skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please do. If there's anything I can do to help, reply to this comment as I don't have any contact info on my profile.
I'd recommend https://MyKolab.com It is 100% Open Source and hosted in Switzerland where the world's strongest privacy laws exist.
Yes they can do that without much resistance from their customers, but imagine some other business* smuggling hidden fees into your bill - you will feel offended and cheated. This marks restaurants as an unusual business.

* I was going to call telcos an example, but then I don't know whether they don't already do that in the US. Or indeed anywhere. Which is a bit scary if you ask me.
This may be the most ignorant comment I've ever -- and I mean ever -- read on a web discussion board. And I frequent many discussion boards.

Current German culture is equivalent to German culture under the Third Reich? Really?

Is current American culture equivalent to early-through-mid 19th century American culture? Should we discount everything the USA does because you once kept/traded/abused black people as property? Then continued to legislate such thinking via Jim Crow well into the 20th century?

Now that I look, I notice your post history is littered with anti-German racism rooted in complete historical ignorance. I'm wondering what your angle is.
Keep in mind that a partner at a top firm who bills her time out at $750, is making a lot more than that, due to the nature of a legal partnership.
You should submit a story to HN about the problems of osteopathy; that would make this an interesting discussion.

But here, it's just a sideshow. Your point was that being able to prescribe medicine is not a big deal. Whatever you may think of the philosophy of osteopathy, being a DO is a big deal; DO's are doctors, licensed by the state to practice medicine. It is approximately as hard to become a licensed DO as it is to be an MD. DO's are not like chiropractors. Chiropractors don't go to med school.

You were wrong, obviously wrong, and it is clear that no matter what your underlying feelings about osteopathy are, this subthread is irrelevant. In fact, you're doing your opinions about osteopathy a disservice by hitching them to to this particular argument!
That is not quite what happened. As the link below says, it was not an exploit. Users were warned that using pure IMAP access and/or webmail, which was a convenience feature and continues to be with them, would require your private key. It was recommended you do not do that, and use the provided Java applet or mobile app. The person in question in those criminal proceedings used one of those convenience functions, if memory serves.

Not that defend Hushmail. I do not, fuck 'em for that. There are plenty of services like Lavabit that avoid that problem, but that requires intelligent users/criminals/what-have-you.
Actually, there's a growing amount of evidence that there's a single, general-purpose algorithm in the human brain that gives rise to intelligence. For one, there's the fact that every part of the brain looks and behaves the same. There's also the fact that the brain is very plastic in what it learns – the auditory cortex can learn to "see" if we were to rewire the signals from the eyes from the visual cortex to the auditory cortex. It's very unlikely that our brain is hard-wired to recognize faces, for instance, but rather that it learns to do so using this generic learning algorithm.

I urge you to watch Andrew Ng's talk that I linked to in the post, and read On Intelligence (http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...) by Jeff Hawkins, a book that totally changed the way I look at intelligent behavior.
No Sass support? :(
When the FUCK did we become a nation that starts shutting things down that don't comply with the government?

What really have we come to?

Reminds me of Nazis Germany, except replace communist and socialist with Free Thinkers, The Innovators.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
I support his dicision. I just wish there was some warning so I could have prepared for losing all of my contact information, etc. This couldn't have happened at a worse time as my backup server took a rather ultimate farewell yesterday.

I really don't want to use gmail or hotmail, so what other service can I use? Ugh. It might be time to get back to the roots and invest more time and effort in decentralized services instead of relying on centralized services.
I think in the long run you'll be fine. Red flags are a lot less important than ability to solve the company's problems. As much as it pains me to say it, once you move out of the startup arena into large company territory time off matters even less because most people who will interview you know very little about specific technologies and just want the hiring phase to be over with. Some won't even ask you about your time away from work. Those that do will give you a "heh, that's interesting" and move on to the next question.

Generalizing is usually pretty pointless but if I were banking on getting a programming job, were debt free, and okay with not being especially picky about what company I work for after the experiment should it come to that, I wouldn't worry too much about possible red flags.

In life you have to prioritize things. If your highest priority is running your own business or taking time off from work to try something new, then your next job after that really has to fall down the priority list. You can't have everything assured and hope to be successful. Edit: MOST PEOPLE can't have everything assured and hope to be successful. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but most of the time you do have to experience trade-offs to be successful. I'm not advocating taking huge risks, and most of the time there are smart ways to mitigate risk, but in the end I think a lot of people are arguing you should mind your red flags and try to stay focused on getting your dream job after the hiatus. I'm simply saying that isn't realistic if you want to focus on being successful in a different line of work. I've always believed you can really only be truly committed to one career at a time.
This is a pretty similar idea to my project Slinky [0], and it's definitely a productive way to do single page development. Slinky adds source dependency management (a.js depends on b.coffee), a built in proxy, concatenation/minification for final deployment and some other treats.

