skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) There have been countries which had military coups (even more overt than what has happened to the US since Civil War, Prohibition, WW2/Cold War, fall of the USSR, and 9/11) which rolled back. In fact, the US actually rolled back pretty well after the Civil War. We probably never really recovered from the nexus of progressives/suffrage/temperance/federal reserve/income tax/ww1/prohibition/nfa/gangsters/newdeal/ww2 though.

The biggest real changes we've had since the Cold War were probably black civil rights/ending Jim Crow (which was a huge thing for black people, but not as huge a thing for me personally), the fall of Nixon, the Reagan Revolution, and probably 1994 (and, on the purely-bad side, 9/11 and the response to it).

Rolling back NSA to spy on foreign governments/military/terrorist mercilessly, foreign commercial and civilians to a very minimal level, and US persons with no terrorist involvement at a law enforcement standard, is probably a change on par with ending Jim Crow, but nationwide, and for all people. Maybe less than the progressive changes at the beginning of the century. More than Reagan/80 or Gingrich/94 or Johnson's Great Society.

2) I agree, fleeing from the US is hard. Germany, Switzerland, somewhere in Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand seem like the most viable general solutions; for specific reasons I think Chile, China, Thailand, and Japan might be viable too, at least for some time period. I don't have much hope for seasteading or anything. Probably the best approach would be to have a US company which sets up a foreign office in one of those places, has a lot of experience working with people there, relocate there yourself, and then eventually either do a new business or relocate the company entirely.

Tiny marginal states really don't interest me anymore.

There's some bitcoin related guy (Idnan) doing a new free trade zone, location to be announced in November 2013, which might be interesting. I think it's on the border of 2 central american countries.
This isn't a surprise at all. You need total control over layout and UI elements. SVG has a lot of advantages over canvas, specifically it can take advantage of hardware acceleration and doesn't have the text layout quirks that canvas does.

If you think about what it would take to build a User Interface toolkit you would use in a desktop application in HTML5 you can see lots of problems. There is simply too much abstraction in HTML5 to do what Apple may have wanted to do. Cross-browser quirks are unavoidable and performance can be very difficult to get right especially with interactions in the DOM. Even if you can get performance right there may be issues with producing the exact layout in each browser or the designers intention in the first place.
Tell your lawmakers to oppose NSA surveillance
Coding etiquette: Don't shorten your code
Apple was not bootstrapped. Don Valentine (Sequoia), Arthur Rock (Venrock) were VCs to put money into Apple after angel investment from Markkula in 77. David Morgenthaler was also an early investor.

It's not entirely clear to me how Microsoft was financed, but there was absolutely outside financing (August Capital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marquardt ). Also, Bill Gates was born pretty rich. "His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates). I'd wager his folks were angel investors in one form or another.
I think we should have less patents and more sharing. Most inventions derive some knowledge from previous inventors, thus we are standing on the shoulder of giants. Thus why should someone have the right to patent code?
Ask every sales person ever.
It's not totally surprising when you can quantify how much money you just saved/made the company.

There are better ways to handle such things though.
A bit late to the party on this post -

I think the next shift we see in mobile will be anointing the phone as the arbiter of identity vs the current situation in which our desktop / laptop OS user loosely holds the title.

I've previously expressed affinity for a future in which a device (smartphone) becomes a wallet for saving state, identity, data & applications all served by an OS that adapts based on operating environments while maintaining familiar UI/UX. This is the closest implementation I've yet to see (smart phone driving extensions and adapting to its environment by allowing full desktop OS), and I hope funding comes through just so we can inch a bit closer to making this reality.

Dropbox / cloud storage / iCloud have taken great strides in reducing the friction involved in types of device to device transitions, but we're still not truly mobile, and I'm not convinced they're the solution as opposed to being supplementary. Saving state, using your phone as identity, and carrying your data & applications with you is, what I believe, the next iteration of mobile.

Whether this information transfer is accomplished by associating devices together via the lan, a physical connection, or what have you, I feel there needs to be a physical badge component in transferring identity, and the smartphone may be it. A two factor auth of sorts for your digital self between your smartphone and a 'dumber' device.

Consider the possibilities in cars; no more fighting that quirky car UI to get directions or search through a music library. Parental controls ensuring new drivers don't drive at extreme speeds or attempt to text while driving. Abolishing keys. All possible when you have a portable device equipped with identity attributes working in conjunction with other devices and their input extensions.

