skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a way indeed. Just click on the "link" link within the comment's header. On the standalone comment page there will be a "flag" option within the comment header. There may be a karma limit or something though; I'm not sure about that.
I don't think that time travel is a neat solution to the Halting Problem.
>"Mostly the price of the typical 10 hour single player AAA game tends to be $60 + additional DLCs or special preorder things making up go up to the $80+ range."

As an adult, paying $6-8 per hour for "AAA" interactive entertainment isn't terribly expensive, it's quite cheap even.
Your best bet is probably to speak to VC funded startups in your city, both because they can advise you better and also because they can make the introductions you need.

Some of the processes might be different in Canada due to legal and tax differences, but generally speaking VCs will almost always become shareholders and take a board seat regardless of where you are in the world.
It depends on how you define paradise. If paradise is the same as now, but without massively killing population of foreign countries with drones, keeping people in prison without trial and massively spying on your own people, then yes, it's going to be paradise.

If your question is whether we can still have a civilized, stable and prosperous society, ask yourself would the demand for the good things that are currently provided by the government go? Would people still need roads and fire protection and security?
In February, i-mate announced a Windows 8 Phone (not Windows Phone 8)
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudley/2013/02/25/new-win...

A decade or so ago, a Pocket PC would have done the job. I think it was Toshiba who offered a $25 adaptor so you could plug in your PC's USB keyboard.
ESR spoke to this problem (rather briefly) at a meeting of the Philly Java User Group in the spring of 2012. Fast forward to the 42:00 mark. http://youtu.be/1b17ggwkR60
I found this Wikipedia article on tax resistance to be full of interesting information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance
Actually, to argue the other side, "We have no evidence it's physically impossible" has never been a very good argument that anything will actually work.

Actually, hard scifi is loaded with stuff that falls under the category of "We can't yet prove it's physically impossible, but neither has anyone actually proposed viable non-crank theories on how it really works."
It's quite possible to not agree with the NSA or their interpretation of their mission and still believe in representative government.
Just a quick note to add that this was built over the course of 5 hours by four developers as part of http://taskforce.is, which was pretty much assembled here on Hacker News.

Please take a few minutes to call. It's amazing how low conversion rates are on calling campaigns like this one - a factor of 100 lower than email asks - but this is really critical. We only have one day to make this happen.

If you're interested in helping with campaigns like this in the future, you can sign up here: http://sina.is/rritf.html

A big thanks to Thomas Davis, Jens Nockert, and Beau Gunderson for building the site.
No, I absolutely agree. There are many similarities - just the way the OP framed it (comparing the severity of an actual drone strike to the "just painful" torture) didn't quite work out.
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, the messaging library shouldn't dictate my programming style.
That blog post seems remarkably positive to me: "We thrashed this filesystem and pushed some little used features really hard & found a few showstopper bugs that crop up for our use case. We lost no data & discovered a RAID array error that hadn't been picked up before. In summary, btrfs is great, but we can't use it yet."
That was my first thought as well. I could not see that it said anywhere that they had been Ok'd by Square Enix.

I can't imagine Square will be happy with that.
Funny you should mention PostgreSQL, since it includes a monitoring process - the postmaster - that restarts the workers if they die ;) (and they do, occasionally).
Ubuntu forums hacked; login, pass and email info leaked
Including this one, which is why I brought up this point in the discussion.

Here an East Texas jury looked at the facts etc. as portrayed by both sides, the law as instructed by the judge, and delivered the "right" verdict, which happened to be against the plaintiff.
Managing Multiple Node.js Versions With NVM
What if you could only communicate using Internet memes?
CoDeL is solution which has come out from all of this: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki - it can operate without any tuning, as it starts dropping packets when they start spending too much time in the queue.
The Most Misleading Words In Investing: You Can't Go Broke Taking A Profit
> I have a hard time seeing who would be harmed if software patents were categorically invalid.

Why limit it to software?
Hampered by our own knowledge — Medium
I like how the unit of size was football pitch. I guess around the world it's assumed that the reader has intimate familiarity with lining up sporting fields but can't handle things like a metric system.
No offence is taken. I've been reading and studying Intelligence/espionage for a long time. Not the fancy James Bond stuff, just the boring average, mundane stuff of the past 100 years.

I offer no solution because quite frankly, there isn't one. Unless you want to shut down the US military's and civilian intelligence gathering capabilities, it's not going to happen. There will always be reading your mail and listening in to your phonecalls. It is not going to stop.

I am not for this, I love my privacy but I am simply pointing out what will happen, regardless of any action taken.
Do we really believe that "a vote" can change such things? Do we really believe that we can avoid such situations (= non-transparent governments) within the current system?

