skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alan Moore is one of my favorite writers, and I've been considering doing a Kickstarter in the next several months, so I've been watching this Kickstarter with trepidation (after pitching in my own contribution, of course).

If he doesn't reach his funding goal with his crazy imagination and track record of creating great art, what chance do I have? :)
Thanks for your comments. I am the non-obsessed party. I am glad to hear your points of view @drone and @meerita. I am sure my bf feels similarly.
Note the long chain of causality from "studies showing change to the brain" to teaching meditation as a way to improve management.
I use ConEmu + Powershell/Mintty for Vim/Rails development. I don't notice a difference with it vs my OSX or Linux machines. I also use it for working on my linux VPS and have 0 problems

I'm not a bash scripting poweruser though.
Nice! This just made my day. I must have listened to part 1 dozens of times to try and extract every bit of information, and I admit I enjoy hearing his voice. Notice this is still from the June 6th interview; Snowden's proved to be so prescient, especially with regards to the response by the US government. Also, the planning on the Guardian's part is quite commendable.
I'ts weird to say this, but I actually quite like the interface of Windows Vista and up. Xfce and the likes always were enough for me. But there is one tiny little feature I miss. Sortable windows on the taskbar.

I guess one day I have to write my own window manager and taskbar adding to the huge amount of stuff that's already out there.
Ah ok makes sense, thanks!
I have no feeling about meditation one way or another, but "imaging studies showing changes to the brain" does not seem relevant to anything, unless said changes to the brain have a compelling causal link to something.

Having people do something and watching their brains light up is cool, but without taking it much further is hardly evidence of the efficacy of meditation one way or the other.

After all, changes in my skin conductivity do not suggest that I'm being haunted by thetans.
The Myth of the Costless Startup
Precisely. In physics, testing extreme cases and boundary conditions is one of the first ways to get a better understanding of a system. Tangle can be a great tool to empower learners to do this visually.
The NSA has a history of using those best people in the world to improve security of encryption, even when the general public does not understand their improvements at the time.

Now, maybe something has changed since then, but I am fairly confident that is not the case.
Have you tried using a tiling window manager with multiple terminals with different profiles running?
Is it possible to get these adjusted figures anywhere? EG average life-span excluding those that died before the age of (say) five for Romans, Medieval Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa now etc.
1. Many of them were in fact armed combatants. A significant problem in securing the release of GTMO detainees is that they were handled so clumsily that it was difficult to sort out which detainees were victims of circumstance and which were violent. Several people released from GTMO have later been killed or captured in armed conflict with NATO forces.

2. By "allied" he meant "NATO". There are plenty of "black" people in NATO.

3. Afghanistan was in fact a war zone long before 2001. At its most orderly, under the brutal control of the Taliban, it was a loosely organized state embroiled in a civil war destined to produce a breakaway non-Pashto state. Also: the word "disappeared" means something specific, and you dilute that meaning by using it here. The "disappeared" of Central and South America are so named because they're never heard from again; they're often murdered by death squads.

4. Nothing in the Geneva Conventions speaks to the definition of "kidnapping".
Because nobody sent a pull request? Have added it.
> US people don't realize how much US is hated... They are force fed so much propaganda on how US are heroes that go around the world saving people from evil

This strikes me as intellectual arrogance. How do you know what "US people" do or do not realize?
Depression is a very serious issue. I suffer from it as well (for many many years). I think it's important to have outlets and manage it in a healthy way. This is a list in no particular order: Meditation, Acupuncture, Exercise, Medication, Life Coaches, Other Holistic Methods. Different things work for different people. It's important too not to isolate yourself. Try to connect with folks in an honest way even if it's something small. Denying it or presenting a happy face is what we are all taught to do, but honesty will open you up to connections that you need. You won't connect with everyone, but other people are out there. Treat yourself well and take care of yourself. It is a sickness that we have to address, despite what ignorant people might say. Take care of yourself.
Don’t be an asshole
This is very interesting. As an aside: MooTools doesn't get enough love in the JS community. His Live Coding stuff was done with it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJytzcd7Wo)

*it being MooTools and this library
Remorse do not apply when there is deep hate involved.

People are unfortunately capable of great evil, and feeling good about it, when they think they are on the right side.

