skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "harassing", and "women" too for that matter.

One of the louder and more influential friends of the woman behind the successful Twitter abuse reporting petition is a particularly charming radical feminist called Cathy Brennan. Brennan believes that trans women are really men attacking women's rights by masquerading as women, and deals with this by systematically outing and doxxing them - we're taking names, photos, addresses, jobs in some cases. She's been known to call the FBI on them and falsely label them as pedophiles (because all trans women are pedophiles in her eyes).

She doesn't consider this harassment. She does, however, consider anyone who objects to her or anyone else doing this - no matter how politely - to be a form of harassment. In addition, she has an organised group of allies with the same views who she gets to dogpile site owners, often successfully. (She's certainly managed to get Wordpress.com blogs reinstated that spectacularly violate the ToS and common decency reinstated, in one case by appealing to Matt Mullenweg directly.)

Naturally, she entirely supports the new Twitter abuse reporting functionality.
Weird that the description of what it actually is is below the fold :-) However: Mailpile is a modern web-mail you run on your own computer.
This tower was on the news two days ago. The police were chasing a commando group that tried to rob some jewelry stores in Caracas. The chase ended near this tower and the people that live there started throwing rocks and garbage at the cops, injuring some of them.

Also this place is used by kidnappers to keep their victims. It's pretty lawless. There's another tower like this one that was a invaded too. It used to belong to an insurance company I think. My mother worked right next to it and said sometimes you could hear gunshots inside.

There's mire than one building like this one in Caracas, but this is the tallest one.
Fundamentally, Canonical is a business that's developing an open source operating system to compete with the likes of Windows and OS X, and they're making decent headway. They have bills and salaries to pay and affiliate marketing is one experiment they're trying in order to increase their revenues, albeit one I don't necessarily like or agree with. I have no issue with them running an app store, again, because they have employees and offices and stuff.

Regarding upstream patches, whatever your feelings about it, this is the nature of the FOSS beast. They're not obligated to do such a thing, but upstream contributions are only one way they can contribute to the open source movement. I'd argue that their other contributions (marketing, usable n00b friendly desktop Linux) far outweigh their lack of upstream contributions. I would, however, love it if they'd make this a priority also.

I hope Canonical becomes increasingly financially successful. I don't know how profitable they are but it's hard to give your product away for free and make a healthy profit in the process. As of 2009, they had at most $60k of revenue per employee, which almost certainly indicates a loss.

> Canonical simply shows an attitude of taking from the open source community and not giving back.

Speaking of which, I should probably go donate something after using Ubuntu for years.
Its awesome that Pi's are finding their way into stuff like this but its still a tiny bit of round hole, square peg.

You could do it for 1/2 the price with a TP-Link TL-WR703N and OpenWRT. Lots of these types of projects are already install-and-go ready for OpenWRT.
I like the idea and might contribute to the source.

I have the feeling the response to keystrokes is somewhat delayed? Type "asdf" for example and you will set it takes perhaps 1.5x more than it should and its not even.
Does Your Business Leadership Style Rely on Fear?
Johns Hopkins researchers reveal genetic glitch at the root of allergies
Your example has nothing to do with the law, and dissent wasn't being silenced. It was entirely down to Apple, which has made a commercial decision not to distribute certain types of material. This doesn't prevent the same material being distributed by other means.

Yes, Apple is the same as Walmart in laying the dead hand of censorship on popular culture with the aim of increasing its own profits, but in most cases, there is not a legal compulsion to do so.
I applaud these goals however if we were to ever consider moving from Google Apps (which we would) it would only be for an open source project given that privacy is becoming the more critical issue as the years go on. It would be great to see a subscription based email service such as this where the source is fully available for scrutinizing and patching.

Edit: Great, so the source is already available.
> The problem is, as always, where do you draw the line?

Threats of unlawful violence. This isn't hard.

> It's the comments at the margins

The US legal system is pretty explicitly biased towards defendants in gray areas, and most marginal cases will never be prosecuted or be thrown out by the judge.

Those that make it through to trial will have a jury determine whether a comment is a threat beyond reasonable doubt, and then the trial judge and at least two appellate judges will have to agree that the jury's verdict was not unreasonable.

Depending on the precise posture of the case, there are tens of judges and an army of clerks beyond that who may see the case cross their desks and provide at least cursory review.

