skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. As we've made technology advances historically we've removed working hours. It just hasn't happened with the new digital revolution.
They say they don't keep shadow profiles of your external Web traffic [though I can't imagine that's true].

In line with other responses, I use a browser plugin that blocks all traffic to Facebook when I'm not on a facebook.com domain, and I exclusively sign in via incognito mode so the session is destroyed when I'm finished.
Crashplan is excellent, especially if you have lots of data.

Most of the other services like Carbonite start to throttle your upload speed after so many GB. Crashplan does not.

Crashplan also has a family plan good for several computers, with unlimited storage, and you can even set computers to back up to each other as well as to their repository.
> On top of that, we refuse entry to people and boot others out because of what they say.

Is there a country in the world that doesn't do this? If you're not a citizen of a country, you generally can be kicked out or denied entry for the smallest of reasons. Which is bad, but not unusual.

> No one knows what it means, but people get arrested and charged, and end up in jail. Its on a whim.

I'm not sure I completely agree with the hate speech laws of the UK, but there a lot of case law and precedent behind it, and it's not nearly as broad as you make it sound.

In general, hate speech laws target abusive speech intended to stir up racial hatred, and abusive speech intended to harass an individual. The laws also targets threatening speech against sexual orientation, or threatening speech intended to incite religion hatred. So it's okay to, for instance, ridicule or insult Islam or Christianity, but it's not okay to incite violence against Muslims or Christians.
I've only got a few now, but the first thing I used to do when I has a "good" idea was to buy the domain....

expirysumo.com

textjs.com

tweetedlinks.com
My guess is that someone was hoping to draw a parallel between someone fleeing Russia (Kasparov) and someone trying to get into Russia (Snowden).
Smith v. Maryland is relevant because it is being discussed by the Senate Intelligence Committee and debate in Washington. Its part of the discussion, its part of the debate. Period.

The author of this piece has failed to communicate part of the discussion from within Washington to the rest of his readership.
Sculpteo dev center is great even if the doc style looks alpha http://www.sculpteo.com/en/developer/webapi/
Can't say I agree with this. A decent IDE has no problem tracing usage of dynamically generated methods etc. I know the JetBrains stuff can for Python and Ruby.
And? Fuck it, let's go live in North Korea?
I suspect the implication was that being written in Python makes the code more accessible to "normal" people, both to read and (perhaps to an even greater extent) to run. If it were written on .NET one would likely (because Mono is incomplete) need a Windows server to run the code. If it was written using Java there is a decent chance it would require some pretty complex configuration and possibly a license of some sort from Oracle. I might be misinterpreting the comment, but when I personally poke fun at Java or .NET for being "enterprise-y", this is more or less what I'm talking about.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with your comment about the homepage console. Achievements/completion is something we'll definitely spend a lot more time on in the near future :-).
I really don't like where this is heading. :(
Show HN: Live chat for Appcelerator Titanium on iOS and Android
Show HN: chatasaur.us, modern web-chat with IRC written in Erlang
I would love to hear what you guys think?
I've found that I make a lot of good contacts at my local Ruby user group and through just helping people as much as I can via twitter, mailing lists etc.

One problem I have that's similar to what you're talking about is people either have a huge budget and an endless supply of soul-crushing and pointless work for me to do, or they just can't afford me at my rates.

More recently I'm finding a sort of sweet spot in bootstrapped companies that have some revenue and can afford to bring me in for one or two weeks per month. Those are my ideal clients, as I'm not very good at dealing with government/BigCo.

I love talking about this stuff, so if you want to talk shop more at some point feel free to ping me via email (in profile).
You mentioned "family", so I'm going to assume you're married.

At least here in Virginia (I'm no insurance expert), a group is 2 or more people. My wife is officially a shareholder of my company, and so she and I have a group policy. We pay a little under $1000/mo to insure the two of us and our two girls.
Another one of those things you never have to worry about if you use a statically typed language.
It's also entirely possible that the US has broken no laws, and done nothing more than make phone calls requesting extradition.

A difference between my comment and yours is that mine (in this case) doesn't claim to know things that it can't possibly know.
Please change the nonsense and purposely divisive "workingclass" title to that of the actual article.

This is a politically-charged phrase that implies that nobody else actually works, or that they don't work as hard.
Why I’m Switching (Back) to Firefox
By the way, if some moderator reads this, the story has been pulled of because of its stupid mistake?
Pilot discusses serious lack of manual flying experience due to autopilot usage
That might be true, but where the hell are all the "Bush is a nazi" idiots now? It strikes me as very quiet on the left... do they not realize Cheney's vision is alive and well in Obama's house?
Look, I forget Kansas exists every so often too, but let's not pretend it's a foreign country!
Interesting. How does RethinkDB implement compassionate firing (as in the Quora link at the end, where he could stay on the payroll for months while looking for a new job)?