I mean, when did you actually vote FOR the NSA funding in the first place so that you can now believe that you can defund it by voting against?
It's been working pretty well for Somalia I hear.
You are correct that taxes are means to finance good things too. But ask yourself this: can things you agree with be financed without simultaneously financing things you disagree with?

Police officers, firefighters, teachers... Could it be that we don't really need any government to finance them? The demand is there. Private companies will be more than happy to fill it. All the government does is pretends that those things can't be done without it and then uses some of the money collected to finance things it wants, but you disagree with.
But what exactly is different between this guy and some benevolent hacker? According to the linked article, the storyline sounds pretty much like the old "someone hacks a big corporation and tries to inform then, but gets ignored or accused of crime".
You describe a certain very vocal portion of the American public. I'm not sure their proportions on HN are significantly out of whack.
>Taxes are the means of transferring worth to folks like firefighters, police officers, construction works etc... You know, the folks who hold up infrastructure and need to eat food and stuff. And I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who would donate to these institutions in this economy.

Yet people give money to institutions every day, voluntarily. Not to mention, plenty of construction projects exist outside of government, as does security. Clearly some institutions are of value to us. If we thought we were getting real value out of our tax payments, the government would not need to use threats against us to collect it. We'd line right up to give our money away.

>Now if there's a way to reroute existing tax funds that used to go to rubbish into things that are really necessary, I'm all ears. And there may just be a way to work out something that enough heckling of public officials may... just may... get off the ground.

And what, to you, are things that are "really necessary"? That's one of the things that grinds governments to a halt in democratic societies - the need to agree on how to spend other people's money. It is never pretty.

>Ambitious ideas for change that have no chance of getting traction.

Every new layer of legislation that gets added in the name of "accountability" does little more than add paperwork, costs, and personnel to the payrolls. Then we complain yet more about government waste and inefficiency. It always sounds nice to talk about how to hold the crooks in power to task, but they're still the ones in charge of enacting the laws.

>until we throw out currency altogether.

What was this "Earth" of which you spoke?
This true seeker has some questions:

How do you deal with petty crime? It would be impractical to set up a temporary court for every theft.

How do you hold the criminals while they're prosecuted, if they're prosecuted? Anarchists generally don't like prisons. Do you have a jail as a temporary holding cell?

How do you stop external forces from taking over? As the old adage goes "If you want peace, prepare for war.".
Yahoo Now Requires Your Phone Number
I tried to sign up for Yahoo mail, but decided against it because they required my phone number to sign up. I hope this isn't the trend. Also, I'm wondering why they are requiring more information from their users when certain things are going on right now in the U.S.
Snowden Gets Whistleblower Award in Germany
LOL Fools

You know that the CIA run most of the drugs in and out of the great US. You know that they have massive surplus cash? Like so big they don't really know what to do with it

These 'government' bodies can and will exist without government. This is how they fund most if not all their black ops, that way nothing needs to be on the books.

if we stopped public money, I doubt it would even make a dent
Relaunch failed startups from the past
“UK dominance of EU VC slipping,” France picking up the slack
Has anyone actually duplicated any form of success exclusively by studying/analyzing the business models of successful startups? In grad school we went through dozens harvard business review case studies on large and small companies. All the reasoning about why they failed or succeeded just seemed too locally connected to actually be true. Honestly I just felt like there was nothing to learn from reviewing them.

Yes, people already know that luck plays a factor in success, but someone needs to sit down and quantify it. I secretly suspect that it is much larger that most people think it is. Here I'm talking purely about business decisions/strategies. I'm leveling the playing field by assuming that companies are able to hire qualified people to plan/execute the creation of a high-quality product/service.

Edit:

BTW. This is a great read for people interested in how chance affects our daily lives.

http://amzn.com/0307275175
Now throw in all the radiation coming from everyone's cell phones communicating with the WAP, the numerous radio waves in the atmosphere, UV light from the sun, other sources I'm probably forgetting, etc...that'd be a much more impressive representation.
Why wouldn't a boycott work? Instead of signing petitions that won't change a thing, try something that actually requires some real effort and look for alternatives to the current tech giants. For starters, stop using Facebook (gasp).

When they realize that cooperating with the NSA will severely damage their reputation, they'll think twice before handing over user data this easily. Not to mention that if they realize their users are migrating, they might start lobbying against the NSA.
Good thing Civilization still has a huge fan base. 370h for V on steam and counting for me.
Even given FTL, terraforming is a matter of applied planetary-scale ecology that's at least a century or two away from our current understanding. It could well be that, for instance, aliens looked at the Earth at some point, decided it was just never going to develop life as they knew it, and buggered off somewhere else.
I don't know if these pictures make much sense really. Radio waves are part of the light spectrum but not part of the visible light spectrum, so it doesn't make much sense to represent it visually in this way.