And US courts pay very, very close attention to criminal cases based on speech.
Sorry, you're right. Nomdetermimistic isn't the right word. "Heavily shared" might be better: it isn't perfect cellular automata, a lot of the game word cheats in a way that would necessitate really weird locking or sweeping changes of the game world. Couple that disruption with Toady not really understanding that sort of architecture and I can't see him ever being okay with other people doing it. He'll learn to do it when he absolutely has to.
Do you have plans to make money off of this?
Fingers crossed they also ban dictionaries so that children can't find any words like "fellatio" in them either.
Author here. As I mention in the opening lines, I agree that this is really not the most original idea, barely above web frameworks :)

This was an attempt to build the minimal features required to have a useful yet ridiculously simple blog engine. Of course it is very subjective, and to me there are enough options to comment outside the blog itself (this thread here being a good example), I didn't feel this was required. I think a more "controversial" choice may be the absence of a distinct template for the index page. I know this is not acceptable for some, but then there are a few other blog generators to choose from!
Reminder: If you plan on applying to an NSA related job (with the goal of keeping an eye on them), learn to play the polygraph, before you go to the interview.
> "Additionally when we use cases of a paedophile who's been addicted to child porn videos online, you realise all that Cameron's rules would require him to do is opt in and say, 'Yes, I would like porn please'."

Am I missing something? Or have people genuinely made the argument that this filter will help prevent child pornography? Surely the existing laws already block these sites?
He doesn't want more developers. He is happy with the project as it is. It is his life's work, so to speak, and he is content with progress happening over the span of years.

I don't understand why this is such a hard concept for some people.
He only said "editors", so he's still in the clear.
Television sets and clothing is 'empty gifts of capitalism', not necessarily expensive. Take a look at benefit claimants in the UK - typically they have a bigger TV than you do and clothes with 'better' branding than you do.

Once you take market rate prices for housing out of the work-bills equation you find 'empty gifts of capitalism' can be afforded.

I would say that as well as 'cheap' being a reason to live there, there is also the matter of community. You are probably better able to borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbours there than if you lived in a gated community. People are much more likely to know each other's business so there is security that guns/police/CCTV can't buy.

So long as you don't mind the stairs and fire hazards (which can't be that much worse than the Twin Towers), all is good.
s/PDF/epub?
Why? I've had a number of minor biking accidents that ended in a few scratches or grazes to me, and moderate damage to the bike - things like snapping both brake lever mounts, buckling the front wheel, etc. Even having to fix those things is a matter of maybe £50-100 tops, but if I had a brand new iPhone $whatever trashed as well, that would suck a whole lot more.

I think the large majority of serious accidents (to normal cyclists, not competitive BMX/downhill/stunts/etc) tend involve motor vehicles.
The amount of content you have to produce for 12 hours of Rage is much greater than for 12 hours of Doom
Yes, but there is a point at which it's better to just hand-write some code which is equivalent to the automaton, rather than trying to use a regexp.

This is what a proper email-validation regexp looks like: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
I'm not sure what you're getting at. The scientists explicitly mention the fact that burning methane produces CO2:

> If a methane molecule is burned, it produces one CO2 molecule.

> Methane produces about 2 times as much energy as does coal for the same CO2.

Perhaps the title on HN is a bad one, but the scientists are specifically arguing against the assertion that natural gas is even worse for the environment than coal because a large amount of it leaks into the atmosphere before it ever even has the chance to burn.
Absolutely mind boggling!
Seems to work fine on Chrome for Android too.
Well, I edit with vim and git push when I'm ready. But if you really want a browser-based editor, [Draft][0] is very nice.

[0]: https://draftin.com/
Well, you might think so. But in Britain you might need to go all the way to the High Court to establish the notion that things are not always meant the way they are written: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19009344
Human population isn't a speculative market. (Yet)
They've started an indiegogo campaign to fund the development.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-bac...
I have an command line alias called screencast that starts this applescript on on my mac.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
--activate
new screen recording
start document 1
delay 600
stop document 1
quit
end tell

I then save it to a cloud service provider and set the privacy settings to whatever I want.

Are there any advantages to using this service versus the workflow that I mentioned above?
I thought polygraph tests were a very old technology proven to be unreliable.
I agree with everything you just said.
Are you paying too much for hosting because of a SECRET CONSPIRACY?
Also there is TraceGL which seems to be less about performance tuning and more about debugging and it's not free but looks like a great tool. https://trace.gl/
...then he does some user-facing stuff to lure them back and add new ones?

This project isn't some attach-rate-obsessed no-value-add startup. As long as he can pay his rent, he doesn't need to make anyone happy but himself.
I find Haskell's syntax to be very clean and with little noise. Much more clean than a multi-paradigm language like Scala.
It's called felony murder. If someone is killed during the commission of: robbery, rape, arson, burglary, or while escaping from prison, anyone involved in the underlying crime is liable for the death.
Justice Department Seeks Oversight of Apple's iTunes Store
Tedious. If something is on CNN then it is not likely to be 'investigative', is it? You have to read a CNN 'exclusive' as 'why are they trying to tell us this now?'