[0] http://mwylde.github.io/slinky/
1. Snowshoe - http://www.snow.sh/
2. Shopventory - https://shopventory.com/
3. Elihuu = http://elihuu.com/
4. Hull - http://hull.io/
5. GoodApril - https://www.goodapril.com/
6. Given Goods Co. - https://givengoods.co/
7. Prediculous - http://www.prediculous.com/
8. Kato - https://kato.im/
9. AdsNative - http://www.adsnative.com/
10. Brandfolder - https://brandfolder.com
I don't think anyone here ever takes any pleasure in using PayPal. Especially with the seizures - maybe that's the biggest concern with using their service.

But that doesn't create an alternative. People have wanted one way farther back than the NSA info dump.
At least they dont have Guantanamo with prisoners with the same racial/religious profile..

wake up dude, US is at the end of the list when it comes to human rights.. (not to say the damage in human rights it has caused to other countries like cuba, iran or iraq, hurting economy or with wars)
They are super bike friendly, considering how many people walk around there. It actually feels like a superpower, to silently fly through the crowds on a narrow one way bike lane. I just did that in july.
"Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional."

Wow. Now I'm even more interested at what the NSL/court order was looking for here.
Kudos to this comment for pointing out the addiction angle. There are definitely much more dangerous products being sold than even traditional cigarette, but hardly there is a legally marketed product more addictive than nicotine. The sale of such products should be strictly regulated, not only it because of the human costs but because it undermines the the principle of free market exchange when a customer is not at will to buy or not buy the product or alternatives. On the other hand the benefit of converting traditional smoker to e-cigs is undisputed.
Ooooh, somebody is mad, here, have another.
I have a theory that actually They don't care about surveillance, They don't care about a few measly terrorists or dissenters.

It's all about the massive federal money to implement these surveillance systems. They are just doing their jobs because its profitable.

It's the new Military Industrial Complex. War is profitable. So we have to disrupt and eradicate that as an incentive.

Encryption and political solutions are just playing defense. Destroy the core problem : the profit incentive to violate our privacy and constitutional rights.
Any associate work will be billed straight through. Nobody works for free.
No.

If you want to make a surveillance state less effective, you should generate _more_ noise, not less. When fascism is at risk of taking over, you don't just roll over and take it quietly because you fear they'll annoy you at the border.

As a person who has Nothing to Hide, I encrypt everything, and will gladly donate here. If we get everybody to use encryption, nobody will be suspect for using it. If you donate here, there's less risk that others will get hassled for donating.
god, no. that weasel ran bbs systems for the whole purpose of ratting out warez users to the authorities, making money through it as he coorporated with a lawyer. he actively spied on the users. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz#Werdegang

never ever trust that piece of ....
So what mail provided should we now be using?..
That's already happening. https://MyKolab.com for example is heavily playing the hosted in Switzerland card.
This is a very interesting but dangerous post: It's interesting because obviously the author has put a lot of thought into the topic and has done some research. However, for me, it clearly shows the danger of ideology, in fact it's a great example of it. "To be ideological is to preconceive reality." and we have a good example of that here: The author has strong opinions about sexuality and our approaches to it, there's nothing wrong with this, it's a prior. But then he starts using bits of "proofs", examples from music and literature, and the tipping experiment to bolster these claims.

Take the claim "The meme of sleeping with our waitress is important to Americans." This may or may not be true (why Americans are singled out is an interesting questions). He then cites a song, a sex and the City episode and a bartender's essay to back this up.

The later part of the post is devoted to an analysis of how our monogamous human sexuality evolved, based on text lifted off from a single book. And towards the end he switches to the notion of the waitress as a "sexual worker".

Now for the interesting part. Although his non-tipping restaurant experiment did NOT provide any proof for his theory he still views it as if it did on hypothetical grounds.

For a much better treatment of some of these ideas, consider: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolu...
I hear Human Rights Watch maintains a rank-order list. Probably Amnesty Internation does as well. But I'm about to leave to go home or otherwise I'd dig it up myself.
Do you have a clear user acquisition strategy that more money would accelerate? If not, what do you need more money for?
Isn't there enough evidence for collusion?
South Korean road wirelessly recharges OLEV buses
His Lavabit address has been in PGP key servers since April: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x4DB8A...
it's also possible that you (and Loren) are victims of Dunning–Kruger. How do you know that you aren't?

