skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if you make the effort, then it isn't an issue. Call people instead of texting, do the upside-down phone thing when you go out to eat or have drinks with the people you just called to hang out with. If you "go off the grid" every once in a while, I think you'll find that the world doesn't end.

The key here is effort though. It isn't easy to meet up with people when you can just use the internet to communicate. But if you really are worried about the effects technology has on your life, then effort shouldn't be an issue.

I guess you can blame the technology, or you can blame yourself.
> profit handsomely from insider trading.

...a "business" which companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter et al. are certainly doing/planning on doing too, at least indirectly, privately or otherwise under the radar.

They can also simply look at the correlations between the movements of their data and the market movements, and then make their predictions and thus investment decisions. It's not even rocket science.

Given their "Big Data" treasures, I don't think they will be able to resist that temptation.

This is another reason why I generally see a future of decentralization: it's simply a concept that's less prone to corruption and failure.
I would be curious to see the percentage that doesn't allow that information to be retrieved, if that's a possibility.
I never quite understood the fascination with medium.. it's cool and all, but I'd rather invest in my own "platform" as Marco had put it and control everything with respect to my brand, content and tweak anything and everything to my heart's desire.
I got access to all of BitTorrent Inc's source code and sensitive documents
Ha, yep.
My concern isn't really the 'connective-ness' of these networks/web in general. It's the 'reward' system and instant gratification via the 'point systems' - re-tweets, karma, Likes etc. The way we interact with these networks is entirely based on gaining more 'points' and using them as a measure. We are almost going back to the playground where if you did something funny and everyone else laughed, regardless of its worth you would do it again. There's no substance, there's no real value, It's your hourly 'fix' of self worth. I try to avoid the game, It's not only dangerous but I would also consider it depressing in that you start measuring your own worth against someone else because they got a better reaction - playground again.
Quick word to say I really like the website.. congrats on the team behind it! : )
Not all. Moodgym is interactive and I found it helped a lot more than a book did.
Drone strikes in Yemen are closer to the "he's shooting at us!" than they are to arresting foreign citizens in foreign countries and trying them in a jurisdiction they've never been in for breaking laws they had no say in making.

There isn't really a good answer here except maybe if people stopped trying to kill Americans...
Military here.

They aren't really the same cryptologists that we think of, and they aren't the same guys who are writing programs to go through our phone records.

The majority of cryptologists who are forward deployed are there to ensure that the cryptography is used correctly. Despite many years of attempts to make it easier to use, cryptography. especially for portable radios, is a pain in the ass to use. People have to be trained. Areas have to be made where crypto equipment is stored and secured. Deficiencies in use have to be identified. That's what those people are for.

With the fact that we've had more than two million troops deployed during the War on Terror, I'm actually surprised that the number of NSA cryptologists is at 6,000. They must be very senior people.
One interesting observation, I have no idea if this can be turned into a startup idea, is you can usually tell within the first two lines of comments in a "SDR" type story who is coming from an analog EE RF background and who's coming from a programmer digital background. And there's very few in between, as a percentage.

I donno if the startup idea is an online course for CS to understand EE or EE to understand CS or both or ... ?
When that black and white law is:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I'll go with yes. Alas, interpretation then falls to the definition and grammar of every part of said law.
I agree that it is a terrible system, but I literally can't think of a viable alternative. Information is so powerful, I'd say it deserves to be a fourth branch if government, except that it's power would quickly eclipse all others. As bad as Fox News is, I have no expectation that Gov News would be any better. And as long as we have the 1st, we'd still have Fox News anyway.

The best I could think of is tightening the reins through FCC licenses, revoking them for intentional deception (although good luck proving this in a way that can't backfire.)
Some people just aren't down with the "worse is better" design philosophy that Vim and *nix in general share.
It is an incorrect characterization when referring to the Affordable Care Act, as that went through so many revisions and debate over such a long period, that anyone who did not read it has zero excuse (including the public who allows itself to be misinformed about its contents). But it's not quite unfair wrt the PATRIOT Act. There was widespread reporting, complaining, and outright indignation that the PATRIOT Act was never read by a majority of congresspersons who voted for it. It was so massive, that there was little time to actually read the legal language overnight.

Of course, I expect my lawmakers to actually read the legal language.
I just started therapy a weeks ago after several years of debating it. It is, at times, extremely difficult for me to say things out loud. There are even things I have trouble admitting to myself. Every time I go in for a session, I wish there were some option other than a face-to-face.

I think this is great.
>We invaded and occupied Iraq and didn't even get any oil, just a trillion or so in national debt. At least in the time of Rome citizen soldiers were titled large swaths of land in the conquered territories.

