skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are an undocumented immigrant, you might not have a valid driver's license, and you might have to leave your car at the site or have it impounded. Some towns in the Peninsula don't allow traffic cops to ask for immigration papers or mix up their jobs with Federal immigration laws, - I don't know about Atherton. But if you're stopped and you don't have a license, the police can ask you to leave your car by the road, and you walk home. I teach ESL, and many of my students have had to walk away from their cars. If the police do impound the car, the owners often don't have money or are afraid to go get them, so they lose their car. This happens all the time, and often causes big logistical and financial problems for the families.
There's been some Jython ports to Android in the past, but all are abandoned as far as I know. There were some problems with performance as well and the dynamic nature of Python.

I know there's a maintained JRuby project[1] for Android though.

[1] http://ruboto.org/
That's why I switched to gmail and rot13.
up again, but the projects listed there are not that awesome... does anybody know another marketplace, beside flippa and all those forums?
Could mail him some gold.
Um, or just put 'years' not 'months':

Corp X: 1999-2004
Corp Y: 2005-2009
Corp Z: 2009-2013

Last day at X could have been 12/31/2004, last day at Y could have been 1/1/2009, first day at Z could have been 12/31/2009, but no 'suddenly suspicious gap' shows?
"LA TARUMBA", SE PONE "BUENA ONDA"
The same can be happening in any country, but we know for a fact it is happening in the USA. Uncertainty is better than a certain, unfavourable outcome.

I'm keeping my US cloud services, but I have no illusions: they're being logged by the NSA.
They take a photo of the front and back of every piece of mail that is sent. Your content is safe, but they still get the metadata.
In American dialect, at least, I can assure that the added 'up' nudges the interpretation more towards fabrication (though not definitively so). Compare:

"...make an elementary analysis." [strongly implies 'do the necessary work']

"...make up an elementary analysis." [might mean 'do the work' but has some implicature of 'improvise from your imagination']

On the other hand, 'whip up' is merely an idiom for 'bring together quickly', and so "...whip up an elementary analysis" would again have no implication of faked data (as opposed to real data collected quickly).
>It makes a lot of sense for everyone else.

Absolutely!
Is this really the end of freedom in the US? Does your constitution means nothing nowadays?

Almost everybody here talks to move email elsewhere, etc. There are no positive comments.

Does this mean that the US government has won and can do anything they want?
Out of curiosity, why are you stepping away from Arch? The move to stock Debian suggests it might be the ease of spinning up identical systems on EC2 or the equivalent.

I like Arch, but it takes a while to get configured. It seems more suited to an installation that is going to be highly customized anyway, so starting from scratch makes sense.
Is false ticketing really an issue? I would think that there are a lot of bigger issues with all these cameras.
You could add the practice of american football and boxing to your list...

BTW,

Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings:

1. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.

2. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.

3. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

Tobacco fits this definition.
Assorted CSS text tricks (including sparkles)
Kim Jong II Signs up for Launch today
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Their shutdown letter talks about the ordeal of the "last 6 weeks", so it definitely has to do with the US Govt trying to force them to change their system to allow them access to emails because of Snowden. The way Microsoft put a back door into the new Outlook.
It's really more like a black hole to which you can sacrifice words and pray for the best.
Which companies would that be?

I can imagine what would happen to Google if, through some dark miracle, their leadership decided to do this.

Most of their top engineers live in America. So do the leaders, but ignore them, we've already decided they want this. The employees don't, though: There are eleven thousand people, there, who'll need to be relocated to - where? Europe, probably Ireland, where many of them have never been.

Certainly not where they have roots, or where their family is.

Google has deep pockets. They can afford to pay massive relocation bonuses, and they'll have to do so. Still, this is eleven thousand people; we're probably talking about a billion plus, just to get a reasonable number of them to follow. After all, most of these engineers would be perfectly capable of finding work at a different company.

Okay, so they've done that. They lost a lot of good people; probably a lot of their best people, the ones that care least about money. Still, they're now in Europe.

Now what?

Most of their infrastructure is still in the US. Compute clusters, god only knows how many. Storage clusters. User data, placed in the US under safe harbor provisions because an attempt at keeping it in Europe is unfeasible given the rather diverse tapestry of privacy laws here.

They'll need to move it all to Europe. They'll need to figure out a place to put it, and they'll need to pay billions - quite a few - to rebuild and expand their infrastructure here.

By the time this is all done, they'll have new problems. Realistically, they'll go bankrupt somewhere in the middle. And that's not mentioning possible reactions from the US government.

It would be great if leaving the US was an option, but it really.. just isn't.
> and I often leave a small tip on top of that because I'm entirely not sure whether waiters see any money from that "service".

