for me to re-download with the same Apple ID.
Just came here to say: i3 is really nice. It's too bad he didn't mention it, it's one of the more lightweight WMs in his bar chart.

If you haven't tried it, give it a shot. Was always intrigued by tiling WMs but resisted for far too long because of a vague resistance to learning yet another set of keyboard shortcuts. Seriously though, it's not bad at all.

http://i3wm.org/
Islamic lynch mob waving Al Qaeda banners throw [...]
[...] terrified teenage boy off 20ft ledge before beating him to death.
My belief is that the focus on exits in startups is an American effect in nature - because it matches the VCs business model. Why not just building sustainable businesses and make VCs do with dividends on them? That will be way more beneficial to the economy than building Zynga-style bubbles.
Tonika looks really interesting and relevant to multiple interests of mine - it may be something I'd been looking for some time, actually. Will read up on it (I've seen the particular arXiv paper Tonika design rests on before, but didn't look into it; hmhm.) Thanks for the link!

edit interests / interesting features = message passing, privacy, deniability, etc. Good stuff.
Ask HN - First time in Seattle, would love to meet local HN users
Hi HN,

It's my first time in Seattle, and I'd love to meet some local HN users.

Some information about me: I'm from Vancouver, B.C, Canada (yes, it's quite sad I've never been to Seattle...). Got my first computer 6 years ago, started learning and doing web development some 5 years ago. I co-founded Windows7Center.com and Windows8Center.com back in 2008 (left in 2011), and have had the chance to work with some amazing people both in a big corporate environment and also a(nother) startup in Vancouver.

If you're in the area, and have some time to meet up, I'd love to meet with you. I will be in Seattle until tomorrow afternoon.
Where do you stand on so-called lawful interception, where communications of a specific suspect are monitored after appropriate legal authority has been obtained based on probable cause (or your local equivalent)?
Video: Mind-controlled robot helicopter takes flight
In the late 19th century, many physicists thought they had physics pretty well sewn up, with just a few loose ends. Of course it turns out that those loose ends led to quantum mechanics and relativity, completely revolutionizing the field.

Today it seems that physics has most things pretty well figured out, but there are the loose ends of dark matter and dark energy. We don't know exactly what they are, but they seem to make up almost 95% of the content of the universe! So there might still be a chance for another wholesale revolution or two in physics.
>>>It's amazing how much a country can regress due to bullshit pulled by major powers.

I actually posted a similar article to Reddit about 6 months ago and got a lot of the same reaction. It's amazing what happens to a country when they are in the constant state of war and aggression. Generations of families have been lost and all that is left is apathy. It is incredibly sad and depressing to think about.

Here's the article which is quite eye opening:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...
Maybe the client was female?
I get these sense that the UK has a startup culture, but Silicon Roundabout isn't it.

Several major exchanges (in energy, commodities) are recently ex-startups, and there is an ecosystem of innovative, fast growing companies servicing the city. Because finance is what London does.

Outside Central London, often clustered around universities (Cambridge, Surrey, and the Thames Valley) are interesting non-internet start-ups. Chip design startups, making IP they hope will be acquired by ARM or Qualcom. Startups creating software for the UKs huge, NHS motivated big pharma presence. These are B2B companies that you don't hear about unless you are involved, so I'm sure there are plenty popular niche I'm unaware of.

But Silicon Roundabout, or UK web service companies? I've looked at the companies there, hoping for one that looks interesting enough to grow, interesting enough to join. Nothing caught my eye. Datasift maybe.
The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
The soviet war in Afghanistan was a part of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA, all major powers were heavily involved there.
http://terrorism.about.com/od/warinafghanistan/ss/Afghanista...
YouCompleteMe has an unusually complex installation. These days most vim plugins allow you to simply:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone ....

and you are good to go. YouCompleteMe isn't this nice, and suffers for it I think. The "unzip it to ~/.vim" is usually called "a real pain in the ass to keep up to date and disabled or uninstall."
I2PBote[0]: distributed, p2p, encrypted, anonymous (internal) email. It uses I2P's DHT.

[0] http://i2pbote.i2p.us/ (or http://i2pbote.i2p from inside I2P)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052852 920 days ago
No shit, now read my post again with the knowledge that I already knew that! :)
Tips for Effectively Working from Home
I know what he meant, but duckduckgo is now my homepage, used to be iGoogle, but that's rubbish and tracks. DDG has it's goodies section and is superior in terms of search.
IRS accidentally puts thousands of Social Security Numbers online
9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy – 2013 Edition
> Llovera’s suspected crime? Cockfighting.

Well, he had it coming. Excessive use of police force for sure but I can't feel sorry for the guy, only for the animals harmed before and during the police raid.

Edit for the downvoters: the fact that you're not affected by the suffering of animals, even for the ones that you barbarically eat, says a lot about your degree of civilization.
What about the Phantom Protocol? Is it abandoned? Not feasible? I haven't heard much about it in the past few years:

https://code.google.com/p/phantom/
Startup Management
And then he does, and the media makes a big deal out of it and people cry out "never again", "how did we not see this coming?", "whos accountable?".

Setting them free and closing the illegal prison is the right thing to do. If I was calling the shots I would close it and release them.

BUT:

I just see why they haven't done it yet. It's a quagmire, with extreme consequences. Sure, let a prison full of "suspected terrorists" out into the world, what could go wrong?

How nice would it be to live in a world where we all trust each other and enjoy peace and harmony?
SLA is sort of a red herring here.

If my email goes down, getting a partial or full refund on my $2/month mailbox fee is the least of my concerns.
Either way, I'm afraid that this approach is only going to cost more taxpayer dollars, and not address the real issue.

How about using our technological leverage to educate about the issue instead of waging a war against an enemy that should'nt be one ?
I'm not arguing there will be peace - I'm referring to the Nato war, and I don't think anyone familiar believes it is ending in victory.
Moreover, he believes that individual middle class investors will be able to invest and compete for returns with venture professionals, whose returns as you point out are not even as good as S&P 500 index funds.