28.8mm to go!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4094318

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/28/apple-patent-would-use-the-...
I know it's there. It's just that they dont take screenshots of iWork on Chrome.
El Tribunal Supremo ordena al gobierno israel investigar a los niños
According to Microsoft Unity is the way forward, BUILD 2013.

XNA and its former incarnation, Managed DirectX, always suffered from the internal political differences between .NET and native tools development groups.
There's plenty of evidence Microsoft is making money on Android sales as companies selling Android keep announcing patent licensing deals with Microsoft.

Here is just one such an agreement:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/24/zte-android...

Also, from that link, it suggests Microsoft now has 80% of the Android market covered by similar license agreements.

As to the size of those royalty payments, who’s to know. Companies always keep those kind of details under wraps.

But I doubt very much Microsoft is going to go easy on them. Why would they?

And those patents don't only affect Android.

Microsoft recently forced Tom Tom to licence their technology as well.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10206988-56.html

It is no wonder Google is fighting hard against patents.

As the grow Android, Microsoft comes along for free, courtesy of their patent war chest.

Edit: It appears Google owned Motorola is trying to fight these Microsoft patents but they appear to be losing:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/04/google-loses-appeal-again...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/itc-orders-import-ban-aga...
Virtual Private Network UK
Create a REST API from an existing database
Ironically, could the DDOS actually be because of Piwik? With the sudden increase in traffic, it's probably generating a massive amount of data and overloading the database.
Setup.py vs requirements.txt
> based on Ubuntu, not controlled by the likes of Google and Apple, and with a UI based on HTML

If you don't insist on the "Ubuntu" part, FirefoxOS offers everything you want, and is available on various devices right now:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
Thanks for adding the WordPress link. I'd actually been there before and didn't make the connection between the sites. Geiser was something I recently stumbled upon and fell in love with it instantly :)
All the examples you're offering are generic - how to kill 'someone', or 'people'. That's not the same a book on 'how to kill jrockway' that goes into copious detail about how to kill you, specifically, in the most expeditious manner possible. The example I mentioned above was about a publication on how to rob individual bank branches - which security guards to target, where the safe was located, where to cut the wires for the power or security cameras, and so on. There's a significant qualitative difference here, because in these examples you're enormously increasing the probability of a crime being committed, possibly up to the point of conspiracy.
This is pretty funny.
Why does a voice recorder need android > 4.0?
Can't use .
Is it realistic to deliver the phone at this time frame, given the vagueness of the specs? My only crowdfunding experience (Pebble) was not pleasant in it's long delays, and they gave the impression of being closer to production than Ubuntu Edge.
Also, what previous experience does Ubuntu have of hardware design and manufacturing. I also realize that they can source this, like from Taiwan as they mention, but they still need to be significantly involved.

My prediction is that backing will slow considerably now when the lower backing price point has closed.
That is why nowadays I only buy technical books in digital format, unless they are only available in dead tree format.

The technology to save trees is here, so no need to keep killing them for new versions.
I suspect the actual intent is that no recreational drugs will ever be proved "low risk".
In my experience donated/salvaged/second hand PCs usually come with an OEM licence (also true for second hand macs).

Perhaps that's different in the US?

And while you theoretically pay for the Windows licence that come with a new machine a) most people aren't aware of that, and b) aren't aware that you can get that money back if don't use it.
I don't know. I was always turned down. I think the managers didn't actually have power to give one. I now work at a bootstrapped company where I get all of the (a/re)wards.

I will point out that one of my co-workers was given an award for "safety" because he suggested windows be installed on every door so you can see if someone is coming... talk about rearranging deck chairs.
Show HN: Excel Parser library for .Net
the current one: http://contupt.com, you can apply now for alpha.

"ContUpt is a service, which reminds you regularly to contact your customers, users and friends."
I can't quite tell if you're being snarky/obtuse, but I'll assume you're not. I believe he means that if you need to make a profit to survive, it'll inhibit growth, impact, and market share.

Example: Say Amazon was bootstrapped. They couldn't have run profit-free for years like they did. The result of bootstrapping Amazon? Higher prices. Slow hiring. No marketing. Little-to-no cash for R&D. Maybe company-death because they couldn't afford to wait for the market to catch up with their vision. Or maybe a faster-moving competitor now has room to move in and take the leadership role.