I imagine it's easy for a programmer (who passed your entrance requirements) to find a decent job in a few days; not sure about others.
Slight pivot to your point, but when actually firing, it should also be quick and compassionate. That is, I have seen managers who can't bring themselves to say "you are fired", instead waffling around the subject. It is much better to be direct and to the point, but compassionate. Don't leave the employee guessing.
I would love to hear what you think!
It can trace execution of methods that have never been defined prior to usage? based on concatentation via name? Would LOVE to see a demo of this.
Chromium/Chrome are based on Webkit (forked into Blink since Chrome 27), which in turn is based on KHTML/KJS. Chrome was built in large part by former Mozilla engineers, and Mozilla Firefox itself was built based on the browser engine open-sourced by Netscape as its swan-song gift to the open web.
‘Eyewire’ Game Trains Computers To Map the Brain
Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).
I'm confused by this reply: when was Manning locked away in a foreign country? Wasn't he in Fort Meade since his arrest in Iraq? Is there any indication that if convicted by the military tribunal he will be incarcerated in another country?
His crusade from the beginning has been anti-surveillance in the US. Nobody doubts that Russia and China are doing the same---it's simply what's expected (unfortunately). From the beginning, his stated goal was simply to end this practice in America.

As for his first statement, I simply don't read too much into it. My only take-away was "thanks for not turning me over". He's an expert on how the NSA is conducting surveillance---not on which countries are authorities on human rights.
Re-post from 129 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5355560

Lots of discussion there...
Not physiological, unless you count the different number of neurons and synaptic pathways. It's just that we learned how to do it, and they didn't. Kind of like learning how to use a sewing machine or two/more languages growing up.
Or could be used to "humanely" incapacitate your daughter if she gets mixed up in the wrong kind of campus protest, not too far down the road from now.
Make sure to backup all your files, all your database content, installers and config files, and basically anything you'd need to rebuild everything you care about from the bare metal.

For websites, a periodic file dump via FTP, and database dump via a MySQL script is nice and easy. There are also Wordpress plugins that will do the dump and email it to you regularly.
WxPython: Making your Frame Maximize or Full Screen
Are you sure about that? They had a big rewrite some years back and got rid of much of it.
Anyone have extra office space?
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As a Russian, this statement really rustled my jimmies. I hope US catches Snowden, and he rots in prison for the rest of his life. Though he still would be better off than Magnitsky.
He has been made de facto stateless. At this point actual legality is irrelevant. His right to asylum is real as well as his status as whistleblower; that the US recognizes neither is not grounds for rejecting either statement.
"Hopefully those twenty years old developers will solve more meaningful problems than sharing cat photos."

The truth is that cat photos are mostly shared by people in the middle class that is being destroyed. 20 year old developers solve problems they know, and sometimes this involves their mom.
"The report suggests sluggish demand for the iPhone, which accounts for about half of Apple’s sales."

So we're back to the old "Apple is on the verge of bankruptcy" trope?

Sales are always higher for the phone after the release, plus during the holiday season. Is it really surprising that sales have simmered down a bit? "Sluggish" is hardly the word when Apple has shipped 55 million iPhone 5 units, and continues to sell on average 410,000 iPhones per day.

These are the same reports that go all hair-on-fire when Apple's growth growth slows marginally.
I'm STILL waiting on flexible LCD's.

5000 trade show demos, press releases and tech articles - and you STILL can't buy one to put in your product.
Don't hire people just to test them out then throw them away.

Some people have responsibilities if your going to fire someone quickly then you have just turned their life upside down now that they can't pay for rent, food, and other bills.
It's definitely got a nice ring to it
> That and the tendency of Korean airliners to drift into Soviet airspace he dismisses seems to support Gladwell's thesis more than his.

The tendency of Korean airliners to drift into Soviet airspace had much more to do with Korea's location on the globe than anything else.
Snowden's... Defection?
This article is full of bias. The writer has an anti-business agenda and cherry picked a group of examples in order to make these kind of services wrong.

If they don't pay enough to get workers, then guess what? No one will work there!
No, not what it stood for. Look at the Declaration of Independence - it explicitly states that people have inherent rights (that kings don't grant the rights) and that those rights are inherent to everybody, not just those in a particular country.

That is quite literally what America stands for, as stated in our own declaration, and in 1776 it was explosively innovative and inspired the entire world.

