skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, different mechanisms will be more readily expressed, understood, and maintained in different languages, so language choices will probably make some difference; but what the trade-offs are will depend on what the "secret sauce" is.
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I don't know if it was necessarily any better when computers were "new", most kids in the 90s knew how to plug in a SNES cartridge and maybe launch a few games from DOS but the oft required "boot disks" were still a mystery to most.

Computers were much simpler then in terms of there being fewer moving parts in the software. Modern computers might be "friendlier" in some sense, but that's only because we have had to build grand abstractions out of necessity. Once these abstractions break down it can be often difficult for even relatively tech savvy people to understand what is wrong.
> If he'd stayed in the US and immediately faced the music it would be much more apparent that he's a true hero willing to sacrifice everything for his beliefs. Once he plotted the whole thing and moved to a safe place before releasing it and has looked to avoid any punishment for his actions...

That is an unreasonable standard. I guess Gen. Douglas McArthur should have stayed and faced the Japanese in the Philippines?

Why would hero status require being stupid about your situation?
Since i'm not using Flash anymore i wasn't able to watch the videos, but from the descriptions in the article i believe they would have added a lot to the text.

Appearently BBCs 'iPlayer' does support https streaming (for their iOS App), but only if you have an Apple signed client certificate.

:(
Sorry, wrote that at 6am so probably wasn't as specific as I should have been. Thanks for including a link.
Probably just like Apple. The Canonical might want a little bit more control of their hardware.
mailinator is still my favorite, but when I need an alternative I like SharkLasers.
http://www.sharklasers.com/
Hi, i'm the koding user (not staffer) who made the video/docs :)

The video wasn't intended to be a pitch. It was intended for users who are new to Koding, and to quickly gloss over the features of Koding so users can get there bearings on where to go for what.

I really dislike the docs being linked to, as everyone here seems to think that the docs are:

A: Official (understandable, but nevertheless the docs have been made by users)
B: A sales pitch.

I wanted to make the docs because the Koding Team had very little to no documentation, and i've spent a year answering some very common problems in the Koding Activity Feed. The koding docs have helped quite a few users i think, and i'm proud of them.

They aren't a sales pitch to try and buy you. I never intended for that, and i'm sorry they have been posted to HN as such :/
Help My SaaS isn’t growing
I've been using Google to find things on HN for a few years.

The file from January 2013 appears just as permissive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130109093744/http://news.ycombi...
Reportedly, supersonic transport also has an effect on the ozone layer - which might have something to do with it too.
Plus, a lot of people feel that software should be free across the board. Most people are paying for the hardware. So if Canonical wants to sell stuff, they better get involved in the hardware side of things.
Thanks for the suggestions! This is a hot topic internally, so we'll have some more announcements in the coming months. Keep an eye on the blog/twitter.

We haven't forgotten about the indie devs! :)
Recruiters Are Pretty (and how to find one)
I have noticed most of the comments are harping on this. Too bad. (Not that I disagree.)
Very true, the network effects work in our favor when it comes to guns. E.g. if you're set on many designs you only have one company you can buy it from (but almost always many ammo companies), but the more popular ones out of patent protection have multiple companies making them, e.g. AR-15 and M1911 pattern rifles and handguns, dating from the '50s and, well, 1911 ^_^.

And there's no single category I can think of that's sole source, not counting curiosities like FNH's PS90 (as seen in original full auto mode in Stargate).
clickable link: http://www.truevault.io
Exactly, StackOverflow scores and even upvotes on Hacker News or Reddit is a neat metric, but in the same sense that commits pushed or lines of code written are. They hold some value but they are by no means determine quality or the value of a person's contributions.
You are being a little harsh in my opinion. The author actually helped that teacher who had no clue about how to connect to the WIFI. Fair enough that not everyone needs to know but the point the author is making that kids don't know computers as well but they should. In fact, the other teacher was the one who had a very ignorant (even though common) comment about "oh well kids these days are super genious in computers "(paraphrasing)
Speculation:

1. American citizens do not believe the people running the US government are or could become corrupt;

2. They haven't considered, or are not bothered by the fact that their habits will be shaped by the fact that someone is watching;

3. They believe the infrastructure will be used against anything that represent existential threats (terrorism), grave injustice (child pornography) or grave moral threat (a fringe political group);

4. Despite the fact that the definition of terrorism is quite fluid and could be used to target any stand against the government (as opposed to against the country itself), they don't want another 9/11 and see the apparatus as necessary to prevent it;

5. They believe the USG chooses sides in international conflicts based on moral considerations, and not realpolitik which often hurts them later (see: Al Qaeda)—or are comfortable with amoral positions as long as they benefit the country in the bottom line;

6. They do not believe those in power can change their minds in the future;

7. They don't believe in authorities framing innocent persons;

8. My favorite, one-track point of discussion here: Americans are slightly xenophobic. So they're fairly happy to know the US has a big machine to track and all those pesky foreigners and keep their countries nice and obedient.

