skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly didn't expect my representative Chris van Hollen (his Congressional District is the MD suburbs of Washington, DC, not too far from the NSA), to vote to de-fund it. It would result in hundreds of lost jobs in his district. But nevertheless, I regret not making the phone call yesterday.

I hope this bill is offered up again, so I get a chance to tell my representative my opinion on it.

Edit: probably hundreds of jobs, not thousands.
It's really interesting looking at the people who voted against this -- Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Bachmann?
I have an 802.11n router using 5Ghz. When streams are over 10Mbps (common for 1080p streams) I run into problems all the time over WiFi from my computer to my Apple TV. It's not even interference (the channel is pretty clean). It's prefab concrete walls – they don't like WiFi.
Americans are a very order-loving people. It's hard to get them to riot or protest about anything, much less something like NSA surveillance that has no visible negative impact to the ordinary person.
This was so inspirational and amazing that I purchased two prints for my office.

Nice work grandpa!
In case anyone misses my other reply to this troll, her initial commit[0] was the default Rails app, which most any newbie can get up on GitHub in a single day. She didn't even touch the app/ directory, where all the Rails-specific code lives, until two months later.[1]

Please, no one believe this jerk.

[0]: https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt/tree/258e91c40f...

[1]: https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt/commit/c0d02c8c...
Promising Sleight of Hand, Someday
Ah good point, I sorta dashed off the title at the last minute. But the main focus of the article (and the whole point of HTTPS) is to make a secure end-to-end connection between a client and a server, not stop all attack vectors on a web server.
Remember this wasn't to defund the NSA, just to defund the programs that spy on us citizens.
"Because the TLS handshake occurs before the HTTP connection begins, there can be problems if there are multiple websites hosted on the same server, at the same IP address."

This is why Server Name Indication ( SNI ) is so important. It allows multiple host names on a single IP address to support HTTPS.

Once again, IE on Windows XP is the biggest problem here. Windows XP systems simply must use something besides Internet Explorer ( Chrome or Firefox would be good ).
My logic, is that if it becomes apparent which companies/organizations are funding the pro-NSA politicians, then something can be done about it.

Whether it's nudging the SEO of donor companies in a negative direction or calling up companies and asking them why they support the NSA.

You might find this useful: https://optin.stopwatching.us/

Edit: Also might find this useful: http://defundthensa.com/
We released task lists earlier this year: https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-...
I wish I could go back and edit the title. I upvoted you to compensate.

Sorry.
I've been a huge fan of Michael Yon's for years.

I still read his posts every day, even though he's been pissing his life away in Thailand the last few years.

His posts and pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan were so poignant and heartfelt that...dunno, I can't even finish the sentence.

I would compare him to Ernie Pyle, but that just seems like a disservice to both.

I didn't see his original post linked anywhere - where he explains his naming of the Kopp-Etchells effect, so here it is: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/the-kopp-etchells-effect/pa...
Yes - this would be another feather in the cap for the old NeXT engineers (and I suppose the folks who have worked to update it since...)
Correct - but this would still mean tons of lost jobs in this area, right? Surely, some human's eventually got to analyze the stuff.
I don't think there's any real value in HN points, so you're basically asking if it's worthy of something worthless. It's just an indicator of interest by the HN community, not a gift of any worth. That being said, I'm sure a decent chunk of the 900 votes were from software devs, many of whom are probably ones that work their tails off. It's possible there is something more intriguing than the dedication alone. One thing I find interesting is the head-first/all-in nature of the project.
I'd like to know as well. Specifically, other than the actual web app, what proven tools do people use to monitor their service & manage their organization?
Moonlight's been dead for a while: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-Decemb...
The website is an eyesore (literally).
I am unsure this book's claims are correct, and I still remain skeptical. But one epiphany I had in dealing with my recent RSI is that it does make me worry — quite a bit in fact. Programming is not only how I make a living, and also a hobby and my future life as a grad student. Having it all be at risk because of RSI makes me incredibly stressed. Previously when I've had RSI, it's gone away after a week or so. Now I'm the most stressed I've ever been about it because it just hasn't gone away. I don't think it's so odd to suspect that there is a psychological component (and now that I am aware of it I am addressing this it from angle more). There's an unlimited positive pain feedback cycle, which could explain the persistence. I could see some sort of process where RSI's origination is physical (overuse, definitely was in my case) but its lingering is a function of stress.

This article also made me realize that it is silly for skeptics to use the placebo effect (a purely psychological effect) to attack pseudoscience healing crap, but then dismiss psychological explanations for pain. If the mind can limit pain through the placebo effect, why is it so suspicious the brain can cause or continue pain?
I know the feeling, but I figured I would just put it out there and let people more versed at this stuff than I find the relationships, if any exist and let us know.
Did you agree to such micromanagement in your contract?
These "order-loving people" are the same ones that buy-out all ammunition when a vague proposal is put forward to improve gun registration... I'm not sure how to reconcile these positions at all.
Rep. Amash (MI-03) Discusses His NSA Amendment to DoD Appropriations
I don't think what he did is ethical and I would be happy to see him jailed for an actual crime.

