skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"once I have spare money and time"

I've been telling myself that for decades and never quite had both at the same time. Often a great excess of one or the other. By the time I finally have both, I'll probably fail my medical with my luck. I did do ground school + a bit more on my own, and I've got a couple hours in the air with an instructor. I do some semi-serious sim flying for fun, mostly the X-Plane. If I ever get serious I'll already be pretty good at navigation, flight planning, reading approach plates, E6B use, METAR decoding, NOTAM decoding, etc.

There's a remarkable number of free electronic E6B apps for most phones. And some paid ones that are marginally better. I find my tablet to be quite helpful when "flying" although I also use old fashioned mechanical E6B... Figure $10 for a paper one that'll last "awhile" and $30 for a lifetime metal one.

The frontier of flight sims right now is no one does NOTAM simulation. Why not shut down some ground stuff occasionally, just like you can shut down aircraft systems and screw around with weather? It may be there's a sim out there that does this that I don't know about.
Probably because Stallman is not attractive enough, or some similarly idiotic reason.
How to choose a photo for blog posts that will pop on social media
Kind of neat, but very slow. On my laptop, it uses 8% CPU just to show the shell, and 15% to run top.
Yes, if you go into detail, all people are different. But overall, most people aren't, at least not in a way that matters.

That reminded me of this:

"I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves. Indeed every man, in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions."

-- William Ellery Channing
Ask HN: Law to protect whistleblowers
The government says whistleblowing is a crime. The people say, protecting whistleblowers is protecting freedom.

For that reason wouldn't it make sense for the people to demand a bill to make whistleblowing constitutional?
The middle-class needs a positive savings rate before anything like the article suggests can help.
The same stood out to me. Perhaps to the overburdeningly belaboured English aristocracy, who are of course dynastically engaged in ineffectually flippant finger-twiddling, promoting any potential dalliance of discourse toward a careful coffee from the everpresent 'English' tea is their way of implying the ... goodness! ... gravity of the situation.
NimbusVid: Stream encrypted video from the cloud in the browser (Chrome only)
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The title appears to be a bit misleading. This isn't a mod for Apple TV, unfortunately, and requires other hardware.
This is a common issue with many hardware peripheral devices, but if your desktop computer contained some sort of hardware-level or OS-level backdoor, there would be a massive uproar.

I think either Snowden is incorrect in what he's talking about, or the NSA is doing something rather devious like hijacking the Windows update process or some other automated task to install malware, which they could only do with heavy cooperation from Microsoft. This would be rather risky though as it could certainly be detected.
Yea, although you can install it on other smart TV's
I recommend putting it up on http://transifex.com for translation, we use that for ownCloud too. There’s a command-line tool to update strings and to import new translations, and Transifex is open source as well.
The story of building this app is interesting. I discovered the premortems technique the weekend before last, and challenged myself to build an entire app in 3 days with a full infrastructure (monitoring, customer service, marketing plan).
Recently read a headline I could not believe was not from The Onion: "Guantanamo Bay Prisoners force fed at night during Ramadan"
I'm not sure whether you are trying to learn to program in general or Python in particular, but you might try out something like ["Design of Computer Programs"](https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212) from Udacity. It's very engaging, somewhat difficult but you'll learn a lot.

Another thing you might try is taking a book with examples in one language and try to implement them in Python. It's a little weird but it can be a great way to have a framework for a task but have to explore on your own.
US Opposes ACLU at FISA Court
Another big reason for piloted planes is, seriously now, who here would get on a plane knowing that it was being flown without a pilot.

If it's hard for most of us from varying technological backgrounds to say yes than it's going to be almost impossible to convince the more mature passengers.

This is one of the reasons why all planes look the same (they have the same configuration, low wing with engine below wing) even tho Airbus and Boeing keep churning out concepts. Would you get on a plane that looked even slightly funky?
I'm not a fan of these tactics at all as a developer or a consumer. The simplest way I've found to avoid these games is to cross reference the "Top Free" and "Highest Grossing" lists on the play store.
> ... I have to open a file-browser window to get it to mount USB pendrives.

Navigate to Applications Menu -> Settings -> Removable Drives and Media; tick checkboxes for "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" and "Mount removable media when inserted" (and, optionally, "Browse removable media when inserted"). Problem solved?
Sweet, I've not come across that before. I'll sort out an account on there this evening as it looks really neat. Thanks!
Firefox does not yet support the functionality needed to make this work but it is being implemented.
I've been using Rackspace mail for a few years now, flawless service and shockingly good customer support - helpful, competent people available instantly, cannot recommend enough. Given our email accounts our the skeleton keys of our digital lives relying on a free service, or even a paid service where support is something the company sees as a numbers game seems madness.