The trillions in national debt benefits somebody. Somebody somewhere gets those interest payments and they wouldn't have if the U.S had not borrowed from them.
I am a dedicated Vim user, but I would assume people looking for an IDE instead of an editor, with tab-complete, file browsing etc but don't want to install and configure the myriad plugins required to get Vim into this state; would prefer Sublime.
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NSA director addresses Black Hat, says there have been “zero abuses” of data
It was down for me, here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Als.pw...
You would just need to run a script that runs phantomjs (casperjs and you can run tests at the same time) and saves screenshots of different pages in your app. Then it checks in the images (possibly in a different repo that is just for comparing screenshots). This could be done as part of continuous integration. Whenever deploying one could generate a compare view with the last deployed revision.
I'm not surprised at all. A lot of therapy is being able to admit undesirable/guilty thoughts, or not worry about if the therapist is judging you, etc.

It makes a lot of sense that you might be more inhibited in a room with the actual therapist, and more disinhibited if it's just over the phone, or looking at your laptop screen.

And therapy is just talk -- it's not like a doctor who has to judge your blood pressure.
After. There wasn't much to add just some indication that "this is a header" etc.
Javascript testing with Jasmine
Looks like I'm a little late for this comment party, but I'd just like to highlight one comment from the Forbes website that I thought was good:

"In general I agree with McCoy in his ad-hoc debate with Gen Alexander as well as his post presentation remarks about the distorted perspective of national security. At the same time, I do conceed that the NSA is acting in good faith and ‘within the law’ as presented to them via the Patriot Act. I have similar feeling about the value of TSA, but whereas the TSA is a publicly disclosed program, my most pressing concern with the NSA is the secrecy of it. First, the secrecy presents an extremely high degree of risk (in terms of both the probabilty of occurance as well as the dangers) of mission creep. I doubt Congressional nor FISC oversight are adequate to mitigate this risk. Second, secrecy is not really a valid tool for deterence. Anti-terrorism programs are like a doomsday devices: it’s a good deterence only if it is widely known about (see Dr Strangelove). Moreover, while secret programs might be good for support of kill/capture programs, it is far from clear that such efforts reduce terrorism.

For all I know, the government spy/drone program is to terrorists as a hammer is to an ant colony. If you have a spilled pot of honey in the kitchen, it doesn’t matter how good you are at spotting and smashing ants. I want to know these things, so that I can help shape public policy through the ballot box."
--uspatriot2001

I think that's a good assessment of the high-level picture, and it's much more informative than "NSA BAD! Freedom good!" (not to belittle anyone's comments here) in that it reflects a road forward.
There are a few community drivers worth noting:

- kclay's Scala driver (rethink-scala): https://github.com/kclay/rethink-scala

- esycat's Scala driver (scala-rql): https://github.com/esycat/scala-rql

- dkhenry's Java driver (rethinkjava): https://github.com/dkhenry/rethinkjava

As far as ORMs go, there aren't any for Java that I'm aware of. ORMs for other languages can be found here: http://rethinkdb.com/docs/frameworks-and-libraries/. There are several ORMs for JavaScript, Python, and Ruby so far.

We would love contributions for other languages. Shoot me an email at mike [at] rethinkdb.com if you're interested in building an ORM or community driver.
Assuming your subject is relevant to HN. Not every dev is interested in tech blogging.
Not a single Cherokee server :(: http://cherokee-project.org
And if they put a hand scanner on 1 other door then what? Having a sign that indicates where a court is, is not silly.
Well, there's roughly a lifetime of perfectly legal technological entertainment if you bother to get licensed and operate under FCC part 97, for which this gadget would make an interesting toy/tool.

You could read more about this topic at http://www.arrl.org/
The interface is quite bad. I was able to scroll right to see a total of three slides, with no indication that there were any others. I thought that was the end!

I tried hitting space, and another slide scrolled in! But I wasn't done reading, so I hit shift-space, which is the common idiom to reverse the direction of space. But it scrolled in the same direction. Now I'm two slides behind. After some more thrashing, I found that I could use the arrow keys to navigate. Delete also goes back.

Please don't make me use trial and error to figure out your UIs, Google!
I was talking specifically about the ones who setup the current situation. Clearly there is no argument that its been embraced and extended by the current puppet regime.
Does it really matter what email provider you use if you don't use encryption? I'm not sure i understand why using gmail is any different then sending clear-text emails across the Internet to another provider.
Worth noting: The Google Authenticator app lets _anyone_ generate a shared secret seed that can be added to the app (which, afaict, does not communicate with the network at all).

I'm confused as to why you'd need a third-party for this.