But talking to a webserver isn't like entering a house. It's like making a phone call. "Hi.. my name is Firef--, I mean, Mobile Safari. Can I have your email?"

I think creating a precedent for prosecution when accessing a number of web pages after spoofing a header is far, far worse than making an example of a troll that exploited a loophole to grab information that he shouldn't have. When talking to a webserver, without a clear separation between public and private with something like an API key or username/password, the only possible convictions we should allow is over DoS and that is only if there is malicious intent.
But you can downgrade an iOS 7 device to iOS 6 using iTunes, so I even if iOS 7 did expire, it's not the end of the world.
Thank you for this. First we need transparency, then we need action.
Awesome news! Pluralsight is the bomb! They have wonderful content already. But, add PeepCode to the mix and they are unstoppable. Pluralsight+PeepCode=Awesome!
Time Reborn: a new theory of time - a new view of the world
Army’s Giant Surveillance Blimp to Start Tracking Objects in DC Region
The typical solution is to assign a person with the authority to let +1 guests in to the registration desk or at least make sure that such a person can be contacted when needed. This is fairly common in my experience regardless of the scale of the event so I'm not sure why you're trying to make it look like this was somehow unreasonable.
I want a thorium-powered car.

http://www.geekosystem.com/thorium-powered-car/
> It would result in hundreds of lost jobs in his district.

I'm just imagining a bill like this being debated in hypothetical 1980s East Germany, and legislators being concerned about the loss of all the good-paying Stasi jobs.
Why is it so obvious to the internet and no one else that thorium is the future of power? What do they (the experts) know that we don't?
It clearly does "intrude" whatever that means, the question is: does it intrude illegally or unreasonably? The relevant chart is on page 2: 58% think it's either not an intrusion or a justified intrusion, and 34% think it's an unjustified intrusion.
I'm curious what else was going on in this bill? Was it solely a bill limiting NSA data collection, or was it another one of those where NSA data collection is the headline item, then inside it is alot of other junk.
Apparently you were really reading that. I don't think dress code is out of the question though. Thong swimsuits would be a horrible thing to speak in.
No problem. Can't wait to turn this into a network graph and shine light on the fattest nodes.
For Afghanistan, Tim Lynch, who ran a contracting company "Free Range International" out of the "Jalalabad Guest House" (which at MIT Fab Lab and others, and the only bar in Jalalabad) also had a great blog: http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/ -- the most recent entries are some kind of story, but the early ones were great.
Bookmarkn'd and entweetinated!
What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Glowing Blue Wave
No need. If you up-voted the post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=kyle_martin1
Here are the final vote results on ROLL CALL 412 (Amash of Michigan Amendment No. 100) from the House website.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
What about proxied MITM attacks using a valid CA certificate for the proxy? And also, browsers are not the only HTTP clients out there. HTTPS I believe is a quite a mess as is cert validation and the CA Cert system in general. I view HTTPS as security-lite. I think we need something better.
Gitmo by numbers (Infografic from ACLU)
The other party benefits from status quo and we don't, that's why. :)

...maybe
Thorium is cleaner than Uranium, and does not produce radiaoactive elements that can be used for weapons proliferation (it does not produce plutonium).
It's fun picturing yesterday's emergency top-secret hearing[1].

"We'd just like all of you in the House to know that we've recorded every single one of your phone calls and have all your emails on file. If this amendment passes and our funding gets cut..."

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-surveillance-amendment-amash-485/
They say Bill Gates because he's famous.

This is a spinoff of Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures - which is a patent trolling company. They may talk about plans to produce actual nuclear power, but I'll believe it when I see it. However it is guaranteed to create a lot of patents.

Personally, even if it does succeed, I would have a bad taste in my mouth for anything and everything involved because I do not like Nathan Myhrvold.
I don't see any conflict. Legal gun buyers in the US are the most law-abiding people in the country.
The license fees are extremely reasonable for anyone doing professional development. You'll recoup the cost in one or two days of saved work.

Where exactly do you expect them to get the funds to develop this technology if they don't charge a reasonable fee to use it?
I've looked into it and couldn't find any hard evidence linking artificial sweetener to cancer, alzeimers, or other problems. Sure there may be side effects, but so far they are undocumented.

Sugar, on the other hand, is one of the most toxic substances we know, with proven links to diabetes, alzheimers, and other ailments. I'll take my chances with Aspartame!
Trump Puts the Clown in Crowdfunding
It's just expensive. Generally there's OpenSSL support.