Isn't this a crazy sentiment though? It's like we've all been trained to pity waiters and unless we're handing them money directly we're worried they might go home empty handed. How did we get to this point?
Then I see mixed messages.
" '... we'll ship this with Android and Ubuntu, no plans to put proprietary applications on it. We haven't finalized the silicon selection so we're looking at the next generation silicon from all major vendors. I would like to ship it with all Free drivers.'"

Sure sounds like "we'll try" to me
I have 64GB in my hackintosh, I was originally planning on 32GB but for some reason Amazon sent me two sets of 32 so who am I to complain?
This is who they are/were:

About: http://web.archive.org/web/20130429153529/http://lavabit.com...

Philosophy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130403130816/http://lavabit.com...

Privacy: http://web.archive.org/web/20130403130804/http://lavabit.com...
I knew that the article did not specifically address the change but at least made it clear that the change had been in place for some time. It was my mistake for forgetting to include reference to the tweet from wycat which did specifically address the question.
You can't convincingly make that argument since you don't know what lawyers have been doing behind the closed doors of secret court rooms nor do you have knowledge of their relevant lobbying, you're just assuming things. No to forget that Google was the first to publish a transparency report in which it publishes the number of NSLs, so there is that - it's not correct to use "Google" as a shorthand for "US tech companies".
Modern language wars infographic
"Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes." --- well, it's complicated, but read this as a starting point:

http://norml.org/component/zoo/category/cannabis-smoke-and-c...
Try submitting the site to criticue.com. You can pose a question for reviewers to answer. I have gotten some good, actionable feedback for my sites this way.
What big liberal democracy isn't becoming a surveillance state? The U.K. seems 10-15 years ahead of us on that front, and people seem to like it just fine over there. Maybe the answer is just that pervasive surveillance isn't something that upsets people?
This reminds me of an Amtrak ride along the CA coast, where the 50yo man next to me enjoyed sparring w/ the young female stewardess/whatever over the course of several hours, until the climax: he offered to take her into a bathroom and put her on a diaper changing table. I don't believe she was thrilled to hear the proposal.

There are men like that. So what? Long-winded article w/ poor quality of evidence and thinking.
Absolutely. It's something cognitive. The mind is more creative when there's blanks to fill in.

I played around a bit to see if I could style HTML+CSS to look sketch / toon / hand drawn. Precisely what I thought Balsamiq was doing. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Alas, I didn't get very far. I chopped a hand drawn box into 9 GIFs (upper left, upper middle, upper right, ... lower right) and attached them to a DIV. A lot of work. And the long edges could only be stretched, vs repeated. And I couldn't fathom a way to "owner draw" (old Win32 dev here, sorry) other widgets like dropdowns and scrollbars.

If there was a way to access each widget's vectors, then a hand drawn style is totally feasible.

Perhaps once zoomable UIs become common place.
n/p

Also I beg of you to fix the color temp on that cupcake photo. People who are interested in sharing media will notice.
Mori - use ClojureScript persistent data structures in vanilla JavaScript
A country cannot be on the United States' good side without bending to its will. Also, the governments of other countries would love to have a peek on whatever intel the NSA has regarding their enemies.

So, if the US wants your data, they have great diplomatic resources to compel a country to hand it (read: CIA). I'm speculating as I don't know if there is a precedent of the US requesting data from another country using secret warrants, but as long as they have a warrant and the country does not have an overtly adversarial relationship with the US, it's a target.

Based on their tradition of bank secrecy, Switzerland may be an exception, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Without going into too many details, iOS6 apps should continue working, as anything built with the iOS6 SDK will be operating in some kind of back-compat mode.

That being said, some of the back-compat modes don't really work due to large changes in the underlying codebase.
I've greatly enjoyed #! (Crunchbang):

http://www.crunchbang.org/

It's Debian based with minimal extra bullshit, has a super-friendly config script right out of the box on first boot, and uses OpenBox as the WM. Very snappy and minimalist distro.
For anyone curious enough there is a blog [1] that tracks deleted MetaFilter posts.

[1] http://mefideleted.blogspot.co.uk/
Whichever technology you want to use is fine. You need to publish 3 routes: /.well-known/browserid, an auth route, and a provision route.

The auth and provision routes need to be HTML pages that authenticate you however you want, and then sign a certificate with your key that you publish the .well-known file.

Here's how we did it for Gmail: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow/blob/master/bi...
I don't see a PM function so I'll leave a message here. You can send a link to my email if you prefer.

https://onetimesecret.com/secret/kaomwielzr6q358j7g19z5j0ker...

password is your first employer.
The best for what? If you want something easy and like Windows 7 UI-wise, then try Zorin OS.

http://zorin-os.com/
If you are looking for an alternative to Lavabit, try RiseUp [1].