Do you think Amazon made the wrong choice to raise money, assuming Bezos' wish was a combination of impact-on-the-world and wealth?
We have a guy kinda like this at our current company. He is a co-founder of the company. When our angel investors came in there was some drama and disagreements. End result he was demoted and stripped of all his responsibilities.

They can't fire him since he helped found the company and has some protections. But he refuses to do anything they ask him. Now both sides have given up. Guy won't even come into the office most of the time.

I don't know if it's a position I ever want to be in.
Losing data s but the analogy is flawed.

“When all your engines stop, the flight is just starting"
This is how I got to understand that not all that Microsoft does is evil.

When one works for corporations of similar sizes, gets to learn that there are many factors at play, than just good or evil deeds.
Either those drives are all from the same bad batch, or this isn't a drive problem. I would be thinking either a cooling problem or flaky controllers, and a drive swap in that case is not the solution.
So, you fixed the glitch?
Ouch, sounds like somebody got hit by a really bad batch of drives. Always a risk when you buy a bunch at the same time. :/
Java on GNU Emacs 24.
If someone is still writing Java on emacs, can they share tips/tricks on setting up a good development environment. Currently I'm using GNU Emacs 24.1.1 and auto-complete-config. I tried JDEE but was very painful to setup. What I am missing is that even though auto-complete can complete words, it does not know about functions/methods in a class, etc. Thanks.
>Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though.

Yes, somehow the young, geekily attractive popular sports author, whose blog on an extremely popular alternative news site grew a significant cult following, got all the mainstream media attention. It is extremely surprising that said media attention did not go to the duo of crusty, obscure, highfalutin Ivy-league academics instead.

Somehow, that happened. How, we'll never know.
Check out the caption I got for this article from USPTO ;)
http://prntscr.com/1h0c3u

It says "Resolution"
I read this a long time ago and I found it amusing then and I found it amusing now. Truth or lie, it is still a fun story.
I'll rather close than keep working with someone that's playing that game. Even if they pull back that maneuver, I'll have to think a lot to sign that round.
He could have put his skills to work on an open source project as opposed to just mindlessly typing.

EDIT: Alternatively he could have even created his own internal company project for work. Whether or not they liked enough to keep is another story but at the very least it shows he has initiative, creativity, and he can learn something from his work.

Unless your job has a lot of manual, physical labor; I really find it hard to see how anyone can get bored and do nothing at work especially if you can program.
While Strikingly is a cool service, not sure what this website is about...
Can anyone elucidate on the main differences between Slime and Geiser? The Geiser main page says that Slime is/was part of the inspiration but others are also mentioned.
We run Piwik on 40M page views per month on dedicated server. Archiving data takes a few hours, but the UI is fast and it works. We used tips in: http://piwik.org/docs/optimize/how-to/
No Firefox compatibility?
BTW I should add that I'm still a fan of TOR and have no plans to switch away. In fact, their upfront explanation of what went wrong and how has improved my opinion of the project.
I'd say go for the one you know how to use, to build faster.
Keep in mind that you might have to change later for some reason, so build high level enough.

When you have cache/scalability problems, then think about changing. It won't happen in 99% of the times :).

I usually go for Mongo, simply because I don't have to change from my code to SQL, which saves time.
HTTP does have pipelining since the 90s.
Well, having an intuitive understanding goes a long way too. Being able to derive formulae rather than just having them memorized is good. Of course, I don't want a book that doesn't include the formulae, but I want to know the "why" of it as well.
They very nicely informed our team that they just didn't seem to have enough work for all the contractors, and I was one of the contractors they just didn't seem to have enough work for, so I was off the project, one year + 7 or 8 months after I'd stopped doing any real work.

Lucky thing, too... my teammate on our initial assignment there is still on that same contract, 6 years later... getting annual raises and the odd promotion here and there.. still doing nothing. He still gets that panicky look in his eyes and starts rambling on nonsensically when you ask him what exactly he does there. He was a lot better at pretending to be busy than I was, and wasn't as gung-ho about wanting to be let go if they couldn't find anything useful or challenging for him to do than I was.

Took a year for my productivity levels to bounce back after leaving that project. Was just really hard to do any work for a while... 2 years of nothing makes you quite lethargic being used to napping and web-surfing all day. Took me all day to answer the 1 email or so I'd get in the morning. Most productive things I did then were read classic literature and hone my chess skills against the computer. I play a mean game of chess vs. computer these days because of my time with the DoD.
Eek. That sounds like something straight out of Kafka's The Castle.