The HSM market makes me really sad. I'm kind of considering doing an "open source HSM" -- something using COTS components, ideally a few generations old, with everything totally verifiable by the user/assembler, and a key loadable at manufacture time -- the idea being companies could assemble and certify their own, or a third party or industry association could certify them for their regulees. Goal would be to price a low end version around $100-200, and a high-end (x86-64 performance) in the low thousands, unlike the rape that is Thales or SafeNet ($20k+ for mediocre performance). Plus, if you're at all "interesting", there's no way you'd trust a European defense contractor or a US defense-affiliated company with a "black box for keys, trust us".

Not sure if this would be a good business, though. Would need to raise actual VC for it, and while I know some awesome HW people, including in the tamper-resistance space, I've never done volume production of any hardware myself.
Americans don't take to the streets because people on the streets are vulnerable to riot police with tear gas and mass arrest enclosures.
The vote was over whether to add the following ammendment to the DoD appropriations bill:

> None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to execute a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) that does not include the following sentence: ‘‘This Order limits the collection of any tangible things (including telephone numbers dialed, telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) that may be authorized to be collected pursuant to this Order to those tangible things that pertain to a person who is the subject of an investigation described in section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861).

http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/AMASH_018_xml27...

The ammendment's author (Justin Amash) discusses what this means here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqJcQR0im8
Biotechnology: Independent streak
Not a good plan. If you want to learn how to code by reading code read high quality code on Github.
America can be pretty-well described by a Protestant sense of order with a frontiers-y gun culture. The guns are there for hunting, shooting criminals, and in case the order breaks down, not to fight the order the exists now.

Watch the show Jericho for a pretty good idea of much of America thinks. I.e. people who had no beef with the government as it existed, but kinda fantasize about what would happen if the government collapsed and they were on their own.
I won't begrudge anyone who finds comfort in this "mindbody" stuff. If your pain is gone, good for you. But I really really hope you folks won't take away the wrong lesson and assume that all RSI is mental. It's not.

Overcoming my own physical pain was tough, but I eventually conquered it. Here's what worked for me.

* I learned to type Dvorak. Since learning how to type on a C64 at the age of 3, my typing form has always been terrible. If nothing else, Dvorak taught me how to put my fingers in the right places.

* I picked up a split-in-two-halves keyboard. The right half of the keyboard is rotated counter-clockwise to address the extreme ulnar deviation in my right forearm (following an old injury).

* It's also nice, with these broad shoulders, to spread out the two keyboard halves. This helps a lot with my neck and shoulders.

* I tented that keyboard to ease pronation in my wrists. I started at about 70 degrees (almost fully vertical) and eased down to 15 degrees over time.

* I grabbed a vertical mouse to match my vertical-ish keyboard.

* I stopped leaning my head toward the screen. Huge help for my neck.

* I started using a sit-stand desk. This is a great way to "take a break" without actually taking a break.

Some other important observations.

* Being in good physical shape reduces all my RSI problems/risks across the board. When I'm fit, I can type in any awkward position for days without pain. When I'm fat, I get RSI just thinking about my keyboard. Being fit at the moment, all my new equipment and good computing habits are making me far more productive.

* Good sleep and good food also help. Sometimes I lose focus and slip back into bad habits when I'm in a cheesesteak coma, for example.

It may be possible to fix your RSI physically if you pay really close attention to what your body is telling you, and earnestly experiment with possible solutions. Some big organizations in SV have ergo labs where you can go test out equipment for free. Use that resource if you can. Do what you must, but don't discount the physical solutions.
I can't recall any other issue, splitting the House orthogonal to party lines.
GlobalSign has a pretty brilliant solution for dealing with Windows XP -- https://www.globalsign.com/cloud/multiple-ssl-certificates-s...
Sure, each congressperson has their own opinion. But this observation provides no explanatory power.

As others have said, one crude characterization of D/R split is that R is generally more supportive of spending for national security. I think this provides the ideological basis for the D/R split.

The interests of the President are not aligned with those of Congress in this case: the President is a consumer of the intel. This is why the D's in Congress did not follow him.

Additionally, I suspect that Congresspersons have noticed that their constituents are getting restless about intel collection. Obama doesn't have to run for election again, but they do.

As an observer of politics, I too find this vote very interesting.
I think the point of this article is to show off some of the highly technical insides of Daala, so there's not much a TL;DR can do for you. The goals of Daala can be found here: https://xiph.org/daala/
There is nothing quite like working with a platform/language that you know inside and out, where you rarely have to stop and look something up, where you know the best way to do everything. It feels like flying a jet fighter, screaming along at Mach 3.

On the other hand, although it can be frustrating puttering along with a new language/technology, googling some basic question every 10 minutes, that's how you learn, and sometimes you need language XX to accomplish task YY.