There is a nice read in their "About Us" page [2]

[1] - https://riseup.net/en

[2] - https://help.riseup.net/en/about-us

Added:

Though, it is based in Seattle, so what happened to Lavabit can happen to them too, unfortuneately.
At least they're transparent (as one can be) about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...
And here all this time I thought that releasing your source code under the GPL qualified as "FLOSS philosophy".

Seriously, working on something for a while until you get it into a state where you're happy releasing it to the world isn't an attack on Freedom. Especially when you GPL it once you do release it.
Dude, that's awesome! I didn't know you were ready to accept sign-ups. Will try to mention it more often. :)
This is garbage--a dumb image meme without context or value. Flagged.
>I had a bike impounded twice for parking it in a wrong place around the Zuid station

I'm pretty sure there are signs everywhere in Zuid station that should place your bike in the freely provided bike parking lots. If they would allow every one of the thousands of people coming in with a bike to just park it in front of the station randomly, nobody would be able to get into or out of the station.

It's just common sense man.

> new bikes that look like they are from the 20s.

Because we optimize for durability, not status, not speed nor features. We assume abuse and we leave our bikes unsupervised the majority of the time. It's not just stealing .. having a hard to physically destroy bike prevents annoying kids and drunk teenagers from vandalizing your bike.

>It's true that there are probably people who sweat, but there are very few people who take a shower at work

I haven't ever been in an office with a shower. I don't know any place where it would even be an option. But every person sweats a little every day anyway. Fresh sweet don't smell. It's the old sweat that smells.
Encryption is useless when the government knocks on their door and says give us a backdoor to your system.

If enough people leave US based companies for foreign companies it will put pressure on the government. I have a feeling this pressure is already underway.
This is really, really obvious, and MANY people don't get it.

Be genuine and build a real, no shit relationship with the person. Become 'work friends'. It'll come up - you probably know when your coworkers birthdays are, etc., right? The great part about biz is you just need to be in the right month ('hey, I heard your birthday is this month, heres X').

But really, don't be phony, and treat it like a real relationship with someone you'll be working with, and most of this stuff just happens.
Interested to hear some opinions on the numbers in this infographic. I for one found them pretty shocking. Didn't realize Python was so popular.
Hey, have any examples you could upload so we could see? Even if it is just an image dumped into dropbox? I'd love to see how it turned out.
What makes the American Constitution exceptional is not its content but the fact that it was written in the late 18th century. In the intervening two centuries, several other industrialized liberal democracies have adopted constitutions that are broader and more inclusive than the Bill of Rights.
To be fair, the one DO I know is a DO rather than an MD because he couldn't get into a normal medical school (schools of osteopathy are not as selective in general).

Though I suppose that also may not be something you'd want to know about your doctor. But as far as I know the academic rigor of his medical program was no less than that of any MD school, minus the inclusion of osteopathy itself. I wouldn't have any issues going to him as a primary care doctor.
Maybe there will be a turnaround, but given that the education system has long been (and continues to be) controlled by Progressives, it doesn't seem that likely to me.

But yes, the USA is the only nation founded on the principles of individual freedom, and many people remember that, so there is a chance.
You don't have to put on a tin foil hat, as soon as marijuana is federally legal, Monsanto, Philip Morris, Camel cigarettes will be all ready to grow their own.

It's kind of obvious that these folks have the farm land, distribution networks, and a lack of morals (not that MJ is immoral, but it would require a huge about-face), so they could just as easily do weed as tobacco. Replant fields and create some new packaging and you're ready to go.
Take a look at http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

You might not even need to make one on your own, or at worst you can re-use a lot of it for your use case. It uses batman.js i think.

Here's a demo: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample
So for those of you wondering about Jury nullification, the way it would work in this case is that Levison would reveal that the NSA was hounding him with NSL letters, they would charge him with violating the terms of the NSL and the jury would acquit him anyway.

I hope we can get a case like that to move that aspect of the conversation forward. It helped get bad laws off the books in the civil rights cases and it would help here.
LulzSec hacker sentenced to 366 days in prison for Sony data breach
There is no "best". There is only "best for your needs". I'd recommend changing the title, lest people take it wrong and derail the thread.

If by "works" you mean "has a familiar and mostly-polished interface", then I would agree. If you like Mint so far, go with that. To give a comparison on the "other end" of the user experience spectrum, try Crunchbang. It is the same underlying ecosystem as Mint (Debian), but builds itself out of a handful of more minimal components. It's my go-to dev distro because it's just enough to get work done in, and nothing more.