Example of how to generate a seed and share it with an ssh server: https://scottlinux.com/2013/06/02/use-google-authenticator-f...
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And then, it's of course also about redistributing these tax dollars to your own benefit. It's about politicians taking money out of the tax pot and giving it to their friends.
I wonder how his temporary "HTTP 301 Moved Permanently" redirect to medium.com affects his resurrected blog's search engine placement.
You likely will still not be convinced, but some of those issues (off the top of my head, at least the splits with keyboard) seem to be addressed by Vintageous (and some [plugins][0] for it).

[0]: https://github.com/rodcloutier/Vintageous-Origami "Vintageous Origami"
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10 websites are actually running WEBrick in production. Nice.
Thanks! We'd love feedback from other people on usability, content, and design.
How Google blows statistical smoke up the media's skirts
a custom one actually, and it does have tons of warts and i'd rather be using datomic, but it does an exceptional job of expressing high level queries that expand into a mess of nested SQL expressions.
Starbucks: Faster, Free WiFi From Google
Bingo. It's embarrassing how good it feels to get a bunch of "likes" and how much of the conversation gets slanted that way.
It won't really help when switching between applications, as I would have to put the editor in insert mode every time I left it.

Maybe I should just look into classic conditioning and have someone beat me up every time I enter text in command mode.
This preference isn't even black and white.

One quote that sticks in my mind is this one from P.J. O'Rourke in Parliament of Whores, concerning Ken Starr's written position on a flag-desecration law:

Congress had "acted narrowly." (That is, the law is very specific, and you
can't be arrested for having a smart look on your face near the flag or
anything like that—which is good because being specific is the essence of
lawmaking and the whole difference between having a congress and having a
mom.)

The point here is that specificity is good so that J. Random Citizen can easily know if they are breaking the law or not.

But this is the reason that we have the ability to have the law interpreted on a case-by-case basis, which is different from interpreting "laws", the specific as-written instances. Note that the Supreme court doesn't hear or decide on a law randomly, only when someone brings a specific case to them.

The law should be written as "it's a crime to kill someone" (although, that may be too specific, and a more appropriate wording may be "it's a crime to rob someone of their life and livelihood"), and it's up to the executive and judicial branches to decide (or aid in deciding in the case of the executive) what the punishment should be. This is the defendant's "day in court", as it were.

I think too many people do treat the law as absolute in wording, rather than absolute in spirit. A law that enforces something unjustly on the defendant is just as bad as a law that doesn't justly enforce the plaintiff's rights. Finding that appropriate middle ground is the basis for the grey area that is the interpretation of law.

IANAL.
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> Short circuit returns are the devil

vi!

Naïve, absolutist positions in areas of long-standing debate between programmers of great experience and the highest imaginable competence just makes you look ridiculous.
http://jontaplin.com/2008/03/11/eliot-spitzer-the-nsa/

"I’ve been tough on Spitzer, but we can’t forget that the reason he got in trouble was because of the new NSA domestic surveillance apparatus that was so brilliantly depicted in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Here’s the Lede.

Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon
anti-terrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data
about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious
patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on
Americans’ privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.

But the data-sifting effort didn’t disappear. The National
Security Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance,
has been building essentially the same system.

Spitzer was what the data-mining experts at the NSA call a PEP–a politically exposed person. Banks now monitor PEP’s money wiring activities figuring they are classic targets of blackmail or bribery. Spitzer got caught in the data mining screen. I know people will probably say that even Mukasey had to sign off on an investigation as explosive as this. Spitzer was a self-detructive idiot, but at the end of the day, we have to realize that nobody has any privacy anymore."
Huh? It's been confirmed in this leak and others that using encryption greatly if not completely increases the chances of you being surveilled.
No, you'd see more complex laws because law makers would just write around the unit tests rather than address the fundamental issue. Ergo, accessing a university computer would be fine (because that's in the test) but accessing a library computer would not .
Considering they've explicitly thanked notoriously destructive concern-troll Valerie Aurora and her organization The Ada Initiative for assistance, my guess would be direct pressure to support her divisive and unproductive agenda.
Since almost all stores are owned by Starbucks (some stores in airports and malls are not corp. stores), shouldn't they have a clear, firm wide policy?
Well now, this is good news.

Looking forward to seeing what is posted in the "Python" department!
The problem with this is, human beings don't blindly interpret and process laws as code. Human beings can honestly differ in their interpretation of a law, and the accepted interpretation can change over time.

Some one, or some body, would have to decide what the 'proper' interpretation of these laws would be, and craft the 'unit tests' such that they correspond to the status quo. Then that someone or some body would have to ensure that anyone who disagrees with that interpretation gets put down. What you're describing seems like a particularly technocratic form of fascism to me.
Historically, is there any good example for a community that had issues and was improved by a CoC?