If an artist pictured grass as if it reflected radio waves and not visible light waves, we'd have a interesting/weird picture but one without much value.
OCaml packaging system GODI is shutting down
"We elected Bush in 2004 when he had Tom Ridge upping the terror alert every week before the election."

You hit the nail right on the head. The problem in America isn't the politicians, it's the people.
Execute this in the page's scope. Works on Chrome at least.

(function(){
var table = document.querySelector("table tbody tr+tr+tr td table tbody");
[].slice.call(table.querySelectorAll("tr")).map(function(r){var c=r.querySelector("td:last-child");return [c?parseFloat(c.innerHTML):0,r]}).sort(function(a,b){return b[0]-a[0]}).forEach(function(r){table.appendChild(r[1])});
}());
Growth Hacks to Acquire Customers
Memes are for kids and pedo bears.

Can anything be as unfunny as Internet Memes?
An internal project is definitely a good idea -- it can get you noticed in all the right ways. At the same time, it can draw attention to you -- "how do you have time to be messing with this project? Don't you have tasks you should be doing?"
> There was a nasty race condition for a while that locked circus up, and it wouldn't restart crashed procs.

This was fixed in 0.7.1

> For a while, you couldn't specify a timeout on the commandline - on a major version, too.

To my knowledge this was never released.

> It was 1.0.0 in master for a while, and then went backwards to 0.7.0.

Yes we decided for a while the next version would be 1.0 then we changed our mind. All happened in master and was not released, so I don't see the problem here;

> All in all, it really feels like we're either using it wrong (probably, we're adding & removing processes on the fly), or we're the only ones really loading it up with a ton of processes which may or may not flap a lot.

I am still available for any help. Circus is young but works for our needs. If you are happily using Supervisord, that's fine - but keeping on posting your negative experience on HN from 3 months ago without having tried the tool recently --while we addressed to my knowledge all the bugs you mention-- is a bit inapropriate imho
"The bill gives taxpayer money to fund defense programs, including NSA surveillance."

Why does it take money to defund an operation? Doesn't "defund" mean to not allocate money for.

Obama says he will veto. So what? If no money is allocated for said programs where is the budget for them coming from?

These NSA programs are only the tip of the iceberg of intrusions. <a href="The http://www.govexec.com/technology/2013/04/consumer-bureau-de... Credit Bureau</a> collects all financial data on US citizens and obamacare will be collecting and sharing everything medical with numerous federal agencies.
> Mostly the price of the typical 10 hour single player AAA game tends to be $60 + additional DLCs or special preorder things making up go up to the $80+ range.

You pay for the graphics and the voice acting. If you can handle having more limited graphics and simpler/no voice acting, you will get games that are better in other aspects (balance, story, development, replayability) for way less.
You're repeating yourself, and so I'll repeat myself: it's not helpful.

Unless you are prepared to give a mathematical proof of your claims, you ought to doubt them yourself. A priori, there is "no reason" (to mirror your argument) that life ought to have evolved 5 billion years ago on this planet.

Likewise, there are lots of tech projects aimed at countering this sort of thing; saying they won't succeed only makes the participants more determined. :) Propaganda is a double-edged sword.
Metrics-Driven Design
Similar stories like this were in the news in germany as well, a few month back, after a documentation of the ARD about working conditions in the Amazon warehouses.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...
It's accurate though, isn't it.
Hey.. We use monit and mmonit on all our servers for a lot of varied services, and it is truly a life saver! I only wish the web console for mmonit was a little more detailed and showed more system information. It is also sometimes helpful to see a graph of memory, cpu usage, and server response time over the time axis to see the current system load.
Criterion: A PHP CI Server
They don't address the licensing issue in their "risks" section (or anywhere else), either. That doesn't speak greatly for their chances.

As a fellow webseries guy, I wish them luck, but I fear they're going to need it, in heaps.
This may sound farfetched, but it's not. If you're interested in learning more about the CIA and drugs, I recommend the following:

- The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy [1]

- Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn [2]

- Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A. Lee [3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-The-CIA-Drugs-Press/dp/185984...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Dreams-Complete-History-Sixties/d...
Well there's self improvement -- say, learning the ins and outs of internal company software; and then there is "self improvement" -- mucking about with a pet project in an esoteric language that has no bearing whatsoever on the company's bottom line and arguably does not sharpen the skill-set that they are paying you for.

Not every company can afford to let employees "self-improve" on the latter level.
This looks really nice as a sketch tool for getting those initial layout ideas in browser quickly.

Off the top of my head....