If you've tried "the big common ones", then you've hit 90% of the mainstream options. If you need something special, unique or custom beyond those, you definitely would have identified those needs in your post.
I don't think you know what asm.js is
I understand what you're saying but more fundamental than the supporting data is the trust in the person witting it.
I'd actually argue that he was referring to recreational use when he was discussing his kids smoking it, based off this quote:

"Much in the same way I wouldn't let my own children drink alcohol, I wouldn't permit marijuana until they are adults. If they are adamant about trying marijuana, I will urge them to wait until they're in their mid-20s when their brains are fully developed."

I'm assuming he's not referring to them medically smoking marijuana because he talks about a more appropriate age to start, implying that they'd be smoking it voluntarily rather than under necessity from chronic pain.
you have a fantastic HN handle
So what happens if this guy starts telling people what happened in that courtroom? He gets arrested? What happened to freedom of speech?
I find it amazing that at this moment, there are zero Google hits for the exact phrase ["Intellectually Dishonest Ventures"] or the variant ["Intellectual[ly Dishonest] Ventures"].

So at least there will be now.
+1 on this.

Crunchbang has been a great OS so far. The stability of Debian but OpenBox is a much more pleasant experience. Loving it so far.
This was a nice breakdown of the unit costs, but I surprised by the author's conclusion. Even with a cheap value for his time ($25/hr), he's only saving about $15 dollars a year.

That said, kudos for explicitly including labor/time costs in the calculation.
This is more than fantastic! Just imagine making custom icon fonts to use on websites! A full symbol set done in 5 minutes!
Donating to a Lavabit Legal Defence Fund through PayPal seems a bit of an oxymoron though, no?
Does Entrepreneurial Experience Dim Future Job Prospects?
Have a look at Pin: https://pin.net.au
Google Maps local advertising added to Android and iOS apps
I have 16GB in my Asus, but I'm running Windows and Visual Studio 2012 needs it all!
IBM Developing Software Ecosystem That Mirrors Human Brain
I have a couple CCTLD domains hosted with http://www.101domain.com, who I'd recommend.
After Lavabit shutdown non-US services position itself to take over
> I could see someone suing an SaaS vendor for an action like this, actually.

So? A SaaS vendor that shuts down operations in to avoid complying with a mandate of a court is taking a major risk of losing all its assets to legal action by the government. On top of that, the risk of legal action by dissatisfied customer is a pretty small marginal cost.

> "You cost me $XX in actual costs and $YYY in lost business. Your TOS says nothing about your shutting down because the government asked you to do something you didn't agree with."

You'll probably find that, unless you have specific contract terms relating to expected costs of failure to provide service, expectation damages of the type you describe are barred by the foreseeability prong of the test for expectation damages.
Man I told you about it like three times on IRC (and that was your response then, too)! :P

It's still early-stage, but it works very well for plain authentication. Next step is two-factor auth.
It has been passed over in favor of fighting the terrorist boogieman.
Yep- send bugs and feature requests to https://bugreport.apple.com/ . Everything gets read, eventually, by a real live person.

There’s more information available about reporting bugs (like which logs are useful, where to find them on your device, and how to get them off your device) at https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ .
Show HN: Piss off, publisher frames
You pointed to a 20-year highlight period of US history as being representative, and handwaved away criticisms as 'I'm aware of all that'. As it stood, your presentation of US history was extremely one-eyed and selective, and then you had the gall to call the rest of this community myopic. Your argument was presented in bad faith.
Parley: email encryption that's easy enough for anyone to use (pre-beta)
They are popular in old cities in Holland. It's not so much that people prefer riding a bike in Holland to riding a car in Australia, with its _wide roads_. They prefer a 5 minute bike ride to a 30 minute hellish experience equal in complexity only to navigating the mars rover from earth. It isn't so much that bikes are so great, as that cars are a horrible horrible form factor for old cities.

And if you look at other old cities, you see the exact same form factor. Except those cities aren't flat, so instead of bikes they ride around on scooters. Think Rome, Greece, Paris.

Secondly, our other cities (Suburbia mostly), have all these nice bike tracks, because this is how our children navigate to school, their sports club and friends, independently from about 5 to 12 years old. (as they grow older, you increase the radius you allow your child to navigate and explore freely)

These bike lanes are safe, because it's our children riding there. Unsupervised. But their parents will use their car for everything, because in those cities you actually have the choice. And dutch people are just as lazy comfort creatures as everyone else, if given the same choice.

It's not so much that it's great to ride a bike in Holland, as that it's safe (because its how our children navigate) and that in old cities navigating a car a complete waste of time, energy and money. You will _literally_ sweat more.
Yeah it is a crazy sentiment.

If we weren't crazy on this part we would refuse paying anything not on the bill. Like we do in grocery store.