Also wrong with these type of articles is that they further the myth that the U.S. secret service agencies are omnipotent and omniscient in a way that Hollywood would have you believe. In reality they are not.
If you're looking for a Clojure IDE, you should check out Light Table: http://www.lighttable.com/
don't forget the Eclipse plugin Counterclockwise: https://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/
In other words, they own us.
> Aero wasn't meaningless eye-candy added to Vista to distract from a lack of innovation. It was MS taking skeuomorphic design so seriously

I'd argue the "frosted glass effect" in iOS 7 is not skeuomorphism but is being done as user orientation cues.

I feel iOS 7 is moving into better information geography, where the spatial position of the information helps convey its organization. Less computer savvy "normals" get disoriented when tapping buttons and having screens replaced. The parallax, zoom, and translucency effects in iOS 7, give a definite impression that all this information has a coherent placement in space, offering cues for more intuitive or natural feeling navigation, making it safer to "explore" your device.

Or it could just be aero effects for the sake of looking pretty and showing off the GPU in ways that, to your point, it's hard for cheaper/older components to emulate. :-)
We have computers that block spam, remove content from Google's index, drive cars and win at Jeopardy. They could certainly remove a lot of abuse, and that would be worth doing.

I'm not convinced it would result in wrongly removing a lot of people, since there is some form of karma in the number of followers and the number of lists someone is on.

Of course, it would be nice to have some recourse to an independent appeal if something goes wrong. However, Google manages without one (1), and its decisions can have devastating personal and financial consequences. That's not the case with Twitter, where there is no real barrier to creating accounts. Including spam accounts.

(1) Unless you happen to be buddies with someone at Google.
This is an open source project.

Also, if privacy is important for you, you shouldn't look into subscription services, whatever software package they use.
I think they're considered not reliable enough to count as a testimony in court for sure. That's not to say they don't have uses in other places. The intelligence community uses them quite often. The most common use most folks see is their application in getting and maintaining security clearances. They're part of a larger screening process in that case.
Keys, Immunity, And Valuation
Unless I am missing something, this is self-hosted and open source (AGPL).
It is an approved technology by the US government. It is mostly used as an interrogation tool as opposed to a lie detector. Having only worked with interrogators I only know second hand how it is used, from my understanding it usually used in a good cop/bad cop scenario (such as, "The machine is saying you are lying, let me help you out and tell me what happened.") I am sure there much more knowledgeable people then myself on this forum. Short answer: as a lie detector it is unreliable,but as a interrogation tool fairly effective.
iPhones are very "chatty" when not connected to a WiFi access point. They repeatedly try to find access points they have connected to before - broadcasting both their MAC address and the SSID of prior access points.

Android phones are completely silent even with the WiFi on when not connected to an access point.
Maybe it'll become useful in the future with thin, flexible screens. You could carry your 21" monitor in your backpack and your computer in your pocket.
how does the search work? is there a separate database? i use mairix (which does construct a separate database) and it's pretty damn awesome. have you looked at that? are re-inventing something worse? sometimes it is useful to search just the body. and mairix works fine with a huge volume of mail.

also, getmail is python and does pop and imap downloads, so could be used there.

[otherwise, this seems awesome and if i run out of my own dumb ideas i will seriously consider contributing]
That's fantastic. I didn't see any information about this on your page so you might want to make this clearer (I assure you I read it first before commenting, then went back and saw the Fork on Github ribbon, the only indication).

By subscription I mean that I am happy to support an open source project with regular funding. Initial funds from Indiegogo are not sufficient to maintain a long-term service and we'd be hesitant to move our most important business infrastructure to something that may not be updated regularly as the security environment changes. If you were to look into making this a business with recurring revenue I believe you would find there is a lot of support.
You should read the article. The issue is that CH4 is a vastly more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, because of how strongly it absorbs IR [0]. Even small methane leaks are significant. This is counterbalanced by methane

* Being less carbon-rich [than coal] -- looking at the right side of your equation, about half the energy comes from fusing hydrogen (H-O) as opposed to carbon (C=O) [1]

* Allowing more efficient combustion (Muller says 60% vs. 44%)

You cannot come to any conclusion here without doing the math!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global-warming_potential#Value...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_enthalpy_change_of_fo...
Why? The 4g network is tracking you via cell town triangulation the whole time anyway. Might as well use the phones wifi when you can save some bandwidth on the slower cellular network.
Actually I run http://followgen.com ... eBooks aren't an interesting form of passive income to me as there's no real potential for recurring revenue. SaaS all the way, please.
Noble goals. With all the NSA action, this is something whose time has come. Where do I donate?
and they call it a "gato" (literally, cat). There's "gato de luz" for electricity, "gato-net" for Internet...

