skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's a huge difference between tail-waggingly complying with a government request, and fighting back with every method available until you are defeated.

But submitting oneself the court system of the state to overturn the the secret rule of the state, on face value, looks like an exercise in futility…

And like I said below, being rewarded a golden star from the EFF to stick upon Marrissa's Fridge while remaining complicit and receive praise from those in the tech community for "trying", is quite amusing to watch. They could have been much more effective publicly denouncing such secret order and face the ramifications as a multinational corporation… you know, like HSBC's slap on the wrist for laundering drug money that the state says is always going to the terrorists.

>In a society governed by laws, and enforced with guns, you don't have a choice about complying with laws, unless you want to be hauled off and put in a dank cell (some admirable dissidents do that, but nobody should expect that level of commitment from their email provider).

Or you pull a snowden and watch the global state trip all over its own laws and the sovereignty of other nations to try and catch you.
We don't need to change the constitution. We need to insist that the 4th amendment be honored immediately. We are not at war.

There must be a full, open Congressional investigation (like Church) which pries open the so-called secret interpretation of the law (an idea which is utterly anti-American). We must subsequently have an informed discussion about how to do what needs doing to for real (not fear-driven) protection of citizens, while reversing the invasion of privacy clearly forbidden by the 4th, restoring explicit warrants backed by clear and unambiguous evidence.

This is a time to form a hard, hard line. If we do not at this time, then we should expect further dismantling of the Constitutional rights that millions of Americans have fought and lost their limbs for. I do not usually talk like this, but this is an extraordinary and dangerous time in our nation's history, one ripe for further abuse. Our Congresspeople need to recognize that their jobs are unquestionably on the line if they don't fix this situation.
Hey HN team would love your feedback; any & all welcome.

Built this to solve a capacity issue in a small team w/in a F100 company. People didn't hate it, which ends up one of the biggest compliments project collaboration software can earn. It's a niche within a niche in a some ways, but I got perm to put it online for others to use.

AngularJS, Django15, RabbitMQ, lots more.

I need to fix the upload limit but for now it's basically XML edition MPP files < 1Mb if memory serves.
Really cool.

Also possibly of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto

I had no idea Pluto (not a planet) had five moons.
The image in the NYT piece doesn't appear in the original article, you can read the whole thing here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
The striking gender differences in our texting habits
Funny how HN does not give a fuck about compilation!
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The Efficient Market Hypothesis is actually a family of hypotheses. Folk usually pick the strong EMH because it's easiest to transform into a strawman and beat about the head and neck.

One of the bloggers I host gave a very good explanation of what the EMH is and what it actually implies: http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2013/05/29/bubble-trouble-all-in...

Having particular bearing on the Horowitz post is this remark:

Commentary often seems to presume that EMH,
or notions of market rationality generally,
provide some implicit or explicit guarantee
that current prices will be sustained, which
is false. No guarantee against asset price
volatility follows from either.
"I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. It sounds like a comforting love song. I didn't realize at the time how sinister it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control." —Sting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take#Origins_a...
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Likely a coincidence, but I'm a little bummed they didn't mention it if they knew it was coming. ;)
> Isn’t it pathetic that so many allegedly-mainstream languages don’t have HTTP libraries that are this natural and idiomatic?

That's after 13 SLoC to make a single HTTP request - I like Go, but that seems almost like a parody. It's not that different from other languages, and the error handling makes it look longer, but for something described as "natural and idiomatic" I would expect it to be one function call plus one failure test, not six and three...
> right now the evidence points towards Yahoo doing that better than most

I see your point. Still, Yahoo may be just the first to win the right to disclose. Similar decisions may follow towards Google and MS, for example, and -- oh horror -- HN.
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For those who wish to Master the Machine....
We're supposed to have RIOTS all over the world by now. And people do what?

Discuss how one NSA partner company is less evil than the others.

We are f#cked.
Medium: The YouTube of Articles?
Ya, I just resized expecting to see the mobile site "pop" in but it's a whole 'nother app!
I really hope not. I love sugar. It's also the only stimulant I can mete out in small doses that will keep me going without obliterating my concentration, as caffeine tends to do (disclaimer: I haven't tried cocaine).
Most of your changes could be explained just by calories. Beer is quite high calorie since it has so many carbs, and eating nuts satiates you faster so you end up eating less.

Alcohol itself doesn't affect weight much, though IIRC fat isn't metabolized well together with it. But it can improve your lifespan: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9481115
Hey Emerson!