I only ask because I am in a hardcode engineering lead role and have never been made to feel like "just another dev"
Good job posting the links rurabe.
Where's the Male Pill?
Cool! I'm wondering how this could be used (or interfere) with a Parallax Ultrasonic Ping sensor for Arduino and other microprocessors. Maybe attaching the Ping sensor to a RasPi's GPIO (general purpose in/out) pins will allow for ultrasonic RasBMC remote?
> It's getting wishy-washy.

I find it a little disturbing they're claiming it will work on Verizon (my current carrier for the past 10 years) and Sprint for a few reasons:

1) It's unlikely Verizon will have VoLTE on day 1 that the phone comes out. Even if so, one has to hope they become more liberal with what they allow on their network. Since it does not have any CDMA radio, that could also be a problem as LTE is not universal yet on their network as well.

2) Sprint does not let users actually know they have sim cards. My friend's Sprint Galaxy Nexus has the sim card embedded directly in the device and cannot be seen/removed. If that continues to be true with newer Sprint Phones, it seems like it would be hard to get a sim card compatible with Sprint's network.

3) #2 Assumes that Sprint has VoLTE, let alone much of an LTE network. As far as I know, it's still in testing at best and not ready for mainstream use.

I can just predict a lot of angry Verizon and Sprint users come early next year when they try to pop in the sim card to their device or call their carrier and find out they cannot use the phone on their desired network. Canonical really should be more up front with their claims of the networks that it will (realistically) work on.
Regarding your job dichotomy: yes! My two favorite jobs ever: working at Starbucks, and freelancing. I would rent my brain out, but it's not quite under my control.
"No longer"? It could never be trusted, and many of us said so when it was first introduced. It's just taken a while for everyone else to realise that we were right.
It took me a while to understand that you probably mean Iceland.
Does anybody know of a good European VPS provider for self-hosted email? That seems to be the only way to go moving forward.
So, secret court case, started by a secret spy service gets an email service shut down. We know next to nothing, except the service went down, with out an open honest explanation. The owner is left with leaving a cryptic-ish message to their users.

So, I ask again: at what point is it reasonable to use words like fascist, police state, etc? What is a reasonable tipping point?
I'd love to see the source code too please. I'm working on a side project and would love to make it as smooth as this.
I am from Portland, as well. And the "bike friendly" claim seems like a joke after having lived in Amsterdam for nearly two years.

I don't think we (Portlanders) have a clue what bike-friendly is. It would be nice if biking in Portland were safe enough that you didn't have to wear a helmet - like it is here in Amsterdam. (I happen to be back over here in AMS for a month).
I also really liked Shamus's Project Frontier, a detailed walkthrough on generating an entire procedural world.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=11874

He released the executable at the end of the series, and I'm still sad that, as a non-programmer, I couldn't get it to run on my computer. I would have loved to have a chance to explore the world. Some of his screencaps are mindblowing.

[ETA: Since it's not immediately obvious how to get there from the rest of the articles on Project Frontier, here's the link to the source code:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=15808]
http://api.genderize.io/?name=jessie
{"jessie":"male"}

irb(main):005:0> d.get_gender("Jessie")
=> :female

Not only is it better, it handles cases like androgynous and "mostly male"

BRB while I turn this into a web api
Cost Analysis: Trubrain Proprietary Nootropic Blend vs. Generic Equivalent
> Java has no type inference, higher order functions,
> coroutines, implicits (it has some standard implicit
> conversions but not implicit conversions that can be
> added by the user) and no Turing complete type system.

Type inference in Java:

int bar = new Object(){ int foo = 42; }.foo;
// Magic? No. Type inference.

Higher order functions in Java:

http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/stream/Stream.html
Looks pretty higher-order to me.
Also possible in older version in Java with stuff like Google Guava or FJ.

Coroutines in Java:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2846428/available-coroutine-libraries-in-java

Implicits:

Having them built into the language is even worse.
In Scala you could just de-import them and have them gone.
Anyway, pick C# as an example instead if you want to have
user-defined implicit conversions.

No Turing complete type system:

interface Interface<T> {}
class Bang<T> implements Interface<Interface<? super Bang<Bang<T>>>> {
static void bang() {
Interface<? super Bang<Byte>> bang = new Bang<Byte>();
}
}

Looks pretty undecidable to me. In a way, it is even
worse than other languages: You are unable to tell
whether the type checker will terminate in finite time
(like some other languages), but don't get any additional
expressivness in return (unlike those other languages).

> As a side effect this will also find all type errors
> a compiler will find.

No, absolutely not.

> I have programmed a lot in Java and also in dynamic
> programming languages and in my opinion type errors
> just don't happen often enough to justify the
> additional amount of work and complexity that comes
> with static type systems.