And it's not like the beliefs are unfounded. The US government has generally been good for its citizens. The only truly harmful actions of the USG have been targeted at other countries. You don't feel threatened until a drone kills your teenage son. But while your government does that thousands of miles away from you, it's easy to be forgiving of all that.

Americans are not used to systemic corruption and tyranny, so they don't have the framework to consider their state becoming authoritarian or totalitarian.
Interesting to have this come out when yesterday the Sunnyvale police drove their tank over to a house where someone had called in reporting a murder, they asked the person to come out and then immediately shot him dead.

Three things bothered me about this;

1) WTF does the Sunnyvale police force need with an Armored Personnel Carrier? Seriously.

2) How is it you go from 'come out with your hands up' to shooting the guy dead as soon as he is visible?

3) What is the motivation for responding that 'hard'? You send a couple of squad cars, not a military unit.

So it looks like we need to change things slap down the police again. (this happened in the early 70's as well apparently (didn't live here then) when they initially were gearing up to fight drugs).
The symptom is the military gear and tactics. The disease is too much government spending.
Not that we are aware of. We've shown some people in Apple and they've loved it so far!
I'm a terrible designer. That is the only reason I have to offer :)
Jobs: From Garage to Global
Holy crap. Normally my reaction when "yet another social, mobile, recommendation" app company comes out is "why the hell..."

I now know why. There's serious exit money to be had.
Given my understanding of how Tor operates (please correct me if I'm wrong, I've never actually used Tor, though the recent government hardon against it has me tempted), it would not be possible to block specific people from using your exit node. Or are you referring to, say, blocking all people coming from that exit node from connecting to some site on the regular Internet? I suppose that should be possible, though justifying it would be hard and the traffic should just route through a different exit node, right?

I'd want to know what makes the FBI think they've identified someone coming through the Tor network. And how.
Ahh the HN effect. Looking into it now. Thanks for the heads up!
I've met some genuinely sub-par-for-anywhere NSA people as well, though, although in the various letters which correspond to internal sysadmin support and the like.

If you believe government service has any value at all, you should also be willing to blacklist/ostracize when someone continues to support a corrupt/evil part of government. If I saw someone's resume from LAPD Rampart during certain years, I'd be quite suspect. Various foreign militaries. I'm suspect of CIA in the 1990s due to incompetence, not so much evil, DEA ~ever (which is lulzy because a lot of USG people at FBI and in LEOs in general moved from counterdrug to CT post-9/11), and while I think NSA pre-Snowden was quite defensible (and, indeed, honorable), I could imagine someone joining NSA today being viewed differently in a few years than someone who joined before.
I think if you read my comments you'll find that I'm not denying that ThinThread had a goal of protecting the identity of Americans. The problem is that the collections programs underpinning PRISM and XKEYSCORE also have that goal. The problem isn't the technology.
> I do believe that all healthy human beings do have the same potential for the amount of knowledge they can consume, at least at birth

This makes no sense whatsoever. Do you really believe that while people have genetics that control their skin color, hair color, susceptibility to various diseases, etc., etc., etc., somehow the brain is some magic non-biological organ that is not built by DNA?
Off topic, but am I the only one who noticed "spies aren'y" in the image?
Assuming sane people would respond to this criticism by leaving, what would be left with? As with any institution, perhaps it is better to have sane people working there, trying to change it from the inside.
I have been too. I was surprised to find that HN didn't show up on Google a couple weeks ago. Yes, it looks like I was wrong. No, pg isn't changing titles because of SEO.
With my tin-foil hat on, I'm wondering if this whole Snowden thing isn't just to make people numb to the idea that they are being watched 24/7. And it seems that people don't care about privacy we can only expect things to get worse.
> Some forty Detroit police officers dressed in commando gear ordered the gallery attendees to line up on their knees, then took their car keys and confiscated their vehicles...(More than forty cars were seized, and owners paid around a thousand dollars each to get them back.)

So the people were not arrested, or charged with crimes, yet their personal property was confiscated by the Police.

Can a Police officer walk up to me on the street and take my wallet and keys? I don't think so, so why can they do it here?

In all seriousness, it's shocking and scary the Police can do whatever the hell they want to.
It is called ID-10-T Error in my circles.
A government branch, when faced with difficult choice of either harming its own budget or exaggerating its legitimacy, will always do the latter.

Those who have high enough morale to harm their own interest for public good can only thrive in an environment of lots opportunities. So after making the case that they should be fired, they can find other equal or more lucrative careers.
I wish i could embed pictures... but:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/289/9/1/why_not__by_r...
The Sunnyvale police report that the man "charged them with a gun"[1] to which the only logical response by police is to shoot him.