People can do evil things, and think they are doing good, it is obvious they won't feel remorse, you cannot feel remorse for something that makes you feel like a hero of sorts.
What Happens to the App Economy When Smartphone Penetration Reaches 100%?
Steve and Bill are the founder of the company, aren't they? Also, for companies as big as Apple and Microsoft, they'll be able to find a position for the guy without a degree. The restriction only applies to comparable positions. Steve Jobs not having a degree has nothing to do with me being hired on H-1B as a software engineer.
So you're suggesting we shouldn't be on the look-out for better solutions, because grandma won't use it right away?

That's not how change will come.
And yet people still buy gold plated HDMI cables.
This is already done in a variety of networks for plausible deniability.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ#DoI...

I2P does similar in making every user an internal participant. A network wholly dedicated to pushing redundant/null traffic is not a thing, AFAIK.

Tor, I2P and other networks I'm sure, methods of doing things are more "useful" by providing bandwidth whilst also giving cover traffic.
Smart move in my opinion I've faced some of the same decisions .
"Those nations, organizations, or persons [...] planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks [...] or harbored such organizations or persons" describes an ideology.

The problematic word is "organizations". The most important lesson we should learn from the 2000s is "never allow the word 'organizations' (or any of its synonyms) to appear in an AUMF again". You can invade a nation, you can kill a person, but there's simply no clear definition of what it means to eradicate an organization.
No Sloppy Thinking: A Framework To Achieve Your Goals
Actually the article seems very close to that. The person mentions having only their cell phone and Google Voice. I doubt they work for a large consultancy. You tend to have office managers/assistants/schedulers/etc. after the first 5 people or so if not sooner. It doesn't make sense to waste high paid consultant time on things they can do and calls they can take.
Don't make assumptions on what's business critical and what's not. Not every business has the same level of free capital, circumstances or domain knowledge to handle everything theoretically correctly. There is implicit trust in working with companies like Google; you expect everything to work properly. They don't have to, of course, but when they don't, articles like this chip away at the confidence we all have in Google.
I agree in principle, but I'm not sure the principle is applicable in this context. The FISC does not make any law binding on individuals. The FISC only guides the DOJ and NSA's investigatory discretion. The people charged with following its interpretations are in the DOJ and NSA, and they know what those interpretations are.
I2P has been around since 2003, same time period as Tor's beginnings.

You can read academic review here which may help answer your question: http://www.i2p2.de/papers.html
Get a dog and walk it often. The dog will make you happy, the exercise will make you feel and sleep better, and you will meet other dog owners who are happy to talk to you about -- dogs!

Volunteer your time to help others. I believe the only way to be truly happy is to help others. Try to treat everyone as if they were part of your extended family.

Watch this video at least once a week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMogDrHnMQ
The latter, as far as I take it. That is, each given Kademlia-based system defines a 'close-enough' / neighbourhood constant. If a given result from xor is <= that constant, you have reached your destination. Because obviously, you won't have node IDs actually matching your target (e.g. file) hash (assuming no hash collisions.) So you need a 'proximity' value.

Granted, the whole picture is more complex, and my knowledge is very limited. A node that wants to search for something sends its search query to the neighbour closest to target, which then, as I understand, propagates / rebroadcasts that query to its neighbour which itself is closest to destination. There seems to be some redundancy involved / multiple paths taken, perhaps to ensure that all nodes within that proximity distance are found. (So for example there could be multiple nodes storing the same key (say, file hash), but with different values (different node IDs (for nodes that actually have the file in question.))) I'm being vague though, that's very true..

But as I understand it, as long as the whole graph of nodes is connected, with no orphan sub-graphs forming / detaching (something which may not be trivial to accomplish/ensure), you should be able to get all relevant key->value pairs / reach all relevant nodes in your search. The way the search is concluded in Gnutella (I think) is that each target node responds by connecting to the source/query-issuing node directly (every query carries with it source UDP IP:port (I think)).

edit / P.S.: also, it may be that a given node stores node IDs in its proximity range (the 'close enough' value), but I'm not sure of this; I'm adding this because it may actually help ensure that all nodes / key->value pairs of interest are accounted for, i.e. it's a worthwhile idea anyway.
How does Trello access the user's clipboard?
It's only acceptable to use "she" if the character in question is positive. Using "she" or stock photos depicting females to refer to a negative character is sexist.
Measuring for growth: what SaaS can learn from mobile
Honestly, i could not disagree with you more. Here's why.