This comment certainly explains a lot. You are suffering from the "I used Java and Java is statically typed and it sucks, therefore all statically typed languages have to suck" fallacy.
Well, I can't agree with that. I do believe the only way to fight this sort of overreach is in the courts, and in the court of public opinion. Publicly standing up to bullying like this is the only way to provoke larger discussions, and ultimately to stop such actions in the future. In addition he doesn't have permission to just unilaterally wipe all his users' data, even if he wanted to.

It was too late for his users' data the moment representatives of the government walked through the door of their data centre/offices, but their rights he can stand up for, which is what he has done.
FYI, Web Audio is about to land in Firefox 25 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779297
Use any mail provider, but encrypt all your email.

This has the unfortunate effect of providing plenty of meta data, and a tool for Them to lock you up until you decrypt your communications.

Or you encrypt the communication and use some form of anonymous remailer, hoping that these haven't been compromised by Them.

Another disadvantage of both methods is getting more people using good encryption, and making sure they do so correctly.
Getting an appropriate screen was not an option, I assume?
what is wrong with xslt ?
What do you mean by when the conversation was happening? I think it's still happening, and on the verge of a breakthrough point for legalization. Or do you mean when opinion was more against legalization, he could have helped speed it up?
Political & social realities are reactions to physical realities. Physical reality is changed by technology.

This kind of dragnet communication surveillance was literally impossible in the 1960s. The social world is still changing in reaction to the existence of the birth control pill. Hell our social reality has already been fundamentally changed on many levels by facebook & smartphones world wide. It's a balance of both.
"after secret court battle"?

I got the impression the court battle hasn't started yet over this. Or is he talking about that child porn subpoena? But the headline is confusing.
Canaries always stunk of that juvenile "technically correct" stuff many tech people seem to grow out of later than others.

If the judge says "don't paint your wall red" that means "or anything close by any means".

It doesn't matter you tried to hack your way out with an automatic vermillion paint flinger setup before the order. You still are supposed to "make the wall not get painted red".
wow never thought about that, but the is an awesome concept, to help startups to come out of the early stages with some $$, some office space and some marketing consultancy / dev power.
I'm sorry, but it's really difficult to take that "seminal work" seriously when that work is an in-depth analysis of the "MacLeod Model of organizational sociology".

Do you know what the "MacLeod Model" is? A cartoon on the back of a business card, posted to the web without comment nine years ago: http://gapingvoid.com/2004/06/27/company-hierarchy/

Michael O'Church might have some interesting things to say, but when he extrapolates pages of meaning from a cartoon that's just trying to be humorous, it says more about Michael O'Church than anything else.
Since there seems to be some interest, I put together a very simple map with a couple countries filled in at random with shaky data.

It's up on github, so hopefully everyone can submit pull requests with data and we can crowd source ourselves a very informative map.

https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/hosting_safety_map

EDIT: I also submitted a link to it on HN. Hopefully interested people will see it and can help out with data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182001
We started with LESS and Stylus, but Sass is in the works.
Yahoo's 30 days of logos: a community affair
Do tell. I'm back here in Amsterdam for a month. Lived here for about 2 years, a couple years back... and we did some travel in other parts of NL while we were here. Biking didn't seem all that much different outside of Amsterdam, other than the volume of people doing it.

Can you elaborate?
There is a lot to be said for Snail Mail in that regard. There are far more privacy guarantees (i.e. clearly defined requirements for warrants, and stricter terms) relative to electronic forms of communications.
If this is happening in the USA with its famous constitution, then well, I think the end of this statement can be easily converted just to _any_country_.
Oh, hi! I came across your site while I was working on this. I enjoyed the video of dropping a fake question block in Time Trial :)
It really puzzles me that HN doesn't have a mobile version. It just doesn't scale right on mobile. It sucks and it shouldn't because its design is not that complex.
A quickly hacked together map for crowdsourcing unsafe hosting countries
This is where I disagree. I do blame companies like Google for not fighting this more. At the very least they make users aware that these laws exist, even if they cannot detail specifics related to their surveillance involvement.
I'm not sure it isn't. His argument in favor of legalization is centered around the medical benefits, but that doesn't mean he believes it should be blocked for other uses.
If you just wanna try it:

http://myfavoritebeer.org/

and put your gmail in the box :)
>If the courts, NSA, congress has been forcing innoscents to work against their will

basic subpoena forces one to provide the required info. With a little bit of a stretch we can see how a subpoena can be issued for the [future] clear texts that "your webpage" ( an applet downloaded as part of the web page ) will "contain" before sending encrypted version back to your server - in short it means forcing to implement backdoor.
The same technique was used in the first TV remotes[0]. It drove people with good hearing nuts, had interference issues with natural phenomena, and had fundamental bandwidth limitations.

Otherwise, it is a cleaver hack around the lacking device-to-device wireless support.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#Television_remot...