I feel for him. Likely, he should try to escalate it higher up so that he gets moved to another project. But I understand his reluctance too, as they could decide he should not be working at the company at all.

And what bugs me as strange is that the CTO knows that he's doing nothing and still not doing anything about it.
There is the Abbottabad Commission Report the Pakistanis did on the Bin Laden raid that goes into depth of the politics involved[1]. There is a history of political infighting over US relations between the civilian government, military and intelligence community of Pakistan. This report was compiled by the Pakistani government. It is shortsighted to think they are any more transparent than the US. There are other reports, one by the UN, that estimate wildly the numbers[2]. The actual article[3] with the document looks like a photo caption in the Salon article. Totally glanced over it the first time. It is hard to have a discussion when the truth is obscured by time and distance, the government claims state secrets, and the only people raising concerns use terms like "indiscriminate civilian killings." We aren't fire bombing cities here. There is an immediate need for transparency and greater oversight and discretion with the drone program. I fear a future where warfare is cheap and with out risk.

[1]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/07/20137813412615531...
[2]http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/world/asia/u-n-drone-objection...
[3]http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/07/22/get-the-data...

EDIT:

There is also a more detailed article on the "leaked" report on the originating news site. It is a more thorough discussion than the salon article.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/07/22/exclusive-le...

Errr: I think I missed half the article...
Storage is cheap compared to engineering labour. That's a massive migration (from one DB to another), definitely not worth saving that 300gb.

It's still unclear how the storage failure was related to the migration. Was the new engine/fs disruptive to the SSD?
The puzzle structure of Ocarina of Time [2004]
> taking the phone out of your pocket and plugging it to an external display, and start working.

Plugging in is kind of obsolete these days. Many phones and TVs support wireless display, and it's not a gimmick, it takes a whole lot of friction out of using big screens. Ideally, I'd want an amply sized wireless charging pad, a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo and WiDi. And no cables in sight.
I never argued for supporting Occupy. The problems isn't about occupy, the problem is that FBI and their corporate partners thought they are dangerous enough to label them as "domestic terrorists". Think about it. A bunch of people without a goal, disorganized, non-violent, and they bothered to label them as terrorist. Good Lord. What if they were more organized. What would those watching them be doing? Assassinating them with drones.

That's rather a mischaracertization. In the FBI documents about Occupy that were released through the FOIA, the overall peaceful nature of the protests is continually emphasized and the occasional militancy (in places like Oakland) is treated as atypical. Articles that suggest the FBI considered it to be a terrorist movement are not really being honest with their readers.
Is he interested in creative writing at all? Sounds like a perfect environment for that. You'd look very busy, for sure.
Adobe Completes $600M Acquisition Of Conversational Marketing Startup Neolane
For daemons: none of the above (init) I then monitor it with Zabbix. I assume services don't crash, and hey they don't (not that I know of in any case).

Unless you did really mean process and not daemon, then it's supervisord.
Been loving Diffbot for my startup. Only downside is you very rapidly approach the freemium tier for any production loads. It works fantastically well though.
It should handle the case where the authorisation is denied, as currently the oauth.io server spits out an unfriendly

Invalid format
sysv init doesn't monitor processes, so that doesn't fully answer the question. What do you use to ensure that processes started by sys init are still running?
That'd be arguably difficult with the "no internet use for non-work tasks" restriction. I'd suggest creative writing.
They mentioned pretty explosive growth so 300GB today may be 3TB next month and 100TB in a few years.
I have to admit that your way of thinking in your comments scare the shit out of me. The thinking that violence solves violent problems is a little elementary.

But my reply is in regard to this -->>"People mention that drones may create terrorists, but if we assume that Pakistani public opinion is proportional to the number of deaths, then terrorism (which has killed far more innocent Pakistanis than drones [2]) ought to be significantly less popular."

I would argue against your rationale here. There is a parallel if not similar problem in the US and in just about every place in the world that is stifled with problems. Just because nothing seems like there is any being done, doesn't mean nothing is being done nor that the people approve or disapprove of it.
No idea, never tried it. A cursory browsing of qt documentation suggests it can't, and it also can't use qtquick2, which is where qml becomes really useful (which is also when it starts using v8).
took his stapler too.