Games that can be played on an iphone/android can almost always be played on a 3ds/vita. Games that can be played on a 3ds/vita can almost never be played on an iphone/android. Is the mobile phone market exploding? Absolutely, but that doesnt mean its taking away from the mobile console market. Frankly it never will. They are two different mediums, there is some overlap, but very little.

This mainly comes down to controls. Because phones are primarily limited to touch screens, so is the kind of games you can effectively play on them.

Phones are great for casual games, but move to anything that require even the smallest amount of control and they start failing bad.
Advice from experience: Get professional help as quickly as you can.

Sadly I've had more than one friend die from suicide, and in one case my friend assumed that he wasn't troubled enough to really need help — which is what did him in.

Suicidal thoughts are much more of "red alert" situation than episodes of depression or feeling isolated.

I don't know where you are, but in the US you can always call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255
Acquisitions are often seen as a route to value destruction in the UK - that's received wisdom and I suspect it will take a lot for startups to challenge the thinking.
The second and third issues are serious. I read the first issue, being indecisive, as a cry for help from client to professional. After the first scope change on the first day, I'd do my professional duty and inquire if they might want to engage me to determine what they really needed, at 10% or whatever of the estimated project cost. In fact, wouldn't this have been obvious from discussions with the client before the freelancer's bid was accepted? If we abdicate our responsibility to guide the customer to make good choices using our skills and experience, then we often get indecisive clients. Otherwise we are reduced to glorified order takers. For example, if we got the RFP specs and are chatting with the client as we prepared our response, it is perfectly valid to ask them how they arrived at these requirements. If they tell us that they had engaged a brand consultant who laid out a multistep plan that they were now executing on, that is one thing. If they tell us that they decided to issue the RFP on the drive into work this morning, that's another. Is it that hard to detect that major scope changes are in the offing before submitting a proposal?
this is inspired! I like it.
Jeri Ellsworth on her struggles with Valve's "flat" management structure
Or /dev/zero, much faster.
Ive been thinking about this and how to implement it, my conclusion was that NSA has the resources to filter out noise, especially seemingly random communication, as they already possess the social graph and have pretty good idea of who talks to whom and when. If suddenly a browser extension or app started sending "noise", to whom will it send it? A network? Where to get the list of IPs to spam? Just randomly? Just randomly is detectable! Thats easily filtered out - just exclude the network from the important data they tap. What if you randomly send a bunch of cat pictures and random noise to people of your contact list? This is called spam and receiving such, is not nice, as we can filter it on the receiving end, so can NSA filter it from their important calculations. But then you might think, lets send noise randomly and in the random noise let us communicate... meh, basically what a "P2P noise network" would do is increase the hassle and usability of computing systems for everyone involved but wouldnt really offer privacy for us.

When you kind of begin to make it less random, then you basically introduce plausible deniability and onions and begin solving problems that people are already working on and who need your help there more than "p2p noise network", then youre back to "lets make a good usable p2p anonymous/deniable communication system that can withstand NSA as advesary".

Still, it is an interesting idea, how to flood NSAs/FRA/GHCQs systems? Can we make a browser extension thats easy to use that would randomly GET pages from your history while you are actually away from computer - generating false content and increasing bandwidth usage, or a configurable spider to follow links/pages or even friends streams of choice? Would you use spammers techniques of markov chains to post random crap on open systems? Meh, thats still just an inconvenience for NSA.

What seems to be really important is who talks to who then how do you get in contact with strangers on the internet without NSA knowing? How would you know the stranger youre talking to isnt a cover agent?
That's great - I love worthy and proper competition combatting nonchalant/tyrant attitude of incumbent giants. It is so annoying to deal with customer service reps that act like they are your boss and you're inconveniencing them through your questions. The stronger the company, the more of those reps you'll get.

Thanks for posting this!
So protection from radioactive rabbits? :-)
Yeah, my 22" monitor is 1680x1050 - which http://isthisretina.com/ tells me is retina at 38".

As it happens, I'm sitting about 26" from it - so I need about 50% more pixel depth. Even then, that only makes it 50% of 4K resolution.

A 4k screen at 22" is a retina display at 17". That doesn't sound comfortable - although I haven't played with an Oculus Rift yet...
Enemy combatants do not have habeas corpus rights and never have. When Allied forces captured German soldiers in World War II, they were not required to present them to a judge and those soldiers weren't sentenced; they were held until the conflict ended. If Allied forces accidentally rounded up German civilians in the process, those civilians could also expect indefinite detention.