Now, if the man hadn't responded in a threatening way and had come out peacefully, then the police probably wouldn't have shot him. If they did, then this would be a bigger deal than you're making it out to be.

Taking a tank to the house was probably overkill, but I think the police are under a "use it or lose it" mentality when it comes to their toys.

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23821648/sunnyval...
One possible explanation is fear.

I've had a few interactions with United States police and compared to their Canadian and European counterparts they always struck me as exuding bravado to cover up for basic insecurity or downright fear (with a few exceptions, but not many).

In situations where they know their counterparty is armed an overly aggressive response with a military vehicle and a summary execution of the suspect makes sense when you look at it from the perspective of scared people.

It's the same thing that drives 'force protection' when dealing with the citizens of some occupied country.
Not trying to play the authority card, but I am an Aerospace Engineer by training. First thing first Concorde was a marvel of engineering and quite a bit ahead of time as someone mentioned in the comments below it ultimately boils down to economics, per-flight cost was enormous. Concorde effectively gave a 6-hr gain on Trans-Atlantic flight. You need to spend a lot of fuel to fly supersonic , even Concorde had an optimal sub-sonic cruise-point around Mach-0.98. And It was allowed to fly supersonic only over uninhabited areas (read Oceans).If you google around specific-fuel consumption charts for various types of engines against mach number you'll know what I mean.(Also try to search for specific Impulse characteristics for a feel for efficiency over a mach number range)
The only actually clever thing is that they put it in a file named copyright.php.

I'm wondering where this backdoored version of Joomla came from.
As a french, the Concord was a great thing and I am truly sad that it had to go (especially the way the existing plane were dealt with, what with the airlines refusing to sell them to another operator and destroying them instead).
I don't know much about the economics of it, and I know it wasn't very good money wise to keep the line open for the airlines which made them pretty much relieved to have an excuse to close it, but still this article throw around "facts" and "numbers" to give an highly exaggerated and misguided view of it.

And even if, it was important because it was something great we could do. Supersonic passenger plane ? Yes, we can do that. In fact, we did it, and not just a prototype, a real regular line.
I didn't think much about it at the time it closed (I was too busy enjoying high school), but nowadays all I can hear our politics and many countrymen say of my country is "no we can't do that", "that's not possible", "be realistic", ...
If you have that attitude, you fail before you even start, and Concord was in the exact opposite direction, it was doing something not because it made economic sense or because you needed it, but to prove a point: yes, we can do that, and we're going to prove it to you.

Frankly we need a lot more of that today. I'm tired of all the negativity.

I think that's also a huge part of why, despite being a joint FR/UK project, both side kind of think of it as "their" plane.
Right, the metadata is always public.

Without strong encryption you have metadata that can be tied to an identity using statistics with enough data.

With strong encryption you have metadata that can be tied to a key and an identity using statistics with enough data.
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying
David - you are one of my favorites, but what does Recruiters being pretty have to do with finding/not finding a good one? This is a great article, but is there a tie-in I'm missing here?
You guys troll over at Reddit too. Just the mere existence of Kotlin has gotten you and/or some of your compadres into a complete meltdown. Is this your fulltime job, or are you a part-time "Scala Defenders Brigade"? It's hilarious watching you clowns. Any criticism (real or perceived) or Scala, and you get your panties all bunched up in a knot. Scala must be in big trouble. You better redouble your efforts.
So I take it you don't generally read articles before commenting on them?

From the end of his post:

"A hundred years ago, if you were lucky enough to own a car then you probably knew how to fix it. People could at least change the oil, change the tyres, or even give the engine a tune-up. I’ve owned a car for most of my adult life and they’re a mystery to me. As such I am dependent on salesmen to tell me which one to buy, mechanics to tell me what’s wrong and then fix it for me and as technology progresses I am becoming dependent on satellite navigation as well."

Good job. (y)
Depends on what you want out of learning a new language. If you want to become more familiar with the fundamentals of computers and how they work, C is the best option; if you want to learn a new paradigm and way of thinking, I recommend Haskell; if you plan on doing any web stuff, JavaScript is pretty much a must; and if you want to be at the forefront of new language developments, go for one of the shiny new languages like Go or Rust (I'm currently taking this route).
This has actually gotten better recently. They introduced a magnetic card for transportation(bus, subway, trains), SUBE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBE_card
Computers follow instructions of the programmers. If the programmer is good, the computer has the same prejudices. Specifically, if the programmer wants to find juicy gossip, a computer lets her do it faster. If the programmer respects users' privacy, so will the computer. (If she's not good, the computer has random prejudices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#Uncarved_block)
heh, reminds me of office ladies using calculator to _type_ a proper sum of a column into XLS (using computer for 10+ years doing THE SAME THING)
Simple test to see if you currently live in a police state: You've freely typed this critical comment about the government on an internet message board. You will be comfortably typing another critical comment Monday morning when you are back at work and were not thrown in jail over the weekend to rot.