It's really cool what you're doing. I'm a 15 year old myself and I'm in a similar situation as you. Shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'd love to chat with you.
read

http://anthonycolpo.com/the-whole-grain-scam/

it's very thoroughly researched and sourced
This line...

> Considering that our cells depend on sugar for energy,

Is dishonest. In general parlance "sugar" refers to sucrose. Sucrose is a glucose bonded to a fructose.

Our bodies need glucose to live.

However they do not need fructose.
Man. Sugar is the worst. Take it from me. I moved to the city the moment I turned 18, I didn't know much about cooking. Back in the 'burbs you'd be lucky to live within 10km of a grocery store. Downtown however, totally different story. I went NUTS with sweets and pizza.

I gained over 100 lbs in just under half a year. I was eating around 10k calories a day.

I then stuck to only these foods and have only been eating this the past couple years:

chicken

lean beef

kale + other greens

various fruit

cheese

That's it. No seasoning, nothing. I'm so much happier now. Better sleeps, better mood, better everything. My mood and days fluctuated like crazy when I didn't keep track of my diet.

I'd love to hear some opinions on the following talk from fellow HNers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I hope you're right, I may have to reconsider. But honestly I love a good comeback story and have been rooting for Yahoo since Mayer took over.
I did something similar during my semester in France. Stopped eating all bread and processed carbs. Vegetables, fruit and meat plus Greek yogurt. I didn't cut out alcohol though, nor was my weight loss as drastic as yours.

Lost about thirty pounds over four months (which was terrific, my girlfriend of four years dumped me the night I flew home so at least I was ready for singles' life).

I won't go so far as to call sugar "toxic" but I know that cutting it out has made me much, much healthier.

Also, I had a blood test a few weeks ago. My doctor actually wrote "outstanding" on my cholesterol report.
http://www.lynetteabel.org/L-ABEL-Seminar-Appreciate.htm

Eli Siegel explains in his great essay "The Serious Aspect of Snobbery":
Snobbery is the unwillingness to like something, unless at the same time it
makes one feel more important;...
[It] is the inability or lack of desire to appreciate justly.
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>So instead of banning surveillance, which would be futile, it'll be much more practical to call for transparency, so the power generated by surveillance data is not concentrated to the select few.

Transparency is necessary but not sufficient.

Being able to see the government taking bad risks doesn't cut it if we can't actually stop them. And the problem is that it's not just the government and it's not just our government. You can't just come up with some restrictions on the FBI or the NSA (good luck with that anyway, and good luck enforcing it) while you ignore what China or large corporations might be doing.

Part of the answer to surveillance technology has to be anti-surveillance technology.

And I think one of the big things we need to push for is: We need more bandwidth. We need a national push for gigabit fiber to the home.

Copious transmission capacity attacks vulnerability to surveillance in two ways:

The first is that it reduces the practicality of storing all the data, by increasing the volume of data by an order of magnitude or more. We can price the spies out of the market.

The second is that it facilitates anti-surveillance technology. Tor is slow because it's bandwidth starved. Most people have piss-poor uplinks which are a factor of ten or more slower than their downlinks, which becomes the bottleneck if those users were to operate a relay. We need to solve the bandwidth shortage to make widespread use of that sort of technology practical.
Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old
+1, imagining the scoring algorithm you mention would even rank higher than the posting of that comment!
Which BSD has that? I don't seem to find it in my FreeBSD installs.
You forgot to add 1 to dt.getMonth(), because months index 0-11 :)

(and be careful not to accidentally concatenate that 1 instead of add)
91 Wireless -> $1.9B
I wish they had named it 99 Wireless? :)
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I agree, manure, but I was just wondering right now, as a mostly-full-time, several-devices, FF user, if the Firefox Sync servers (with our bookmarks, passwords, tab history, etc) are also being NSAfied, or if there's any reason why they should be free from the bullying...
Experiencing a networking error is different than receiving Status 200 (or any other error status), which is different than getting a media-type different than "application/json". Personally, I don't see what would be gained by combining them all together in a library, except confusion. A lot of libraries do get this wrong and make it difficult to disentangle what is going on.

If you feel like golang needs one method to do all the above, feel free to write one and post it to the mailing list... I doubt that it does, but feel free.
hey guys - CEO of the company here (Waterforward was made by my team at The Monkey Inferno here in SF).

Thanks for the feedback, hopefully we'll be able to improve the site. It's an awesome cause, and I'd love to see this raise money and awareness for them.

Here's a bit of background info:

We made the site, because we've been supporters of charity:water for years. They have a wonderful story, and are a top notch non-profit (they give 100% of donations to the cause...even going so far as to reimburse credit card fees).