Unfortunately, we've forgotten that whole rights-belong-to-non-Americans thing, and that's a travesty. You can trace how it happened, and none of it is a happy story.
what about functions passed as arguments? quite a basic technique and I don't think it passes this test.
Exactly. I'm tired of these alarmist articles with "you must do this" solutions to non-existent problems. I always think "oh, shi-" before I realize the problem affects exactly no-one.
I don't want to be dependent on a single IDE to write or maintain code. Besides the annoyance of not getting to use what I want, what happens when the IDE stops being supported, but you still have to maintain the code?
While I will say you were not supported by "Daddy" but were by your sister. Not everyone has a family member where they want to get a job. 3 months is a not a short stay.

That being said some people need to realize you have to sacrifice having your own room sometimes if you are going after a goal. Good that you did that and it worked out.
FP has an annoying registration required feature.
There's nothing that prevents an IDE from running all the tests associated with a project and then highlighting the line numbers of any exceptions that get thrown. Infinitest will do this for Java in Eclipse and IntelliJ, though I don't think it works with Python.

http://infinitest.github.io/

Python has an unfortunate culture of "just an editor, please", so the main IDEs for it are light-years behind Java IDEs, but you could probably easily whip up a vimscript or .el that does this and highlights the line in the editor.
When you have a risk, you call an insurance company.
When you have an opportunity, you call me.

It's only after you stop selling time and start to understand what it is that drive your customers to call you that you'll ever break free from the hourly rate comparisons.
> It's also entirely possible that the US has broken no laws, and done nothing more than make phone calls requesting extradition.

I imagine they haven't. The bully who demands your lunch money hasn't hit you in the face either. The threat is merely implied.
Sorry, don't buy it.

A published & concise interface wins over an undocumented redundant interface. Explicit-only just takes you down the path towards Java and COBOL.
Collaborative JSFiddles
Go to http://jsfiddle.net/

and enter "TowTruck(this)" (no quotes) into the console
Can you expand on that? I could probably blab for three minutes on either side of the argument, but I don't know if I have any strong opinions about it right now.
See the open source definition (http://opensource.org/osd), especially the third point.
Yes but some things rarely work perfectly.

It scales fine. In fact it scaled for hundreds of years before electronic calendars appeared. They mobilized two world wars with pens, paper and typewriters.

Synchronisation is not an issue if you have one single source of truth.
Where I live the river water comes from snow packs. And nobody's allowed to discharge treated sewage into rivers. Gross.
In this case they /are/ standing against this particular human rights violation.

Part of the whole point is that known human rights violators and authoritarian governments are acting better than the US on this, the supposed bastion of freedom and democracy in the world.
Since from his charts it looks like the bulk of his processing time is due to the database connection and transfer, what other framework/language is going to eliminate that. I am sure many alternatives have faster routing, serialization, and response generation, but that doesn't seem to matter with a database involved.
here's one I have running now: http://jsfiddle.net/#collaborate&towtruck=K8oGvIGwOC
So what? He is stuck in an russian airport. He dosn't have the luxury to wait for the world to converge to utopia.
>If the ADD patient is lucky, the correct diagnosis is made. If unlucky, he may be treated for borderline, depressions, etc. Antidepressants may worsen the condition, because they may increase motivation without increasing ability.

Not ADD here, but starting around age 12, my body started freaking out every 4-8 months or so and suddenly my heart-rate would shoot up uncontrollably and my blood pressure would drop out. They told me to lay down and try breathing slowly, and eventually it went away (I was lucky). I was diagnosed with GAD/Panic Disorder with depression. Several years later I ended up actually developing a sever case of panic disorder and agoraphobia, mostly because I was told I had it for so many years.

Turns out I actually had Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome - A heart condition where you have an extra electrical pathway in your heart. Had surgery for that last year and haven't had an episode since. Still struggling with the agoraphobia though. I can only imagine how my life would be different right now had I gotten the correct diagnosis.
> From the beginning, his stated goal was simply to end this
practice in America.

I don't think this was true, otherwise I would feel unconditional support for him. He has released leaks about US spying on external targets and aims to flee to countries which have very poor relationships with the US. This muddies the waters considerably. Personally I think it weakens his message, and this disappoints me.
Rock Paper Scissors with core.async
Well, but you make it sound as though the Government is some monolithic Man. It isn't.

What's different now is that when the sheriff in some podunk town in Texas throws a mouthy kid into jail unjustly, the entire country hears about it on the Internet. That's a game-changer.
It's also entirely possible that the US has broken no laws, and done nothing more than make phone calls requesting extradition.

Just a phone call: "A nice little country you have there, wouldn't it be pity if something happened to it?"

Just as the real example: it was reported that the existing trading arrangements were in question for some countries in Latin America.
Given the abuses we've seen throughout history (not just now), why on earth would I want the government to be able to know exactly where I am at any given time? If they think I've committed some crime let them use the normal protocols. Otherwise they need to fuck off.
It isn't on their front page...
As well as Venezuela[1][2]. Maduro is an extension of Chavez' regime.