You don't live in a police state.
Why software development task estimations are usually off by 2-3x
NSA has both overt and covert employees.
This is one reason I'm against the current GUI trend in Linux. By copying Apple and Microsoft blatantly, they forgot that when using the command line that they are replacing user must first understand the concept of what they are doing.

Most guis i contributed to opensource have at least the console output so the user is not 100% oblivious to the concepts that are happening underneath.
Everyone should learn how to change the oil in their car, though.
The 'hose' has to actually produce money. Until such point it isnt a hose.
No worries, I got registered via chrome and now the github login works in firefox as well.
Thanks!
Government spending is not the problem here; much of the money used to buy this sort of equipment comes from asset forfeiture.

http://www.vice.com/read/bad-cop-blotter-asset-forfeiture-th...
Just a small comment from a European to our friends in the states: you guys are nuts! No, seriously, I loved living in the states a couple of years ago and still have many good friends there. But sometimes it's just surreal to watch you from this side of the planet...
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USA have power in most countries. Look at the case when venesuela president plane was forced to land in austria because of the rumors there could be showden inside. Americans who downvoted me think only america is affected, but it is not. It's sad that people even here don't understand that.
Just wrote a systemd service file for it (based on nginx.service)
If you have systemd, just copy to '/usr/lib64/systemd/system/language-tool.service' and run systemctl start language-tool.service
If you want to have it run at boot, like I do just enable it: systemctl start language-tool.service

[Unit]
Description=LanguageTool is a proofreading software that finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect like mixing up there/their and it detects some grammar problems.
After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/run/language-tool.pid
ExecStartPre=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -cp /opt/LanguageTool-2.2/languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer --port 8081
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=/bin/kill -QUIT $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I wish HN would support github like markdown
Made that so that I can use it easily within texstudio.
If it does not have ECU or diesel pump I could fix pretty much everything else and bring the car in movable condition. You just need to obtain some manuals and a screwdriver. And I am not car enthusiast.

The problem is that the computing devices are moving to be the center of people lives. You must know how something works just to be able to protect yourself.
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"Loved reading this. Well said."

Not to take too much away from the article, but this is a slight variation on a saying old enough that it has an "AFAICT" style Usenet-era acronym:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK
Hermosa beach also has an armed vehicle. On busy weekends they park it in the middle of the street in central downtown so everyone sees it. I assume the reasoning is to intimidate people which is quite messed up.
Kids know how to use computers, they know how to make them do what they need them to: browsing, email, some text-processing. Everything else, and I'm sorry to break it to you, it's the realm of technicians. The plumbers don't expect the average joe to know how to unblock an occluded pipe, do they? Expecting everyone to know how to configure advanced settings in a computer just because you know how to do it it's very condescending on your part.
People are involved in more interesting things, such as silent flying for passenger planes.

This would have a dramatic effect. People hate planes and airports because of noise[1] so having very quiet aircraft would reduce opposition and allow longer operating hours for airports.

(http://silentaircraft.org/)

[1] among other reasons.
It would be cool if it could give you the GPS coordinates of the point your measuring. That should be easy since the phone already has a GPS and a compass right?
A warmer world is a more violent one
Borrowing is ideally on flexible (or no) terms, with as low an interest rate as possible.

Friends, family and fools come first as a source of borrowing.

Then perhaps a credit card (0% intro APR if possible; that should play well against your 5 month plan to repay).

LendingClub, Prosper.com, and similar make a song and dance a possible vector for getting crowdsourced loans.

Then perhaps a bank loan, or title loan/second mortgage if you have anything of value.

Depending on what you plan on spending the money on, store credit cards from Walmart, etc. can also come in handy.

Hopefully you're not planning on investing it in Bitcoin mining equipment from a mysterious seller on the internet.
This is right on. Bring back the blink tag

www.iwantmyblinktagback.com
Very clearly true. Compare to the very plain language of the 2nd Amendment, which 9 out of 9 Supreme Court justices agreed was an individual right, with of course 4 saying it then doesn't mean anything.

Those who don't support following the 2nd Amendment as it was intended, or amending it, have absolutely no place in fighting for privacy in this fashion, and, really, if you support rule of men vs. the rule of law....
Do you have any write-ups on how one would accomplish this SELinux sandbox for your browser? Thanks!
You could wait for Kim DotCom's in 2014:

https://twitter.com/INQ/status/365764196807356416