Ultimately there is value to both, and as others have said, it depends on your goals. There will be times that call for learning a new stack and getting it done (even if it's coded badly), and times that call for expert application of masters-level deep magic.
Watch the video on youtube about ubuntu for android. This is from a year ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1Z7bf4jXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY
It would be great to hear more about this, are there any 'Hello World' examples? I assume the API's that NaCl-exposed have a corresponding set of C# interfaces? How does one write to the browser window, get user input, network I/O, etc?
singling out this one detail is a huge distraction to the real issue

That's because some guy is kind of egging on Internet commenters, saying, "oh, she should just be an adult."
As goes Silverlight, so does Moonlight...
You wish. The fact is most Americans wouldn't even conceive of protesting. It's unseemly and the kind of thing you'd expect the French to do, or worse people in uncivilized places like the Egypt. Your typical American thinks of tear gas and mass arrests as being for dirty hippies like those OWS protesters (young, unemployed, urbanites--triple whammy), not regular folks like themselves. And that's probably true--what kind of tear gas and mass arrests were used on Tea Party protestors?
Have you tried finding some productive use for your downtime?
Knockout does incremental updates as well as memoization. It instruments the evaluation of computed observables to determine the dependency relationships. I haven't delved into Ractive.js closely, but it sounds like it does something similar. How is what they do different from what you're describing?
Running unsigned apps on 10.8 requires doing one of three things:

1. Using a browser other than Safari

2. Holding Option while opening the dmg

3. Changing the Gatekeeper settings

In practice #1 means that many people never even notice Gatekeeper.
At some point Microsoft has to trust their invited guests to behave like professionals. Believe me, if I ever decide to abuse Microsoft's hospitality as a guest speaker at one of their conferences, I will get a LOT more creative than merely inviting my kids and family members to sit in the audience.

I don't know exactly what I would do or say once I got behind the mic, but you'd probably read about it on here, if not on CNN.
These law-abiding citizens should demand the same from their government, shouldn't they?
There was a run on guns. Generally when an item goes 'on a run' there is panic behind the purchase.
Matthew Butterick is an entertaining character. Here's him at the Write the Docs conference 3 months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6HuvosP0s. Great intro talk to typography for beginners.
That's not a joke. It's belittling.

I can tell the difference.
Am i the only one here concerned about this move?. While PeepCode is renowned for top quality content, this acquisition may deteriorate PeepCode with PluralSight's mediocre level of quality. This feels like stackoverflow being acquired by that hyphen separated site.
It's great for a run and go gadget, but I don't think it'll replace my HTPC.

If I didn't already have dedicated hardware, I'd get one. As it is, there isn't anything it does that makes it worth including in an existing HTPC setup.
I admit this tripped me up for a minute. After blinking a few times, I realized that any object that's difficult to initialize manually is going to be a constructor provided for it anyway. But, see also: the Zero trait Patrick mentioned, which can be derived.
The biggest dongle of them all: the internet
Saas is a form of copy protection. It's a dongle. Adobe is using it. Salesforce. Facebook. Even Hacker News. So please, let's not pretend that software is defective when its copy protected. The difference between a business that uses some form of copy protection and one that does not is measured in millions of dollars. I asked a question about this a while ago and got crickets so allow me to rephrase.

You use copy protected software every single day of your life so you surely have an opinion on what works and what does not. I have a program that will run on a server near a Postgresql database. It's a mobile and web-enabled developer tool similar to pgadmin3. What would be best practice for copy protection? The best we've come up with is a phone home scheme. We'd like it to be as transparent to the user as possible.
Riots don't really work, for the most part. And anyway, no one is actually being harmed by this -- at least not in a way that they could see or guess.
The nytimes has this: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412
No: Nancy Pelosi: D CA-12 - San Francisco
:facepalm:

Edit: At least M. Honda who is the Congressman for Silicon Valley voted Yes.
I'm not sure how to reconcile these positions at all.

It may help if you understand that these people don't trust the government to keep order. It's not wild-eyed anarchists who are buying that ammo.
The History of Website Development  | Pantheon
A lot of these donors probably donated to the other side, too. "I won't do business with anyone who funds politicians I don't like, even if they also fund politicians I do like" is not necessarily a bad policy, but just be aware that that's what you're adopting if you choose to move your business away from these donors without also checking out the other side of the coin.
you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard now.
Thanks - I swear to god I know the difference.

Could you link me to anything you found definitive against artificial sweetener?
I'm pretty sure the compilation time is less to do with the "level" that it operates. From presentations on the topic, most of the time savings were by making the syntax completely unambiguous. Apparently, in C/C++ and similar, some of the longest parts of the compilation process are lexing/parsing/AST-building, etc

(citations needed)