This is what it starts to look like (at least in the slums)
http://i.imgur.com/vmjmJmp.jpg
there's a big red line across the top right corner pointing to github (and licencing info there). there's another link to github near the end. apologies for a previous post that used strong language, but you really can't have looked very hard.

(you know, i just read chapter 2 of 'how to win friends and influence people' which tells me that criticising people never works because they simply work harder to justify themselves. it's the most depressing thing i have read in a long time, but it seems to be horribly, universally true. and it's so frustrating when the world seems to be populated by incompetent idiots. how do you convince someone 'nicely' that they complained about something without even reading it?)
Cultural imperialism is wrong when you can't be absolutely, unequivocally certain that your own culture is in the right. Which means that most of the time, cultural imperialism is bad. I don't know how much you've been travelling, but every place you'll visit you will see that there are big and small differences. Most of these will be weird to you, and some will be offensive. This is true even for very similar cultures, like for instance those of Australia and the United States. It becomes pretty obvious that it's usually impossible to be right in the scientific sense, when it comes to customs and cultural norms.

I think we can safely say that witch-burning, widow-burning, genital mutilation (might there be an interesting observation about a popular US custom here?) and torture are all bad enough to warrant a bit of pressure. But outside of human rights violations, or maybe things that most cultures would agree is bad, these questions become fuzzy enough that you'll be more likely to look like a jackass than do any good. Try to imagine how cultural imperialism would look to you if, for instance, India was the global superpower and not the United States.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html has some good observations about cognitive bias regarding social customs.
How will people's behavior change now that they know they're being watched?

Here's one possibility.

The really dangerous people - those few actual, professional-grade, funded and organized terrorists - may contract black-market hackers to flood the internet and cell networks with red-herring terror-signature traffic, rendering the entire surveillance system useless for its original purpose. For just a tiny fraction of its cost.

In order to justify the construction and continued funding of the system, its mission will have to creep, and we'll all soon have the police knocking on our doors because of our internet searches.
And yet they are all but impossible to read without greasemonkey scripts.
Could VKontakte Be Edward Snowden's Next Employer?
Was this submitted sarcastically or ironically? Endgame are a startup with security geeks who happen to do some work for the government, accusing them of being involved in killing somebody is just hilarious.

It is interesting to watch how conspiracy theorists attempt to thread little bits of info together about a topic or people that you just happen to know something about. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad, seeing so many people in the comments buying into a very loose story with no substance.

So every journalist that conducts an interview with Barrett Brown can now expect to be killed? Why not just kill Barrett Brown? Urgh.. this is so silly - can't wait till they find out that one of the investors in Endgame is In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC fund.
Go for it. I love to read it, learn from it.
Not a question but a comment: You should add an igg link to the github README. Some people link to github projects instead of the website.

Good luck!
Year 1 is easy
What about asking these people: http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/ if it's a joke in production?
A good summary, although I found a title a bit misleading - expected some sort of comparison 'why it's better than XYZ'
I actually have very little problem with that case. I think the tweet read plainly as a threat and an incredibly stupid thing to say.

I would have been happier if it had been handled with an investigation and warning and not make it to prosecution, but as far as I'm concerned, the guy deserved some nontrivial inconvenience. I'm kind of ambivalent about the fact that the conviction was quashed.

He wasn't even sent to prison. He was fined. I don't think that's a wholly unreasonable way for society to say "don't do that".
Whenever the CIA gets brought up I can't help but mention their complacency in the global drug trade.

In the 70s we learned that the CIA was trafficking heroin from Southeast Asia via Air America, an airliner they covertly owned and operated. [1]

We also learned from programs like Project MKUltra that the CIA was forcibly administering LSD on American citizens. [2]

Operation Midnight Climax was a sub-project of MKUltra. The CIA hired prostitutes who were instructed to lure back clients to government safe houses in San Francisco, New York City, and Marin. There they would be injected with a wide range of substances such as LSD and watched behind a one-way glass.

These are not conspiracy theories. They are well-documented facts that everyone seems to forget about. If your interested in this stuff I suggest you read the books The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade [4] and Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

[4] http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global/...

[5] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0802130623
Because GSM, GPS and WiFi combined are, bar GPS, more accurate and pervasive together than any one in isolation. Also because when location services are off, photos don't get tagged with my location coordinates, and apps can't use my location either.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-bac...
I can finally hear it, thank you!