[1] http://www.hrw.org/americas/venezuela

[2] http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/03/05/venezuela-chavez-s-author...
HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors in Enterprise Storage
PEP 257 recommends using triplequoted strings for multiline docstrings:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/#multi-line-docstrin...
Well said. Too bad most coders are horrible are finalizing an interface.
Anyone can seek asylum, that doesn't mean it will be granted. In this case it has been granted and accepted. Big difference.
It's systemic because the whole point of procedures and policies is to avoid the failure of any one part of the system.

Imagine the power going out at your company's data center and then one of the generators doesn't turn on, and as a result your website goes down and you lose $10k/hour. Would management suggest that the generator is an individual and an outlier and we'll just hope it doesn't happen again? My guess is that a set of policies would go into place such that even if a single generator did fail, the website would not go down. You now have a systemic fix to what was entirely likely a very rare systemic problem. Just because it's rare doesn't mean it's not systemic.
Agreed! So why not side with the liberal West, which is very much the least of many evils, rather than run away to despotic regimes like Russia?

[EDIT: I mean side with the West whilst at the same time thoroughly taking them to task for their own rights violations]
This only considers the current state of 3rd parties, governments, and laws. The gigantic issue with all this is that everything is stored indefinitely. Also, laws and governments change. What's to stop you from suffering tomorrow for seemingly innocuous actions you performed today? And I'm not just talking about getting prosecuted for some specific crime. This data is used as a means of proactive prosecution and profiling. This means that the powers that be are actively looking for signals in the noise that indicate crime(and most likely just things they don't agree with, illegal or not). If the profile created off your various seemingly innocent actions and "meta-data" over the course of many years puts you within the error bars, you could become a false positive. With secret courts, secret prisons, and indefinite detention all possible, what's to stop you from simply disappearing? Or, at the vary least, what's to stop all of this from ruining your life even if you are never convicted of anything(e.g. months of detention and interrogation without prosecution, inability to travel, holds placed on bank accounts, calls to employer, etc...)?

That said, the focus shouldn't be on the companies that collect this data. They are simply doing the best they can to make a profit within the bounds of the law. No, the issue is government. There should be strict laws regulating how data is collected and stored(even non "PII") and even stricter laws around how 3rd parties are allowed to consume, store, and use this data, especially governments. But alas, this is asking the police to police themselves, so I guess this will never happen.
Take a look at Alex Ionescu's ￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼"Ninja's and Harry Potter" talk from NoSuchCon this year [1].

He specifically mentions he could access the FileVault key of a machine by having physical access, and discovered two secret keys (KPPW and KPST) one of which is enabled when the input buffer is "SpecialisRevelio" [2].

It's a very interesting deck to read through.

[1] http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/D1_02_Alex_Ninjas_and_Harry_P...
[2] http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Specialis_Revelio
Functions passed as arguments can be traced the same way you trace values. You find all invocations of the surrounding function and see what function arguments are being passed in.

It's more involved than just grepping for the name, but the same is true of tracing where any other argument value came from.
If you think he wrote this on his own, then you're naive.

I'm not challenging the intellectual capacity of Snowden, but there is an army of supporters, including a well known publicist, that have been trying to turn Snowden into the latest cause celebre.
I don't know about traitor, but clearly a fugitive and not legally qualified for US whistleblower protection.
Yes, grepping for a function and not finding it anywhere in the codebase is very annoying. I've had to maintain this sort of thing before. It's like in bash saying `${FOO_$BAR}` (if such a thing is possible). It gives me shudders.

I also agree that Rails gets a pass. It's a little different when you have a stable (well, sort of :-) API with dozens of books and thousands of blog posts. It was annoying to learn what was going on at first, but that knowledge is more long-lasting so worth a bit more pain.
Location-Anonymous Voice Communication, A Step-by-Step Guide
Not quite. You activate the xbox using a voice command. Unless the kinect has a speech processor in it (which is incredibly unlikely), then it is very probably sending the sound to the xbox.

So you will [again, this is speculation] be seeing constant traffic flowing across the USB cable.
functions passed as arguments are fine, because something needs to be passing them. While the function invocation site itself is dynamic, the source of the call isn't.

Basically the important aspect is that even if you have higher order functions, the things passing the functions to these higher order functions will still be greppable.
Let us deploy your bitbucket repository.
Here's a stupid little tip that would have saved me some frustration: don't use a graphic that bleeds off the page, or that is aligned with the edge of the card.

Many printers won't do cards with bleed, or won't do them well, or will charge more. And any error in the printing will be very obvious to the eye.
That's actually not true. For instance, the game Alpha Centauri generated custom dynamic functions in RAM at runtime to draw user created units.