In a world historical sense, such treatment is a mercy; in total war, the only alternative, of course, is to kill the detainees.

GTMO represents a great moral failing of the United States, but let's also not forget that the USG is the lesser of two culpable parties; the greater responsibility lies with an irregular army that deliberately exploits its civilian host population to conceal itself, relying on the fact that retaliation will inevitably harm more innocents than fighters. The Taliban isn't the Viet Cong. The cause of the Taliban and "Al Qaeda" (whatever that means) is a lost one, fueled entirely by an obscene willingness to see thousands of innocent people murdered solely prolong the inevitable.
The control tower of an airport is not like a home office. You can't just put things anywhere and run extention cords to power devices.
How Many Federal Laws Are There?
Hear hear. If you are a good cop in a precinct and you do not arrest the bad cops in that precinct, your precinct contains no good cops.
You keep track of a few folks at different distances from yourself, and route packets to the folks one knows which are closest to the ultimate destination (or ask them whom they know closest to that destination).

So rather than asking everyone you know, who ask everyone they know, who ask everyone they know, you're asking a subset, who ask a subset, who ask a subset.
The good news is, Switzerland is a democracy that works really well. So just vote against that new crap law.
Any cryptographic application could be vulnerable and not "hold up". It is wrong and dangerous to suggest that any program or tool is absolute. A court case in Germany not long ago involving RetroShare and its f2f nature did not end well[0].

[0] http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-file-sharing-ruled-illegal...
I looked at the video again and again, and ironically, if the jet had done a 360 on the ground it would have broken into pieces, but this jet did a airborne near-360 after the wingtip dug in and the jet became airborne again for an instant.
cloc can answer the question definitively:

$ cloc sqlite3.c
1 text file.
1 unique file.
0 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.58 T=2.0 s (0.5 files/s, 70228.0 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
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C 1 9585 46745 84126
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$ cloc unqlite.c
1 text file.
1 unique file.
0 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.58 T=0.5 s (2.0 files/s, 119944.0 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C 1 314 18670 40988
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SQLite seems to have more verbose comments, but still has more than 2x the lines of code. If you want to build both on the same platform and compare binary size, be my guest.
I'm sorry, but being bought out as your only goal is not a business plan. I work in VFX so I see lots of startup companies.

They start up to make a profit, not tread water until they are bought by a bigger company.

The majority of the inhabitants of "silicon roundabout" are carbon copies of whats been before. whats more the service they provide is usually free. So there is no hope of long term success without a buyout.

In short, the very definition of a startup is unsustainable.
Afghanistan's troubles, sadly, predate the Soviets by quite a wide margin. The USSR was just one more interloper in a long line of interlopers. They weren't the first, and clearly they weren't the last.

A good book on this subject is "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East" by Robert Fisk. Agree or disagree with his stance (particularly re: Israel), but his understanding of the history and context of the Middle East cannot be ignored.

tl;dr summary: Before the Soviets Afghanistan was played as a border state by the British, seeking to use it as a buffer state to protect India against perceived Russian aggression.
Snowden: I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things
I just returned. The contrast in culture is striking - flying overhead in a sophisticated aircraft watching farmers till land by hand outside mud huts in remote villages - living life as they have for a millennium. Afghans are resilient - Nato will leave, the war will fade, and they will choose their destiny.
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60 years? The Brits and Russians have been using Afghanistan as the world's most explosive football since the early 19th century. It was a key battleground in the "Great Game" of espionage between those two nations. Britain was afraid the Russians would try to take India from them and the Russians wanted control of Central Asia.

The Great Game ran up to World War I and can be seen as a precursor to the Cold War. I recommend Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game" for a more in-depth perspective on the topic.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Game-Struggle-Kodansha/dp/15...
That seems to be a de-facto-standard away from being solved though. Someone, or some collection of someones, are going to hit on a controller and/or case and/or variant device that establishes some set of inputs that clicks with the market. [1]

And developers will design for said standard and that will be that.

That seems much easier (if not entirely inevitable) than Nintendo discovering some way to halt and/or reverse the trend away from dedicated gaming devices.

[1] a standard along the lines of the modern console: "dual analog sticks, d-pad, shoulder buttons, four face buttons"; or stand-up arcade fighter's: "analog stick + 6 buttons", etc. It doesn't have to be one-true-piece of hardware, just a general arrangement of inputs that developers can design for.