One challenge they face is finding ways to scale. The vast majority of donations come in through the web, but those are from supporters they create in offline events. We wanted to find a way to grow their base of supporters, by telling their story simply and elegantly (that's the plan at least). Put more simply, we wanted to "make charity go viral". They have raised over $95M in the past 5 years, but they are trying to tackle a $1B problem here, so we did our best to scale their efforts. We normally work on for-profit ventures (www.monkeyinferno.com), so this was a unique challenge.

Attempt #1 took a year, and ultimately failed. (too complicated, viral coefficient = 0.7)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/michael-birchs-waterforward...

Attempt #2 is the product you see now at waterforward.org

30+ iterations in 30 days, trying to make this slide-show story concept work. We just went viral overseas (4M shares so far), but unfortunately haven't raised a ton of money. Biggest problem is that we are super viral in India, but can't process Indian Rupees.

Anyway - thanks for the constructive feedback. We'll work out some of the UX issues over time, but for now, we appreciate the general support.

-Shaan
@shaanvp
this might not be what you are describing, but it sounds like exposure therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
Instagram, Vine, Twitter, and the like were not written on phones. You're just deliberately misconstruing their point.
OpenOffice isn't the OpenOffice you used to know (just a fork of LibreOffice with Oracle's TMed name). If I recall, Oracle just handed it off to the Apache Foundation after losing developer support and being dropped by prominent linux distros. Oracle called LibreOffice a fork, but that is nonsense since it is the original maintainers and code with only a new name. I'm actually curious why Apache Foundation took on OpenOffice following Oracle's misteps and what the rationale is for its existence alongside LibreOffice. (There is one, right?) To be fair, I haven't used them side by side or followed OpenOffice since the Oracle debacle.

TL;DR: Oracle forked OpenOffice and kept the name. Long live LibreOffice!

In other news, LibreOffice 4 has been released: https://www.libreoffice.org
Cool Zach i'll make sure to shoot you an email. It's nice to hear that other 15 year olds are doing the same thing that I am doing.
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For general computing purpose (e.g. HTPC + bittorrent + samba), there are always something missing with these small ARM computers. I am holding on to my AMD E-350, especially with the rapid improvement in the radeon driver lately.

Gigabyte Brix with AMD Kabini is going to be interesting, and possibly very competitive in pricing without sacrificing performance:

http://liliputing.com/2013/06/gigabyte-brix-mini-computer-to...
So it is a competitor of Exec, Taskrabbit, and Lyft, but what does it do differently or better besides just being another cleaning service?
A great read on this same topic:
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/is-sugar-toxic

"What I find frustrating about this debate is that most people yelling and screaming don’t fully define the terms, perhaps because they don’t appreciate them (forgivable) or because they are trying to mislead others (unforgiveable). The wrong question is being asked. “Is sugar toxic?” is a silly question. Why? Because it lacks context. Is water toxic? Is oxygen toxic? These are equally silly questions, I hope you’ll appreciate. Both oxygen and water are essential for life (sugar, by the way, is not). But both oxygen and water are toxic – yes, lethal – at high enough doses."
(a) They usually said something like "see you later, nice talking to you" :)

(b) I actually had the idea during the school year but i've definitely been thinking about homework a lot more this summer.
I read about some research* regarding ego depletion and its relationship to blood glucose levels that was pretty interesting. Basically, they did a study with two groups of people. Both were asked to do some challenging problems requiring concentration, then both were given lemonade. One group's lemonade was sweetened with glucose, and the other with some artificial sweetener. The two groups were then asked to do more challenging problems. I can't recall the actual numbers, but the group that had glucose in their lemonade did significantly better on the second round than the other group, and the two groups were about the same on the first round.

The implication was that the brain uses glucose in its operation, and requires a certain level of glucose to function at full capacity. At least one cause of the brain fog we get after a full day's focused work is that we're low on fuel, which happens to be easy to fix. Unfortunately, it has other effects too that we might not want so much. I've been meaning to experiment on myself a bit with some glucose tabs after a long day of code, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

(*) I think that was in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" but I'm not certain now, too many similar books in between.
While I don't represent charity:water, I wanted to include the charity navigator rating:

Full 4 star rating
Financial: 66.22 / 70
Accountability & Transparent: 70/70
Overall Rating: 67.3 / 70