My only gripe is the lack of support for two-factor authentication, apparently this is under development currently.
If he leaves out that data specifically then he'd being doing a great injustice to those countries.
This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
Rethinking Breaking News
"largely believed" I agree with. That's not what the interview says. It states very matter-of-factly that we DID, which is different. My question is how we would have been in a position to know this for certain.
Intelligence probably led to a lot of that wealth being created, as well as the desire to protect it from those who have no legitimate claim over it. There is indeed selfishness at work here. There is the selfishness of those who don't want their wealth to be confiscated. There is also the selfishness of those who want to take the wealth of others.
It's horrifying. Might as well force-feed them pork.

And the US knows that this is illegal, too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/05/forcefee...
So true. My Facebook feed will contain no less than a dozen 2nd amendment related posts at any given point in time, but nary a peep about the 4th.

If you want to see action on this front, someone needs to educate the NRA that metadata provides the government much more information than any gun registration database ever could.
>>Hey, just because I don't have a kid, doesn't mean I shouldn't get time off - why punish me for that. Not fair.

I think the main message we can learn from this comment (which I think is mostly written in jest in playing devil's advocate) is: You worry about you, and only you. Yeah, maybe it's annoying that smokers can take a break every few hours to go hang out outside, and you get "punished" for not being a smoker. Everyone's situation is different. Mind your own god damn business.
Well you know, we all make mistakes.

There is nobody who likes to be woken by a dawn-raid!

Old-school hackers still like proper handles rather than random strings for usernames, even for one time posts.

The devil is in the details.
Now if only it could download subtitles from subscene...
I'm a sucker for this but not for games but for music on bandcamp. The "Pay as much or as little as you like" gets me paying more than I'd pay elsewhere every time.
Design Trend: Long Shadows (Flat) - Examples
A new trend is making its way through cyberspace – long shadow design. The concept, which borrows themes from flat design, is popping up in a big way in recent weeks.
Why not forward from Rackspace, that's what I do.
There's already other versions of RapGenius for Rock/Poetry/News, so why not a CodeGenius.

Having this kind of commenting mechanism on Github would be fantastic.
Guantanamo Bay is one of the most disgusting institutions in the "civilized world". How is this acceptable? Treating humans as garbage, no trial, just meat stored for torture.

Every day this piece of shit prison is open is a god damn disgrace for the entire human race.
In tmux, you can have multiple panes inside of the same terminal window. Apple's Terminal lets you change the font, but as far as I know, there isn't support for multiple font sizes inside of the same terminal window.
One word: e-shell

Does everything FinalTerm does, and probably more (and can be driver with the keyboard only).

Funny thing, I don't like e-shell. I rarely, if ever, have to interact with the output of the previous command.

For command re-editing, most shells (zsh, bash) offer very powerful completition/editing capabilities that probably FinalTerm cannot match.

Admittedly, I sometimes (but rarely) have to use the output of the previous command. The problem is, if it's an url, you probably just want to click it/copy it, and then pretty much all terminals can do this already.

If I want to process the output of the command, I just re-execute it in a pipeline. Just compare the number of keystrokes to go up ~10 lines and the time to type !! (or up-arrow) | grep 'something'. Heck, even copying the output to the clipboard is faster by using a pipe: cmd | xsel

Reflowing is also something many terminals do nowdays. I personally use urxvt because it's the fastest terminal I could test, and actually supports fallback fontsets. VTE-based terminals (even the ones that pretend to be small and fast) are 5-6 orders of magnitude slower at redrawing. e-shell, by comparison, is a dog due to the much more complex display.
Stop telling me to go to college
the real crime here is that the gui elements don't have the same style as the cli elements - they stand out like a sore thumb

but it would be sweet (more for my folks than for me, but still) if you could click on a filename in a terminal to open it, or drag from one directory listing to another to move it
But, you know, you're priviledged here because you're a guy. For a woman it's not the best idea biologically to start having kids at 40.
Killed it for 6 hours... not convenient, but probably shouldn't make big IT changes during business hours and without warning staff. Our company's move from GApps to Office365 + Outlook has been much more systemically affecting...
While flat design done right is good design, especially on the web, I find clients immediately think the work looks "cheap," "unfinished," and "missing life." Seems like many clients still want wood grain and candy buttons. I like this shadow effect, it adds a little more to the design so, perhaps, clients may feel like they are getting more for their dollar if they get those drop shadows that "pop." Wow I sound jaded right now. But I'm not :)

I believe flat design is a solid trend (any design trend with roots in Swiss design are good, especially when organizing content), however these shadow effects are more of a fad that should be used sparingly.
I really like the design of this site.
Google Doodle of Roswell anniversary is a point-and-click adventure
In the United States, rules about call recording vary a lot from state to state. Definitely check your local laws...
> ... with close to a billion people watching, the impact would have been enormous.