How much more complex do you envisage it becoming? Not that I think it actually needs much more, if anything, to be a useful tool.

Any thoughts on it becoming aware of existing frameworks like bootstrap or foundation?

Does it save each 'page' as an individual file or save multiple 'pages' as a 'project'? I see a tab bar in the demo video so I'm guessing multi page projects.

What sort of price are you thinking? Seeing the demo video I think I'd pay $10-$15 without blinking, but this is just a first reaction rough feeling estimate, it might change with more info / a bit of a play.
In other domains, this is supposed to be one of the reasons patents are a good thing, companies disclose their knowledge in return for a 20 year monopoly after the date of filing. Otherwise they'd try to keep this info as a trade secret for an indefinite period of time.

Some times it works well, some times it doesn't, e.g. steam engines are said to be a classic example of the latter, sinstering 3D printers might be another example of the latter. I believe it works well in the chemical realm, and to my knowledge it didn't harm the quick development of integrated circuits.

Because there are so many "inventions" in any one piece of software, as a practical matter it doesn't seem like it's a good field to allow patents.
Look Before You Leap Motion
Boycotting government is what I was talking about. The problem is to protect yourself and your property against coercion.

No one "cooperates" with NSA. Companies would have their bank accounts and other property seized if they don't obey orders. Even if some court later decides to return their property, company would already be fatally harmed. If you want to continue your business, you must comply.
I would have preferred metric. I spent a minute trying to figure out how the distance a pitched (US) football could be a useful unit of measure when it's so variable. Then I realized pitch means field. And probably not a US football field.
I find it difficult to believe that someone is that stupid.
In theory it sounds nice, but how many black ops and secret budgets already exist? "Defunding the NSA", will just mean its "official" budget will be cut, and under everyone's noses, they will keep being funded through secret budgets.

I'm not saying it shouldn't happen - eventually - but first the priority should be to repeal the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act, and end the secret FISA Court, or at least overhaul it in such a way that it's public, judges get elected in a much more democratic way than simply having one person naming them, as it is right now, and allow adversarial hearings, and for people to be able to use FOIA against this sort of spying.

If it's done on an American citizen (under a proper warrant - and not en masse), then that citizen should be able to request a FOIA for it, and get an almost completely unredacted document. If there's an investigation done on him currently, then at most he can get a few months delay, to a year. After that everyone should be able to use FOIA to get these documents.
It's funny how a job like this fits with the cultural idea of 'the dignity of work.'

The politicians and Amazon describe the human-robot job in positive terms, like they're helping the community. But the real way jobs help people is by providing them with enough resources to improve their situation, and gain control of their lives.

Working in an Amazon factory doesn't do that. First, after hustling for 15 miles a shift making minimum wage, you aren't going to be able to return to your shelter and work on a skill or education. You'd have to eat and sleep and recover. Second, the path of distinction and promotion that would exist in another career doesn't exist. The best way to do your job has been determined by a computer, and the only distinction you can achieve is 'accuracy as a pac-man.'

I think accurate language about a job like this would only describe it as allowing people to live, period. Life maintaining, not life-improving. It's a sweatshop for the first world, and only a blessing if you weren't going to be able to eat or find shelter otherwise.
> remember that threats from the US are the only thing that prevents many countries from doing more horrible shit than they already do.

You mean horrible shit like drone strikes that kill innocent civilians, illegally detaining "terrorists" and torturing them, spying on the whole world, and commanding other countries to ground a president's plane? Is that the kind of shit "they" already do?
The Royal Baby: Live updates
US salary is high
Wow, some of the pictures seems to be taken from a pretty high altitude. Wouldn't this potentially be dangerous if someone decided to fly their drone in an area near an airport?
Making Meteor 500% Faster with Smart Collections
What is this!? I don't even... What in that picture says anything about e-mail!?
Someone Invented Magic And It Is Freaking Us Out
I'm generally pretty astounded by how many people end up killing themselves or others this way every year. It's a fire, don't stick it inside your highly flammable tent. Fires and things in which you've had a fire should always be left outside as they'll still be chucking out gases, and with charcoal fires they can still be burning somewhere without much noticeable heat. I spend a lot of time camping with all manner of fires, stoves etc (historical re-enactor) and I've never once thought "I should bring the fire box inside the tent so it doesn't get wet". Keep your burning materials in the dry, and the box/BBQ/whatever outside.
Cisco Acquires Cybersecurity Company Sourcefire For $2.7 Billion
I did not know cold barbecue coals could still emit carbon monoxide.

I guess the outer shells must have been cooled but left a burning nugget in the center.
I would agree with that iff the learning that you were doing was closely related to the skill-set that your company hired you for and/or one they could utilize. See my related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089570