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
Sounds like me as well. My 20s really sucked. Most of my friends were dating and travelling, but I had too much anxiety to do either. I lived an hour from a big city, but had too much anxiety on the freeways to go there. Most of my friends were always going to the city to museums, concerts, and to have a good time. My panic attacks on the freeways and around members of the opposite sex were rough, I see my 20s as the Dark Ages. Cutting my caffeine intake over half helped out a lot.
Does anybody actually use this? Why?
How valuable is a Computer Science degree?
Probably as much as google did for search back in the day.
It's sad that this is our best chance for changing US policy at this point, but I'll take it. I would have hoped that the ideals of freedom were something that the American people embraced for their own sake, but you play the hand you're dealt.
I've actually found that there's a setting (in Mouse, I think?) about projectors and pixels that seems to alleviate this.
Get with the programming
This test is flawed, as it doesn't have a "neutral group" - a group that had neither sugar nor artificial sweetener. How can they conclude that the sugar made people do better, rather than the artificial sweetener making people do worse?
Even with the ability to CRUD files from the browser I don't think github would fit non dev audience with well. Most normal people use word processor or a spreadsheet program, those files aren't well suited for git and you can't edit them on github
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how many times have you read this about AI (quoting from the story now):

Basically, it's difficult to program common sense because scientists haven't yet figured out how to give systems knowledge about things that humans find obvious, like the fact that ice feels cold.

"All of us know a huge number of things," said Sloan.
The time the US gave asylum to a guy who leaked classified documents
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Honestly, yeah.. deploying to Heroku is ridiculously simple for simple apps, and from the sounds of it I would expect that you don't have a hundred moving pieces in it yet (and may never). Deploying to something else, like AWS, is more involved but still it's most likely not going to be much different in the end than it is in the beginning.
You're arguing that Rumsfeld was incompetent? I'd say he's among the most competent executives ever to deliver to his superiors exactly what they wanted.

Without hindsight bias, and considering that selling a cheap war was critical to getting buy-in from congress, Rumsfeld architected a great plan.

I'd argue that Rumsfeld is an incredible intellect and expert tactician who made zero mistakes.
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I've even heard a university nutritionist make the claim that sugar is just glucose. Some days I feel stupid; others, I feel other people are more stupid.
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Yes sugar is toxic because of the metabolic by-products of fructose, which is similar to the by-products of alcohol. Both are known to make freshmen put on weight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I used JS because it was the only option. I'm using it now because it's beautiful and fun.
The third decade of Linux development.
this slideshow doesn't complain about JS, it's giving you suggestions on how to use it well.
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Just going through the same thing with my wife and 2 kids. We thought California might be good for a lifestyle change, but I'm not sure of the valley is the place.

My employer has offices in Sunnyvale and Costs Mesa. But I'm finding the real estate a little crazy.
Yes, that was my point (except it wasn't just XP– hinting was/is a PITA on any platform). These days we still have to make them look as good as possible on both, but if you're also targeting printed media then you're already set when high PPI displays are the norm.
Ironically, if they hadn't we'd probably be using something much nicer by now. Closures are one of those couple features that made idioms for sane JS programming possible.
> This code was probably generated.

The code generator is included in the repo: src/code-gen.rb
I agree. Time to take a look at Yahoo and Firefox. Been years.
Actually he thought the opposite, that said user was switching to Yahoo! because they banned remote-working on the basis that said user does not approve of remote-working.

But it is confusing.
FWIW, it's not entirely default bootstrap - that's the simplex theme, I think. Hrm... no ref to that in the source, and maybe it's been changed since your post. it's 99% default, but looks good enough to get rolling with. I used the 'flatly' theme for http://appliedto.com, which was 'default bootstrap but a free theme' and it's been fine for the people I've showed it to so far, but may eventually spruce things up a bit more.
C, custom drivers.

For storage, PostgreSQL and some custom stuff, also playing with Cassandra. If a web interface is required, SpringMVC - it's not cool but works.
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It is a fact that I don't know much about this stuff. Just what I gather from mostly public sources.
Didn't Weebly raise a Series A with Sequoia?
They list them as a portfolio Company at least! http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/home/weebly/info
I agree, but I definitely see the grandparent's point. These slide decks are annoying as hell. They're inconvenient for quoting, reading on-the-go, and they can leave out a whole lot of context. This is a trend that really needs to go.
"data science"... seriously?
Even if you disagree with him (and to some extent I do), Brin was quite prescient on this topic. _The Transparent Society_ [1] anticipated most of this debate, 15 years ago, and it is well worth [re-]reading.

[1] http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html
really, a 4-year-old? I thought even a cat wasn't possible yet (I remember a story about someone failing to make one as good as a cat). That's impressive, then.
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