So what? A billion people might get bored for five minutes and go on a planet destroying rampage? More a reflection of the myopic TV world, where a black screen is a cardinal sin, than any real problem. There would have been no safety issue, since the stadium would certainly have had battery backed emergency lights and exit signs, so the people inside would not have been in pitch black.

It's worth noting that the moving cauldron got jammed for several minutes in Sydney's opening ceremony, in 2000, and the world didn't end. In fact, it was one of the best bits of the telecast, watching the guys underneath furiously belting it with sledge hammers, in an effort to get it moving.
Completely agree with you there. I think in the right place it can give a different perspective. One of the above graphics looks like you're looking down onto a monument so to that degree it could be used but I know I wouldn't even get away with 'flat design' with most of my clients as they would say a 5-year-old had done it and it wasn't worth the price tag.

As with most things design it's about getting the appropriateness of technique to task.
I struggle to believe that GCHQ has the ability to store 3 or even 30 days worth of internet traffic flowing through the UK borders and also make reasonable sense of it all. It's such a mind boggling amount of data. I looked at some bandwidth graphs from places like LINX, which is just one of presumably many, and they are moving around a terrabyte a second - how can you possibly store, let alone sift through that kind of volume? 30 days at a terrabyte a second is nearly 3,000 petabytes of data. And that's just in one exchange. Is this kind of thing feasible? Facebook allegedly deals with 200PB of photo data - 3000PB is a lot more than that.
Torrent streaming is nothing new, but this is a great implementation.
Martyr myth: Suicide bombers are really suicidal and exhibit signs of depression
Ask HN: Has anyone got a good example of sucessful document management?
Hi guys,

I work for a team in a corporate and our documents are increasing steadily. It's very hard to find anything and we need to put a good system in place whereby documents are readily available, easy to save, easy to share, easy to reference. Just wondered if anyone can share any good examples of how they effectively manage their documents?

thanks
that's a good point, shows my European bias. In France at least, entering in medicine or decent engineer career path requires similar level of grades. Entering into a MBA would be similar to get a very good engineer degree (grade-wise, skills being different obviously)
I've been using Enigmail for about a decade, and PGP longer than that, and I still think it's a pain in the ass. Whenever I'm configuring a new mail client, I have to fiddle with multiple settings just to get it to send encrypted mail.

There's a real opportunity to build something much, much simpler on top of PGP. All you really have to do is pick some sensible defaults and automate a few steps. Look at how many nerds can't be bothered with encrypted communication, let alone normal people.
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Isn't the Nordic model only used in only 4 countries? Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway are also genetically and ethnically homogeneous and have a tiny fraction of the population of the USA.

You live there, it works for you, but you don't see the differences in our locations which is why you keep pushing it. See- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005734 Hey I'm glad it works and you can enjoy the benefits but what works in your country does not always transfer over to others. You haven't seen how welfare programs have affected the US and the types of people (and children) they've created.
Snowden worked in Tokyo for Dell, was a “Japanophile”
Building IOS Phonegap apps without a Mac
I agree with that meat choice but I have a personality trait to prefer only a little good stuff rather than a big lump of junk. I can't properly discuss that aspect of the diet because of that. This extends beyond the paleo diet, when I occasionally eat something "bad" I usually eat the best bad stuff I can find, no sense eating a quart of horrible dairy ice cream if I can have a truly excellent pint for the same cost.

I would disagree on meat being overly expensive. The USDA theoretical diet claims 50 grams of protein is great. Sometimes I eat more than twice as that, or 100 grams. Its a uniquely american problem that we talk grams but sell in pounds or ounces leading to some weird ideas about portion size. I would suspect the average american thinks they need to eat perhaps 24 oz of steak to get a reasonable daily protein intake. The actual figure is a lot closer to a quarter pound. "a" quarter pound per day not two triple cheeseburger for each meal.

Broccoli stir-fry with thin slices of beef steak, mostly grilled veggie kabobs with some chunks of meat, salads with some meat on the side, that kind of thing. In the winter a homemade slow cooker mostly vegetable stew with some meat. Not meals that are 90% a slab of meat, or even 50% meat 50% carb.