I'm really interested because - All I've seen over the years is that a community has toxic people in them and it's either because of their actions or (funnily enough) because of their initiative that a CoC gets drafted and put in place. Afterwards, these toxic people now see themselves in charge of upholding the CoC and you get a neat little mall cop situation.

It depends on the CoC, of course, but in my experience the actual details only change the rate of decline in community quality. If it does end up getting better, it's often in spite of the CoC, not because of it.

Inevitably, people who aren't as anal about the rules find themselves pushed out of the community by sheer frustration over being policed by the mall cops. More often than not, the people who are pushed out happen to be the more productive members of the community (in other areas than policing).

I had an experience where I was policed for using the "highly offensive dictionary ``complete cock´´". Not towards a person, just as a general expression. I was so astonished, I had to make a screenshot. It marked the beginning of the end of my participation in that particular forum.

A year later, another developer was pushed out of the community for using the word "pussy". As in: "I decided I will finish this code tonight instead of being a pussy." Fun times.
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Remember kids: no posting violent animated gifs!
I definitely agree. SFO, or any airport for that matter, is not obligated to let companies like FlightCar do business on their premises. I was only trying to illustrate that there was a potential for them to capitalize on the situation. Given our litigious society, if they allowed FlightCar to operate they would probably just be sued in turn by the rental car agencies.
I recently tried switching from Vim to Sublime, but its window splitting just didn't work for me. In Vim, I make :sp and :vsp splits for quick edits all the time. Sublime's splits were cumbersome and didn't have (easy) side-by-side views into the same file.
Co-worker showed me this. It's great for testing web apps - you can have all the types of authentication go back to 1 address.
Sweet Jesus... I was looking at the news about your case and posting here is a violation of your bail conditions, if you stopped responding here for any other reason don't start again for that reason, you are endangering your freedom.
Did you mean http://cherokee-project.com/ ? Your link goes to a nonexistent GitHub Page.
The Google Authenticator app is great. I recently got (TOTP) 2-factor auth for an IRC bot going with Google Authenticator; took about 5 minutes to code it up and set it up. It doesn't use any sort of 3rd party service, just the application running locally on my phone.

TOTP/HOTP is dead simple and, with the open source Google Authenticator app, great for the end user.
This is the same as the 'Nigerian 419' fraud concept. They fill the email with spelling and grammar mistakes and in doing so, they filter out the marginally intelligent, resulting in a pre-filter to attract the most gullible.

The crappy, hand drawn ads, the dire videos, and the bad production have the same effect. The punter needs to be a gullible fool, since a fool and his money are soon parted.
Awesome job, congrats!

Do you plan to implement automatic re-election in case of master failure?
That's all stuff that happened after I left, but I would bet "not hard at all", if you can implement a controller that presents the same API as https://github.com/pyrf/pyrf/blob/master/pyrf/devices/thinkr...
Worth noting that definition and grammar are also contextual. Define "speech". Does that include visual images in video games? Grammatically no. Clearly not contemplated by the founders. But absolutely a fundamental part of free speech given the current times.
What comes out of a hackathon
The Art And Science Behind Email Newsletters
I like how one of the stories in slate's sidebar is "The Secret Ingredient [...] will blow your mind"
NSA power doubles every 4 years – Assange
Facebook - Secure Browsing by Default
Sublime Text has a much better GUI front-end than gvim or MacVim. So for someone who doesn't want to work in a terminal and wants to use a GUI based editor, they may feel that a fully featured vim mode in Sublime Text would offer the best of both worlds: rich keyboard-controlled text editing and a beautiful front-end GUI.

I just use vim inside tmux, but that's mostly because I have to write a significant amount of code on a remote machine via ssh.

Also, I will say that even as a dedicated vim user I wouldn't be thrilled to use vim without a large number of plugins that more or less just offer features something like Sublime Text can offer natively, like a decent file tree browser. So a vim mode in Sublime Text can make the barrier to entry lower by reducing the need for the modern programmer to load up vim with plugins.
That's an absurd line of thinking. First, Course has no SQL courses [1]. Second, just because "x" sells cheaply somewhere (or is given away) does not automatically make all other content creators fall in line. You obviously are not familiar with Chris Date's work. His book sells for $150 still [2] so I'm actually surprised to see his video courses sell for less than $500. And I know I'm not alone in chuckling at your "the era of Coursera" comment haha. Idealism at its finest!

[1] https://www.coursera.org/courses?search=sql

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-8th-Edit...
Server is down for me. Not a good sign...
repo with the contents of the house.gov site:
https://github.com/peterkinnaird/US-Code