I have not analyzed it but I believe I spend much more in the produce aisle than the meat aisle at the store. Sometimes in the winter my mostly fruit breakfast costs like $3 and I feel ripped off compared to what I pay in the summer, but they are flying this stuff in from another hemisphere so I guess its not so bad. If you're going to complain about expense, complain about $7 pints of organic blueberries rather than $5 little steaks because I eat more blueberries than steaks, by either volume or dollar amount. Out of season oranges flown in from Israel are another ripoff expense, although they certainly taste pretty good. Spinach is sometimes ridiculously priced also. Also sometimes bags of nuts have crazy prices like $8/pound... why decent quality walnuts sometimes cost almost as much as tenderloin confuses me.
After about 3 seconds of looking at the source code for the VM I began wondering if chicken was spelt correctly..
Not sure about the UK exactly, but in countries I'm familiar with there are specific government agencies and initiatives for assisting critical infrastructure providers. They're doing their best.

The threat isn't entirely hype. Stuxnet basically proved that dropping a grid is do-able.

Not sure how you'd do individual companies, but the power grid as a whole is a lot more fragile than you might think.

The industry is taking things seriously, but there are a lot of problems to sort out. Fixing legacy network architectures takes time, and a lot of critical systems never get patched. That's before you factor in espionage or 0day.
I don't understand how you can not see a correlation.

The jobs 'higher up' the ladder are generally better paid, with better benefits and are more enjoyable.

If you're working 10 hour shifts with two kids and a tiny flat, you don't have much time or energy left to explore self-actualisation. You are living day-to-day, in a perpetual state of tiredness, stress and worry. The only way 'out' is to get a better job. Then you will feel pride, confidence, etc etc - most of the things on the hierarchy.

I can't help but think that you have never experienced poverty. That naivety is the only way I can understand why you'd think that "progression up the career ladder" is not correlated with fulfilment of Maslow's needs (or more broadly, the basic ability to live your life the way you want. To live freely.)
I'm sure something will eventually happen. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe only in 5 years.

The thing is, Edward Snowden was the 1st one to show us he's ready to die for this cause.

I'm sure the number of people willing to go further will only increase. And that will ultimately lead to actions.

EDIT: The movement will "only" have to make sure not be sabotaged and killed off by the surveillance state, along the way.
This. Begging the government to stop is tantamount to giving consent to them having power over us to begin with. It is time to withdraw the consent of the governed.
NLP Analysis in Python using Modal Verbs
Very nice!
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I'll throw another link into the pile.
A 54min lecture on the life of Paul Dirac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfYon2WdR40
The lecturer is very engaging and this a very approachable talk for those not versed in physics.
What colour scheme is he using?
Oh, I can. It just shows that this talk of helping the middle class is just talk.

If I really wanted to get downvoted, I'd point out that trade unions correlate with a strong middle class.
Does it support seeking? That was one of the more painful parts to implement when I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006334

Downloading from a cloud service provider is more consistent and will probably provide a better experience for most people. But the use case is a bit different: The site linked above is not designed to search or widely share files but only to play them from cloud storage.
"More than that, for some people [that the call is being recorded] really improves their attitude and their service."

I'm interested in hearing in what ways a caller's attitude changes when they know a call is being recorded.
Some ideas:

Could you turn it into a white label app and sell it to businesses for their own internal use or to other entrepreneurs?

Could you find a niche that needs this sort of app with certain features tailored to their needs. Example: Auction software (general idea) made specifically for buying/selling live aquarium fish (custom/niche).
Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now
Mr Bey is a brave man.
Your bank provides a website you can poll to find out about stuff. Not ideal, would be nice to have a proper API, but so far we only seem to be getting these for credit card payments but this is changing (eg see gocardless). For most of those things you list you could manage in an email outage, as you have phone numbers or other alternatives.

If it is that critical do you have 99.99%+ (52 minutes a year) uptime guarantees on your mail service? That is what you are asking for, and to actually deliver that (rather than an empty SLA promise) is something that very few businesses actually try to work to, especially small companies. Gmail certainly does not try to provide this.
Thanks for the update. I'm really glad this passed!
And yet no one is building another Visual Basic today anymore. Purely, In terms of ease of programming. We have't had single improvement since the days of VB6.
But how else will a game of Thermonuclear War almost accidentally launch the missiles? It's not like there's anything in popular culture warning us against these possibilities...
Some people use portal software (e.g. Sharepoint) for this sort of thing although that is some work to manage. There are no guarantees that something like that will help - if all you do is make it easier to upload / organize documents, you end up with hundreds of different styles of organizing things, and still can't find them, so you need some structure around it, and that depends on what you're doing.
There are infinitely many different lifestyles you can live that still involve employment, houses, marriage and children.